Class-D Personnel

Biodata

Recruitment and Classification

Class-D personnel are mostly recruited from death-row inmates worldwide. This is not an absolute requirement: Wang Lei explains that personnel shortages trigger a temporary recruitment protocol drawing from people whose crimes are relatively minor 2 9.

Zhou Ze’s file illustrates the uncertainty surrounding this process. According to the file, this world’s Zhou Ze killed a burglar who attacked his younger sister and signed an agreement to become Class-D before a verdict was delivered. Zhou Ze suspects irregularities but also questions whether the file accurately describes what happened 9.

• Administrative identity: Staff routinely address Class-D subjects by their numbers rather than their names 1 2 38.
• Institutional position: Although Zhou Ze describes himself as technically an employee, Wang Lei acknowledges that Class-D personnel have no freedom or dignity within the Facility 9.
• Transfers: Personnel can be transported between sites in armored vehicles and pooled to meet experimental staffing shortages 37 38.
• Leaving the classification: Lu Fei states that the only way to escape Class-D status is to prove one’s worth and ability and join the Facility in another capacity. He presents survival as the prerequisite, not release as a reward automatically earned through participation 16.

Experimental Duties

Class-D personnel serve as experimental subjects rather than laboratory technicians. Their nominal “volunteering” can involve being forced into containment chambers at gunpoint 1 2.

Documented Assignments

Selection and Psychological Assessment

• Psychological state can be an experimental variable. Dai Yong’an deliberately selects a mentally unstable Class-D participant for the Game Box experiment to provoke new developments 4.
• Counseling also supports research. Wang Lei counsels personnel and assesses their psychological condition; Dai Yong’an separately requests objective assessments of D-87465 from Lu Fei 9 11.
• Stable subjects are unusual. Wang Lei describes extreme fear and anxiety, or numbness and despair, as common among the Class-D personnel she has met 9.
• Assignments can require unusual resilience. D-87465’s clear thinking and emotional stability under pressure make him a preferred candidate for contact with SCP-239 15 17.

Living Conditions

Housing, Food, and Recreation

• Cells: Zhou Ze’s initial room is windowless and smaller than twenty square meters, with a hard bed, wooden table, plastic stool, and partitioned washroom 1.
• Meals: Food is ordinarily unremarkable, but meals before and after experimental work are more lavish. Zhou Ze calls these “last suppers,” noting that not everyone survives to eat the second 1.
• Yard time: At Site-17, ordinary Class-D personnel receive recreation access every other day in an enclosed, heavily monitored area 11.
• Exercise equipment: The yard contains fixed frames, pull-up bars, and sit-up benches, but no dumbbells or barbells that could be used as weapons 11.
• Inmate bullying: Guards generally ignore intimidation and minor conflicts unless they develop into actual fights 12.

Security and Discipline

• Armed supervision: Guards escort personnel through the Facility; Zhou Ze is also handcuffed when taken for interrogation 2 8.
• Execution threats: Lu Fei warns Class-D subjects that disobeying orders can result in immediate execution 2.
• Actual lethal enforcement: Three Class-D men are shot dead following a yard confrontation, despite Zhou Ze having struck first and the men not retaliating 13.
• Exposure during emergencies: During an anomalous corridor incident, a guard makes Zhou Ze scout ahead while keeping his own distance 22.
• Memory erasure: After Zhou Ze survives a containment breach, an authority orders combat personnel to administer Class-A Amnestics 6.

Regulations and Exceptions

Temporary Recruitment Protocol 7-B

Under Temporary Recruitment Protocol 7-B, Class-D personnel obtained through nonstandard channels should, in principle, not participate in high-risk experiments rated Dangerous or above. Dr. Gears confronts Dai Yong’an over violating this restriction twice in D-87465’s case 36.

Gears invokes the Ethics Committee’s role in balancing the Facility’s mission against limits on inhumane conduct. Dai Yong’an responds by proposing an Anomalous Interaction Experiment on the grounds that D-87465 may himself be a potential threat entity; Gears then requires a new application report 36.

Special Treatment of D-87465

Known Personnel

Appearance

• Standard clothing: Orange prison uniforms, also described as orange-red 2 31 37.
• Limited protection: Zhou Ze’s thin Class-D uniform is easily shredded by a giant hound’s claws 47.
• Recognizable classification: Other Facility personnel keep their distance when they see Zhou Ze’s orange uniform and armed escort 8.