a recipient one year younger (with regard to cellular health — 
note that SCP-1716 does not literally transform test subjects 
into younger versions of themselves). 


Transfer of life energy also transfers portions of the memories 
and knowledge of the donor to the recipient. Notes found with 
the device indicate this was not an intended function, but the 
developers were unable to eliminate it. Memory transfer 
occurs randomly; extensive use of SCP-1716 will leave the 
donor mentally incapacitated, while transferring primarily 
incomplete/useless knowledge to the recipient. Recipients are 
generally disoriented and confused while attempting to 
integrate the acquired information, which frequently conflicts 
with their own memories and experiences. 


See experiment of 11/19/1942 as described below. 
Foundation researchers have not replicated this effect, but 
have no reason to disbelieve the report. 


SCP-1716 was obtained by the Foundation in 1942; an anonymous 
contact led Foundation agents to a recently abandoned laboratory, 
where SCP-1716 was found, along with a journal describing its 
development (See Addendum). 


SCP-1716 was extensively tested by Foundation Research and 
Development between 1943 and 19 (when research of this type 
was abolished by O5 Directive 29) in attempts to: 


¢ Improve the efficiency of life energy transfer, making 


SCP-1716 a practical life-extension device. 


¢ Eliminate the effects of SCP-1716 on memory. 


¢ Separate/enhance/control the memory effects. Attempts were 


made to both create a machine for the instant transfer of 
knowledge between two individuals, and to create an early 
version of a Class Omega amnesiic. 


No practical applications of SCP-1716 were successfully developed. 


SCP-1716-1 was confiscated in 20 during a raid on a warehouse 


owned by Marshall, Carter, and Dark. It has been determined to be 
Version 17 of the central device of SCP-1716; the complete 
SCP-1716 in Foundation containment uses Version 4. 


Addendum 1: Extracts from a journal found with SCP-1716 on initial 
containment: 


6/7/42 Received an odd visitor today; calls himself Benjamin 
Phineas Dark.! Strange little man; I'm not sure what to make of him 
— he was driven up here in a Mercedes-Benz limousine like some 
head of state; looks straight out of Victorian England in the suit he 
wore, and carried on about how | am going to help him with his great 
project. | don't think it even occurred to him that | might refuse. 


He came full of high praise for my work in Electronics, and believes 
we can combine my theories with some of his own to produce 
something "truly unique" (in his words). Will find out more shortly. 


6/9/42 Met again with Dark. The man is a complete crackpot as far 
as | can tell, going on about "etheric transfer,” "luminescent vapor 
generation" and other such nonsense. | think he fancies himself as a 
modern-day alchemist. His project is life extension; "it's time to bring 
it out of the Dark Ages" he says. 


What harm can come from listening to his proposal? He clearly has 
money, and no one has approached me about a collaboration in 
what? 15 years? 20? 


6/12/42 Have learned more about Dark's project. It's an abomination 
— transfer life force from one person to another? Where would he 
ever get donors? Dark laughed and said everything is a commodity, 
even life. Especially life. "What would an extra year of life be worth 
to you? What would one less be worth to a 20-year-old?" 


| can't resist thinking about the idea — I'll be 86 next month, after alll. 
What harm can come from it? As | said, the man is a crackpot. 


6/16/42 Received more specifics on what Dark wants me to design. 
He will be supplying components of his own design...didn't want to 
go into detail about how any of it worked. | just need to know the 
input and output, not the process. I'm skeptical, but he's the one in 


charge. 
6/25/42 No idea if it will work, but | can build it to his specifications. 


9/2/42 A prototype is ready. Haven't worked this hard in years. Dark 
wants to test it as soon as possible. Where is he going to get test 
subjects? 


9/5/42 Testing in two hours. | don't know where Dark found such a 
disreputable class of people for his test subjects, or what he told 
them. Can only pray that it doesn't work. 


How did | ever get involved with this? Success, of a sort. The 
recipient does look a good bit better, but seems totally confused and 
disoriented. The donor... Oh, God. Not only was he dead at the end 
of the process, but was crumbling to dust as we tried to move him. 
Dark wasn't even fazed; he chuckled and said "Well, they signed 
their release forms, didn't they?" He assured me that no one will 
ever know the experiment even happened, and his assistants would 
"clean up." 


9/7/42 Want to drop out, but am already into this too deep. To Dark, 
it's a practical matter of controlling the process. 


10/23/42 Ready for testing again. Process should be under more 
control now. 


10/25/42 Much improved, in that at least the test didn't kill anyone. 
The process appears to still be terribly inefficient, and there are 
unwanted side-effects on both test subjects. Apparently, we have 
transferred memories as well as life, and not in any controlled 
fashion. No practical use for this thing unless this effect can be 
removed. 


11/18/42 No luck in removing side-effects. Will try [REDACTED]. 


11/19/42 Tested again. Control of memory effect seems somewhat 
improved. A new issue arose — the recipient was glowing faintly, and 
we all began to feel weaker in his presence. He has been isolated, 
and everyone has been ordered to stay at least 5m away from him. 
What will we do with him? We're not equipped to handle anything 


like this. 


11/20/42 Subject escaped,2 and the guard was found dead, drained 
in the same manner as the first donor. Dark does not seem terribly 
concerned; in fact, he had difficulty concealing his enthusiasm. 
Could he have actually wanted to see this effect? | still feel weak, 
but Dark appears to be fine today. Odd. 


11/21/42 Dark says we have done enough here; that he needs to 
visit up in Maine, then at the Great Library 
(wherever that is). He is planning to take the prototype tomorrow, 
and ordered me to burn all of my notes. Not going to do it. Spoke to 
someone last year who | think can help... Dark will be furious, but 
perhaps he will believe we have been monitored all along. | am 
definitely ill from the brief exposure to that test subject — 
punishment for my selfishness? 


The journal author, [REDACTED], apparently contacted Foundation 
Agent that day, and SCP-1716 was secured before it could be 
moved. Efforts to locate Dark unsuccessful. Author interviewed by 
Foundation agents 11/24/1942; provided no useful information 
beyond what was in his journal. Author deceased, 1/6/1943. 


Addendum 2: 4/12/201 The Foundation has received information 
from a reliable source within the Marshall, Carter, and Dark club that 
The Life Extension Institute is a Marshall, Carter and Dark 
front organization, offering selected members life extension at a cost 
of £[REDACTED] per year. The Institute appears to obtain donors 
from the general public via advertisements for "paid clinical trials." 
Proposal pending to infiltrate the Institute using a Foundation 
operative posing as a donor, to determine whether a fully functional 
version of SCP-1716 now exists (and if so, its location). 


Footnotes 

1. SeePerson-of-Interest File D-012 

2. Subject is believed to have been captured and contained as SCP- 
in 1975. 


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SCP-1717: Green ACRES 


Item #: SCP-1717 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Plants infected with SCP-1717 
shall be confiscated or eradicated by MTF Theta-4. Samples of 
novel species with SCP-1717 shall be collected and remanded to 
Dr. Syril in Bio Site-1 for study. Wild occurrences in areas smaller 
than 1 hectare may be secured or destroyed within 48 hours of 
discovery at the discretion of MTF Theta-4's commanding officer. If 
an affected region in the wild is larger than 1 hectare, or is obviously 
a Cultivated field of any size, the region and an additional buffer 
zone of 1 km beyond the perimeter of the anomaly shall be 
incinerated within 24 hours of discovery. 


In developed countries, immolation operations shall be conducted 
under the guise of wildfires. Subsequent to fire suppression, 
Foundation herbicide GH-5Y shall be applied to the affected area. 
The real estate that corresponds to this area shall be acquired 
according to the Eminent Steward protocol. Arable land so obtained 
shall be left fallow for a minimum of 10 years; once it tests safe for 
cultivation, the assets may be liquidated normally. 


In frontier countries where land stewardship is impractical, fire shall 
be suppressed using Foundation herbicide XK-35Y. 


+ Additional procedural notes 


The Foundation has currently altered all known genome 
libraries of species within Poaceae to conceal the exact 
sequence of SCP-1717-1; however, in the face of 
worldwide and mainstream interest in the genetic 
engineering of grains, this tactic shall be reviewed at 
least annually, for it exacerbates the risk of accidents 
associated with conventional experimentation, eliminates 


the possibility of useful contributions from research in the 
public domain, and will be increasingly impractical to 
maintain indefinitely at any rate. 


A retroviral solution to adequately mitigate the 
vulnerability associated with SCP-1717-1 is estimated to 
be at least 20 years away, and global use likely poses 
intractable logistical difficulties in any event. Genetic 
engineering of "replacement" cereals that lack functional 
SCP-1717-1 coding is ongoing; but few viable species 
have been produced thus far, all of which are too distinct 
from existing crops to introduce in sufficient scale without 
arousing undue attention. 


Many vulnerable species, when affected, are visually 
detectable by anomalously high stress fluorescence. 
Algorithms for detecting incidents via satellite are under 
development, but false positives still occur frequently. 


Any samples of the primary SCP-1717 toxin (see CCR, 
below) manufactured or obtained shall be stored, 
handled, and disposed of in accordance with Foundation 
trade-secret protocols for herbicides. 


No chemical test yet developed reliably detects food 
contaminated with CCR; current Foundation techniques 
require the use of a gas chromatograph/mass 
spectrometer combination to identify the molecule. 


Description: SCP-17171 is a disease of plants that occurs only 
when two factors conflate. 


SCP-1717-1 is an endogenous pararetrovirus found in the genome 
of all members of the family Poaceae.2 When triggered, it induces 
the production$ of the novel enzyme CCR,‘ which degrades 
chlorophyll into an analog molecule which is incapable of 
participating in photosynthesis, yet retains chlorophyll's color long 
after senescence of leaves and stems. Grasses killed by CCR can, 
unnoticed, turn into green hay or straw where they stand. 


Before plant death, significant quantities of CCR are expressed in 


the endosperm within the seeds of affected plants, as much as 0.8 
percent by weight in rice species. Such seeds typically can 
germinate, but shoots remain viable no longer than twenty-one days 
after germination. The flavor of affected grains is unchanged; 
therefore CCR can go undetected in the food supply. 


CCR can leach from decaying plant matter into the soil, and is 
robust enough to kill or injure several generations of plants before 
deteriorating? to non-toxic byproducts. CCR has low or mild acute 
toxicity in animals® and humans;’ however, it accumulates readily in 
the liver, and is toxic long-term.8 Idiopathic parkinsonism commonly 
develops within 6 months at accumulations over 2500 mg/kg, 
accompanied by either ascites, pleural effusion, or both. At this 
stage, without a liver transplant, hepatic encephalopathy and death 
follow within weeks. 


SCP-1717-2 is an unknown substance that induces the expression 
of the SCP-1717-1 gene. 


+ Additional notes 


To date, infections of SCP-1717 have been identified in 
twelve different species, in three representative clades. 
Eleven of the twelve are staple grains, including maize, 
rice, and wheat; the twelfth is a common forage grass in 
the US. There is no evidence to refute the vulnerability of 
all Poaceae to SCP-1717. 


The chemical tank recovered from the burned wreck of 
the Thruxton Jackaroo involved in Incident SCP-1717- 
Kappa in , would have contained no more than 
eighty liters if full. Within eight days after the incident, 
SCP-1717 was detected in 6,220 hectares of wheat 
centered twelve kilometers from where the crop duster 
was first intercepted. A 20mg sample recovered from the 
same tank contained no identifiable SCP-1717-2, but is 
strongly suspected to comprise the byproducts? from the 
breakdown of SCP-1717-2 under intense heat. Notable 
is the presence of trace magnesium and arsenic. 10 


The Foundation coroner's analysis of the remains of the 


pilot was inconclusive. Alternative forensics are 
underway. 


Footnotes 

. Anomalous Chlorophyll Reductase Enzyme Syndrome 

. the true grasses 

. within the Harrison organelles 

. Cryptopathologic chlorophyll reductase 

. predominantly via UV radiation 

. 24 hour LD50rat, oral: 2100mg/kg 

.24 hour LD50D-class, :4800mg/kg 

. The biological half-life is estimated to be 7.3 years. 

. See document SCP-1717-Gamma for a catalog of identified 
molecules. 

10. However, contamination associated with the recovery effort 
cannot be ruled out. 


OOnNOaRWDY — 


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SCP-1718: Experimental Containment Unit 


Item #: SCP-1718 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Experimental Containment Unit 
6852 shall be provided additional power and coolant as necessary to 
prevent breach. A 2 MW power plant is currently under construction 
on site to be dedicated solely to ECU-6852 and is projected to be 
adequate for another ten years. 


ECU-6852 is composed of four elements: the core, the gyroscope, 
the bath, and the superstructure. 


The central element of the core is a seamless spherical shell of an 
aluminum- alloy, 12 mm thick, of radius 1.63 m. This shell 
was centrifugally cast around a robotic tool which annealed and 
polished the interior surface to a reflectivity of 2017 GLU! before 
self-disposing via [DATA REDACTED], which also evacuated the 
interior atmosphere to 0.5 pPa, calculated indirectly from the 
contraction of the aluminum shell under external pressure. 
Surrounding the alloy shell is a buffer of six hundred fifty four 
concentric graphene shells, each one atom thick. In this 
configuration it provides the highest tensile strength of any 
manufactured material to date, and acts as a perfect rotational 
bearing, allowing the innermost sphere to remain at rest or to rotate 
about any axis, at any speed, independent of the gyroscope. 


The core is enclosed within the gyroscope: a shell of ultrapolished 
fused silica, 2 cm thick, weighing 60.5 kg, assembled from two 
hemispheres, and plated on its interior surface with 7 nm of niobium. 
The gyro is hydrodynamically suspended in a superfluid helium-4 
bath at 1.95 K, and rotates in a plane parallel to the surface of the 
Earth. At this temperature, the niobium is superconducting; as it 
rotates, it induces a magnetic field.