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- Apr 14, 2020
Unsettlingly similar to the RPC Authority, yet still better than SCP in every way. Authors have resorted to making SCP out to be this ancient, mystical super-organization that can never do any wrong and has literal gods for O5s. At least this and RPC are somewhat bound in reality and has a setting that actively discourages what SCP is doing; but it really takes no effort at all to make a simple universe like this.Intro Theme -
There's this organization called the CPS that federally shares its banner with Child Protective Services, uses its offices and naming, but is actually a Pentagon Black Budget Operation known as the Containment and Preservation Service. It was developed in 1958 during Operation Paperclip by a Vichy Physicist working on the occult in Nazi-Occupied France, Naomi Laplace, great-great-great Grandchild of the famous scientist by the same name.
She was researching on making a functioning Laplace's Demon a reality for the Nazis, so they could win the war. What she actually discovered was that our Earth, due to some function of the Big Bang in our universe, was slightly displaced from other dimensions. This displacement caused other dimensions to infringe on our own, dimensions in which the laws of reality and physics differed or did not actually apply to our own. This infringement was expressed as quantum entanglement, meaning that the infringement of other dimensions could not be separated from our own, which meant that the invasion of other dimensions would cause the unique properties of their worlds to be inseparable from our own and co-exist within our own laws of reality, defying our understanding of nature and the universe. The dimensions that infringe and invade our own are known as 'transposed dimensions'.
While no methods of travel between these transposed dimensions are known, the expansion and contract of these universes allows certain objects or even people to be randomly affected by these transposed dimensions. The incidents, in CPS terminology, are known as 'Anomalous Events'. These can result in several phenomenon, branched out into 'major' (world changing) and 'minor' (world infringing):
Minor
Cryptids - Animals affected by anomalous events and changed and altered in some way.
Wahnsins - Humans affected by anomalous events who are extremely dangerous. Their behavior, appearance and form are so outside the norm to be completely alien. Often times they are extremely dangerous and hostile. The term originates from the first human sighted by a unit of German infantry. The entity was not described, but the sole survivor could only repeat one word: "Wahnsinnig", meaning demented or insane.
Changelings - Humans affected by anomalous events who are less dangerous or more human in appearance.
Incarnations - Creatures that have no origin in our world and came through by some unknown means through anomalous events. Non-Sentient or Sentience unknown.
Goetia - Items that have been affected by an anomalous event. They vary greatly, and can be anything from something as innocuous as a pen to something as dangerous as a weapon.
Major
Askashic Event- An anomalous event which reveals or challenges human perception or nature of the universe and significantly alters the course of science. Laplace's discovery of the infringed worlds is the first recorded 'Askashic' since the founding of CPS. For example, discovering how to manipulate transposed dimensions, either sealing them off, traveling through them, or even detecting them, would be an Askashic Event.
Black Sun Event - A grouping of people using any items or creatures in the care of CPS for nefarious purposes. The term comes from the development of the sun wheel in Nazi occultism, as a replacement for the SS logo. It requires immediate action and termination of all individuals involved.
Constructs - The use of several Goetia to form a much more powerful and possibly dangerous one, either through an anomalous event or human construction.
Anthroposophic Event - An occurrence where a person makes contact with a transposed dimension and is able to interpret it with their senses. No person recorded has come out sane. They are often incredibly violent and operate outside the laws of reality. Containment is not possible, only execution.
Animus/Anima - A sentient incarnation. May be totally alien and incomprehensible. Something that has traveled from a transposed dimension into our own. Unknown mode of travel.
Golgotha - An area where an anomalous event is occurring, has occurred or has permanently altered the landscape.
There, I fucking did it Reddit. It only took me a half hour. The formatting took longer than that.
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Here, I'll even add the danger levels for you too.
Since this was developed in the late 1950s under an Allied Operation, the NATO phonetic language was used as quick terminology to define events as no terms existed before. While in the 50s, it was improvisation, now it has become standardized, mostly due to habit. Each object is given a character. Some characters have been retired as well, as they have been rendered obsolete by the more modern scale. While characters and numbers were used previously, the numbers were eliminated as the danger classifications were rarely able to be quantified, only estimated. The organization didn't want agents getting complacent in seeing a high or low number. The ambigious designation through the phonetic language adds much more care when handling events. The danger scale works like the DEFCON scale, so the lowest character equals the highest danger, another hold-over from the cold-war era.
The danger typically refers to the anomaly going unchecked and risk exposed to personnel in containment. The terms can also be combined or use singularly. Combinations are used when physical and psychological effects differ. For example, a Delta-Whiskey is equivalent to minimal physical, but high psychological threat. If terms are combined, the physical danger level is always put before the psychological. They can be and are often abbreviated (D-W).
Alpha - The highest level. Possibly world endangering, altering, or ending scenario.
Bravo - High loss of life probable. Equivalent to major natural disaster or major terrorist attack.
Charlie - Medium loss of life probable. Equivalent to a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
Delta - Low loss of life probable. Equivalent to a minor natural disaster or a mass shooting incident (Delta is the most common level)
Echo - High Danger. Severe injury and death possible. This includes total loss of sanity.
Foxtrot - Medium Danger. Injury, maiming and death possible. Irreversible psychological harm is highly likely.
Juliette - Low Danger. Injury and maiming possible. Death unlikely. Psychological harm is highly likely, but reversible through counseling and training.
Kilo - Minimal danger. Injury and maiming unlikely. Death very rare. Psychological harm possible.
Whiskey - High Psychological Danger. Permeant mental illness, insanity or impairment highly likely.
Victor - Medium Psychological Danger. Permeant mental illness or impairment highly likely.
X-Ray - Low Psychological Danger. Reversible mental illness or impairment likely.
Zulu - No physical or psychological danger (if psychological, temporary symptoms that go away with no permeant or ill effects. A curiosity)
There's one special designation:
November - Threat unknown or cannot currently be assessed.
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I'll even make a wikipage when I have time. All this is not free for anyone to use yet, its my shit for now. And not because I think this will be valuable. Its because I'm a cunt.
God, I miss Wayward...