Farlow

Farlow was a foundation personnel who most recently served as the 36th Site Director. He has served in a multitude of Site Administration and Heads of Staff positions, including four bids as Site Director. Farlow spent two tenures as Director of Research and two tenures as IA/FE leader.

Farlow joined in April 2020 during Version 4. He grew his character, James Farlow, in the Research Department. He got as far as Hazardous Supervisory before being demoted. In June, Farlow was killed after collusion was revealed in an attempted coup against FE Commissioner Tony. Farlow rejoined Research the same day under the character Ryan Farlow. This character would prove to be more successful, reaching Research Administration status in August. When JoshJOkayguy resigned as Director of Research in October, Farlow became Director, a position he would hold for less than a month. His second stint as Director would also last a short while, becoming Director late January 2022 and resigning early February.

Farlow also has an extensive administrative background which started after becoming Personnel Director in October 2020. He would hold this position when the Sons of the Harpy coup overthrew Site Director Strelnikov, which thrust Farlow into the position of the 19th Site Director. The largest change came in mid-November when Farlow invalidated all Executive Orders before the term of Director Falcone. Farlow won re-election against Tony in the November 2020 Site Director election 70.6%–29.3%. In his second term, he converted the Personnel Director into the Site Defense General before leaving office in mid-December.

In 2021, Farlow continued his administrative work, winning the August 2021 Site Director election against Reptile 60.5%–39.5% and becoming the 23rd Site Director. He would put Reptile into the position of Personnel Director, who would assume the position of Site Director upon Farlow's resignation in late-August. Farlow would rise back into administrative work in April 2022 when he was made the 32nd Site Deputy Director under Gains. Farlow would be on the offensive side of The Great Fish War. He would continue his campaign by running and winning the April 2022 Site Director election, becoming the 32nd Site Director in his third bid. He would be re-elected for a second term in May 2022. This would be one of the more controversial terms of his career, overseeing the 2022 False Flag incident and the failed response alongside the removal of Mews as TCU Commander. His term would end in June 2022 after declining to re-run. Farlow would enter his final administrative term in September 2022, winning the September 2022 Site Director election against his former Site Deputy Director Ainsley 64.9%–35.1%. He would leave the Site on October 7 following the culmination of his term.

Early days
Farlow joined Site-09 on April 14, 2020. As most archives were destroyed in a software change on Site, there are very limited accounts of Farlow throughout Version 4.

James Farlow
It is unknown when Farlow joined Research, but it is known that on May 26, he was a Supervisory Assistant and a Senior Field Researcher in the Field Researcher branch under the character James Farlow. On May 31, Farlow was promoted from Hazardous Supervisory Assistant to the Hazardous Supervisory after then-Hazardous Supervisory Tony resigned due to Ethics Committee violations. However, on June 4, Site Director Joe Sievers demoted Farlow from his positions due to "so many problems".

During the month of June, Farlow conducted a test on SCP-1048-D alongside Joseph Sievers. The test involved placing a block of graphite in SCP-1048-D's containment chamber. After 10 minutes, the graphite block turned into a teddy bear. When attempting to retrieve the teddy bear, 1048-D became very protective. Farlow then arranged a trade, giving 1048-D drawing supplies. 1048-D obliged and traded the items, handing over the bear to the Research group.

On June 15, James Farlow was revealed to have taken part in planning a coup against FE Commissioner Tony. Joseph Sievers then permanently killed James Farlow.

Ryan Farlow
On June 15, Ryan Farlow joined Research. He quickly rose the ranks, becoming a Senior Hazardous Researcher in the Hazardous branch. On July 10, however, Farlow would transfer to the general research branch and become a Supervisory Assistant the next day. However, just five days afterwards, Farlow would resign to focus on his duties in MTF and Gamemaster.

He joined back soon, becoming the Hazardous Supervisory Assistant on July 25. Farlow would then be promoted to Research administration, becoming Research Overseer on August 20. However, on September 5, Farlow would be shunned from the division due to falsified reports of plagiarism. Farlow would, on the same day, be reinstated.

First stint as Director of Research
Farlow became Director of Research on October 6. His first action was expanding testing permissions to Researchers. He also lowered the Overseer slots to 2. Farlow also instated a new tryout class for Research; the Cross Test Specialist, with three positions; Cross Test Specialist Senior CTS, and Lead CTS. The position was allowed to perform cross tests without permission, and was restricted to Researcher+. He also brought back psychological evaluations for Sr. Researcher+ to be advised by Research Manager.

On October 24, Farlow became Personnel Director, resigning from Director of Research and promoting DasGravity to the position.

First term
On November 6, after a coup against Site Director Strelnikov, O5 Command relieved Strel from his position, and Farlow was made the 19th Site Director.

Farlow gathered his HoS to vote on a new Personnel Director, to which they chose FE Commissioner Indominus, and made Overdose FE Commissioner. In the days leading to Site Deputy Director Bard's trial, Farlow released a legislative order relinquishing Bard of his powers until after his trial. He also released Executive Order 36, stating from Fridays-Sundays that the office of any Site Administration member on site would be open to the public. They are unable to deny a meeting, and FE personnel shall strip those wanting a meeting.

On November 7, after the death of Bard, Farlow promoted Mane to Deputy Director.

Farlow released two executive orders on November 8. After IA and FE split, Farlow declared the IA Director and Deputy Director would be new HoS. The second executive order revoked Executive Order 34, an act extending the length of LOA to 3 weeks rather than 2 weeks. He also released another order the next day stating MTF Z-9 could move into D-Block if D-Class outnumber security during a Code White.

Farlow established biweekly meetings between HoS, EC, and Site Administration, with SA running the meetings. He also established that during a Code Black with no Site Administration on site, and Ethic Committee member on site could vote to detonate the Alpha Warheads.

On November 16, Farlow declared any executive orders from before the term of Director L. Falcone to be invalidated. Ethics Committee could evaluate and reestablish or rework any orders deemed necessary from the inactive orders. On November 17, Farlow passed a bill reforming the LOA policy. It changed days of LOAs and who could authorize certain LOAs.

November 2020 Site Director election

 * Further information: November 2020 Site Director election

Farlow was announced as the incumbent nomination on November 10. He chose to re-run with Deputy Director Mane. The election took place on November 21-22, Farlow's opponent being TonyTheTiger. They participated in a debate on November 18. On election day, Farlow won a handily 70% of the vote, starting his second term.

Second term
On November 22, Farlow passed two reform bills. The first reformed voting in Site Director elections, changing the minimum and maximum times for voting, placed time restrictions on when an election could begin and end, and the days in which it could happen. The second bill reformed the Personnel Director position, changing the name to the Site Defense General, and changing their work of focus to combat divisions instead of all divisions. He also declared that D-Class must be used to challenge SCP-076-2 ("Able") and Foundation members could not challenge Able themselves. He also revoked The Free Ranks Act.

On December 5, Farlow promoted Krust to FE Commissioner and put Overdose to FE Deputy Commissioner.

On December 6, the HoS voted to remove Site Defense General Indominus, to which the HoS voted to place SavingJo to the position. As Jo was Chief of Security, Farlow made Caboose Chief.

On December 13, Farlow announced he was not running for re-election. On December 18, Farlow's term ended after the election ended. Shortly after, Deputy Director Jacob Sievers put Farlow into a Supervisor position in Research.

August 2021 Site Director election

 * Further information: August 2021 Site Director election

On July 29, 2021, Farlow was selected as the HoS nominee for the August 2021 election. His running mate was Peek. Due to mutual agreement between the candidates, there was no debate to be held. On election day, Farlow beat SA nominee Reptile with 60% of the vote.

23rd Site Director
Farlow was inaugurated as the 23rd Site Director on August 7. On his first day, Farlow replaced two resigned HoS from MTF and Research, placing Apollo and Andrews into those positions respectively. Farlow also changed the order of negotiations and reformed the Personnel Director position by not locking the position to an election. He also made Reptile his Personnel Director. He also declared that the DoR may authorize Researchers to go onto surface and mine, with an MTF member accompanying them, and re-established the Honorary Units system.

On August 11, Farlow agreed to a change to have Reptile become his Deputy Director and Peek become the Personnel Director. He also removed Code Silver, putting GOI raids under Code Orange, and re-established Alpha-1 as a protection detail for Site Administration.

On August 15, Peek resigned from Personnel Director. Farlow chose Kam to replace him.

On August 26, Farlow resigned from Site Director due to draining mental health. He chose Reptile to take his position for the remainder of the term.

Second stint as Director of Research
Farlow started his second stint as Director of Research on January 24, 2022. He chose Randy Lupa as his Research Coordinator. As his first acts, Farlow abolished the promotion system Research had where a researcher would get a promotion only a week after their last. He also abolished the Research Advisory position and put in place two debriefs a week. Also, Farlow instituted the Freezer room as a general purpose building room.

After the Site Director election in February, Farlow and the DOR position were granted the complete jurisdiction over SCP-106 testing guidelines. They were also granted the ability to authorize torture primarily to D-Class. However, on February 7, just two days after the election, Farlow resigned from his position and promoted Randy Lupa to the DOR position.

IA Assistant Director
Farlow became Assistant Director on March 23, giving up his position as Raven Squad lead. During his short time in this position, Farlow held an activity check and took a short time lead when IA Director Nate when on a leave of abscense.

32nd Site Deputy Director
Farlow became the 32nd Site Deputy Director under Gains on April 3, 2022 after the resignation of Buzz Aldrin, resigning from his IA Assistant Director position. As Deputy Director, he oversaw the lowering of SCP-458's testing clearance from Level 4 to Level 1, due to it being "fucking stupid".

The Great Fish War

 * More information: Suicide of Jerry the Fish

The suicide of Jerry the Fish took place on April 7, and while deemed a suicide by Internal Affairs' Raven Squad, Farlow accused Director Gains of shooting and killing Jerry. Farlow started the Farlow Republican Army (FRA) and coordinated his forces to O-Wing on April 8. On April 8, fighting with Gains' forces and the withdrawal of Alpha-1, Farlow and Gains signed a treaty which allowed Raven Squad to conduct an investigation into the alleged killing.

First term
Farlow was elected on April 10, 2022 with running mate Ainsley. In his first actions as Site Director, Farlow revoked Executive Order #88. He also had Code Black sims permitted by the O5 Command. He also started up a new plan with Deputy Director Ainsley to release a document of all accomplishments after each Site Debrief, however none of these documents were ever released. On April 18, Farlow re-instated Executive Order #88, and reformed Executive Order #81 regarding to petitions.

Farlow passed Executive Order #89, an order extending the nuke detonation time to 25 minutes. He also filled in the Chief of Security position after Data resigned; he chose Caboose.

May 2022 Site Director election

 * More information: May 2022 Site Director election

On April 27, Farlow announced he would run for a second term. A day later, Farlow changed the constitution to allow Site Directors to run for as many consecutive terms as they want. On May 1, Farlow announced that Panda would become his running mate. The HoS nominated Fish and Overdose for their Site Director and Site Deputy Director candidates respectively. They participated in a debate on May 9. On May 10, Farlow won the election in a landslide, starting his second term.

Second term
Farlow started his second term on May 10. He began acting towards dampening infiltrators, and permitted TCU to check the ID's of anyone entering HCZ. He also directed IA to conduct more random ID checks. After the 2022 False Flag incident, Farlow passed Executive Order #90, directing IA to perform mass ID checks every hour between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

On May 17, Farlow and the HoS voted TCU Commander Mews out of his position and replaced him with Critz. He also filled in the MTF Commander position with Jinge Jhon after the resignation of Frank Castle.

On May 23, Farlow passed Executive Order #91, permitting IA to coordinate private trials and revised the rules for holding a trial. The same day, Farlow announced he was not running for re-election, announcing CalifornianKing and Nate as his Director and Deputy Director nominees respectively. On May 26, Farlow made Brunswick his second Deputy Director to help out in his closing days as Site Director. He also revised two executive orders and, after the May 2022 protests, banned protests in the site, deeming them dangerous.

June 2022 election scandal

 * More information: Farlow–HoS scandal

During the June 2022 Site Director election, during a meeting with the HoS, Farlow was apart of the conversation suggesting that the HoS could choose a bad candidate to nominate to ensure a King victory. Farlow suggested IA Director Nate could vote for the worst candidate. After this, Brunswick allegedly released the classified meeting transcripts. Farlow cancelled the trial scheduled for Director of Research Hathfield and IA Director Nate. After this entire incident, Farlow passed an Executive Order making corruption illegal.

Relationship with GOC
On April 30, Farlow signed a peace treaty with the new Global Occult Coalition, and allowed Foundation members to go on surface for exploration. On May 5, Farlow announced that the Foundation and GOC agreed to a treaty. The treaty allowed GOC to assist in Code Blacks if requested by a dHoS+ and assist in high-profile research tests. During his celebratory debrief after the May 2022 election win, the GOC assassinated Farlow, though he was able to be revived.

Internal Affairs
After his term as Site Director was over, an internal vote in the Internal Affairs was held to decide the new IA Director after Nate's resignation. The vote turned out tied, and both candidates, the other being Green, dueled in a 1v1, where Farlow lost 1–2.

Farlow became Assistant Director after losing the 1v1. As Assistant Director, Farlow added Supervisory Agent and Probationary Agent as a JNCO and entry level rank respectively. He also added new armor charging stations to the IA bunks, and added 'Misuse of SCP-294' as a crime on the Penal Code.

12th IA Director
IA Director Green resigned on June 20, 2022, stating he was leaving overseas, and promoted Farlow to the position of IA Director. His first action as IA Director was to order new outfits for IA, and add a strike system into IA. He also began to strengthen relationship with the Department of Security, attending their squad assignments. However, this decision was overturned by Site Director King.

Farlow alongside Reptile, Autumn and CalifornianKing, oversaw the transition from IA to FE.

OOC information
Farlow was the first Server Director of BackroomsRP