K-Class Scenarios

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This page has not been updated in a few years. Updates pending. Feel free to edit if you know what you're doing.

aka: An Unofficial List of Previously Used K-Class Scenarios.

If you dug this up or were linked to it:

THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL IN ANY WAY.

In fact, I (the writer of this list) would encourage you to play with the scenarios here - just try to do it in an interesting way. But if you ignore this list entirely and decide a CK-class restructuring is an invasion of psychedelic locusts and an XK-class end of the world is the Republicans winning the next presidential election, that is perfectly fine.

(In fact, if you can make it work and your SCP/tale survives, I'll add that new scenario definition to this list. This is only a list of what's been done or suggested before.)

Remember, there is no canon (which means that canon for each article or Tale is whatever you'd like it to be). Many of these classifications have undergone redefinition, and likely will again - even in-universe. To quote from Dr. Gears…

In canon, such as it is, it's easy to see how these things could be VERY unregulated. Speaking as a former cube-slave, policies change a LOT, and for very little reason. Systems are upgraded, replaced, or phased out. Management has a "new filing stratagem", Updates based on new information…it doesn't take much to muck up a naming convention. It's easy to say that the somewhat jumbled systems may be the result of rapid policy change, and some file sections just didn't get updated in the switch.

This list is intended to be useful if, like many authors, you'd like to build on what has been done before. Accordingly, scenarios are classified either A, B, C, or D according to their current usage by the site community. "A" means most people who regularly read articles are likely to know about it; "B" means it's been used, but not well-known; "C" means it's been used, but not really defined; "D" means people have talked about it, but not used it. However, nothing here is at all official and never will be.

List of appearances includes all non-joke examples, including "alternate universe" examples, from both Foundation tales and SCP articles.

A-Level Scenarios

(Generally accepted site-wide. Appears in multiple SCP articles/Foundation tales or one well-received, well-known "permanent resident" article or tale.)

B-Level Scenarios

(Used in a less well-known SCP article or Foundation tale, or is vaguely defined but used in multiple pieces.)

BI-class biological invasion scenario Definition: Invasion of Earth by extraterrestrial life-forms. Moose's Notes: Implies some kind of distinction between extraterrestrial biological and non-biological invasion. Not widely accepted, but potentially usable. Appearances: The Bacterium, Part One, Part Two, Finale

CK-class end-of-the-world scenario Definition: End of the world via wide-scale (or total) restructuring of the physical mass of the world. Moose's Notes: Seems to be a specific subset of the CK-class restructuring scenarios. Appearances: SCP-1053 SCP-1012

EK-class undefined scenario Moose's Notes: Does not end human life. Possibly destroys society. Possibly destroys most or all of human consciousness. Appearances: SCP-338 “a looped recording of survival instructions, rendezvous locations, and status updates about "The Great War", and seems to describe an EK-class scenario caused by the release of SCP-███. The contents are changed and updated sporadically, ranging from twice daily to once every 3 weeks.” SCP-1427 Involves extinguishment of all human consciousness within approximately 215 days.

IK-class collapse-of-global-civilization scenario Definition: Collapse of global civilization of a fashion that does not fall under another scenario. Moose's Notes: Scenario did not originally imply any SCP containment breach, just any truly massive natural disaster. Later expanded to be defined as global civilization collapse (often caused by natural disasters on a massive scale). Appearances: SCP-1238 Scenario is a partial collapse of continental plates that would destroy major population centers. In the Big League Scenario is an asteroid strike with estimated casualties of approximately three billion over ten years.



C-Level Scenarios

(Used in an SCP article or Foundation tale, but undefined.)

BK-class undefined scenario Moose's Notes: Explicitly related to AK-class undefined and CK-class restructuring. This, like the others, is a scenario involving reality shifts. Likely a restructuring scenario. Appearances: Change

XC-class undefined scenario Moose's Notes: Probably a redundant class at this point; used as a throwaway and not necessarily very usable. Alternatively, a C-class scenario could reflect a 'partial' K-class scenario; for instance, an XC-class scenario could be the destruction of a specific sub-section of humanity, say, with genes that made them susceptible to a certain anomalous thing (while the rest of humanity survives). Appearances: Stratagem (SCP-008) Results from an SCP-008 outbreak; XK-class scenario suggested as similar likely alternate result.



D-Level Scenarios

(Unused, but proposed or referenced multiple times in discussion. These definitions have a tendency to change.)

YK-class vacuum decay scenario Definition: Vacuum metastability event, wiping out all life and reality. Moose's Notes: Proposed by "The_Raven", used only in a deleted article. Seems a bit overly specific.



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