BY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL

The following file describes an anomalous weapon of mass destruction and is Level 4/8103 Classified

Unauthorized access is forbidden.

8103

Item#: 8103

Containment Class: argus

Secondary Class: thaumiel

Disruption Class: amida

Risk Class: danger

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-8103 is currently not contained by the Foundation and is instead primarily housed within GOC Facility FR-23. The Foundation has appointed a diplomatic consultant team to negotiate directly with the GOC on behalf of the Foundation and other uninformed space agencies.1

In the event that SCP-8103 is fired, all extra-planetary operations within the hemisphere of the beam's epicenter must be cleared due to resultant gravitational and electromagnetic interference. Reactionary Task Force Nu-9 ("They Do It For Free")2 is to respond to the radiological, climatological, and gravitational fallouts caused by the use of SCP-8103. All atmospheric hazards associated with the weapon's use are to be attributed to non-anomalous natural disasters.

The Global Occult Coalition has assured the Overseer Council that SCP-8103 will not be utilized unless confronted with an otherwise unavoidable Apollyon-class anomalous threat. Additionally, they have guaranteed the Foundation that the device can only target objects beyond the Kármán line3. However, given the history of the Coalition's overzealous nature and the Foundation's explicitly denied access to SCP-8103's targeting and operational specifications, these claims are considered dubious.

Description: SCP-8103 is a GOC-controlled Eigenweapon composed of multiple tower arrays interlinked with a gravity manipulation device housed within the Earth's crust. The device is believed to incorporate elements of a reverse-engineered Darius-Semiz singularity drive conceptualized by Prometheus Labs in 1995.

The device generates and amplifies rapidly oscillating gravitational forces through a series of electromagnetic refractory pulses within the Earth's magnetic field and the corresponding surface tower arrays. This shifting gravitational force is then released outward from the base of the thermosphere through an unknown process, simply referred to as the 'Gungnir Targeting System' by the GOC's PTOLEMY Division.

The process by which SCP-8103 produces its gravitational force is derived from the inverse generation of anti-gravity force originally developed by ████ ████████ in 1897. In terms related to Newton's law of universal gravitation, anti-gravity nullifies the gravitational constant, G, to ██████ ████ ██████ ██, resulting in ████████ ████████.4

SCP-8103's ability to amplify localized gravitational fields is a subject of debate among Foundation researchers. Several theses for the process by which SCP-8103 could 'break' the law of universal gravitation have been developed in attempts to explain the anomaly's extremely high levels of gravitational force output. The three most prominent hypotheses are:

The device superficially overlays the Earth's mass onto several possible alternate reality versions of itself, which in turn nullifies the distance between the masses of two or more objects.

The device synthetically reduces the Earth's mass and gravitational parameter (μ = GM) to zero, then channels the temporally displaced energy into a single point inside the atmosphere.

The device harvests and stores gravitational force from realities with drastically different laws of physics or higher Hume values.

Moreover, none of these theories account for SCP-8103's ability to be targeted effectively, its ability to maintain oscillations once fired, or the intense fallout observed from its use.

Discovery: On ██/██/20██, the following message was sent to all GOC personnel working as part of the Taskforce for Interstellar Threats5 through all relevant channels on their internal database and was later recovered by undercover agents from Mobile Task Force Delta-5 ("Front Runners").

From The Desk of the Under-Secretary General

The SCP Foundation no longer rules the stars unchallenged. We have tolerated their monopoly on extra-terrestrial supremacy for far too long. Their harboring and hoarding of alien artifacts under the pretext of containment for protection will be cast out as a new era of defense through overwhelming offense takes hold.

We will soon be firing our recently completed Fenris Defense Cannon at an encroaching alien parathreat. The weapon has been set to the minimum power deemed necessary for this threat. Our Gungnir Targeting System will place the weapon's gravitational discharge origin at 3°18′57.6″N, 95°51′14.4″E. All interplanetary objects, whether satellites or manned spacecraft, within a 2000-kilometre radius of the blast's epicenter will be lost. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

We are the safeguard for humanity. We will defend our Home from all foreign threats.

Humanitas Invicta.

Image captured by a Foundation probe prior to SCP-8103's firing.

Foundation satellite probes actively monitoring SCP-████'s approach, stationed in orbit near the provided coordinates, detected a significant drop in barometric pressure, resulting in the near-immediate formation of a tropical cyclone. Along the low-pressure eyewall of the storm, the probes observed high amounts of ionizing radiation.

Fourteen minutes after the storm's formation, SCP-8103 was fired. The gravitational discharge was observed fluctuating between 0 and 300,000 Gs at an interval of approximately 1000 nanoseconds. The resulting 'gravity projectile' neutralized everything above the firing zone. No traces of SCP-████, the unmanned Foundation probes, or commercial satellites near the blast could be located following the incident. Higher-than-normal amounts of small space debris, less than 10 cm in diameter, were noticed in the area by search teams attempting to locate the anomaly.

Site-38, the largest Foundation facility within the weapon's recoil radius, detected transient electromagnetic disturbances that resulted in several minor atmospheric EMPs throughout Southern Asia seconds after the weapon was used. The resulting voltage surges damaged the site’s primary power system, and other major metropolitan areas in the region also lost power.

Despite the expulsion of the blast outwards, the meteorological events within the atmosphere underwent rapid intensification immediately after the event. Several major earthquakes formed directly beneath the source of the blast as the radiation began to dissipate rapidly by unknown means. All available Foundation assets in Asia and Oceania were tasked with relief and aid operations following the resulting compounding disasters. While in the affected regions, the teams observed notable increases in anomalous gravitational shifts within the otherwise non-anomalous storms.

Due to the catastrophic nature of the event, the Overseer Council demanded an immediate GOC response. The Under-Secretary General, during an emergency committee hearing, claimed that the device was legal with respect to all current agreements and treaties regarding the development and use Eigenweapons. However, the level of inter-atmospheric destruction caused by the weapon's 'recoil' was completely unknown prior to its use.

"This was an applied weapons test of the Fenris Cannon, which, I must remind the rest of the delegates, was a complete success. The workers at PTOLEMY's Engineering and Manufacturing divisions had no way of knowing the device's untested capabilities, especially regarding the aftermath of its use."

— Under-Secretary General D.C Al Fine's explanation post-incident

The United Nations accepted partial responsibility for the event and, along with The Foundation, helped rebuild the affected area in the months that followed.

The Foundation has agreed to take no aggressive action against SCP-8103 or the GOC. As such, SCP-8103 is now considered a Thaumiel-class asset.

Footnotes

1. Argus: Item's containment is under the purview of a third party.

2. A Task Force specializing in covert cleanup operations

3. The Kármán line rests 100 kilometres above the Earth's surface. It represents the border between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space proper.

4. All additional information on anti-gravity technologies and ████████'s work have been classified level 5. Individuals caught accessing explicit documentation without proper authorization will be subjected to severe administrative action.

5. GOC division tasked to combat anomalies of extraterrestrial origin