Appendix B: History of SCP-3028. 


Recovered documentation indicates that SCP-3028 was made in 
early 2011 by two individuals known only by their pseudonyms, "Hat 
Trick 6" and "DREAmS2", both of which are active in the New York 
City anomalous art community. It was auctioned off at the 2011 
Urban Nomads Auction? for $2,000 USD to Nicole McConnell, an 
Albany-based lawyer and art collector. McConnell's diary describes 
a 'morbid fascination’ with SCP-3028; she would regularly catalog 
the statements she found most disagreeable. 


On 2015-05-02, Nicole McConnell died of natural causes at the age 
of 66; as per her will, her art collection was distributed among her 
grandchildren. SCP-3028 was given to Trevor Stiles, a 23-year-old 


software engineer living in Boston, Massachusetts. Stiles claims to 
have originally used SCP-3028 primarily to grow vegetables for 
personal consumption; however, after several months, he began to 
use SCP-3028 to produce opinion pieces that he would submit to 
various publications as a practical joke. When several of these 
pieces were published and attracted considerable attention, Stiles 
instead created websites under various pseudonyms for the express 
purpose of hosting SCP-3028-produced content; when a piece was 
published, he would then (with the assistance of several associates) 
draw attention to it on social media, generating advertising revenue 
when incredulous or amused readers visited the site to read the 
piece. 


In February of 2016, Stiles left his prior place of employment to 
operate a start-up business based on the aforementioned revenue 
model. He hired three employees to perform curation, gardening, 
search engine optimization, and other miscellaneous duties. One, in 
violation of a non-disclosure agreement they had signed upon being 
hired, described SCP-3028 and its effects on several social media 
accounts. The Foundation performed a routine investigation, after 
which SCP-3028 was confiscated, all relevant documentation was 
retrieved, and all persons of interest were amnesticized. 


Appendix C: Proposed amendment to containment procedures 
made by Dr. Grimes, SCP-3028's HMCL supervisor: 


Personnel should be screened for appropriate 
temperament before assignment to SCP-3028. 


Commentary by Dr. Grimes: 


Initially, my concern for this object was that exposure to 
deliberately provocative political diatribes en masse 
would be detrimental to the psyche of researchers who 
grew and transcribed them — or at least, those 
researchers who couldn't stay emotionally detached (and 
the botany department training does not stress emotional 
detachment). 


This turned out not to be a problem — for one, most 
researchers are already subject to bigoted statements 


that are both aimed at their particular demographic and 
popular among large segments of the population, so 
SCP-3028's provocations do not compare. Beyond that, 
most of the researchers who did have difficulty handling 
the work were prompt and professional in their requests 
for reassignment. 


A more pressing issue is that on two occasions, 
researchers have actively requested assignment to 
SCP-3028 and remained on the project even while it 
caused them distress. In both cases, the researchers 
would spend extended periods of time reading archived 
material produced by SCP-3028, expressing dismay or 
anger when presented with opinions that deeply 
conflicted with their worldview or represented forms of 
discrimination to which they were subject. Over time, this 
affected the quality of their research and ability to work 
with other researchers. Upon confrontation, both 
admitted to using SCP-3028-produced content as a 
method of deliberately causing themselves distress. 


Needless to say, use of an SCP object for self-harm is 
unprofessional, and personnel with these tendencies 
should not be permitted to work on SCP-3028. 


Footnotes 

1. The minimum observed time between an event occurring and 
SCP-3028-1 generating a statement that refers to it is 54 minutes. 
2. DREAmsS is speculated to have also been involved in the creation 
ofSCP-2015-. 

3. A week-long annual auction held by members of the NYC anart 
community in a different, difficult-to-access location each year; 
generally attended by 200-500 individuals and raises upwards of 
$500,000 USD for charitable causes. 


SCP-3029: KIC 8462852 (""Tabby's Star") 


Item #: SCP-3029 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Because of the size and 
distance of SCP-3029, full containment is impossible. Some aspects 
of SCP-3029 are already well-known among civilian media outlets, 
so completely hiding the anomaly through amnestics or editing of 
scientific data is implausible. However, such methods may be 
employed to convince astronomers that the observed dimming 
pattern is the result of dust clouds or comets obscuring the star from 
view. 


Description: SCP-3029 is the cause of the phenomenon affecting 
KIC 8462852, an F-type main sequence star located in the Cygnus 
constellation, roughly 1,280 ly from Earth. This star dims periodically 
- while it was first assumed that this indicated a transiting exoplanet, 
the irregular nature of this dimming ruled out that possibility. 


SCP-3029 has been determined to be an array of large, reflective 
objects,! in an orbit around the star with an average altitude of . 
AU. It is currently believed that these function as solar collectors, 
and have been known to obscure a maximum of over 20% of the 
star's light. 


The star system also appears to move at a calculated rate of roughly 
0.1c relative to the Earth. The cause of this motion is a large curved 
reflector,2 measuring roughly 2 AU across and directed 
perpendicular to the galactic plane. This reflector is aligned such 
that only the darkened side is visible from Earth, but at no point 
obscures KIC 8462852. Furthermore, it is positioned such that 
photon pressure cancels its gravitational attraction to its parent star, 
and directs all light, radiation, and emitted particles in the opposite 
direction. 


SCP-368: Paper Crane 


Item #: SCP-368 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-368 has not yet warranted 
any need for containment. Though it has the movement patterns and 
behavior common to a normal bird, neither it nor any of its copies 
(see Addendum) have shown any desire to migrate from the offices 
in which they are stored. 


Description: SCP-368 is an animate origami crane folded from 
ornate, heavy-stock paper. Left to its own devices, it will perch, 
preen, fly from platform to platform, groom, and occasionally 
construct a makeshift nest out of nearby office supplies. It responds 
to human touch affectionately, much as a domesticated bird would. 
The item's demeanor is, on the whole, friendly, and it has been 
observed to perch on the shoulders of various SCP personnel. 
Though the item needs no source of nourishment, it appears to 
"sleep" at night in that it places its head under its wing. Studying the 
physical properties of SCP-368 has proven difficult: the item seems 
to interpret attempts to capture or contain it as a game and has 
displayed considerable agility and resourcefulness in evading even 
the most focused attempts at containment. How SCP-368 stays 
airborne and maintains its stability while airborne are still not known. 


History: SCP-368 was discovered in an office building in ; 
Japan, in 19 . (now employed as [14-1158]), a former 
employee at the aforementioned building, found the item in a closet 
full of office supplies. Upon discovery of SCP-368, 14-1158 
managed to gain its trust in order to move it to a more secure 
location. Psychological evaluations of 14-1158 indicated her to be of 
sufficient mental stability and acuity to warrant a position within the 
SCP organization. 


Cross-SCP Warnings: It is recommended that SCP-368 be isolated 


This directed emission produces a small prograde thrust, causing a 
noticeable acceleration in the entire system, that will eventually lead 
to its escape from the gravity well of the Milky Way. Assuming 
constant acceleration to reach its current speed, it is believed that 
this "thruster" has been in operation for over a century. 


No information is currently known about either the creators of these 
megastructures, or their motivation for accomplishing a project of 
this scale. 


Vv SCP-3029 REVISION 11/04/2019 [EXPAND] ¥ 
Item #: SCP-3029 
Object Class: Neutralized 


Special Containment Procedures: Due to the events of 
the Peregrine-14 mission, SCP-3029 and its host star 
are no longer detectable through any means available to 
the Foundation. This fact must be concealed from civilian 
society through the use of amnestics as well as by 
manually editing any data produced by any relevant 
space telescopes. 


The original anomalous observations of SCP-3029 are to 
be replicated perfectly, to prevent the growth of civilian 
suspicion. 


Description: Unchanged from original documentation. 


Addendum 1: The Peregrine-14 Mission 


On 05/30/2019, it was decided by an 8-5 vote of the O5 
Council that the potential for civilian discovery of 
SCP-3029 had become too significant to ignore, and that 
an exploration team must be sent to learn more about 
the anomaly. The journey of nearly 1300 ly was to be 
undertaken through the use of Temporal Sinks3, of the 
design used to explore SCP-3200 in the Peregrine-9 


mission eight years earlier. 


Peregrine-14 Expedition Details 


Objective: Collect data regarding the nature of 
SCP-3029, and its creators. If possible, 
develop an effective containment method. 


Crewmembers: Denise Perez, Mission 
Commander; Researcher Jonathan Daniels, 
Ship's Engineer; and Researcher Eric Kim, 
Containment Specialist. 


Flight Details: Mission will take place from 
10/01/19 to 10/22/19. Flight time using 
temporal sinks will occupy roughly two weeks 
of total mission time as measured from Earth, 
with a one-way flight time of seven days, 
during which the crew will be cryogenically 
frozen. This comparatively extended flight time 
is mainly to overcome the considerable 
difference in velocity between Earth and 
SCP-3029. 


Addendum 2: Peregrine-14 Audio and Text Logs 
Earth Date: 10/08/19 
[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT] 
Perez: Good, this is working. Command - 


Daniels: Wow. thirteen-hundred light-years 
later. Damn, temporal sinks are cool. 


Perez: Shut it, Daniels - Anyway, we've all 
come out of Cryo just fine. The skip's visible 
ahead and, well... We knew it was big, but 
there's a difference between knowing that 
intellectually and actually looking at a solar 
array bigger than the Earth's orbit. 


Kim: It is pretty impressive, I've got to admit. | 
guess I'm supposed to figure out some kind of 
containment for that monster. 


Perez: [typing] Wow, uh, we've got some 
bigger problems right now. I'm looking at the 
diagnostics and... everything's down. | only 
have access to this mic, life support, and the 
comms systems. Everything else is offline. 


Daniels: Shit, really? We're awake for all of 
thirty seconds and everything fucking breaks? 
That means the reactor is offline too, so we're 
on backup power. Perez, shut it down. | gotta 
find out what's wrong here. 


Perez: Fair enough. Peregrine-14 signing off 
for now. 


[END TRANSCRIPT] 


Note that without a functioning reactor, and with only life 
support under power, the Peregrine-14 spacecraft's 
backup battery should function for at least four weeks. 


Earth Date: 10/18/19 
[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT] 


Perez: Hello, Command - assuming you do 
actually get to hear this at some point - we're 
still dead in space but we think we know why. 


Daniels (Distant): We've got some kind of 
interference from the structure. 


Perez: Yeah. We don't know if it's just a 
property of the anomaly or if its creators are 
deliberately screwing us, but we're not going 
anywhere anytime soon. 


Daniels (Distant): This is really freaking 


weird. Nothing works, but | don't know why. 
Nothing is actually damaged, it's just... off. 
Just stopped. Some field or signal or whatever 
has just switched it all off. 


Kim (Distant): Anything | can do to help out? 
Maybe we can block it somehow. 


Daniels (Distant): Working on it. Not like I've 
just got a bunch of telekill on this ship with me. 


Kim (Distant): That's not how that works. 
That's not at all how that stuff works. 


Daniels (Distant): I'm sorry, | didn't realize. 
I'm not a containment specialist who didn't 
bother to bring anything useful to an anomaly 
the size of a fucking star system. 


Perez: Shut it, guys. We're here to work, not 
fight. Command, Peregrine-14 out. Gotta 
conserve power until we can actually solve this 
problem here. 


[END TRANSCRIPT] 


Personal Log: Jonathan Daniels 
Date: 10/19/19 


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RCS v 
Sensors Y 
Cryov 
T-Sinks ¥ 


I've evaluated all that so far. It should all be working, it just 
weird things in the logs, too. 


We didn't wake up from Cryo because the computer shut i 
same. Reverse thrust was never triggered. We just sorta s 
things - this ship has been under skip control for at least th 


We aren't actually in a proper orbit around the star either. | 
from falling in. Don't know what. 


Further question. Why build a Shkadov Thruster? Why wo 
Are they trying to get somewhere in particular, or do they j 


I'd just like to note that | don't get paid enough for this shit. 


One more note - | was looking out the window earlier, and 
in a flash of yellow light. Dunno where it came from. Don't 
freaking me out, and it doesn't help that the ship is dead in 


Got a plan though, about that last bit. Gonna tell Perez abc 


Earth Date: 10/20/19 
[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT] 


Perez: Well, we might have something. It's a 
longshot, but it's something. 


[Perez pauses for 3 seconds] 


Perez: We think it's some kind of deliberate 
jamming. We're gonna see if we can send a 
signal to the Skip, try to negotiate or... 

something. Frankly it's not a very good plan. 


Daniels: I've got the communication array set 
up. We can try to send out a message on 
pretty much all radio frequencies whenever. 
Wait... do we actually know what we're going 
to say? 


Kim: Something simple. Maybe just list out 
prime numbers, let them know we're 
intelligent. 


Perez: That's a solid start. Do it. 


Daniels: /typing] Starting transmission. Every 
three seconds it spits out another number. 


[Silence for 10 seconds] 


Daniels: So, uh, how long are we doing this 
for? 


Perez: Until we get a response. 
[Silence for 20 seconds] 


Perez: This may take a while. I'm shutting off 
the mic until we have something to report. 


[END TRANSCRIPT] 
Peregrine-14 Broadcast: 


2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59. 
disabled. 


Earth Date: 10/20/19 
[BEGIN TRANSCRIPT] 


Perez: Command, this is Peregrine-14. We've 
got some news. As of roughly, what, 30 
seconds ago? 


Daniels: Yeah. First clue we had was that our 
comms failed. Something interrupted our little 
counting project, and given the circumstances, 
it's pretty clear what that was. 


Kim: Couple hours later the whole system just 
shot off into the night. The star, the skip, 
everything. Gone. Sadly, our cameras had all 
been offline since before we entered the 
system. We have nothing useful at all to 
provide. 


Perez: Woah. Might be wrong about that, Kim. 
Our hardware is all back on, as of five seconds 
ago. 


Daniels: Shit, really? What've the sensors 
got? Anything? 


Perez: Gravity's still there. Just hasn't caught 
up with us yet - speed of light delay. Give ita 
few minutes. Maybe we can figure out what 
happened. 


[Ten Minutes of Recording have been 
Removed for Brevity] 


Perez: Wow, that's bizarre! I'm reading a 
gravitational field from the direction 3029 flew 
off in, for just a single tick. Looks like they 
Temporal Sink-ed the whole system out of 
here.