"Secure. Contain. Protect." - Official motto
The SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) Foundation (SCPF; more common referred to as The Foundation) is a top-secret, international, non-governmental organization dedicated to the capture and containment of all paranormal and supernatural phenomena on Earth, claiming to do so for the continued survival of global human civilization and preserving our current way of life. They usually serve as the main protagonistic faction of the SCP Universe, especially in contrast to various rival/hostile Groups of Interest which oppose them.
The SCP Foundation is a shadowy secret society that operates worldwide, consisting of a scientific research institution with a paramilitary intelligence agency to support their goal. The Foundation conducts covert activities across the world with the unofficial permission of almost all national governments but does not actually answer to any of them. They actually search for abnormal entities and objects (called "anomalies" or "SCPs"), transporting them to secret containment facilities to hinder their supernatural abilities, while also preventing the existence from becoming known to the general public.
SCPs
Special Containment Procedures (SCP) are common document format used by the SCP Foundation to record almost all specific anomalies which they have discovered. They are confidential reports which describes an anomaly, its unusual properties, its general background and history of being monitored by the Foundation. While also providing detailed instructions for keeping it contained (locked away or otherwise hidden from the public).
All anomalies which have their own Special Containment Procedures (or SCP files) are listed as one of thousands of entities in the Foundation's secret database. They are referred to as SCP items, SCP objects, or simply SCPs (sometimes colloquially as skips). Most SCPs (with some exceptions) are fully or partially contained within the Foundation's secret facilities. Where they are locked up in maximum security conditions, while ongoing research is conducted by scientists to learn more about each SCP's anomalous properties, in order to improve containment measures for them.
SCP CLASSES
Almost all SCP files use some sort of Classification System to categorize SCP objects. The exact details of how these classes are assigned can vary greatly depending on the article, but they pertain mostly to how the Foundation contains the SCPs and the complication that are involved in the process. Traditionally, SCPs are assigned on of multiple different "Object Classes", which describe the difficulty level of keeping the anomaly contained.
List of SCPs
Main Series
Most SCPs are divided among these series, each being a list of approximately 999 or 1,000 SCPs.
• SCP Series I (SCP 001 to 999)
• SCP Series II (SCP 1,000 to 1,999)
• SCP Series III (SCP 2,000 to 2,999)
• SCP Series IV (SCP 3,000 to 3,999)
• SCP Series V (SCP 4,000 to 4,999)
• SCP Series VI (SCP 5,000 to 5,999)
• SCP Series VII (SCP 6,000 to 6,999)
