Situation Report: Operation Patriarch
Operation Patriarch
Compiled by Whitestrake for immediate dissemination to all Tau-44 operatives.
[SEC=LEVEL 2] MOBILE TASK FORCE OPERATIVES WITH LEVEL 4 SECURITY CLEARANCE MAY REQUEST UNREDACTED INFORMATION DIRECT FROM O4 COUNCIL.
Situation
The Mediterranean Regional Director, with approval from the O4 Council, has requisitioned Mobile Task Force support for urgent investigations into alarming recent developments in the Achipelago of Belears. A man calling himself Albion of Abramia gained control of the entire archipelago, coming into power in Isla Abramia before conquering the three other small sovereign nations in the region.
Foundation Intelligence indicates that this should have proven impossible given the limitations on the forces and capabilities at his disposal. Furthermore, the existence of of several anomalous sites (refer SCP-███) nominally calls for the islands to be kept in conflict; with one man in control of the entire archipelago, the Regional Director has raised concerns that this anomaly may no longer be considered safe until we understand it better or return the islands to a state of war.
Further, the Regional Director had engaged agents to infiltrate the new government and determine the cause of Albion of Abramia's meteoric rise to power - it is their belief that the dictator is secretly in possession of the power of clairvoyance, which he can use in coverage of the entirety of the archipelago, at least.
Foundation Intelligence understands that Albion of Abramia has, as of now, seized complete control of the local militaries of all four major islands and has expended significant amounts of all four nations' wealth to import beyond-modern equipment to outfit a regiment of mercenary-trained 'elite guard'.
Mobile Task Force Tau-44 "Phalanx" will deploy to the Archipelago of Belears and commence operations to investigate SCP-███, test and determine the veracity of reports of Albion of Abramia's clairvoyant abilities, and find a way to render safe the anomalous sites - by plunging the islands into war once more, destroying the anomaly, or however else the Mobile Task Force sees fit.
Background
Since the 1500s, across the Archipelago of Balears - located some 240km north-east of Algiers - four individual nations have maintained a tense, conflict-marred independence from each other: Regero, Fapovo, Panthera, and Isla Abramia.
Early in the Foundation's history, SCP-███ was identified as a series of four ancient temples, spread across the four major islands. In the early 1900s, Task Force Gimel was formed with two goals in mind: stoke the dying embers of nationalistic enmity between the four islands to ensure that nobody else could focus on uncovering the secrets of the temples, and