SCP: 5K Lore

The most comprehensive guide to SCP:5K lore details in the SCP Foundation with clear (and not so) explanation for newcomers and people already involved in the universe.

Foreword

Brief description of all the necessary game lore for those interested in understanding the context without spending too much time reading wiki (But if you want, go ahead[scp-wiki.wikidot.com]. There will be links to articles.

Notice: The Foundation is a collaborative writing site with no canon. Therefore I cannot guarantee that all the data is 100% canon. Guide represents a guess not a only and single truth.

Just in case, here is what exactly is canon:
1. SCP-5000*
2. 5K Hub
3. In-game docs
4. Dev comments

And here is what is most likely canon:
1. SCPs mentioned in guide
2. Articles referenced in the in-game docs.

For better understanding:
The Foundation[scp-wiki.wikidot.com]
Clearance levels[scp-wiki.wikidot.com]
Amnestics guide[scp-wiki.wikidot.com]

Introduction: beginning and Q&A

According to the plot of the main mission of the game, we are entering the SCP Foundation Biological Research and Specialized Containment Area-12. The very first sentence raises a lot of questions:

Question 1: What is the SCP Foundation?
Answer: An international organization[scp-wiki.wikidot.com] that operates to maintain normalcy by containing anomalous objects, entities, and other assorted phenomena in clandestine Sites and Areas around the world. The Foundation isn't the only such organization, but it is the largest and strongest. It has a huge pool of resources: human, material, and financial. Throughout this guide, "Foundation" and "Organization," regardless of context, will refer specifically to the SCP Foundation.

Question 2: Who we are?
Answer: Players take on the role of members of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's Unusual Incidents Unit (FBIUIU)[scp-wiki.wikidot.com]. Prior to the events of the game, the division was engaged in tasks similar to those of the Foundation and participated in some joint operations. Generally, the UIU is part of the Anti-Foundation Alliance (AFA), an association of humanity that, ironically enough, opposes the Foundation.

Question 3: Why are we no longer friends with the Foundation and what have they done?
Answer: The Foundation initiated an omnicide, declaring war on the entire human race and announcing a total massacre using all available weapons and tools.

Question 4: Ok, why did we come to Area-12?
Answer: In brief, our goal is to oppose the Foundation and try to save humanity by uncovering exactly how the Foundation plans to execute the omnicide. Since there is no pre-operation briefing in the game (and there won't be), I have created one for you:
1. Capture data from the servers of Area, as well as its various documentation;
2. Explosion of a Primary Nuclear Reactor, located in the complex;
3. Destruction of Psi-Z program, which task is creating zombies, à la The Walking Dead.
0. Just investigate what's going on
Note from roadmap Update 3: New grunt enemy (SCP-940) // replacement of zombies

UPDATE 9/3/2023 newly Affray announced information about Update 3 where they say that in future we could play for new fractions (idk, maybe Foundation) and we will got new tasks in Area-12 Scenario, so this information can be non-relatable.

UPDATE 5/10/2024 New fractions is GOC and there's new map (Half-Life 3 Borealis literally)

Having answered some of the preliminary questions, let's move on to the main part.


Area-12 structure.

Backstory: Events before start of the game

As we now know that the Foundation launched a mass omnicide of humanity, but why did they do it? Why?

The answer lies in:
SCP-5000 - Why?[scp-wiki.wikidot.com]
SCP-3125 - The Escapee[scp-wiki.wikidot.com]
SCP-682 - Hard-to-Destroy Reptile[scp-wiki.wikidot.com]
SCP-055 - [unknown][scp-wiki.wikidot.com]
SCP-579 - [DATA EXPUNGED][scp-wiki.wikidot.com]
SCP-7555 - ATHAZAGORAPHOBIA[scp-wiki.wikidot.com]

Let's start with SCP-5000. As an item we don't need it, but it tells the story of the timeline where we are. More precisely, the one in which the Foundation plunged into the study of the human collective unconscious (note: in reality - a pseudoscientific theory about the presence of traits common to each person) as a result of which it came to the conclusion that humanity was infected with some kind of strange ENTITY which is, to put it mildly, disgusting[scp-wiki.wikidot.com]. After analyzing all chances of saving humanity, Foundation realized that it would only have time to save its employees, as a result of which it notified the high-rank persons, who reacted to the news in two ways. Someone left the Foundation (we'll talk about them later), and someone agreed to save the world through omnicide. After a short time, the Foundation was able to remove this ENTITY from the heads of its employees with a memetic construct (a set of information capable of influencing consciousness, for example, music, sound, photo, video, picture or words), thus freeing them from side effects (such as pain and empathy). And began preparations for the PROTOCOL FOUNDATION - this is how the Foundation called its plan to war against the human race.

Here begins the first details that can be found in the game. In documents there is OPERATION: MOONFALL which says that after the discovery of the entity, Lunar Area-32 (a facility located, as one can logically assume, on the Moon) disagreed with the ideas of most of the Foundation. It was isolated from the rest of the Foundation and apparently it couldn't be cleared of this ENTITY, as a result of which it was decided to destroy it (I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the document before viewing it):

Let's return to the employees who left the Foundation. One of the developers' early posts about the history of the game indicated that some remained opposed to the Foundation's decision and left the Foundation by contacting the Groups of Interest (as the Foundation refers to any paranormal organizations separate from it), primarily the Global Occult Coalition (the second largest paranormal organization, which is part of the United Nations and includes more than two hundred national services and just paraorganizations such as the British Occult Service (aka MI666).

There are also other documents in the game that talk about preparing operations to eliminate rebel cells and effectively destroy humanity by cutting off communications (Internet, radio, etc.), creating various weapons (such as manipulating Reality Benders - people with the ability to restructure reality actually by the power of thought) and the creation of a program to create zombies (which are present in the game).
It's also worth noting that SCP-939[scp-wiki.wikidot.com] has been turned into a Psi-Resonator:

After developing dozens of projects and protocols, Foundation was ready for an omnicide, about which ti politely informed all of humanity, thereby revealing to it (yes, it is also worth noting that the Foundation hid it from the public throughout its existence and only the GoIs and national governments), but we do not care much about this, like the rest of the plot of SCP-5000, because it tells a little about something else.

Story: This is Why.

And here we come to the worst. We figured out what and how happens within the game and what you can learn from the in-game environment and plot. There is no god further, because we are going to the bottom of the plot where you will never find one exact answer.

Here even my brain cannot give an unambiguous and 100% answer, because ENTITY is nowhere described more specifically than absolute evil, because of which humanity must be eliminated.

Let's walk through related objects for clarity:
SCP-5000 - We covered it in the last section, but for more details, click here.

SCP-682 - A hard-to-destroy reptile that wants to annihilate all people in its path. The first object known to the Foundation that was aware of the ENTITY that infested humanity.

SCP-682's words to humanity about the ENTITY. The spider here is called SCP-3125

SCP-055 - An antimeme (an idea that encrypts itself, i.e. does not allow you to remember it), which, in conjunction with SCP-579 (Antimeme #2), resets reality and prevents the end of the world. Most likely it has consciousness and supports this ENTITY in its quest to survive. SCP-5000's storyline is that the ENTITY is helping to reset reality for a Foundation employee who has escaped the memetic agent. SCP-055 itself may be the skull of an ancient sub-race of humans that had an antimemetic effect (this is indicated by another SCP Foundation storyline currently maintained by SCP:5K's current writer and lead writers - placeholdermcd. HarryBlank & Gabriel)

SCP-579 - Antimeme #2, no comment here, it's even more complex and incomprehensible than SCP-055, but the only thing we know is that it can roll back reality to the right moment to prevent death humanity, as well as ENTITY

SCP-3125 - Another antimeme, which is something like an alien creature that was outside the universe and which makes its way into the human noosphere (pseudo-scientific term characterizing the 5D-space, which contains all kinds of data for humanity). According to the plot of the object itself, it is an evil that the Foundation is fighting, but in the plot of SCP-5000, it is ambiguous due to information from SCP-7555.

SCP-3125 or its "iconic" image

SCP-7555 - OBJECT-5 contained in Area-12, which is actually SCP-3125. I'll make a note here:
SCP-3125 = SCP-7555
SCP-7555 = OBJECT-5
OBJECT-5 = SCP-3125
OBJECT-5 wants to rid humans of the ENTITY from SCP-5000 through deprivation of personality and humanity. (text and theory taken from SCP-7555's translator, Dawn-of-Ash, thanks to him).

SCP-7555 in containment at Area-12

SCP-3125's words about ENTITY

In all this incomprehensible nightmare, we can assume that ENTITY is very bad and is doing something to humanity, for which it will have to pay with its existence after a while. If you look from the perspective that the ENTITY is evil, then we, as people infected by it, act as villains in history, and the Foundation, SCP-3125, SCP-7555, SCP-682 are good boys who save humanity and world as a whole.

It is worth adding here that during the preparation for PROTOCOL FOUNDATION, the Foundation releases SCP-682 with many other objects into the wild, but it is with him that the conversation is started:


For context, the PNEUMA project is one in which the Foundation studies the psychosphere and the human unconscious in general, finding this ENTITY from the plot of SCP-5000:


And here we can roughly estimate the result for this ENTITY:
ENTITY the source of some of the negative aspects of humanity, incl. pain. Once upon a time, ENTITY penetrated into the collective unconscious and influenced it tremendously, thereby invading the minds of people. ENTITY is intelligent and strong, but unable to control people directly (otherwise it would have stopped O5 Counctil - Foundation High Command). ENTITY due to the fact that it is responsible for some of the negative aspects of humanity, ENTITY has never good intentions. ENTITY is so bad that the Foundation Ethics Committee (department that certifies research and containment projects in the Foundation in terms of ethical decisions) chose to destroy mankind, just to prevent the ENTITY from continuing dirty work.

And some dirty facts about all above:
ENTITY is SCP-5000 and it is a Constant of LIFE
SCP-3125 is a Constant of TRANSCENDENCE
SCP-682 is a Constant of TERMINATION

What that all means? Everything I would say, but there's a guide for SCP:5K, not metaphysics so for God's sake go read SCP wiki if you're interested in this, I'll help if need.

Declass: The Part Where He Kills You

We need to talk about one thing.

SCP-7528

(scary ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ost turns on)

SCP in game is an information entity that moves across any lenses or displays available to it, including your eyeballs. Actually, this wonderful object has its own article[scp-wiki.wikidot.com] Here's a description:

SCP-7528 is an aggressive electronic ideoform. This anomaly exhibits diverse attributes and abilities across domains conceptual, digital, and physical. Its precise nature has yet to be determined. The 'jumping' phenomenon extends beyond standard optical projection, allowing SCP-7528 to directly propagate across mechanical/digital systems with sufficient display capabilities. The anomaly appears to possess some degree of control over its host medium and any interconnected systems, dependent on their capacity to symbolize and compute abstract data.

Simply, screenjumper is the result of project to use SCP-2528 (pandas and bamboo) as a biological secured supercomputer. The project was successful, but pattern screamers (2528-C) now have no home. No one likes be contained.

7528, bullied by foundationeers, took "revenge" during a Containment Breach, when it killed a bunch of Area stuff. At the Breach itself, a huge Santa-Barbara begins (I will not rephrase it pls read on your own), so we just say that breach ended, and all the main characters are alive. But hey, plot twist

(Crazy stuff)
It turns out to be Crius (Area-12 main Artificial Intelligence Conscript) calculated the breach and now bullying the Area Director Arthur R. Ford

And yeah, I lied. It's isn't declassification. I'm not smart enough.

Story: Events of the world during the action of the game (Speculation only)

At the moment it is impossible to write the events of the game for sure, because they are changing a lot from update to update. It's better to just play and enjoy. Notwithstanding, let's speculate.

Now that we have a complete list of signs of schizophrenia, take few facts:

Timecode 2:40

And also this

AIC opened Area-12 for UIU? Well.

But taking SCP-7528 it can make sense somehow.

Conclusion: sum up

SCP:5K is about how the Anti-Foundation Alliance (UN Global Occult Coalition, FBI Unusual Incidents Unit and other Groups of Interest Coalition) is trying to prevent the SCP Foundation omnicide. The Foundation itself produces it in order to save the world from the ENTITY, terrible something doing very bad stuff. Terrible enough that the Foundation, as the most advanced organization made a decision to fight against all the world.

As we know, it's a second attempt, so who won this confrontation within the game is still unknown. We'll see in the release.

Afterword

This is the end. Pretty much all the data I can write. I'll try to maintain the guide as new updates come in. Feel free to correct me. If you enjoy, like and follow.


And remember, Dave loves you for finding his family.

Thanks for reading!

[Solstice - Klystiene]

Entity sounds like it appeared when eve ate that apple at the garden of eden

[nayfonts]

Sounds like a reason to update the information when 0.14 is released

[Swirly D 420]

i donated 4,800 steamy points. good luck.

[nayfonts]

When the next update comes out, along with the new docs, I'll analyze the information from the existing ones

[dipinpreet]

will you add the documents

[nayfonts]

On that week I'll try to write about that

[CAL&Stuff]

Also, SCP-7528 has quite alot of lore in it.

[Мопсярка]

я геюга

[nayfonts]

Corrected*

[CAL&Stuff]

Its Anti Foundation Alliance