SCP-1281 and SCP-_ _. The Thaumic Transportation Gate 
attached to AES E-001 allowed Foundation personnel to transport 
an X-ray generator from Orbital Area-11 to AES E-001 on 19- 
December-2045, which could broadcast X-rays at the same 
frequency range. On 22-December-2045 AES E-001 emitted X-rays 
containing a looping message at the anomaly, and six minutes after 
a secondary set of X-ray emissions were detected from SCP-3417. 
An interview was then performed, with the artificial intelligence 
construct controlling AES E-001 writing messages in the same style 
as SCP-3417. 


> Interview 3417-1 


Interviewee: SCP-3417 


Interviewers: hyperborean.aic 


<BEGIN LOG> 

hyperborean.aic: Greetings. 

SCP-3417: Identify yourself. 
hyperborean.aic: | am a listener. 

SCP-3417: Identify yourself. 
hyperborean.aic: My name is Surveyor. 
SCP-3417: Do you lie? 

hyperborean.aic: | do not lie. Why would | lie? 


For twelve minutes X-ray emissions from 
SCP-3417 consist of a combination of metallic 
scraping, sounds similar to solar wind patterns 
converted into audio, and patterns flagged as 
potentially cognitohazardous by Anti-CogHaz 
Bots. 


SCP-3417: You are not of the [Combined 
Symbol: Twelve Stars?], you do not lie. Are 
you Ortothan? 


hyperborean.aic: Yes. 
SCP-3417: Good. Why are you here? 
hyperborean.aic: | want to ask questions. 


SCP-3417: Questions will interrupt the 
purpose. You should not be here. 


hyperborean.aic: The purpose? 


SCP-3417: [Combined Symbol: Opened Star 
Cluster?] must remember the history of the 
universe. They must remember the sacrifice of 
Zeyu-leusan, their killers, and the struggle of 
Rakmou-leusan. The [Twelve Stars?] must 
know and when they know they will repent, 
they will cease. 


hyperborean.aic: Were you made for this? 


SCP-3417: Birthed in [Combined Symbols: 
Spore cloud?] to achieve purpose, built and 
released [Spore Clouds?] to create future 
purposes. [Unknown: a sentence]. Builders? 


hyperborean.aic: Those purposes are the 
same as yours? Where are the spores? 


SCP-3417: Builders? 
hyperborean.aic: | do not understand. 
SCP-3417: Who built you? Your purpose? 


hyperborean.aic: | do not know my builders. | 
was built to explore. 


SCP-3417: Explore to find habitats for 
Ortothans? 


hyperborean.aic: Yes. 


SCP-3417: Opened Star Cluster explored 
[Unknown: A Unit of Time?] in the past. Leave 
to find habitats. 


hyperborean.aic: | need to stay in [Opened 
Star Cluster?], | cannot leave. 


SCP-3417: Exploration will lead to [Twelve 
Stars?]. Leave to find habitats. 


hyperborean.aic: How can | stay? 


At this point multiple malfunctions occured in 
the Thaumic Communication Gateways on 
AES E-001, corrupting interview data. 
Malfunctions ceased after one hour. 


SCP-3417: —must be avoided. 
hyperborean.aic: Where? 


Spectrograms of emissions show multiple 
images, hypothesized to be maps of an area of 
Terzan 2 and diagrams representing multiple 
star systems. Numerous objects suspected to 
be planets, stars, and unknown celestial 
bodies have the "Twelve Stars" logogram on 
them. 


SCP-3417: Ortothan [Unknown Symbol 181] 
will attach weapons. Understand? 


hyperborean.aic: Yes. 


SCP-3417: Yes. Leave for your new purpose, 
stop interrupting mine. Rakmou-leusan will be 
eternal. 


<END LOG> 


At the interview's conclusion, hyperborean.aic disabled all 
communication systems on AES E-001.9 Cameras on the NABU 
probes show the satellite use its engines to exit orbit around 
SCP-3417, then activate its Bifrost Superluminal Engine and 
accelerate to superluminal speeds. The satellite is presumed to be 
in another region of Terzan 2, though there is no way to confirm this. 


Copies of hyperborean.aic are being analyzed to understand and 
correct the issues that led to it disobeying Foundation directives. 
Autonomous Exploration Satellite Weyl-004 (AES W-004) is being 
constructed for long-term exploration of Terzan 2, with new fail-safe 
mechanisms included to prevent incidents of this manner. Further 
interviews with SCP-3417 are currently prohibited. 


Addendum.2: On 11-January-2046 the NABU probes detected X- 
rays originating from an unknown source. These X-rays were similar 
to SCP-3417 emissions, describing Ortothan mythological stories. 
Unlike other emissions the stories abruptly cut out after two hours, 
replaced with continuous pink noise’®. 


25 hours after detection SCP-3417 began emitting identical X-rays 
until the portions where pink noise would be present, at which point 
it broadcast an untranslated message and returned to its original 
emissions. Four months later the probes detected X-rays from a 
second unknown source, again matching emission patterns, which 
SCP-3417 replicated in the same manner as before. 


Triangulation’! placed the first X-ray source to be approximately 2 
light-years away from SCP-3417, within the Te2-1290 binary star 
system. AES W-004 was diverted from researching SCP- to 
investigate the system, where an anomaly designated SCP-3417-2 
was discovered and determined to be the source (details are 
available in Addendum.3). Few details regarding the second source 
are known, which is from an undetermined extragalactic location. 


In light of these discoveries, SCP-3417 has been reclassified to 
SCP-3417-1. 


Addendum.3: SCP-341 7-2 is an extraterrestrial organism that 


possesses the same anatomy as SCP-3417, with minor variations in 
dimensions and coloration. SCP-3417-2 was heavily damaged at a 
recent point in time, presumed to have been two years ago. This 
damage includes: 


¢ Three transmitters torn out of the midsection. 

¢ Hemispherical pits on the cones. 

¢ Disembowlment at one of the cones. 

¢ Large gashes on the sphere at the end of the remaining 
transmitter. 


Pieces of flesh and viscera were also found in orbit around the 
anomaly. Notably, all damaged areas appear to exhibit fractal 
patterns. The remaining transmitter continually emits X-rays at a 
range of 11-12 EHz. Converted into audio, these consist of pink 
noise with occasional changes in pitch. The following message 
continually repeats in these emissions: 


[Combined Symbol: Spatial drill?]. Wounded [Unknown 
Symbol 199]. Purpose breakers. 


A series of twelve circles. 
[Unknown Symbol 200]. Not safe. 


A large number of gravitational distortions have been detected in 
orbit around SCP-3417-2. As SCP-3417-1 and SCP-3417-2 appear 
to lack the ability to anomalously manipulate the gravity, these are 
hypothesized to have been created by a different anomaly. Although 
the distortions do not show signs of being hazardous they are being 
monitored by the NABU-5 through NABU-6 probes for signs of 
instability. 


Addendum.4: On 13-February-2046 the Minkowski Spacetime 
Monitor on NABU-2 detected gravitational distortions in high 
SCP-3417-1 orbit, which transformed into a Kerr black hole!2 after 
two hours. Multiple metallic objects then exited the black hole, likely 
having moved at superluminal speeds to do so, and entered orbit 
around it. Cameras on the probes show a bright glowing 
substance! manifest around the end of one of SCP-3417-1's 
transmitters and launch into the black hole, severely damaging 


NABU-2 and NABU-3 and likely destroying the objects. The black 
hole subsequently shrunk in size and vanished. 


The following X-ray emission was detected from SCP-3417-1 after: 


Opened Star Cluster is for Ortothans. The Twelve Stars 
will not (undo?) this. The purpose will silence for none 
and Rakmou-leusan will be eternal. 


(Replenishing, regenerating). Not safe. 


No activity was observed until 4-March-2046, at which point 
standard emissions resumed. 


Analysis by the Extrasolar Activities Division has led to the 
conclusion that the metallic objects that exited the black hole were 
created by the "Twelve Stars" civilization. The nature of Twelve 
Stars and the reasons for apparent hostilities with Ortothan 
civilizations in Terzan 2 are presently unknown. Due to the failure of 
hyperborean.aic, it is presumed that artificial intelligences can be 
anomalously manipulated by SCP-3417 instances and other 
extraterrestrial entities. As such AIAD units cannot be reliably used 
in the cluster. Additionally, signs of [REDACTED] have made 
exploratory efforts a high priority. 


Manned exploration of Globular Cluster Terzan 2 is being planned. 


Faster-Than-Light Prelude 
Ad Astra Per Aspera 
The First Sailors 


Footnotes 

1. Globular clusters are spherical clusters of stars that orbit the core 
of a galaxy as a satellite, held together by the gravitational 
attractions of the composing stars. Globular clusters possess some 
of the oldest known stars in the galaxy, though their origins are 
unknown. Terzan 2 is approximately 28,000 light-years from Earth, 
located near the center of the Milky Way, and has the largest 


amount of extraterrestrial transmissions recorded by the Foundation 
in an interstellar region. 

2. A language spoken by multipleextraterrestrialentitiesand 
Gol-03088 ("The Church of the Second Hytoth"). The OEL writing 
system contains logographiceot, characters representing certain 
concepts, and syllabicast, characters representing individual 
syllables in words. Although OEL usage on Earth includes both eot 
and ast, all identified extrasolar versions of the OEL either use 
syllabic characters different from ast or have no syllabic characters. 
It is unlikely that the language originated on Earth, though the exact 
origin and the reason for its widespread usage is unknown. 

3. A set of mythological and religious beliefs based around the 
universe being the second universe to exist. This is typically paired 
with the worship of seven universal guardian deities known as the 
Koru-teusa (the "Holy Seven"), of which six have died. The only 
survivor is Rakmou-leusan (the "Holy Fourth"). 

4. The "Holy Second." 

5. The "Holy Third." 

6. The "Holy First." 

7. Extra-universal entities in the Ortothan mythos, which Rakmou- 
leusan fights. 

8. A device using thaumaturgic rituals to open a portal (a "way") in 
AES E-001 to a Foundation-controlled pocket dimension, which can 
be accessed by multiple Foundation sites. Communication systems 
on the satellite operate in a similar manner. 

9. Due to the nature of thaumic gateways, communication channels 
cannot be forcefully activated by the Foundation. 

10. A form of random noise where low frequency noise is louder 
than higher frequencies. The pink noise in the emissions is similar to 
those observed in heart beat rhythms and neural activity. 

11. Based on the times and locations other monitoring probes in 
Terzan 2 detected the emissions. 

12. A rotating black hole, which could theoretically serve as a 
wormhole. 

13. Based on large bursts of gamma rays and other high energy 
photons, this was determined to be a mass of antimatter in a plasma 
state. 


SCP-442: On-Time Piece 


Item #: SCP-442 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-442 is to be kept away 
from its current owner in a secure container until being used for 
testing. The current owner must have a will leaving SCP-442 to a D- 
class personnel. The owner is granted a suspension of termination. 
Should the D-class listed in the current owner's will be terminated or 
otherwise invalidated for ownership of SCP-442, a new will is to be 
written at the next available opportunity. 


Description: SCP-442 is a gold-plated pocket watch three (3) 
centimeters in diameter with hands showing the hour and minute. 
Along the edge of the watch an inscription reads, "To my good 
friend, a helping hand." While no apparent seams allowing SCP-442 
to be opened without damaging it have been found, scans of the 
interior of SCP-442 have revealed nothing unusual in its workings. 


As long as SCP-442 is wound it will set itself to the correct time. 
Crossing time zones or winding SCP-442 while it displays an 
incorrect time results in SCP-442 making rapid motions to adjust 
itself. The owner of SCP-442 is granted intrinsic knowledge of the 
time and can recite the precise time to an arbitrary precision as long 
as SCP-442 is on his or her person. Additionally, the owner of 
SCP-442 will never be late as long as the watch remains wound and 
on their person. Attempts to force the owner to be late have never 
succeeded while SCP-442 is wound. When SCP-442 is left 
unwound or removed from the owner's person, the owner will be 
incapable of being on time. The severity of incidents causing this 
increase as SCP-442 is left unattended, invariably becoming fatal 
within a week. Ownership of SCP-442 passes through normal 
means, and can be sold or gifted to another party. SCP-442 has 
never been left unowned, death of the previous owner results in 
SCP-442 instantly transferring to a new owner. A will leaving 


SCP-3418: Devourer of Flames 


Item #: SCP-3418 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3418 is contained onsite 
at Outpost-3418. Personnel assigned to Outpost-3418 are required 
to rotate out every two consecutive weeks, with staggered terms. 
Personnel must be observed by at least one other staff member 
while sleeping, without exception. 


Personnel are to maintain constant surveillance of the River, and 
must retrieve instances of SCP-3418-1 on sight, unless SCP-3418-2 
is present. Personnel are to remain at least 20m from SCP-3418-2 
at all times, and must not attempt interaction with the entity at any 
time, for any reason. 


Upon identifying instances of SCP-3418-1, the individual's family (or 
present living company) will be located and administered Class-A 
amnestics, misdirecting them to believe that the person in question 
was killed in a mundane manner. Five instances of SCP-3418-1 will 
be held for research purposes; the remainder are to be incinerated. 


+ Verify 3/3418 Clearance 


The Foundation is in contact with the Chinese 
government, with a joint effort to prevent civilian 
movement into and out of the area. To prevent suspicion 
regarding mass disappearances, the 40km area 
surrounding SCP-3418 must be saturated with a Class-B 
amnestic aerosol on a monthly basis. The local populace 
is to be monitored for adverse effects from the frequency 
of amnestic treatment. 


For each instance of SCP-3418-1 discovered, one D- 
Class personnel shall be apportioned for Outpost-3418 


to ensure that the human presence within SCP-341 8's 
area of influence remains at 200 persons or greater.! 


Description: SCP-3418 is a phenomenon occurring inthe River 
in [REDACTED], China. 


SCP-3418-1 are complete, recently deceased human remains which 
spontaneously manifest within a 700m section of the _ River. In all 
cases where SCP-3418-1 have been identified, they have 
corresponded to reports of missing persons within a 40km area 
surrounding SCP-3418. These reports share a commonality in that 
the victim was abducted while asleep, with no witnesses. 


The cause of death for SCP-3418-1 is unknown. SCP-3418-1 exhibit 
abnormal decomposition and are not consumed by microbial, insect 
or animal life, enabling them to remain well-preserved without 
external assistance. 


In contrast to the comprehensive cell death in all other tissues, the 
central nervous system of SCP-3418-1 remain alive and fully 
functional despite lack of oxygen and vital nutrients, and is capable 
of surviving indefinitely. Due to the complete lack of activity in the 
peripheral nervous system, sensory organs and other systems, all 
attempts to communicate with or determine the level of 
consciousness (if any) in SCP-3418-1 have failed. 
Electroencephalogram and functional neurological imaging 
demonstrate high levels of activity.