had come over the group of godlike beings—rulers of specific areas, or wanderers across multiple engagements. Countermeasure Role: Enables indefinite containment operations against adaptive, high-lethality entities (e.g., SCP-682 termination attempts, SCP-096 global pursuit; all members resurrected within 36 hours, pursuit resumed. Ongoing Operations: Tau-5 has participated in 200+ high-lethality engagements with 0 permanent losses. Limitations and Risks Stellar Dependency: Deployment windows limited to 4–6 hours every 28–32 days; misalignment risks catastrophic field inversion (potential CK-class reality restructure). Entity Hostility Escalation: Prolonged containment (>48 hours) provokes exponential aggression upon release; recommended for terminal threats only. Recovery Hazard: Collapse sequence vulnerable to interference; failed recovery may strand lattice in subspace. Contingency: Protocol IRI-KHEPRI authorizes full unit termination and cohort replacement if collective deviation exceeds 40%. All current members carry voluntary self-termination implants. O5-11 Note They die, and die again, yet return unchanged—almost. Samsara gives us breathing room—those things can't grab us through the quietest part of the U.E.C. For all