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== Other Factions ==

The SCP Foundation is not the only organization that protects the world from the supernatural or uses the supernatural for their own goals. Here is a partial list of notable rivals, allies, and enemies of the Foundation.

* Chaos Insurgency: Originally this faction was part of the Foundation, a covert deniable ops team simply named the "Insurgency." Operating under the fictitious pretense of being a group of rogue agents who assassinated and kidnapped on behalf of said organization, without their actions leading back to the foundation. They answered directly to the O5 Council, with little oversight from any other part of the Foundation. That changed when they really did go rogue, releasing various euclid and keter-class SCPs. What their goal is still remains a mystery, as is the reason for their defection. It's suggested that rather than contain SCPs, they want to proactively control and weaponize them. Whatever the case, they're a threat to everything the Foundation works for.

* Global Occult Coalition: The GOC is an organization funded by the United Nations whose mission is to protect humanity from anomalous threats. Unlike the SCP Foundation, they are far more willing to use anomalies to fight against anomalies, [[Exterminatus|but mainly focus on destroying any anomalies that they consider a threat instead of containing and studying them.]] The Foundation and the GOC have at times allied with each other, although their methodologies are diametrically opposite. Many of the other factions strongly dislike the GOC and see them as needlessly heavy-handed.

* Horizon Initiative:  A religious organization formed from the three Abrahamic faiths and several other religions that work together to protect the world from the supernatural.  They are particularly hostile to cults like the Church of the Broken God and the Fifthist Church.

* Serpent's Hand: The Serpent's Hand is a loose confederation of humans and other beings that fights for the rights of intelligent anomalies and the pursuit of knowledge. Their base of operations is a magical library between universes. They especially hate the GOC and call them "bookburners", they refer to the Foundation as the "Jailers". Occasional allies of the Foundation, though the Foundation usually comes to regret it later.

* Church of the Broken God: Basically the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] mixed with Gnosticism and a little bit of Greek and Chinese mythology. The CotBG is a religion of machine worshipers that wants to find and reassemble the lost fragments of their god. Although they aren't evil per se, if they were to succeed in their goals it probably would cause the apocalypse; or at the very least turn everything into living clockwork metal, and according to some sources, fixing the god of machines would actually cause the god of flesh to be released which is the opposite of what they want. They are mainly broken into three distinct denominations: the Broken Church (the oldest branch), the Cogworth Orthodox (obsessed with standardization and clockwork body modification, and prefer [[Industrial Revolution]] level technology) and the Church of Maxwellism (unlike the other two branches, they embrace the use of electronics and believe that the broken god is a digital being they can connect to through the internet).

* Sarkic Cults: Sarkicism or Nälkä (Finnish for hunger), as its followers call it, is the antithesis of the CotBG. The religion is mostly based on Gnosticism (but in an opposite way than the CotBG) with some elements of Hinduism and other religions mixed in. They revere [[Nurgle|disease]] and mutation and seek to achieve godhood by consuming the gods and perfecting themselves through horrifying [[Fleshcrafting]] sorcery. If you've ever seen the movie "The Thing", that'll give you the right idea. Most Sarkites are horrifically depraved monsters who should be killed with fire. The CotBG and Sarkites have a very long ongoing historical conflict. Sarkic cults are divided into Proto-Sarkic Cults, which mostly consist of isolated and technophobic communities and primarily worship the founder of the religion who achieved godhood, and Neo-Sarkic Cults, which are hidden in modern society as secret societies and organized crime organizations and worship the god of flesh.

* The Fifth Church: Well... they worship stars and have an obsession with the number 5. It seems to be based partially on Scientology and New Age and other new religious movements and parody religions, but little is actually known about their beliefs, and what is known is mostly incomprehensible. Most of the other factions consider them to be a joke, although they once nearly destroyed reality by selling a book that gave readers reality warping powers at the cost of causing insanity. In the Antimemetics Division canon, it is much worse than that.

* Doctor Wondertainment: Seem to be a company (or an individual. It bounces back and forth) that produces supernatural toys for children, which usually are dangerous if they are not used properly. They often send their products to the Foundation as gifts.  For some reason they also created a line of anomalous humanoids called the Little Misters that they challenge the Foundation to collect.

* Are We Cool Yet?: A organization of artists/terrorists with a twisted sense of humor that produces dangerous pieces of anomalous artwork for laughs or for making political statements. Things like paintings that drive people that look at them insane. Pretentious fucks.

* Gamers Against Weed (GAW): Anomalous Internet Memes & the like. Love taking the piss out of the other GoIs; split off from AWCY? at least partly because the former were too high off their own paint fumes. Usually used as comic relief. [[Derp|Their name is also confusing, since they're not actually against weed]].

* Marshal, Carter, and Dark Ltd.: An occult business that collects anomalies to sell to anyone for the right price. 

* Manna Charitable Foundation: An organization that tries to exploit anomalies for humanitarian purposes, often with disastrous results. The road to hell...

* Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting: A circus that travels between dimensions to put on their shows and recruit more freaks. The Circus tends to be a refuge for the truly strange. Herman was overthrown and it's now lead by a pair of lesbian clown monsters.

* Shark Punching Center: Began as a joke for mocking people who misspelled SCP as SPC. The SPC is a completely insane version of the Foundation from another universe that is dedicated entirely to protecting the world from selachian (shark) entities by punching them. They do a pretty good job. [[Wat|Actually beat their version of SCP-682]] by being [[Awesome|way crazier]] than it could handle.

* SAPPHIRE: An organization of militant atheists who seek to destroy all religions by anomalous means even while being in total denial of the existence of the anomalous.  All the other factions think they are insane.

* ☽☽☽: In an alternate timeline, the Earth was saved from destruction by being teleported into an afterlife known as Corbenic and became a third moon. From there, the people of that Earth work to try to save other versions of Earth from going down the same path that lead to their destruction.  Living matter cannot enter the world of the living from Corbenic, although they can somehow invade fictional universes, so they mainly act through anomalous machines they send to earth. Most of their anomalies are about turning Humanity into [[Noblebright|a lighter and kinder]] temperament, such as a spaceship that warns dictators and mass murderers to step down and accept due process or be shot with a tiny laser beam from space, and editing sadistic media entertainment, giving villains heavy punishments within.

* "dado": an entrepreneur who specializes in making anomalous medicines, often with ''very'' unusual effects due to the not-so-good doctor's [[Painboy|questionable grasp]] of... English, science, and common sense. He has collaborated with some the groups mentioned above, and it has bit them in the ass [[Fail|one way]] or [[Lulz|another]]. Very fond of [[Minsc|his pet hamster]].

*Cults of the Scarlet King - Very obviously the [[Chaos|Satanism]] analogue of the universe, though like the Sarkics they are a divided faction. They've created several anomalies, most notably a series of [[Daemonculaba]] analogues (and all the shit that comes with that), and they worship one of the versions of SCP-001, the eponymous Scarlet King.

And those are just some of the major ones that appear on the English version of the SCP website.  Writers on other language versions of the website have come up with tons more. SAPPHIRE in particular first appeared on the French site and was popular enough to get translated and brought over to the English site.