WMDD's Proposal SCP-001 » WMDD's Proposal rating: +308 + – X NOTICE: "Project Palisade" is not an SCP-001 file. "Project Palisade" data represents itself as being an SCP-001 file, has all protections of an SCP-001 file, can only be read by being entered into the Foundation system as an SCP-001 file, and can only be accessed or understood by Foundation personnel with access to SCP- 001 files.
However, all data categorized under "Project Palisade" is extra-universal in origin.
None of the following data has been created or altered by any known member of the Foundation. The origin of this file is likewise unknown.
UPDATE: On 06/29/2018, all "Project Palisade" data was removed from the Foundation system by unknown means. Simultaneously, all personnel lost memory of the data's existence.
On 09/03/2018, "Project Palisade" data was restored to the Foundation system, with significant changes. Personnel memories were restored of the prior iteration as well, but not in enough detail to recreate the original. Investigation is so far inconclusive.
Cleared personnel are advised to read with caution.
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The Foundation Oath We affirm that we are the original, true Foundation. We represent mainline reality (the original, unaltered timeline). Our humanity must be held paramount over the humanity of any inhabitants of "mirror" timelines. The survival of mainline reality shall always be held paramount over the SCP Foundation SCP Foundation Secure, Contain, Protect Secure, Contain, Protect Search About Community Resources Sister Sites ≡ Create account or Sign in survival of any "mirror" timeline, or any other parallel or alternate universe.
We are the Foundation, the bedrock on which all of reality rests. For the sake of us all, we cannot fail.
This statement must be sworn to by all military and civilian leadership of the Foundation.
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Primary Documentation Item #: SCP-001 Object Class: Thaumiel Special Containment Procedures: Absolute secrecy is necessary for the full realization of Project Palisade. Disinformation will focus on exploration of parallel universes for research and protection purposes. Esoteric Containment Systems shall be used as a secondary precaution.
The current administration affirms, and mandates, the continuation of Project Palisade regardless of potential cost or consequence.
Standard Operating Procedure for Project Palisade: (1) The Altis Engine is used to create a "cluster" of mirror timelines, which are defined as artificial timelines constructed by the Prime Foundation solely for Project Palisade.
(2) Mirror timelines are altered, using controlled CK-class Restructuring events and direct insertion of agents via inter-dimensional travel to desired points in history.
(3) Mirror timelines are monitored and reality structural integrity analyzed.
(4) Timelines with a high integrity level are selected for continued study. Timelines with a poor integrity level are designated as shield timelines.
(5) Proxy agents attract The Threat to a shield timeline, commonly performing anomalous "rituals" developed by Esoteric Containment Systems in order to ensure targeting by The Threat.
Note: As direct travel to shield timelines is necessary for the process, proxy "collaborator" agents are utilized (occasionally with a small number of mainline Foundation agents as oversight). Proxy agents are all "mirrors", typically corresponding Foundation personnel taken from mirror timelines.
In exchange, their home timelines are protected from The Threat, as long as cooperation lasts.
(6) Vectors are gathered and distributed to chosen neighboring timelines.
1 ≡ Note: Vectors are elements from the initial shield timeline, such as a person, animal, or object, which have served as foci of ritual energy. The effect of using vectors is to draw The Threat to many timelines at once, making the attraction process significantly more efficient.
Current standard element is soil from the initial shield timeline (representing "gravedirt"), a highly successful suggestion by a collaborating "mirror" instance of the POI "The Black Queen".
(7) All shield timelines are evacuated by any mainline Foundation agents and (when feasible) proxy agents, and monitored until destroyed by The Threat.
This process is continually repeated to ensure The Threat is indefinitely kept away from mainline reality.
Description: SCP-001, also known as Project Palisade, is a method of protecting reality from ongoing existential threats.
Personnel create mirror timelines, alter them to discover methods of defeating threats, and ultimately divert the largest threats (especially the primary threat referred to as "The Threat" and/or "THE WORM") to destroy these mirror timelines instead of mainline reality.
Every other timeline in which the Foundation exists was created by Project Palisade.
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Project Palisade Precursors Project Palisade originated from several anomaly-engineering projects created in [DATA EXPUNGED], notably Altis, First Strike, and Forward Insight.
2 "Altis" Project Report: Project Codename: Altis Project#: PRJALT-██████ Project Aims: To successfully create a Multiversal Creation Engine through the use of anomalous engineering, and use it to the benefit of the Foundation.
Project Description: Project Altis is the century-long engineering and development of a "Multiversal Creation Engine," which allows the Foundation to create artificial realities adjacent to the mainline reality.
ALTIS FIRST STRIKE FORWARD INSIGHT PALISADE ≡ .
The Threat Recovered Documentation: Project Forward Insight, in its early stages, expanded investigation of The Threat into existing Foundation archives. It was discovered that several documents in the Foundation’s possession, collected from across multiple realities, contained previously unrecognized references to the entity identified as being responsible for the ongoing reality destruction. The current designation of the entity as "THE WORM" arises from these documents.
SCP File: The following documentation is now deprecated, but relevant.
The Altis Engine is capable of creating a potentially infinite number of said mirror timelines.
Originally, Project Altis was intended to create "mirror" Foundations to aid the Foundation of mainline reality. "Mirror" Foundations were to be faced with various challenges that might grant insight to mainline reality, and successful mirror Foundations would then be visited by mainline Foundation agents and an organizational connection established.
Ultimately, many mirror Foundations would assist mainline reality in defending against existential threats from the outside.
These aspects of Project Altis were permanently shelved, due to the lack of direct use against THE WORM. The Altis Engine is now almost exclusively used under the banner of Project Palisade.
Reality Tau-Het-9: The Epic of Lathurias Context: A heroic epic describing the exploits of the mythic hero-king of the author’s species.
And Lathurias passed through the veil beyond/To do battle with the Sons of the Void And the First Son of the Void did arise/The Worm, he who lives between, cleanser of realms And bold Lathurias strode forth, shining bright/The White King and The Worm locked horns And to this day Lathurias still fights/The endless war of our dreams TAU-HET-9 ALPHA-ZAYIN-12 OMEGA-LAMED-1 PSI-TAV-4 ≡ Item #: SCP-████ (Special Designation Applies) Object Class: Keter Special Containment Procedures: Ongoing containment by use of Project Palisade.
Description: Formerly code-named Primary Existential Threat Alpha.
Renamed by O5 Council vote to "THE WORM" , based on a selection of recommendations provided by Esoteric Containment Systems.
"THE WORM" (henceforth referred to as The Threat) is an extra- dimensional entity that destroys realities/timelines.  Little other information is known; even the "extra-dimensional" description is technically in doubt.
The Threat has never been directly perceived by any means. However, its effects are well-documented, thanks to Project Palisade. Every affected timeline goes through various stages of "reality breakdown", with symptoms ranging from disappearance of physical locales to disappearance of various laws of physics. Finally, the timeline disintegrates entirely.
At present, no mechanism has been detected or analyzed by which The Threat causes these effects, and The Threat has never been directly perceived by any means.
Esoteric information-gathering (notably from mirror timelines) has suggested that The Threat will only destroy or consume timelines which exhibit poor structural integrity. At the very least, The Threat seems to avoid timelines with good structural integrity, barring outside intervention.
Though case-by-case success rate is variable, Project Palisade procedures have so far had a 100% success rate in keeping The Threat away from mainline reality.
"The Threat" is usually called "THE WORM" outside this documentation.
Esoteric Containment Systems suggests that "THE WORM" is appropriate terminology for the following reasons: The term is one of a selection of terms with cross-dimensional "psychic resonance", appearing directly or obliquely in mythos from neighboring realities assessed by Project Forward Insight.
A worm is popularly perceived to be a creature inferior to humans, which grants a different form of "psychic resonance" that may aid in reality-wide perspective shift, potentially allowing it to eventually be better understood by human minds.
5 6 7 8 9 10 ≡ The stylization "THE WORM" is based on the recommendation that The Threat should be both undercut and also treated as important enough to devote primary organizational resources.
"The Threat" is also accepted terminology, as the term is already too established to completely remove.  Mainline Foundation agents should consider either "The Threat" or "THE WORM" required terminology as part of Esoteric Containment Systems.
The Foundation has no other way to control The Threat besides Project Palisade. Uncontrolled, The Threat will eventually destroy most or all of the timelines created by Project Palisade, and then reach and destroy mainline reality.
Note: Claims that Project Palisade has increased the power of The Threat (by creating many timelines for it to destroy) are unproven and considered extraordinarily dubious. - Dr. ███████ .
Project Palisade Mechanics 11 12 13 Timeline Alteration Standards: Timelines created by the Altis Engine for Project Palisade currently always possess these traits: Begins as a duplicate of mainline reality, before alteration.
SCP items and other anomalous items are always present, even if believed otherwise.
Known civilization never has the capability of creating an exact copy of Project Altis. In specific cases, civilizations are allowed to create anomalies similar to Project Altis, but capabilities are always altered to protect mainline reality (even if this alteration is not known to the mirror civilization).
Inhabitants of the mirror timeline are never able to access mainline reality.
Note: This protection has occasionally failed. Some notable exceptions: Entity classified as SCP-3812 in originating timeline. Humanoid with the ability to ascend upward through "levels" of reality.
Passed through with no effect on mainline reality.
Entity commonly classified as SCP-1985 in many timelines. A humanoid apocalypse exploration device. Instance's originating timeline not yet located. Instance entered mainline reality, presumably investigating an unknown apocalypse affecting mainline reality (possibly "THE WORM"). Unfortunately, personnel were not properly briefed on handling such a circumstance, and STANDARDS CREATION INTEGRITY ≡ .
Project Palisade Timeline delivered ill-advised explicit threats. SCP-1985 instance reacted negatively, and retreated from mainline reality through self- termination before apprehension could occur. Mechanism of accessing mainline reality unclear, but appears to have been accidental. SCP-1985 instance did not appear to realize significance of discovery in any way.
Entities appearing to be mirrors of standard Foundation team used to carry out [DATA EXPUNGED] Created timelines usually possess these traits: The Foundation usually exists in timeline's modern period, except in specific test cases focusing on SCP items, GOIs, etc.
The Foundation usually has existed since at least the 1980s, most commonly since at least the 1950's, and often since at least the late 1800's.
The Foundation is usually a significant player in Earth's civilization.
SCP-173 usually exists and is contained by the Foundation, and classified using database number 173, except in specific test cases.
SCP-classified items usually number in the thousands, with trivial anomalous items existing in numbers too high to count. (Initial test runs limited number of SCP items, but the limit has gradually been raised as more stable mirror timelines have been successfully created.) Typical SCP-classified items are usually horrifying in nature (reflecting mainline reality), though many exceptions usually exist (and may often technically outnumber the SCP items perceived as horrifying in nature).
World-ending threats are usually present, but usually in forms which the Foundation is theoretically able to at least temporarily contain (or survive without containing for a significant observation period).
SCP database entries usually work like mainline reality, except that gaps are present. Gaps correspond to SCP items not present in that timeline. Local mirror Foundation agents always explain the missing items in a way that makes sense to themselves (typically that the slot is waiting to be filled, or theoretically exists but has all access denied). This alteration is for ease of monitoring.
Common exceptions to this rule include SCP-001, SCP-1000, SCP-2000, SCP-3000, SCP-4000, and other SCP-_000 database entries. Outside of early test runs (some of which classified a "Bipolar Guitar" as SCP-1000), these system slots have been used for "key variant" experimentation.
Anomalous "Groups of Interest" usually exist and are relevant, at least to the Foundation.
Reality benders usually exist. This is partially to help cover mainline Foundation alteration to shield timelines, and partially to provide mirror Foundation agents with minor to major "wild card" challenges of a sapient nature.
05/██/2007: Project Palisade put into action on an emergency basis with Iteration X, referring to a universal database system co-opted for Palisade use. Item # SCP-173 is ITERATION X ITERATION E ITERATION W ≡ .
Project Palisade Alternatives [DATA EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF O5 COUNCIL] Note from O5-██: The question has been repeatedly raised of why we will not consider methods of reality protection as a replacement of Project Palisade. The answer is simple.
Project Palisade works. All our projections and analyses have shown that Project Palisade is a complete guarantee of working. We will not take risks with the very existence of mainline reality. Thank you for your cooperation.
► Access Project Palisade Test Log And that is called paying the Dane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.
Unknown System Error: Readout Attached Sometimes I dream there's a greater Foundation out there, a true original Foundation without the endless horror of what we've done, a reality not rotten and mundane and chosen as the baseline for the first test runs.
The first test run is extremely successful, creating many timelines which are destroyed by THE WORM, drawing it away from mainline reality, and buying time to create reliable attraction methods.
This first test run also creates a number of timelines which THE WORM avoids, and which are still in existence today, with high reality integrity scores.
██/██/2007: As Iteration X progresses, numerous mirror Foundation instances are "encouraged" to adopt anomalous weaponry programs. Most of these instances become failed timelines (and are internally controversial), but many successes also result, particularly those centered around key variant "Mobile Task Force Omega-7".
Additionally, numerous key variant Foundation personnel are established. Some key variants are mirrors of existing mainline Foundation personnel, and others only exist in mirror timelines. Notable early key variants include personnel code-named "Gears", "Kain Pathos Crow", and "Bantay Masipag".
After mass Foundation fatalities on excursions to mirror universes (fortunately largely reversed through technology gleaned from other mirrors), preliminary recruitment of extra-universal assets commences. Use of proxy "collaborator" agents is quickly established as standard procedure.
≡ disappointing, a Foundation that actually deserved to survive, deserved to be the First.
Sometimes I think we're all just caught up in a fever dream, like we're all in a bottle somewhere being experimented on by some outsider seeing what the Foundation would do given all the power we could imagine and an excuse to justify anything. Sometimes I wonder if this is why no one has come to stop us. If not God or gods, surely there must be something out there, surely there must be something that values the infinite uncountable lives we've sacrificed. Unless those lives and those minds are only shadows on a wall… unless we are manipulated like puppets the way we manipulate everyone else… but wouldn't that just be too easy, if I never did any of the things I know I did?
What gave us the right to do this?
Are we the first? What if there are a thousand thousand "mainline realities" and a thousand thousand Project Palisades?
What if there aren't? What if there are other "mainline realities", but we're the only ones with a Project Palisade? If we're the only ones who ever made… all of you?
How would we ever know?
System Restart Failed > Unknown System Error: Readout Attached If you're reading this, you're part of the wall.
I just want you to know that I'm sorry. But not sorry enough to stop.
Searching Database For Keyword: PALISADE (1) Text Reference Found: File SCP-3591 ERROR: Requested Supplement File Not Found.
System Logging Out.
We don't die in the dark so you can live in the light.
We live in the dark, alone.
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