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.
The goal of The Gemini Project is to create an effective alternative to Protocol 12 in order to keep up with the demand for Class-D personnel independent from the traditional sources of these personnel.
Description of Gemini Subjects: The design of Gemini subjects is meant to disallow them from entering society without Foundation’s notice, to segregate the subjects in the mind of personnel, and to create an instinctive emotional response in personnel which encourages them to take actions which would preserve Gemini subjects without unduly jeopardizing the safety of themselves or others. To enhance the last goal, research teams are permitted to request cosmic alterations to the Gemini subjects they require.
Popular non genetic alterations include varoise ear and facial piercings, tattoos, [REDACTED], and accessories such as flower crowns. Popular genetic alterations include modifications of the auricle to resemble that of a feline or canine, the addition of a tail, unusual or unnatural eye pigmentation, alteration of the facial structure making eyes and forehead larger, and [DATA EXPUNGED]. Request for wings, regardless of scale or functionality will be denied.
The creation of wings for Gemini subjects will never be authorised due to the resources required to graph the bone, muscle, and other tissues required to create additional appendage which serve no purpose other than the cosmetic. You freaks get tails because it’s easy to activate the genes which extends the formation of the spinal column another foot or so.
-Dr. ██████
Addendum Gemini-A
Gemini subjects are not toys and do not exist for your entertainment. Mistreatment and inappropriate behavior directed toward Gemini subjects is grounds for demotion and immediate reassignment.
Authorization of modification of Gemini subjects to include animal characteristics is suspended. To be reinstated on date ██/██/████.
-Site Director ██████
Addendum Gemini-B
Alteration of subjects post maturation to alline with the cosmetic desires of a new research team or project is not advised during this time.
-Dr. ████████
The average height of Gemini subjects if 139.69 centimeters, with a standard deviation 3.8 centimeters. They tend to have a slender build and are required to maintain a certain level of fitness. See Document PFT for details on the physical abilities of Gemini subjects. All races are represented in the facial structure, hair texture, and other genetic aspects of the Gemini genom.
All Gemini have a mild form of leucism. Subjects which will need to withstand intense or natural lighting situations have the stem cells which will form the ocular system altered during maturation to ensure they do not express leucism. Subject’s eyes can also be altered post maturation to allow for prolonged exposure to these lighting conditions. Gemini capable of this exposure have the letter Z added to their designation.
Interaction Between Gemini Subjects and Personnel: Assumptions that Gemini subjects are not human, don’t have souls, are mute, and are dumb should not be discouraged so long as they don’t lead to behaviors which unnecessarily damage Gemini subjects or Gemini subjects being viewed as expendable. Beliefs that Gemini subjects are cute, lovable, and loyal or that they are ‘like pets’ should not be discouraged so long as it doesn’t interfere with researchers use of Gemini for the dangerous tasks they have been created to carry out.
Anyone expressing an abnormally intense attachment to a Gemini subject is to be consoled, monitored, and reassigned where appropriate. Anyone who expresses the belief that Gemini subjects are slaves should immediately be reassigned such that they do not have contact with any research project using Gemini subjects. Every six months the reassignment can be reassessed. The personnel can be reintegrated with projects using Gemini subject as long as their beliefs about the morality of the Gemini Project as changed.
Class-D personnel attitudes of superiority over Gemini subjects need to be closely monitored on site and projects were the two groups may interact. So long as there are no appreciable threats of violence toward Gemini subjects the attitude need not be suppressed. It appears to make Class-D personnel more cooperative with the Foundation and provides an effective deterrent to complaints made by Class-D personnel. Pointed remarks about the effectiveness of Gemini subjects also serves as an effective motivator for personnel reluctant to carry out their duties.
Maintenance of Gemini Subjects:
Commingling of Gemini subjects is disallowed, as such, alternative confinement from that standarly used for Class-D personnel must be used. Reassigning Gemini to a different group should be done with rarely and caution, it is recommended class A amnesiacs be used on the new Gemini subject before integration. There is no need to implant false memories.
Gemini subjects are not to have their memories whipped at the end of each month. Maintaining memories of their duties correlates with greater survival rates and offers the opportunity to build a relationship to and increase loyalty with the Foundation.
Gemini subjects should maintained in small groups to reduce the spatial and financial burden of housing them and to allow them to form connections important to maintaining their mental and emotional health. However, it is imperative that Gemini subjects also form attachments to the security and caregiver staff which maintain and control them. The most important relationship a Gemini subject has should be formed with a therapist with level 4 clearance which they are to meet with at least once a month. The goal of these meetings is to gain greater insight into a subject’s thoughts and options on their role in the Foundation and gage their level of contentment. To facilitate the cooperation and dedication Gemini subjects have with the foundation, they should be allowed input on their assignments as a matter of course.
Maturation of Gemini Subjects:
While Gemini subjects are considerably less expensive than Class-D personnel, the financial burden of their creation is solely held by the Foundation. They are incredibly valuable assets.
Subjects are suspended in distilled water maintained at a temperature for 38 degrees Celsius during that maturation process. The water is consciously filtered to ensure minimal contamination and electric conductivity. A mask is fitted over the subject’s nose and mouth to allow for breathing, and an intravenous line provides the subject with the necessary chemicals and hormones, including [DATA EXPUNGED].
A gastric tube and ostomy system of waste removal are both surgically installed and maintained in the subject. Maturation takes nine months. Two months before full maturation is achieved, the gastric tube is replaced with a nasogastric system. This allows the stoma created by the gastric tube to be completely healed by the time maturation is complete. Unfortunately, the same can not currently be done for the ostomy system. However, it is removed five days before complete maturation. Imodium is administered as needed until maturation is complete.
Electrodes are installed and a neurological spinal tap is installed in the subject. Muscle memories and general knowledge are uploaded and processed by the subject during maturation.
When the Gemini subject is fully matured, it will have mastery of motor control, including experience in hand to hand combat, an high school understanding of mathematics and literature, relevant understanding of cultural norms, self care, and self preservation, mastery of up to three languages, and [DATA EXPUNGED].
The Gemini subjects will not possess any knowledge regarding the SCP Foundation due to safety concerns. The subject will also need to spend an additional four months gaining muscle and healing the ostomy stoma before being delivered to the relevant site and research team.