Shortly after 2030 hours local time, as the particle 
accelerator was in the process of spooling up, Dr. Calvin 
Desmet, one of the project's research assistants, noted 
minor power fluctuations in one arm of the array's 
stabilizing rings. Dr. Desmet wanted to replace the failing 
coupling, which was known to decay under the cold 
temperatures of the testing chamber. Since the test was 
still an hour away and the chamber was not sealed, Dr. 
Desmet entered to repair the coupling. As the 
accelerator continued to spool, a power regulator 
attached to the system's primary generator began to 
fail’. Under non-test conditions this event could still flood 
the chamber with ionizing radiation, so an evacuation 
order was given and the chamber was sealed. Dr. 
Desmet, not hearing the alert over the sound of the array 
coming online (due to the excess power now present in 
the system), continued to work on the coupling. 


Roughly seven minutes later, while outside research staff 
were attempting to begin a power-down cycle, the power 
regulator failed entirely and the accelerator began 
powering to near-test conditions. Dr. Desmet abandoned 
the power coupling and attempted to escape the test 
chamber. Before he could make it to an emergency exit, 
the accelerator reached peak test conditions and a 
singularity formed. The array pulled the singularity into 
alignment, but only milliseconds before the damaged 
stabilizer arm failed and Dr. Desmet was exposed to the 
naked singularity. The test chamber collapsed into the 
singularity, as did much of the rest of the research wing 
and Dr. Desmet himself. Shortly afterwards, the 
singularity dissipated. 


In the wake of the June 19th incident many 
administrative personnel at Area-11 were reassigned, 
while engineering staff and Foundation construction 
teams worked to repair the damaged portions of the 
facility (which was at the time still housing several other 
anomalies). This effort continued for several years, 
during which time significant control portions of the 


stabilization array were removed and replaced with 
autonomous systems’ in order to reduce staffing and 
also limit exposure. The engineering team assigned to 
the stabilizer began running tests of its capabilities 
starting in March of 1995. 


Over the next several years the teams at Area-11 ran 
minor tests of the stabilizer, typically in an attempt to 
reduce energy requirements and increase automation. 
By 2002, the system was almost entirely automated, 
requiring only a handful of support staff to operate. The 
array began containing minor gravitational anomalies 
starting in 2004, and continued to do so full-time up until 
2005. In late 2005, staff members at Area-11 began trials 
that would lead towards testing the stabilizer on a free- 
standing singularity. 


In early 2006, aided by the NETZACH intelligence 
system9, on-site engineers began scaling up their trials 
into fully-operational experiments. After several months 
of testing, in May of 2006, the engineers at Area-11 
manifested a singularity within the array at full power, 
and maintained the structural integrity of both the 
singularity and the containment chamber. 


However, after two hours of testing with a fully stable 
singularity, the space within the array began to change 
dramatically. The singularity began to rapidly grow in 
size, threatening to expand past the boundaries of the 
array. As the automated system initiated an evacuation 
warning, NETZACH began making adjustments to 
account for the significant increase in energy being 
exerted by the singularity. Eventually the growth rate of 
the singularity stalled, and the effects it had on the 
containment chamber were mitigated through alterations 
to the array's arrangement by NETZACH. It was at this 
point that the thick cloud of rotating radioactive gas and 
dust formed, obscuring the singularity within. 


As Foundation engineers began work to reinforce the 
damaged array, SCP-001 made its first attempt at 


communication with Foundation staff. This initial 
communication attempt consisted primarily of 
unintelligible noises, initially became full sentences and 
then later conversations after Foundation personnel 
discovered that the singularity within the gas cloud was 
humanoid in shape and, though unmoving, clearly 
attempting to speak to them. 


Addendum 001.2 


First Contact 


First contact between SCP-001 and the Foundation was 
conducted by Dr. J. Barton Ramsey, Site-17, at 
SCP-001's containment array beneath Area-11. Notably, 
SCP-001 does not appear capable of communicating 
naturally; its incredible density makes the projection of 
sound impossible. Instead, SCP-001 uses gravity to 
vibrate the suspension rings of the array in order to 
create sound!9, 


[BEGIN AUDIO LOG] 


Dr. Ramsey: (Muffled voice) -just the 
microphone. Can it hear me? 


(Uncertain murmuring) 
SCP-001: (Muffled humming) 


Dr. Ramsey: Wait! What was that? Can you hear 
that? (Pauses) Listen. 


SCP-001: (Metallic ringing) Jonannes- Johannes 
Ramsey. 


Dr. Ramsey: You know my name? 


SCP-001: (Pauses) He- yes. Johannes Barton 
Ramsey. You are a doctor. The S- (pauses) - 
SCP Foundation. Containment. Is he being 


contained? (Pauses) He can't see, He's- the 
array. This is the... Pietrykau-Fontaine... He 
knows this place, he- 


Dr. Ramsey: Have you been here before? 


SCP-001: No, he- (pauses) There is no I, only 
He, someone else. A man. | think | was him, or 
He- He is me. (Pauses) He was here once, and 
then He wasn't. 


Dr. Ramsey: (Murmuring off-microphone) Jesus 
Christ, is that Desmet? 


SCP-001: Who? (Pauses) Yes. Desmet. Calvin. 
His name was Calvin. 


Dr. Ramsey: (Muffled discussion away from 
microphone with containment staff) 
Unfortunately, there is no way for us to- 


SCP-001: This machine, the- deactivate it. There 
is something He needs to do, He needs to... 
needs to see... needs- (trails off) 


Dr. Ramsey: What are you? 


SCP-001: A- a way to distinguish between two 
like things. (Pauses) He needs... an Overseer. 
Overseers. All of them. Bring them here. 


Dr. Ramsey: That's against protocol, and- 


SCP-001: No. They will come for this. He has 
something to offer them. 


Dr. Ramsey: What's that? 


SCP-001: A way out. 


[END AUDIO LOG] 


Addendum 001.3 
The Way Out 


The following is the full log of O5-1's interaction with 
SCP-001. 


[BEGIN AUDIO LOG] 


05-1: To whom am | speaking? 


SCP-001: A technicality, I'm afraid. It took time to 
appear like this, and longer to- to manifest an 
identity. It almost seems unnecessary but... to 
simplify this means of communication, you may 
identify me as Calvin Desmet. (Pauses) That 
seems strange. Applying characteristics to 
something wholly apart from their genesis. 


05-1: The same Calvin Desmet who was killed in 
this room twenty-two years ago? 


SCP-001: No. Not the same. Similar, in many 
ways, but changed. 


O5-1: You understand, then, how far in breach of 
protocol we are. 


SCP-001: Yes, | think he would recognize that. 
But these are extraordinary circumstances. 


05-1: You mentioned a way out. 
SCP-001: Yes, in a manner of speaking. 
05-1: A way out of what? 


SCP-001: You contain the strange and 


anomalous because they threaten your world, but 
you're applying salve to symptoms. The root is 
entropy. Something inevitable. Something you 
cannot outrun, try as you might. Existence is an 
infinitely complex tapestry of realities, each neatly 
aligned above and below each other. Entropy 
frays the edges, and things begin to... leak 
through. 


05-1: How do you know this? 


SCP-001: | have seen it. Calvin Desmet saw it, in 
the moment before his soul was cast into 
darkness. Everything you have contained 
because you cannot explain it comes from 
somewhere else, somewhere it can be explained. 
A different reality, one that seeps into yours. 
Entropy exacerbates this. Over time the borders 
will disappear entirely, and your world, just like all 
worlds, will become a pandaemonium of infinite 
realities competing for relevance over each other. 
Your world will die. All worlds will die. They will 
feast on each other as they suffocate and then 
they will die. This is not a hypothetical; it is 
inevitability. 


05-1: (Pauses) You are certain? 
SCP-001: Beyond any doubt. 
05-1: How long do we have before this occurs? 


SCP-001: Decades. Each tiny tear puts pressure 
on the whole system. They will continue to grow 
until the boundaries give way, and the moment 
the cascade begins the fate of creation is 
decided. It will be unmade, and it cannot be 
undone. Not for you, perhaps, but your children 
and grandchildren will see a sky of nightmares 
before they die. 


05-1: What is your way out? 


SCP-001: Calvin did the math in the moments 
before he entered the void. Order cannot exist 
forever in a universe that lingers on disorder. One 
line can stretch on forever, but infinitely many 
lines invites chaos. Points that intersect. There is 
only one way to insure this world's future: remove 
all other worlds. 


O5-1: | don't understand. 


SCP-001: You are not expected to, because you 
cannot see the narratives. Calvin could see them, 
for amoment. Calvin saw doomsday, and Calvin 
reasoned a way out of it. Remove all narratives 
but this one, and you produce a creation of one. 
One universe, untarnished by the influences of 
others. Safe. Your loved ones protected from the 
encroaching darkness. Your children free to live 
lives that do not end in horror. An end to your 
perpetual struggle. An end to darkness. The 
freedom to live in the light. 


05-1: By destroying all other realities. An 
incomprehensible loss of life. 


SCP-001: (Pauses) Yes. 

O5-1: And you are capable of this? 
SCP-001: Yes. 

05-1: (Pauses) How? 


SCP-001: By removing the barriers for all 
realities, all at once; save this one. Compress 
spacetime at the points where it is most 
vulnerable, and allow entropy to do the rest. 


O5-1: If you are set on this path, why haven't you 
already done it? 


SCP-001: When | manifested here, this 
machine... | cannot see outside of it. | cannot see 
you. You must deactivate the machine. 


05-1: What is stopping any one of these infinite 
realities from inhibiting you in the same way? 
What is stopping them from realizing what we've 
done, and coming to destroy us? 


SCP-001: They will not realize what | have done 
until it is finished. 


[END LOG] 


Shortly after the conclusion of this conversation, all staff 
members located at Area-11 were ordered to report to 
nearby sites for reassignment and amnesticization. 


Addendum 001.4 


Deliberations 


05-1: The Council has been called to hear 
arguments for and against the use of SCP-001 
for the purpose of staving off the end of the 
world. 05-3, if you will. 


O5-3: After investigation by several teams 
working independent of each other, we have 
determined that SCP-001 appears to be correct 
about what it has said regarding the nature of 
creation. The trend-line of anomalies we are 
aware of and have contained has followed the 
accelerated progression that SCP-001 predicted. 
Based on our models, we should expect an 
uncontainable number of new anomalies within 
30 years, and even more past that. Our best 


rate and the movement of its chest while breathing is 
imperceptible.] 

Dr. [REDACTED]: "Are we done here?" 

[Dr. [REDACTED] raps his knuckles lightly on subject's 
head, producing a metallic clink.] 

Subject D-481-1: [unintelligible sigh] 

Dr. [REDACTED]: "Again?" 

[Dr. [REDACTED] holds a microphone closer to the 
subject's mouth.] 

Subject D-481-1:"...beautiful..." 

[No further audible response comes from the subject. 
Heartbeat ceases at 1:13]. 

[Transcript ends. Subject D-481-1 now designated 
SCP-531-8.] 


Experiment-531-B2: 

SCP-531-7 was allowed to begin establishing a connection with a 
test subject and then the connection was severed with an opaque 
barrier once the test subject began to turn metallic. The test subject 
still completed the transmutation into SCP-531-9 but the process 
took approximately 36 hours. 


Experiment-531-B3: 

One SCP-531 was placed on a mobile platform and was moved 
away from a second SCP-531 to determine the maximum range of 
their connection. Various different pairs were tested and in all cases 
the connection appeared to be severed at approximately 5.5 meters. 


Experiment-531-B4: 

SCP-531-7 was turned away from SCP-531-9 and the pair was left 
under observation. After approximately 12 hours the surface of the 
wall that SCP-531-7 was facing began to flake off. It was discovered 
that a deep cone-shaped plug of the wall had begun suffering 
structural degradation under the solitary SCP-531's gaze and had to 
be rebuilt. It is soeculated that the SCP-531 was trying to convert 
the wall into another SCP-531 and, finding no suitable subject, the 
wall was losing cohesion much as a human subject's clothing 
normally does. 


It is recommended that the sliding doors over SCP-531 containment 
alcoves be routinely checked for similar degradation. 


guess is that something big gets loose within 45, 
and at that point there's nothing left to be done. 


05-7: How is that possible? How is it that the 
universe could fall apart as quickly as this entity 
says it will? 


O5-1: According to Desmet, actions taken in 
other realities to stave off the end of their worlds 
have significantly damaged the metaphysical 
construction of all universes. In many ways, we 
are as much to blame as all of the others, but- 
(pauses) infinite blame spread over infinite 
responsible. 


05-8: Given a truly infinite multiverse, the idea of 
salvation coming to us and not another universe 
is... itis statistically impossible. 


05-3: Yes, yet no less impossible that it would 
come to any of them instead of us. 


05-11: How do we know this entity isn't lying to 
us? 


05-3: If it is, then it has an incredible grasp on 
high level pataphysical concepts for something 
that hasn't directly experienced what it claims to 
have experienced. 


05-1: More than that. | took the liberty of... 
consulting with a number of the precognitives, 
and- 


05-9: (Interjecting) That is forbidden. 


05-12: (Interrupting O5-9) Wouldn't you want to 
know? 


05-9: We made a decision that cannot so easily 
be- 


O5-1: -we confirmed, as well as we could, that 
there is a point in time that is arriving soon that 
obscures their vision. They can see up to it, but 
not past. | don't even know if they realize it yet - it 
was only after we drew data from dozens of tests 
that we realized none of them have made a 
prediction past 2066. 


05-6: What if it's just a reality bender? What if we 
let it out of that array and it kills us all? 


O5-1: If it was a reality bender it would've done 
so already. This entity isn't manipulating humes; 
it's manipulating gravity. Spacetime. If it was 
affecting humes it could've just reached out and 
crushed us already; the Stabilization Array 
mitigates the effect of things that disturb 
spacetime, which is what is currently keeping it at 
bay. This entity, Dr. Desmet, if he's actually in 
there, doesn't seem to be a Type Green. It's 
something wholly different. It's become 
something... fundamental, to the nature of all 
things. 


OQ5-2: |- (pauses) If this creature is what it says it 
is, and it can do what it says it can do, that would 
mean the death of- of infinitely many lives. How 
can we sit in judgement over so many living 
things? 


05-4: Who's to say the idea of other universes 
isn't anomalous? Maybe there should just be this 
one. Maybe that's the natural order. 


05-9: That is absurd. We- 


05-2: It still means the ends of so many lives. 
It's- it's too many to even comprehend. A number 
without limit. 


O5-1: A number without us. 


Silence