As acontingency in the event that it becomes impossible for 
humans to travel to these planets, say a nuclear winter scenario 
preventing humans from developing advanced space travel, or that 
the chosen planet cannot be fully terraformed, the terraforming 
organisms could spawn humans and other creatures that are 
already adapted to the new planet, so that they would have no 
trouble fitting in and recreating an Earthlike ecosystem or an ecology 
that is adapted to the planet. Gordon and Hannay’, Serizawa8, and 
Gorbovsky? independently proved that retroviruses could be used in 
organisms to force them to produce non related offspring. 


On Earth, it is widely accepted that pioneer species such as lichen 
and moss perform small-scale terraforming to make their immediate 
environment more suitable for them and other organisms. Scaling 
this process upwards would allow for much-larger scale 
terraforming. 


Dr. Wondertainment has recently released a product called "Dr. 
Wondertainment's Custom-Pets!M", which can be reverse- 
engineered in order to design a progenitor organism that can swiftly 
and easily adapt to a foreign environment. The biological printing 
techniques used by Prometheus Labs for products such as Life- 
Sized Thrombocytes™ could be used to mass-produce terraforming 
organisms designed for a wide range of environments. In this 
manner, using the aforementioned techniques and research, it 


should be economically feasible to mass-produce organisms that 
can terraform and seed an inhospitable environment in order to 
preserve humans and Earth ecology. 


BUSINESS CASE 

The primary use of this technology is to save humanity from 
extinction. The terraforming organisms would be able to completely 
restart any and all environments, the organisms that inhabit them, 
and humanity in the event of a mass extinction, while also enabling 
the new humans to easily adapt to a foreign environment in the 
event that terraforming is not fully successful. At the same time, this 
technology can be used to establish beachheads for further 
astronomical colonization, provide areas for Prometheus Labs to 
work offplanet, or design massive ecological experiments. 


The terraforming organisms could be used on Earth to alter the 
environment in beneficial ways. For example, only major routes 
along Sahara Desert could be partially recreated into forest, partially 
offsetting global warming and making travel easier, while still 
preserving the arid conditions that fertilize the Amazon rainforest 
and prevent locust infestation. There are also applications in the 
sterilization of hazardous waste sites, such as Prometheus Labs 
Hazard Zones 4 (Kyshtym), 49 (Worcester), 67 (St. Louis), and 141 
(Allahabad). 


In less stressful environments, this technology could be marketed to 
land developers. They would be able to terraform a planet or an 
environment into such a way that they can attract tourists to an area 
designed specifically for their needs. This method could also be 
used to create nature and shooting preserves, or even prisons in 
extremely isolated areas. 


Prometheus Labs could also use the technology to create organisms 
used for medicinal tests or tests where living beings are necessary. 
The physiological and mental state of these organisms could be fine 
tuned to optimize testing environments. For example, a human at 
peak physical condition but with severe schizophrenia could be 
spawned to test antipsychotic medications. This method would also 
allow Prometheus Labs to engineer children for infertile or 
nontraditional couples. 


Because of the extreme standardization of the spawning process, 
Prometheus Labs would be able to sell high-quality, low-cost 
homogenous vegetables and meats to the frozen and fast food 
industries. Eventually, all traditional forms of agriculture could be 
supplanted, allowing Prometheus Labs to monopolize the food 
industry. These meats could also be genetically altered to increase 
beneficial vitamins or stimulate chemical production, such as fluorine 
to protect teeth. 


USE OF FUNDING 

Wondertainment Industries has indicated that it is willing to sell the 
Custom-Pets™ license and associated patents to Prometheus Labs 
in exchange for the now-defunct Project Roddenberry. It would take 
roughly forty to sixty weeks to reverse-engineer the process used to 
create the Custom-Pets! and scale the process for larger 
organisms, which would cost approximately $500,000 assuming 
standard Class-V reverse-engineering protocols. 


Design and implementation of the cold-fusion conversion processes 
would necessitate approximately thirty weeks and is assumed to 
cost $50,000. A further twenty weeks would ensure that the 
terraforming organisms and their offspring are stable, tractable, and 
not prone to mutation during the spawning process. Following this, 
design of a high-level progenitor organism that can produce other 
terraforming organisms, will require fifteen weeks and $200,000 to 
repurpose the printer used in Project Golem and integrate a similar 
mechanic into a biological structure. 


Testing and redesign would take, at minimum, five weeks. It would 
also be prudent to have Prometheus Beijing construct a mullti- 
environmental, sealed biosphere similar to the Project Cappuccino 
biosphere in which preliminary tests could be performed. Assuming 
the same techniques and materials are used, the dome could be 
constructed in under six weeks for $250,000. 


The biosphere construction could occur concurrently with all steps of 
the project prior to organism printing, as these steps could occur in 
preexisting Prometheus facilities. For a full list of materials, 
contractors, and price ranges, see Attachment 1. 


KNOWN ISSUES 


The primary trouble with widespread adoption of this technology is 
public perception. Due to failures such as Project Cappuccino and 
Project Golem, the public is currently extremely distrustful of 
technological advances from Prometheus Labs, especially those 
that rely on engineered organisms. We advise an aggressive public 
relations campaign to regain public support. Simultaneously, 
Prometheus Labs should provide judicious donations of funds to 
lawmakers that are debating the ethics of engineered organisms and 
communities affected by Project Cappuccino. This should provide 
sufficient public goodwill to allow Prometheus Labs to promote 
terraforming technology. 


We also suggest small-scale public tests of the technology as it 
advances. Allowing the public to see the usefulness of the 
technology, albeit in a heavily controlled environment, would also 
provide public support while testing the technology. 


The technology that this concept is based around relies on highly 
theoretical work. The cold-fusion substance conversion process has 
only been used once before, during Project Leviathan. Although a 
success, it led to the demise of all subjects in the project. However, 
the data regarding the cold-fusion methodology (see Attachment 3) 
provided several insights into increasing the survival rate up to 1/50. 


Biological programming to imbue organisms with inborn knowledge 
is a purely theoretical concept. Although strides in this field were 
made during Project Leviathan, the act of being able to "program" 
directives and goals into organisms is still being researched. 
Allocating further computational resources into this research, such 
as the use of the Temporal Dilation Computational Device, should 
enable its implementation within less than two years. 


As illustrated with the failure of Project Golem and the quarantine of 
its host country, there is a danger of uncontrolled reproduction. In 
the event that a terraforming organism goes rogue, it could 
potentially cause a runaway terraforming effect that would render 
the Earth uninhabitable. The organisms it spawns could additionally 
usurp the ecological balance of the planet, completely altering the 
ecosystem and causing, at minimum, a Permian-level extinction 
event. The addition of gene ACP-405 into the terraforming 
organisms would ensure that the gene is passed on to all its 


offspring. A pathogen could be engineered to target this gene, killing 
all creatures that possess it, thus averting any such incident. 


Footnotes 

1. United Nations Population Division. 1980. World Population 
Totals For 1970 - 2050, According to the 18 United Nations 
Revisions of World Populations Estimates and Projections. DESA. 
193(3)304. 

2. Beckett C., Richards F. 1978. Dying Out: Increasing Rates of 
Species Extinction. Nature. 175(2) 134-139. 

3. Calvin S., Cenva N. 1978. Artificial Extinction Event: Is Human 
Expansion Causing Animal Extinctions? Ecology. 213(1) 57-63. 

4. Falken S., Hopper F. 1979. Years of Death: Prediction of Species 
Extinction. Journal of Ecology. 179(3)34-40. 

5. Madaraki F., editor. c1978. Life off Earth[VHS]. Austin, TX. NASA. 
2 tapes. 

6. Celine H, Franklin S. 1982. Machines that Can Utilize Nuclear 
Fusion to Synthesize Elements for Reproduction. Journal of Nuclear 
Physics. 25(1) 123-132. 

7. Gordon A, Hannay R. 1978. Utilization of Retroviral DNA To 
Induce Evolution. Nature. 175(2) 124-130. 

8. Serizawa D. 1975. Potential for Genetic Engineering via 
Retroviruses. Nature. 145(3) 245-251. 

9. Gorbovsky L. 1981. Introducing Retroviruses into an Organism to 
Force Evolution. Nature. 201(1) 179-194. 


GRANT REQUEST FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF 
TOOLS FOR MAPPING LOCALES WITH 
INCONSISTENT SPACETIME 


GRANT REQUEST FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS FOR 
MAPPING LOCALES WITH INCONSISTENT SPACETIME 


PROBLEM 


It is often necessary to operate in locations with inconsistent 
spacetime. However, operating in such areas is risky, chiefly due to 
the possibility of getting lost. While getting lost is a fairly trivial 
problem in normal space, it becomes dramatically more difficult to 
solve in inconsistent spacetime. 


There are a number of examples of research teams and assets 
becoming unrecoverable due to this problem, the most striking of 
which is Incident Maroon-8423a. During a routine survey of an 
extradimensional space, members of survey team Tamaraw became 
stranded and lost within only a few meters of their base camp when 
the spacetime shifted unexpectedly!. While the event only lasted 18 
seconds of outside time, by the time space returned to its original 
shape, most of the research team had starved to death. With 
appropriate spacetime mapping tools, this tragedy could have been 
avoided entirely. 


SOLUTION 


We propose the development of a portable device for mapping and 
navigating inconsistent spacetime. The device would use off-the- 
shelf spacetime measuring equipment in conjunction with a 6th 
order Grunewald-Meier system solver[1] in order to provide its 
primary functionality. The device could also be used in conjunction 
with a stationary mainframe via subspace radio, to provide additional 
capacity. 


The spacetime measuring equipment will consist of an 8-axis 
differential chronometer, and a Herbst dimensionality gauge. This 
configuration has been shown to be capable of mapping nontrivially 
distorted spacetime sufficiently accurately for our purposes.[2] 


The subspace radio component could potentially be constructed 
using off-the-shelf components, but due to space constraints, the 
antenna assembly will probably need to be custom. 


The CPU and associated hardware would be able to take advantage 
of the special functions of the Motorola 68883 math co-processor to 
compute solutions to Grunewald-Meyer systems within acceptable 
timescales. 


BUSINESS CASE 


This device would be an important asset for future operations in 
inconsistent spacetime, due to the ability to effectively mitigate many 
of the associated risks. This would allow other research to be 
conducted more cheaply, safely, and effectively, reducing costs and 
allowing much higher productivity. 


Additionally, there is a large untapped market for this type of device, 
both from normalcy preservation organizations and other paratech 
users, as well as in the civilian and government sectors. 


Market research indicates that the SCP Foundation would be a 
prime customer for this equipment, due to their frequent operations 
within regions with inconsistent spacetime. The Global Occult 
Coalition would also be a major customer for this equipment. 


The devices could potentially go for upwards of $150k per unit. 


There could also be applications in the civilian and government 
sectors as a high-precision geolocating device. Since the same 
principles used to map highly-distorted spacetime would also work in 
less-severe conditions, the devices would be able to compensate for 
the frequent minor spacetime distortions that diminish the accuracy 
of traditional GPS. 


Additional models with different levels of capability could also be 


> Show SCP-694 Testing Logs 


Testing Logs: 
Testing Log 694.1: 


Description: SCP-694-3 and -4 are extracted at 
time index = 21:00. 

Result: SCP-694-3 and -4 continue behaving as if 
they are within their vehicle and being pursued; 
their vehicle drives itself while being pursued, and 
falls into the ravine at time index = 27:40. Because 
SCP-694-3 and -4 do not fall into the ravine with 
their vehicle, they are not killed by the impact; 
however, they instantly lose consciousness, with 
electroencephalograms providing a null reading. 
After descending into the ravine, SCP-694-1 fires 
two shots into the spaces where SCP-694-3 and 
-4's heads would be. 


Testing Log 694.2: 


Description: SCP-694-1 is extracted at time index 
= 20:00 

Result: Even when unarmed and restrained by 
Foundation personnel, SCP-694-1 continues 
behaving as if he is within his vehicle and 
conducting an armed pursuit. His vehicle pursues 
after -3 and -4, with his pistol shooting 
autonomously at them until they fall into the ravine 
at time index: 27:40. The pistol then descends into 
the ravine autonomously, positioned exactly where 
it would be if SCP-694-1 was carrying it. The front 
door to the minivan opens autonomously, and the 
pistol autonomously shoots the corpses of -3 and 
-4 . The corpse of SCP-694-2 floats out of the back 
of the minivan in exactly the position where it 
would be if SCP-694-1 was carrying it. At time 


designed in order to hit different price points of different potential 
clients. 


The additional capacity afforded by connecting a device toa 
mainframe over subspace radio could be offered as a subscription 
service for in the neighborhood of $10k per year. This service would 
also allow us to collect information from our clients, for use in 
targeted advertising and other marketing tasks. 


USE OF FUNDING 


We request $30 million USD grant toward designing and producing 


this device. The funds will be used as follows: 
(All prices are in USD.) 


¢ $2M for product design, broken down into: 


© $800k for 10 full-time engineering personnel for 12 
months. 

© $600k for prototype construction. 

© $600k for testing and validation; in addition we will need 
access to regions of inconsistent spacetime for field 
testing. 


¢ $11M for design and construction of a mainframe server 
capable of supporting the augmented capacity service. 


¢ Estimated $500k for manufacturing setup, including 
purchasing factory space and equipment. 


¢ Estimated $16M for an initial run of 200 units at $80k eack, 
broken down into: 


© $12k for the differential chronometer. 

© $14k for the dimensionality gauge. 

© $835k for the Motorola 68020 processor, 68883 
coprocessor, and 2MB RAM. 

© $8k for the subspace radio hardware. 

© $6k for power supply and associated hardware. 

© $2k for enclosure, display hardware, PCB manufacture, 
and assembly. 

©. $8k for QA testing. 


KNOWN ISSUES