SCP Foundation Secure Facility Dossier
Official Designation: SCP Foundation Mid-Western Research, Reliquary, and Containment Facility
Site Identification Code: USMWSD-Site-76
General Information
Founded: February 1916
Founding Director: Dr. Wentworth Rose
Location: Black Hills, South Dakota, United States.
Cover Story: Former gold mine publicly identified as a US Department of Energy research installation.
Site Function: Designed for the safe storage and interdisciplinary study of anomalies, with a particular focus on objects with cultural, religious or historical significance.
Size: 1 km2 of surface property, 31 km2 underground.1
Facilities and Wings
[GENERAL DESCRIPTION; each building has its own emergency refuge bunker.]
- Building A — Executive Complex: Connected to the underground complex by the Harney Shaft/Headframe.
- Administrative Wing: offices, meeting spaces
- Residential Wing: provides staff with comfortable on-site housing, ranging from full dormitory apartments to overnight rest spaces. Recreational facilities.
- Building B — Research Complex: Connected by the Yeats Shaft.
- Exhibition Hall: displays a selection of stable Safe-class anomalies acquired throughout the Foundation's history.
- Theoretical Research Wing: dedicated and flexible workspaces. Indirect study of anomalies and anomalous subcultures.
- Applied Research Wing: primary testing area for objects entering the site.
- Biological Research Unit ("the Doghouse") is a self-contained laboratory for studying anomalous microorganisms.
- Building C — Low-Risk Object Warehouses: 1500 meter level. Chilled-water cooling system. 3000-horsepower centrifugal fan.
- Archival Vaults
- Archaeological Wing: historical documentation, artifacts, forensic/mortuary archaeology
- Bibliomorphic Containment
- Experimentation Chambers: testing spaces
- Mass Storage Wing / File-Lineup Automated Taskrooms (FLATs)
- Building D — High-Risk Object Warehouses: 2250 meter level. Refridgeration plant.
- Bibliomorphic Containment (including SCP-140 vault)
- Secure Servers: central hub of Site-76's fiber optic network.
- Secure Armaments Wing: Contains paraweapons and anomalous objects with offensive applications. Designed to funnel any unintentional discharge downwards. (Includes SCP-2220, a disabled Einstein-Rosen paraweapon.)
- Building E — Deep Storage Complex: 2875 meter level. Contains volatile anomalies. Storage vaults are hardened, spring-mounted and electromagnetically isolated from each other. (SCP-1068) A pumping station at the 3000 meter level ensures that the facility is never at risk of groundwater flooding.
- Building F — Engineering Complex: vital to daily operations. Power, ventilation, waste disposal. Connected via Petersen Shaft, which serves as primary exhaust.
Satellite Facilities
[we have a number of secondary facilities in the region]
- Site-76-A — Staging Area: MTF barracks with private helipad. Quick reaction force range.
- Site-76-B — Bio-Garden: Greenhouse housing rare botanical anomalies.
- Site-76-F — [REDACTED]
Staffing Information
Site Director: Dr. Karri Audlin
Asst. Site Director: Mahmoodah Agarwal
Asst. Dir. of Personnel: Michael Thurman
Asst. Dir. of Facilities: Eugene Ross
Asst. Dir. of Research and Containment: Dr. Robert Saunders
Asst. Dir. of Security: Chief Francis Gates
Asst. Dir. of Task Forces: Major Thomas Schilling
Ethics Committee Representative: Dr. Ira Augustine
RAISA Coordinator: Eleanor Crest
Department Heads: 19
Administrative Personnel: 65
Research Personnel: 152
Maintenance Personnel: 52
Security Personnel: 78
D-Class: 12
Other Personnel: 29
Total Personnel: 388
Attached Task Forces:
| Task Force | Codename | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| MTF Beta-84 | Heartland Hoppers | General-purpose platoon serving the Midwestern United States. |
| MTF Epsilon-17 | Editor's Choice | Squad specializing in the containment of aleakinetic, ontokinetic and metafictional anomalies. |
| MTF Mu-54 | The Joneses | Squad tasked with tracking and recovering anomalous items in enemy hands. |
Partial List of Anomalies in Containment
SCPs
| ID Number | Object Class |
|---|---|
| SCP-140 | Keter |
| SCP-141 | Safe |
| SCP-180 | Euclid |
| SCP-235 | Safe |
| SCP-256 | Euclid |
| SCP-281 | Safe |
| SCP-341 | Safe |
| SCP-680 | Safe |
| SCP-1024 | Safe |
| SCP-1068 | Safe |
| SCP-1426 | Safe |
| SCP-1558 | Safe |
| SCP-1634 | Safe |
| SCP-1883 | Euclid |
| SCP-1939 | Safe |
| SCP-1954 | Safe |
| SCP-1971 | Safe |
| SCP-2061 | Safe |
| SCP-2220 | Safe |
| SCP-2444 | Euclid |
| SCP-2446-1 | Keter |
| SCP-2618 | Safe |
| SCP-2824 | Safe |
| SCP-2867 | Keter |
| SCP-3110 | Euclid |
| SCP-3189 (in satellite Site-76-F) | Euclid |
| SCP-3277 | Euclid |
| SCP-3315 | Safe |
| SCP-3549 | Safe |
| SCP-3784 | Safe |
| SCP-4060 | Safe |
| SCP-4061 | Euclid Neutralized Safe |
| SCP-4099 | Safe |
| SCP-4108 | Safe |
| SCP-4229 | Euclid |
| SCP-4412 | Safe |
| SCP-4581 | Safe |
| SCP-4688 | Safe |
| SCP-4836 | Safe |
| SCP-5026 | Safe |
| SCP-5490 | Safe |
| SCP-6434 | Safe |
| SCP-6476 | Neutralized |
| SCP-6497-1 | Keter |
| SCP-6650 | Neutralized |
| SCP-6943 | Safe |
| SCP-6944 | Keter |
| SCP-7109 | Safe |
| SCP-7155 | Pending |
| SCP-7474 | Keter |
| SCP-7720 | Euclid |
| SCP-7891 | Safe |
| SCP-8109 | Esoteric |
| SCP-8612 | Euclid |
| SCP-8735 | Euclid |
| SCP-8821 | Safe |
| SCP-9961 | Euclid |
Anomalous Items
| ID Number | Status | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| Anomalous Item 613 | In storage | Boeing 700-400 |
| Anomalous Item 698 | In storage | Miniature tabletop figure |
| Anomalous Item 1383 | In storage | Tychekinetic half-dollar |
Historical Background
The origin of Site-76 can be traced back to the Black Hills gold rush of the late 19th century. Although the area was long-rumored to be rich in resources, treaty held that this portion of Dakota Territory belonged to the Sioux. Furthermore, the Black Hills mountain range is sacred to the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, who defended the area against colonial expansion.
When the Custer Expedition finally publicized the presence of gold in 1874, it provoked a massive influx of illegal settlers. This, in turn, inspired a diplomatic push to legitimize mining claims by taking control of treaty land. Once negotiation with the tribes failed, the United States launched military campaigns into the region, ultimately threatening the Sioux with starvation if they did not surrender. By the end of the Great Sioux War, there were more than fifteen thousand colonists in the newly-seized Black Hills.
Each of these efforts were backed in some capacity by the American Secure Containment Initiative (ASCI). Although it was nominally an independent group dedicated to occult inquiry, ASCI's charter goal of "securing the savage frontier" made them a close ally of the United States government. Annexation served the Initiative in two ways: by improving their organization's economic standing, and severing any anomalous ties that Indigenous Americans may have had to the land.
ASCI's primary foothold in the region was a mine established in 1876. This independent claim was bought out by Initiative geologist Horace Raddick, who judged that the site was rich in precious metals but too small to capitalize on it properly. With support from ASCI investors, the Raddick Mining Company (RMC) started upscaling into a full-scale industrial operation, complete with a stamp mill for pulverizing ore and a mercury retort for recovering gold and silver from slurry. Most of the resulting bullion was sold to the US Mint; a small percentage was set aside for ASCI experiments.
early proving ground for technological innovation, making use of a steam locomotive on a narrow-gauge tramway to move ore.
Once the Raddick Mine started turning a profit, the company moved to consolidate control over the area.
by buying out neighboring operations;
bought water rights to supply the surrounding mines, mills and towns.
growing population; lawlessness; rumored trade in anomalous items.
When a catastrophic fire swept the neighboring town of Deadwood in 1879, ASCI resolved to make use of the Raddick Mine as a regional storage depot.
Objects were initially stored on the surface, then concealed in underground chambers.
(1882 — post-6OW Veil Accords established)
1909 — during a period of labor unrest, ASCI contracted the Pinkerton Detective Agency; lessons learned about self-sufficient security.
incentivizing employees with generous wages, medical coverage, and retirement plans.
(ASCI struggling to maintain their edge; factions within the organization saw the value in joining the international SCP Foundation. Nationalists objected, stayed in the cold until the formation of the Pentagram.)
Beginning in 1913, the majority of ASCI assets and operations were absorbed into the SCP Foundation.
In acknowledgement of the original 1876 land claim, the installation was formally inaugurated as Site-76.
logo based on the Betsy Ross flag, representing the facility's unique position as a precursor to modern operations.
Notable Incidents
- 19XX — Acquisition of SCP-140.
- 194X — Discovery of SCP-235-1.
- 1951 — TacTheo splits off as its own department, sparking debate over the bureaucratic hierarchy of Archeology, History and Theology at Site-76.
- >1953 — Acquisition of SCP-1939.
- 1979 — Entire Local Family Chokes To Death On Single Calculator
- 1982/03/21 — Research into SCP-4421 interrupted by PoI-504-L, who contacts Dr. Franco Tonnelier at Site-76. Transferred to Site-93.
- 1992/03/17 — Security breach related to SCP-3455, the anomalous month of "Liberary". On Liberary 5th, knowledge of the Foundation becomes public, as the Site Director for Site-76 sends large amounts of classified data to news outlets world-wide. When the timeline reverts, the Director is dismissed.
- 2002 — SCP-1971 researchers begin the Danhorn Public Awareness Survey.
- 2003/08/15 — SCP-1275 caught trying to breach containment on SCP-140.
- 2004/08/27 — SCP-1275 attempts explosive attack.
- 2004/10/10 — SCP-1275 attempts explosive and anomalous attack.
- 2004/10/12 — Aborted attack by unknown hostile retrieval team. SCP-1275 relocated to Area 43.
- 2005/07/15 — Infiltrators associated with The Church of the Broken God compromise Area-██ in search of SCP-4060. Dr. Henry Matthews dies in the process of securing the anomaly.
- 2008/01/14 — Top-down containment breach by SCP-256. Director dismissed; Assistant Site Director Dr. Marie Matthews takes charge of Site-76.
- 2016/04/14 — Two squads of Chaos Insurgency "Mike" units (SCP-3033) breach Building C. Repelled by SCP-XXXX.
- 2017/02/13 — Director Audlin merges the SCP-4229 files.
- 2017/05/03 — Testing with SCP-4581 results in an infohazardous data breach.
- 2018/06/19 — Sample of SCP-4061-carrying cultures were logged as missing. Determined to have been compromised by Chaos Insurgency.
Notes
Site-76 is a sort of "inverted canon": the history presented above is based on the existing contributions of a large number of authors. Here's my take on the prevailing themes.
- A Place That Takes — stolen land, stolen artifacts, stolen lives.
- Bureaucracy Protects Itself — The facility's history is underscored by corruption, deceit, and interdepartmental tension.