Designation Keter

Designation Keter is a classification used by the Centre in the course of its work with  Critical Assets. It is assigned to those PAs that have been located, identified and studied sufficiently that the following have been determined to the satisfaction of Containment Command -


 * Asset displays vigorous, active hostility to human life, civilization and/or the space-time continuum.


 * Asset is capable of causing significant destruction and/or space-time disruption in the event of a containment breach.
 * Asset is severely damaged, contaminated or irradiated and is a great health risk to any personnel present who are inadequately protected.

Such subjects must be cataloged, contained according to special containment procedures, and destroyed, if possible.

Merely being inimical to human life is not in itself cause for categorization as Designation Keter. A Keter classification indicates that not only is this subject capable of devastating harm to human life and civilization, but that containment protocols must be extensive, involved, and precisely followed in order to prevent it from doing so. Research into the neutralization of Keter-class SCPs is always a top priority for the Centre.

Cases where Keter-class objects that can be neutralized by Centre personnel persist in Centre custody are rare, and are grouped into three main categories. In addition to cases where destruction of the object continues to be unfeasible due to apparent invulnerability or similar circumstance, there are some Designation Keter objects with significant tactical value for the Centre, as well as Designation Keter objects that threaten more harm to humanity from their neutralization than from their continued existence.

The Centre has harnessed some Designation Keter PCPs, but such situations are rare exceptions: for example, SCP-076-2 only agreed to work with the Centre due to its unusual relationship with Agent [REDACTED] and its ability to communicate with us. The majority of Designation Keter PCPs are insentient, and most are inanimate objects. This status may change as research and discovery continues.

"Keter" means "crown" in Hebrew and is the uppermost level of the Sephirot of the Tree of Life in the Jewish Kabbalah.