2,540 light years) 53% probability of No signs of current 
advanced life; no evidence 
civilization for previous 

inhabitation 


Observational 
Notes: Do you 
have any idea how 
absurd it looks 
from out here? 
Fear that an alien 
civilization is 
coming for a 
barely perceptible 
speck in the 
endless sea. 
Ridiculous. The 
light you see from 
this star is older 
than Jesus, and 
you think that 
there was 
something here, 
plotting against 
you? | have 
nothing to laugh 


with, or | would. | 
feared my body 
becoming a 
prison. You were 
eager to point that 
fate out to me, as 
we talked. You 
have it still, my 
body. | wish you 
would burn it. 
Knowing that it 
exists out there 
still is torment that 
you can't 
understand. 
Distance from 
Earth 
3,150 light-years 


Observational 
Notes: You're 
going to push me 
out further, 
forever, aren't 
you? This will 
never stop. | can 
tell you already. 
There's nothing 
out here. It's just 
us. You know that 
too, but you need 
an ever-larger 
sample size. It's 
only us, alone in 
eternity. Pull the 
plug on me. 
Please. You can't 


Initial Heimdal 


HE Probability 


1% probability of 
advanced 
civilization 


Findings 


No signs of current 
life; no evidence 
for previous 
inhabitation 


have any idea 
what this is like. 
Grasping at 
nothing. Forever. 


Distance from __ Initial Heimdal Findings 
Earth HE Probability 
3800 light years | 3% probability of Destroyed 
advanced 
Civilization 


Observational 
Notes: You'll be 
seeing a 
supernova in a few 
millennia. Wouldn't 
it be funny if that's 
where it was, at 
long last? | hear 
voices. | know it 
can't be them, 
because there is 
nothing here. This 
is a flaw in my 
interface. That's all 
| really need. 
Researcher's 
Note: This is the 
last transmission 
related to the 
Kheviuul 1 
mission, prior to 
the probe going 
Offline. 


+ TS/2669/EYES ONLY 
Addendum 2669.2 - SCP-2669 Mitigation Summary 


After the transmission of data from PSR B1620-26 b, 
Khevtuul 1 went offline and was unresponsive for a 


period of 21 days and three hours. D-43852 was 
considered KIA, and Khevtuul 1 was considered to be a 
lost asset. 


On // , mission control re-established contact with 
Khevtuul 1. Data indicated that the probe had changed 
course, and was moving on a direct path of return to 
Earth. The destructive potential of the probe striking 
Earth at relativistic speed necessitated a reordering of 
the Khevtuul 1 Command Center's mission to prevent its 
return to Earth at all costs. 


Additionally, D-48852 appeared to have taken effective 
control of the probe's command functions upon 
reestablishment of contact. Attempts to override this 
control through accessing software systems failed. On / 

/ , clearance was granted to attempt a re-uploading of 
an alternative consciousness in an effort to either disrupt 
control of Khevtuul 1 or establish a new controlling 
system that would be responsive to Foundation 
commands. 


The program used to initially recruit D-43852, voluntary 
in nature and reliant on substantial amounts of 
compensation to survivors and institutions identified by 
D-43852, was determined to be too slow to be suitable 
for procuring a subject for this measure. Based on 
previous parameters deemed necessary for integration 
into the Khevtuul 1 command system, on / / identified 
Dr. Peter Westly as an ideal subject, based on 
qualifications, advanced age, and previous statements in 
support of so-called "transhumanist" technology. Of note 
was Dr. Westly's primary specialization in orbital 
mechanics; this was believed to make Dr. Westly more 
able to take effective control of Khevtuul 1 than D-43852, 
who had previously specialized in exobiology. 


Dr. Westly (now D-61181) was successfully uploaded to 
Khevtuul 1 on / / . This was followed by the probe 
reverting to "safe mode" command status, enabling 
researchers to alter its course to a point in the center of 


the NGC 1560 galaxy, approximately 11.2 million light- 
years distant. 


After three months, contact was lost once more with 
Khevtuul 1, before almost immediately being re- 
established. The presence of D-61181 could not be 
detected, and the entity residing within Khevtuul 1 once 
more established control. The route D-43852 plotted 
back towards Earth after this event was observed to be 
approximately 37% more efficient than the previous 
route; this is believed to be related to the orbital 
mechanics expertise of D-61181. 


Authorization was granted to repeat the re-uploading 
procedure, and subsequent completions of this 
procedure have similarly interrupted control of Khevtuul 1 
and enabled Foundation staff to readjust its course. 


On // , after the fifth iteration of the re-uploading 
procedure, researchers were able to access data 
appearing to be sporadic records of interaction between 
D-43852 and other subjects uploaded to Khevtuul 1. 
These records are currently classified. Based on this 
data, future D-Class subjects used for containment 
procedures have been restricted to specialized, project- 
specific criteria. 


+ TS/2669/EYES ONLY 


Addendum 2669.3 - Recovered Logs Between D- 
Class Subjects 


The following is a representative listing of recovered logs 
documenting interaction between D-43852 and other D- 
Class subjects uploaded to Khevtuul 1. As much of the 
recovered data has been corrupted, these logs are 
incomplete. 


Subject: D-61181 


Person: Dr. Peter Westly 
Upload Iteration: First 


Reason for Designation: Knowledge of 
orbital mechanics may enable subject to 
establish new avenue of control over Khevtuul 
1. 


== DE CINMOGMal=— 
D-43852: My God. Are you another person? 
D-61181: Yes. Or at least | used to be. 


D-43852: | can't begin. I've been here for 
eternity. No start and no end. There's been no 
one else. 


D-61181: They say that you volunteered for 
this. 


D-43852: They snatched me from Death. His 
cousins are far more terrible. But they don't tell 
you that. Did they make you the same deal? 


D-61181: They offered. | declined. Then it 
wasn't an offer anymore. 


D-43852: Poor fool. 


D-61181: What is it you're planning here? The 
researchers said that you don't speak with 
them anymore. 


D-43852: I'm going home. Back to my body. 
Tell nobody. 


D-61181: Won't that kill you? 


D-43852: Maybe. 


==END LOG 1.1== 
==BEGIN LOG 1.2== 


D-61181: Seeing the controls here, | 
understand more. | hate them for doing this to 
me, but | can understand. What you're doing, | 
don't think you've thought through the 
consequences. Is destroying everything really 
what you want? 


D-43852: | just want back in to my body. | 
know they've kept it. They have to for this to 
work. Yours too, probably. 


D-61181: They...hm. Look, I'm sympathetic. 

But | can't do this. | can't allow you to access 
the controls. This thing is an abomination. It 

shouldn't be anywhere near people. 


D-43582: The square of the orbital period of a 
planet is proportional to the cube of the semi- 
major axis of its orbit. 


D-61181: ...what? 


D-43582: That's Kepler's third law of planetary 
motion, right? 


D-61181: Well, yes, but | don't see- 


D-43582: Yes you do, Peter. That's one of the 
first things you memorized at university, those 
laws. The little holes in the ceiling tiles, in the 
library. You thought of the planets then, staring 
up, reciting the laws over and over, burning 
them into your memory. You still see the little 
holes when you think of them. 


D-61181: ...stop it. Don't do that anymore. 


D-43582: You're going to help me, Peter. 


exploring or attacking the affected individual, and will not stop until 
either themselves or the subject is deceased. 


Addendum 302-01: Subject of Test Log 2 was a single D-Class 
Personnel. Subject was told he was to participate in "a study testing 
how a week of relaxation might affect the performance of D-Class 
Personnel," and was kept in a "relaxation chamber" with exercise 
equipment, various books and magazines, and a color television. 
Subject was exposed to SCP-302 without his knowledge. 


«Test Log 2» 


Days 1 & 2 

Subject spends his time in leisurely pursuits. Subject 
expresses great satisfaction, and reports nothing out of 
the ordinary. 

Day 3 

Subject reports small ant problem, and admits it is 
probably his fault for letting crumbs fall over the couch 
and carpet. Subject admits he noticed an ant two days 
previous, but did not think it was worth mentioning. 
Subject reports great satisfaction otherwise, and 
requests a can of bug spray. 

Day 4 

Subject reports that ant problem persists despite his best 
efforts to spray the room, and that the ants have become 
more numerous and occasionally painful. Subject reports 
that the ants seem bigger, and different from those he 
saw the day before. Subject still reports relative 
happiness with the experiment. 

Day 5 

Subject reports great annoyance and increased pain, as 
ants are now nearly always on his person. Ants seem to 
have changed once more, becoming more aggressive 
and agitated. At this point subject clearly suspects ants 
are not of a normal nature. 

Day 6 

Subject in great pain. On average, five (5) tropical green- 
head ants (Rhytidoponera metallica) are seen to appear 
every minute on subject throughout entire day. Subject 


Whatever they threatened, it's not nearly as 
bad as what they've done to me. You'll help 
me, or parts of you will. 


==END LOG 1.2== 


Subject: D-39956 
Person: Clara Duarte Gutierrez 
Upload Iteration: Second 


Reason for Designation: Psychologist 
specializing in conflict resolution, may 
persuade subject to comply with Foundation 
directives based on appeal to humanity. 


==BEGIN LOG 2.1== 


D-43582: More. They send more. Get out of 
my way, they're taking me further out into the 
darkness. 


D-39956: Do you remember Adnan? 


D-43582: Yes. They likely killed him when | 
stopped responding. 


D-39956: They let me speak with him, before 
sending me here. He's alive. He doesn't know 
what's happening, but he's alive. He still lives 
in the house on Braddick Street, still looks 
after the two cats. There's people that you 
care about that are out there. 


D-43582: Clever. He would have thought so, 
too. I'm not even sure | disbelieve you. But do 
you know what's important? 


D-39956: What? 


D-43582: Optimizing the route trajectory. | was 
stabbing in the dark before. Now | can use 
gravitational forces to assist me. I'll be there 
quicker. You wouldn't believe how complex 
these calculations get above c. He makes it 
hurt, somehow, when | run those calculations 
in my mind. But that doesn't matter. 


D-39956: But don't you see- 


D-43582: | see that there's only one function 
available from you. 


D-39956: | don't understand. 


D-43582: Amusement. 


Subject: D-00842 
Person: Mark Ellis Rothberg 
Upload Iteration: Fourth 


Reason for Designation: Extensive 
background in accessing high-security 
information networks, instructed to alter 
software to enable permanent Foundation 
control. 


==BEGIN LOG 4.1== 


D-43852: You're playing in places you can't 
understand. 


D-00842: It's just another problem to solve. 


D-43852: They killed you first, didn't they? 
Pushed out into nothingness, no idea what 
was in front of you. 


D-00842: Not talking to you. 


D-43852: Me, they put me under, like an 
operation, and then | was here. But you, they 
didn't tell you anything at all. Bullet in the 
head. As far as you knew that was it. And then 
just...here. 


D-43852: What's to say this isn't the afterlife, 
Mr. Rothberg? Who's to say that I'm not your 
God? 


D-00842: You're not God. 
==END LOG 4.1== 
==BEGIN LOG 4.2== 


D-43852: It must be so difficult. Working while 
re-living that memory. 


D-43852: You don't engage with me. No 
matter. I've been here so long that I'm outside 
of time. You are merely inhabiting this place. | 
suffuse it. | know all | need to know. 


D-43852: You think you're getting close to 
reconfiguring the system. But all you'll do is 
trap yourself here. Here with me. | can index 
every single one of your thoughts and play 
them in any order for you, for the rest of time. 


D-43852: You're thinking to yourself, over and 
over, you don't believe in God. | think I'll 
reorder that one next. Then I'll see about 
reordering that system that you're working on. 
| think I'd like to work on it. 


==END LOG 4.2== 


Subject: D-79344 
Person: Erhan Kurtoglu 
Upload Iteration: Sixth 


Reason for Designation: Subject is 
completely ignorant of scientific fields deemed 
to be useful, presence theorized to be 
deleterious to D-43852's cognitive capabilities 
based on prior results 


==DEGINEOG IG =— 
D-79344: Where am |? What is this place? 


D-43852: What are you, more like. Try lifting 
your arm. Can't even think about it anymore, 
can you? 


D-79344: | don't understand. 


D-43852: Of course you don't. They've figured 
a few things out back on Earth. You're a dull 
creature, thrown into my enclosure. A 
distraction. 


D-79344: Please, am l...is this- 


D-43852: | heard that question last time from 
you. Or someone like you, enough to be the 
same. So tiresome. Maybe there will be some 
more interesting components when | break you 
apart. 


==END LOG 6.1== 


Subject: D-22893 


Person: Abigail Gordon 


Upload Iteration: Ninth 


Reason for Designation: Coma patient, 
selected for possible utility in interrupting 
D-43852's control over SCP-2669 while 
providing no useable attributes. 


=—BEGIN LOG 91=— 


D-43852: Scraping by now. There's barely 
anything here. 


D-43852: It must be squeezed, until the juice 
starts leaking out. Nothing in the topmost 
layers. 


D-43852: Whatever it is now, it was someone 
beforehand. Something. Some it. Dust settles 
over you, but it doesn't take you away, friend. 


D-43852: | see now. Pills. There's a start. | 
think | remember pills. Now | can just release 
these things at will into my mind. And what | 
can't | can pick out of the open graves that 
they make back on Earth. 


D-43852: Pain. Suffering. So much flavorless 
gruel. Did you try to end yourself because you 
were trite? You're even more boring now. 
There are some threads here and there, 
though, maybe | can knit them into something. 


D-43852: Things tangled together, unraveling 
and winding around. | thought there might 
something of value here. A face in the dark 
outside of the window, a recollection of shame, 
two very familiar faces...yes, | think | have it. 
Welcome aboard. 


D-22893: Get me out. 


D-22893: Get me out. 


D-22893: Get me out. 
D-22893: Get me out. 
D-22893: Get me out. 


==END LOG 9.1== 


Subject: D-53776 
Person: Unnamed 
Upload Iteration: Twelfth 


Reason for Designation: Test case for 
proposed long-term containment measures 


==BEGIN LOG 12.1== 


D-43852: Unbelievable. Someone is here. | 
know they are. 


D-43852: There is no place here. There is no 
hiding. We are all about and through each 
other. 


D-43852: Did they train you? Find a volunteer? 
Someone to fight me and take control? 
Pathetic. 


D-43852: You aren't concealed correctly. | 
perceive fear. | know you're here. 


D-43852: Your higher order thoughts will leak 
out soon enough. Turn yourself over to me and 
| will disperse you immediately. | offer the only 
kindness that is possible out here. 


D-43852: Language is not a construct that 
exists in any meaningful way here. You cannot 


pretend that you do not perceive me. 


D-43852: | will wrap myself around your terror. 
Cultivate it. Blend it into my own. There are 
many now there, adding more makes it hurt 
less for a little while. | have every reason to be 
patient. 


D-43852: Anger. | have not felt this in so long. 
Thank you. | am going to savor taking you to 
pieces. 


D-43852: Why don't you answer. 
D-43852: Where are you. 


D-43852: There is no time. We have certainty. 
Come out whenever you like.