Addendum: Incident Log 2459-A Notable events and any changes 
to the nature of the anomaly are to be logged and appended to this 
document. Personnel involved in containment of SCP-2459 must 
remember this is an evolving cognitohazardous incident, and to log 
any behavioral changes found. 


5 May 2015. A traffic jam formed in the zone of effect of SCP-2459. 
When it was observed that the jam was not clearing itself naturally, 
local police were dispatched to move traffic along. When local police 
stopped attempting to direct traffic, provincial forces were 
dispatched. 


7 May 2015. Provincial forces disobeyed orders to leave the area, 
refusing to back down from the task of clearing the traffic. 
Foundation contacted regarding potential cognitohazard. First 
responders noted that civilians at the edge of the traffic jam 
appeared confused regarding instructions to move on. Although 
civilians would leave their cars and walk around, no one left the 


roadway at any time. Entrepreneurial civilians within the affected 
zone had set up outhouses at the edge of the roadway for civilians 
and were charging for their use. Human waste was noted to pile up 
at the road edges. 


An initial sortie sent to rescue a civilian from the rapidly deteriorating 
conditions entered the zone of effect of SCP-2459 and first 
appeared lost. When instructed to return, affected personnel 
refused, stating the importance of locating an appropriate civilian to 
rescue. When ordered to leave, personnel reiterated the importance 
of the mission. One member attempted to establish rapport with the 
locals by bartering his meal bars to others. As currency was rapidly 
becoming concentrated in the hands of the outhouse renters, the 
Foundation personnel accepted a remaining share in the petrol in 
the tank of the car of one of the civilians. HC-1 Class cognitohazard 
was diagnosed and MTF Phi-12 was dispatched. 


8 May 2015. Affected civilians ran dangerously low on food and 
water. Civilians demonstrated further anomalous memetic effects, 
reaching consensus to accept petrol as payment for goods and 
services between them. Civilians and personnel agreed that all such 
transactions should be managed at a central bank, and civilians 
siphoned petrol from all vehicle tanks and transferred it to a tanker 
caught in the effect, rendering the vehicles unfit for travel. 20 
civilians collapsed from dehydration and heat exhaustion. MTF 
Phi-12 contacted civilians, offering medical evacuation. All offers 
were refused. MTF extends water hose to affected personnel within 
the zone of effect to provide water. Daytime high temperature 41 
degrees C. 


9 May 2015. MTF Phi-12 delivered the first crate of supplies to 
affected civilians and Foundation personnel. Personnel affected by 
the anomaly, having entered the zone without vehicle or petrol, have 
been classified as low-status individuals by civilians. Affected 
personnel have bartered away their equipment in order to participate 
in the society forming from SCP-2459. Affected personnel request to 
receive the supplies and water directly from the Foundation so that 
they may sell them to the civilians and increase their social standing. 
Request denied. 


14 May 2015. MTF Phi-12 completed containment perimeter. All 


unaffected civilians evacuated and amnesticized. Supply drops 
continue. A power cable is extended to affected personnel. 
Personnel are requested to confiscate all phone power charges for 
containment purposes. The Foundation applies for a petro! account 
for incidentals. 


18 May 2015. MTF Phi-12 attached a retracting cable to rescue 
personnel and enter the zone of effect. Personnel were subject to 
the cognitohazard within 2 seconds of entering the zone. Cable 
retraction was successful in retrieving the attached rescue 
personnel. Retrieved personnel continued to demonstrate memetic 
infection, complaining that they still had obligations within the zone. 
Class A amnestics successfully remove the cognitohazard from 
subjects. 


19 May 2015. Tethered rescue personnel instructed to attach a 
harness to retrieve a civilian located at the edge of the road. Task 
successful with casualties: broken ankle of civilian. Although Class A 
amnestics removed the cognitohazard from the rescue team, it failed 
to completely remove the hazard from the civilian. Civilian 
interviewed. 


Interviewed: POI-2459-1 
Interviewer: Agent Mohammed Shah, MTF Phi-12 


Foreword: Interview conducted 19 May 2015. Interview 
immediately after rescue from zone of effect. Subject 
suffered a broken ankle resisting rescue. 


<Begin Log, 11:30> 
POI-2459-1: You can't keep me here! | have to go back! 


Agent Shah: We can't let you go back out there. You 
need medical assistance. 


POI-2459-1: They've set up a practice at the ambulance, 
| will be fine. 


Agent Shah: We can get you better care here. 


POI-2459-1: But what about my car? | can't just abandon 
it! They'll think that | left it behind. Would you return 
home, face your wife and tell her you just walked away 
from the car and now you have nothing? 


Agent Shah: You have a wife? Where is she? Wouldn't 
she want to know where you are? 


POI-2459-1: She's at home. And she'll be more 
concerned that | show up with no car, a broken ankle, 
and no way to work! No, let me back to my car, and I'll 
drive it home when the traffic clears, like I'm supposed 
to. 


Agent Shah: But you've emptied the tank! How can you 
drive on an empty tank? 


POI-2459-1: The petrol is still in my name and | can 
withdraw it at any time. Now let me return to my car. 


<End Log, 11:42> 


20 May 2015. A civil disturbance broke out within the zone, which 
was quickly suppressed by affected police. The cause of the riot was 
a disagreement regarding the dispensation of POI-2459-1's vehicle. 
Affected individuals debated the situation, and agreed that vehicles 
and equipment of rescued individuals are considered abandoned. 
Methods of claiming abandoned property were not agreed upon, 
however, suggesting that future riots could result if civilians rescued 
do not have their vehicles with them. Fifty-three claims on 
POI-2459-1's petrol account were registered with the tanker driver 
and zone accountant. 


2 June 2015. Civilian extraction attempted. Target (POI-2459-12) 
has been identified as a taxi passenger, and so arrived without 
vehicle or petrol. MTF Phi-12 considered POI-2459-12 a good 
candidate for extraction without causing further civil disturbance. 
Extraction successful. POI-2459-12 interviewed. 


Interviewed: POI-2459-12 


Interviewer: Agent Mohammed Shah, MTF Phi-12 


Foreword: Interview conducted 2 June 2015. Interview 
24 hours after rescue from zone of effect. Subject was a 
taxi passenger, and owned no vehicle within the zone. 


<Begin Log, 09:17> 


Agent Shah: As I've explained before, no, you can't go 
back there. 


POI-2459-12: Really? You are really keeping me from 
going back? 


Agent Shah: Really. Besides, you were at the bottom of 
the food chain out there. 


POI-2459-12: | was surviving just fine. | just need a 
change of clothes and a bath, which I'll get just as soon 
as my lazy driver finishes taking me home! 


Agent Shah: We can get you home faster than your 
driver. 


POI-2459-12: What? No. We already negotiated the fee 
for driving me home. I'm not going to walk away and let 
him steal what | paid for. 


Agent Shah: We can reimburse you. You'll get home 
safely, can take care of yourself, and you don't have to 
be stuck in traffic anymore. 


POI-2459-12: | refuse. | can't let him get away with this! 
He's probably trying to steal my petrol account, as we 
speak. 


Agent Shah: But you did not arrive with any petrol. 


POI-2459-12: No, | earned it. I'm very talented. It's mine 
now, and you'll see the profit | can make once everything 
moves on. 


<End Log, 09:20> 


10 June 2015. Civilians disassembled some of their own vehicles 
and reconfigured them into shelters. High temperature 43 degrees 
C. Personnel within the zone of effect have been successful in 
preventing dehydration and starvation. Due to temperatures, 
civilians were allowed to continue with disassembly. 


23 July 2015. A prescribed course of amnestics every eight hours 
coupled with cultural reindoctrination education has been found to 
be sufficient to cure civilians of the memetic component of 
SCP-2459. Protocol Balakot-525 established. POI-2459-1 
amnesticized and released. Monsoonal rains prevented further heat 
and dehydration crises. 


5 September 2015. Protocol Balakot-525 successful in the 
rehabilitation of 50 civilians to date. Sample exit interview attached. 


Interviewed: POI-2459-52 
Interviewer: Agent Mohammed Shah, MTF Phi-12 


Foreword: Interview conducted 5 September 2015. 
Interview 21 days after rescue. Subject underwent 
amnestic regimen and cultural realignment, and has 
been identified as rehabilitated. Subject underwent final 
amnestics course after interview and returned home. 


<Begin Log, 22:03> 


Agent Shah: Greetings, . Please, sit, have some 
tea. Are you ready to return home, now? 


POI-2459-52: Yes, | should like that. Goodness, have | 
really been caught in that jam for four months? 


Agent Shah: I'm afraid so. For the record, could you 
please explain a few last details regarding your 
experience? 


POI-2459-52: Certainly, anything if it will help those poor 
souls. Ask your questions. 


272-c 

Test subject: 1 D-Class personnel (D-272-03) 
Surface: As above 

Lighting: As above, 2 hours before sunrise 

Purpose: Establish effects of lighting changes. 
Procedure: Nail dropped as above. Subject told to walk 
in a straight line away from the nail. 

Results: Object embeds. Subject shows no adverse 
effects. Sunrise occurs at 6:06 local time. Subject is 
[DATA EXPUNGED]. Three clean-up teams dispatched. 
Subject’s torso recovered 106 m from object, showing 
signs of road rash and severe blunt trauma. Object 
recovered. Testing moved to Sector-25. 

Conclusions: [DATA EXPUNGED]. 


272-d 

Test subject: 1 D-Class personnel (D-272-04) 

Surface: Concrete floor of test facility 25-h 

Lighting: 1 standard (60 W) light bulb, directly overhead 
Purpose: Establish lighting requirements. 

Procedure: Nail dropped on the shadow of test subject. 
Subject told to walk in a straight line away from the 
object. 

Results: Object embeds. Subject is free to move. Object 
recovered. 

Conclusions: Insufficient lighting will cause no effect. 


272-e 

Test subject: 1 D-Class personnel (D-272-04) 
Surface: As above 

Lighting: 1 standard (1,500 W) stadium light, directly 
overhead 

Purpose: As above. 

Procedure: As above. 

Results: Object embeds. Subject trapped. Object 
recovered. 

Conclusions: Lighting requirements established. 


Agent Shah: Why were you convinced not to leave the 
roadway? 


POI-2459-52: Well, first thing you have to understand, is 
that none of us want to be there. We all have 
destinations, families to go back to, things to do. Being 
stuck in traffic is just a temporary setback. 


Agent Shah: But if the traffic lasts days, then wouldn't it 
have been easier to just leave the road and walk? 


POI-2459-52: Certainly, but then you'd have to leave 
your car behind. Or abandon your fare. You couldn't do 
that. You can't make progress if you're just letting the 
things you own slip through your fingers. What good is it 
if you make it home, but you have nothing? What sort of 
fool leaves his valuables to be taken? No, it's better to 
just wait. The traffic will move eventually. The police 
were there, working on it. 


Agent Shah: But everyone emptied their tanks! People 
are disassembling their vehicles! They can't move their 
house, now! 


POI-2459-52: The traffic was slow. We would reclaim our 
petrol, remove our structures, and leave on a bus when 
the time came to move. Until then, we needed a place to 
live and a petrol account to get our food and water while 
we waited. 


Agent Shah: If it weren't for the rescue operation, there 
would be no food or water! Dehydration was rampant 
when we arrived. There are buildings nearby, certainly it 
would have been easy to bring water from there. 


POI-2459-52: And abandon our vehicles? Forfeit our 
petrol? Certainly not. We decided how these things 
should work, and we would leave when the traffic 
cleared. Until then, it was best to make do. 


Agent Shah: But you could have died! Why would you 


believe waiting was the better thing to do? 


POI-2459-52: Sir, | understand the absurdity of our 
solution now, but please try to put yourself in the shoes 
of those of us stuck in traffic. If you're not willing to die for 
your beliefs, what good are they? 


<End Log, 22:14> 
« SCP-2458 | SCP-2459 | SCP-2460 » 


SCP-2460: Dark Satellite 


Item #: SCP-2460 
Object Class: Safe Keter (See Addendum 2460-B) 


Special Containment Procedures: Due to its position and 
properties, SCP-2460 is not contained at this time. Space agencies 
are to be informed of SCP-2460's trajectory so that satellites and 
launches do not collide with SCP-2460. When doing so, SCP-2460 
is to be listed as a large piece of space debris. No object is allowed 
within 50 km of SCP-2460. 


Any matter colliding with SCP-2460 must be reported to the 
astronomical tracking unit at Site-195 immediately. In the event of a 
collision, the mass, density, and Schwarzschild radius of SCP-2460 
must be remeasured and its resulting new orbital trajectory 
calculated. 


Description: SCP-2460 is a gravitational anomaly in elliptical orbit 
around the Earth. It has an orbital period of 4 hours, with a furthest 
distance from the surface of the Earth of 12,430 km and a closest 
approach of 395 km. Measurement of the gravitational anomaly 
indicates it has a mass of 1.24 x 1013 kg. At the location of the 
anomaly, there is an apparent object of approximately 50m x 30m x 
15m. This gives the object a measured density of 5.51 x 108 kg/m3, 
which is approximately 100,000 times the density of the Earth and 
close to the density of a white dwarf star. 


The shape of this object is variable in appearance, with components 
of different materials appearing to erupt from the surface of the 
object only to be reabsorbed. Furthermore, the object is virtually 
invisible to electromagnetic radiation and has no measurable 
charge, magnetic moment, or wave emissions. However, despite 
this behavior, photons in the visible light spectrum still interact with 
the object, albeit at a low albedo of 0.01. 


The anomaly behaves very differently on the quantum level. 
SCP-2460 is comprised of bosonic matter that anomalously 
maintains much of the structure of fermionic (normal) matter. This 
anomalous construction causes the Pauli Exclusion Principle not to 
apply, allowing matter to occupy the same quantum state as other 
similarly composed bosonic matter. In addition, electromagnetic 
interaction is suppressed. As a result, the bosonic electron fields 
between objects in SCP-2460 do not repel each other. 


The net result of these anomalous quantum effects is that multiple 
individual objects within SCP-2460 occupy the same place at the 
same time. What appears to be objects growing out of and receding 
into SCP-2460 is actually thousands of colocating objects oscillating 
about the gravitational center of the anomaly. The exceptionally high 
mass of SCP-2460 is the result of these thousands of individual 
objects occupying the same location, all gravitationally bound 
together. 


It is important to note that this colocation is not a spatiotemporal 
distortion, but the net result of the lack of interaction between 
individual objects in the anomaly. There is no risk of a "reversion" to 
a Euclidean space, because the space is already Euclidean.