Krishnamoorthy: | don't... | don't remember 
my mother. | can hear her voice, but | can't 
remember her face. | can't remember how she 
smelled, or how she... but what | do remember 
is she told me about gods. (Pauses) There is a 
god, called Anantashesha. A serpent, the king 
of serpents. Said to lie beneath Vishnu in the 
cosmos. A six headed snake god, isn't that 
something? 


Mannava: It... yes, | am familiar. 


Krishnamoorthy: Ah... of course, I'm sorry. | 
forgot. (Pauses) She... | don't remember 
much, but | do remember that she told me 
about how Anantashesha would... would linger 
past the end. Gaze upon the darkness past the 
end of time. She said that, when the light of 
the universe had gone out, all that would be 
left is Anantashesha. (Pauses) | have worked 
my entire life for the Foundation, so much as | 
can recall. | have struggled to build my name 
and my reputation and done everything | can 
do to leave... something, anything. Some kind 
of mark that says | was here. But... 


Mannava: What is it? 


Krishnamoorthy: I... | believe that SCP-3000 
is Anantashesha. | believe that this... this 
aberration, this treachery against cognition, is 
the result of us being in the presence of a god. 
Not just a god, but a god who exists across all 
time, all at once, and... even beyond. Maybe... 
maybe some part of the nothingness beyond 


the edge of time is part of Anantashesha, as 
well. Maybe it acts as, as a conduit, some kind 
of— 


Mannava: Venkat, please, we're scientists— 


Krishnamoorthy: No, let me finish. In 
defiance of the nothingness that comes after 
this, all of this, there is Anantashesha. There's 
a chance that my memories might live on, that 
| might be remembered like the memories I've 
seen have been through me. | don't... | don't 
have proof of this. But when | looked into its 
eyes and saw what it showed me, | was afraid. 
I'm merely a mediocre man, Anand. This was 
a fear that | have refused to acknowledge for 
years, a fear of irrelevance, that no one will 
know who | am when | die. Afraid of being 
forgotten. Afraid of my life being meaningless. 
Afraid of being alone. Afraid of dying. (Sighs) 
There is a terror within me that | cannot 
reconcile, Anand. | won't lie to you and tell you 
that the maw of the naga does not terrify me 
as well, but between this and the infinite dark | 
have gazed into, | have made up my mind. 


[END LOG] 
Addendum 3000.4: Incident Video and Audio Log 


After two days of containment within a secure 
holding cell onboard the Eremita, orders were 
received to lift the hold order on Dr. 
Krishnamoorthy, in accordance to the terms of 
the Atzak Protocol. Three hours after Dr. 
Krishnamoorthy was released from his holding 
cell, the following incident took place: 


[BEGIN LOG] 


<02:19:33> Krishnamoorthy stands near the 


entrance to the Eremita’s aft airlock. Subject is 
facing away from nearest camera. 


<02:19:58> Proximity alarm is triggered. 
Exterior floodlights activate. SCP-3000 is still 
not visible. Command is alerted, and Eremita's 
engines engage, preparing for evasive 
maneuvers. 


<02:20:06> Krishnamoorthy is startled by 
proximity alarm, and begins to appear 
panicked. Subject continues to look at 
entrance to the aft airlock. Subject turns briefly 
towards nearest camera, and is observed to 
be weeping. 


<02:20:21> Krishnamoorthy slowly 
approaches aft airlock and opens airlock door. 
Subject enters airlock, and primary access 
door seals behind the subject. 


<02:20:57> Interior airlock camera captures 
Krishnamoorthy staring at exterior airlock door 
for a full two minutes, unmoving. After two 
minutes, subject collapses on the ground. 


<02:21:15> Ali cameras shudder as primary 
turbines spin up. SCP-3000 is visible on radar, 
approaching SCPF Eremita. SCP-3000 is not 
visible on exterior cameras. 


<02:26:37> Krishnamoorthy stands and 
approaches diving suit locker. Subject puts on 
a high-pressure deep sea diving suit, and then 
moves towards exterior door controls. Subject 
engages exterior door latch. Interior airlock 
camera is obscured by rushing water. 


<02:27:14> Secondary alarm is triggered by 
airlock breach. Personnel on the bridge 
attempt to close airlock, but Krishnamoorthy 


has already exited the airlock. 


<02:27:48> Krishnamoorthy hangs in the 
water behind the aft section of the Eremita, 
illuminated by exterior floodlights. Subject is 
motionless. 


<02:28:11> SCP-3000 slowly appears from 
out of the darkness. Krishnamoorthy remains 
motionless. 


<02:28:29> Exterior cameras shudder as 
Eremita begins to reverse towards 
Krishnamoorthy. Rescue teams have 
assembled in the airlock chamber. 


<02:28:52> SCP-3000 approaches 
Krishnamoorthy. Its mouth begins to open. 
Eremita sounds horns, but neither SCP-3000 
or subject appear to notice. 


<02:29:09> SCP-3000 moves to just above 
Krishnamoorthy. Subject appears to look up 
into the now fully expanded jaw of SCP-3000. 
Eremita begins to flash external floodlights. 
Airlock opens. 


Krishnamoorthy: Anand... | was wrong. 
(Sobs) God save me, it's not— 


<02:29:21> SCP-3000 strikes and quickly 
consumes Krishnamoorthy. 


<02:29:45> SCP-3000 disappears into the 
darkness, and is no longer visible on exterior 
cameras. Rescue crews are recalled. Crew 
begins to initiate Atzak Protocol. 


[END LOG] 


Addendum 3000.5: Personal Journal of Dr. Mannava 


Note: The following are excerpts from the personal 
diaries of Dr. Anand Mannava. Dr. Mannava has kept 
several journals during his assignment, and has reported 
that it is beneficial to counteract the psychological and 
memory-affecting properties of SCP-3000. 


23/0 
| come to bury Venkat, not to praise him. 


Psychologically speaking, having your memories affected 
shouldn't be surprised he chose to relieve himself from ha 
alarming. Being briefed on its effects doesn't change the f 
included, and ground us to reality. | am supposed to subrr 
wrong, why a staff member turned suicidal, and a full anal 
in the future, to the O5 and Site Director Nox, have it revie 
travesty from happening again. 


He always was more religious than | am. Right at the end 
Hindu snake god - and rambling about eternity. I'm not go 
but this is quite the enigma, and | suppose | should consic 
compared to previous assignments that I've had. | don't th 
that extraordinary. It's funny - | spent the last thirty years k 
Hinduism and now I'm racking my brains trying to rememk 


| want to say that it's because of the eel, but if I'm being h 
Maybe not at the beginning, but certainly by the end. | car 
remember how angry he got when | couldn't remember thi 
desperate to preserve his culture heritage, and | did every 
to perform the traditional last rites after his death. He ever 
| tore them up front of him. | can't even remember why. Tt 
He spent almost twenty years trying to pass down our her 


30/0 


Site Director Nox gathered the staff this morning for a sho 
me aside and told me that Venkat's replacement will come 
it's likely his belongings will just be disposed of, and is no\ 
that if | want to keep a thing or two from him, | should do s 


His office was relatively unremarkable - his cushy squash 


books that | should probably check out someday. The onl 
window. Not fully sure why myself, but he's now sitting on 
daughter at a lakeside terrace. It was a pretty unremarkak 
of our best-looking pictures. 


We're going under again tomorrow. 


11/1 


All of the D-class managed to stay put this week, which is 
from exposure to SCP-3000, everything was in order. Son 
they're scooping gunk off some big eel. They don't know c 
how much it helps us. 


Of course, one saving grace of being on the psychologica 
potential effects - I'm aware of what's happening to my ps: 
pieces that are being lost right now. | recall images of a yc 
like it was the 80s, when | was in Singapore - he was laug 
son, a family friend - who this young man is. Perhaps Italie 
cherished memory at all. 


| looked at the Ganesh statue and the picture of my family 
that I've done with them. I've started trying to learn some | 
Vedas, but | can't memorize the lines properly. 


I've been reflecting on what Venkat told me before he pas 
Unable to rise out of the sea of humans that walk on the f. 
and while he isn't one of the most well-known and househ 
he's been the Foundation's leading marine biologist and g 
actually quite surprised by his jealousy - he was never the 
guessed that he wanted fame and recognition. 


Perhaps he really was afraid that he is doomed to be stuc 


Perhaps the silence of this place reminded him of someth 


Addendum 3000.6 : Memorandum on Atzak Brief 
[LEVEL 5/3000 CLASSIFIED] 


Some new assignments had questions about 
our work here, so I'm publishing this to clear 


most of them up. Feel free to contact my office 
if there are any others. 


The Atzak Protocol is a method for gathering 
and processing the Y-909 compound. It's a 
thick, brackish, grey fluid that SCP-3000 
excretes as part of its metabolism. We don't 
know the exact method by which it does this, 
but we have some ideas, and none of them 
are great for us. 


Initially, we thought it was bleeding. The first 
team we sent down to look at SCP-3000 went 
down to collect blood samples for analysis. 
When SCP-3000 attacked and consumed 
them, and began producing more of the 
substance, we realized that we were looking at 
something different entirely. It's definitely not 
blood, it's more akin to a prion slurry. It's 
extremely toxic, and spending too much time 
around the stuff causes a lot of the same 
effects as exposure to SCP-3000 does. 
Paranoia, memory loss, suicidal thoughts, etc. 
Refining the raw Y-909, what the processors 
call "eel jelly", allows us to create amnestics 
more effective than any we've ever had access 
to in the history of this organization. 


Herein lies the ethical dilemma. SCP-3000 
only creates Y-909 after eating, and it only 
eats humans. Remember when | said we had 
some ideas about how it does this? Some of 
our biologists have hypothesized that 
SCP-3000 is breaking down whatever makes 
sapient creatures sapient, filtering it through 
some part of its skin, and the residual ether is 
what we collect. You want to know something 
really fucked up? We've taken radiographs of 
this thing, trying to see what's going on inside 
of it. It's full of dead human bodies. It's not 


digesting them at all, it's doing something else, 
and the end result is Y-909. 


When we first started using Y-909 in our 
amnestics programs, we tried to synthesize it. 
We got something close to what we were 
looking for, Y-919, but the side effects were 
catastrophic. The amnestics would work, we 
could get people to forget events, people, and 
so on. But then they would start to forget other 
things, too. The mental deterioration would 
rapidly increase until there was nothing left, 
and then they would die. A few of those 
researchers thought we might be able to figure 
out how to decrease the severity of those side 
effects, but the cost to continue those trials 
would have been astronomical, and the 
program was discontinued. 


It's no secret that what we're doing here is 
abhorrent. The Ethics Committee, the 
Classification Committee, they're all looking at 
ways to make this more tolerable than what it 
is. But the hard truth is, if we want to continue 
to use modern amnestics, we have to have 
Y-909. If we want to have Y-909, we have to 
feed D-Class to SCP-3000. Otherwise, we'd 
be forced to go back to the metaphorical dark 
ages, where we were amnesticizing people 
with opiates and chloroform. 


The good news is, we're developing ROVs that 
should be able to take over the job of 
collecting the raw material from our dive 
teams. This will eliminate any chance of 
accidental casualties like we've had in the 
past, and is a good first step. For everything 
else, only time will tell. 


-Nox 


Addendum 3000.7: Personal Journal of Dr. Mannava 


Note: The following is the full text of a page, penned in 
the hand of Dr. Mannava, which was ripped out of a 
journal and placed on his nightstand. 


un 


| have spent a considerable amount of time on this assign 
individuals exposed to a Class VIII cognitohazard. | have « 
many psychological reports, but | have not been able to pi 
perfectly sane man out the door of that airlock, and into th 


Earlier this week, as | was preparing my notes for another 
wife, and my daughter off of my nightstand. The glass she 
cleaned it up, | noticed something written on the reverse c 


"Anand, Shanti, and Padma. June, 2002" 


But the writing was not mine, it was Venkat's. | was puzzle 
picture of mine? | thought little of it at the time, and cleane 
stuck with me. It was a little thing, easily explained in any 
of uncertainty. It was not until last night that a horrifying th 
the Foundation personnel archives, and realized a truth th 


Shanti was Venkat's first wife. Padma was his daughter. T 
| am certain | have had with them, are the experiences an 
and | have no children. Even now, | can see my wife in my 
that it is Venkat | see her through, not me. 


The horror of this realization has been replaced with a que 
Something about it, some latent part of its creation, abhor. 
scatters the part of us that we believe is a soul until all tha 
some day become inert. 


If even | can't remember myself, how can | expect anyone 
am strangely apathetic at this revelation. | will fade into thi 
after me will. No one will care as | am forgotten. | do not d 
face obliteration. | am not important. You are not importan 
time. We may fight against it, but our enemy is inevitability 


| do not think that the eel is Anantashesha. | don't think it ' 
myself coming apart, is not that the eel is some mythologi 
creature that eluded us, holding no malice; perhaps it real 
surface. The eel is not the harbinger of my demise, or hun 
shows us what the end looks like. 


And in spite of everything we might believe, every ideal w 
for all of us: 


Our end will be a forgotten one. 


Note: Dr. Mannava was later discovered, unresponsive, 
near the aft airlock. Evidence suggested that Dr. 
Mannava had broken into the onboard storage locker 
and ingested a significant amount of raw Y-909. Dr. 
Mannava was moved off of the Eremita, and remains at 
Site-151 for analysis. 


Footnotes and References 

1. Specifically within several canyons throughout the 
region. 

2. Due to this, SCP-3000's internal biology is believed to 
be similarly anomalous. 

3. O-9 Alpha is believed to have been addressing a 
former member of the command team assigned to 
SCP-3000, Barry Hughes, who had passed away two 
years prior. 

4. Dr. Krishnamoorthy was married twice, and has two 
sons and three daughters between the two marriages. 


When rust claims your soul at last, valor will make you 
into Aeneas, and carry you beyond these shores, to rest 
among your fathers." The voice was later identified by 
SCP-1510-1 as the voice of the persona's father. 


[SCP-361 enters inactive state] 


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SCP-3001: Red Reality 


Item #: SCP-3001 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: To prevent further accidental 
entries into SCP-3001, all Foundation reality-bending technology will 
be upgraded/modified with multiple newly developed safeguards to 
prevent Class-C "Broken Entry" Wormhole creation. While 
knowledge of SCP-3001 is available to personnel of any level should 
they wish to learn about it, research and experimentation with 
SCP-3001 and its associated technology is strictly limited to 
personnel of Level 3 and above, with special clearance designation 
granted from Sites 120, 121, 124, and 133.