Five (the EID’s lucky number, apparently): 
we were betrayed. The investigation carried 
out in the England sites uncovered the reason 
that Ophiuchus was less effective there: 
Fifthist infiltration. Another secret of the 
Church: leaking in acolytes under our radar for 
a year, maybe longer. Needless to say, we 
purged the English sites of any moles so 
quickly that it'd make your head spin. That is, 
unless you’re a “Southern Fifthist” and it does 
that already. 


| leave you with a warning: Command’s 
stance on the topic is that the sleepers have 
been eradicated, but it is my belief that the 
operation was not local. If, at any point, you 
detect a whiff of bullshit (or smoke, for that 
matter), tell your Director. Hell, tell me. And if 
you're a Fifthist yourself, and you’re reading 
this, | can only congratulate you on your 
success. But | should ask: does the phrase “A 
*A*” mean anything to you? It does to me. 
Make sure to ask your deacon. 


J. Erlenmeyer 
Director, EID 
Liverpool, 8/15/2006 


Footnotes 

1. Many of the confirmed individuals were easily identified through 
public appearances wearing the trademark “star stone”, a polished 
green stone worn as a necklace, bracelet, or other accessory. 


« SCP-1424 | SCP-1425 | SCP-1426 » 


SCP-1426: Planetary Core Drill Bits 


Item #: SCP-1426 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1426-1 to -9 are assigned 
a keypad-combination storage locker at Reliquary Research and 
Containment Site-76. Any personnel wishing to use SCP-1426 for 
testing purposes must have prior written permission from two (2) 
level three (3) personnel, plus testing approval from the Site 
Director. 


SCP-1426 bits are to be sterilised thoroughly before use, to prevent 
contamination of extracted samples. SCP-1426 bits are only to be 
tested on sterilised concrete breeze blocks, to reduce wear on the 
bits. 


Samples extracted are to be sealed in sterile, airtight boxes and 
stored in the glovebox in Research Lab-16 for study. 


Description: SCP-1426-1 to -9 are Electrical brand 52x150mm 
diamond-tipped core drill bits. When SCP-1426 bits are used to core 
a substance, the cylinder of material extracted is not the original 
material drilled. Instead, the sample will be an equal volume from a 
solid body in the Solar System. The body that the sample is 
extracted from is entirely dependent on the colour of the bit used. 
Occasionally, samples retrieved by SCP-1426 bits will show 
properties not present on some of the bodies that said samples are 
cored from (see Addendum-1426-1). The name of the body that the 
sample is taken from is etched into the side of all the bits. There is a 
very small chance (0.35%) that no sample will be retrieved. Instead, 
a rolled up piece of paper will be present inside the bit after drilling is 
complete. The contents of these pieces of paper vary with the drill 
bit used, but will always be a handwritten copy of part of their 
respective movements in Gustav Holst's symphony The Planets. If 
the body is a moon, the movement will be of the planet they orbit. If 


the body has no movement, then the paper will show a non-existent 
movement, written to fit with the last existing movement of The 
Planets (Neptune). 


Samples retrieved via SCP-1426 will maintain the temperature of the 
body they were cored from. In one test, SCP-1426-2 was used to 
drill a breeze block, and the sample retrieved was consistent with 
available data concerning the average surface temperature of 
Venus. SCP-1426 bits and the drill that they are being used with are 
not damaged by the properties of the sample they extract, but will 
wear down like ordinary core drill bits. 


SCP-1426 was discovered inthe townofA _ , England, when 
builder A _ suffered 3rd degree burns to his left hand after 
attempting to remove a portion of a brick wall he had just drilled with 
SCP-1426-2. A routine Foundation sweep picked up the report and 
SCP-1426 was retrieved and transported to Reliquary Research and 
Containment Site-76. All other core drill bits examined at the local 

Electrical store showed no anomalous properties. Mr. A = and 
all witnesses were given Class-B amnestics and released. 


Colour of biti Body sample Notes Designation 
extracted frol 
Grey Mercury Temperature of SCP-1426-1 
sample depends 
on the 
temperature at 
Caloris Basin. 


There is a 12% 
chance that 
feathers will be 
present in the 
sample. 

Orange Venus Sample SCP-1426-2 
temperature is 
always between 
462-470°C. 
Occasionally, 
the sample 


Light Blue 


Red 


Beige 


Brown 


Green 


Moon 


Mars 


Titan 


Miranda 


extracted will be 

molten lava, 

suggesting 

voicanic activity. 

Composition of SCP-1426-3 
sample is 

identical to that 

of Mare Crisium. 

There is a 15% 

chance that the 

sample 

extracted will be 

a light shade of 

blue and will 

smell like 

cheddar. 

There is a5% | SCP-1426-4 
chance that 

samples 

extracted 

contain very high 
concentrations 

of water Ice. 

Samples SCP-1426-5 
extracted are 

radioactive. 

There is a 85% 

chance that 

molten sulphur 

will be retrieved. 

There is a 75% SCP-1426-6 
chance that 

liquid ethane will 

be extracted. 

Additionally, 

there is a 0.65% 

chance that salt 

water will be 

retrieved. 

None. SCP-1426-7 


Dark Blue Triton There is a25% SCP-1426-8 
chance that 
liquid nitrogen 
will be extracted. 


Pink Cycles every 6 No matter what SCP-1426-9 
months between dwarf planet 
Pluto, Eris, samples are 
Makemake and _ cored from, 
Quaoar. there is a 15% 
chance that the 
sample will 


contain very high 
concentrations 
of rhodium. 


« SCP-1425 | SCP-1426 | SCP-1427 » 


SCP-1427: Extinguishing Stele 


Item #: SCP-1427 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1427 is to be contained 
on-site at the Ryugyong Containment Operations Center ("RCOC"), 
operated by the Foundation in partnership with the Korean People's 
Army ("KPA"). Due to the artifact's effects, Foundation personnel are 
not to enter the DPRK, approach to within 130 km of the SCP-1427 
exclusion zone, or attempt to interact directly with the object itself. 
Foundation personnel are to provide remote support to on-site 
DPRK personnel. Under no circumstances are Foundation 
personnel to attempt to dissuade KPA containment staff from 
incorrect or unusual beliefs concerning the nature of their duties at 
the RCOC or the nature of their national government. 


As authoritarian-submissive personality traits provide conditional 
immunity to the signal broadcast by the artifact, Foundation 
personnel assigned to offsite monitoring must meet the following 
psychological testing criteria: 


* Standardized Milgram Compliance Panel: >71 
« IPIP Openness Panel: <39 

¢ RWA Authoritarian Submission Panel: >17 

¢« RWA Conventionality Panel: >31 


At present, only three national governments possess citizens with 
conditioning suitable for containment of SCP-1427: the Republic of 
Turkmenistan, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and the 
Democratic People's Republic of Korea ("DPRK"). Of the three 
suitable containment areas, political issues render North Korea the 
only government suitable for long-term containment. Accordingly, 
embedded Foundation affiliates in UN Security Council member 
states shall take no action tending to destabilize the DPRK, promote 
democratization, or permit the entry of psychologically-unsuitable 


foreigners into the 600-meter red zone surrounding the Ryugong 
complex. In the event of democratization, destabilization, or nuclear 
war, Foundation intergovernmental liaisons shall attempt to transfer 
the object to a designated secondary containment site. 


In the event that no secondary containment sites are available, the 
primary containment site and its surrounding environment are to be 
thermally sterilized, using non-nuclear force, without regard to the 
risk of civilian casualties. Using presently-available techniques, 
thermal sterilization of Pyongyang and surrounding environs bears a 
91% chance of containment failure. Catastrophic containment failure 
is predicted to constitute a EK-class event, resulting in the 
extinguishment of all human consciousness within approximately 
215 days. 


Description: SCP-1427 is a featureless 14m x 2m x 2m beryllium 
bronze stele. Though originally recovered in an inactive state, the 
artifact presently produces a directional electromagnetic pulse every 
7ns. Disrupting or jamming the pulse reduces, but does not 
eliminate, the artifact's primary effects. The device's electromagnetic 
effects are therefore theorized to be a carrier wave for, or side-effect 
of, the device's primary function. 


Targets are selected randomly from the 20,736 (12%4) nearest 
human subjects, ignoring those already exhibiting the effects of the 
pulse, but including those who are immune. The device appears to 
have no effective maximum range: on several occasions, the device 
has exhibited the ability to make over-the-horizon broadcasts to 
otherwise occluded subjects by deflecting its signal off of the Earth's 
ionosphere. The artifact's means of detecting human 
consciousness, and the causative mechanism underlying its effects, 
are presently unknown. 


Upon receipt of the signal, subjects permanently experience 
increased suggestibility, severe abulia, and short-term memory loss. 
These effects are secondary to the artifact's primary effect, which is 
substantial reduction in prefrontal SQ2 signal. Due to information 
recovered from SCP-_ , Foundation researchers presently believe 
that this reduced SQ2 signal corresponds to a significant reduction 
in, or total destruction of, the subject's subjective consciousness. 
Moderate authoritarian-submissive personality traits appear to 


provide conditional immunity to the effects of the broadcast; 
accordingly, since its activation, containment protocols have 
required placement in high-population-density areas subject to a 
totalitarian government. 


SCP-1427 was originally recovered from a Cistercian monastery in 
southeastern Algeria by Italian special forces in January of 1938. 
Laboratory notes from that period mention a rhodium carbide outer 
casing, embossed with lettering in a known but poorly-characterized 
Semitic alphabet. That outer casing is presumed to have been 
destroyed or lost by Italian researchers before the object's transfer 
to Leipzig in 1944. Between 1938 and 1944, the governments of 
Germany and Italy attempted to activate the artifact, both without 
success. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the object was 
kept in East German custody. The East German government took 
no recorded action with respect to the artifact. 


In 1947, the East German government transferred SCP-1427 to 
Soviet control, who moved it to Kyshtim, Chelyabinsk Oblast, USSR. 
In September of 1957, Soviet researchers intentionally activated 
SCP-1427. Though the artifact affected human targets in its 
immediate surroundings, then-existing features of the Soviet 
government prevented the EK-class end of human consciousness. 
After attempted nuclear sterilization of the affected area, the Soviet 
government contacted the Foundation through intergovernmental 
liaisons, and the artifact was transferred to Foundation custody at 
Site 67, southwest of Chernhiv, Ukraine. Since initial containment, 
the artifact has only been transferred once: in 1986, due to predicted 
instability in the Soviet government, the artifact was transferred to 
the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 


Shortly thereafter, the Foundation commenced construction of the 
Ryugyong Containment Facility, where the object has been stored 
since its completion in 1988. 


Addenda: 


+ SCP-1427- 
ETR-3: ETHICS COMMITTEE DISSENT, SCP-1427 


On December 5, 1991, a nine-member panel 


of the SCP Foundation Ethics Committee 
decided, after a 2-4-3 plurality vote, to actively 
support the government of the Democratic 
People's Republic of Korea ("North Korea") in 
order to effectuate containment of SCP-1427. 
In summary, the deciding plurality found the 
following points in favor of limited stabilization 
and support: 


¢ Instability and increasing political 
openness may soon render the USSR 
unsuitable for containment of SCP-1427. 
In the event of political instability in 
North Korea, the device may be safely 
transferred to the custody of the 
People's Republic of China or Indonesia. 
¢ North Korea's closed borders limit the 
risk of exposing foreigners. 

Due to limited trade opportunities, 
Foundation affiliates and liaisons are 
better able to manipulate North Korean 
internal policy toward effective 
containment. 


Despite the clear benefits of the above, we 
dissent. 


Experimentation has demonstrated that 
SCP-1427 requires no more than 124 
psychologically suitable individuals in close 
proximity to the object in order to maintain 
seamless containment. With that in mind, 
maintaining over twenty million individuals in a 
state of perpetual, involuntary totalitarian 
abjection is an unacceptable cost to impose on 
human subjects. While it is clear that, in 1957, 
doing so was a necessary accession to certain 
facts on the ground (viz., Soviet failure to 
destroy the object outright), the Foundation 
has recruited 9,724 D-Class candidates since 


that date, or just under half the population 
required to successfully contain the object. 
Though unclear in 1957, it is now scientifically 
demonstrated that totalitarian indoctrination 
may be recreated under laboratory conditions 
with relatively little sophisticated intervention 
by researchers (see Zimbardo, P, "On 
‘Obedience to Authority, '" [REFERENCE 
OMITTED)). Our failure to do so is an ethical 
failure of catastrophic proportions. 


The majority opinion in this review declined to 
authorize experimentation into artificial 
totalitarianism on the necessary scale, citing 
both practical and ethical concerns. They 
believe that it would be unacceptable to create 
a totalitarian society in miniature to prevent the 
end of all mankind. But in order to avoid 
creating an ethical disaster in miniature, we 
have authorized one writ large: totalitarianism 
which selects individuals by a birthright lottery 
and not by any particular antisocial acts. As 
recent events in the USSR and elsewhere 
have demonstrated, totalitarian dictatorship is 
not a necessary feature of human society. It is 
a phase of development which occurred and 
will someday pass, and it is not the 
Foundation's right (nor even its duty) to 
permanently arrest the development of the 
North Korean people for some greater good, 
no matter how great that good may be. 


The majority are demonstrably correct that 
taking appropriate action to contain SCP-1427 
would involve extraordinary moral 
compromises by the Foundation, whereas 
mere abdication of our responsibility shares 
this ethical burden with all humanity and the 
North Korean leadership. But when we signed 
our recruiting paperwork, we consented to 


bear that burden: to do what must be done for 
the greater good, no matter the cost. That we 
now impose this burden on the people of North 
Korea, rather than shouldering it ourselves, is 
an unacceptable abdication of our 
responsibilities as Foundation employees. 


For the foregoing reasons, we the undersigned 
dissent, reserving the right to appeal this 
decision to the O5 council. 


[SIGNATURE OMITTED] 
Ethics Committee Supervisor, Site 9 


[SIGNATURE OMITTED] 
Ethics Committee Supervisor, Site 53 


+ SCP-1427- 
ACR-2: SUMMARY, ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPORT, SCP-1427 


CASE REPORT, TAMANRASSET 
OSSUARY, 4/21/1993: FILE WITH SCP-1427 
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Usman 
Azmaggan, Ph.D 

PROJECT PHASE: IIA