I think my main issue with this is that I don't really believe any of the phenomenon.
Notably:
Without additional training within the second month, subjects will invariably be subjected to a '███ event,’ in which [DATA EXPUNGED] which results in the deaths of all bystanders and the total destruction of all nearby property in a 50 meter radius.
Why the heck does the 50-meter destruction thing need to happen? Danger is a cheap thrill, and the expungment is a huge cop-out… does the subject explode in a fluorescent cloud of psychic Pokemon body parts? There's only so much you can expect the reader to fill in, especially without context. How would the Foundation know that they had to train these people anyway? All the information about the progression seems like it'd be impossible to obtain if the Foundation can't detect the subjects affected early on. How would anyone detect the subjects affected in the beginning stages?
- The whole "worldwide scale no observable pattern" would probably make this Keter.
- Mental health issues tend to be rather under-reported. I don't really believe that the Foundation would have been able to find out about the precise progression of this condition if they didn't even know the thing existed to begin with, let alone if there was a pattern that would let them predict who would be affected next.
- The entire PSY chart seems like something out of a video game. Plus, I really don't believe the numbers given in the chart. It seems like way, way too much cover-up would be needed if enough of these cases went [DATA EXPUNGED] over a 50 km circle.
Keep in mind that as the author, you know the entire story, but the Foundation needs to have discovered what it knows about the SCP through observation and experimentation. How would someone with no prior knowledge whatsoever of the object, using only experimentation and observation, come to all the conclusions presented in the article? Would anyone bother experimenting over and over to obtain so much empirical evidence?
I couldn't really enjoy the article because pretty much everything seemed way too convenient. There was no development of procedures, no beginning investigation, no progression. It was just straight-up feeding of information that became overwhelming. Why are 9 PSY levels needed? Why are PSY levels needed at all? To a naive reader who has no immediate interest in the draft, it just felt like too much information.
