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--> Why is this happening? Why is the Foundation killing everybody? Why is this happening? Why did they send out those files? Why is this happening? Why did Ganzir fall? Why is this happening? Why am I taking this briefcase across the world? ''Why is this happening?!'' \\
Why am I here? Why am I doing this? Why am I ... why am I going to die? Is there a reason? \\
If anyone is ever reading this, please, please, figure it out. Explain it to me. Someone ... ''anyone''. I don't get it. I don't get it...
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* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]], Why? The SCP itself is a mobile suit that acts as a powerful PerceptionFilter for the pilot, allowing them to remain undetected by their surroundings. The suit's recording archives reveal that it came from an AlternateTimeline where the Foundation inexplicably declares that they have gone back on their mission of securing and containing anomalous objects to protect humanity, and now intend to ''[[KillAllHumans exterminate humanity]]''. Pietro Wilson, a Foundation employee who piloted the suit, is just as shocked as the reader likely is, trying to gather information on ''why'' the Foundation suddenly turned its back on humankind (hence the title of the SCP), while reading about the Foundation intentionally releasing hazardous [=SCPs=] to aid in their genocidal directive; conversely, human and human-sympathetic skips are terminated, and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000 "Deus Ex Machina"]], the SCP that can rebuild human civilization, is destroyed when the Foundation intentionally blows up Yellowstone. Wilson then digs into the vote leading up to this catastrophe, and sees that countless Foundation employees either [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere resigned]] or [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]] out of protest and/or [[DespairEventHorizon despair]]. Wilson and the reader never quite learn the purpose of such a horrific mass-murder act, but it's implied that the Foundation discovered that ''human emotion itself'' is an anomaly.

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* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]], Why? Why?, which soon turns out to be a pretty apt title. The SCP itself is a mobile suit that acts as a powerful PerceptionFilter for the pilot, allowing them to remain undetected by their surroundings. The suit's recording archives reveal that it came from an AlternateTimeline where the Foundation inexplicably declares that they have gone back on their mission of securing and containing anomalous objects to protect humanity, and now intend to ''[[KillAllHumans exterminate humanity]]''. Pietro Wilson, a Foundation employee who piloted the suit, is just as shocked as the reader likely is, trying to gather information on ''why'' the Foundation suddenly turned its back on humankind (hence the title of the SCP), while reading about the Foundation intentionally releasing hazardous [=SCPs=] to aid in their genocidal directive; conversely, human and human-sympathetic skips are terminated, and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000 "Deus Ex Machina"]], the SCP that can rebuild human civilization, is destroyed when the Foundation intentionally blows up Yellowstone. Wilson then digs into the vote leading up to this catastrophe, and sees that countless Foundation employees either [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere resigned]] or [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]] out of protest and/or [[DespairEventHorizon despair]]. Wilson keeps log of all the hazardous [=SCPs=] being released and their effects upon the reader never quite learn world, but when he gets to the purpose of such a horrific mass-murder act, but it's implied 4000 range, he stops, resigned to the belief that the Foundation discovered that ''human emotion itself'' is an anomaly."Nobody's ever going to read this anyway."
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** When O5-11 is resurrected, he sobs uncontrollably for a good half hour before finally registering he's alive again and responding with unmistakable relief. That is to say, relief from the ''absolutely horrible afterlife'' he just got pulled out of.

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* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/lily-s-proposal The World's Gone Beautiful]], Lily's SCP-001 proposal, is an event recorded from several parallel universes, and may well take place in our own, in which unusually beautiful and vibrant flowers will spontaneously bloom across 90% of the world's surface. Air pollution will clear up, the weather will become pleasant, and every person in the world will know that [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt all life on the planet will end in 24 hours]], resulting in an immense sense of calm. The containment procedures note that when this event takes place, all Foundation employees (including D-class) shall be honorably discharged and left to do whatever they want with their remaining time, and any sapient, non-aggressive [=SCPs=] will also be allowed to walk free. The world will be beautiful one last time before it all ends.
** Its subtitle references an environmental folk song from 1971 by Malvina Reynolds; when put in the context of the incident, the lyrics become all the more apt - here's the first verse, for example:

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* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/lily-s-proposal The World's Gone Beautiful]], Lily's SCP-001 proposal, is an event recorded from several parallel universes, and may well take place in our own, in which unusually beautiful and vibrant flowers will spontaneously bloom across 90% of the world's surface. Air pollution will clear up, the weather will become pleasant, and every person in the world will know that [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt all life on the planet will end in 24 hours]], resulting in an immense sense of calm. The containment procedures note that when this event takes place, all Foundation employees (including D-class) shall be honorably discharged and left to do whatever they want with their remaining time, and any sapient, non-aggressive [=SCPs=] will also be allowed to walk free. The world will be beautiful one last time before it all ends.
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ends. Its subtitle references an environmental folk song from 1971 by Malvina Reynolds; when put in the context of the incident, the lyrics become all the more apt - here's the first verse, for example:

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* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-191 SCP-191]], the Cyborg Child, was just a normal little girl (''younger than 10'') until a MadScientist abducted and turned her into a cyborg. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-191 Her Experiment Log]], especially the second and third experiment[[note]]the license plates she generated can be read as "I AM 191. 191 IS A GOOD MACHINE."[[/note]], and fact that she never requests anything, including the information of her relative, hints that she has already accepted her fate and is trying her best to please the Foundation.
** One of the modifications was removing her ovaries and uterus to "provide extra space by removing ''non-vital components''." Several of the modifications to her seem to have been done [[ForScience just to see if they were possible.]]

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* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-191 SCP-191]], the Cyborg Child, was just a normal little girl (''younger than 10'') until a MadScientist abducted and turned her into a cyborg. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-191 Her Experiment Log]], especially the second and third experiment[[note]]the license plates she generated can be read as "I AM 191. 191 IS A GOOD MACHINE."[[/note]], and fact that she never requests anything, including the information of her relative, hints that she has already accepted her fate and is trying her best to please the Foundation.
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Foundation. One of the modifications was removing her ovaries and uterus to "provide extra space by removing ''non-vital components''." Several of the modifications to her seem to have been done [[ForScience just to see if they were possible.]]
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** Ultimately, the reason for 096 breaking out (and thus needing re-containment in the first place) was a completely tragic set of happenstance that borders on NightmareFuel and ParanoiaFuel: It was a single digital photo, taken by a hiker somewhere in the Himalayas, which just so happened to capture 096 in the background. Thing is, it wasn't even a ''clear'' picture (said to only be ''two pixels wide'') and the hiker likely never even realized what he saw. Then the poor guy just happened to notice one day that this ''one'' particular picture had this ''one'' small, oddly covered patch against the snow on a mountain literally ''miles'' behind him--and this was enough to doom him and ''thousands'' others to a gristly death.

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** Ultimately, the reason for 096 breaking out (and thus needing re-containment in the first place) was a completely tragic set of happenstance that borders on NightmareFuel and ParanoiaFuel: It was a single digital photo, taken by a hiker somewhere in the Himalayas, which just so happened to capture 096 in the background. Thing is, it wasn't even a ''clear'' picture (said (096 was said to only be ''two pixels wide'') wide'' at the fullest resolution possible) and the hiker likely never even realized what he saw. Then the poor guy just happened to notice one day that this ''one'' particular picture had this ''one'' small, oddly covered patch against the snow on a mountain literally ''miles'' behind him--and this was enough to doom him and ''thousands'' others to a gristly death.

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