SCP Foundation

The first SCP of the North American New Year! I hope it lives to the standards of being the first North American SCP of 2013.

This is something I've been working on for a while, and have desperately been trying to get to work. Thanks a lot to Silber, Sorts, and Voct for help with conceptual fixes and cleaning, and Echo for helping with the containment procedures.

One of my favorite parts of this is at the end of the interview, where what would be a generic complaint about the Foundation being a prison takes on a new depth because of the subject matter. I like it when an SCP strongly uses theme like that.

About the only observation I have is that I think the Foundation might treat these individuals better than they currently do. The Foundation is a prison, but it's not into cruel and unusual unless they have to, and locking individuals who are honestly pretty human in small boxes with a bed and a small amount of music probably qualifies as cruel and unusual. There are actively hostile humanoids who have better accommodations. I'm not saying let them wander freely, obviously, but possibly slightly larger cells, and expand good behavior rewards to include books and such?

SCP-1662-A through -D are to be kept in separate 3m x 3m x 2.5m cells of 8.8cm thick transparent armor lined in one-way laminate to prevent the instances from observing one another while still allowing the constant monitoring from the outside.

This is a long sentence that can be shortened by removing "to prevent the instances from observing one another while still allowing the constant monitoring from the outside", because the quoted part is generally self-evident if you're using one-way laminate.

Instances display signs of sapience, and possess the ability to write in and understand various languages, which vary based mostly on the region the instance inhabits, as well as the knowledge of an at this time untranslated written code consisting of dots, various shapes, and the numbers zero (0) through seven (7), used presumably for communication between instances.

Really, really long sentences.

SCP-1662 will then follow the imprinted individual and deliver SCP-1662-1 personally, until the point that delivery is made, or the individual no longer fulfills the requirements

Deliver until the point that delivery is made? It seems a little redundant? Or maybe you should remove the last comma there, so it goes 'deliver it personally, until the point that delivery is made or the individual no longer fulfills the requirements' or something? This sentence was confusing to read.

or so the legend goes

I question how a person speaks in underlines as opposed to bold? Small and unsignificant point though.

Overall, I like it, but I don't understand that it is stated that they are unable to speak, but the -D guy speaks very well? Or am I doing something wrong? It feels a bit lengthened and overly complicated for what it is. +1 regardless, but I think it can do with some fat trimming.

Due to the nature of SCP-1662, all responses by SCP-1662-D are written, and all responses have been transcribed as they were written.

This is my reply to your fourth pick.

EDIT: Derp, I cannot into Forums at 3:00 AM.

This is one of my favorite themes among SCP-class containment articles. The idea of this group of odd mechanical entities existing, then being confused to their own existence, then manifesting the 'pauper's post' as a political idea among anomalous entities, rather than being innate in their nature, is awesome.

The world is odder still than we understand. There are things that live outside our understanding, and they have ideas, and factions, and political arrangements, and all sorts of things, beyond our little politics. Whatever made these metal men did not make them for this, no more than who ever made us fleshy men made us for empire or tyranny or whatever we do in our day to day lives. We exist, as they exist, and as both mayhaps always have and always will exist, and try to piece together meaning for why we do so. This is their attempt to find meaning.

Upvoted despite the weird sentence structures and occasional typos. Congratulations.

Upboated, but one small thing came to my attention.

the legitimacy of SCP-1662-D's testimonies are believed to be fabricated

Fabricated legitimacies and all that.

Is it just me, or does this tie into SCP-962? Either way, upvoted.

It comes off a bit long-winded, but I really like the twist of having one of them not be part of the group.