From a narrative point of view, it’s much more interesting to read about containment than destruction. A lot of the skips could just be tossed into an incinerator, and that wouldn’t be fun to read about. Plus, it lends itself to exploration of ideas coincidental to the actual item in question, whereas destruction would 100% have to be concentrated around whatever item needs to be decommissioned.
In universe, it’s the safe approach. Most things are unexplainable, the mechanisms behind them unknowable. But, their behaviour is observable, and so containable. The Foundation has a good couple of hostile deities contained, so the approach does work.
I don’t remember the number, but there’s a skip that was a chair that could teleport. The GOC put it through a wood chipper, and the splinters began to teleport into people’s lungs… Containment ftw in this case.
psst, the word “chair” in the OP is a link
pssst, it Slipped the Containment of my Perception…?
They can’t really destroy the dangerous stuff, so the stuff they do end up terminating is either benign or mostly harmless. Thus, they’re just formenting fear and mistrust amoungst the greater anomalous world.
Fuck the Book Burners! All hail The Hand!
It is sound and fury, a puppet show, signifying nothing. Since they can’t really destroy any of the dangerous stuff.
