I came to this site in, well a really long time ago. I saw the old Insurgency site and some of the other GOC spin-off sites affiliated and not affiliated with the SCP Foundation main site. The old CI wiki was kinda run down and dead and had some of the early items but not much to look at. Then I found this new site that Cad was advertising. This was when the site was very archaically designed without any fancy CSS coding and backgrounds. It was just basic wikidot template that was black. the site was pretty lonely with a very basic and unorganized forum. People were communicating by typing on site pages with tab boxes to separate different conversations. The few forum posts that did exist were from people conversing in page discussions.
I sensed that they had some promise, but not a lot. I felt……sadness. Well, sorrow wasn't correct cause my heart was not bleeding. But I did feel pity.
I felt pity for the site that it was at a standstill. So I decided to join the site (which in those days was free to join). I didn't start out shoving some old Foundation reject draft onto the site in order to get something posted but I simply posted in the discussions that the site could be better if there were some Site Rules and a Guidebook. It really didn't mean anything to me at that time. I was just giving very basic advice and fully expected no one to reply. Well, someone did reply and that was Cad.
So I created the 2 pages all of you should have read when you entered the site. That's right, I was the person who wrote the original format for our "Site Rules" and the "Guide For New Recruits". They were actually proofread by Zyn herself. She was very helpful and assisted me and the rest of the staff a great deal. Cad was (at that time) ecstatic at my work and promoted me to Administrator for the site. I got into the Admin Panel, and created a functional forum, fixed the sidebar so that it was functional and pleasing to the eye. I even managed to get a new item of my own onto the wiki. I will get back to that later.
But the most important bit is, the Forum you guys all know and love? I helped create and organize all the different categories and made it better.
Back to the item. You won't find that item here today as it was deleted with the rest of the negatively received articles. It was Detrimental Disk. Today you can still find the item on the Spanish Site and also mentioned in 2 of Halsey's tales.
This was the high time of the CI wiki and the most active period. We had fun, we discussed things. we messed around in chat (which I later with assistance from others managed to create several chatrooms with our own chatbot).
My most proud achievement, however, has to be the Briefing you people must have read at least once. Yes, the Haos Doctrine was my pet project. It originally started out as a homage to "A Message from the Administrator" from the SCP Foundation and I could clearly appreciate the irony of the situation." But then taking the idea of this site is the rebirth of its former exoskeleton, I decided to take that route.
Borrowing slightly from a cliff notes version of European history with a dab of scientism taken to its logical extreme, I drafted, edited and rewrote "The Haos Doctrine" The doctrine that I hoped for the CI Wiki as an organization fictionally is pretty much summed up there if you read it. Cad has made some alterations to the original version, but the basic ideas are still there.
I mentioned earlier how I appreciated the irony of me trying to emulate "A message from the Administrator" Well the reason for that is if you guys ever read "History of the Foundation Part 1" which is written by Roget, you will know of how user TheAdminsitrator helped the fledgling Foundation site and saved it from near extinction by saving the info onto Wikidot and helping it thrive.
I felt the exact same way he did when I found THIS CI Wiki. This place was a backwater with sporadic activity, but I helped revitalize it. I often like to think that it was I EdAWACS that helped spark Cad's creativity and enthusiasm which led him to write all the wondrous and creative literature for most of this site. But that could just be my arrogance.
I will admit it, it was the height of my arrogance which I reigned as Administrator. I felt like a god that I could do anything and that everything could conform to my image of what the site would be, SHOULD be.
You can see that inherent in my creation of the "Personnel Designations" and the ideas for the Intelligentsia as well as the Ouranos Council. (Fun Fact, Falchion Valley, our Admin site, [another one of my creations] was originally supposed to be called Ouranos council") The idea for the Ouranos council game of course from Greek Mythology. I will admit looking back that it was kinda a ripoff of the O5. but heck I was a teenager back than looking to be cool. But the namesake was based on the God Uranus, who fathered the Titans. The Intelligentsia was based on the Russian Intelligentsia that helped spark the Russian Revolution.
But I desperately wanted the CI wiki to conform to my vision of a secretive group of intellectuals who held the real power and the mysterious mention of Haos which was an idea, a system rather than a generic evil mastermind that most people assume. Sadly, I fell out of favor and was forcibly retired as Administrator. Most of my work was removed and the history of my work erased from the sands of time.
Now I am but a Hermit, as stoic and apathetic as the Watchers. Doing nothing only watching. and occasionally speaking. For like them, I gave the knowledge of nuclear power and only watched as my help was rendered as harm.
