anymore, we will 
no longer need 
to maintain a 
large breeding 
pool of mares, 
and so most of 
them can be 
slaughtered and 
butchered for 
their non-horn 
byproducts. The 
remaining 
breeding mares 
should be kept 
isolated from 
one another and 
physically 
restrained, as 
otherwise they 
will attempt to 
injure 
themselves and 
one another. If 
necessary, 
chemical 
sedatives can be 
used to keep 
pregnant mares 
physically 
relaxed while 
remaining alert. 
Although this is 
expected to 
result in a slight 
increase in the 
rate of 
miscarried foals, 
this is 
considered 
acceptable. 


| estimate that 
through this 
method, we can 
maintain 
production rates 
of nearly 4 
tonnes of horna 
year, easily 
enough to meet 
the demand 
requirements for 
pesticides and 
personal use, all 
at a significantly 


Marshall, Carter 
and Dark, LLP 


SCP-739: A Mirrored Booth 


Item #: SCP-739 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-739 is to be kept in a well- 
lit room, with its door wedged open at all times. Under no 
circumstances are any personnel with personality characteristics of 
grandiosity, psychopathy, sociopathy or solipsism to be assigned to 
SCP-739. If no such personnel are available, the use of mental 
alterations to produce such personnel is authorized. 


When testing is not being conducted two D-Class personnel must be 
present in the room, and rotated every three hours. One is to be 
positioned within SCP-739 while the second stands immediately in 
front of the first, and is to ensure that the first D-Class does not 
close the door. 


No testing with SCP-739 is to occur without prior approval from the 
project director. Any subjects that show signs of hostility after 
emerging from SCP-739 are to be terminated immediately. 


Description: SCP-739 is a booth constructed of a lacquered oak 
measuring 91 cm by 91 cm at its base, 210 cm in height, and 87 cm 
by 91 cm at its apex. The object is in the shape of a symmetrical 
trapezoidal prism. The two inward leaning walls inside of the object 
each have a mirror affixed to them which face one another and emit 
a set of climbing reflections, giving the illusion of meeting overhead. 
The back wall and door on the booth are both featureless and 
unremarkable. 


Any visual recordings of the interior of SCP-739 will not record the 
reflections of the mirrors within; all such recordings show the mirrors 
as a uniform black colouration, indicating a complete absence of 
recorded light. Faint whispers can be heard emanating from an 
indeterminate point within the object, however individual phrases or 


GRANT REQUEST FOR UTILIZATION OF ELECTRO- 
THAUMIC COMPUTERS TO PERFORM EXORCISMS 
OF DEMONIC ENTITIES 


GRANT REQUEST FOR UTILIZATION OF ELECTRO-THAUMIC 
COMPUTERS TO PERFORM EXORCISMS OF DEMONIC 
ENTITIES 


PROBLEM 


The demand for exorcisms greatly outstrips the capabilities of 
human religious institutions.[1] If not addressed, the number of 
persons, locations, and objects inhabited by demonic entities will 
steadily increase. Individuals and items affected by demonic entities 
manifest abnormal, erratic, and detrimental behavior, causing 
damage to nearby people and property. If left unchecked, the 
growing number of demonic possessions could negatively impact 
the world economy and the health of human civilization. 


With decreasing numbers of trained exorcists, and with a rapidly 
increasing world population, it is becoming infeasible to rely on the 
existing religious infrastructure to deal with this problem. If 
exorcisms could be partially or entirely automated, the rate at which 
they could be performed would increase. 


SOLUTION 


We propose the creation of electro-thaumic computer systems, 
capable of performing Grade H thaumaturgical workings and rituals, 
and the development of a software program capable of utilizing 
these systems, in order to automate the performance of standard 
exorcisms. 


An Everhart Resonator, similar to those manufactured for sale to the 
ICSUT, can be used to provide the necessary energies for 
performing the exorcisms. These devices operate on well- 
understood thaumalogical principles, and allow for the conversion of 


electricity into Elan-Vital Energy, which powers all thaumaturgic 
workings.[2][3] 


An off-the-shelf commercial projector can easily be utilized for 
creating containment circles scaled to practically any size around 
the object or person to be exorcised. This projector can also be used 
to create the complex fractal patterns necessary for directing 
backlash from the exorcism workings. This allows for rapid and 
standardized creation of the necessary thaumaturgic geometry, 
reducing setup time and decreasing the chances of human error. 


In order to direct the EVE generated by the Everhart Resonator, an 
automated thaumaturgical control device will need to be developed. 
While no such technology currently exists, Graham's recently 
published theories on machine thaumaturgy suggest that it is 
possible through the use of sufficiently complex computing 
hardware.[4] We believe that these theories can be combined with 
the work done by the now-cancelled Project Auto-Magus to 
construct such a device. 


A commercial microcontroller would be used to integrate all of these 
subsystems and operate the hardware components during the 
workings. This microcontroller would be programmed to accept 
some amount of basic user input as parameters for an exorcism, 
and then proceed to perform the exorcism without further input from 
the user. 


An entire system, once completed, could be packaged inside a 
casing of dimensions no more than 15 cm x 60 cm x 60 cm, or 54 
liters in volume, increasing ease of shipping and use. 


BUSINESS CASE 


These systems are designed to increase the number of exorcisms 
that can be performed by a single individual or organization. As 
such, the expected customers are those that already employ trained 
exorcists, such as the GOC, the Roman Catholic Church, the 
Horizon Initiative, and the Foundation. These systems would be 
used to supplement an organization's number of trained exorcists, 
allowing them to exorcise more demonic entities. 


This technology would also have internal applications within 
Prometheus Labs, as it could prove useful in debugging many of our 
ongoing demonology research projects, particularly Project Dante. 


In addition, the thaumic hardware that would need to be developed, 
such as the thaumaturgical control device, could be re-purposed in a 
variety of different technologies, and would potentially allow for the 
revival of Project Auto-Magus. 


USE OF FUNDING 


Much of the necessary funding would be spent on research and 
development of the thaumic hardware components. Completion and 
refinement of the existing work done by Project Auto-Magus could 
take as much as fifty weeks, and cost upwards of $400,000. 


Development of the operating software would take between ten and 
fifteen weeks, costing approximately $50,000. This work cannot be 
done until the design of the hardware components has been 
completed. 


Prototyping and testing the final system is estimated to take 
between twenty and thirty weeks, and will require summoning 
multiple demonic entities. It is recommended that several freelance 
exorcists be contracted to exorcise any uncontrolled demonic 
entities in the event of a failure in containment. The overall costs for 
testing the system are estimated as $150,000. 


KNOWN ISSUES 


As of this writing, no Everhart Resonator currently exists that can 
operate without a thaumaturge acting as a catalyst, and no 
theoretical basis exists for the creation of one. The development of 
such a Resonator is crucial to the success of this proposal; the lack 
of such a device is what ultimately led to the failure of Project Auto- 
Magus. The costs for developing a fully mechanical Everhart 
Resonator, if the creation of one is even possible, are difficult to 
estimate. 


As already mentioned, a thaumaturgical control device would need 
to be developed for the proposed systems. While the theoretical 


basis for such a device does exist, very little work has been done on 
the subject of machine thaumaturgy outside of Project Auto-Magus. 
As such, much of the research required for this device will need to 
be done in-house, increasing development time of the entire system. 


Bibliography 

1. Fullerman, S. T. (1981). The Popularity of Popular Religion: How 
Mass Media Shapes Religious Beliefs. Journal of Anthropological 
Research, 90-100. 

2. Everhart, J. (1946). Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to 
Generate EVE. Journal of Unified Thaumatology, 57-60. 

3. Farrier, S. (1952). Applying the Everhart Conversion to Electron 
Spin Resonance. Journal of Unified Thaumatology, 75-80. 

4. Graham, A. (1982). A Theoretical Basis for Machine 
Thaumaturgy. Journal of Unified Thaumatology, 167-175. 


GRANT REQUEST FOR GENETICALLY 
ENGINEERING LOW-COST ORGANIC AUTOMATONS 
WITH SOPHISTICATED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
FOR LABOR 


GRANT REQUEST FOR GENETICALLY ENGINEERING LOW- 
COST ORGANIC AUTOMATONS WITH SOPHISTICATED 
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR LABOR 


PROBLEM 

In the modern industrial age, there are many tasks that human 
beings would consider unpleasant, repetitive, demeaning, and/or 
hazardous to health, such as custodial duties, mining, and armed 
combat. Although the field of robotics has been lauded as the 
solution to these tasks, taking over for humans in such situations, 
the extent to which robotics technology has evolved has made them 
suitable only for extremely repetitive tasks such as manufacturing 
duties in factories. 


The main issue to surmount in the field of robotics is that of 
intelligence. Modern robots lack the equipment and programming 
sophistication to sense and react to changes in their environment, 
interact with human beings, or incorporate detailed feedback into 
their programs beyond rudimentary sensor data; thus they are 
limited to repetitive, exclusively industrial tasks such as welding, 
spray-painting, and die-casting!. 


A robot with true artificial intelligence would be a massive revolution 
in the modern world. It would be able to solve complex problems, 
take the initiative, work and interact with human beings, respond to 
changes in its environment, and learn from its surroundings and the 
response to its actions in order to optimize its programming and 
drastically increase its efficacy. An intelligent robot would have 
applications in all fields that require labor, from military to agricultural 
to medicinal. It would cut down on labor costs dramatically while 
scaling up productivity and increasing profits across all industries. 


Although Prometheus Labs has made remarkable strides in the field 
of artificial intelligence and machine learning with the Advanced 
Natural Intelligence Initiative and Project Kapek, it is estimated that, 
despite being years in advance of all other robotics research being 
carried out around the world, even Prometheus Labs' most 
rudimentary true artificial intelligence will not be completed until at 
least 1993. 


SOLUTION 
Rather than construct robots with artificial intelligence, Prometheus 
Labs will grow them. 


We propose the creation of genetically-engineered, artificial human- 
like organisms to carry out various forms of repetitive and/or 
dangerous labor that either require skills and problem-solving 
decisions incapable of being executed by machines or that involve 
human interaction and companionship. Such tasks could include 
janitorial duties in businesses and residences, caring for and 
assisting senior and disabled citizens, or fighting in an armed 
conflict. These organisms would be cheaper to raise and use than 
normal humans, lack all of the uncooperative tendencies of human 
workers, and work without complaint. However, these qualities 
suggest that the organisms are slaves — an archaic term for an 
archaic system. 


The organisms will be branded not as living things but as 
Prometheus Labs All-Natural Automatons (ANAs): organic, all- 
natural robots with high reliability and low maintenance needs; 
intrinsic high-level machine learning algorithms that allow them to 
enhance their function based on real-world feedback; human-level 
problem-solving capabilities, extreme dexterity and maneuverability; 
highly advanced natural language user interfaces that allow them to 
speak in any language; advanced artificial intelligence that passes 
the Turing test and has full facial and environmental recognition; 
self-repair functions and complete immunity to hacking; and 
environmentally-friendly qualities such as biodegradability. 


The core technology for engineering ANAs is derived from the work 
on Project Lilith?, specifically the use of retroviruses in order to 
quickly alter the genome of a zygote and thus alter the genetic 


makeup of an organism with minimal cost and maximal efficiency. 


The basic human zygote that ANAs are derived from can be easily 
manufactured using Prometheus Labs Replication Gel and the stem 
cells from Project Samsara. Coupled with Project Lilith's microbial 
assembly line technology, more than 250,000 human zygotes can 
be grown and altered per hour. 


Emmerich, Serizawa, and Calvin? developed techniques to identify, 
isolate, and sequence genes from organisms that code for specific 
individual traits, and further pioneered the techniques to code for 
those genes by altering noncoding "junk" DNA. Combining these 
techniques with the retroviral sequencing methods will allow for fast 
and effective identification of useful traits that enhance problem- 
solving and cognitive abilities in the ANAs alongside auxiliary traits 
like enhanced self-repair or movement speed. 


Since it has been empirically proven that consciousness and 
problem-solving ability in human beings is dependent only on a brain 
that develops properly during gestation‘, a simple corollary follows 
that ensuring that the ANA brain is not subject to retroviral 
engineering beyond standard removal of genetic disorders will be 
enough to guarantee problem-solving capabilities on par with the 
average human being. 


The simplest and most cost-effective solution for programming 
ANAs is to use the augmented-reality brain-machine interface 
(ARBMI) technology from Project DelphiS. ARBMIs can be implanted 
in vitro en masse for pennies per chip, and hundreds of ARBMIs can 
be controlled simultaneously from a master computer as soon as 
prenatal development is finished. The ARBMI itself can also be 
programmed to generate VR simulations with which to safely 
program the ANAs. Such training methods would include triggering 
dopamine release pathways when the ANAs obey certain 
commands, stimulating nociceptors upon disobedience, and 
teaching the ANAs to respond to negative stimuli (such as gun shots 
or stab wounds) in such a manner that they can neutralize the 
source of the stimulus without showing a negative response to the 
stimulus itself. 


BUSINESS CASE 

Given that All-Natural Automatons are intended for use in situations 
involving repetitive or dangerous labor, human interactions, and 
problem-solving capabilities, the primary demographics for these 
organisms will be for healthcare, military applications, corporate 
research and development, and low-cost general purpose labor. 


Nursing homes, hospitals, or even well-off homes will purchase 
ANAs to use in human personal care, from taking care of children to 
cleaning bedpans and tables to chaperoning senior citizens suffering 
from neurodegenerative diseases. The nature of their genetic 
enhancements will naturally render them unaffected by most 
pathogens, making them perfect for use in sterile environments. 
ANAs with lower-speed CPUs can even be used as false robot pets 
that are easy to care for and can be taught various tricks.