¢ Sgt. Pang Yuande. Head of security detail. Previously served 
in counter-terrorism operations as platoon second-in-charge. 


© "I vaguely recall that he threw up on the flight in." 


¢ Dr. Kurt Boeckmann. Team doctor and Swiss medical 
researcher. 


© "His beard is his most recognizable feature, given that 


he's also bald." 
© "Don't mess with his stuff. | mean the plant." 


¢ Dr. Sarah Whitlock. Astrogeologist, placed in the initial 
colonization group as an expert on off-planet mining and 
mineral refining. 


© "She likes the outdoors and being outdoors." 
© "Why did she bring so many rocks?" 


¢ Manuel Medina Enriquez. Political operative on loan from 
Department of External Affairs. 


© "He has a wife and three children waiting for him at 
home." 


¢ Jonathan Gerima. Specialist in mind-affecting and 
psychological phenomena. 


© "I think he's the youngest member. He's what, 24 years 
old?" 

© "He got really excited when he heard about the 
thousand people on the shuttle." 


Personal Item Entry 13: Silver- 

colored Avian Wing Accessory 
Property of Jonathan Gerima. 
Individual known for experimental 
novels and short stories and is a 
rising figure in the world literary 
scene. Item holds potential 
personal significance due to 
owner's long familial background 
in Christian mysticism and several 
anomalous encounters recorded 
prior to recruitment. Gerima noted 


to wear pendant frequently. It's 
funny because humans wear 
shoes on their feet. 


Transcript of dialogue sample. Recorded in Transport 
Shuttle North Conference Room. Discussion between 
MTF Rho-19 members Dr. Suhas Muthu Kumaran, 
Sgt. Pang Yuande. 


Pang: So, you're the top dog. What's our handle? 


Kumaran: Our call sign is...is this room secure, 
Sergeant? 


Pang: | wouldn't be asking if it weren't. 


Kumaran: We're all high-profile, Sergeant. We're 
celebrities just for being here. Less than ideal for a 
clandestine mission. Lot of passengers on the ship. So 
yes, there will be a lot of double-checking and 
confirmation. Nothing personal. 


Pang: [GRUNTS] 
Kumaran: Anyway, callsign is "Cythereans." 
Pang: What the hell does that mean? 


Kumaran: It's an archaic term, basically means 
"Venusians." 


Pang: You seem more poetic than that, doctor. 


Kumaran: Cute. You know, | have to rack my brain over 
every little detail before | talk to the team about even the 
tiniest parts of this mission. One slip-up, and | have to 


However, if an item or organism is placed inside the monorail car 
and sent through SCP-903, the monorail will suddenly and 
inexplicably stop in the middle of the tunnel. The anomalous 
illumination will then deactivate, reducing visibility inside SCP-903 to 
zero. Attempts to use external lighting or image enhancement 
technology such as infrared or night vision equipment have proven 
ineffective in observing SCP-903 during this state. After 
approximately fifteen seconds, the anomalous illumination and the 
monorail cart will reactivate, and the cart will continue on its path like 
normal. However, the item or organism that was previously placed 
inside the cart will be missing with no trace. 


After an indeterminate amount of time, SCP-903 will activate the 
monorail cart on its own. Once the cart reaches the center of 
SCP-903, the illumination will shut down for fifteen seconds similar 
to a deliberate activation. When SCP-903 reactivates, the monorail 
cart will contain a new item (designated SCP-903-X) and in most 
cases, an elaborately handwritten note. 


The instances of SCP-903-X SCP-903 generates are all universally 
anomalous in nature, and each instance possesses different 
anomalous properties. However, each instance's properties seem to 
consistently match properties of SCPs that had previously been 
transported through SCP-903 prior to Incident 903-11. Once the 
instances of SCP-903-X are removed from SCP-903, they will 
deteriorate and lose their anomalous properties after approximately 
two hours, assuming they weren't already destroyed beforehand. 


The handwritten notes included with the instances of SCP-903-X 
suggest that SCP-903 is somehow connected with a sapient entity 
capable of manufacturing instances of SCP-903-X. Attempts to trace 
the source of the notes based on composition of the ink and paper, 
as well as handwriting analysis, have so far failed to produce any 
results. However, the handwritten notes are not anomalous and do 
not deteriorate like instances of SCP-903-X. 


+ List of notable SCP-903-X instances and notes. 


SCP-903-1: A pineapple that autonomously 
launches itself at any individual that makes a 
subjectively bad joke. 


send you all back immediately afterward in an escape 
pod, with an A3 sequestration unit waiting for all of you. It 
took me three days to prep for a ten-minute briefing with 
Qasim. This is what working on a cognitohazard is like, 
Sergeant. 


Pang: [SIGHS] 


Kumaran: So you'll forgive me. A clever callsign hasn't 
been my first priority. | think it fits, personally. A touch of 
the old world, the only people who remember our true 
history, along for this ride. 


Pang: When is the whole team going to meet? 


Kumaran: As soon as we can find a plausible deniability 
window for seven operatives and a stowaway Al system 
to be in the same place without arousing suspicion. 
Enriquez is working on it. 


Pang: That's tight even for something like this. What 
aren't you telling me? 


Kumaran: ...we think we might have company. 


Pang: Listen doctor. I'm a chain of command guy. But 
you've already asked me to take responsibility for human 
lives without telling me what the threat is. You're going to 
need to cut the bullshit now. What does "company" 
mean? 


Kumaran: It means Gol involvement. We've reviewed 
some files. Cogwork Orthodoxy. 


Pang: [EXHALES] Shit. 


Kumaran: Yes. Shit. 


Personal Item Entry 39: 

Venerabie Antique Dagger 
Property of Sgt. Pang Yuande. 
Recruited from Chinese military 
after receiving several counter- 
terrorism decorations. Has served 
on three previous Mobile and 
Orbital Task Force assignments, 
one with a specialization in zero- 
gravity combat operations. 
Hobbies include practicing 
Sanshou in front of mirror in 
quarters and writing 
correspondence to other 
members of past MTF 
assignments. Responses always 
come back to someone named 
"Circles," which is not the 
individual's name. Item 
prominently displayed in 
individual's quarters, and believed 
to be at least two hundred years 
old, according to individual's 
father. It's funny because Sgt. 
Pang has killed seven people and 
never uses this weapon. 


Recovered Memorandum from Desk of Dr. Kurt Boeckmann 


Personal Item Entry 33: 
Charming Specimen of 
Chiorophytum comosum 
Property of Dr. Kurt Boeckmann. 


Individual has expressed 
fondness for animals, arising from 
childhood spent on a dairy farm. 
Said experience has additionally 
exposed him to an early familiarity 
with disease and illness, 
potentially affecting knowledge of 
indoor plants that promote health 
of animals. And people. 
Boeckmann noted to water 
specimen according to very tight 
schedule, addresses as "Pila". It's 
funny because it is actually called 
a spider plant or airplane plant. 


Transcript of dialogue sample. Recorded in Transport 
Shuttle Primary Research Lab and Archives. Discussion 
between MTF Rho-19 members Dr. Amannisa Qasim, 
Dr. Kurt Boeckmann. 


Boeckmann: [SHUFFLING PAPERS] You're requesting 
an awful lot of MDMA, Nisa. I'm not even certain the ship 
has that much in its stocks. 


Qasim: We can improvise if we have to. 


Boeckmann: Need | remind you that you are not a 
psychiatrist? 


Qasim: Oh, Kurt. Just like the body, the mind isn't an 
ordered machine. Can you get this for me? The team 
needs to be familiar with how this stuff works by the time 
we get to the mountain. 


Boeckmann: Dr. Kumaran isn't going to like it. What 
you're proposing... [SHUFFLES PAPERS] it's going to 
get everyone too close. These things, whatever they are, 
they're like a living psychological disorder. Do we really 
want to engage with something like that? 


Qasim: | don't think it's that neat. And it's not like you 
can wall off the mind from its demons. Things are free 
flowing, interconnected. Engagement is the only way to 
treat some problems, if we intend to look at the entities 
that way. 


Boeckmann: Well- 


Qasim: Think of it as contingency planning. Let's say we 
do things Kumaran's way. What happens if Manu's 
systems don't work properly? Shouldn't we have a way 
to fight back if we're attacked on their home turf? 


Boeckmann: You know that | respect your opinion. But | 
did the neuroscreens for Seung after what happened 
with 2474. He was the first to spot the thing, got the 
biggest dose. His readings, I've never seen anything like 
it, Nisa. Brain undeath. Little tiny areas of neural activity, 
flashing all over both hemispheres, but nothing 
resembling coherent function. Outwardly he's a textbook 
PVS case, but inside... who knows. 


Qasim: We must be bold, Kurt. We may be operating in 
secret, but we're part of this expedition too. Kumaran 
says that you would have been here even without the 
Foundation placing you. What are they always saying, 
we are beginning anew. We must avoid the mistakes of 
the past. | believe in that. We have to approach things 
differently. It's the right way. 


Boeckmann: Aren't you afraid? 


Qasim: Of course. But | think of Danyal in the lion's den. 
I've thought of that often the past few nights. I've felt his 
terror. | don't know how it's connected yet, but I'm not 


driven from my path. | feel the way forward, it's going to 
be different than anything we can predict. 


Boeckmann: | think we can agree on that much. 


Qasim: Can you help me, Kurt? 


Boeckmann: [SHUFFLES PAPERS] I'll see what | can 


do. 


Personal Item Entry 42: 
Polished Obsidian 777 


Property of Dr. Amannisa 
Qasim. Individual originally from 
a family of farmworkers living in a 
remote desert town. Transferred 
to Shanghai as a teenager due to 
extremely high academic 
aptitude. Obsidian is noted to 
have particularly desirable 
qualities due to historical uses for 
various tools, weapons, and 
decorations. Item does not 
appear to be a farm implement. 
ltem also does not appear to be a 
weapon or decoration. It is 
possible the object carries 
significance due to this severance 
of familial ties. Item may be 
capable of severing physical 
items. Item possibly possesses 
personal symbolic significance. 
Item does not appear to have 
practical use. It's funny because it 
doesn't talk back to Dr. Qasim. 


Recovered Memorandum from Desk of Dr. Amannisa Qasim 


Personal Item Entry 18: Tulip- 
patterned Length of Semi- 
Transparent Ribbon 


Property of Manuel Medina 
Enriquez. Individual grew up on 
the streets of Mexico City as a 
con artist and petty criminal 
before entering politics. Item 
confirmed to be keepsake from 
wife, significant because owner is 
a family man. It's funny because if 
the mission goes badly, he might 
never get to see his children's 
weddings. 


Recovered Memorandum from Desk of Manuel Medina Enriquez 


Personal Item Entry 28: 
Polished Plagioclase Feldspar 
Group Mineral Fragment 


Property of Dr. Sarah Whitlock. 
Individual owns an extensive 
collection of minerals, collected 
from various exotic locations. 


Additionally, asteroids. Whitlock 
considers the item very highly, 
having acquired it from an 
unlisted shop location during a 
"backpacking" trip. Item carried 
with owner following US Green 
Beret service, during operations 
in Central Asia. Common name 
"labradorite". It's funny because 
black is an emotional color. 


Transcript of dialogue sample. Recorded in [Location] 
Break Room, discussion between MTF Rho-19 members 
Manuel Medina Enriquez, Jonathan Gerima, Dr. Sarah 
Whitlock. 


Whitlock: [...] So basically, the way the thought game 
works is in a round. Each person builds off the scenario 
the last person used and it just cycles. You take the last 
scenario someone avoided, make it happen, and then 
avoid a different one. Next person does the same. 


Enriquez: Sounds straightforward enough. 


Whitlock: Just remember, nobody dies. You want to 
start us off with a minor personal disaster, author boy? 


Gerima: [LAUGH RECORDED] | think | got it. God 
knows I've had plenty of embarrassing things happen to 
me. Here we go. | was walking through the mall and 
tripped, spilling soda all over my favorite shirt. 


Whitlock: [SMILES OR SMIRKS] Looks like Jon's the 
victim this round! When you decide to drive home 
immediately to wash your shirt, you end up avoiding a 
later bout of horrendous traffic caused by a three-car 
crash. 


Enriquez: Hmm. When you get stuck in the traffic... you 
decide to listen to the radio to calm your nerves. A 
minute in, you hear your mother's favorite song. It makes 
you realize you almost forgot her birthday. 


Whitlock: Well, damn. 


Gerima: Game's called "You Never Know", right? So... 
when | forget my mother's birthday, |, uh, | quickly host a 
family dinner on the next available weekend. And then | 
don't get food poisoning from the leftovers in the fridge. 
The ones | was originally planning on eating because 
normal weekends are for being lazy. 


Enriquez: To be fair, food poisoning is awful. 


Whitlock: Yeah, you don't want to go through that 
yourself. When you get food poisoning from eating lazy 
leftovers, you... call up a friend to keep an eye on you 
and your vomit. Turns out, that friend was thinking of 
disappearing for a few days to go on a spontaneous 
vacation, and they borrowed something from you that 
they don't return until you remind them about it before 
they leave. 


Gerima: [CHEERFUL TONE NOTED] | can relate to 
that. Sometimes | ended up borrowing my own things. 
Manuel? 


Enriquez: Hmm. When your friend skips town and 
doesn't return your stuff, you go to their house to ask for 
it back. They're not home, so you check your closet for 
extras of that thing they borrowed. And your digging in 
the closet shakes up a bunch of spiders that were 
thinking of moving in. They go outside and don't make 
webs in your clothes. 


Gerima: So... when spiders make webs in my clothes... 
| don't know if | want to throw those out, or burn them 
instead. 


Whitlock: Maybe both. 


Gerima: Sure, Sarah. Anyway, | dispose of the spider- 
clothes, and | go out and buy some new clothes to 
replace them. And that includes something for the fancy 
party | have to attend in a week, and | end up not 
embarrassing myself because | would have otherwise 
forgotten to get something fancy to wear. 


Enriquez: [SARCASM DETECTED] Thank you, spiders. 


Whitlock: When you embarrass yourself going to a 
fancy party with not-fancy-enough clothes, you excuse 
yourself early and don't get involved in the big fight that 
breaks out over which wine was supposed to be served 
with dessert. 


Enriquez: A big fight over dessert wine? At a fancy 
party? What are the chances of that kind of disaster 
happening? 


Gerima: Well... you never know. 


Conversation continues for thirty minutes and forty-three 
seconds. The "cycle" ends with Whitlock describing a 
convoluted scenario involving a waterslide, a trampoline, 
and a goat wearing a jetpack. Whitlock has finished three 
bottles of beverage at the conclusion. Enriquez half of 
one bottle, Gerima almost one bottle. 


Concluding notes: The first scenario may have been 
better solved by asking a passerby to exchange their 
shirt. It is assumed the passerby will not be averse to 
grape soda. Gerima would have potentially acquired a 
valuable acquaintance, who would additionally serve as 
a preventative measure for future shirt-related incidents. 


End of entries reached for Compilation Sweep 3. Mission 


Elapsed Time: 13 days ETA Venusian Colony: 349 days