FROM THE FILES OF SITE-19
Series 0 is a canon created by Crow-Cat, Animal Hospital, ratking666, and Liryn.
Series 0 is about the SCP Foundation, a clandestine organization within the United States military. The SCP Foundation operates internationally, securing magical artifacts, containing supernatural creatures, and protecting civilians from their influence.
This project is a speculative exercise, stripping the concept of the SCP setting down to its barest essentials, with some arbitrary decisions made to keep it functional as a setting. This setting is, at present, largely undefined, though we emphasize creating new aspects for this setting, rather than reinventing pre-existing ones. The process of defining this setting is democratic, and anyone can participate.
With anyone being able to write for Series 0… what happens next is entirely up to you.
We only have a few ground rules to ensure the project achieves what it ought to achieve:
- No canon crossovers. Characters, SCPs, locations, weapons, Groups of Interest, etc. developed outside of Series 0 are impermissible for use. Series 0 is a blank slate. We are starting over completely. Only SCP-173 and its immediate implications are canon, as well as any concepts invented by authors expressly for Series 0 (but these are not set in stone), such as new Object Classes, Departments, Personnel, etc.
- The Foundation is smaller, less influential, and has limited resources. This world does not have a Veil or Masquerade in the traditional sense. There is no "anomalous world" or a semblance of a unified "theory of the anomalous". There are no cognitohazards, antimemetics, amnestics, D-Class, nor laser-energy weapons, reality anchors, SCRAMBLE goggles, or even teleportation. This Foundation is possibly the only official agency dedicated to the paranormal, owing to the unique relationship the supernatural has to public American politics in the 21st century.
- We're not just "doing Series I again". Series 0's premise begins with: What if SCP-173 were posted today, and that's all we got? and continues with: What would we write to expand on this strange thing? Series 0 should have its own reader-friendly style, free of contemporary notions about what SCP "is" or "should be".
- Please include a link back to this hub in the WikiWalk footer of your article, located at the bottom of every SCP. Simply copy-paste the following code:
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This canon is regularly updated with prompts, submitted by authors who have written for the canon, so there's always something for you to latch onto. You're not required to use them (important to note: you can write your own Series 0 whenever you want with whatever title you want and add it to our hub) but the prompts are there if you want to use them. Subsequently, we ask that you only submit as many prompts as you've written Series 0 SCPs: one prompt for each entry posted.
THE ARCHIVES
- The Weird And The Eerie.
- Alien Rhythms.
- The Templeton Episode.
- SCP-173 - The Sculpture.
- SCP-9853 - The Easter Rabbit.
- SCP-9073 - The Bad Man.
- The Russian Sleep Experiment.
- SCP-9083 - Letters For Scratch.
- SCP-9965 - Tape Worm.
- SCP-9580 - I Was A Teenage Astronaut.
- SCP-9533 - The Whale.
- Slender Man.
- SCP-9508 - Open Mouth.
- SCP-9116 - Cold Toes.
- SCP-8402 - Mossback.
- SCP-9560 - Ticklish Structure.
- Fleshgait.
- SCP-8546 - Weird Dog.
- SCP-9773 - Blood Sport.
- SCP-9336 - Mr. Crouch and Mr. Hopp.
- SCP-1538 - The Plague Lamp.
- SCP-9581 - But they're looking back at our sun.
- Ted the Caver.
- SCP-9234 - The Switch.
- SCP-9224 - Butt Monster.
- SCP-9082 - Live from the Red Room.
- SCP-9272 - Last Dream.
- SCP-9912 - Protect and Serve.
- SCP-9160 - Who Will Win?
- SCP-9456 - WHITEROOM
- SCP-9121 - Soft Eclipse.
- SCP-9614 - Old Doll.
- SCP-8353 - Stargazer.
- SCP-8796 - Haunted Horror Fun Time!
We don't believe in there being a "canon runner" or a central authority for this canon. Decisions are made democratically amongst contributors. We encourage everyone to participate in this in any capacity they choose. Our Discord server is open to anyone with a site membership; join it with this link. The server is password protected, and the password is on this hub.
If you have questions for us, ask them in the Discord server or message us through Wikidot.
Thank you for your time.