Secure Facility Dossier: Site-12

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Site-12

Official Designation: SCP Foundation British Isles Secondary Research & Containment Facility

Site Identification Code: BISRC-Site-12

Code Name: BOOKMARK

Founded: 1 July 1871

Founding Director: Major Horace Templeton

Location: South Brent, Dartmoor, England

Cover Story: Reservoir, MoD (Ministry of Defence) Training Area, Grade II* Listed Country House

Site Function: Research, Archiving, Containment, Task Force Deployment/Training

Size (Manmade Facilities): Area of 1.6km² (Depth of 2.5km)

Purpose: After Site-44, Site-12 is the secondary hub for the Foundation’s activities within the British Isles, constructed a few months following the establishment of the Foundation on 29th of December, 1870. Site-12 is a heavily secured facility used to research anomalous history, study and archive historical documentation, and contain anomalies of great archaeological importance, working closely with Site-24, Site-91 and Site-44. Due to the vast amount of documents and data collected within its archive, the site functions as the headquarters for the Department of History and its subdivisions.

Exterior of Site-12's southern entrance.

Silence In The Library

Found in chaos, times of panic
Full of wonder and old magic;

Ripped apart from its ancient home
Once left abandoned, and alone;

Now lies beneath a Devon lake
A pillar in our founder's sake;

A hidden den of words and fact
A place to learn, to seek, and act

Its walls, forever, growing strong
Regaining knowledge long thought gone;

So come, young scholar and delve
Here at the site, known as Twelve.

- Major Horace Templeton, Site-12's First Director¹

The Department of History (DoH) is responsible for uncovering and studying information regarding the anomalous and its influence on historical or modern events. Within its ranks are some of the Foundation's most skilled researchers, forensics, psychologists and archaeologists. As a result, the Department often works with several other divisions, assisting in research, containment and diplomacy, particularly with its sister department, The Department of Mythology and Folkloristics. Due to this importance and workload, the Department has formed a number of subdivisions:

Department of Public History: Often working with the Disinformation Bureau, this division helps uncover and alter public records that reference historical events related to the anomalous.
Department of Antiquity: This division, composed mostly of archaeologists, studies and contains anomalous artefacts of historical value or related to ancient civilisations.
Department of Anthropology: This division studies the impact of the anomalous on human society and culture.
Department of Xenohistory: Founded following the discovery of SCP-████ in 1932, this division focuses on uncovering and studying historical events that have occurred off-world or within extradimensional locations.
Department of Diplomatic History: Founded after the signing of the Dartmoor Agreement, this division focuses on studying historical events relating to People and Groups of Interest.
Department of Anomalous Chronology: This division studies the timeline and anomalous alterations to it. - Pending initiation

Staff Information

Doctor Vidya Firiba Durrani during her promotion ceremony.

Site Director: Dr. Vidya Durrani

Asst. Dir. of Research: Prof. Olivine Okonkwo

Asst. Dir. of Containment: Dr. Oliver Jade

Asst. Dir. of Task Forces: Lord Rowan Douglas

Archive Manager: Rev. Terrance Upjohn

Ethics Committee Liaison: Elena Clarke

On-Site Psychologist/Refugee Mediator: Dr. Zachary Dafydd

On-Site Staff:

Department Heads: 9
Staff Doctors: 46
Staff Researchers: 109
Staff Administrative: 11
Maintenance: 98
Security: 40
D-Class: 20
Other: 33

Facilities

Northern Facility (Management and Conference)

Sector 1 (Partially Subterranean): Administrative offices. Constructed in 1855 by Lord Ivor Harvey, the building, formerly known as Caerulean Manor, is a Grade II* Listed Country House, consisting of several rooms, a tower, gardens, and barns. The mansion was purchased by the Foundation during the site's construction due to its proximity to the dam. Since then, expansions have been made, such as connecting the former servant quarters to the upper sectors of the Central and Central-Southern Facility and building the site's Personnel accommodation in the mansion's gardens.
Sector 2 (Subterranean): Office block and IT.
Sector 3 (Subterranean/Subaqueous): Lecture hall and board rooms.

Central Facility (Containment, Training and Experimentation)

Sector 1 (Subterranean): Taskforce and field agent training facilities and lecture halls.
Sector 2 (Subterranean): Laboratories & workshop.
Sector 3 (Subterranean): Artefact archive. Overseen by the Department of Antiquity, all artefacts are separated based on time period, location and cultural relation. In addition, any non-SCP objects of great historical value are stored here.
Sector 4 (Subterranean): Safe-Class containment.
Sector 5 (Subterranean): Euclid-Class containment.
Sector 6 (Subterranean): Keter-Class containment. - Currently under construction.

Central-Southern Facility (Research)

Sector 1 (Subterranean): Network-isolated electronic and media archives, along with non-anomalous asset storage.
Sector 2 (Subterranean): Documentation archive, consisting of corridors of filing cabinets, bookshelves, lockers and drawers, containing pages of research and data, both Foundation and non-Foundation.
Sector 3 (Subterranean): The Library is Site-12's primary point of notoriety. Overseen by the Department of History and the Archival Department, Site-12's library houses the largest collection of anomalous history within the Foundation and continues to grow². Believed to have once been a wing within the Wanderer's Library, the library still possesses numerous anomalous properties similar to its home dimension. Its most prominent property is that it possesses some degree of sentience and will react if threatened. Therefore, personnel who enter the library are implored to treat it with respect and care.

Southern Facility (Monitoring & Power Plant)

Sector 1 (Partially Subterranean): Activity stations. Houses several satellites, radios and detectors which are used in tandem with other mainland sites to monitor the British Isles for anomalous activity.
Sector 2 (Partially Subterranean/Subaqueous): Hydroelectric power station. Constructed in 1932, Site-12's hydroelectric power station provides power for the entire site. After several further upgrades, by 1971, the site officially became off-grid, allowing it to continue proper containment without being affected by the UK's energy crises. Since its construction, the station has only received one major issue, which occurred in 1992, when a conference between Site-12 and 44 resulted in several aqueous anomalies breaching containment.

Above-Ground Facility (Personnel and Welfare)

Sector 1: Staff housing and medical centre. All staff quarters include a bed, a desk, a bedside table, cabinets, and a poster reading "Knowledge is not power. Wisdom is power". Adjacent is the medical centre, which contains surgical, dental, and recuperative facilities.
Sector 2: Recreational centre and canteen, located on the site's eastern side, facing the River Avon. The centre is up-to-date and fully equipped to make on-site personnel as comfortable as possible and includes a gym, prayer rooms, garden and lounge. The canteen is open 24/7 and provides meals for all dietary preferences.
Sector 3: Anomalous refugee accomidation. - Currently under renovation.

Task Force

MTF Omicron-10 ("All Nighters")

Task Force Mission: Specialises in the recovery, collation, and preservation of research into anomalous activities and entities. All Omicron-10 personnel are skilled in multilingualism, forensics, diplomacy, and social assimilation.

Contained Anomalies

Anomaly ID	Object Class
SCP-1142	Safe
SCP-1230	Safe
SCP-2278	Safe
SCP-6475	Neutralised
SCP-6916	Euclid Keter
SCP-8125	Gleipnir
Nx-02	Camelot

Site Overview & History

Site-12 operates as the secondary hub for the Foundation’s operations within and around the British Isles. Following the establishment of the Foundation in the late 19th century, there was a great rush of documentation, both regarding the logistics of the Foundation's workings and the increase of anomalous activity that was occurring following the armistice of the Sixth Occult War. To compensate for this increase in information, and commandeering of several sites³, the Foundation commissioned several new sites.

The Library (CSF-S-3)
Floor 9 - Language, Literature and Linguistics.

During planning, the Foundation discovered documentation from the British Occult Service, detailing a damaged Rosen-Fortune Bridge ("Way") located near the Eastern White Barrow, South Brent. Investigations confirmed this and led to the discovery of a completed dimensional extrusion between baseline reality and Nx-01 ("The Wanderer's Library"). Numerous bookcases and shelves containing books, essays and documents were also discovered at the location, along with a noticeable, yet subsiding, levels of thaumactivity. Further investigation couldn't find any reason for the extrusion, and attempts to contact the area's landowner also met with failure.

Before the area could be classified as a neutralised anomaly, the Engineering Division, seeing the potential of the location's ontokinetic, thaumaturgic and historic influence and its proximity to FP-01 ("Three Portlands"), proposed setting up a facility within the area. After detailed analysis, the proposal was accepted, and the construction of Site-12 began on 25 January 1871. The extrusion was covered up, with the River Avon being redirected and widened in the process, and the basements and servant quarters of the Caerulean Manor were expanded to allow connection to the extrusion. Construction finished on 24 June 1871, and its facilities were open for usage on 1 July 1871. As the Foundation's efforts and workload increased worldwide, Site-12's capability soon became invaluable. This was especially apparent when Site-Blue was abandoned in 1893 when [DATA EXPUNGED]⁴.

As the century turned, Site-12 facilities continued to grow. However, this development wasn't entirely by design. In 1903, during an inspection, the Engineering Division discovered that Site-12's library had gained a further 13 floors. Luckily, the expansion wasn't the result of another extrusion, and the Department of Thaumaturgy determined that it was due to the library retaining some of its home dimension's thaumaturgic properties. As the expansion was non-threatening and useful, Site-12 wasn't decommissioned, although an office for the Department of Thaumaturgy was set up to manage the thaumactivity of the surrounding area and monitor the library's growing sentience.

Administrative Office (NF-S-1).

When the Seventh Occult War began in 1939, coinciding with the Second World War, Site-12 was first told to abstain from any conflict and protect itself due to the sensitivity of its contents. This neutrality continued throughout most of the warfare, with the only exception occurring when the British Occult Service conducted experiments in weaponised thaumaturgy within the Dartmoor Training Area. However, its position changed in August 1943 when the Thule Society⁵ managed to storm the site, obtaining valuable documentation and abducting skilful personnel. Despite their initial success, the invasion failed when, against reasonable expectations, the Foundation received assistance from the Serpent's Hand. In the end, not only was Site-12 most unscathed, but the Foundation gained substantial information about the Thule Society's plans. The reason for the Hand's appearance and assistance remains unknown.

During the latter half of the 20th century, the British Isles underwent a 'containment crisis'. Several factors influenced this, primarily financial issues brought on by the Foundation's overexpansion into American territories and the Isles' isolation from the rest of Europe. During this crisis, Site-12, a site focused on research and archiving, had to undergo several haphazard and rushed expansions in order to assist Sites 46 and 44 in containing anomalies and SCPs, specifically those relating to thaumaturgical, psionic or spectral phenomena. Though Site-12 had plenty of data on hand to ease the sudden increase in containment, the lack of proper design and the site's location caused problems, including several containment breaches. Fortunately, by the 1980s, both Site-91 and Site-24 had been constructed and renovated, alleviating the crisis and allowing Site-12 to return to its main focus.

Since its formation in the late 19th century and expansion, Site-12 remains one of the British Isles' most pivotal sites and has helped the Foundation greatly in its historical, spectral, mythological and thaumaturgical research. Along with Site-24, Site-44, Site-46, and Site-91, Site-12 will continue to serve the Foundation in protecting humanity and exploring the unknown.

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