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Термины литературной вселенной

Термины, которые возможно использовать в объектах, рассказах и сворформатах.

Формат статей

Сортировка по порядку возникновения при стандартном употреблении в объектах.

• Item # (Объект №) — Нумерация статьи в списке объектов. Обратите внимание, что формальное название объекта это "SCP-####", не только его номер ("SCP-173", не "173"), хотя номер и может использоваться как имя нарицательное, а также для информационной связи.

• Object Class (Класс объекта) — Система категоризации, основывающаяся на сложности содержания сущности или объекта. Перейдите по ссылке в определении для подробного описания наиболее часто используемых классов. Для обозначения класса также могут использоваться более эзотерические классы, а также дополнительные системы классификации (например, уровни угрозы) или системы классификации аномалий.

• Special Containment Procedures (Особые условия содержания) (ОУС (SCP, S. C. Procedures, conprocs)) — Инструкции, которым требуется следовать для того, чтобы содержать сущность или объект.

• Description (Описание) — Раздел досье объекта, описывающий точным и понятным образом, что сущность или объект делают, и почему они поставлены на содержание. Описание может дополняться приложениями, но понять базовый смысл за аномалией должно быть возможно и с помощью одного лишь описания.

• Addendum (Приложение) — (множественное: addenda) Раздел досье объекта, расширяющий понимание специфических аспектов аномалии в Описании, или демонстрирующий динамику получения и развития информации об объекте со временем, или предоставляющий совершенно новую информацию, не подходящую для указания в Описании. Приложения публикуются на странице со статьёй, но раньше их также публиковали отдельно.

Термины Фонда

Иные определения, которые Фонд использует в своих документах для описания собственных сотрудников и учреждений или процедур содержания.

• The Administrator (Администратор ) — Таинственный персонаж литературной вселенной, который является (или не является) основателем Фонда SCP. Возможный участник Совета O5, возможно — лидер всего Фонда. Воодушевлён пользователем FritzWillie, человеком, перенёсшим SCP Wiki на Wikidot, и использовавшим аккаунт с именем "The Administrator" для создания и управления веб-сайтом.

• agent (агент) — полевой агент Фонда под прикрытием. Не весь полевой персонал Фонда обязательно является "агентами". Смотрите также: команда содержания (containment team), группа реагирования (response team), мобильная оперативная группа (Mobile Task Force) и исследователь (researcher).

• Anomalous Item (Аномальный предмет)/аномальный объект (Anomalous Object) (AO) — Объект с аномальными свойствами слишком незначительными для назначения особых условий содержания или дальнейших исследований.

• anomaly/anomalous (Аномалия / аномальный) — Определение Фонда для объектов, которые он содержит и исследует. Аномалией считается, зачастую, явления, неописуемые с точки зрения современной науки, действующие вопреки вселенским законам и принципам. Также смотрите паранормальный и аномал.

• Area (Участок) — Вид непубличного учреждения Фонда..

• containment breach (нарушение особых условий содержания) — Определение, используемое, когда SCP-объект совершает побег. Может подразумевать буквальное разрушение камеры содержания, или распространение знаний об объекте за пределами Фонда.

• containment chamber (камера содержания) — Помещение, выделенное для содержания SCP-объекта.

• containment team (команда содержания) — Полевой персонал, специализирующийся в обнаружении или захвате аномальных объектов или сущностей. Сотрудники не обязательно являются полевыми агентами, но обычно их называют иначе, например "специалист по содержанию" ("Containment Specialist"). Также смотрите агент (agent) и группа реагирования (response team).

• [DATA EXPUNGED]¹ ([ДАННЫЕ ЛИКВИДИРОВАНЫ]) — Один из двух видов цензуры, применяемых на сайте. Несмотря на возможную взаимозаменяемость с [УДАЛЕНО] ([REDACTED]), указывая на то, что данные были именно "ликвидированы", навсегда удалены из записей, в основном из-за того, что несли угрозу, например, из-за меметической (memetic) угрозы.

• D Class (Сотрудники класса "D") — Сотрудники Фонда, признанные, в случае необходимости, расходным материалом, пригодным для целей испытаний или содержания. Typically consist of prison inmates recruited by the Foundation for this purpose. See the Security Clearance Levels guide for more information, as well as the relevant Ethics Committee Regulations.

• department — Organisations within the Foundation that specialize in a specific task, discipline or field.

• director — The head of a Foundation Facility or Department. Typically capitalised when used as a title (e.g. Director Jones).

• Disruption Class — Part of the Anomaly Classification System, the Disruption Class refers to an anomaly's ability to disturb the status quo or break the Veil if uncontained. In ascending order, these are Dark, Vlam, Keneq, Ekhi and Amida.

• Explained (EX) — A sub-class of SCP object that has either been debunked as a hoax, sufficiently understood so as to be normal scientific knowledge, or so widely disseminated that containment is no longer possible.

• Extranormal Events (EE) — Anomalous events that occurred too briefly to be contained.

• Facility — A generic term used to refer to both Sites and Areas.

• The Foundation — A secret organization that contains anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena through the creation of Special Containment Procedures. Only rarely referred to as the "SCP Foundation" in-universe, usually just "The Foundation".

• Free Port (FP) — A larger and more formally recognised type of Nexus, an area that is inherently anomalous and entirely behind the Veil. This means that there is no need to try to conceal the existence of the anomalous from the people who live there, since they all already know.

• front — An organisation used as a cover for the Foundation's activities, allowing agents of the Foundation to operate in public. Fronts may have a name that can be abbreviated as "SCP", such as Spicy Crust Pizzeria or S&C Plastics - see The Frontispiece for more information about this practice.

• Groups of Interest (GoI) — A Group of Interest is an organisation other than the Foundation that is aware of the anomalous.

• HMCL Supervisor — Responsible for managing the containment of one or more anomalies. The actual meaning of "HMCL" is debatable, however, most users conclude it to be "Hazardous Materials Containment Liaison".

• K-Class Scenario/K-Class Event — Hypothetical situations with drastic effects on normality or reality. The most well-known K-Class Event, the XK-Class Event, typically denotes a catastrophic event resulting in the destruction of human society, if not the entire human species, but various other scenarios have their own designations, used with varying consistency across different articles.

• Locations of Interest (LoI) — A Location of Interest is an area with anomalous properties, often inhabited by a permanent community and requiring a more diplomatic approach to their containment. See also Unexplained Location, Nexus and Free Port.

• Mobile Task Force (MTF) — A highly-trained and specialized team that is deployed in the field by the Foundation to deal with specific threats or conditions. Mobile Task Forces are designated by a Greek letter and a number (e.g. "MTF Alpha-7", "MTF Omega-15") and may have a nickname attached, similar to many real-life military units. MTFs are the elite personnel of the Foundation, and run the gamut from highly experienced field researchers to combat-hardened troops, with each MTF specialising in a different scenario or class of anomaly. Other types of Task Force also exist.

• Nexus (Nx) — An actively anomalous location supporting a permanent community. Originally defined and listed here.

• O5 Council/Overseer Council (O5) — short for the "Council of Observers, Level 5" or the "Overseer Level 5 Council". The highest authority in the Foundation and the leading body of Overwatch Command, a council of 12 or 13 individuals who have the power to authorize or veto any action taken by the Foundation as a whole. O5 Council members are only known by their numbers (O5-1 through O5-13), are rarely involved in day-to-day Foundation activities, and are typically not allowed to contact any SCP objects directly for fear of contamination. Note that it's a capital letter "o", not the number zero.

• Overwatch Command/O5 Command — The highest administrative department of the Foundation, headquartered in Site-01. Although often used to refer solely to the O5 Council, Overwatch Command is the name of the Foundation's general central authority, composed of the most high-ranking personnel and the Overseer's closest staff (e.g MTF Alpha-1). Along with the Council, it manages and supervises the rest of all other Facilities and Departments.

• Person of Interest (PoI) — An individual that the Foundation is investigating or observing due to their involvement with the anomalous. May have anomalous abilities, have had contact with an SCP object, or be a member of a Group of Interest.

• [REDACTED] — One of the two types of censorship used on the site. Something that is "redacted" is withheld from the article because the reader is not cleared to see the information, but would be made available to someone else with a higher Security Clearance Level or on a need-to-know basis. See also [DATA EXPUNGED].

• researcher — A broad term for anyone involved in research and development at the Foundation - they may be referred to as a Researcher, Technician, Doctor or Professor, depending on their qualifications and specialty. Researchers can be involved in anything from figuring out how an anomalous object or entity functions to developing better materials and containment procedures. Field researchers may also accompany containment teams to assess the nature of uncontained anomalies.

• response team — A heavily armed team trained to deal with security or containment breaches, typically at a secure Foundation site. Response team members are also sent into the field to escort containment teams when dealing with highly hostile or dangerous objects or entities, or when enemy Groups of Interest are involved.

• Risk Class — Part of the Anomaly Classification System, the Risk Class refers to the severity of an anomaly's effects on an individual person, and how easily one can recover from it. In ascending order, these are Notice, Caution, Warning, Danger and Critical.

• SCiPNET — Alternatively capitalised as SCiPNet or SCiPnet. The Foundation's intranet and inter-site database, used for sending emails between employees and for accessing SCP files and other documents.

• SCP — An initialism for "Special Containment Procedures", and used informally as a short-form of "SCP article", as in, "I wrote three SCPs yesterday". SCP objects or entities are not formally referred to as "an SCP" or "the SCP" in-universe, although characters might do so informally, even using casual pronunciations like "scip" or "skip". Note that "SCP" is not an initialism for "Secure, Contain, Protect"; the motto of the Foundation is a backronym derived from "SCP".

• SCP object/SCP entity — An anomaly assigned its own Special Containment Procedures. May also be referred to as Special Containment Projects (SCPs).

• Security Clearance Level — Specifies the information that a Foundation employee is authorized to know, ranging from 1 (very limited) to 5 (beyond top secret).

• Site — A type of Foundation Facility disguised behind a mundane front (e.g. as a corporation or government office).

• Site Director's Executive Committee of the Whole/Site Director's Executive Council of the Whole (SDECotW) — A gathering of Foundation Site Directors, serving as the Foundation's penultimate administrative authority, one step down from the O5 Council.

• Species of Interest (SoI) — Non-human species with anomalous properties.

• Threat Level — A complimentary system to the object classes, assigning each anomaly a color code based on the danger it would pose if containment was breached. The threat levels, in ascending order, are White, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red and Black.

• Unclassified Anomalous Entity (UAE) — An anomalous entity too minor to have Special Containment Procedures, most commonly used on anomalies generated by a Nexus. Usually, nexus UAE's are additionally designated with a codeword signifying their locations (e.g UAE-Chapman for Nx-18: Sloth's Pit, UAE-Fowke for Nx-94: Lake Huron, etc.)

• Undesignated Anomaly/Unregistered Anomaly (UA/URA) — An anomalous entity that has not yet been assigned Special Containment Procedures. A temporary designation, prior to full documentation as an SCP object.

• Unexplained Location (UE) — A specific place where anomalous phenomena too minor to be assigned Special Containment Procedures occur. See also Locations of Interest, as well as Nexus and Free Port for inhabited anomalous locations.

Anomalous Science

Terms used by the Foundation and by other groups to describe and categorise the anomalous.

• acroamatic abatement — The processing of anomalous waste products and esoteric substances produced by anomalies into non-anomalous industrial effluent. See Everything You Need to Know About Acroamatic Abatement But Were Too Confused by the Name to Ask for an elaboration.

• Akiva Field/Akiva Radiation — An anomalous field that fluctuates based on human belief and divine intervention, possible to measure and quantify in centiAkiva (cÁ/cAk) or Steiners (⊕). High levels of Akiva radiation correlate with the divine presence in a location, the piety of an individual, and the religious significance of objects. Named after a Jewish scholar and religious leader, the Rabbi Akiva. See the Tactical Theology Hub and the Akiva Counter Operating Instructions for more information.

• anahuman/parahuman/superhuman — A human being with anomalous properties or abilities.

• antimemetic — Antimemes (also known as counterconcepts) are ideas which, by their intrinsic nature, discourage or prevent people from spreading them. The Foundation has an Antimemetics Division investigating and containing anomalous antimemes.

• Apex Tier Pluripotent Entity — An incredibly powerful anomalous entity, possibly omnipotent. Generally used as a clinical term for a god (although not all divine beings will be "Apex Tier"). May or may not also be a pistiphage.

• Aspect Radiation (ARad) — EVE emissions intense enough to alter reality - the basis of thaumatology.

• backlash — Random alterations to reality caused as a side-effect of thaumaturgy.

• bozomorphic — Clinical term for anomalous entities resembling clowns. See the Dread & Circuses Hub for a summary of different types of bozomorphic entities.

• bureaucratohazards — A sub-class of semiohazards that affect bureaucratic systems, making certain entities not guilty despite committing crimes or violating rules.

• carnomancy/fleshcrafting — anomalous techniques for altering and reshaping the body, most frequently practiced by followers of Sarkicism.

• Cognitive Resistance Score/Cognitive Resistance Value (CRV)— A measurement of the mental fortitude and resistance of an individual to mind-affecting anomalies, particularly those that are memetic. Also known as a Cognitohazardous Resistance Score, Cognitohazard Resistance Value, Mind-Affecting Resistance Score (MARS) or Psychic Resistance Score, each measured using the corresponding scale.

• cognitohazard — A term used to refer to objects that are dangerous to perceive. This could occur through any or all of the human senses, including sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch. Differs from an infohazard in that simply being informed about a cognitohazard has no anomalous effect. See also memetics and hermeneutic.

• ectoentropic — Entities or objects that produce energy or matter in an unexplained way, in apparent violation of the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics,which specify that energy (which includes matter) cannot be created, and entropy (the disorder of a system) must always increase over time.

• Elan-Vital Energy (EVE) — Mysterious energy emitted from living beings and sapient anomalies that can power thaumatology. See this lecture for more information. May be referred to by alternative terms, such as Aura, Mana, Orgone or Qi (Chi/Ki).

• essophysics — The scientific study of the physical embodiments or manifestations of abstract concepts.

• extradimensional/extra-reality — Existing in or originating from an alternate reality or in an additional spatial dimension other than the three that we are familiar with.

• hemovore — Clinical term for a vampire.

• hermeneutic — A type of cognitohazard activated by or resulting from the reinterpretation of a concept, causing reality-altering effects due to the recontextualization of baseline reality.

• Hume — A unit used to measure the strength or amount of reality in an area. See the FAQ for more information. Named for the philosopher David Hume.

• infoallergenic — An uncommon class of infohazard, capable of exhibiting both memetic and antimemetic properties. See also pretermemetic.

• infohazard — A term used to refer to objects that have an anomalous effect whenever they are referred to or described. Differs from a cognitohazard in that cognitohazards require the anomalous phenomenon to be directly perceived, whereas infohazards may be spread indirectly, simply through people telling each other about them. Because of this, the effects of infohazards are often memetic. See this orientation for more information.

• kinetohazard/kinetoglyphs — anomalous mental and physical effects that occur when an entity performs specific gestures and movements.

• Large-Scale Aggressor (LSA) — Clinical term for a giant monster.

• memetic - Memes are the basic units of culture, ideas or behaviours that can be transmitted to others through communication or imitation. In the context of the Foundation, memetic effects are a sub-class of cognitohazards and infohazards that deal with the transfer of information. Ideas and concepts with anomalous memetic properties can spread much more effectively than non-anomalous memes, and may have anomalous effects on anyone exposed to them. Creators and users of anomalous memetic effects may be referred to as memeticists or cryptomancers. See Understanding Memetics and this orientation for more information.

• metamorphic/polymorphic — Clinical term for shapeshifters, entities that alter their own form or appearance.

• mimetic — entities capable of anomalous mimicry of another creature or object.

• narrativistics — A meta-meta framework for understanding and justifying the presence of conflicting models in the same system. Utilizes aspects of holographic theory, extended modal realism, narratology, mechanical determinism, and absurdism to suggest our reality may be part of an infinitely nesting loop of complex storytelling. See Narrativistics And You for more information. See also pataphysics.

• narrativohazard — A construct of independent, individual units of narratives (known as narremes) that collectively destroys stories they are part of.

• narreme — The basic unit of a narrative, much like memes are the basic units of a culture.

• noogenesis — Clinical term for the formation of a new consciousness.

• Noosphere — The realm of collective human thought, encompassing dreams, concepts and ideas. May or may not generate and conceptually encompass multiple omniverses and/or be a primary source of pataphysical phenomena.

• ontokinesis/ontokinetic — Clinical term for reality bending.

• paranormal/paranatural/preternatural — alternative terms used to describe phenomena that the Foundation categorises as anomalous. Anomalous phenomena may also be referred to as occult, supernatural or transmundane.

• pataphysics/'pataphysics — The scientific study of fictional narratives and their effect on reality, including the study of the fictional SCP universe by characters that are part of it. 'Pataphysics was originally proposed as a parody of science, being one step up from metaphysics and defined as the study of imaginary solutions. See the Narrative Anomalies Orientation for more information. See also narrativistics.

• psionics — The generation and detection of supernatural phenomena solely through the power of the mind, including telekinesis, telepathy, precognition and clairvoyance, abilities that may also be referred to as extra-sensory perception (ESP). The scientific study of psionics is known as parapsychology or as psychotronics, with the later term mostly being used in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Individuals with psionic abilities may be known as psions, psychics, psykers, mentalists or espers. See this lecture series for more information.

• Pattern Screamer — Consciousnesses embedded within the fabric of reality. These entities do not exist, although they may have existed at some point in the past, and may be brought into existence if perceived. Also known as Pattern Dwellers.

• pistiphage — An entity that feeds on faith, deriving sustenance and power from belief and worship. Often used as a clinical term for a god, a pistiphage may also be a Tulpa or Egregore, only existing because people believe in it. An Apex Tier Pluripotent Entity may or may not also be a pistiphage.

• pretermemetic — Information that is selectively memetic or anti-memetic depending on the nature of the recipients or circumstances. Used by groups such as Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting to advertise without attracting the attention of organisations like the Foundation. See also infoallergenic.

• reality bending/reality warping — The anomalous ability to alter reality. May be referred to as ontokinesis or simply as magic, although thaumatology is generally regarded as something separate. Humanoid reality benders may be referred to as "Type Greens" using Global Occult Coalition terminology, or as "ontokineticists", "bixbies", "Outside Observers" or "Objective-Reality Independent persons". See this FAQ, this orientation and this document for more information.

• semiontological anomaly/semiohazard — Anomalies that disrupt the semiosphere to create universal axioms that should not be possible.

• semiosphere — The medium through which information about reality travels before it is perceived or measured.

• spectral entity — Clinical term for a ghost, spectre or spirit. May also be referred to as a posthumous entity, eidomorph or an ectomorph (an entity made from ectoplasm). See this document for more information.

• spectremetry — The scientific study of spectral entities.

• surrealistics — The scientific study of anomalies too incomprehensible or bizarre to understand, except through illogical thought and the use of agnostics. The term is a reference to the artistic movement of Surrealism.

• Tartarean Resonance Energy (TRE) — Radiation naturally produced by demonic entities. Named for Tartarus, the part of the Greek Underworld where monsters and sinners were imprisoned.

• Tartarean-Class Demonic Entity/Tartarean Entity — Clinical term for a demon, which are traditionally defined as malevolent supernatural entities. See the Undervegas Hub for a summary of different classes of Tartarean Entities.

• thaumatology — The scientific study of thaumaturgy, a term meaning "wonder-working" and referring to magic, miracles and the occult. Users of magic can be referred to as thaumatologists, thaumaturges or "Type Blues" in Global Occult Coalition terminology, although more archaic terms like "wizard", "sorcerer" and "mage" may still be used. When considered as distinct from reality bending, the phenomena studied by thaumatology generally follow more predictable rules and limitations. See this lecture, this orientation, this document and A Brief Introduction to Thaumaturgical Engineering for more information.

• tychekinesis — Clinical term for probability manipulation, named for the Greek goddess of fate and fortune, Tyche.

• Way — An anomalous connection between two locations, enabling rapid travel between them regardless of distance. Ways can facilitate travel into other realities, including to the Wanderer's Library. May also be referred to as a Rosen-Fortune Bridge or a Class-W transportation gateway. See this orientation for more information.

Anomalous Technologies

Advanced technologies existing within the Foundation setting.

• agnostics — Substances that makes consumers more open to otherwise incomprehensible anomalous phenomena by altering their thought-patterns to become more illogical. See also surrealistics.

• Akiva Counter/Akiva Detector — A device for measuring the level of Akiva Radiation, enabling divine presence and individual piety to be quantified. See the Akiva Counter Operating Instructions for more information on how they work.

• amnestic — Drugs, procedures, or devices that induce memory loss when administered to an individual. While sedatives with amnestic properties are not unknown to medical science, the Foundation's amnestics have much greater potency and specificity, enabling them to make civilian witnesses forget about anomalous activity. The term for subjecting someone to an amnestic is "amnesticize". Although the exact details vary, see the Amnestic Use Guide and the Updated Amnestics Guide for more information.

• apportation — Teleportation through thaumaturgy.

• Artificially Intelligent Conscript (AIC) — An artificial intelligence created and employed by the Foundation's Artificial Intelligence Applications Division.

• beryllium bronze — A metallic alloy frequently used in anomalous devices. The exact details of its properties vary widely, ranging from amplifying thaumaturgic energy to conducting emotions and consciousnesses.

• Bright/Zartion Hominid Replicator (BZHR)— A device capable of creating non-anomalous humans from raw materials. Individuals can be created at any age, and can be implanted with memories and skills. Essential to the function of SCP-2000, may also be used to create D Class personnel, and potentially other Foundation employees.

• countermeme/memetic inoculation — An memetic concept, a counter-meme protects against or reverses the effects of an anomalous meme.

• Dark Web — A cloud computing service operated by Marshal, Carter and Dark as a subscription service, enabling access to anomalous applications via ordinary computers. Used by the anomalous community to access services such as Void.

• Deepwell server — Alternatively capitalised as DEEPWELL server. Specialized data storage servers capable of preserving information across shifts in reality. See SCP-4800 for more information.

• demonarcotics — Performance enhancing drugs made from demons.

• demonics — A type of paratechnology that incorporates sentient entities referred to as demons, particularly into electronic devices. See this history for more information.

• eigenweapon — An anomalous weapon of mass destruction, capable of causing widespread devastation and/or massive loss of life. See this tale for one history of eigenweapon development. Terms like eigenmachine may be used for similar devices intended for purposes other than destruction.

• Everhart Resonator — A device for converting electrical energy into EVE, in order to power thaumatology.

• Geas — The use of memetic agents to force a person to obey a set of rules or guidelines. The name comes from Irish mythology, where a Geas is a magically enforced prohibition against certain actions.

• gnostics — The opposite of an agnostic, gnostics make one more certain and sure of things, although this does not necessarily make them correct.

• Kant Counter - Instrument used to measure the Hume level of a location, that is, the amount of reality that is present. See this FAQ for more information. Named for the philosopher Immanuel Kant.

• Memetic Kill Agent — A memetic hazard with a lethal effect on anyone exposed to it without the appropriate inoculation with a countermeme. Used to protect SCP-001 and other important data from unauthorised access.

• mnestic — The opposite of an amnestic, mnestics are chemical compounds that enhance the user's memory. This can be used to bring back erased or forgotten memories, counter the effects of amnestics, and resist antimemetic effects. See the Antimemetics Division Series and the Updated Amnestics Guide for more information.

• oriykalkos/orichalcum — A crystalline substance originating from Atlantis, capable of storing extreme amounts of digital data and eletrical/thaumaturgical energy. While very rare, the Foundation has successfully created synthethic oriykalkos as an inferior but mass-producible alternative. See SCP-6500 for more information.

• PANOPTICON — A global surveillance network developed to detect and monitor anomalous phenomena across the globe. Composed of multiple covert recording devices, linked-in government surveillance systems, paratechnological constructs, Artificially Intelligent Conscripts and an array of satellites. Managed by RAISA's Surveillance Division from its headquarters at Site-7. See SCP-5900 for more information.

• paratechnology (paratech) — Technology that relies on anomalous principles or components to function. More specific terms like paraweapon and parapharmaceutical may be used for specific types of paratechnology. These kinds of anomalies may also be referred to as wonders, magic items or technothaumaturgy.

• Pickman-Sinclair Narrative Fluctuation Detector — A handheld device for detecting changes in the narrative. Related to the Law of Narrative Causality, and to pataphysics.

• SCRAMBLE Googles — An eyepiece that identifies and obscures visual cognitohazards in real-time, enabling the wearer to observe these anomalies without being exposed to their effects. SCRAMBLE gear was originally designed by Dr. Dan and Dr. Oleksei for the containment of SCP-096. See this PSA for more information.

• Scranton Reality Anchor (SRA) — A technology that stabilises reality around it, preventing or restricting reality bending and anomalous interference. Occasionally called a Scranton Box, although that may refer to a somewhat different technology. May function through the use of the brains of captured reality benders, although there are alternative explanations for how they work. See this FAQ and this Grant Request for more information, and this page for blueprints. Named after the in-universe inventor, one Robert Scranton.

• Telekill (SCP-148) — A metal with the property of blocking or preventing anomalous extrasensory mental effects like telepathy and mind control. See SCP-7814 for more information.

• Xyank-Anastasakos Constant Temporal Sink/Xyank-Anastasakos Constant Time Sink (XACTS) — Named after Dr. Thaddeus Xyank and Dr. Athena Anastasakos of the Foundation's Department of Temporal Anomalies. Capable of protecting a place or an object from temporal changes, or altering the passage of time to speed it up or slow it down within a specific area. See this page for blueprints.

Anomalous Culture

Terms used to describe events and practices involving anomalous individuals and communities.

• anart — Short for anomalous art. This can be artwork with anomalous properties, or the use of the anomalous for the purpose of artistic expression. See this document and this lecture for further analysis.

• anartist — Short for anomalous artist. Refers to anyone capable of creating anart, such as members of Are We Cool Yet? or the Medicean Academy of Occult Art.

• Bookburner — A derogatory term for members of the Global Occult Coalition, primarily used by individuals associated with the Serpent's Hand.

• Gocks — Slang term used in the anomalous community to refer to members of the Global Occult Coalition (GOC).

• House Accords — A nonaggression pact between the Foundation, the Global Occult Coalition and the United States Department of Defense (specifically their occult branch, PENTAGRAM), signed in the 1960s. It governs the groups' simultaneous access to American territory and allows certain cooperative initiatives between organizations, including the exchange of files on anomalous objects.

• Jailer — A derogatory term for employees of the Foundation, primarily used by individuals associated with the Serpent's Hand.

• Janitor — A slang term for employees of the Foundation, primarily used by individuals associated with Gamers Against Weed.

• Multi-Foundation Pact of 1981/1981 Multi-Foundation Coalition Agreement — A pact between several versions of the Foundation from other timelines/universes. Foundations signed under it are subject to a number of regulations to protect the integrity or normalcy of other timelines, and signees may work with one another to achieve in this goal, typically by sharing files on extra-universal anomalies or reporting on problematic Foundation variants.

• normalcy/normality/baseline reality/consensus reality/mundane world — The apparently ordinary state of the world, which the Foundation preserves by containing anomalies. See also The Veil.

• Normalcy organization/Normalcy preservation organization — an institution that conceals the existence of the anomalous from the general public. This includes the Foundation, as well as Groups of Interest like the Global Occult Coalition and national paranormal agencies such as the FBI's Unusual Incidents Unit.

• Occult War — A conflict concealed from the public due to the anomalous nature of the participants and weapons used. This may occur concurrent with a non-anomalous conflict known to the public, for example the 7th Occult War generally refers to an anomalous conflict taking place during the Second World War. The dates and events of the preceding six Occult Wars are not as widely agreed upon.

• paracrime — Illegal paranormal activity, investigated by organisations such as the FBI's Unusual Incidents Unit, and punished by imprisonment in institutions such as Paramax. Includes both the use of anomalies to commit conventional crimes such as fraud, theft and murder, as well as the breaking of laws specifically relating to anomalies, for example the illegal sale of paratechnology.

• paracriminal — A paranormal criminal, such as the members of the Chicago Spirit crime syndicate. A paracriminal could be an anomalous individual who commits an ordinary crime, or could be a non-anomalous human who commits a paracrime.

• Southern United States Extranormal Organization Cooperation Treaty (SUSEOCT) — A regional convenant introduced by the FBI's Unusual Incidents Unit, made in order to regulate the operations of various Groups of Interests within the Southern United States, especially the Gulf Coast. Its signing parties include the Foundation, multiple local factions of well-known GoIs, as well as seemingly non-anomalous organizations.

• Skipper — Slang term used in the anomalous community to refer to employees of the SCP Foundation, primarily associated with the FBI's Unusual Incidents Unit.

• The Veil/The Veil of Secrecy/The Veil of Normalcy/The Veil of Normality/The Veil Protocol — A term referring to the separation of the anomalous and the people aware of it from the rest of the world. Actively maintained by Normalcy Organisations like the Foundation that conceal the exsitance of anomalies.

• Void — A Twitter analogue used by members of paranormal communities, operating on the Dark Web. This component illustrates the typical format of a post.

Out-Of-Character Terms

Terms that are likely to be used on hubs, essays, guides and discussion pages.

Site Terminology

Official Terms used on the site.

• 001 Proposal — Proposals for SCP-001, usually named for the site member making the proposal.

• adult content — While the SCP wiki as a whole is intended for a mature audience, specific adult content warnings are placed on articles with content deemed to be inappropriate for anyone under 18.

• Archived (ARC) — Pages that are outdated or considered low-quality, but were archived rather than being deleted outright due to references to them in other works. No longer done, except for guides and official pages. The term is occasionally used in-universe to refer to anomalies that were formerly assigned an SCP designation.

• author page — Also known as "personnel files", these pages are written by site authors once they have written three or more successful articles, as a place to list their body of work. Their contents are entirely up to the author.

• author avatar (AA) — Also called a self-insert or an original character (OC), this is a character considered to represent the author in the fictional setting. Can be grounded in reality, ridiculous and over the top, or anything in between. There's no rule requiring or prohibiting author avatars, but they will be held to the same critical standards as any other fictional character.

• Blocks — the ten sets of 100 articles in each series, such as the "000s Block", "100s Block" or "1300s Block".

• canon — A collection of articles by multiple authors intended to take place in a shared continuity and setting. Although individual canons have their own established events and worldbuilding that new articles are expected to fit into, the SCP Wiki overall has no canon that all articles must comply with - any established element of the SCP Foundation or its setting may be contradicted if it makes for a more interesting story.

• component — Pages designed to be imported onto various other pages via the [[include]] syntax in order to add new design, style or functionality.

• collaboration — indicates that an article is open to contributions from any member of the SCP Wiki. Read the page carefully to determine what kind of changes are expected and permitted.

• contest — A competion in which people are invited to contribute work created with a specific theme or constraint in mind. Winners are usually (but not always) selected by upvotes and downvotes on each contest entry. See the Contest Archive for a full list of official competions hosted on the SCP Wiki.

• creepy-pasta — a term for short stories or snippets that take the form of urban myths and scary stories that are often copied from place to place without attribution or provenance. In site terms, creepypasta are a sub-class of tales that are original work by site members and generally do not rely on the Foundation's narrative framework.

• critique — Offering feedback on a draft or published SCP. Can be positive, negative or mixed, but must follow the Criticism Policy.

• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) — A coding language that can be used to alter the appearance of elements on the site. See this essay for more information on simple ways this may be used on the site.

• Decommissioned (D) — As a site procedure, this refers to SCP articles deemed so egregiously bad that a story was written in which staff members' author avatars destroyed it, keeping the original article around as a sort of "hall of shame". This practice has been discontinued, and the decommissioned articles have been deleted (although tales based on them remain), but the term is still used in-universe.

• draft — Any work in progress. Drafts are not allowed on the main site or in the forums; go to the SCP Sandbox Wiki for instructions on how to create a sandbox page for posting drafts.

• essay — Informative pages written by members of the SCP wiki community about aspects of the site or writing process. See also guide and resource.

• fragment — A page designed to be imported onto a single page.

• GoI Format — An article written from the perspective of a specific Group of Interest, conforming to the format(s) laid out in that GoI's hub page.

• guide — Informative pages officially endorsed by SCP wiki staff.

• hub — Pages with a large number of links to related pages to enable navigation between them.

• International (INT) —This term can refer to the foreign language branches of the SCP Foundation, to the International Translation Archive hosting articles translated from those branches, or to the community of these sites. Individual articles translated from other languages that are posted on the English language SCP Wiki are also tagged as "international". Note that foreign branches are named for and organised around language, not nationality.

• • Official Branches — Branches with a large enough community of writers and translators to be officially recognised by the other branches.

• • • EN — The English SCP wiki.

• • • RU — The Russian SCP wiki.

• • • KO — The Korean SCP wiki.

• • • CN — The Chinese SCP wiki.

• • • FR — The French SCP wiki.

• • • PL — The Polish SCP wiki.

• • • ES — The Spanish SCP wiki.

• • • TH — The Thai SCP wiki.

• • • JP — The Japanese SCP wiki.

• • • DE — The German SCP wiki.

• • • IT — The Italian SCP wiki.

• • • UA — The Ukrainian SCP wiki.

• • • PT/PT-BR — The Portuguese (and Brazilian) SCP wiki.

• • • CS — The Czech SCP wiki.

• • • ZH/ZH-TR — The Traditional Chinese SCP wiki.

• • • VN — The Vietnamese SCP wiki.

• • Developing Branches — Branches that have not yet been recognised as Official Branches, but are officially recognised as progressing towards official status.

• • • EL — The Greek SCP wiki.

• • • ID — The Indonesian SCP wiki.

• • • ND — The Nordic SCP wiki.

• • • TR — The Turkish SCP wiki.

• Joke (J) — Joke articles are SCPs written in a silly or over-the-top manner, primarily intended for humor. Note that this doesn't mean that non-Joke articles can't have humor in them; they just have to be more subtle or rely on situational humor rather than the over-the-top humor and overt parody typical of Joke articles.

• O5 Command — The SCP wiki staff site.

• offset — A way of creating multiple versions of the same page sharing the same rating and discussion thread, by creating each version as a separate fragment page, then adding code to the page to cycle through them. See this essay for more information on how this works.

• resource — Resources provide in-universe information about the SCP Foundation, often as a collaboration open to new contributions. See also essay.

• roleplaying — Acting as if the fiction of the SCP Foundation was real. Roleplaying is prohibited on the forums and official community spaces of the SCP wiki.

• sandbox — A space that mimics the format of the SCP wiki, for posting in progress drafts. Many exist, including an official SCP wiki sandbox.

• SCP Article — Entries describing anomalous objects or entities that are contained by the Foundation. The category includes Joke SCPs, Explained SCPs and 001 Proposals.

• series — A block of 1000 SCP articles. SCPs posted outside of the current range of acceptable SCP numbers will be summarily deleted. May instead refer to a Tale Series.

• supplement — satellite pages to a main SCP article that contain interviews, reports, or logs that are important to the narrative as a whole but do not fit into the main page, either due to length or other considerations.

• tale — any fictional story or narrative set within the SCP Foundation setting that is not posted as an SCP or GoI Format. Unlike these other types of article, there is no specified format for a tale, and they are usually written in prose. There is a foundation-format tag for tales that mimic the format of an SCP article.

• theme — A specific type of component that changes the aesthetic of the page.

• • Sigma-9 Themes — Themes based on the default appearance of the SCP Wiki.

• • Black Highlighter Themes — Themes based on a popular alternative to Sigma-9, the Black Highlighter Theme.

Staff Terminology

Terms referring to the volunteer staff responsible for maintaining and improving the SCP wiki.

• Staff — Staff are members of the SCP Wiki that have volunteered to be responsible for its maintenance, upkeep and policy. See this page for more information.

• • Junior Staff — Junior Staff assist with staff duties, and are reviewed periodically for promotion to Operational Staff if deemed a useful enough member of their team or teams.

• • Operational Staff — Promoted after a trial period as Junior Staff. Permitted to vote on most site policy proposed in O5 Voting Threads.

• • Mod Tools Users (formerly Moderators) — Operational Staff trusted with the ability to edit all pages (including locked pages), and to delete forum posts or articles in accordance with the deletions policy.

• • Administrators — Operational Staff responsible for accepting new members to the site and banning abusive members.

Staff can be members of one or more of the following teams, each of which is lead by a Captain:

• Ambassador Team — Facilitates communication between the English language SCP Wiki and the International SCP Wikis. Additionally, the team is responsible for settling any issues which may arise that involve other branches.

• Anti-Harassment Team (AHT) — Handles harassment cases arising between users of the SCP wiki.

• Community Outreach (CO) — Handles communication between staff and the on-site community, addressing and responding to site issues as a whole.

• Critique Team — Responsible for providing critique on ideas, drafts and published works.

• Curation Team — Responsible for curation of work on the SCP wiki, including the labelling of adult content, the posting of anonymous articles, the maintainance and pruning of collaborative pages, the updating of guide pages, the replacement of images incompatible with the site license, and organising rewrites of low-rated articles at risk of deletion.

• Disciplinary Team (Disc) — Ensures site behavior standards are met and enforced, responsible for punishing offending users and preventing disruptive individuals from engaging with the site further.

• Internet Outreach (IO) — Staff that handle and communicate with off-site communities and the wider SCP fandom, responsible for conveying important events to casual fans and assisting new members in learning more about the Wiki.

• Licensing Team — Ensures that copyright standards are upheld across the Wiki and its community. Responsible for determining if content is stolen or plagiarized, and guaranteeing that all used media are attributed correctly and legally.

• Maintenance And Ancillary Staff Team (MAST) — Maintains and updates the site to ensure proper functionality. Tasked with carrying out deletions and quality control, and implementing elements to improve navigation, such as Wikiwalk footers and tags.

• Technical Team (Tech) — Maintains the technical assets of the site and implements new features.

Community Terminology

• clinical term/clinical terminology — Using scientific (or pseudoscientific) words and phrasing instead of colloquial language - many examples are listed in the Anomalous Science section! This is used to make SCP files read more like a real scientific document - in-universe, Foundation employees would use these terms because they're more precise and professional than more widely used synonyms. See the Clinical vs Complex and Clinical Tone: Declassified essays for more information on getting this right.

• coldpost — A page submitted directly to the site without any kind of review. Can be well received, but cold-post is usually used in a derogatory manner, referring to work posted by newer members that would have really benefited from receiving feedback and critique on the draft.

• format screw — A term for SCP articles that intentionally violate some aspect of the standard SCP format or framework, generally because the SCP itself affects the documentation.

• headcanon — Refers to individual interpretations of inconsistent, ambiguous or non-existent elements of canon - people use this term to describe how they imagine aspects of the Foundation universe, while recognizing that it's only one interpretation. A good example of this would be the exact strengths of the various classes of amnestics, or the precise nature of various K-class Events.

• hook — The aspect of your article or tale that catches your reader's attention and makes them want to keep reading until the end. A hook has to inspire some sort of curiosity or emotion in your reader; it doesn't necessarily have to be at the very beginning of your article, but it does have to be early enough to make a difference. A hook can also be the aspect of the article or tale that keeps a reader interested after they're done reading; this can take the form of an interesting revelation or twist ending, and tends to be closer to the end of the writing.

• Kcon — An abbreviated way of writing "Thousand Contest", this is a type of contest held every time the current SCP series is nearly filled. The tradition started with the SCP-1000 contest in 2011 to mark the opening of SCP slots 1000-1999, and has continued since then whenever each new series has nearly been filled. The entry with the most votes at the end of the contest is awarded the first slot in the new series (X000), while runners up are assigned to other slots of their choice in the new series.

• Keter duty — In-universe threats to demote personnel to Class D or otherwise assigning them to dangerous Keter-class objects as a form of punishment. Considered a type of lolFoundation.

• locked box test — An informal thought exercise often used to determine what Object Class on an object or entity ought to have. It is explained as such:
  • If it's locked in a box indefinitely and nothing bad will happen, it's probably Safe-class.
  • If it's locked in a box and we have no idea what might happen, it's probably Euclid-class.
  • If it's locked into a box and eventually all hell will break loose, it's probably Keter-class.
  • If it is the box, then it is probably Thaumiel class.

• lolFoundation — Additions to an SCP article that imply seriously unprofessional conduct among Foundation personnel, such as reckless misuse of dangerous anomalous objects, as well as threats of punishment for such behavior. While generally considered to be too unprofessional for a serious research organization, there is still a place for it on the site.

• • NeololFoundation — Refers to the shift of more humorous and light-hearted, as well as narrative- and character-based, articles in the modern days of the SCP Wiki. A reimagining of lolFoundation.

• SPC — The Shark Punching Center. A backronym created to make fun of people who misspell "SCP" as "SPC" (e.g. "I like the idea, but what does the Shark Punching Center have to do with it?"), subsequently turned into a Group of Interest.

• Thing That Does A Thing — Inanimate objects with an anomalous property. While this is a common type of SCP, particularly for new authors writing their first article, this term is usually used as a reminder that the article needs a hook to hold the reader's interest. See this essay for advice on doing this well.

• Total Winner — Refers to articles that have reached a rating of +100 under 24 hours.

• Wikifot — Catch-all joke term used by the community to refer to the general technical issues our platform, Wikidot, occasionally runs into.

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Additional Resources

Canon Specific definitions of terms can be found on the following pages:

• Ad Astra Per Aspera Hub
• AIAD Homescreen
• From 120's Archives Hub
• Third Law Hub
• War On All Fronts - Hub

Terms from the French Branch of the SCP Foundation are listed in the Prestigious Almanac of Terms and Academic Parlance Originating from the Universe of Francophonia (PATAPOUF).

Acknowledgements

In addition to the linked pages, this Glossary of Terms made use of the already existing Dr. Mackenzie's Glossary of Terms, as well as similar pages from the Portuguese and French SCP wikis.

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