Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-6002 by The Exploring Series - Reaction

[@kannonball5789]

SCP-6002 is a classical example of what otherwise would be an Archon-class SCP. A.K.A don't fuck with this

[@misplacedodst]

Best case scenario: That tree contained the genetic information of all life on Earth Worst case scenario: That tree contained the genetic information for all life in the universe THE FOUNDATION FUCKED UP HARDER THAN HORUS EVER DID! The blood on their hands is so plentiful that Khorne himself is currently drowning in it!!!!!!

[@ZeRandomizor]

the foundation with 914: NOooo we cant test a single biological organism, its too dangerous! the foundation here: ah screw it lets see how much we can f*ck over the earth

[@thatonesliceleft2867]

Anger, malice, hatred even

[@He11raiser01]

It was neat watching your journey from “FUCK THE GOC” to a loyal devotee, just out of spite of the Foundation’s mistakes.

[@KibitoAkuya]

Maybe sending the wrong chair to the woodchipper every now and then is better than fucking up the world because "wat wird thing do if poke"

[@He11raiser01]

@@KibitoAkuya “Let’s send D-Class to poke it!”

[@cyborgcatrj6794]

I mean… would it surprise anyone if the GOC tried putting the tree through the wood chipper?

[@Unit-3475]

The Foundation's leadership is a bunch of self-proclaimed censors who think they know what "normality" is. Completely fixated on people remaining blind and continuing to eke out a miserable existence, unable to reach the stars. And they have completely lost the concept of responsibility - after all, they can simply erase everyone’s memory. GOC, on the other hand, aims specifically to protect humanity. And in the event of a global threat - they fight to the end, and where the Foundation simply would not pay attention to civilians (they almost never take them into account at all) - the GOC would try to save as many as they could. They seem to be good guys - but we all remember what happened in Site 13 - where their true essence was revealed, namely that the GOC are scumbags who imagine themselves to be supernatural police, cold-bloodedly destroying everything that did not fit into their wretched ideas about the world. If they had the chance they would do it again. So they're not too different from them. Both organizations are the greatest evil of this world. I have heard many statements in the spirit of: Foundation/GOC are not evil, morality is indispensable for them and in general they are “gray”. This is complete nonsense. Because where the gray ones reign, black ones always come to power.

[@michaelliggett1622]

It implies the egg species is scp 3199 a human chicken hybrid nightmare creature which is hostile , hard to kill and lays a egg after it dies which births a new one with another egg inside it

[@phecto]

I mean to be fair it's a surprise the GOC didn't decide to just burn the tree down to destroy the anomaly before even trying to figure out what it does once they got access to it.

[@Negonkey]

They actually don't... do that very often.

[@KimFareseed]

The Foundation of SCP-6002's timeline/univers, is likely no more.

[@liammurphy2036]

The ultimate case of if it ain't broke don't fix it. Been waiting for you to get around to this one Boss.

[@mekelwander6551]

Find a way to bring Muller back to life right this and put him through permanent D-class duty for every hellishly, psychologically torturous, non-fatal SCP you can chuck him at, it has to be non-fatal because death is too much of a damn luxury for some one like that.

[@lewisbarclay9113]

The Foundation sadly does have a history of not leaving stuff that's contained on its own alone because they think they need to know and they know better. Just ask SCP-5252 over on SCP illustrated.

[@LukasJampen]

The GOC would have tried to burn it down the first time they saw it.

[@Negonkey]

No, they wouldn't.

[@ZeRandomizor]

i also just realized that burning the tree is the most efficient way to destroy humanity as in scp 5000

[@MidnightDStroyer]

But that would also wipe out all of the genetic samples & fully-grown clones of both humans & animals too...All of *their* genetics are just as firmly linked to 6002 as all other life forms are.

[@TheHikariLP]

Did you notice btw, that the GOC didn't touch the tree when they took the site? They didn't destroy it just because it was anomalous. They have way more common sense than most people think and I think the hostility towards the GOC but not the SCP foundation mostly comes from people not reading enough articles or understanding where a lot of D-Class come from(The GOC does not use D-Class. In fact that is one of the biggest ideological differences between the 2). If the SCP foundation had just cooperated and admitted what was happening to the GOC, when the GOC asked to cooperate, they could have possibly contained the infection, especially because other GOIs such as the Serpents Hand, CI and the Manna Charity Foundation found this so important that they were willing to team up with them. The Serpents Hand teaming up with who they call the book burners is a rarity indeed. If they had gotten a briefing on what exactly 6002 is and what the SCP foundation did to infect it they would have at least worked on a solution but because they were dealing with an infection they didn't understand, they mostly left it alone, while the only sensible person of the SCP foundation in this site did what she could while hiding in the tree, although I think she should have stopped working for the SCP foundation then and there and cooperated with the GOC, but she probably was too scared. Had the SCP foundation given the GOC information and samples from 106 and 682 maybe all of this could have been stopped before it infected the stem of the tree. Besides, if there would have been no quick answer, the GOC would have absolutely ripped the branch off before the stem could be infected, considering how they usually deal with threats.

[@Shalltear773]

I think both groups are enormous idiots in their own ways. the GOC has destroyed relatively harmless SCPs whereas the SCP foundation makes some of the worst research decisions in the history of the universe, like applying anomalous material to an anomaly without first figuring out what the consequences would be. now if they'd just stop fighting and cooperate, shit like this probably wouldn't happen. but, you know, gotta keep that oh so "important" pride and secrecy 100% of the time with the Foundation... idiots

[@grahamdixon1699]

Theres also the part where every author writes them a little differently

[@kimballblack2668]

The SCP 6000 contest had the theme of ‘Nature’ and with how a lot of the most popular entries turned out, such as this one, the theme might as well have been ‘FAFO’

[@Gfish17]

As if humans can't alter nature. Even though we do regularly.

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@Gfish17 very basic fanfic tbh, the whole "ohhh, arrogant MEN and their capitalism ruin everything, mah peepol better"

[@Shythalia]

​@@Gfish17 They weren't saying that we don't alter nature. They're just saying that when you try to screw around which sometimes involves altering nature, there are consequences - both the good & the bad. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[@Gfish17]

@@Shythalia There can be good consequences? I associate the word consequence with negative outcomes.

[@Shythalia]

@@Gfish17 Yes, that is typically how we view it. Consequence is just the result or effect of an action or situation, which include good outcomes but we dread bad outcomes the most so we usually associate it with negativity. :)

[@jimhormann6085]

If I had a penny for every time that the foundation's actions led to the extinction of dragons I'd have 3 pennies. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice

[@grahamdixon1699]

Ah yes the, 'lets go full disney villian' SCP

[@creativeevil1369]

Never! The Foundation would poke the [EXPLETIVE LANGUAGE] OUT OF IT because why not?

[@denkerbosu3551]

LOOOOL "I needed the help of the oppressor! but I f'ed up!" Yes, it was her decision as to how to deal with it, she herself suggested it, and the Foundation accepted it.

[@MegaMrMinecraft1]

How shitty the foundation is really depends on what timeline/canon we are talking about. This one is mostly good intentions (save for the arrogant prick Eugene Muller and the profit-making attempts) but without the intelligence to avoid making horrible things happen due to said good intentions. But there is a canon known as "Site-17 Deepwell Catalog" which is a timeline that basically has the foundation as a fundamentally corrupt organization, with the SCPs and tales in that canon pretty much showing the foundation of that canon to be a corrupt shithole. On the other end of the spectrum, is the canon known as "From 120's Archives". In that one, the foundation is still incredibly fallible, but after a particular fae-related fuck up which I will not spoil the specific details of, results in a foundation that actively tries to do better. The foundation of that canon is still fallible, but they are actually good people for the most part in that timeline.

[@axelgarcia4188]

I feel like yes the scp foundation caused it was mainly that doctors greed that caused all this and if the foundation found out what was going on they would have stopped it if not like the video said try to work on a cure for it

[@Gfish17]

I know people may hate me but if I'm falling off of something I'm grabbing for something to stop my Fall.

[@creativeevil1369]

The ends justify the [EXPLETIVE LANGUAGE] means

[@Gfish17]

I don't disagree with Dr.Muller . This is a massive opportunity. However Amara is the only one capable of seeing this through 😂.

[@Kamenhal0]

This kind makes me want to write down a story about foundation being white out and hunted down to the very last survivor

[@Shythalia]

Apotheosis canon? (Almost)

[@Shalltear773]

if you're going to mess with something like this, at least try to see if it is in any way sentient before you start fucking around with its internal mechanisms. find out if there's a way to communicate with the damn thing and learn about it from the organism itself instead of ripping pieces off or applying *highly anomalous material* to it.

[@cyrusserapheth9555]

Gotta say, some of the past few SCPs had the Foundation acting kinda outta character. I guess that's just something that happens when there are that many authors

[@kimballblack2668]

Honestly, I wouldn’t call this kind of thing out of character for the Foundation. Some of the recent ones certainly were, but the Foundation would definitely mess with something like this.

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@kimballblack2668 not in this way though, there are THREE named researchers? The moment they realize the correlation between the tree and the human genetic code, the O5 would've put on 24\7 observation, including their own researchers' work. How tf do they let "rot" go covered up FOR 3 YEARS?!

[@TalenkauenTV]

........ Why did they name one of the Aetern species after the scientific name of a real-world pterosaur genus? This SCP's use of scientific terms up to that point had been pretty solid, only for it to blindside us with using an extremely specific pterosaur's generic nomen as the common name of a fictional non-animal lifeform. That's such a baffling choice to me.

[@meepmeep7634]

Likely is ment to confirm that dinosaurs (don't care about specificity) where a part of that kingdom

[@creativeevil1369]

It meant to implied that Hatzegopteryx (Rapio maxima) was actually still alive to this present day, however due to the infection causing everything to kill off, the SCP Foundation managed with amnestics and other means to erase the knowledge of this pterosaur genus and the other Aetern lifeforms of ever existing in present day and then, they fabricated to tell that the Aetern species was extinct and not alive today. "29 July 2020: Final known member of the kingdom Aeternae presumed deceased. Project 6002-ARK effort shifts to mass disinformation and memory editing. Strategies include: global deployment of Class-X amnestics via the jet stream and the water cycle; commandeering of media, government offices and institutions of higher education; expunging of all records regarding minor aetern species; and disguising of records regarding major aetern species via historical and social phenomena, including prominent fiction, the fossil record, cultural traditions and folklore, and conspiracy theories." Quote from SCP-6002

[@nicksfish3038]

This really doesn’t feel like something the foundation would do tbh, selling anomalies? What?

[@artificerprime4154]

It's not something they would normally do, but apparently the 2008 financial crisis made them desperate enough to give it a shot with the literal embodiment of all life on the planet.

[@nicksfish3038]

@@artificerprime4154it’s just there are so many scp’s that go ‘oh the foundation is dumb and pokes something’ when that’s literally the opposite of their mission statement. They secure it, then contain it, then protect it or people from it. Yet people read ‘secret foundation’ and go yes those people are corrupt idiots.

[@requiemlul3140]

There is no canon foundation. Remember, in like half of the canons the 05 are just self-serving bastards.

[@9Godslayer]

Nope, the BP disaster is tame compared to this.

[@AJZulu]

Hmmmmm fuck