Feeders") tasked with boarding any civilian vessels that 
approach the zone. If SCP-2956 makes any movement 
which is seen as atypical for SCP-2956, it is to be shot at 
by any anti-submarine weapons available, in an attempt 
to force it to dive. Any Foundation vessels nearby 
SCP-2956 must deploy a constant channel marker on 
the frequency which SCP-2956-1 broadcasts. 


In the event that SCP-2956 becomes undetectable, 
Station Lockton-12 "2956-Ganymede" is to be activated 
on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, and must be 
actively maintained at this point in an effort to detect 
SCP-2956 during its annual crossing of the Bering Strait. 
At the point of a positive detection, the primary 
containment procedures are to be reinstalled, with 
Lockton-12 being deactivated. 


SCP-2956-2 is to be contained in a Standard Humanoid 
Containment cell (SHC) at Site-77. SCP-2956-2 must get 
no more than 4 hours of sleep at a time, and must be 
actively engaged in any activity available. This includes 
television shows and films from the staff depository at 
Site-77, played constantly on a closed television set in its 
cell. SCP-2956-2 is also to be given a set of puzzles to 
complete at least fourteen (14) times a day, along with a 
numerous short questions sourced from worldwide IQ 
tests. SCP-2956-2 is to be told that completing puzzles 
will grant him more hours of sleep. SCP-2956-2 is to be 
regarded as a Priority 1 individual, and must have 
immediate access to the onsite clinic in the case of a 
medical emergency, as well as having a regular medical 
and psychological evaluation bi-weekly. 


Whenever SCP-2956-2 is in REM sleep, SCP-2956 is to 
be closely monitored, and forced to dive whenever 
possible. This is due to the heightened state of activity 
which SCP-2956 has shown during times when 
SCP-2956-2 is unconscious. 


In the case of an unexpected expiration of SCP-2956-2, 
the following is to be conducted, which is hereby referred 


to as an Omega Scenario: 


¢ SCPF Faithfull and Turgenev are to use any anti- 

submarine weaponry available to force SCP-2956 

to dive. 

All Foundation vessels are to deploy depth 

charges of varying magnitudes to force SCP-2956 

to dive, and to keep SCP-2956 below it's maximum 

launching depth. 

¢ MTF lota-8 is to board SCP-2956 if possible and 
force an entry. In the event of SCP-2956-2's death, 
the neutralization of SCP-2956 is authorized by O5 
Command directly, as per Order 2956-Oceanic 
Supremacy 


Description: SCP-2956 is a Project 941 "Akula" class Soviet 
submarine currently traversing the world's oceans in a semi-random 
pattern. As of / / , all attempts to intercept SCP-2956, ranging 
from using antisubmarine torpedoes and depth charges, to manually 
boarding the submarine during its rare surfacing events, have been 
met with failure. SCP-2956 is able to dive to depths far beyond the 
tolerance of most Project 941 submarines that were in service, and 
is able to dive at an exceptionally fast rate, allowing it to evade all 
attempts to contain it. 


SCP-2956 spends most of its time circumnavigating the world at an 
average depth of 1200 - 1500m below the surface, in a number of 
different routes which normally take it once through the Bering Strait. 
SCP-2956 has also regularly been observed to rise to the surface 
and follow nearby civilian ships, before diving once again. Due to 
SCP-2956 being a Project 941 submarine, it is believed to have an 
arsenal of torpedoes at its disposal. Despite this, SCP-2956 has 
made no attempt to attack civilian or Foundation vessels, and each 
surfacing event is believed to be SCP-2956 investigating the intent 
of nearby vessels. Because of this, SCP-2956 is not considered a 
directly hostile entity to civilian ships. SCP-2956 also spends up to 3 
- 4 months in "hibernation", most often staying at the bottom of deep 
sea trenches, most frequently the Java Trench or Marianas Trench. 
During these times, SCP-2956-2 reports a significant reduction in 
hallucinations and images originating from SCP-2956. The 


mechanisms SCP-2956 uses to maintain structural integrity are 
currently unknown, along with its apparent regenerative abilities. 


SCP-2956 is also able to "shed" its hull, replacing it with a new hull 
via currently unknown means. This allows SCP-2956 to maintain full 
structural integrity and repair any damages done by Foundation anti- 
submarine weaponry. As of / / , there are twelve (12) hull 
coverings left on the seabed, mostly concentrated in SCP-2956's 
"hibernation" spots, such as the Kuril-Kamchathka Trench and 
Marianas Trench. Apart from the physical anomalies, SCP-2956 has 
also been observed to broadcast a series of pseudorandom 
repeating tones and Soviet marching songs on a transponder 
system located within the vessel’. SCP-2956-1 has made efforts to 
communicate via this method, but these have been rare events. The 
speech is difficult to decipher, and the voice itself may not originate 
from a human larynx, but instead from somewhere within the 
submarine itself. 


SCP-2956 is not autonomous, and is instead controlled by an entity 
hereby referred to as SCP-2956-1. It is currently unknown how 
SCP-2956-1 controls the submarine, whether SCP-2956-1 is 
incorporeal in nature, or is the submarine itself. Due to this 
ambiguity, SCP-2956-1 will henceforth be regarded as an entirely 
separate entity to SCP-2956 (See Operation DP report). 
SCP-2956-1 claims tobe lvan __, a Soviet military officer who had 
died in a fuel explosion in Almaty, Kazakhstan sometime in the 
1980s. According to Soviet documents, Ivan died of his injuries, with 
his body interred at a GRU site in Murmansk. 


SCP-2956-2 is a 48 year old Caucasian male, with a height of 
1.78m. SCP-2956-2 is Peter , an American citizen who had 
gained citizenship after defecting from the Russian Government 
during the fall of the USSR in 1991. SCP-2956-2 appeared to show 
knowledge of the Foundation's existence before his containment, 
which has lead intelligence officials to believe that SCP-2956-2 may 
have been a part of GRU Division "P". However, when questioned, 
SCP-2956-2 affirms that he was not part of the branch and only 
knew them by name, and simply knew of the Foundation due to his 
time in the Russian Government. SCP-2956-2 was first discovered 
after actively seeking out Site- in [LOCATION REDACTED]. 


personnel as it rampaged through the facility. Approximately sixty 
(60) minutes after emerging from the pool, subject ceased function 
and powered down. Subject was dismantled and its power cell was 
disposed of. Subject's remains are under study. 


Note from Area Head Dr. : That's thrice now that 
we've had to fall back on Pandora's Box to deal with stuff 
coming out of SCP-354. Able can't complain, though... 
you can tell he enjoyed fighting SCP-354-11. Maybe we 
should set up some kind of "hotline" to MTF Q-7? 


Document 354-3-a: Log of Exploratory Mission 354 Alpha 


See log for details. 


Note from Area Head Dr. : It has been twenty-two 
months since the last entity emerged from the pool. 
Before this, the longest period of time between 
emergences was eight months. | suspect this means one 
of two things. Either the Red Pool has "died" or "powered 
down" or whatever the correct term for it is; or it is 
"Charging up" for something big to come through. O5 
believes the former is the most likely explanation, and 
has recalled 30% of our total personnel and cut 25% of 
our funding. While | can only hope that they are correct, 
if the latter situation is true, we're soon to face some 
terrible monstrosity and we won't have anywhere near 
the force necessary to deal with it. | worry for all of our 
safety. 


Document 354-4: Event Log 354-20 

In the morning of [DATA EXPUNGED] the entire staff of Area-354 
evacuated the facility. However, the staff also shut down power to 
the area and took a number of supplies and vehicles from the 
facility, indicating that the evacuation had not been done due to an 
emergency. Mobile Task Force Theta-12 was dispatched to 
investigate the cause of the evacuation and, if possible, make 
contact with Area's staff. However before MTF ©-12 could make 


Hippo-Cortex Neurological Analysis has shown that SCP-2956-2 
exhibits a Class IV telepathic connection between him and 
SCP-2956-1, who he claims is his biological brother, lvan 
SCP-2956-2 describes being able to communicate with 
SCP-2956-1, as well as receiving a series of hallucinations and 
mental images from SCP-2956-1 of varying degrees of lucidity. 
SCP-2956 appears to be more active when SCP-2956-2 is in REM 
sleep or unconscious, for example appearing at the surface more 
often and following Foundation and civilian vessels closely. To date, 
there has been only one incident of SCP-2956 firing an SLBM2, 
during which SCP-2956-2 had undergone cardiac arrest (see 
Incident-2956 report). This supports the hypothesis that SCP-2956 
is kept in a docile state (Code: Non-Nuclear) via a constant 
telepathic connection to SCP-2956-2. 


It is currently unknown how SCP-2956-1 came to control SCP-2956, 
or how SCP-2956 was originally created, as no GRU documents 
exist pertaining to a date when SCP-2956 was first created. 
SCP-2956-2 accounts of the process in which SCP-2956-1 was 
created in its current form, or how he was involved with the process, 
is vague and scattered, with possible false memories being present. 


Discovery Log: SCP-2956 first came to the Foundation's attention 
in 1987, after a series of unusual events took place in Severodvinsk 
Port on the White Sea. Foundation satellites detected a mass, of 
unknown material, steadily growing in the port's dry docks. After six 
(6) days, the mass formed into a fully functioning Akula class 
submarine, before leaving the port entirely. Foundation vessels 
based in Svalbard were alerted and attempted to intercept 
SCP-2956. This attempt failed, however, as SCP-2956 had dived at 
an unknown point, and wasn't sighted again until 1995. 


In 1995, the vessel was observed off the coast of Madagascar after 
all other Akula class submarines had been either decommissioned 
or accounted for. Foundation operatives were able to attach a GPS 
device to the top of its hull. Three months later, the current 
containment procedures were adopted, and preparations were made 
to attempt a containment of the anomaly. 


+ //fileserv:/S:/interview_logs_ SCP-2956-2_[ ] 


Interviewee: SCP-2956-2 
Interviewer: Dr Froon, Site-77 
Date: [DATE REDACTED] 


<START LOG> 


Dr Froon: Hello, SCP-2956-2. I'm Dr Karen 
Froon. I'll be your interviewer over the course 
of your stay here. 


SCP-2956-2: Please, call me Peter. 


Dr Froon: Of course. So, | just wanted to ask 
some basic questions. You've spoken to our 
other Doctor, so you know what's going on? 


SCP-2956-2: Yes, | guess | do. I'm to do these 
puzzles to keep my mind off of Ivan. 


Dr Froon: SCP-2956-1? What can you tell us 
about him? 


SCP-2956-2: Well, | guess I'll start off by 
saying he was my younger brother. We only 
had each other to begin with, our mother was 
always out, busy. His life took a somewhat 
different turn. He rose up in the military after | 
had enlisted him, because he was too shy to 
do it himself. He really made our mother 
proud, and every other comrade, really. | didn't 
hear much from him until the event. 


Dr Froon: And what can you tell us about this 
event? 


SCP-2956-2: Okay, sure. He died, to put it 
simply, died in a fuel explosion, somewhere. 
They showed us his body, burnt and 
unrecognizable. They took it away, cut it up, 
repurposed parts of his body in a lab 
somewhere. Then they took his 


consciousness, removed it from his brain and 
placed it inside a computer. He told me about 
how his world was 2D, completely 
incomprehensible to the mind. He was... 
noticeably different, after that. It was quite 
obvious how removing his mind from his body 
had messed with him. (pause) Don't be 
surprised if | seem unfazed by all this, I've had 
years to allow it to toil away in my head. 


Dr Froon: So they had trapped his 
consciousness inside of a computer? And then 
what? 


SCP-2956-2: | don't know, | guess they put it 
into the submarine? Like | said to your other 
doctor, | have no idea what went on with that 
thing. They put me through some treatment, 
which is how | was able to communicate with 
him. | was unconscious for most of it, so | don't 
really know what happened. They just 
released me after a couple of weeks and | got 
back to my government job, and I've been able 
to communicate with him ever since. The 
doctors told me that they needed a familiar 
genetic partner to allow the procedure to work. 
Seeing as | was his only remaining family 
member, they took me from my home and 
recruited me for the job. 


Dr Froon: What does he say, if anything? Do 
you communicate often? 


SCP-2956-2: | very rarely communicate with 
him, something | still feel quite guilty about, but 
| can't. If | do, it'll open the floodgates, and he 
won't stop. He'll send me hallucinations, 
images, everything. It was hard to concentrate 
ever since | defected, because he's always 
been there. At first he begged me to give him 
full control, then his pleading stopped and he 


moved on to sending me hallucinations and 
mental images. He tells me, often, that he's in 
pain, and it hurts. | don't know if he's telling the 
truth or just trying to make me feel 
sympathetic. 


Dr Froon: Can you elaborate on what he's 
been telling you? He said that he was in pain? 


SCP-2956-2: He is the submarine after all. | 
don't know what they did to him, nor do | want 
to know. He thinks that, somehow, if he 
completes his mission, they'll be able to turn 
him back. I've told him, many times, that the 
GRU aren't as big as they once were, that they 
don't care about him, but he sees it as his only 
hope. 


Dr Froon: And his mission, | assume, is to 
launch nuclear missiles? We've done analysis 
on the vessel, and have found evidence of 
warheads. When the USSR fell, he was to be 
used, correct? 


SCP-2956-2: Exactly, and I'm the contingency. 
| act as a mental firewall, stopping him from 
launching nukes and attacking vessels. My job 
was to give him control when the time was 
right, all the way up to g/asnost, although they 
were banking on me not defecting in '91. | 
know that if | gave him the keys, he'd do it. No 
doubt. He sees it as his only option, really. 


Dr Froon: And that's why he's been sending 
you hallucinations? 


SCP-2956-2: To get me to relent. He wants 
me to give up and give him the keys, but | 
haven't done it yet. Before | arrived here, Ivan 
was really going for it. | worked data entry jobs 
in the day, then came home and did word 


puzzles, all day, just to keep him at bay. | 
nearly slipped up a couple of time, nearly gave 
him the keys. | remember one time | got fired 
from work, and | was so close to giving Ivan 
full control. | still would have loved to have 
seen my boss's face melt in nuclear fire. God 
damn. 


Dr Froon: How did you find us, anyway? You 
found our secure facility and drove your way 
through the gate with the intent of being 
captured. 


SCP-2956-2: | saw a document of known 
Foundation locations during my time in Russia. 
That one stuck out to me because it was near 
the location that was in that Schwarzenegger 
film. 


Dr Froon: We'll do some follow up on that, I'm 
sure. But lastly, | have one more question. Are 
there any leads, any documents, locations, 
anything to do with the GRU which may lead 
us to more information regarding your brother 
Ivan?