Beware a mother with nothing to lose wanting to provide only the best for her child.

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-6629 are to be contained at Site-74 in “XL” containment lockers housing no more than two units each. SCP-6629-A is to be kept in an electronically-timed safe in Director Hammond’s office. Personnel are forbidden from accessing either object outside of testing.

Addendum_6629-01: As of 08/15/2024, inquiries to the Ethics Committee or the Decommissioning Department on the pursuit of the total cessation of SCP-6629’s production have been paused. Until a conclusive O5 vote is reached, all information regarding SCP-6629’s origins have been restricted to personnel with level 4 clearance and above. Those aware as of the date of this addenda without clearance are to be amnesticized to prevent a loss of efficiency in their duties.

Addendum_6629-02: Fast-tracked funding initiatives for the creation of programs intent on splintering members of GoI-0121 into MTF Sigma-66 (“Sixteen Tons”) and MTF Mu-3 (“Highest Bidders”) are currently awaiting approval.

Description: SCP-6629 refers to the collective designation of 205 known instances of black, humanoid-shaped automatons and the singular device used to power them, SCP-6629-A. Each SCP-6629 instance is composed entirely of standard commercial-grade porcelain and contains a single spherical crystal (SCP-6629-1) that levitates within the chest cavity. SCP-6629-A is a silver box with a singular golden button on its face that contains a closed circuit inside of it.

All SCP-6629-1 instances possess a randomized number of microscopic typographical characters corresponding to the Latin script carved on their surfaces. Analysis of these characters has not yet revealed a connection to any known cipher, work of literature, or pataphysical algorithm. Due to this, it is theorized that SCP-6629-1’s markings may have been created using techniques which harness anomalously pure randomness. See Addendum_6629-Δ.

The function of SCP-6629-1 is to power each of SCP-6629’s mechanisms via SCP-6629-A. When powered on, all SCP-6629 instances within a 50m radius will animate and attempt to locate the user. If an SCP-6629 instance cannot find an unblocked path towards the user, it will deactivate after half an hour of attempts.

However, in the presence of a visible user, SCP-6629 entities will not deactivate until they have been given a task or command and then fulfills the request to the user’s unspoken standards of what such a service entails. There is no way to force SCP-6629’s inanimation in this state outside of removing SCP-6629-1 from itself.

The capacity for physical tasks which can be performed by SCP-6629 match exactly that of which can be executed by the average baseline parameters of consensus humanity. The processing power it possesses for mathematical tasks falls within the perfect center of a Gaussian distribution based on data collected from globally balanced samples persons living within the United States of America. Asking SCP-6629 to fulfill a task which would normally harm or put strain on a human being will result in similar “injuries” displayed on its body—these include, but are not limited to: cracks in key joints, weakness of automotive limbs, and the complete and total loss of animation, analogous to “death”.

As of 06/02/2024, 121 of the collected 205 entities have entered a “death” state.

LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE REQUIRED

CLEARANCE ACCEPTED

Discovery: SCP-6629 and -A were recovered on three separate occasions during raids of what were believed to be residences belonging to PoI-012-012, taking place in 2003, 2008, and 2014. MTF Upsilon-10 (“No Secret Money”) initially stumbled upon SCP-6629 in inert decorative states, believing the objects to be of the typical, low-hazard anomalous paraphernalia encountered during the rest of their mission. This was until fifty instances became active and attacked them, resulting in two casualties, and all fifty SCP-6629 instances being forced into a “dead” state in the ensuing skirmish. MTF Upsilon-10 believed all objects to be neutralized until thirty-five inactive SCP-6629 entities were found in a secret, signal-barricaded chamber of PoI-012-01’s master study. SCP-6629-A was also collected here.

Below are documents amassed across all operations, relating to SCP-6629’s commissioning and use by PoI-012-01.

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MISCELLANEOUS ITEM COMMISSION FORM No. 98257

DATE DRAFTED: 07/07/1995 | DATE STAMPED: 08/07/1995

REQUESTEE: PERCIVAL A. DARKE

EMBOSSER: SILAS KING

FINALIZATION APPROVED BY: PERCIVAL A. DARKE

PURPOSE OF REQUEST? BUSINESS | ✓PERSONAL | OTHER

NO. OF OBJECTS: 65

ASSIGNED ITEM FILING CODE: 000762713

DETAIL REQUEST HERE: Silas, this is my last straw. I have been utterly exhausted of my patience with human wait-staff and their error-prone behaviors—I will tolerate no more coffee-stained rugs or broken porcelain within any of my homes. Acquire from the vault the plans we drafted for a collection of automated servants back in 1941; finalize a more modern design with Rothshire and Beckel such that they can keep up with computerized tasks. Get their opinions on what our options for the power cores are as well, because we do not have the luxury of WW2 and the idiocy of the Soviets to hide behind anymore.

PREFERRED SUPPLY LINE: (Indecipherable due to the use of an unknown grapholinguistic script.)

PREFERRED SUPPLIER: (Indecipherable due to the use of an unknown grapholinguistic script.)

NOTES: Do not batch-produce the cores. The shells are fine, but nothing else. I want Acquisitions deeply involved with every step of this so that production is properly concealed from prying eyes. The slower, the better, as much as I hate to admit it. And please—make sure the extractions aren’t able to touch our clientele. (Along with anyone else this project may offend.)

INTERNAL SUPPLY REQUEST FORM No. 98264

DATE SUBMITTED: 13/01/2001 | DATE APPROVED: 14/01/2001

REQUESTEE: PERCIVAL A. DARKE

APPROVED BY: PERCIVAL A. DARKE

OVERSEER? ✓YES | NO

ASSIGNED OVERSEER: SILAS KING

PURPOSE OF USE? BUSINESS | ✓PERSONAL | OTHER

No. OF OBJECTS: 31

ITEM FILE CODE: 000762713

DETAIL REQUEST HERE: Silas, I require another batch of these, more so than usual. Iris has broken over half of the in-use supply at my London estate, citing that they had ‘terrible manners’ during her imaginary tea parties, along with using them to conduct ‘experiments’ with gravity after learning about it from her tutoring. I am under the impression she merely wished to see them shattered all over the kitchen floor, but who am I to stop her? If that’s what she wants with these, then so be it. These are some of the cheapest objects we currently have in production, so we should have no issues on any front.

Miscellaneous Note No. 1

Iris, I love you so much. I really hope you know that. I will never stop loving you, ever.

That being said, please ask before you take my suits to dress up your mannequins. I was late to one of the most important meetings I was to have all year because you scattered them everywhere all over their bodies. Be glad that my right hand Ruprecht and my left hand Amos covered for me, or else I would have been…well, I don’t want to be angry at you, sweetie. The mere thought makes me shudder.

Remember, if you want something, I will buy it for you. You don’t need to raid my closet to get what you want. I’ll give you fifty of your own.

INTERNAL SUPPLY REQUEST FORM No. 102732

DATE SUBMITTED: 18/04/2007 | DATE APPROVED: 19/04/2007

REQUESTEE: PERCIVAL A. DARKE

APPROVED BY: PERCIVAL A. DARKE

OVERSEER? ✓YES | NO

ASSIGNED OVERSEER: ALPHONSE REDHEATH

PURPOSE OF USE? BUSINESS | ✓PERSONAL | OTHER

No. OF OBJECTS: 41

ITEM FILE CODE: 000762713

DETAIL REQUEST HERE: Glad to hear you’re finally back from vacation, Alphonse. I am in need of another round of these apparatuses. Iris has taken quite a liking to practicing her fencing with them, although they make subpar tutors, in my most qualified opinion. It’s such a shame how much the human body is integrated into their movements, because often I find myself yearning for a more superior strength. But I suppose it’s not worth fixing at this point due their supplier’s…unfortunate liquidation. Tell Silas that I am grateful for his help in cleaning that up, and his unparalleled knowledge in translating the acquired blueprints. I don’t think I’ve seen his face since.

Misc. Note No. 2

Dearest Iris,

By the time you wake up to read this, I will be on a plane to Beijing. I am dreadfully sorry that I cannot be there to comfort you more, as time controls both the flow of capital and the road upon which my (and one day your) business travels. When you’re older, and create your own heir long after I am gone, you will understand what I mean and how I feel.

All of that which has happened…it is difficult to put pen to paper the depths of my sorrow that you were involved in such a terrible situation. It is a tragedy of the greatest magnitude, a grieving attended to by even Death herself—and yet, this is what you will learn to manage one day. This is merely the beginning of birthing pains, of the leviathan irritations you must endure. Where there is abundance, there is vermin, and where there is vermin, a plague will follow.

Such is the nature of the eyes we attract as those who hold the world in our hand. Entitled prats will see our spoils as something that belongs in a cell, or meant to melt under the yolk of a white flame. They will raze our facilities in the name of ‘ethics’, as if ants have any right to judge the clouds for bringing hail; they will come to detain your advisors as if a queen cannot demand total loyalty of her subjects by both magic and money.

Your enemies are numerous, even though you are not yet an adult. I wish there was some other manner of which to have been able to expose you to the truth; if there was, believe me, believe me so thoroughly—believe me in all of the power and opulence I have never held back from you—I would have found the path a long time ago. I would have killed millions to see to it your life was a pinnacle of existence, to be envied by all of mankind; free from both pain and suffering, the true seat of glory you deserve.

But I cannot stop the cycle, so you must bear the weight of the world, and bear witness to what we must endure to maintain that. You must weather the storms brought by those born from the dust, who do not understand we hold the reins of all that exists and is to exist.

Rest assured, I will take care of the recalcitrant ones soon. I will be swift to put them in their place for their transgression3 against you in ways even Hell will long to cover its face from.

These are my orders to you thusly: Do not go anywhere without Althea’s approval until further notice. Cover your face whenever you think you are being watched, and keep my associates Amos and Ruprecht on speed-dial. You have my full permission to use any gun and pistol in the house in the case of an emergency—do not worry about breaking anything valuable. I can replace treasures, wonders and archived knowledge, but you, my dear heir—you are the one thing my money cannot buy.

With the highest love,

Percival

P.S. If you are still having nightmares, there are some white tablets in my nightstand you can have. Take only one per day. If your head still hurts, indulge in some of my cigars.

INTERNAL MEMO No. 65199

DATE: 21/06/2014

TO: AMOS H. MARSHALL AND RUPRECHT CARTER

PENNED BY: PERCIVAL A. DARKE

Amos, Ruprecht. It is imperative that we find some time within the two weeks to meet together, in person, at the London office. I understand the both of you have high-profile clients on your dockets, but I am ordering you to hand those assignments over to your assistants. We just received intel that the Foundation, in collaboration with the G.O.C, is planning to launch one of the largest raids on our American suppliers in the company’s history. The losses will be disastrous if we allow them to continue their preparations—billions are on the line, along with all of our New World investments. We need to discuss what is to be done; do not disobey me.

INTERNAL MEMO No. 65200

DATE: 25/06/2014

TO: SILAS KING

PENNED BY: PERCIVAL A. DARKE

You have my dearest thanks (and the most generous of raises) for managing to relocate so many of our suppliers at the last minute, Silas. I’m still in shock and awe at how you achieved such a Herculean task—I’d like the details sent in copy to me so that I can use them as a teaching tool for Iris. I know you’ll be still be alive by the time she officially takes on her title as second in charge of the Designated Sextet4—but this is a rare opportunity. It must be learned from fully.

Also, how shrewd of you to find such a convenient spot for our new source of cores for the automated servants. I was skeptical of sourcing from China, but the lack of G.O.C and Foundation proxies there make it more perfect than I ever imagined. It’s no less than monumental luck that they have so little idea of what goes into these; and I intend for it to stay that way. I almost pity that there is no less…unfortunate way to power their mechanisms, but I seriously do not see the value of spending time and money on that. If the materials are free, they are free. No need to mess with the number zero.

Addendum_6629-Δ: The following contextual correspondence has been included in this file for posterity as of 08/28/2024:

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TIME RECEIVED: 07:23PM CST 07/21/2024

SUBJECT: SCP-6629 Cores

Dr. Bruntsworth, Director Hammond here. I hope you’ve been having a wonderful day. I’m emailing you about SCP-6629, as I believe we’ve made a breakthrough about the -1 components. I know Site-106 has been itching to lend these things out to other branches of the Foundation because of how convenient they are, but I think you should reconsider that for now.

So, as you know, Site-74 has been running under budget for quite some time. I’m extremely proud of myself, no need for applause, but I nearly mucked that achievement up trying to reverse engineer this dang thing and its cores’ scribblings.

That’s when a few of my colleagues suggested we try cross referencing the letters with random assortments of data. Maybe Darke was pulling from exotic sources to make these things work, because once they die, the letters fade away, so there has to be a relationship between what’s on them and why they can locomote.

Ignore the email sent to you earlier about the letters corresponding to taxonomic classifications of currently named species—the actual randomizations seem to line up with names from US census records ranging from 1995 to 2014. It’s weird, and insanely specific, but at least we’re one step closer to figuring this out.

Forward the files attached in this email to the Analytics Department and let me know when they’re done. Everyone’s a bit confused about the ‘why’ here, but this can’t be anything that major, right?

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TIME RECEIVED: 08:01 AM CST 07/22/2024

SUBJECT: Resend those files

Dear Site-74 Director Lakely Hammond,

I don’t mean to alarm you, but Analytics is requesting a second copy of those files. They’ve run three batches of logistics on them already, and they want to be 100% sure they’re making the right correlations here.

In lieu of that, O5-02 and O5-07 have put in commands for your presence at their desks next week. There’s nothing I can do to change their minds this time.

Dr. Bruntsworth

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TIME RECEIVED: 06:37 AM CST 07/27/2024

SUBJECT: An Important Announcement About SCP-6629

To everyone receiving my email, you will want to sit down.

I understand that there have been rumors flying between the Analytics Department, Site-74, and Site-106 about the nature of SCP-6629 and its -1 components. I am here to quell and properly explain to each of you the truth of what we have uncovered so that panic does not indiscriminately spread to other sites and the Ethics Committee. To those who have already filed requests on our current plans of action regarding Percival A. Darke, please know that we will be addressing them at the next O5 Council meeting.

So—as discovered by Site-74 Director Hammond, the characters engraved into SCP-6629-1 are indeed not random as we once previously believed. They correspond one-to-one with the names of missing persons in the United States who possessed legal entries within the US census database. As of the time of this email’s sending, all individuals whose names we have managed to recover have been declared legally dead by local, state, and federal authorities. Not a single person’s body with a name on one of those cores was ever found, dead or alive.

What this means is that we have found an answer which the United States found itself lacking nearly three decades ago. As you all know, the rate of missing persons in the US doubled from roughly six hundred thousand per year to 1.2 million starting in 1995, with the decade of 2002-2012 seeing the highest growth of this trend, peaking at 3.4 million in 2006.

The mass social panic caused by this crisis was unprecedented. Initially the Foundation thought the disappearances to be the work of many heated, but ultimately ordinary factors: communist and French influences wreaking havoc within the G.O.C, Russian spies encouraging the defection of civilians with far-right beliefs to its satellite countries, the Sovereign State of Hawai’i serving as an isolationist haven for all manners of asylum seekers, etc. All of this greatly stifled our ability to investigate wide-reaching phenomena, both anomalous and not.

What we, the O5 Council, now understand is that we should have never permitted any of that to stop us. For the past decade, China has been undergoing the same problem—and now we know why. Each instance of SCP-6629-1 has thirty thousand names inscribed on it. We currently possess 205 of them, but based on insider information obtained by MTF Mu-3, about 700 total were produced in America.

There is no other conclusion we can come to except that Darke has somehow committed one of the greatest anomalous atrocities under the Veil, and for a period of time that no one thought possible for an entity like MC&D. Over twenty million people have been silently, unabashedly extinguished from existence because of her mercurial whims, and we are currently powerless to stop this death march.

Now, before alarm bells begin ringing, understand that the O5 Council is in a bind despite the clear danger here. Because Darke has somehow managed to tweak whatever creates SCP-6629-1 (hereby referred to as SCP-6629-Ω) to specifications so insanely meticulous5, we are currently at a stalemate of how to not just procure SCP-6629-Ω, but how to utilize it as well.

I do not need to tell the more tactician-minded among you of how a perfectly silent, under-the-Veil killer of this scale and precision would be of extreme benefit to the Foundation. It would save the lives of countless MTF members and civilians threatened by keter-level humanoids, along with providing us with unlimited leverage over any government which dares to roadblock us. Perhaps we could even alter it to neutralize non-humanoid anomalies which cannot be feasibly contained.

But this is also a dangerous, dangerous thing. This needs to be kept out of the hands of other GoIs at all costs, especially those more politically motivated like ORIA and the Chaos Insurgency. Should this fall into the hands of anyone else but us, we can expect little but to be wiped off the map when we inevitably piss off the wrong people, followed by everything we know collapsing without our stability keeping it in place.

We find ourselves therefore as Atlas in this situation. The burden of the world has too been thrust upon our shoulders, and there is no easy solution or agreement about what should be done. The O5 Council understands that SCP-6629-Ω is an active threat, but the Veil must be maintained at all costs, and we will need time to craft a plan that will preclude any possibility of Darke destroying SCP-6629-Ω permanently, or worse, turning it against us. The lives we can save by obtaining it, rest assured, shall make up for what we have currently suffered.

If you have any family or friends in China you’re worried about, we advise you to have them contact us for a job here. We will offer them work-visas and places to stay. That is the best protection we can offer on that front for now.

With all authority,

O5-02

Addendum_6629-03: On 09/12/2024, a hidden compartment was found on an SCP-6629 instance during a regularly scheduled maintenance check. It was cracked open and contained the following note.

My beloved Iris, has it been eighteen years already? Goodness. I cannot believe how fast the time has flown by; I feel as if it was only yesterday when I swaddled you in my arms and watched your little mouth bubble over with the remnants of your inheritance rites. It still surprises me to no end how lithe you grew up to be given how fat you were as an infant. I miss being able to squish your cheeks!

Irregardless of my hopelessly maternal nostalgia, I hope you enjoy your present. I eavesdropped from Victoria that you were finally seeking to buy your own properties (in Monaco and Geneva no less!), so I put an order in to prevent your opulent abodes from being sullied by unworthy feet. You probably don’t remember these, but I’ve kept the blueprints on file because they’re so useful. You loved them so much when you were younger!

Hopefully now you will appreciate the value they have as house-staff, instead of as toys, but if you still wish to roughhouse with them, well, I’m not going to stop you. We can always make more, easily.

Happy birthday, my dearest heir. I cannot overstate how proud I am of you. You are poised to inherit the universe and all of its glories, riches, and wonders—and I will be there to see to it that nothing will ever stop that. I will be there to see to it that Death will not lay a hand on you until the contracted day comes; I will be there to see to it that no mountain, man, abstraction or group will ever possess the means to put a stop to your ambitions. MC&D is my eternal benefaction to you, and so long as you maintain a steady course with its dance, it will provide unto you all that of which you desire.

See you in London! Make sure to save a slice of cake for me please?

Love,

Your Mother, Percival Darke

Request for classification to Volitava6 pending.

Footnotes

1. Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd.

2. Percival Atherolis Darke, CEO of Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd.

3. Most likely referencing the events of MTF Upsilon-10's 2008 raid, in which PoI-012-04, a.k.a Iris Corax Darke, was shot in the head by a sniper.

4. Internal term used by MC&D employees to refer to their six most senior ranking executives. Current members are Percival A. Darke, Amos H. Marshall, Ruprecht Carter and their heirs: Iris C. Darke, Chrysophilius “Skitter” S. Marshall, and Robert S. Carter.

5. Based on evidence from archival records, Foundation staff and individuals belonging to other GoIs known to pose a threat to MC&D's operations did not disappear in numbers associated with SCP-6629-Ω’s existence and its rate of attack on civilian populations.

6. Item’s containment and anomalous properties are benign, but its ongoing production by a third party poses an extreme risk to civilian life.