In 1900, O5-2 of the Estate Noir disagreed with the Foundation's ratification of the Veil Protocol and subsequently defected. Following this, a significant portion of Estate Noir assets vanished from inventory.

In 1914, O5-11 objected to the classification of humans as SCP objects. She, along with other members of Foundation High Command, subsequently fled to found a breakaway organization dedicated "to the principles of international humanism", disappearing into the European occult underbelly. Their whereabouts have never been found.

In 1924, O5-9 and -11, following the atrocities of the Great War, demanded more liberal usage and development of anomalous items and technologies for the benefit of humanity. Along with Researcher Wolfgang Fritz, the self-styled 'Triad' plunged the Foundation into civil war.

In 1926, the Civil War was won, and the remnants of the Triad were forced into hiding, taking with them thousands of personnel and hundreds of captured anomalies.

Around this time, Foundation High Command formed an elite black operations force tasked with carrying out direct covert action against the enemies of the Overseer Council. To date, the scope of their activities within and without the Foundation remains unknown.

That force, known as the Red Right Hand, operated without sanction and under heavy cover of disinformation. Notably, many of their operations were officially attributed to fictitious Foundation rebel groups for the purposes of deniability.

In 1948, they defected. Many remain at large.

It remains unclear which of these rogue elements faded into nothing and which blossomed into true rebellion. Or if there was only ever one true Chaos Insurgency, sucking all anti-Foundation sentiment into its orbit.

While other anti-Foundation groups tend to respect the bottom line of the Foundation's mandate, generally straying away from interfering with the containment of potentially world-ending anomalies, the Insurgency holds no such compunctions. In their long war against the Foundation and normalcy at large, no price is too great to pay, no devil's deal too dubious to strike.

Beyond that, the group's purpose becomes muddied. There are rumors that the Steps of the Plan crafted by the Engine are all leading towards some alien utopia, that the Engineer sees themselves as a bloody-handed gardener pruning away at fate one possibility at a time. Insurgents are told they are carrying out a great rebellion against the tyranny of the status quo—a world where "consensus reality" itself is an illusion, history's great lie, perpetrated by the Foundation, where "normalcy" is nothing but a mask of oppression and coercion.

They are told that they die in the dark so that mankind may one day truly live in the light.

It is uncertain whether or not the aforesaid is the true opinion of its leadership or just another layer of disinformation. Investigations are ongoing.

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Chaos:

1. Confusion, unpredictability, or disorder.
2. Interconnected patterns of similarity, repetition, and self-organisation inside a complex system, dependent on initial conditions but with increasingly divergent outcomes.
3. A limitless, overlapping state of existence from which all things can be remade.

Insurgency:

1. Organised, ideological action to change the ruling regime through violence or subversion.
2. Uprising against established leadership or systems.
3. The usage of multiple processes to compete with and oppose the state and alter the balance of power.

The people killing the future have names and Site addresses. Your gut instinct might be to deny this- to make excuses, to redirect the blame, to assume that business as usual- as normal- can continue. That an artificial fever dream will not be ended, one way or the other.

You may call us madmen. We’ve always preferred ’realists’- as much as that means anything once you tear off normalcy’s bandages and see the abscess underneath..

But the one thing we won’t do is lie to you.

Normalcy is built on a mountain of corpses. Far worse, it is unsustainable. The one rule of the universe that no amount of hypocritical weaponisation or hoarding can change: everything ends. This includes empires. It also includes the Foundation.

We are not the Foundation’s executioner- that is the inevitable progression of its immaterial conditions and its own inability to meaningfully change its premises. We are the gravediggers. We are the only ones genuinely determined and able to make something better for humanity from the ashes. A collapse is not kind. Neither, therefore, is a revolution. We are necessary instruments, steering that collapse away from a zero state.

Chaos is not something to fear. In the end, contradiction is the only truth that matters. It is an inescapable state of possibility, dependent on starting conditions but not bound by them. Let go of your preconceptions. Look at everything around you through a new lens.

We won’t lie to you. The Insurgency is cold, yes. It can be cruel, yes. But we are the last, best, hope.

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The Chaos Insurgency consists of a network of independent cells with Delta Command at the centre. Cells can vary from outer cells which are not aware at all of the Insurgency, receiving orders once in a while from a mysterious source in exchange for resources or contacts, to inner cells completely integrated into the Insurgency's core structure.

Personnel

The Engineer

At the top of Delta Command sits the Engineer who issues out Steps of the Plan, provided through telepathic communication with the Engine. Nothing much is known about the Engine, other than it being a precognitive machine of some kind with its own motives. Potentially wary of falling completely into the Engine's schemes, the Engineer may limit their communication and fall back on alternative Engine Replacements to facilitate the Plan.

Delta Command

Outside of the Engineer, Delta Command consists of Delta Commanders and Step Compilers. The Delta Commanders each direct a pletora of cells, as well as coordinate the implementation of the Plan. Step Compilers are responsible for transcribing all Steps of the Plan and facilitate the documentation of Delta Command.

Gamma Operatives

Gamma-class researchers and military commanders have oversight over the execution of Delta Command's orders. Personnel of this rank can most often be found in leadership positions in inner cells and tend to have a moderate grasp about the Insurgency's overall activities, though missing the breadth of view that Delta Command has.

Beta Agents

Beta-class personnel, while not given the same level of command as Gamma-class, carry out the Insurgency's work in the field. Broader awareness of the Insurgency's goals may vary from person to person, though they can be expected to be well integrated into their cell. Delta Command views leaders of outer cells as Beta-Class even if the cell has never heard about the rank.

Alpha Personnel

Alpha-class personnel, often recruited from individuals with little to no knowledge of the anomalous, accept offers of employment often because the alternative outside the anomalous world is worse. They are the grunt workers: numerous and expendable. If a Chaos Insurgency raid resulted in all Insurgents dying, chances are it consisted entirely of Alpha-personnel and their sacrifice was part of a larger scheme.

Cell Structure

Beyond the loose classification of inner and outer cells based on how much contact they have with Delta Command, cells can often additionally be divided into Research and Development Cells (R&D) or Military Cells. The former focused on creating weaponry and equipment facilitating their new utopia, the latter enacting the Insurgency's will in the field.

While all cells are expected to contribute to the Plan when ordered, they have otherwise free reign to follow their own goals as they see fit. Just as often as Delta Command orders cells to execute their orders, do cells reach out to other cells including Delta Command to sponsor or otherwise help implement their own ideas.

Even cells that initially seem counter to the goals of the Insurgency are not out of the question. If it creates a fire for the Foundation to keep busy putting out, it has served its purpose.

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To Break The Gates of Heaven...And Contest the Tyranny of Mountains.

Officially, the Chaos Insurgency is literally nonsense: a spectre of rebellion without a cause or conditions, murderous militants whose goals are incomprehensible other than the hostility and violence associated with them.

Unofficially, things are more complicated.

"Neither Chaotic Nor An Insurgency": What Others Say

The Chaos Insurgency is a contradiction of ideas- or the idea of contradiction- harnessed towards action. Attempts to analyse their ideology have resulted in them being called almost every label that exists and quite a few that don’t. It is a common, bitter joke in Veiled intelligence circles that the Chaos Insurgency is "neither chaotic nor an insurgency".

The Foundation has claimed that they have unknown motives, that they’re power-hungry profiteers or mercenaries, or even claimed that they have no motives beyond "chaos for its own sake"- sometimes all three at once.

Other groups have different ideas.

The Serpent’s Hand calls them "Madmen". For their part, the Insurgency isn’t shy about accusing them of being "collaborators"- during their frequent periods of arguing or even conflict. The magical community mutters about the "Seeing Eye" and "Sowers of Discord". Meanwhile, the GOC officially labels them as an extremist anti-normalcy esoterrorist group, the same category the GOC uses for the Hand, with code phrases like CARCINOMA.

Some even argue the Insurgency doesn’t exist- that it’s a name for false flag operations or label for Foundation defectors. The Insurgency, obviously, disagrees.

Every analyst seems to have their own idea of what the Insurgency is- to the point where any group’s viewpoint often seems to say more about themselves instead. Attempts to make predictive models tend to soon be contradicted by reality.

Given it’s the Insurgency, that may be the point.

"Unchained from the Possible": What the Insurgency Says

For the Chaos Insurgency, there is no meaningful distinction between the Insurgent, the ideology, and application- barriers between them must be broken like any other.

If the purpose of a group or cause is what it does, then the Insurgency is a self-referential, recurring implementation. It is a vanguard organisation that exists to sabotage and destabilise normalcy organisations through prolonged multifaceted action. It aggressively appropriates and reapplies anomalies - both to advance its own goals and as asset denial.

The Insurgency near-universally argues for the overthrow of the Foundation’s existing power structure through Planned, coordinated action- and breaking barriers to mass anomalous application. Just as often, it claims to be creating a utopian future entirely unchained by consensus reality- one where limitations of the human condition no longer apply.

Possibility is a prison- and the Insurgency intends to break it.

They envision mankind achieving "true post-reality mastery" by utilising anomalies on a systemic scale. Whether this state is achieved through tools or by changing mankind itself seems to be of little concern, only that it cannot occur in a world shackled to veiled normalcy.

Beyond strategic opportunism, the Insurgency is largely scornful of "reforms" that throw scraps to sufficiently obedient lapdogs of normalcy, or merely bend the bars of what they call humanity’s self-inflicted cage. They intend to irrevocably break any barriers between themselves and uplifting all humanity into a new state of being- where containment and anomaly are a moot point.

Humility is evidently not an Insurgent virtue.

Specific Ideologies

A few distinct ideologies have emerged over time. Some might appear as distinct factions at times, but the lines between what specific ideology an Insurgent, if one at all, subscribes to can become very blurry.

• Ascencionists — Part of the reason insurgents get called "Madmen". Antitheist in so much as they believe humanity's place is above any gods. Anomalies should be used to achieve this ascension. Despite their professed atheism, a religious overzealousness is common among madmen surrounding concepts like decentrality, emergent behaviour, chaotic systems, or "the Plan".
• Boweists — A focus on the weaponisation of anomalies. Purports its end goal to be using anomalies for the betterment of humanity, but is functionally focused on militarisation and winning the anomalous arms race. Arguably a derivation- or bastardisation— of existing trends or ideas within the Insurgency, Boweists are also notable in their willingness to align themselves with American and other occult powers— going beyond simple opportunism and becoming willing enablers- all in the name of forcing the Foundation to terms.
• Burners — The kind of person seeking to just watch the world burn is often attracted to the Insurgency. Often focused on the Foundation, but anything is a valid burner target.
• Horizonist — You can't come back once you pass an event horizon. Perhaps the most accurate description is "silver bullet chasers". This tendency's other nicknames are much less flattering— and that's from their peers. Horizonists are the Insurgents who argue that any war of attrition is a delaying action— but the nature of reality restructuring and the Veil means they only need one sufficiently cataclysmic change or strike to bring the whole rotten edifice crashing down. In response, their critics tend to cite the Ouroboros Parable- and countless costly 'decisive actions' that pointedly didn't end in the collapse of normalcy… but the Horizonists still insist they only need to get lucky once— just very, very carefully.
• Iterationists — A commonly accepted Insurgency school of thought that argues for effectively wearing down the Foundation through repeated, unpredictable and varied action loops rather than a single decisive action, while working to build anti-normalcy areas of operation until normalcy becomes overwhelmed. Can be considered an argument for a "war of attrition"- or the simple logic of maximising control over anomalous tools along with the sabotage, theft, and redirection of normalcy's tools— maximising their capacity for effective action and intelligence while undermining that of normalcy. The advantages are its simplicity and wide-ranging application, while the risk is that the Insurgency might not be able to sustain this effort longer than its rivals— or might be blindsided by changing conditions. Has overlap with "Proliferationism" (the spreading of anomalies for its own sake) as a tactic.
• Legitimists — The branch of thought that there is no Chaos Insurgency, only the real Foundation and the "Reactionaries", who still call themselves Foundation. It is this ideological strain that strives for official recognition by the players on the globe, both behind the veil from other groups, and outside of it for funding as the partner of nations, protecting them from anomalies.
• Human Chauvinists — Human chauvinism is not always a specific sub-ideology or clique— more often than not, it is an internal systemic error and failure of analysis within Insurgency groups. It is a failure of solidarity or analysis that results in putting a narrow, regressive false idol of 'humanity' on a pedestal— at the expense of a never-ending list of subjects. In some ways, it's an original sin— one carried over from their Foundation days and the para-colonial thought patterns that involve, and worsened by those whose objections to the Foundation were about it 'going soft'. It carves avoidable chasms between the Insurgency and support bases not deemed 'human enough', further isolating the Insurgency from entire groups even more than its platform already does, and has led to some of their group's worst tactical errors and missed opportunities. It isn't an accident that it has resulted in many messy defections and cells losing coherence— both literally and figuratively. There is no redeeming value to this tendency.

While not an ideology, a tendency arising frequently among Insurgents is a focus on little more than striving to pull the strings of the criminal underbelly behind the Veil. The anomalous is then also reduced to more tools serving a personal power trip.

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The cell is the fundamental organisational unit of the Chaos Insurgency, though what is and is not part of the Insurgency gets less clear at the edges of the organisation. Some interpretations of the Insurgency have also been used as cells in other articles. The following is a list of all distinct cells which Delta Command might view as a part of the Insurgency.

• Black Sheep (Outer Cell) — A group of impressionable young adults who just want to watch the world burn, helped by an Anartist who calls herself the "Abstract Murderer". While the Engineer tries to guide the cell and its destructive potential towards their purposes, other cells had to step in before and stop their actions.
• Catering Isolated (Front) — Restaurant Front. While a chain might be a possibility, the only current known branch sits in the Insurgency-controlled city Maladh.
• Causality Institute (R&D Cell) — After securing approval by the Engineer the Institute has started its experiments in the city Maladh to test out the Insurgency's vision of utopia.
• Causality i (Military Cell) — Led by Sir Kneverbeen and his representative Chadwell, the Insurgency's answer to the Foundation's Delta-T. Follows the ideal that everyone should have access to time-travel, which would emergently make the perfect timeline arise instead of the current Foundation-controlled one. In accordance with this ideal, Causality i often supports other time-travellers like the Golden Horde or time-travellers forcefully enlisted by the Foundation. Is most of the time at war with the Foundation during the 20th century time war, spanning from roughly the 1930s to 2021.
• Chilli Inferno (Front) — Cell with the sole job of frustrating all efforts of the biggest Foundation Front Spicy Crust Pizzeria.
• Compendium Incarnate (R&D Cell) — A group of magicians being sponsored by the Insurgency in their efforts to create a grimoire with which any possible concept can be summoned. The authors may or may not have made themselves part of the grimoire.
• Consortium Independent (Cell) — Led by Delta Commander Linda Liesmith, the Consortium is aware of the fictional nature of the universe. It is unclear if they try to use their role as a villain for their own benefit or merely to tell a good story.
• Foundation Feast (Military Cell) — Led by Delta Commander Damien O'Connor, Foundation Feast is the cell with the most recurrent contact with the Foundation. For them, the Foundation is an all-you-can-eat buffet, where you can steal whatever your heart desires, or your commander currently needs.
• Isfet (Cell) — A cell with a focus on chaos magic, mostly viewed under the lens of the subversion of practices from ancient Egypt. Interesteds in all magic and ritual they can get their hands on.
• Lost Fives (Cell) — A cell founded out of lost fifthists, after the death of their religion. With the help of a remaining fifthist angel, the group of kids was able to advance beyond their powerless state. Still able to atune reality anchors to the Fifth World.
• Manna Charitable Foundation (Disputed) — While the Engineer still considers the group part of the Insurgency, how the MCF would likely disagree with that claim, especially on account of the Insurgency once kidnapping a high-ranking figure of theirs. Fact is that the Foundation has received donations by the Insurgency before. Coordinated actions between members of the two groups have also been noted in isolation.
• Nigurath (Military Cell) — Early cell of the Insurgency that was destroyed in 1948.
• Seattle-based Cell (Cell) — Cell in the Third Law setting that has engaged multiple times in narrative warfare in which battles are waged both by writing and by entering written narratives.
• Sototh (R&D Cell) — Early cell of the Insurgency that was destroyed in 1948.

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For the Insurgency, personnel are not all that different from equipment. To be used until its purpose is fulfilled and subsequently discarded. Of course, this is not universal. Your life expectancy goes up the higher your rank in the Insurgency. The following is a list of both voluntary and less voluntary employees of the Insurgency, as well as close collaborators.

• Cactusman — Kidnapped by the Insurgency to communicate with a cactus monster.
• Hime Akumu — Appears in SCP-8911. From the Manhattan Crisis Hub: "Class IV reality bender of the Teal Division. Can create cupcakes, and change/destroy their structure at will. Dangerous person who likes to exclusively create bomb cupcakes and destroy her enemies, although she’s also an extremely good spy."
• Dr. Madison Craggs — A neuroscientist once employed by the Chaos Insurgency. She is the creator of the infamous Mike units, who are still unable to attack her. Still curious about the project. Utterly amoral. The Insurgency wants her gone. Currently enjoying retirement in Foundation custody as PoI-7077 in exchange for information.
• Dr. Molly Jayawadena — Doctor who independently became aware of the anomalous after accidentally devising a machine. Recruited for her ideas. Has a bit of a surrealist streak to her way of thinking.
• Red Scar — A woman with a red mark across her eye. Insurgency Operative focused on retrieving the set of nine.
• Captain Sekhmet — The most dangerous battlemage, possibly the only one, employed by the Insurgency. Leader of the Isfet cell and interested in Egyptian magic. May be a title passed on in Isfet leadership.
• Agent Simmons — Observant agent but little else. Spotted both in 1948 and 2018. Allegedly equipped with an anomaly furthering his observational duties without being observed in turn. Has expressed doubts before on the morality of some Insurgency operations.
• Susanna Schmidt (Aliases: Elizabeth Crocker, Ophelia Righting) — Member of the giftschreiber. From the On Guard 43 Hub: "Former CIA operative, thorn in the side of the Foundation for the better part of the 1960s onwards. Almost solely responsible for the Panopticon Crisis, and seemingly inadvertantly responsible for the proliferation of memetics. Joined forces with the Chaos Insurgency to destroy Zevala, hometown of Delfina Ibanez. Responsible for a series of anomalies affecting the US Goverment from the 1980s onwards. Likely immortal.

Delta Commanders:

• The Engineer — Leader of the Insurgency. Nearly all aspects of them are highly interpretation-dependent. Most common trait is their precognitive abilities facilitated either by the Engine or another anomalous source, and the propensity to break out into extended monologues, filled with metaphors. May view themselves as a teacher to the Insurgency because of it.
• Damien O'Connor (Delta Commander) — Leads the military aspect of the Insurgency. Involved in most operations against the Foundation. Originally an MTF commander in the Foundation, recruited out of the Irish Republican Army. Both a great orator and strategist. Has codified the Insurgencies' style of asymmetrical warfare after the defeat of the Triad, following a philosophy of laying fires to "exhaust the fire brigade".
• Doublegreen (Delta Commander) — Focused on reality-bending and involved in recruiting. Known to survive most things not 'ingrained in the universe'. Significance of the always green name and potential connection to Type Greens unknown.
• Sir Kneverbeen (Delta Commander) — Landlord and financier of the Insurgency who perpetually died last week, after a partly failed daevite ritual. He is therefore always represented by his servant Chadwell, who oversees the Insurgency's time-travel operations. While friendly to the Insurgency, direct dealings with Kneverbeen are always on the costly side. The service of his Safehouses always comes at the price of people, objects and or buildings either retroactively ceasing to exist or having always been owned by him.
• Linda Liesmith (Delta Commander) — Narrative advisor in Delta Command and leader of the pataphysical cell Consortium Independent. Not above acting out the story herself to keep it interesting.
• Mek-zu-dam (Engineer Successor) — Character in the From 120's Archives setting. A yeren of the mad scientist quality. Usurped control of the yeren-created Engine and murdered the previous Engineer. Merged with the fungus-like Engine over many years, only to be ultimately usurped himself.

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The Insurgency lives off of always coming in with new unexpected weaponry and equipment. For the most part, I'd suggest coming up with your own anomalies that the Insurgency might misuse as a weapon. Listed here are the more common weapons the Insurgency uses, as well as equipment that has been used before.

• Bell of Entropy — One of the two most famous items of the Insurgency, recovered while splitting from the Foundation. Has differing effects depending on where it is struck. Most commonly used as a siege weapon, causing widespread and unpredictable destruction. Other potential capabilities include freezing time and working against the Impasse similar to other artefacts. Has both been reported as a small bell, or as a large iron church bell. Disinformation or multiple anomalies suspected.
• Staff of Hermes — One of the two most famous items of the Insurgency, recovered while splitting from the Foundation. Able to alter the physical and chemical attributes of any matter it touched. Often used to gain access to otherwise inaccessible facilities. Might have experienced decline in ability after overuse.

The staff and the bell are items almost as old as the Insurgency itself, making their first appearance on the wiki on the first Groups of Interest page in 2008.

• The Asset — The Shot Heard Round the World. Sniper rifle capable of always hitting a target visible in its scope in a lethal place, as long as it is within 800 metres. Longer exposure compels the user towards integrating with its destiny and shooting everyone in sight. It is unknown how old the rifle is.
• Hallucinogenic Memetoamnestic Substance (HALMAS) — Mnestic Agent stolen in limited supply by the original Red Right Hand during their defection. Enhances situational awareness. Can be used to highlight targets, better memory retention and limited clairvoyance or prescience. Administered by injection. Experiencing a cognitohazard under the influence of HALMAS may permanently compromise a subject.
• Inky Quicksand — Known to the Foundation as SCP-830, this quicksand, which painfully preserves all its victims, was used as an execution or torture method until it was lost to the Foundation sometime in the 20th century. Most victims by that point were part of organisations of an unnamed occult tradition.
• Mike Units — Known to the Foundation as SCP-3033-1, Mike Units are humans modified with cranial implants to facilitate outside control by specific handlers with implanted brain-computer interfaces. The results are soldiers commited to their mission regardless of pain felt.
• Operations Table — Known to the Foundation as SCP-842, this operations table turns any living human strapped to it into whatever location the viewer wants to see by forcefully transforming the body into the location's likeness. Works best displaying a 10 by 10 meter area, but becomes more inaccurate for larger areas. Lost to the Foundation, which suffered a high number of casualties during the recovery at a temporary base of an abandoned town.
• Red Sight — Drug with unknown properties. Potential effects: Enabling the user to see a web of intentions interacting with them, including a clearer vision of the Engine's Steps. Whatever the properties, users of the Red Sight are dangerous to engage. Potential side-effects include ego-death and complete alignment with the Engine's vision.
• Ringo — Kangaroo capable of causing earthquakes with its jumps. Planned to be used near Utica, but escaped to Wilson's Wildlife Solutions. Currently with the Foundation.
• Serrated Lawn — Known to the Foundation as SCP-355, this plant hides can be disguised as a normal lawn, while consisting of sharp grass-blades meant to cut. Used as an additional defence in urban bases.
• The Shield — Known to the Foundation as SCP-3668, this shield protects its wielder from harm by their briefly manifested ancestors. In Insurgency possession from 1924 to 1945.
• Dr. Wondertainment's Bubblebath Bonbons — Known to the Foundation as SCP-1079, consuming one bonbon results in blood exiting the body in the form of foam. Consuming multiple can lead to death via blood loss. Used by the Insurgency as an assassination tool, with a steady supply through Marshall, Carter and Darke channels.

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By the nature of being viewed as terrorists, the Insurgency has few places to call home. Even bases (or "firebases"), the Insurgency equivalent of a Site, rarely last long. The following is a list of the locations where the Insurgency has secured its presence either permanently or over an extended period of time. To make additions easier, moving locations like a trailer or a ship are also counted.

• Bases/Firebases — Name of the Insurgency equivalent of a Site. Given the Insurgency's tighter budget, these can be significantly smaller than a Foundation Site. Might be a Research base and hold an equivalent to containment cells to store weapons and experiments. Might be a Military Base. No specific bases have stood out yet to be worth noting.
• Delta Command Headquarters — The mythical headquarters of the Insurgency. Used before to facilitate collaboration with like-minded groups. Potentially destroyed ages ago, with Insurgency forces led to believe in its eventual renovation. If it ever existed at all.
• Hardened Mobile Array — Flying fortress of the Insurgency equipped with nuclear weaponry. Potentially the Delta Command Headquarter. Described in SCP-8273 as a "stealth-enabled modular aircraft assembly." Destroyed during the events of SCP-7000.
• Maladh (ملاذ) — Classified Nx-53 by the Foundation, Maladh is a city in Egypt formerly controlled filled with skyscrapers, megaprojects, and other tourist traps. A percentage of the city consists of reality-benders, able to only fulfil their desires. Home of the Causality Institute, which is very keen on continuing to break causality in the city. Viewed as under Chaos Insurgency control after the previous governor was assassinated.
• Safehouses — Sir Kneverbeen owned buildings function as bunkers for the Insurgency. As the Insurgency-friendly Kneverbeen controls all events happening in Safehouses while he owns the building, they can be relied on if all else fails and even used to travel through time to any period where said building was owned by Kneverbeen. Nevertheless, the Safehouses are far from without danger, as Kneverbeen is known to retroactively erase objects or personnel from existence, entering his empty buildings to still his hunger.
• Zevala — Classified as FP-14 by the Foundation, Zevala is an independent village in the Argentine Republic. It was under Insurgency occupation in 1994 from January to June. The main anomaly of the Free Port is apparent in a local flower, Stranger-in-the-Mist, useful to enhance prophetic abilities, and in its people, the descendants of the Prophets of the Severed Hall.

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To be listed here, the Series needs to include the Insurgency as a major, if not the main focus. Some of the series listed here were also listed in the earlier Interpretation tabs.

• All Eyes on Silesia by Jasiu06 , Ralliston , BlazingPie , Zygard

"In the Silesian heart of Europe, southern Polish voices shout more and more loudly about independence, about separatism — a cause as noble as it is susceptible to abuse by forces far greater and far more malicious than those from which it arose."

unVeiled: The Face of Silesian Independence in the 21st Century
Dark Sushi File No. 120 "Mab Maki"
Armed with Hell-Flames and Fury
KTE-2039-Carcinoma-Oder-Templum

• Heart of Darkness by MarcusLCrassus

It is the middle of the Cold War. The Insurgency has found one unlikely ally in Southern Africa: The Republic of Rhodesia, facing an anomalous micro-nation known as Great Zimbabwe. The alliance between the Rhodesians and the Insurgency is shaky, but Hudson's Scouts, the Insurgency's primary military cell within the country, is prepared to do whatever it takes to defeat Rhodesia's anomalous enemy. In this chaos with even Insurgency Cells split on ideological lines, whom can a fledgling Insurgent trust?

Homecoming
Remember Your Black Day
Respite
Hill of Fire
Enter The Spire

Optional Reading: SC-63/141-65/030 — The Asset

• I after 5 by Ethagon

4 different organisations put their full attention on a fifthist angel being summoned not long after the death of the Starfish. But among them, only the Insurgency has an idea of how to fill that lost angel with a new purpose.

KTE-5503-Bice-Copernicus — "Five-Winged Mirror"
SC-18/005-18/350: Graduation
SCP-8530 — Not Built To Last

• New Age - a Tale by SRegan

The journey of one Keagan O'Neill from prison to prison until they are confronted with a plan spanning multiple Chaos Insurgency cells. Or the "true Foundation" as they call themselves.

Book I—'Cells'
Book II—'Mr Brightside'
Book III—'Gunning For The Buddha'

• Revolution Earth by ch00bakka

"Romance and Betrayal in the Chaos Insurgency"

Static In My Attic
Burned A Hole In My Mind
Hot Latitudes, Cool Attitudes

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• SCP-355 — The Serrated Lawn by Noaqiyeum

Masked as ordinary grass this plant is sharp enough to cut anything mistaking it for its normal counterpart. The perfect weapon to disguise a base as a local residence.

• SCP-884 — A Shaving Mirror by TroyL

The Insurgency shows a lot of interest in a mirror with a relatively benign anomaly, leading to more testing again and again. Little does the Foundation know it has fallen into the trap of exposing a secondary anomalous effect on itself…

• SCP-1316 — Lucy the Kitten Feline Espionage Device by Gaffsey

An unaging kitten revealed to serve no purpose but espionage for the Insurgency.

• SCP-1482 — Mutilated Animal House by Bunton

A house made in some parts of animal material. But why is it so afraid of the Insurgency?

• SCP-1943 — No Anomalies Detected by Aelanna

Sarah Gruenwald is an ordinary non-anomalous human. And yet the Chaos Insurgency goes as far as sacrificing supersoldiers in attempts to get her back.

• SCP-2215 — I Saw the Sign by Dmatix

A sign that points to other signs near mentioned anomalies of the Chaos Insurgency. Doesn't seem like any of the mentioned items are close to the signs though. What's up with that?

• SCP-2490 — Chaos Insurgency Special Operative Alpha-19 by A Random Day

The Chaos Insurgency has created a mannequin-like Special Operative, stalking the few Foundation operatives who can spot it for months on end until it finally closes in.

• SCP-3033 — A Human Weapon by Lazar Lyusternik

"We had to demonstrate our ability to control the subjects and get them to accomplish tasks and complete objectives. Don't ask me to explain it, I haven't a bleeding clue on how it actually works. The way you got the mikes - that's what they're called over there - to do anything was more an art than a science. I couldn't tell you how I got through it - they just did what they were supposed to do, like clockwork."

• SCP-3612 — The Mainlist is Out Of Order, Please Try Again by GeometryPrime

Ever wonder why all SCPs are listed in random order?

• SCP-4746 — Marked for Death by Hatcheye

"SCP-4746 should not be contained, but eliminated at all costs. Collateral damage is irrelevant. No attempts may be made to negotiate with SCP-4746."

• SCP-5145 — I Buried The Sun by Tanhony

"Following conviction on the grounds of manslaughter and conspiracy with a hostile group of interest, you have opted to transfer over to Surrealistics rather than undergo termination. Excellent choice!"

• SCP-5211 — FLAVORDOME by NatVoltaic

The Chaos Insurgency has employed 30 Guy Ramsay Fieri for delivery of resources to questionable results.

• SCP-7000 — The Loser by HarryBlank

A randomisation of probability across the globe shakes the world. The Insurgency, one of the greatest threats to the Foundation, is particularly affected by the disruption of their normally so strict plans. As William Wettle goes on a journey of being forced to save the world, the Insurgency is targeted by said catastrophe in excess.

• SCP-8399 — INSURGENCE by MisterFrown

In a classic unfolding of Order against Chaos, the tables are turned as what the Foundation envisions will be their greatest weapon against the Insurgency may very well turn out to be what finally makes them come undone.

• SCP-CN-2000 — Chaos Theory by Re_spectators , translated by tetsusquared

The Foundation receives a message from the future about a potential end of humanity. To forego this, they change the world. An ever tightening fist on possibility, until a counterpart has to emerge and save humanity from the very monster claiming to protect it.

• Chaos Insurgency is a Stupid Name Prologue — by Kingspade

Dr. Marion complains about the organisation's name, all while he and Matthew get assigned to the new Operation: Liquidation.

• Chaos Insurgency is a Stupid Name Briefing — by Kingspade

Marion and Matthew go to a briefing where all the details of the new Operation Liquidation are discussed.

• Intelligence Agency Data Archive — Subject: CrossFire — by Doctor North

Two Foundation snipers are staking it out near a Chaos Insurgency Base when the situation gets a little more complicated.

• Magic Orientation — by thedeadlymoose

An orientation about the workings of magic and the many groups that weave their vision into the world, including fundamental views of the Insurgency.

• Moving Pieces — by Ethagon and Kothardarastrix

Dissatisfied and harbouring a grudge against the Foundation. This is what unites seven individuals as they get approached and recruited by the Insurgency for only a minor contribution in a Plan with great consequences. No one the wiser of the Insurgency's involvement. But really, who else could it have been?

• The Nameless Rebel: An INSURGENCE Story — by DoctorLilithSophia

This version of the Insurgency has been trapped in the forest of fae and no names. The insurgents find themselves in a similar situation as its other inhabitants. Soon, a trap can be spun for the next Foundation Doctors who dare treat this path.

• What Nobody Wants — by Nighkos

A fervent believer of the Insurgency's ideal meets the one who is Nobody. A sales pitch, but for what? And what is the price?

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Chaos Insurgency Formats

• SC-49/785-52/543 by TwistedGears

The Insurgency tricks the Foundation into caring about an old object.

• SC-10/548-12/893 by Chubert

Their eyes on a human weapon, the Insurgency continues experimenting on "the boy in Detention Centre 54 in Base F"

• SC-13/234-14/362 by MissMercurial

The Insurgency tests out a plethora of anomalies and deals with Marshall, Carter & Dark to further their plans.

• SC-95/347-00/723 by MrWrong

What better way to bring back the time-travelling Golden Horde than to give them pegasi?

• SC-14/126-20/921 by Blibby_Blobfish

The Insurgency continues to experiment on the monstrous "Subject 207", much to the misfortune of all personnel encountering it.

• SC-48/404-97/786: Safehouses by Ethagon

In desperate need of a shelter against ongoing and hard Foundation raids, the Insurgency strikes a deal with Sir Kneverbeen. A dead landlord whose empty houses provide safety across time. But be careful, they're always hungry.

• SC-11/11-1/i by do_the_right_thing

A short manifesto about the meaning of Insurgency in opposition to the Foundation's tyranny.

• SC-02/000-22/000: Insurance by Ethagon

Delta Command discusses the danger of the Foundation. And how better to keep them from slitting all their throats than to divide the most dangerous dead-man-switch gambit of the world?

• SC-63/141-65/030 by MarcusLCrassus

The Asset. The shot heard around the world. A sniper rifle that never misses its mark causes a conflict between multiple Insurgency cells. Related to the Heart of Darkness series.

• SC-18/005-18/350: Graduation by Ethagon

Many people seek the Insurgency for aid. All answers are guided by the great Teacher, that is, the Engineer. Even a fifthist angel can be lifted up and in turn lift up others. Part of the I after 5 series.

• SC-05/321-05/335: Usurpation by Ethagon

The nameless woods are in a competition over who will be crowned monarch of the spring court. A Yeren takes over a part of the Insurgency, retaking their Engine, so the competition evolves how he wants it to. Part of the Cycle Of Seasons series, which uses the From 120's Archives interpretation.

• SC-99/734/01/506 by O-92_Mallet, translated by Uncle Nicolini

To stop the spread of parahumans, the Insurgency begins its plans to begin the Manhattan Dimensional Crisis. Start of the Manhattan Crisis series. Specific to the CI of that setting.

• SC-049/100-049/103: Usurped by Ethagon

The Yeren city Druv'tuul stands devastated by the Washington Viron. How will the communist city deal with the zealous Sons of Phomet, helped to sent from above, and the fanatical Insurgency, manipulating events from below? Distant Sequel to SC-05/321-05/335: Usurpation, but mainly part of the 8000 Dead Rats series, which uses the From 120's Archives interpretation.

• SC-17/035-20/462 by ClockedHead, translated by fluxman

A certain mask and a Plague Doctor have fled the Foundation. The Insurgency keeps an eye on the situation as it develops in the anomalous world.

External GOI-Formats

• Manna Charitable Foundation by EstrellaYoshte

In its Wikipedia article after the fall of the Veil, the Insurgency, or the "Red Rebellion", is listed as a possible tie to Manna Charitable. Possibly just over donations. Perhaps more.

• unVeiled: A Parapolitical Compass for These Difficult Times by Jasiu06 , Ralliston

Take part in this From 120's Archives political test and find out which group speaks best to you.

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Takes about the group can vary pretty wildly. Just pick any of the aspects mentioned on this hub or in articles featuring the CI you like and go from there. Or stick to one particular interpretation if you want to.

Traditionally, the Insurgency has often been used as a plot device- mooks that engage in armed hostility against the Foundation without needing further elaboration for their reasons. This approach may not have the most depth, but it gets the job done. Unlike other groups who might shy away from attacking a Foundation Site containing monsters that could end the world, it's almost always believable for the CI to do so.

Just keep in mind that this variant does not make an article Insurgency-centric enough to be mentioned on the hub.

Another specific take to keep in mind is the Insurgency as a cover-up. The idea comes up here and there, but it's rarely applied to answer what it means in practice.

Now, suppose you want to adapt the CI to a specific setting. In that case, my recommendation is to look at what the Foundation ideology represents in that setting and have the CI split over a disagreement with that philosophy, serving as an ideological counterpoint. From a Foundation-centred point of view, the CI is an antagonist. The one group that will always play against them, be it in exemplifying the extremes of the Foundation or in a just as radical a rejection.

In general, the Insurgency works well in harbouring the extremes of an ideology. When creating a cell, I try to think of one aspect of the SCP setting and then try to craft ideals specific to it, which sound a bit insane, but still like something a person might believe in. Better if it fits into the overall narrative of the CI trying to create an anomalous utopia. For example, for Causality i, I imagined the cell as a player against Delta-T. Where Delta-T usually restricts time-travel as much as possible, this cell instead sees the ideal state in everyone being free to use time-travel like any other technology, with the hope that everyone using time-travel leads to the perfect timeline.

On the other hand, not everything needs to be as black and white. Most often, cooperation between any GoI and the Insurgency is seen as impossible, partly because the Insurgency paints itself as the anomalous boogeyman, but it is fun to see what some minor overlap could look like. This goes double for encounters with the Serpent's Hand. If you look at the left-leaning parts of the Insurgency, there are a lot of similarities and differences, like the more militant portrayal of the CI, which you can play around with.

That aside, the Insurgency isn't solely defined by its position to other groups. The semi-decentralised cell structure is a good source for inner conflicts or ideological clashes. Defending the few territories they have or securing new assets are somewhat recurring motives, with more ground to cover.

If you're having issues inserting the Insurgency into your story with a concrete goal in mind, I'd think back to the two mentioned ideologies of Iterationists and Horizonists. One way, though a bit tricky to execute, is to have whatever the Insurgency is doing just be one more step in their web of plans. Whatever happens, the Insurgency gets something out of it, even if they seemingly lose. Doing it like this has the added benefit that the villain organisation, whose leader has precognition, comes off as scarier if they do not lose in every appearance.

The other way is to let their goal be a more direct step to whatever utopia the Insurgency imagines. Like facilitating a hive mind as the next step in conflict resolution; or a city-wide experiment of their ideals, as can be seen with Maladh.

Another important thing to note that sometimes gets forgotten is that the Insurgency, in most interpretations, is an Anti-Normalcy group. It wants to end the veil just as much as the Hand wants, if not more so.

Contributing to this Hub

If you want to add to this hub, just see the corresponding section for any requirements. The idea behind the Cell, Characters & Equipment section is to catalogue as much as possible to serve as inspiration for others, given how few characters have more than a one-off appearance.

An Interpretation should be a little more established before being added. A new article belonging to any specific Interpretation can be added to it.

The Articles section should only be added to if the Insurgency has a major presence in the article.

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A CI format can be about an operation, or on a character/object the CI is interested in. Though the focus should always be on a story surrounding that object, or more specifically, what the CI wants to use it for.

The format itself is a Step Compilation. Only the Engineer and Delta Command know all parts of the Plan. Individual Steps are given out to whatever cell or personnel needs to execute these Steps. The format was designed to reflect the crypticness of Delta Command and the missing knowledge of anyone else involved in the plan. You can work around the knowledge blackout of the Insurgency to weave in implications, hints, or references to other parts of the Foundation universe. But a more straightforward narrative where the first step is a full document of what this is all about is also possible.

The Document itself is also not really written in a clinical style, so you can use the writing style of the narrator (most of the time the Engineer) as an additional tool for characterisation and furthering the plot.

A personal recommendation: Keep the number of Steps low to something like 4 to 6, so they mostly mirror larger storybeats. In using many steps, the format runs into the danger of reading too much like a shopping list for evil.

You might, of course, want to write an article where the cells engage more directly with one another and not get dictated by Delta Command. In that case, I'd decide on which cell is documenting this and use something different from Steps, but otherwise just focus on Sub-Documents from different cells talking about their different points of view and actions taken.

Document Breakdown

The Title: should consist of the DeCIRo catalogue number, followed by whatever title you want. I've personally been using one-word titles. In practice, this looks like this: "SC-YY/XXX-YY/WWW: NOUN". Given how unwieldy of a title that still is, you might want to just use "Step Compilation: NOUN".

DeCIRO Catalogue Number: The DeCIRO (Delta Command Intelligence Recording Office) Catalogue Number is the Chaos Insurgency's basic equivalent of the Foundation's Item Number, except that it applies to all documents.

Document Type: While "Step Compilation" will always be the Document Type at the top of the document, included sub-documents will have different Document Types. Sub-document information is detailed further below. This section should also list the format of the individual Steps for clarity. As an example, this can be "Step Compilation (Year/Day)".

Dates Received: Pretty self explanatory. You can use whatever date format you want, as long as you make sure it is communicated to the reader. Older formats use mm-dd-yyyy (month-day-year) while I have been using yyyy-mm-dd. Keep in mind these dates correlate with the DeCIRO number of the Steps Compilation document, which uses the last two numbers of the year in the first and last step.

Operation Status: If all the Steps on the document have been followed, and no further Steps are expected to be produced, the Operation Status is Closed. If the Insurgency is still following the Steps and/or it is suspected that more relevant Steps will be produced, the Operation Status is Open.

Foreword: Delta Command is not exactly the most sane group of individuals. The Foreword is them essentially talking to themselves (as only they would ever see the Foreword), usually through colourful language or metaphors. Useful for cluing the reader onto exposition things you wouldn't be able to easily do within the Steps.

The last sentence of the Foreword is always: "Hereafter, we of Delta Command document the Steps of the Plan as transcribed by the Engineer of the Chaos Insurgency." If you want another Delta Commander or somebody else to narrate the Steps, then the Engineer, I'd switch this sentence up a bit. See SC-05/321-05/335 or SC-049/100-049/103 as two examples of this.

1. STEP _ This is where the fun starts. The Steps are what the Insurgency is actually going to do with the object(s) relevant to the document. As such, descriptions aren't all too common. Instead, the Step may call for research of a particular object, and then the resulting documentation of the study would be attached. The Steps aren't really written clinically; instead, the style of who is writing them, in most cases the Engineer, shines strongly through. I'd recommend reading some Step descriptions to get a feel for the voice of the Engineer.

Step Compilation Template

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**DeCIRO Catalogue Number:** SC-[First Step]/[Last Step]
**Document Type:** Step Compilation
**Dates Received:** [Date of first Step] through [Date of last Step]
**Operation Status:** Open/Closed
**Foreword:** [Vague description of the object, the operation, and/or how Delta
Command feels about it.]
Hereafter we of Delta Command document the Steps of the Plan as transcribed by the Engineer of the Chaos Insurgency.
**1. STEP [Last two numbers of the year/Step number of that year]**
[Set of instructions]
**2. STEP [Last two numbers of the year/Step number of that year]**
[Rinse, repeat as necessary]

Sub-Documents Templates

Summary Report

> **DeCIRO Catalogue Number:** FR-[Relevant Step]-[Number](such as 001)
>
> **Document Type:** Summary Report
>
> **Date Received:** XX-XX-XXXX
>
> **Author:** [Name]
>
> **Summary Report:** [Findings Reports (the "FR" in the DeCIRO) detail the
> research or recon instructed in the relevant step, in a Summary Report you...
> well, summarily report.]

Post-Operation Summary Report

> **DeCIRO Catalogue Number:** POR-[Relevant Step]-[Number](such as 001)
>
> **Document Type:** Post-Operation Summary Report
>
> **Date Received:** XX-XX-XXXX (Month-Day-Year)
>
> **Author:** [Name]
>
> [Report detailing the results of the relevant military operation.]

Covert Operations

> **DeCIRO Catalogue Number:** CO-[Relevant Step]-[Number](such as 001)
>
> **Document Type:** Covert Operations
>
> **Date Received:** XX-XX-XXXX
>
> **Author:** Delta Command
>
> [Secret op instructions.]

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