Otherwise, I'm in favour of something relatively bare bones like this classic.
>MK Ultra
Kek, also yeah that could work. But maybe a little more detailed. Bare Bones will probably not be as interesting these days but if we make it over complicated we'll just be the same people we're shitting on, minus the trannies and politics. Speaking of which, none of those...ever, especially politics. Much as I think it can work (if it's in universe) I feel that's a slippery slope. If for whatever reason someone includes politics, it should be minimum and neutral, no references or hints to actual real life politics.
- Classifications by danger, concealment, how much it breaks the universe if its discovered, how expensive it is to maintain.
- Is it a being, object, place or phenomenon. Can it consciously try to escape or trigger aide?
- Is there a way we can integrate it or its effects in society over time? Can we keep the lights on with this?
- Is there a way we can gaslight society into believing it to be a wife's tale or urban legend? Or make them think is normal?
- What projects or changes to the environment we need to keep this out of reach from bad actors? Proposals, conditions, site locations.
- The humane question. How you treat anomalies be the difference on living at Site-13.
- Only include names if the character has been erased from normal living completely ala MIB, saves us time thinking of names. Each project has a supervisor and team.
- What can and cannot be an anomaly. If we are going to have cyborgs and wizards we ought to establish how they can exist together.
- Separate in eras. Not all anomalies, agents and sites exist simultaneously. We can built upon previous concepts if we establish a timeline.
-Should be light on the symbols if we have any. Depending on the type of anomalies we allow such as radioactive, biohazard, mechanical, etc. but it should be kept short and only the essential. No "hyper-anti-abstract-memetic." It either fucks with your mind or it doesn't.
-For danger it could have one of the aforementioned hazard symbols followed by a severity number or color? For concealment perhaps a closed/half open/fully open eye symbol depending on how hard it is to conceal.
-Not sure what you mean by "breaking the universe." Do you mean reality warping or how said anomaly should not exist but here it is anyway? I'm also not sure about adding this label regardless since anomalies should already be a case of "how the fuck does this exist?" After all that's the definition of an anomaly, something out of place from the norm.
-I'm all for integrating certain anomalies into society if it can be done organically, can provide only benefits or if the side-effects aren't anything to worry about, and people won't certain things this anomaly will cause. Could also lead to a "later incident" where it was actually a bad idea and some horrible shit happens and it needs to be purged and censored, but that has to be treated very carefully as to not appear jarring and incompetent. Why would anyone sign on to integrating an anomaly into a public area that can signicantly increase the production the people in that area (gleefully working much harder than usual but without the exhaustion of overworking), but has a chance of spontaniously compusting people who sneeze.
-Gaslighting society is...pretty easy, relatively speaking. We see it all the time in real life, especially before the age of the internet where you couldn't look something up and have thousands of people talking about it and recording it. Now it's harder but not impossible, you'd be surprised how easy it is to nuke information and gaslight people into thinking it's not what it seems. The Streisand effect does not often apply unless the organization(s) hiding something is very poor at communication and fabrication. And if some nutjobs try to expose something, they can be simply labeled as that. If they're really small, silence them, if they're big enough you'll have to fabricate shit. If this organization(s) is also government funded and supported than it should be no problem at all. It's probably best to keep these writings in low population areas unless for whatever reason we plan on "pushing the timeline" where the organization(s) are forced to reveal it/themselves but I'm getting ahead of myself.
-The humane question is easy, does it show signs of Sentience or Consciousness? Is it malevolent? Benevolent? Animalistic? If it is Sentient/Conscious and it display malevolent tendencies and does not respond to any treatment to make it not malevolent, either destroy it or throw it in the deepest, darkest oubliette and make sure it doesn't get out, maybe see if this entity can be used for certain tasks before throwing it back into the oubliette, coerce it maybe depending on what it wants and how sentient it is. If it's benevolent then it should be treated as humanly as possible, might not see civilization again but staff will visit. If it's more animalistic and simply reacts to its surroundings then make it as comfortable as possible to make sure any outbursts is kept to a minimum. If it's simply an object then apply similar rules. Harmful objects are kept lock and key in specialized containment if needed, beneficial objects should be used sparingly until the effects are understood completely, and if it can be integrated into society without any issues or anyone noticing than that should also be done sparingly.
-Good, minimum named characters. Should be kept as enigmatic as possible and can help prevent or at least minigate any...Dr.Bright issues. Trannies and other bad faith actors love making a name for themselves, so if we have a "only with X happens will we have a name or description" rule they'll probably be aprehensive of it and not participate.
-Cyborgs and wizard...nah none of that until we set an established timeframe and tech level of these universe. Are said organization(s) in a timeframe that has rudimentory and experimental cybernetics? Is there psychic or magic phenomena of some level in universe due to some anomaly and the organization(s) have to keep them contained and may even recruit them like it's 40k? We shouldn't go overboard as that's how SCP turned to shit. Definitely should be a top priority to make a list of what should and shouldn't be an anomaly so we don't include some random anomalies and uh oh if it isn't the consequences of my actions, now there's all sorts of silly shit. Unless we want to lean into it for whatever reason. I mean it could work but that has to be done perfectly or else it's just jarring.
-How should the eras be? When these anomalies started to appear and when organization(s) against them started to appear in turn? If we do it too early then there would be questions as to why anomalies aren't public knowledge. But if too late then there would be questions as to why these anomalies started to appear now? We could simply not answer that of course but that may have consequences of its own in terms of the writing and may look lazy. It would be interesting to see organizations spring up and fall due to various reasons but I think there should be a concrete timeframe where most writings happen, with a few writings from a certain era. And will these writings from these organizations all be structured the same? Maybe to distinguish these organizations we can have different writing styles, like the first anomaly organization can have a more loose identification system but as the years go by the newer organization can have more organized and sophisticated descriptions. Would be more work but might be worth it to help show where and when the anomaly reports came from. Unless each future organization is a carbon copy of the first organization, in terms of how they identity and write reports of these anomalies, I've down for either.
I got the idea that about half of the world's progress can be tracked to this organization and periodically releases new advancements, current day is a tech plateau. Get money for inventing everyday shit everyone takes for granted and funding schools for recruitment.
Magic can exist as anything that is only theoretically possible (ex. time travel, with restrictions), which creates a lobby and explains why we have Dumbledore calmly walking about in current year.
Maybe the organization(s) using companies as a front and giving the masses their outdated tech that can be used safely by civies? I've already mentioned how anomalies with beneficial effects can possibly be integrated slowly into society and monitored very carefully so that would be interesting. Reminds me of how the Jews in Wolfenstein hoarded their advanced tech from the world, but less stupid. "Here are these anti-depressants that work instantly and come from the excrament of a frog anomaly, but we don't tell them about the anomaly part." Also "Dumbledore calmly" lol. Again we should establish some rules first before we decide whether or not magic should exist, how strong it is, and whether it's common practice and known or kept secret only from these organizations and maybe the higher ranks of a government.