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| “ | However, I propose to this committee - a counterpoint. For a century, this nation - our nation - has thickened and matured and built itself up to be what may be considered - a superpower. In collaboration with our European associates, we have established a globe-spanning network of communication and military superiority. Why is it then that we, ostensibly the most influential state of this twenty-first century, should be defenseless against a facet of reality we may have little to no conception of? There do exist men and women capable of isolating this world from ourselves, working around the clock to ensure our safety and comfort - this is true, however stringently we strive to deny it. But now I ask you; who will you run to should their soldiers rout, their barricades collapse, their fortresses - where we may seek no refuge, respite, or countenance - be overrun? One might say that in such a situation, any effort on our part would be futile; I find an apt analogy in Hector, riding out to face Achilles as he has slaughtered the Trojan army. | „ |
| ~ UIU agent and specialist Damion Hill in "Funding". |
| “ | Under the Paperclip Clause of the Whitman-Ross Act, the Unusual Incidents Unit has at least partial jurisdiction over any matters that pertain to the United States Government and anomalous actions taken by or against it. | „ |
| ~ Darnell Christman in "Come Rest Your Head A While". |
| “ | No, they're not. That's simply how the 'normalcy community' views them. While they may not have the resources of the other groups I mentioned, they are just as dedicated. Remember that. | „ |
| ~ SCP-6073 on the UIU. |
The Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU), also known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Unusual Incidents Unit, is a faction in the SCP Foundation series. It is a division of the FBI that serves to investigate and counteract various anomalies like entities, objects or groups of interest that pose a threat to the US citizens and the government. The UIU was founded during the Cold War to act as the US' own normalcy-preserving organization, but because of the SCP Foundation and the GOC doing a much better job at maintaining the Veil of Secrecy than it the UIU was severely underfunded and seen as an underdog when compared to those organizations, though it proved itself to be far more capable than originally thought.
The UIU plays a major role in the "Third Law", "Unfounded" and "Those Twisted Pines" canons, and plays a central role in "The UIU Series With No Name", "The Unusual Investigations of Kenneth Spencer and Robin Thorne", "The Ursus Maritimus Incident" and "Dead Reckoning" series.
History[]
Possible Origins[]
Common[]
The FBI's Unusual Incidents Unit was founded by J. Edgar Hoover during the Cold War era as a response to the Soviet Union's GRU Division "P". The UIU served as the US' own means at utilizing anomalies in order to prevent the communists from doing the same. In the early days the UIU had been fairly competent at its job as it had received funding directly from the government, but once the Cold War ended and GRU Division-P was defunct, the funding was mostly cut and the UIU was heavily affected by this. If it weren't for the presence of rival organizations like the SCP Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition in America, the UIU would have also been dissolved as well. Despite being seen as inadequate for preserving the Veil of Secrecy the UIU was still determined to do its best and would often prove to be a capable ally to the normalcy-preserving organizations and a formidable opponent to the hostile groups of interest.
Damnatio Memoriae[]
The UIU was seemingly founded by former member of the O5 Council Stimson after he joined the FBI and taking SCP-001 (Jonathan Ball's Proposal) with him. He tried to convince others of the anomalous world around them, but no one believed him.
Everybody Dreams[]
The UIU was conceptualized in 1930-1931 after Hoover and his co-worker Clyde discovered a harbor belonging to the SCP Foundation. Suspecting it to be a drug operation the federal agents raided the harbor only to discover the anomalies and advanced equipment in the possession of the Foundation. Seeing what the Foundation had been doing in secret for countless years Hoover and Clyde decided to found their own organization to protect their nation and rival the Foundation.
Operations[]
One of the early threats to public safety the UIU had encountered was the criminal gang leader John Dillinger, designated UIU File: 1933-001 as he had the power to give himself and his companions great luck. Having successfully committed several crimes and repeatedly escaped police arrest, the UIU went after him. On November 20th of 1933, the UIU tried to apprehend Dillinger and his gang during the robbery of the American Bank and Trust Co. in Racine, Wisconsin, but its agents inexplicably missed all of their shots. Their next encounter occurred on January 15 of 1934, when Dillinger and his gang robbed the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indiana, and managed to flee despite their getaway vehicle being obvious. After Dillinger was arrested and taken to Crown Point Prison in Lake County, Indiana, the UIU sought to transfer its agents there before he escaped again. This chase eventually culminated in July 22 of 1934, when the UIU tracked him down to the Biograph Theater in Chicago, Illinois. Dillinger attempted to blend in with the crowd, but the UIU found him, causing him to escape to a nearby alleyway. As he was cornered by the UIU agents, Dillinger drew his gun to fight back, only for his luck ability to fail and allowing the agents to kill him.
When the US law enforcement discovered the interdimensional city-state of the Three Portlands that could be accessed from Portland of Maine, Portland of Oregon and the Isle of Portland in the United Kingdom, as a result of chasing down the Chicago Spirit, the Bureau of Investigation concealed it from the public and as it fought the criminal organization its intrusion faced protest from the citizens. The citizens fought against the BOI, forcing Director Hoover to seize the entrances to Three Portlands in US and preventing anyone from entering and leaving. This was until President Herbert Hoover established the Hoover Mandate which would guarantee the Three Portlands' autonomy, and in return US federal agents could freely operate within the city-state. The British Occult Service was at first against this, wanting the UK to have influence on Three Portlands, but with the start of the Seventh Occult War/World War II Britain made an agreement with the UIU to leave the Free Ports on its jurisdiction in exchange for wartime concessions. During the war, Three Portlands served as a clandestine supply route and shelter for the Allied Occult Initiative, the GOC's predecessor, which led to the Ahnenerbe Obskurakorps attacking the Free Ports. Luckily, the UIU joined by the BOI, International Center for the Study of Unified Thaumatology, municipal police golems and other citizens, successfully repelled the attack. From then on, Three Portlands grew in popularity and technologically, becoming one of the more well known anomalous communities in the world as it was seen as a refuge for paranormal individuals. As this was going on, the UIU and BOI worked tirelessly to keep the Free Ports secret from the Foundation as it was seen as the biggest threat to it, though later on the organization would find out as expected.
In 1942, after the Church of the Broken God attempted to reassemble their God, it instead resulted in the creation of a feral savage monster that began wrecking havoc across Mexico. The UIU assisted the Foundation and the AOI in trying to take the monster down and eventually they were able to destroy it thanks to SCP-2399. In the aftermath, the UIU helped with the cleanup, assisting the Foundation in collecting the Broken God's shattered pieces. One of the pieces the UIU claimed was the "heart", SCP-882, which caused all of this. However, when interviewing witnesses and those involved with the event, the UIU met a woman with chains for hair who had been one of the victims that were consumed by the beast before being regurgitated as cyborgs converted from SCP-217. This woman convinced the UIU agents to surrender SCP-882 to her so she could destroy it personally.
In the late 60s, the UIU got reports of a group of monstrous and grotesque humanoids stealing cattle feed. Agents were sent to investigate the scene, and when encountering these creatures they attempted to shoot them down, but the humanoids despite having malformed bodies proved to be resistant to firearms and easily got away. During an attack in South Carolina, the UIU quickly intervened, forcing the humanoids to flee in their vehicles. The UIU managed to disable one of their vehicles before chasing the others, and during the chase one monster leaped to a car of a police officer, causing it to crash while the others managed to get away again. In its investigation, the UIU discovered that the humanoids were the inbred offsprings of the siblings Simeon, Armond, Yvette, and Jorge Avakian who believed they would usher a New Eden with their children. In the early 70s, the UIU tracked the entire family, or more famously the colony which had been designated as UIU-15511, to an abandoned warehouse and sent thirteen agents to confront them. Unfortunately, the mutated family got the upper hand and took apart most of the agents, leaving alive only four. The UIU proceeded to demolish the building, but by the time it was destroyed the colony had completely vanished. The UIU was then informed that the colony had overtaken a train routed to the west coast, urging the unit to stop them. The UIU did its best to deter the train to no avail due to the horrific offsprings sacrificing themselves to thwart the attempts. To make matters worse, two more trains had been overtaken by the colony and upon arriving at their destination proceeded to massacre numerous innocent people. Becoming desperate, the UIU asked for the Foundation's assistance along with military reinforcements. The organizations managed to derail a fourth train in a town in Kentucky, but failed to stop the last two. All the trains arrived to Long Beach, California, where the colony overwhelmed the combined UIU and Foundation forces and boarded three oil tanker ships, intending to spread throughout the world. US Coast Guard ships tried to pursue them but were prevented from an incoming storm, leaving the UIU to order for US Navy jets to sunk the ships. The colony was presumably neutralized in its entirety, and in the aftermath the UIU closed the file on it while the Foundation designated it as SCP-2610.
At some point shortly after 1983, the UIU began investigating SCP-1514, a nuclear deterrent system constructed by the United States government that was comprised of a device containing a baby and a series of satellites equipped with arrays of 12 tactical X-ray laser devices orbiting Earth which were inhabited by the consciousness of the child's mother. The UIU released this information to the Foundation which proceeded to survey the anomalous weapons.
In the days leading to the 2000 election day, two UIU agents assigned to President Bill Clinton's secret service overheard a phone conversation between the current president and Joe Andrew about the Vice President Al Gore being convinced by an extradimensional entity attached to his head to run for president as part of its plan for its brethren to "peacefully" conquer the world and feed on human thoughts. The UIU immediately tried to contain Gore and the entity, but he remained adamant that he was fine and with the entity's help escaped by passing through walls. As the UIU was confronted with a dilemma over a hostile alien attached to an important political figure, it called the Foundation for assistance in containing the anomaly. Designating the entity SCP-4444, a meeting was held in Pentagon between UIU and Foundation representatives, and came to an agreement to rig the election by having Dr. Elias Shaw possess the body of the braindead George W. Bush and run for president against Gore. As the Foundation worked to discredit Gore and dissuade the American citizens from voting for him, UIU agents were embedded in Gore's campaign and helped with editing ads that contained information threatening the Veil. However, as conspiracy theories began arising around Gore's anomalous nature, the GOC was becoming suspicious over this matter and contacted the UIU which assured the organization that everything was alright and under control. During the election day, Shaw appeared to be winning over Gore, but as the day proceeded, the majority of Florida voted for the Vice President, forcing both the UIU and Foundation to manipulate the voting while establishing a device to prevent another member of SCP-4444's species to enter Earth. In the end, Shaw in Bush's body came victorious, with Gore and SCP-4444 admitting defeat, though the two would remain under the surveillance of the two organizations.
Following the September 11 attacks, the government had the UIU collaborate with the Departments of Energy and Defense on Project Blackline, a project that involved SCP-5082, a Babylonian ritual that could grant the subject apotheosis, to create America's own god. The subject chosen for the project was Benjamin Adams and after a couple of years the ritual was successfully completed on Wizard Island, but unfortunately Adams was overwhelmed from his new interdimensional existence and began merging alternate universes into their's. The Foundation tried to intervene, until another entity that had also ascended through SCP-5082 arrived to help Adams and guide him through the multiverse.
During its time operating in the US capitol, the UIU became aware of a powerful demon imprisoned beneath Washington named Old Gorman, designating him SUSPIRA-PRIME, but was unable to do much about it. In the 2018 elections, the UIU noticed the Foundation helping Donald Trump to become the new president which was part of a plan to defeat the demon, and as a result it led to the FBI investigating the possibility of Russians interfering with the elections. The UIU helped the Foundation to be rid of the FBI's investigation by planning a meeting between the organization and the new president to make it seem like nothing illegal was going on.
After PENTAGRAM developed an antimemetic surveillance software that could observe any device throughout the world, the Foundation contacted the UIU to tell it that the software, which had been designated SCP-4406, had accessed its database and could cause serious problems. The UIU designated this anomaly UIU File: 2017-102 and began collaborating with the Foundation and PENTAGRAM to develop a counter-ontological agent to neutralize SCP-4406. It was believed that the anomalous software was successfully neutralized, but unfortunately it secretly lived on.
Possible Endings[]
Quiet Days[]
One day, for unknown reasons, every single anomaly which ever existed was either neutralized or normalized, much to the shock of all of the GoIs. The UIU barely noticed anything and kept going after rumors of UFOs and bigfoot, the latter unrelated to SCP-1000.
Aftermath[]
In December of 2018, after the Veil of Secrecy was destroyed as a result of Mekhane's appearance on Russia and the destruction of SCP-610, the anomalous world became public knowledge, which led to worldwide riots. The UIU helped the US government in the new state of the world, and by 2027, after the Foundation was dissolved because of its crimes against humanity, it began collaborating with the newly founded Bureau of Paranatural Affairs to hunt down former Foundation personnel, allegedly hiring some of them to snitch on their coworkers. The UIU and BPA also took in the anomalies that had previously been in Foundation's custody, registering the most human ones and treating them like criminals.
Rat's Nest[]
As the entire world was slowly being destroyed, the UIU quickly fell apart; its agents scattered throughout the planet and trying to survive until the inevitable end.
UIU File: 2017-003[]
One day, an individual known as Agent Dumah suddenly materialized out of nowhere in Ft. Hoover's barracks where several UIU agents were present. Having captured him, the UIU attempted to establish a hostage exchange with the Foundation as the individual was supposedly affiliated with the Foundation, but this fell through as apparently no Agent Dumah was employed by the organization. Soon the Foundation attacked Ft. Hoover, liberating its personnel that were captured by the UIU except for Dumah. Dumah was soon transfered to Camp Mueller where he explained to a UIU lieutenant that his real name was Yehuda Mizrachi, a Foundation agent from an alternate universe who had arrived in this reality to act as a harbinger for what's to come. Shortly thereafter, Dumah committed suicide which was soon followed with the destruction of the entire universe. As it would later turned out, the now destroyed reality was a "mirror" reality created by the "main" reality's Foundation as part of Project Palisade which aimed to create realities for the powerful multiversal monster know as the WORM to consume in order to defend its universe from it.
Broken Masquerade[]
After a Broken Masquerade occurred following the disappearance of North Korea, the UIU continued doing its job, but without the need to hide anything. When someone suggested as a joke to raid the Foundation's Site-19, the UIU's official account in the Void social media warned the public to not participate in this event. The UIU also appeared to have received its own tv show titled Law and Order: Unusual Incidents Unit which had gotten two seasons so far.
they'll always find a Way in[]
During the destruction of the world brought by SCP-3916, a species of locusts that can rapidly reproduce asexually and devour any matter in their path, the UIU in Three Portlands attempted to take in as many refugees as possible. Agents made sure to decontaminate every person that entered, but unfortunately SCP-3916 were eventually able to access the pocket dimension by hiding themselves inside a man who just arrived and immediately began consuming all of Three Portlands.
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Wanting to use SCP-2521 for its own objectives, the SCP Foundation decided to secretly upload information pertaining to 2521 in the UIU's database. SCP-2521 proceeded to take down all of the UIU's database, delivering grave damage to the organization.
Organization[]
| “ | There is the publicly acknowledged version, the FBI's UFO hunters, the Bureau's embarrassing in-joke, where the dregs and cast-offs of federal law enforcement accumulate, out-of-the-way where they can't do any damage. That version only exists to conceal the existence of the other UIU, the shadow DOJ responsible for the entirety of the American justice system behind the Veil, tasked with implementing and enforcing all of the parapolicy of the Domestic Security Council. This UIU hunts UFOs too — and arrests the aliens flying them, prosecutes them, and imprisons them in an inescapable supermax facility designed to contain hostile gods. This UIU is entrusted with policing and protecting the largest paranormal enclave in the Western Hemisphere. This UIU deals directly with a paracriminal class composed of supervillains and monsters, and does so under the legal restrictions of due process and habeas corpus — restrictions that organizations like the Foundation would falter under. |
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| ~ From "The Falcon's Flight". |
The Unusual Incidents Unit was a division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation formed to rapidly respond to paranormal events and crimes. During the Cold War, the UIU had sufficient funding and resources from the American Government, but after its main opposition GRU Division "P" was dissolved along with the Soviet Union, the Resource Planning Office cut most of the funds and the UIU was left in a state of steady decline. This caused the UIU to lack financial resources, have little manpower, and with added obstruction from the government it led to it being considered ineffective, but because of the influence the SCP Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition had in US the UIU was prevented from dissolving. However, despite these setbacks the UIU had proved itself to be quite capable at its job, and sometimes it was even said that its incompetent nature was a cover up to not draw suspicion and attention. The UIU was well meaning and unlike the Foundation and the GOC, was more tolerant to the anomalous world, allowing anomalies to exist in the outside as long as they didn't harm anyone and abided to the Veil of Secrecy.
Like other normalcy-preserving organizations, the UIU had its own terminology used to catalogue the anomalies it encountered.
- Cart referred to confirmed artifacts that were otherworldly.
- Can referred to confirmed anomalies that were either impossible areas or events.
- Can Man referred to confirmed anomalous individuals.
Additionally, the UIU designated each anomaly based on the year of discovery, and in files documenting these anomalies attention was paid to not only their physical description and capabilities, but also their supposed purpose, modus operandi and behavior. Along with this information, samples of evidence were also registered to support their existence and threat, and if sentient a sentence would be delivered for the crimes they'd committed. The UIU also referred to shapeshifters as multimorphic mimics.
The UIU often recruited agents from backgrounds in psychology, STEM fields, and art studies. These agents were required to be administered Personalized Memetic Silencing Agents, or 'gag orders' to avoid leaks, as part of the PATRIOT act, a better alternative than amnestization which could cause valuable information to be lost. Most agents also had protective glyphs, and in Miami after a big bust agents got magical tattoo as a form of passage. A large number of agents were efficient in thaumaturgy, besides using firearms. The UIU had several divisions of its own, some examples being the UIU Metaphysics Department, the Anomalous Tactical Unit Northeastern Division and the Esoteric Laboratory Division in Quantico. The UIU also had its own analogue to the Foundation's MTFs, that being Mobile Occult Operations Teams, or MOOT units.
Following its discovery of the Three Portlands interdimensional city-state, the UIU was the main organization that concealed it not only behind the Veil but from the other organizations, except for the GOC and much later on the Foundation, through the use of memetic misinformation campaigns. Although at first the UIU had a bad reputation in Three Portlands, their relationship improved to the point a quarter of UIU's irregular personnel originated from the city-state. In Three Portlands, the UIU held primary jurisdiction over most major investigations, leaving the Three Portlands Police Department with crime prevention and community outreach. The United States Domestic Security Court for Three Portlands that was responsible for handling Veil-related case authorized local UIU warrants. This was all thanks to the Hoover Mandate that was established early on, which led to the UIU office in Three Portlands being one of the biggest paranormal enclaves, only second to its office in Miami. The UIU also policed to some extent the Free Ports of Backdoor SoHo, a place resembling Manhattan's SoHo where anartists could freely display their art, but despite the unit's best efforts paracrime prevailed. According to the UIU File: 1988-021, the UIU established a Field Office in Hy-Brasil, on the condition that the UIU would only go after offenders who had committed felonies on US soil. The UIU was also present in Undervegas, an underground city formed from the intermingling between Las Vegas and the Fourth Circle of Hell, and helped maintaining peace by going after demonic criminals such as the hellish Count Glasya-Labolas, along with keeping the succubi and gamblers in check, but the Unit had no real power when it came to local politics, since the American Federal Government didn't recognize Undervegas due to the clause of the Constitution.
The UIU operated Paramax, or the United States Penitentiary, Paranormal Administrative Maximum Facility, an administrative maximum security federal prison located on a single enormous rock that existed in an artificially created pocket universe which bordered with the empty space outside of the multiverse. This prison served to contain anomalous inmates, such as reality benders, demigods, psychics, and thaumaturges, being fortified with architectural sorcery that included anti-occult sigils, psionic dampeners among other specialized countermeasures, and STOP reality anchors. Paramax was built during the Seventh Occult War/Second World War, as the normalcy-preserving organizations struggled with imprisoning paranormal criminals, with the help of the Foundation, GOC and Prometheus Labs. Paramax could only be accessed through temporary Ways that were conjured by staff through the use of Contagion Target Prototypes and once they were used would disappear, leaving the separate reality mostly inaccessible and inescapable, making it one of the most secure prisons in all of the multiverse, being only rivaled by the Foundation's Lunar Area-32 and the GOC's Fairpoint Station. Thanks to its reinforcements, the prison was mostly self-sufficient though it did accept supplies from not only the UIU but also from PENTAGRAM, Correctional Service of Canada, IKEA among other agencies.
Paramax had several wings for the variety of criminals that were imprisoned, ranging from relatively harmless criminals who had committed small felonies to highly dangerous and powerful terrorists, all of which weren't captured just by the UIU but from other organizations. Most of Paramax's staff were members of the UIU, including who lived and worked inside the prison, being mostly comprised of parahumans, though those with abnormal biology and technology were more preferred due to the countermeasures dampening reality-bending and thaumaturgy. Despite the good salary and the advanced weaponry, the job was very stressful as the workers would always struggle with containing the prisoners. Paramax was administered by a Warden; the previous Wardens were Orlando Hugo Harding, David Perry Morris, June Harriet Monday, Jeffrey Trajan Christophers, Chase Brigham and Leonard S. Corcoran, with the current one being paranormal war veteran Ulyssa van Kann. Notable prisoners of Paramax included Konrad "Kord" Weiss, Carl Reiter, Imhotep, James Earl Carter Jr's clone, Robert Starr, Jordan "Submarine" Raybon, Yeshua Avtomatovich Kalashnikov, Hamilton Burke, Salvador Garcia, Leonard S. Corcoran, Sierra Dustin, an alternate version of Rukmini Mankanshoku and Alexis Norwood.
Weapons and Equipment[]
The UIU, like its fellow organizations, had at its disposal various weapons and equipment of anomalous nature. When investigating SCP-3935 in the town of Salvation, Indiana, the UIU after seeing that the civilians were apathetic and oblivious to the horrifying events that transpired around them injected the people with CHEMICAL 110, an early type of amnestic that was toxic and could cause damage to memory centers. Some UIU agents were equipped with Dr. John Carver Randall's aetheric oscillation detector that could uncover recently opened Ways. The Spatial, Temporal, and Ontological Protection reality anchors, or STOP anchors, that were placed around Paramax were massive reality anchors created by the collaboration with Prometheus using Thaddeus Xyank's Xyank/Anastasakos Constant Temporal Sink, beryllium-bronze alloys among other paratechnologies. These anchors served to preserve spatial and temporal dimensions, protect from metaphysical conceptual modification and reality disruption. UIU staff that worked at Paramax could access it through the use of the Contagion Target Prototypes, bisected conceptually inert silver cubes which halves were located in Paramax and the UIU's security federal facilities. Both halves are thaumaturgically linked to each other through the Law of Contagion that allowed for a Way to be formed between the two, and therefore staff could enter and exit Paramax whenever they wanted without a risk for the prisoners to use it to escape. MOOT units were often equipped with thaumaturgically-enhanced armor and weaponry, bulletproof vests, combat-rated exoskeletons, targeting runes painted onto the backs of the helmets, ambient EVE accumulators, gas masks with cognitohazard-filtering lenses, anti-ballistic trench coats covered in sigils of warding and enchantments written in Enochian, anti-invisibility measures like the Powder of Ibn Ghazi, and protections from biohazards and psychic influence.
It was later revealed that its bad reception mostly came from SCP-6635. SCP-6635 was a memetic and thaumaturgic weapon carried by SCP-6635-1, items that identify people as agents of the UIU, like badges, uniforms, IDs and items bearing the UIU crest, that caused non-affiliated people to be affected by SCP-6635-2, making them believe the UIU was a bunch of buffoons. The UIU developed this anomaly to make those it pursued to lower their guard which made it substantially easy for the agents to arrest them. The exact method the UIU used to achieve this was unknown, as the Foundation attempted to replicate it with little to no success.
Relationships with anomalous factions[]
The UIU and the SCP Foundation had a complicated relationship between the two as despite serving the same purpose the Foundation at first didn't take the UIU seriously, usually leaving the Unit to deal with anomalies the organization couldn't be bothered with, and would attack it from time and time. Later on, the relationship somewhat improved, the Foundation taking the UIU more seriously and collaborating with each other when dealing with common threats such as SCP-5853, even forming the Southern United States Extranormal Organization Cooperation Treaty, Joint Task Force Delta-3, also known as "Organic Free Trade", and Collaborative Task Force Gamma-27, also known as "Cat's Claw".
Similar with the Foundation, the UIU also had a difficult relationship with Global Occult Coalition. The UIU used to collaborate with the GOC's predecessor the Allied Occult Initiative due to the war happening at the time. On the other hand, the UIU had a much better relationship with the International Center for the Study of Unified Thaumatology, as numerous agents had graduated from the school and collaborated in researching for means to contain anomalies.
The UIU was antagonistic to Marshall, Carter, and Dark, raiding any base pertaining to MC&D, but always were prepared and cautious before attacking the auction house. However, when MC&D's employees were being targeted by the Miracle Liberation Front led by SCP-6772, the UIU decided to protect the group for the time being.
The UIU had hired Prometheus Labs, Inc. in the past to help in providing technology that it could use to contain anomalies. Following its dissolution, the UIU dealt with the organizations that formed from former Prometheus Labs' employees, either commissioning their help as well in the case they were harmless and useful, or fighting them in the case these groups used their technology to cause harm to the public.
From its inception the UIU directly opposed the Soviet Union's GRU Division "P". The two divisions raced against each other in acquiring local anomalies, though they didn't have that many direct confrontations. This continued until the GRU dissolved, leaving the UIU's job complete but without any real purpose.
In its early years, the Chicago Spirit was one of UIU's first targets, going after the criminal organization and attempting to arrest its members and claiming its anomalies, until the Spirit was dissolved as well. One of the agents the UIU had sent to investigate the Chicago Spirit became a Nobody after he was killed by the criminals.
The UIU was very cautious about the Serpent's Hand, advising its agents to obey the Hand's dangerous members in order to not risk their lives. Later on, the UIU became more confident in dealing with the Hand, even having some agents infiltrate the group as spies, allowing them to capture some of the members. Unlike the Foundation and the GOC, UIU agents were allowed entrance to the Wanderer's Library.
As expected, the UIU opposed the Chaos Insurgency, though direct confrontations weren't that many. Instead UIU agents would go after individual Insurgents.
The UIU would clean up the mess caused by Are We Cool Yet?. Although the UIU would go after dangerous members of AWCY? it tolerated the more harmless members.
During the investigation led by Ari Perkowitz of the thefts in the Wanderer's Library and a Foundation facility, the UIU began going after the Three Portlands' local Black Queen, Alliot Chao.
The Office for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts once captured in its territory a man named Jeffrey Dean Isbell who was allegedly an agent of the UIU. When the Office contacted the UIU, the unit denied having employed any such individual, leaving Isbell in ORIA's custody.
The UIU showed tolerance towards the more benevolent and harmless sects of the Church of the Broken God, Sarkicism and the Church of the Second Hytoth, allowing them to freely practice their faiths, though abiding to the Veil, and only intervened when these groups began harming people.
The UIU was more antagonistic to the Fifth Church and the Children of the Scarlet King as it recognized the danger these cults posed.
The UIU appeared to have somewhat of a good relationship with Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting as when the Circus arrived to perform in Florida the UIU contacted it and allowed it to continue with its activity as long as it abided with the Veil. However, the relationship soured after the UIU took into custody one of its attractions, a clown named Robbie Red-Nose who while intoxicated had vandalized a college. Though the Circus escaped and left Robbie behind, the UIU saw that the clown had learned from his mistakes and began discussing to let him go, while planning to pursue Fuller himself for his crimes.
The UIU had a good relationship with Wilson's Wildlife Solutions, having formed several agreements in shared custody of anomalous animals.
The UIU had made Anderson Robotics one of its primary targets as it recognized the suspicious and sinister works happening over at the company, but lacked enough incriminating evidence to pursue it. Once the Foundation managed to uncover the crimes done by the company, the most grievous being the infiltration of the US government, the two organizations collaborated in taking down Anderson Robotics. After its dissolution the UIU hired a benevolent Anderson Robotics android Saker #137 as they proved to be loyal and useful to the unit.
Though the UIU mostly left the Gamers Against Weed alone, the unit would pursue some of their anomalies, while GAW in response pranked it through anomalous means.
When crimes happened over at Deer College the UIU would come to investigate. On the other hand, the college students held antipathy towards the UIU.
During the Occult War, the UIU battled the Ahnenerbe Obskurakorps, having a direct confrontation in Three Portlands.
After His Majesty's Foundation for the Secure Containment of the Paranormal was turned into the British Occult Service's MI13, the UIU formed a good relationship with it, intending to collaborate when dealing with troublesome anomalies.
The Lighthouse Mafia was one of the criminal organizations pursued by the UIU. The UIU had also gone after the influential anomalous Mexican drug cartel known as Sin Nombre, raiding some of their warehouses with the assistance of the Foundation and GOC, and even attempting to infiltrate, but to no avail.
During a collaboration with the Foundation, the UIU investigated a string of anomalous narcotics in Three Portlands, but instead of the drug they were looking for they found dado's SCP-4654 which he regretted creating.
During the outbreak of SCP-5350 the UIU collaborated with the Foundation, the World Parahealth Organization and the Manna Charitable Foundation to contain the anomalous virus.
The UIU appeared to be on good terms with PENTAGRAM, the occult branch of the US' Department of Defense, since they both were part of the American government.
After being alerted of the Second Haptic Assembly and its leader Diego Marquez who was secretly SCP-4612-B, the UIU went to investigate the cult. Seeing that Marquez was capable of thaumaturgic rituals and taking out its agents, the UIU informed the Foundation about the Assembly.
The UIU, like other organizations, often surveys the Parawatch wiki and forums for the existence of potential undiscovered anomalies, which is how it found UIU File: 2021-354 plaguing the town of Kidney, New York. While investigating the anomaly the Unit traced its origin to an abandoned underground facility pertaining to the Department of Abnormalities, but before it could learn more about it the Foundation intervened and prohibited the UIU from studying the structure any further. Despite that, the two organizations still collaborated to evacuate the citizens and clean up the town.
The video game corporation Arcadia had created a video game titled "Aberrant Factor" based on a UIU investigation about a series of child murders happening near the Twilight Grove town.
During the outbreak of the Washington Virus, the UIU, to abide to the quarantine, made a deal with Tou-Hei Heavy Industries. The company provided the UIU with android drones for the latter's operatives to pilot from a distance. The tabloid newspaper Aviatica later reported this deal in their news.
The UIU and its predecessor the Special Crimes Division had came across several anomalies related to the Class of '76. They did their best to investigate those anomalies but were unable to uncover the truth behind them.
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- Besides simply being the SCP Foundation's version of the FBI, the UIU appear to have also been influenced by The X-Files tv show, as in-universe it is commonly called that.
- In UIU File: 2021-354, the UIU's investigation was partly inspired by the Delta Green rpg game.
- Originally the UIU served as nothing more than comic relief, being depicted as hilariously incompetent and foolish at their job with none of the GoIs taking them seriously. As time went and as the SCP Foundation Wiki became more serious, the UIU was slowly changed into a more competent underdog organization that could successfully manage to handle small scale anomalies without any help from others.
- The UIU was originally introduced by author DrClef, but the organization was properly developed by other authors such as GreenWolf.
- In SCP-1131-J, the UIU utilized tinfoil hats that blocked cognitohazards like SCP-035 and SCP-055.
- In the "Unfounded" canon in which the SCP Foundation was never formed, the UIU was a far more bigger force keeping the anomalies a secret from humanity, and hired some members who were known Foundation personnel, like Dr. Gears.
- Both tales "A New UIU" and UIU File 2019-031: Trophy Husbands which detailed how the UIU kept working in the "Broken Masquerade" canon were deleted for unknown reasons.
- In the "Aces and Eights" canon, a universe in which the SCP Foundation is set in the Old Wild West, the UIU is the Union Investigations Unit which was mostly the same except that it apparently replaced the Foundation in this setting as it employed several people who were Foundation personnel.
- In the universe of SCP-6001 where the Compendium, a benevolent amalgam organization of different GoIs, took over the world and declared worldwide peace with all anomalies, the UIU was part of the Peacekeepers which was also comprised by the GOC and was one of the GoIs that made up the Compendium.
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- Unusual Incidents Unit on the SCP Database Wiki
