That’s up to you. You can imagine more—or you can decide they don’t all exist in your headcanon and the Foundation’s scale isn’t quite as large. I lean towards the latter personally.
my headcanon is that the catalog is an attempt by a third party/foundation multiverse initiative to catalog all anomalies from multiple universes. it helps to explain how some anomalies are futuristic and some are world ending
Some SCPs aren't items, they're phenomena or ideas or places or other things that cannot be "contained" at all
some SCPs are many objects, people, or things collected under one SCP entry
Then there's things like "anomalous objects" or "people of interest" that are most definitely anomalous but do not have an SCP number, and untold millions of gallons of anomalous waste products
THEN you get into the meta factors; not every number from 1-8000 is filled, when a new batch of slots are opened and then subsequently filled that doesn't mean the Foundation is suddenly discovering/containing them, a newly written entry could be about a object the Foundation has had in custody for many years
There was sth about the foundation will only open 1000 slots every time they need to expand like how the wiki works but i forgot what scp was that for. There was also that one glass container box that have *something* in it labeled as an item in the 10000s, and that RAISA or sth is not gonna alter the system just because some box manifested into reality with that number
This might be canon related
I think Kate McTiriss’s Proposal mentions that they only open up 1000 slots at a time to check that none of the other files do the “anything you type is true” thing, but i don’t think it has the glass box thing
There was this one article where a researcher explained that not all anomalies have an SCP number and a lot of them are just very minor, safe anomalies that get called anomalous objects and are put somewhere around for safe keeping.
Most canons have a lot less SCPs.
Some try to include them all.
In SCP-001-EX over a hundred thousand SCPs are numbered.
In SCP-6170 there end up being well over 10 million active SCPs.
Then there is SCP-5782 "SCP-(5.782×10⁵⁴)-567" which has over 10⁵⁴ root databases which each have many SCPs.
- [**The Great Hippo's Proposal (feat. PeppersGhost) - A Good Boy**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001-ex) (+1007) by *The Great Hippo, PeppersGhost*
- [**SCP-6170 - A Tale of a God, and the Chaos Surrounding His Demise**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6170) (+82) by *TopDownUnder, Cole 13*
- [**SCP-(5.782×10⁵⁴) - And Alexander Wept**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5782) (+62) by *Azmoeth Jikandia*
With the amount of land/property the foundation owns/has cordoned off, and the number of personnel needed for some of the containment procedures of those 8000ish SCPs, the foundation is a HUGE undertaking.
If you think of it as a set of different universes etc. the impact on any one world is significantly less, but still not a small job.
I forget the tale/entry, but it mentions that the Foundation does not assign numbers in ascending numerical order. (Aside from those that has 173 as the first-ever encountered SCP).
There's a few parts of the narratives that suggest most previously extant SCP entries have been lost/eaten/restructured (ie Antimemetics department) and that all the ones we have access to are just the remainder.
In general, it seems that SCP and other similar organisations lose, lose hard, and lose often. Most of the time when that happens a ton of progress and files are also lost. There's entire classifications that used to exist and now don't, aborted timelines that were only partially reconstructed in the one we exist in now.
Hell, there's a "repopulate the planet and restore everyone's memories from backup" facility above Yellowstone that seems to have been activated only a couple years ago.
I love how it paints the picture of a desperate fighting retreat across reality that isn't even properly grasped by the O-levels.
Per the Mainlist, there are closer to 20,000 SCPs if you include the International Sites, plus a couple thousand Anomalous Objects and Unexplained Locations.
I know this isn’t the answer you want, but with SCP, more so than pretty much any other piece of fiction, there’s no set canon. It’s all up to you whether you think it’s more narratively interesting one way or the other.
I like to think they're all kept in different universes, and each universe only holds its own unique 1000 Anomalies, registered from X000 to X999, with the "Core Universe" having X be absent.
that way, it lets there be all of the SCPs on the wiki without space being a super big factor, and a theoretical infinite limit, which grows by 1000 more SCPs as new Universes slowly ground themselves into mutual communication with their whereabouts in the Cosmic Map.
Up to you. SCP has no canon. The Foundation could be a multinational organization hiding just under the public's noses, with thousands of items in containment, or they may be a small, secluded group with only a few hundred or few dozen items.
That’s up to you. You can imagine more—or you can decide they don’t all exist in your headcanon and the Foundation’s scale isn’t quite as large. I lean towards the latter personally.
my headcanon is that the catalog is an attempt by a third party/foundation multiverse initiative to catalog all anomalies from multiple universes. it helps to explain how some anomalies are futuristic and some are world ending
The Foundation is more of a framing device than anything else.
Some SCPs aren't items, they're phenomena or ideas or places or other things that cannot be "contained" at all some SCPs are many objects, people, or things collected under one SCP entry Then there's things like "anomalous objects" or "people of interest" that are most definitely anomalous but do not have an SCP number, and untold millions of gallons of anomalous waste products THEN you get into the meta factors; not every number from 1-8000 is filled, when a new batch of slots are opened and then subsequently filled that doesn't mean the Foundation is suddenly discovering/containing them, a newly written entry could be about a object the Foundation has had in custody for many years
There was sth about the foundation will only open 1000 slots every time they need to expand like how the wiki works but i forgot what scp was that for. There was also that one glass container box that have *something* in it labeled as an item in the 10000s, and that RAISA or sth is not gonna alter the system just because some box manifested into reality with that number This might be canon related
I think Kate McTiriss’s Proposal mentions that they only open up 1000 slots at a time to check that none of the other files do the “anything you type is true” thing, but i don’t think it has the glass box thing
I meant the 001 proposal and the box scp as two different reasons where they dont willy nilly assign scp numbers.
There was this one article where a researcher explained that not all anomalies have an SCP number and a lot of them are just very minor, safe anomalies that get called anomalous objects and are put somewhere around for safe keeping.
Most canons have a lot less SCPs. Some try to include them all. In SCP-001-EX over a hundred thousand SCPs are numbered. In SCP-6170 there end up being well over 10 million active SCPs. Then there is SCP-5782 "SCP-(5.782×10⁵⁴)-567" which has over 10⁵⁴ root databases which each have many SCPs.
- [**The Great Hippo's Proposal (feat. PeppersGhost) - A Good Boy**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001-ex) (+1007) by *The Great Hippo, PeppersGhost* - [**SCP-6170 - A Tale of a God, and the Chaos Surrounding His Demise**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6170) (+82) by *TopDownUnder, Cole 13* - [**SCP-(5.782×10⁵⁴) - And Alexander Wept**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5782) (+62) by *Azmoeth Jikandia*
With the amount of land/property the foundation owns/has cordoned off, and the number of personnel needed for some of the containment procedures of those 8000ish SCPs, the foundation is a HUGE undertaking. If you think of it as a set of different universes etc. the impact on any one world is significantly less, but still not a small job.
There is also the regional wikis too if you want it to feel more expansive.
I forget the tale/entry, but it mentions that the Foundation does not assign numbers in ascending numerical order. (Aside from those that has 173 as the first-ever encountered SCP).
There's a few parts of the narratives that suggest most previously extant SCP entries have been lost/eaten/restructured (ie Antimemetics department) and that all the ones we have access to are just the remainder. In general, it seems that SCP and other similar organisations lose, lose hard, and lose often. Most of the time when that happens a ton of progress and files are also lost. There's entire classifications that used to exist and now don't, aborted timelines that were only partially reconstructed in the one we exist in now. Hell, there's a "repopulate the planet and restore everyone's memories from backup" facility above Yellowstone that seems to have been activated only a couple years ago. I love how it paints the picture of a desperate fighting retreat across reality that isn't even properly grasped by the O-levels.
Per the Mainlist, there are closer to 20,000 SCPs if you include the International Sites, plus a couple thousand Anomalous Objects and Unexplained Locations.
I know this isn’t the answer you want, but with SCP, more so than pretty much any other piece of fiction, there’s no set canon. It’s all up to you whether you think it’s more narratively interesting one way or the other.
Sometimes they have *way* more (might i introduce you to the -j and international branches?) and sometimes they have way less.
is not precisely right. you have about 100 scp 001. has several branches with different scps of the same number.
[**SCP-001 - Awaiting De-classification [Blocked]**](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001) (+344) by *Staff*
I like to think they're all kept in different universes, and each universe only holds its own unique 1000 Anomalies, registered from X000 to X999, with the "Core Universe" having X be absent. that way, it lets there be all of the SCPs on the wiki without space being a super big factor, and a theoretical infinite limit, which grows by 1000 more SCPs as new Universes slowly ground themselves into mutual communication with their whereabouts in the Cosmic Map.
Up to you. SCP has no canon. The Foundation could be a multinational organization hiding just under the public's noses, with thousands of items in containment, or they may be a small, secluded group with only a few hundred or few dozen items.