complies. Subject instructed to describe what it perceives. Subject 
describes four entities in the other partition. Subjects states entities 
look docile, two of them jabbing the walls and the other two looking 
at it through the glass. Research staff inquires whether any entities 
are present in the subject’s partition. Subject looks around and 
replies that none are present. Subject instructed to attempt to 
communicate with the entities. Subject expresses desire to “get this 
over with”. Subject says, presumably towards the perceived entities 
“Hello, can you hear me?” before recoiling suddenly. Research staff 
inquires as to the reason the subject recoiled. The subject replies 
that the entities have begun pounding the glass with their upper 
appendages. Research staff inquires whether they are succeeding 
in causing any visible damage to the partition. Subject replies that 
they are not. Audio recordings fail to pick up any sounds apart from 
those emitted by the subject. Research staff inquires whether the 
subject can hear the entities pounding on the partition. Subject 
appears perplexed and replies to the negative. No changes occur for 
ten minutes and 14 seconds. Research staff announces the end of 
the experiment. Subject expresses relief and removes SCP-1 78, 
placing it on the floor. Testing chamber door opens and two security 
personnel (Agents [DATA EXPUNGED)]) demand that subject comes 
with them, presumably to D-Class cells. Subject turns towards door 
and begins complying when lacerations begin appearing across his 
face, torso and upper arms. Subject vocalizes distress and both 
security personnel recoil and emit expletives. Agent [REDACTED] 
radios a containment breach. Agent [REDACTED] begins firing his 
weapon into the chamber, hitting and killing the subject after 2.1 
seconds of being lacerated. Containment teams are mobilized to the 
testing area and the sector goes into lockdown. Searches are 
concluded after an hour and 4 minutes without any findings or 
further incidents and lockdown is lifted. SCP-178 is found where 
Subject D-13627 dropped it. 


Note: [EXPLETIVE REDACTED], that could have been catastrophic. 
First time we get to experiment on SCP-178 and the whole sector 
goes into lockdown. The brass aren't going be pleased, | think we 
should come up with some lower-risk experiments for the 
foreseeable future. | guess any wearer that attempts to establish 
contact with the entities can die even after removing SCP-178. It’s 
interesting to note that Agent [REDACTED] suffered no ill effect 


despite firing “at” the entity. | estimate it is because he had only very 
limited knowledge about the entities observed by those who wear 
the item. 


Experiment 178-e-8 
Name: Dr. withDr. assisting. 
Date: / /20 


Procedure: D-class subject is to be placed in secured test chamber 
containing SCP-178 and a video camera connected to monitor. The 
test chamber is to be observed remotely via audio and video 
recording devices, via infra-red cameras, electromagnetic radiation 
sensors and motion detectors. Subject is to be instructed to hold 
SCP-178 up to the camera and report what it sees on the monitor. 
The camera is both connected to the monitor and to an external 
recording device. Pending the success of the experiment, the 
research staff will submit a request to view the recording. 


Results: Subject D-61286 (Female, 28, fifteen counts of GBH, Two 
counts of murder, no discernible mental abnormalities) is placed in 
the test chamber and instructed to pick up SCP-178 and hold it up to 
the camera. Subject complies and holds SCP-178 approximately 
twenty centimeters from the camera. Subject instructed to hold 
SCP-178 up to the camera so that it “sees” through it. Subject 
inquires as to which lens it should hold it to. Subject instructed to 
hold the red lens up to the camera. Subject complies. Research staff 
inquires whether the monitor displays anything unusual. Subject 
replies to the negative. Subject instructed to hold the blue lens up to 
the camera. Subject complies and reports that the monitor still does 
not display anything unusual. Subject instructed to put down the 
camera and wear SCP-178. Subject complies. Subject vocalizes 
acute distress, stumbling backwards while staring at the monitor. 
Research staff inquires as to the source of the subject’s distress. 
Subject reports three entities crouched in front of the monitor, 
looking at it. Subject instructed to remove SCP-178. Test ended. 


Notes: It would appear that either the item functions similarly to 
ordinary stereoscopic glasses and requires two “eyes”, or that the 


effect isn’t merely optic. There’s a way to test that. 


Experiment 178-e-9 
Name: Dr. withDr. assisting. 
Date: N\A. Proposed: / /20 


Procedure: D-class subject placed in secured test chamber 
containing SCP-178 and a special mount containing two small video 
cameras simulating a pair of human eyes connected to monitor that 
splices both images together in real time to create image, similar to 
the way stereoscopic sight works. Test chamber observed remotely 
via audio and video recording devices, via infra-red cameras, 
electromagnetic radiation sensors and motion detectors. Subject is 
to be instructed to hold SCP-178 up to the camera and report what 
he sees on the monitor. The camera is set to record. Pending 
success, the research staff will submit a request to view the 
recording. 


Test proposal awaiting approval by personnel with Level 4 
clearance or above. 


SCP-179: Sauelsuesor 


Item #: SCP-179 
Object Class: Safe Thaumiel 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-179 remains beyond the 
reach of currently known groups of interest, including the 
Foundation. All containment efforts are to be focused towards a 
Grade 3 Omission cover-up, coupled with the discouragement or 
sabotage of exploration and research missions that attempt to study 
cis-Mercurian space and orbits that go through it. 


Description: SCP-179 is a humanoid entity located at a constant 
distance of approximately 40,000 km from the South polar region of 
the solar photosphere, locked to the rotation axis of Sol. However, it 
does not orbit it; the most recent recordings of SCP-179 indicate that 
it seems to maintain a continuous orbit around the center of the 
galaxy. 


Through the combined effort of 43 years of continuous surveying, 
the external appearance of SCP-179 has been defined as a human 
female of undetermined ethnic group of between twenty and forty 
years of age. Its entire bodily surface is covered in or composed of a 
matte black material. Its hair appears to be composed of this 
material, measures over 34 km long and is constantly pushed away 
by solar wind. However, this part of SCP-179 seems to reflect 
variable amounts of sunlight — this reflection being the 
phenomenon that indicated its existence to Foundation 
astrophysicists during 1940. Several markings or tattoos are placed 
throughout its bodily midline. Judging from their brightness, these 
markings might be of metallic composition and of a golden hue. 


These tattoos include several symbols that have been identified as 
those typically representing the Sun and the six innermost planets of 
the Solar System according to medieval alchemy, including, in this 
order: 


¢ The symbol of gold in the subject's forehead, right underneath 
the hair line. 

¢ The symbol of mercury under the nose, circling both lips. 

* The symbol of copper between the medial ends of its 

clavicles. 

[DATA EXPUNGED - AUTOCENSOR LEVEL SC 4 - NON- 

TRIVIAL COGNITOHAZARD DETECTED] with the 

anatomically correct shape of a human heart placed over the 

location where a heart would be in a female human of the 

same apparent age and bodily proportions. 

¢ The symbol of iron in the upper abdominal region. 

¢ The symbol of tin in the lower abdominal region. 

¢ Part of a final symbol in the pelvic region. While the anatomy 
of this region makes its clear observation difficult, it has been 
hypothesized that the symbol of lead is also present and 
complete in the perineum region. 


SCP-179 keeps its ventral side oriented towards Earth most of the 
time, but it has been observed to look towards other areas on 
occasion. [REDACTED] 


[ALL FURTHER DATA REDACTED AS PER ADMINISTRATIVE 
WARNING ES-026] 


ADMINISTRATIVE WARNING ES-026 


ARCHIVE WARNING 


RESTRICTED 5/179 


As of //  ,SCP-179 has been reclassified Thaumiel. All invol 
be either promoted or reassigned to fit this new classificatior 
surveillance and cover-up operations as directed by the cur 
personnel will be subject to POLYMATH-08 Memory Redactic 
grade, with a maximum retrograde effect of ten years of ex 
SCP-179 prior to its reclassification. 


SCP-179's existence will be subject to an Orbital Misinfo 
Neutralization campaign. As per Omission Protocol 4 (items 


SCP-179 has been classified Level 4 (Top Secret). Any further 
(Thaumiel), and will be made available only to authorized 5/179 


BE ADVISED THAT: Unauthorized access to SCP-179 resea 
(Unauthorized Data Management While Lacking Appropriate G 
redaction therapy with immediate reassignment and/or demotior 


+ 
+ WARNING! UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL WILL BE EXPOSED T 


SCP-179 is sensitive to all radiation in the 
electromagnetic spectrum, intelligent and able to 
communicate through multiple anomalous means, 
including but not limited to radio and laser 
communications interference. Only one instance of 
SCP-179 communication with Foundation personnel has 
occurred thus far, where SCP-179 proved to be fluent in 
French. As this contact did not result in a clear statement 
of SCP-179's intentions towards the Foundation and its 
mission, all efforts must be made to prevent contact by 
any known Groups of Interest with SCP-179. 
Misinformation operations and other preemptive 
measures have been deployed. 


Most recorded movements performed by SCP-179 have 
been related to extraterrestrial threats, both anomalous 
or non-anomalous in nature, on a collision or orbital 
insertion course with the Earth. These threatening items 
have been identified as capable of causing CK-Class 
Reconfiguration events of diverse impact in human 
societies and earthly life in general if allowed to reach 
Earth. If impact with Earth or orbital insertion occurs 
without proper response and containment by Foundation 
operatives, these items of interest may be capable of 
causing XK-Class end-of-the-world scenarios. 


SCP-179 will usually address an item or items of interest 
by pointing at them with an arm and, when more than 
One item of interest is present, will be able to generate 
additional limbs anatomically identical to its arms, as 


needed. Survey data indicates that SCP-179 performs 
other motions specific to each item of interest addressed 
— such as raising different fingers or moving its arms in 
an array of as of yet undecipherable patterns at fixed 
intervals —, but whether this motions contain any 
information or not has not been determined to date. 


The limits of SCP-179's detection capacities have not 
been clearly ascertained. While SCP-179 has been able 
to detect potentially harmful objects beyond the trans- 
Neptunian region, those threats had been detected by 
other surveillance and exploration systems (usually 
under Foundation control) or, in at least three separate 
instances, were visible to the naked eye from Earth. 
However, they had not been immediately recognized as 
threats. It has been hypothesized that SCP-179 may only 
detect and react to active threats that remain detectable 
to other observing parties without the cis-Neptunian 
region, while being able to unerringly determine their 
harmful nature. All items of interest approaching Earth 
within cis-Neptunian space that had considerable 
destructive capacity have been detected by SCP-179 
without failure, often when no observers known to the 
Foundation were aware of them. 


As such, SCP-179 and all personnel, orbital equipment 
and facilities dedicated to its surveillance remain the 
most reliable early warning system the Foundation 
possesses to detect and, when possible, prevent, 
potentially dangerous incursions within surveyed space. 
SCP-179 is able to determine which interplanetary 
objects pose a threat to Earth, humankind or the earthly 
biosphere, which makes it a critical asset for the 
Composite Orbital Early Warning System (COEWS) 
project of the Foundation, which currently involves SCP- 
,SCP- ,SCP- - andSCP-  ,XCPOA-003 to 
-0421, Site-34, Site-103, Site-98, Area-08, Site- , Site- - 
, and and Command Site- , as well as several 
personnel embedded within different soace agencies and 
international consortia related to space exploration. All 


data of interest related to or obtained through SCP-179 
will be marked COEWS-179, which will be considered 
high priority information to all Foundation departments. 


Addendum SCP-179-01: Notable Movements of 
SCP-179. 


¢ <13/12/1940> First recorded movement of 


SCP-179. The entity, that had remained with both 
arms crossed, raises an arm towards a previously 
undetected interplanetary object on a collision 
course with Earth. After its impact, in an event that 
damaged the city of [DATA EXPUNGED] 
extensively with large quantities of an anomalous 
mucous secretion and left more than one thousand 
and three hundred dead which, combined with the 
anomalous phenomena related to [REDACTED AS 
PER PREVIOUS EXPUNGEMENT] Remaining 
central item reclassified SCP- .SCP-179 returned 
to its original position. 

<22/09/1942> Sixth recorded movement of 
SCP-179. The entity raises an arm towards 
[REDACTED], on a collision course with Earth. 
Item of interest crashes nearby Auckland, New 
Zealand, in the 04/10/1942. Item separates upon 
impact into several devices of mechanical nature. 
[DATA EXPUNGED] recently formed sub-entities 
with minimal civilian casualties. Once Foundation 
operatives contain the item proper, which is 
reclassified [REDACTED] and terminating most 
sub-entities, SCP-179 returns to its original 
position. Mobile Task Forces [REDACTED, ALL 
DATA ON INVOLVED ASSETS EXPUNGED 
FROM RECORDS] proceeds to track and destroy 
all remaining sub-entities. 

< / /19 > Eighteenth recorded movement of 
SCP-179. The entity raises its right arm towards 
[DATA EXPUNGED]. Up to this date, the entity 
has kept one of its primary arms — shifting from 
one to the other as necessary — pointing in the 


same direction. 

<01/03/1949> 23'd recorded movement of 
SCP-179. The entity raises an arm towards an 
Amor-class asteroid, that has adopted a collision 
course with Earth. The Foundation uses a 
combination of several SCP objects to launch a 
remote-controlled interplanetary vehicle that acts 
as a gravitatory towline; this mission is announced 
a success in 03/05/1951; at this time, SCP-179 
returns to its original position. Note: Surveying 
elements observed that the entity performed a 
motion that could have been a nod. 
Reclassification request to Euclid status filed and 
denied. 

<13/12/1998> 403" recorded movement of 
SCP-179. The entity stops watching the Earth for 
two days and thirteen hours, when it looks towards 
the Jovian system. Once this interval is over, 
SCP-179 looks at Earth again.