I suggest that we call our version of D-Class "Human Resources", to be administered by the Human Resources Department. It has that classic twisted dark humor appeal.
"The subject is getting hungry. Call the HR Department."
As mentioned in another thread, I'm all for this, and I'm down to help work out the specifics.
Personally, I dislike this idea. I prefer a humane Authority. I think it's DH (Darwin's Hand)'s job to be evil. Maybe it would be better to have paid test subjects to test on non-lethal RPCs, and Death Row subjects test on the lethal ones.
That's really really boring. I thought we were going for classic dark-humor SCP here.
To tell the truth I never thought SCP was supposed to be scary. I thought of it more sci-fi. Although I do prefer monster SCPs like 173 or 939, they never scared me.
The main appeal of SCP to me was the cold, scientific "inhumanity". I thought Authority was supposed to go even farther?
I agree, I like the idea of the Authority being a necessary evil.
Brand new to the site, wanna say first off that I love it and I'm glad there's a place to go after the corruption of the SCP Foundation.
On topic, from what I've read, the Authority is a toned down and humane SCP Foundation, and I really like that. The Foundation may have been the necessary evil, what with their Ethics Department and all, but the Authority, I feel, should be different.
I agree with you. I really think expendables should be taken from hikers and explorers lost near the site's area. Helps maintain secrecy and gets D-class. Especially if the site is disguised as an abandoned urban building.
I think there is much less of a need for D-Class now. We have drones and stuff for exploration. If you needed a person for testing then maybe just don't take it to the extreme. On SCP I've read lots of articles that send like ten D-boys into the same deathtrap before they stop testing. One or two dboys is enough for you to get the idea of how the anomaly works. We dont need exact measurement of how bodyweight effects how slowly you die or something equally rediculous.
Dboys are not a limitless resource. From a pragmatic perspective, doing excessive leathal tests with loads of Dboys is a large cost for almost no reward.
While I agree that differentiating what we call D-Class would be preferable, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding on why there are so many D-Class on the other site. Number 1680 was actually how the Foundation had so many disposable humans to deal with, or at least it was heavily heavily hinted at. If we want to take the availability of D-Class in a different direction that's fine but this was adequately covered on the other wiki, and while we shouldn't copy them for the sake of copying, we already have an example of an explanation.
Personally one of the problems I had with the Foundation was that D-Class personnel became a highly generalized and derivative concept for expendable human subjects. Rather then pigeonholing ourselves into something like that, a much broader and versatile approach could open up more creative opportunities.
I do like the "Human Resources" idea; it seems larger in scope than a specific class of personnel. To make it even better I'd give writers more freedom on what exactly composes Human Resources personnel; one could request almost any human resource (astigmatic males required for optimal testing / pubescent adolescent with AB blood type suggested / high-cholesterol females needed for so and so). While D-Class referred to just death row criminals, and already strained credibility due to the large numbers of them needed.
Of course, the main problem is how Human Resources acquires all these people, and how they are induced to forget their experiences (I dislike how many SCP anomalies have permanent or lethal affects on subjects, but that's a misgiving for another day). But all that needs are creative solutions, like making them the homeless vagrants, foreign refugees, orphans, people who want to make a quick buck, etc
D-Class referred to just death row criminals, and already strained credibility due to the large numbers of them needed.
This always bothered me to no end. There just are not that many Death Row inmates in the world. I back the HR-###### Idea. As for where these people come from, we could say that the Authority has worldwide homeless shelters and halfway houses. They would be in part subsidized by local governments and partly by some sort of donation with some minimal injection of funds from the Authority itself.
We would be able to get a large number of people of many different backgrounds, age ranges, and no one questions their disappearance. And the rest of the specialized HR assets could be just kidnapped or grown. I would not put it past the Authority to have a human 'farm' to raise assets in captivity for certain experiments.
While your idea might work, the SCP wiki states that most sites have below 100 Class-D Personnel.
EDIT: How about teens running around in the woods who accidentally wander too close to the site? It provides good cover, makes great background for a fan-made movie or show (or Class-D based game like Containment Breach), plus seems pretty evil…
How about teens running around in the woods who accidentally wander too close to the site?
There is a lot wrong with this, 1st it implies site security is inept and there is no perimeter fences or fake danger signs. 2nd, too many people lost in the same place attracts attention, that is a big nono.
While your idea might work, the SCP wiki states that most sites have below 100 Class-D Personnel.
We are not SCP, we don't have to do as they do. Or be restricted by their ideas.
True, but do people under 21 usually obey danger signs? What about all those Urban Explorers on YouTube?
As for the attention, when I made up this idea, I'm talking about some horror for people who live in conditions similar to mine. Teenager living near vast stretches of mountains covered in trees? I think it would be pretty interesting for me to suddenly one day explore too far. The area I live in has pretty low population, I doubt anyone would come looking for me very far if I one day went that deep into the woods.
Trust me on this, I've seen entire dump hundreds of thousands of man-hours to find a single lone child lost in the woods. So if you went missing something like that could happen.
I really like the 'Human Resources' name proposal. It gives more freedom as to what the human test subjects could actually be, as in not just being death-row inmates. It also could imply that the Authority is covering up it's practice of using humans as test subjects, which could also imply a much darker and corrupt Authority.
Again, I really like it, it could give a lot more creative freedom.
I'm all for this as well. I like the 'Human Resources' idea, and although it's a bit long for my tastes I can't think of anything better. Plus, it never made sense to me that expendables used the same classification hierarchy as the actual employees.
What do we call the individuals, though? "HR-XXXX" does seem a little bit dehumanizing if we're going to have them be volunteers or employees. I suppose they could all have names like the doctors do. "HR Jim ██████" or something to that effect.
How about we do this?
D-class = people from death row. They are used for more dangerous RPCs
HR-Class = people pick up from the civilian population. Like homeless people or people with no family.
This is actually a good idea, but maybe the HR-Class could be clones or humanoid entities from an anomalous item the Authority found. It would avoid questions about missing people, concentration camps and all those things which would raise attention. Or how about it like this?
D-Class: Death row inmates. Used for dangerous, and all Gamma class RPCs.
RPCH-Class: Clones, non anomalous basic humanoid entities from RPC-XXXX. Used for all classes with predilection for safer RPCs, due to originating from an RPC themselves.
HR-Class: Human test subjects, procured from homeless and missing people. Used for safer or mostly understood RPCs.
M-Class: Mechanical. Used for exploration of location RPCs. Used to interact with certain Beta and Gamma RPCs.
yea I said that in a recent post a long time ago :)
Thats agood idea indeed Ben :)
"Human resources" has a nice ring to it imo. The volunteer idea seems kinda dumb though, not gonna lie. Why would a secretive organization like The Authority allow outsiders into their facility just because they "volunteer" for it? Breach of security and information leaks would occur if one bad egg gets in. And imagine the lawsuits. And there aren't enough volunteers in the world to cover tests at every site.
Personally, I think the expendable test subjects should be produced artificially, maybe through secret methods or through an RPC that has not been documented yet. Hell, leaving the origin of the expendable subjects a secret would make HR seem more enigmatic.
Hints could be dropped here and there and readers can piece together the parts.
Maybe they come from an anomalous pod that works like an oven with settings that pumps out crash test dummy tier "humans"
Or some kind of cloning device.
I for one love the idea of HR being artificially produced, it fits the whole "necessary evil" angle without it stepping into the "evil to the extreme because it's scary" territory. However I think that it should be explained, even if it's as pedestrian as cloning.
Side note, I think it should be standardized for the Authority, only deviated from when there is good reason i.e. very specific requirements.
Seconded. HRs being artificially produced as a literal resource to perform tests is much more believable than having a seemingly infinite number of death row inmates.
I'd like to start using "HR-123456" instead of "D-123456" as it would make us feel further apart from SCP.
How do we make this official?
A large group of users, as in the overwhelming majority of users may have to push for the D to HR transition. I like it, so I'll gladly advocate for it.
Perhaps we should have a poll of some sort? Maybe a straw poll or something.
I have an idea for a DA(Discovered Anomaly) that can 'grow' humans. And I can work it as the origin of this idea for the HR's. I can be messaged on the discord under LostShadow, I welcome any help from you or anyone that wishes to aid me on this idea.
I personally disagree, SCP-2000 didn't invent the idea of cloning.
Not happening. Forget about it. CFO says no.
You wanna know why Human Resources is stupid? Because why would a clandestine, morally ambiguous, super serious protector of humanity, have an entire department named after a shitty pun?
Face it, we're sticking with D-Class, even though the name is blatantly plagiarized.
So that is CFO's opinion and? This isn't a dictatorship where only what the upper echelons say goes. We as the community are advocating to separate ourselves from SCP and we are trying to create our own lore and distinctiveness. He may hold that opinion as he is entitled to it, but not to cram it down our throat.
HR is not a department it is an euphemism for literal Human Resources. Yes, it is a pun, yes there is some humor to it. But it is also a reflrection of the Authority and how it see's those disposable, it isn't only using Death Row inmates. (of which there is a limited quantity) Rather, it has a serious branch dedicated to the production of viable Human Test Subjects. They are not seen as people but as a resource.
It's not really as much of a 'shitty pun' as much as its the perfect cover for The Authority's source of test subjects. Gotta look at the big picture here. And who's to say the asshole who came up with the "HR" cover name didn't have a bad sense of humor?
If two RPC researchers are discussing 'human resources' via emails or 'confidential' documents, it won't raise brows as much as say… 'disposable class'
Either way. Eh.
I believe of combining both the clone idea and HR together. It is better than just D-Class and seperates us from SCP. We can also have votes and suggestions to do things regardless of CFO's opinion.
No disrespect to our lord and savior.
This right here. Great idea. The RPC is meant to be an independent entity. Why would it rely on government scraps in the form of 'd-class' death row scum? Nah. The RPC would be ten steps ahead and have their own way of creating expendable resources.
CFO was nice enough to kick start this little project but honestly, Enzo Amore can't be right 100% of the time. How else will this community evolve into something greater than SCP if we aren't allowed to expand our tendrils beyond the stars?
Yeah, I like the 'clone' idea, doubly so since the Authority is now being established as willing to use information from anomalies for research and technology
I'd imagine the cloning program being similar to Raildex where they clone the same person over and over as a standard test subject, only deviating from the cookie cutter clones when the occasion calls for it.
I'd say another acronym would be nice, maybe DV for Disposable-Volunteers or maybe even HR for Human Resources. I just think a 2 letter acronym followed by numbers are much better than D-classes.
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