About the Sonderkommando for the Paranormal / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page About the Sonderkommando for the Paranormal.

Dr_Grom 31 Jan 2017 08:16

Original: http://scp-wiki-de.wikidot.com/ueber-das-skp written and translated by Dr_Grom

If anybody knows a word starting with "k" instead of "comprehend" and "catalog", that would be great.

RJB_R 21 Jul 2017 21:59

This portrayal of a man in the high castle type scenario really doesn't work for me here. It honestly just feels lazy. It's almost a direct description of the SCP Foundation operates with a Reich skin stretched over it. Seeing a mashup of the Nazi Iron Cross and the SCP logo makes me cringe.

This really fails to make good use of controversial historical material. The almost direct port of the Administrator speech speaking about 'humanity' just makes me think of how the Nazi regime defined humanity. But since this theme and idea isn't really extrapolated throughout the rest of the piece it almost feels like the nasty parts of history are just being swept under the rug.

When writing about the worst criminal government in human history it's important to give a full acknowledgement of the horror inherit to all aspects of its existence. There was no part of its organization which didn't contribute to the crimes against humanity in some way and it's important for media to show that in some fashion. The recent vogue of Nazi zombies and using them as stock villains somewhat undermines the intense evil they represent in our history.

I'm not against Nazi fiction existing, not writing about it at all would be an even bigger mistake than some people unintentionally trivializing or minimalizing their genocidal activities. I think if this were fleshed out to show the kind of world the Nazis have created, much like the man in the high castle book/show, this would be much improved.

In its current state, it's honestly too bland to really offend anybody. By that I mean while it doesn't really give a glimpse into how a Nazi Foundation would operate, other than by describing simplistic Foundation procedures. It doesn't really read like it's excusing or minimalizing anything because it hardly reads like a Nazi organization at all. Change a few words and you could reframe this material to be about anything.

The CSS theme looks pretty bad on mobile as well, all the letters are bunched up and the logo is tiny.

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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

Dr_Grom 22 Jul 2017 07:03

I don't know the man in the high castle…

This page is probably not suitable for describing the SKP. The portal would be better, as this is just another in-universe document. I'm currently writing the background for the SKP, feel free to read it with google translate and to give feedback (but please in simple English, I'm having a hard time understanding what you wrote there). Finished sections are usually done. As many DE-users now start writing SKP-material, finishing the background has a higher priority than translating and updating the hub unfortunatelly.

In short, the SKP-verse originally was just a what-if version of the SCP-verse. Though now more than that it is a mirror-universe to the SCP-universe, which means most things - persons and anomalies included - exist in both universes, just in totally different situations. They originate from the same universe that got split in two, with different outcomes of events. Though this connection in the past causes the similarities. The SCP-Foundation and the SKP know of each other, especially after the SKP tried to invade the SCP-reality in SCP-028-DE (which is really long, that's why it is not yet translated).

This document is an in-universe version of the "About the Foundation" document which is also written in a in-universe perspective. It is not meant to fully describe the SKP-verse to the reader but to an employee of the SKP. That is what the Hub and the mentioned background are for. If you think something should be added there, feel free to give feedback (again in simple English please).

I'll look into the mobile theme.