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| “ | The SAMSARA troopers were extremely effective in an extremely hazardous operation, leveraging a high degree of individual competence and combat experience with a consistent level of personal bravery and risk tolerance impossible in normal troops. They took no unnecessary risks, and accomplished all mission objectives without unnecessarily endangering human life or the Foundation’s interests. Conventional military practice is to consider a unit destroyed after suffering 30% casualties, yet the SAMSARA troopers completed the mission with half the squad disabled. They will be combat operational again in only a few weeks with unit cohesiveness, training, and experience intact and no need to rebuild the unit with replacement soldiers. | „ |
| ~ Captain Sarah Hughes in "Operation AZURE PEREGRINE". |
| “ | We are much alike, you and I, I live, I die, I live again, Our essence is information, We are not only our copies, We are unbound by our bodies. I live, I die, I live again, I live, I learn, I change, I grow, We are not only our copies, Are you now the same as you were? I live, I learn, I change, I grow, Do you hunt in words as before, Are you now the same as you were, Is it only the words that changed? Do you hunt in words as before, We are not only our copies, Is it only the words that changed? We are much alike, you and I. |
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| ~ Spc. Nanku in "SCP-2673 Containment Maintenance Log". |
Mobile Task Force Tau-5, codenamed "Samsara", is a protagonistic group in the SCP Foundation series. It is an unique mobile task force serving the Foundation, as the task force is comprised of four cyborgs made from cloned bodies derived from the flesh of a dead god, armed with esoteric and experimental weaponry, and trained to investigate and contain thaumaturgic, and psionic threats. The task force can respond to lethal situations that would otherwise result in a loss of personnel, since their minds can be recovered in the event of their current body's destruction.
They are the main protagonists in the "Apotheosis" series set within the "Third Law" canon, but are more known for their appearance in SCP-1730. They were originally an entry for the 2014's "Mobile Task Force Contest!" which won 3rd place.
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The Mobile Task Force Tau-5 was a special operations task force in the size of a platoon and was designed for extremely hazardous missions and field-testing paratechnology. The MTF was centered around Irantu, Nanku, Munru and Onru, program troopers who were constructed by Prometheus Labs with biological shells made from the cells of the Lord of Endowments and operated by mind-scanned personalities derived from the four deceased special operators. Thanks to the cloning machinery, the Samsara squad was able to replace casualties in a few weeks by creating a new clone and downloading in the brains their most current scan. They were seen as a highly valuable asset to the Foundation thanks to their supernaturally durable bodies, their paratech implants, weapons, and gear.
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- The word Samsara is a concept in most Indian religions about the cycle of death and rebirth. Captain Sara Hughes was named after Stanley S. Hughes. The Samsara Squad's names are derived from the first four numbers in the Tamil language.
- In "GRANT REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATING THE APPLICATION OF CERTAIN RESEARCH ASSETS IN OVERCOMING INHERENT LIMITATIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY" prior to the attack of the Lord's cult, Prometheus Labs intended to sell Tau-5's machinery to other organizations such as the Global Occult Coalition so they could use it to produce their own supersoldiers.
- It is possible that Prometheus Labs' Project Samsara had also led to the company creating SCP-1637, a Prometheus Labs' factory in the Sahara Desert that was able to produce various cloned human cyborgs which would have been used in times of war.
- MTF Tau-5 is one of the few Mobile Task Forces thus far to have a page tag for articles featuring them, the others being MTFs Theta-90 and Alpha-9.
- SCP-2099 had somehow gotten hold of Tau-5's components, and although it seemed he sought to form a body for himself he never used them.
- Irantu and Nanku once played a game of SCP-3301, which had taken the appearance of SCP-3000's habitat, alongside some members from MTFs Omega-12, Gamma-13, and Alpha-9.
- According to SCP-4470, MTF Alpha-1 also clones their bodies after sustaining life-threatening injuries but instead of transfering their consciousness they transplant their brains into the new bodies.
- In "All in All You're Just A 'Nother Brick in the Wall" which is set in the "Seas of Orcadia" canon, MTF Tau-5 was one of several MTFs used by the Foundation during OPERATION: HIGH TADE.
- On the 29th test of SCP-3636, a modified jukebox which contains every song known to exist and when playing a song it will display on its added touchscreen a live scene from somewhere in the world matching the song, the Foundation selected the song Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk. As the song played on SCP-3636 the screen displayed the creation process of Tau-5's new bodies and upon waking up they were confused at what had happened. It was later revealed that the previous bodies had mysteriously ceased function, implying that 3636 somehow killed in order to have a matching scene for the chosen song.
- MTF Tau-5 along with Nu-7 and an unknow MTF were somehow involved with the Special Containment Procedures of SCP-4785, a mysterious contagious disease which targets the brain and was previously designated as SCP-001.
- As part of Researcher Talloran's eternal torture, SCP-3999 used several agents from various MTFs, including Tau-5, to execute each member of Talloran's family.
- In SCP-4248 which described an alternate universe in which the Egyptian god Thoth began attacking humanity and taking over the religion of Christianity Tau-5 and Nu-7 were sent by the Foundation to neutralize instances of an undisclosed anomaly, possibly SCP-3095-1, in order to mitigate the threat.
- In "New Technical Issues", Dr. Beiderman complained to Researcher Rosen that a member of Tau-5 became sexually driven and began hitting on a female junior researcher. Rosen responded by turning off the MTF's emotion protocols, but also blamed Beiderman's fellow personnel for having a bad influence on the simpleminded cyborgs.
External Links[]
- Mobile Task Force Tau-5 on the SCPOneCanonProject Wiki
- Mobile Task Force Tau-5 on the SCP Database Wiki
