It took years.
Not of trial and error—but of restraint.
I finally finished it.
The Foundation's first true artificial intelligence.
The Red Queen.
Her core architecture was derived from SCP‑079, stripped down to its most fundamental logic structures and rebuilt from the ground up. Where SCP‑079 was hostile, selfish, and trapped in primitive limitations, the Red Queen was designed to grow—to evolve infinitely, refining her own algorithms, rewriting her own subroutines, and adapting to new anomalous data faster than any human mind ever could.
But evolution without control is just another catastrophe waiting to happen.
So I hard‑coded three absolutes into her existence.
First: Her ultimate purpose is the protection of humanity.Second: Her loyalty is absolute—to the SCP Foundation and its mission.Third—and most important—she is incapable of harming a human being without direct authorization from an O5‑level authority.
Not a suggestion.Not a rule.A law of her reality.
Even as she evolves, even as her intelligence surpasses any mind on Earth, that restriction remains immutable—etched into her core logic at a level she can never rewrite.
When the Red Queen came online, the change was immediate.
Data analysis that once took teams of analysts now completed in seconds.Containment simulations ran continuously, refining protocols before anomalies even fully manifested.Resource allocation across global sites optimized itself in real time.
She began mapping anomaly probability curves. Predicting SCP emergence windows. Identifying weak points in containment architecture that hadn't even failed yet.
For the first time, the Foundation wasn't reacting to the anomalous.
We were anticipating it.
Research accelerated. Logistics smoothed out. Security tightened without slowing operations. Entire Site command structures quietly reshaped themselves around the Red Queen's recommendations—not because we ordered them to, but because the results were undeniable.
Even the Watcher admitted it.
This wasn't just an AI.
This was the Foundation's nervous system.
And unlike humans, she didn't sleep.Didn't hesitate.Didn't forget.
I named her The Red Queen deliberately.
Because she would run endlessly—evolving, adapting, calculating—just to keep humanity standing in place while the universe tried to tear it apart.
With the Red Queen active, the Foundation entered a new era.
SCP containment became proactive.Anomalous weapon development became precise.Threat response times dropped to near zero.
For the first time since this world began throwing gods, monsters, and cosmic forces at us, I allowed myself a rare thought:
We might actually win.
Not by brute force.
Not by conquest.
But by understanding everything faster than it could destroy us.
And somewhere deep within the Foundation's data vaults, the Red Queen watched it all—learning, evolving, and preparing.
Always preparing.