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SCP Foundation Secure Facility Dossier
Site-138
Official Designation: SCP Foundation Swiss Alps Primary Admin & Archival Facility
Site Identification Code: CHSZ-Site-138
Founded: 14 Nov, 1914
Gate house and entry path.
Location: Schwyz, Switzerland
Cover Story: P-2█ Military Training Area
Site Function: Administration, Archives, Containment.
Size: 17.6 km2
Purpose: Primary administrative and archival nexus for Foundation operations within Europe and North Africa. Long-term preservation of documentation and records. Storage of Safe-class anomalies.
"At Site-138, containment refers not to anomaly suppression, but to the prevention of informational loss, or corruption." - E. Kurmann
Staff Information
Site Director: Elise Kurmann
Assistant Director: Markus Keller
Head of Personnel and Security: Élodie Favre
Head of Containment: Lukas Baumann
Head of Archives: Paul-Ulrich Maillard
On-Site Staff:
- Staff Doctors: 12
- Staff Researchers: 18
- Staff Administrative: 180
- Maintenance: 70
- Security: 90
- Other: 40
Site Map
Above-Ground Facility
Subterranean Facility
Parking
Pond
Fenced-Area
Elevation (3m)
Facilities and Wings
Sector I:
2nd Floor: Executive Offices, includes a secure executive meeting room.
1st Floor: Departmental Blocks, includes a shared meeting room and designated break area.1
Ground Floor: Primary entrance inscribed with Site-138’s motto: Memoria servat quod robur non potest.2 Secretariat, postal services from 11:00 to 13:00. Chancery.
1st Basement: Archival Wing, access restricted to personnel with Level 4 clearance or higher. Server Wing, access restricted to maintenance staff, unless approved by Site Director.
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Parking (South of Sector I): 60 car spaces and 10 motorcycle spaces, parking fee set at 1 CHF per hour. Staff receive complimentary public transport for daily transit to Site-138.3 Approximately 250 bicycle racks are distributed across the Site.4
Sector III:
2nd Floor: Records and Information Security Administration Offices. Inter-Site Coordination Offices, includes a small break area.
1st Floor: Compliance and Audit Division. Redaction Office.
Ground Floor: Translation and Cryptography Offices. Cafeteria, open daily from 08:30 to 20:00; hot meal service is available from 11:30 to 13:30.
1st Basement: Mimetics Department. Preservation Laboratories.5
Garden (between Sectors I and III): Outdoor recreational space for personnel, furnished with seating and maintained water features. Fishing is prohibited. A covered walkway connects both Sectors to allow year-round access.
Sector II:
Ground and 1st Floor: Humanoid Containment Units, mostly decommissioned, remain available for emergency or transitory containment assignments.
1st Basement: Warehouse used for storage of Safe-class anomalous objects approved for unattended containment, access restricted to authorised personnel.
1866-1914
Site-138 was originally constructed as a prison complex intended to serve the alpine cantons of Switzerland. However, an inter-cantonal agreement with Aargau, 1864, rendered the facility redundant prior to completion. The structure was placed under military administration and remained largely unused.
The FCU6 identified the location as a favorable nexus-point for operations throughout Switzerland. Acquisition negotiations were finalised in early 1865, and refurbishment of the infrastructure concluded in November of the next year.
The initiative proved short-lived, as the Site soon encountered severe financial constraints. The organisation of the period faced governmental skepticism and lacked stable revenue streams, relying instead on regional agreements and private funding. As a result, the Site remained only outfitted for short-term research operations and rudimentary storage.
In 1898, facing imminent closure, Site administration petitioned the Swiss Confederation for financial assistance. Aid was granted under strict conditions: select facilities of the Site were to be made available for use as temporary barracks accommodations for enlisted Swiss military personnel during periods of Détachement.
This dual-use arrangement proved destabilizing. The biannual presence of non-FCU personnel within the Site severely restricted operational secrecy. This diminished its perceived value within the organisation and resulted in reduced funding allocations.
Internal memoranda from the period frequently questioned the Site’s continued existence, with several proposals recommending its dissolution or conversion into a regional outpost.
1914-1939
The onset of the Great War, the Foundation necessitated the identification of politically neutral facilities capable of maintaining continuity of records and coordination. Subsequent evaluation identified the location as possessing significant strategic value, owing to Switzerland’s central geography and political neutrality.
The facility was acquired and formally registered as Site-138, designated as a secondary documentation transfer point beginning in late 1914. Security protocols were standardized, and initial transfers consisted primarily of duplicate operational records and archival materials originating from neighboring Foundation jurisdictions. Despite early logistical difficulties, the Site demonstrated consistent reliability under wartime conditions.
Following the Great War, Site-138 incrementally expanded its archival capacity and was formally assigned responsibility for the preservation of select European operational records. Limited infrastructure upgrades were authorised, though the Site remained non-containment-focused.
1939-1990
Intelligence indicated active efforts by Nazi research divisions to locate and weaponise anomalous assets. The continual Axis territorial expansion resulted in an escalation of emergency relocation protocols.
Between 1939 and 1945, Site-138 was the primary continental intake and processing hub for relocated documentation, records, and approved Safe-class and Euclid-class anomalous objects. Transfers were conducted under heightened secrecy and often active military threat.
In response to increased activity, Site-138 underwent extensive structural expansion. Subterranean archival vaults and dedicated administrative wings were constructed between 1940 and 1953. Security operations were conducted in coordination with the Swiss Military P-2█ unit, which provided perimeter control and external logistical support. Authorization to expand the operational use of SCP-7822 was approved to manage the sustained administrative load. The anomaly’s capacity to accelerate data organization and recollection significantly increased processing throughput and reduced latency.
By the conclusion of the Second World War, Site-138 was formally redefined to emphasise continental-scale archival custody and administrative coordination. The majority of anomalous objects were returned to their respective Sites; however, Site-138 retains custody of a substantial number of Safe-class objects in containerised storage (see Anomalies in Storage).
1990-Present
With the conclusion of Cold War tensions and the widespread adoption of digital information systems, the necessity for Site-138’s large-scale centralised document storage gradually diminished. As a result, personnel levels declined, and several wings were decommissioned.
Site-138 transitioned toward digital archival infrastructure. Between 1996 and 2010, several extensive subterranean chambers were repurposed to house isolated server arrays and hardened data centers. Each was designed to provide failover capacity and support encrypted record storage respectively.
Today, Site-138 stands as one of the Foundation’s smaller facilities in personnel and footprint. Nevertheless, it retains its functions as a principal administrative and archival support Site for Foundation operations, safeguarding the institutional memory upon which modern activities depend.
Anomalies in Storage
| Item # | Object Class |
|---|---|
| Anomalous Item 120 | Safe Uncontained |
| SCP-6192 | Euclid |
| SCP-7822 | Safe |
| SCP-8309 | Safe |
| SCP-8387 | Safe |
| SCP-8639 | Safe |
| SCP-9707 | Safe |
| SCP-9879 | Safe |
| SCP-147-J | Safe |
| (85) more cut for brevity. |