The Gemini Project

may you live in interesting times
- Chinese Curse

In times of duress, Protocol 12 may be enacted, which allows recruitment from other sources — such as political prisoners, refugee populations, and other civilian sources — that can be transferred into Foundation custody under plausibly deniable circumstances.
- SCP Employee Handbook, “Security Clearance Levels”

January 11th 2022

Protocol 12 has been in effect for five years now. With the bad luck the Foundation has faced with recent containment failures and world events, I don’t see that changing any time soon.

The Foundation has been abducting vulnerable peoples, and not just the refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kosovo. Aboriginal women, homeless and vulnerable minority youth across the first world, and sex workers have all been systematically targeted and abducted. The Foundation is the largest human trafficking organization in existence by an order of magnitude.

When mother’s warn their daughters of strangers, and bad men with bad intentions, they, though they do not know it, are speaking about the Foundation.

Additionally, these populations face unnecessary and unwarranted cruelty and hardship once they join the ranks of Class-D personnel. So far, there has been no effective way to manage the attitude held by researchers and security staff that Class-D personnel are the cesspit of humanity. While greater enforcement of policy has lowered the rates of mistreatment and assaults against Class-D personnel, it has not eliminated cruelty against the population and likely never will. Especially not while some amount of disdain aids our researchers and security staff in performing their duties.

Indeed, as attempts to change the attitudes of staff toward Class-D personnel have been made, we have repeatedly observed a rise in the demand for counseling, diagnosis of mental illness among staff, and suicide attempts. I predict, that should attitudes be successfully changed, the yearly budget required to provide adequate mental health services would rise by ████%.

Traditional access to Class-D personnel is also strained. The decrease in crime and the war against the private prisons, as well as the successes a few countries have had regarding the rehabilitation of even the most violent and despised criminal populations have all contributed to the Foundation’s difficulty in fulfilling the Class-D quota.

The magnitude of the use of Protocol 12 is starting to be understood by Class-D personnel. The potential for this knowledge to spread, especially among the lower level security staff monitoring these personnel, can not be overlooked. If the extent to which we have relied on Protocol 12 ever became widely known, the Foundation could face a mutiny. Internal conflicts regarding the treatment of Class-D personnel would become unmanageable.

An alternative must be pursued. Thusly, I propose the Gemini Project.