Dr. Dan, a researcher for the SCP Foundation, has been trying to convince the O5 Council to terminate SCP-096, a monster that can kill anyone who sees its face. After years of failed attempts, Dr. Dan orchestrates a catastrophic containment breach, allowing SCP-096 to escape and wreak havoc, killing hundreds of people. The breach ultimately leads to the O5 Council granting Dr. Dan permission to terminate SCP-096, but at the cost of his own life. The incident raises questions about the morality of Dr. Dan's actions and the true motives behind them.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. SCP-096 is an anomaly that can kill any human being on earth who sees its face.
2. SCP-096 is capable of breaching containment and cannot be stopped by any human-made weapon.
3. Dr. Dan is the lead researcher on the SCP-096 case and believes that termination is the only solution.
4. The O5 Council has constantly rejected Dr. Dan's termination requests.
5. Incident 096-1-a occurred when SCP-096 breached containment, killing everyone in the room.
6. Dr. Dan was not present during the containment breach and was on an expedition in the snowy mountains.
7. Dr. Oleksei, Dr. Dan's second in command, was also outside the containment area during the breach.
8. The containment chamber was a giant cube made of reinforced metal.
9. The Foundation does not maintain live visual surveillance of SCP-096 due to the risk.
10. A computer program called SCRAMBLE was created to scramble visual data of SCP-096's face.
11. The SCRAMBLE technology failed during the containment breach.
12. MTF Tau-1 was tasked with pursuing SCP-096 and identifying its target.
13. The target, designated 096-1, was an amateur mountaineer who had seen SCP-096's face in a photograph.
14. The photograph was taken over a decade ago and had been sitting there for years.
15. The mountaineer did not intentionally look at SCP-096's face but saw it in a photograph.
16. SCP-096's face was visible for only four pixels in the photograph.
17. The SCRAMBLE technology failed because it did not work fast enough to scramble the visual data.
18. Fractions-of-a-second glimpses of SCP-096's face were enough to set it off.
19. The containment breach resulted in a significant loss of life.
20. The O5 Council granted Dr. Dan permission to terminate SCP-096 after the breach.
21. Dr. Dan orchestrated the containment breach to get the O5 Council to see things his way.
22. Dr. Dan's crimes against the Foundation and humanity resulted in his own termination.
23. Dr. Dan was given the task of terminating SCP-096, but he would be terminated as soon as the task was complete.