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Item #: SCP-7678
Thaumiel
Special Containment Procedures: N/A.
Description: SCP-7678 is a Foundation-made memetic agent embedded in the automated introductory email that is sent to all newly hired employees.
SCP-7678 is designed to alter an individual's sense of identity and beliefs, aligning them with the Foundation's ideological expectations for its personnel and erasing traits deemed hindering or disruptive to the Foundation's mission.
Chae Myung-Ki, head of the Memetics Department.
History: With the arrival of the World Wide Web to the public in 1993, the Overseer Council began seeking a more efficient and reliable alternative to the Department of Reform, given the considerable resource expenditure and questionable practices of the department, which often put the Overseers at odds with the Ethics Committee.
In August of 1993, O5-1 personally commissioned the Department of Memetic Studies to create a memetic agent capable of replicating the effects of the therapy carried out by the Department of Reform without the need for physical or extensive intervention, the result of which is SCP-7678.
Addendum-01: Abridged test logs.
The following logs are from the testing period of SCP-7678 prior to its completion.
Date: 05/12/1993
Subject: D-81536
Observations: D-81536 is a captured member of the Chaos Insurgency. D-81536 expired immediately upon exposure to the memetic agent
Result: FAILURE
Date: 05/17/1993
Subject: D-97153
Observations: D-97153 is a supporter of Marxism-Leninism. Upon exposure to the memetic agent, D-97153 began convulsing violently and expired two hours following exposure
Result: FAILURE
Date: 05/31/1993
Subject: D-44292
Observations: D-44292 is a supporter of the racial beliefs held by the German National Workers Party. Upon exposure to the memetic agent, D-44292 began mildly convulsing and lost consciousness seven minutes following exposure. D-44292 regained consciousness 13 hours after the test and was diagnosed with retrograde amnesia
Result: FAILURE
Date: 07/05/1993
Subject: PoI-2852
Observations: PoI-2852 is a captured member of a radical sect of the Church of the Broken God. PoI-2852 was seemingly unaffected by the memetic agent, but there was a noticeable drop in hostility and a decrease in religious practices in the weeks following the test.
Result: MILD-SUCCESS
Date: 07/16/1993
Subject: Senior researcher Arthur Brown
Observations: Researcher Brown was suspended due to severe violations of the Foundation's code of conduct, including inappropriate sexual conduct with a contained anomaly. In the weeks following exposure to the memetic agent, Researcher Brown adopted a cynical personality unbecoming of him and confessed the extent of his crimes to the Ethics Committee.
Result: SUCCESS
Date: 07/17/1993
Subject: Senior Researcher Simon Agler
Observations: Agler is a biological male who identified himself as female. Two weeks following exposure to the memetic agent, Agler ceased identifying as female.
Result: SUCCESS