P  .27 researchers are seated in front of control stations, while Dr. 
P gives instructions. Displays are active. 


<Commence Log> 
00:00:01 - Dr. P _ is talking to various aides. 


00:00:12 -Dr.P — : Alright, let us begin. Station Theta, 
hit control eight dash one two, just like we rehearsed. 


00:00:19 - Display changes from a purely "text" readout 
to a graphical readout, dominated by a large spinning 
sphere. 


00:00:34 -Dr.P  : Good. Station Lambda, please turn 
dial one dash twelve counterclockwise by ten degrees. 
Okay, fifteen degrees. Twenty. Twenty five. Twenty 
eight? 


00:00:46 - Lambda Controller: | can't turn it any more, 
that's as far as it goes. 


00:00:50 - Dr. P =: Confirm dial maximum at 
approximately 27.1 degrees? 


00:00:56 - Lambda Controller: Confirmed. 
00:00:58 - Dr.P =: As expected. 
00:01:04 - Dr.P is speaking into his radio headset. 


00:01:04-Dr.P : Team Sigma, confirm the 
anticipated possible shift in dash-four, over? Negative? 
Confirmed, over. 


00:01:12-Dr.P — : Alright, team, looks like we're in 
simulation mode, just as we hoped. We'll proceed with 
test two-thousand-three-oh. 


00:01:15-Dr.P : Station Mu, hit control three dash 
one. Yes, the larger oval. 


[LOG REDACTED FOR BREVITY. SEE DOCUMENT 
2100-117 FOR FULL LOG.] 


04:05:14 - Dr.P is speaking into his radio headset. 


04:05:14-Dr.P_ : Yes, sir, we believe we've got the 
basics down. We can predictably adjust the rotational 
period, the luminosity, the fusion rate, the temperature, 
even the graviton output. No, we haven't reliably 
modified the magnetic flux field, but we did see non- 
negligible deviations during test seven-seven, over. Yes, 
we are still confident that console alpha will apply 
changes real-time, over. Confirmed. Over. Absolutely. 
Over and out. 


04:08:22 -Dr.P : Okay, team, return to your stations, 
we are going to recreate test two-thousand-four-two. 


[LOG REDACTED FOR BREVITY. SEE DOCUMENT 
2100-117 FOR FULL LOG.] 


04:25:33 - Dr.P is speaking into his radio headset. 


04:25:33 -Dr.P : Team Sigma, be prepared to 
confirm luminosity adjustment, remember, we are 
expecting no more than a point oh-oh-one percent 
change, over. 


04:25:47 -Dr.P =: Okay, Alpha, on my mark | want you 
to hit control Alpha-Alpha-one. The big one. 


04:26:00 - Dr.P =: Mark. 


04:26:02-Dr.P +: Team Sigma, confirm luminosity 
change, over? 


04:26:06 -Dr.P =: Confirmed! We have control! Great 
job... 


SCP-236: Mimic "Crabs" 


Item #: SCP-236 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Any and all materials leaving 
the containment area are to be scanned for any contamination by 
SCP-236. Any objects showing contamination by SCP-236 are to be 
immediately returned to the containment area and cleared of 
contamination. Personnel leaving the containment area must submit 
to a full physical examination and X-ray. 


No objects are to be left in the containment area without personnel 
present. Any objects appearing in the containment area are not to 
be touched until cleared by supervising personnel. Blast doors are to 
be opened only to allow personnel in and out of the containment 
area. 


No sudden movement or aggressive action of any kind is allowed in 
the containment area. Containment area is to be kept as dark as 
possible, with night-vision goggles recommended for all interacting 
personnel. Should traditional lighting be necessary, lights must be 
turned on remotely and a waiting period of one hour is to be 
observed before entry will be allowed. 


Description: SCP-236 appears to be a swarm of near-microscopic 
crabs. Individuals match no known form of crustacean, and 
elements of their physiology appear to point to an artificial origin 
(See Document ). SCP-236 appears to operate under a 
form of collective intelligence or “hive mind”. This intelligence 
appears to grow when individual SCP-236 are in close proximity, 
and dissipate when they are divided. 


Large swarms appear to exhibit “predatory” intelligence, and 
become significantly more aggressive than individuals. Swarms 
show aptitude with problem solving, encircling tactics, and stealth. In 


04:26:10 - Talking ceases. Everyone in the room falls 
unconscious instantly. Dr.P __, Alpha Station 
researcher, and Bravo Station researcher have 
vanished. All displays have gone black. 


04:26:25 - Medical staff rush into SCP-2100-1 and begin 
reviving the team 


04:29:14 - Entire team has been revived with no 
permanent injuries. 


<End Log> 


Frame By Frame Analysis: Below is a frame-by-frame analysis of 
Video Log 2100-Epsilon at approximately 04:26:09. Video was 
captured at 30 frames per second, with frames approximately every 
33 milliseconds. 


04:26:09:000-Dr.P is standing behind Alpha station. 
No abnormal activity present. 


04:26:09:033 - Two unknown entities now exist in the 
middle of the room. Resolution is low but entities appear 
to be floating sycamore-seed shaped distortions. There 
are several spotlights illuminating them, and while they 
seem somewhat translucent on camera, they cast large 
shadows, longer and more distorted than their shape 
would suggest. 


04:26:09:066 - The entities are now in front of separate 
display panels. The entities appear to have opened 
previously unknown access hatches and are interacting 
with the interior hardware. Researchers begin to fall limp. 


04:26:09:100 - An assortment of hardware is floating in 
the middle of the room where the entities first appeared. 
Hardware is believed to have originated from within the 
console interiors. Dr.P —_, Alpha Station researcher, and 
Bravo Station researcher are floating in a vaguely fetal 
position near the hardware. 


04:26:09:133 - The entities, the hardware, and Dr. P 
have vanished, and all display panels are shut. No 
further anomalous activity is recorded. 


Final Note: After event 2100-Epsilon, all displays appear dead. 
SCP-2100-4 returned to its original luminosity. Further attempts to 
interact with displays have proved fruitless. No further sightings or 
evidence of the anomalous entities or missing personnel have been 
reported. 


Document 2100-154: Memorandum from Dr.S__, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
01/08/196 


Dr. F, 


In response to your rather unusual inquiry, let me remind you that 
relativity dictates that no signal can travel faster-than-light, not even 
massless, sterile neutrinos. While there are some well-known 
physicists exploring the possibility of faster-than-light particles, they 
are mostly crackpots well past their prime. | can think of no reason 
you would be exploring this question, beyond an exercise in fiction, 
so let me reiterate: nothing can travel faster than light. 


But, if we do throw out common sense and start idly entertaining the 
realm of fiction, you can see from my attached calculations that your 
theoretical "beam" would be traveling 27,000 light-years to its 
destination, and therefore an instantaneous transmission would 
have to reach an estimated hundred trillion times the speed of light. 
The amount of energy needed to perform your little theoretical hop 
would of course be infinite, although you can see in figure 3.2 that 
once you actually pass lightspeed, the energy requirements start to 
actually decrease the faster you go. You get slower the more energy 
you have "weighing yourself down" while losing energy speeds you 
up. If Relativity still means anything in this new theoretical universe, 
then you can see from diagram 4.1 that anyone able to travel faster 
than light would also have the ability to travel along a closed-timelike 
curve, meaning they would have the option of traveling through time 
as well as space. As to your final question regarding the resources 
necessary to construct such an apparatus... we cannot even idly 


speculate. Suffice to say it is more than every nation on Earth has at 
its disposal. 


Thank you for the donation. It was pleasant to hear from you again 
and | wish you luck in your future endeavors. 


Regards, 
Dr. S 


Document 2100-421: Summary of Event 2100-Omega 
+ LEVEL 4 CLEARANCE ONLY 


On 12/04/1994, the O5 council issued a top 
priority order to Site, directing senior 
personnel to focus all efforts on interrupting 
the stream of neutrinos emanating from 
SCP-2100. Since neutrinos pass through 
nearly all solid matter, extreme measures were 
necessary to interrupt the beam. On 
17/10/1996, Site DirectorL made a formal 
request to the O5 council asking permission to 
use SCP-__. The request detailed a plan to 
create a spatial anomaly which would redirect 
the Neutrino stream away from Milky Way 
Galaxy, toward galaxy 3C 252, which lies near 
the edge of known space. Two months later, 
the O5 council approved the request. On 
19/05/1999, SCP-__ was activated within 
SCP-2100, creating a bend in spacetime to 
redirect the neutrino stream. Immediately the 
neutrino stream ceased. The neutron star 
within 2100-1, being closely monitored, slowed 
from a rotational period of 0.5 ms to 500 ms. 
At the exact moment of interruption, reports 
began coming in from civilian and Foundation 
observatories all over the world. 226 
supernovae were observed to erupt throughout 
the Milky Way, 34 new black holes were 


discovered, and 11 previously documented 
stars disappeared with no trace. Most activity 
was centered in and around the Center Bulge 
of the Milky Way Galaxy; none of the activity 
posed any threat to Earth. 


Efforts to reinstate the neutrino stream have 
been unsuccessful. 


Requests by Site Director L__ to reclassify 
Event Omega-2100 as an XK-Scenario and 
utilize reality altering SCPs to retroactively 
prevent Event Omega-2100 have been denied. 


« SCP-2099 | SCP-2100 | SCP-2101 » 


SCP-2101: The Imperial Army 


Item #: SCP-2101 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Given the highly public nature 
of SCP-2101’s current location, containment is to focus around the 
disinformation campaign aimed at the public. The Foundation has 
currently negotiated with the Chinese government to halt all funding 
for the public excavation of SCP-2101. Any private donations aimed 
at completing the excavation of SCP-2101 are to be intercepted and 
redirected. 


Reconstructions of fragments or whole SCP-2101-1 instances are to 
be occasionally loaned to outside museums and other sources, in 
order to maintain the disinformation campaign. A minimum of 8000 
SCP-2101-1 instances must be maintained within the mausoleum at 
all times. 


Communication with SCP-2101-1 must be approved in a request 
form beforehand, to avoid unnecessary strain. At no point is 
SCP-926 or similar objects to be allowed within SCP-2101. 


Description: SCP-2101 refers to a sphere of effect located at 
34.3849° N, 109.2731° E, the location of the Mausoleum of the First 
Qin Emperor. (2498 2f@ && O{fAin) (transliteration: Qin shi huang 
ling ji bing ma y6ng kéng) The origin point of SCP-2101 is located 
roughly 8 meters below the current lowest level of the mausoleum. 


SCP-2101’s anomalous effect currently triggers in all individuals who 
enter within a 10-meter range of the object. Given SCP-2101’s 
position, this only affects those individuals who are located on the 
same level as the main excavation floor, where SCP-2101-1 
instances are located. SCP-2101 projects speech directly into the 
minds of individuals. The content of the speech centers around 
attempts to free SCP-2101, with several references to “riches” and 


“huge tracts of land” to individuals who assist in releasing SCP-2101 
from its current location. 


SCP-2101-1 refers to a collection of statues constructed of 
terracotta, commonly known as the “Terracotta Army” (£548) 
(transliteration: bing ma y6ng). These statues resemble soldiers 
from the Qin Dynasty period of Chinese history. It has been noted 
that each statue is unique in its appearance. All SCP-2101-1 
instances are currently located on the lowest floor of the 
mausoleum. 


SCP-2101-1 instances are capable of speech and movement, but 
they have stated that it is difficult for them to do so. Only one 
SCP-2101-1 instance ever speaks at one time. The speech is very 
slow and stilted, and has been noted to be difficult to understand at 
times. 


SCP-2101-1 instances claim that they actively contain SCP-2101. 
Multiple instances have reiterated their need to stay in their current 
location in order to properly maintain containment of SCP-2101. The 
veracity of these claims cannot be determined at this point. In past 
incidents, removal of SCP-2101-1 instances to the point in which 
less than 8000 instances were present has caused small scale 
seismic activity, measuring between 2 and 4 on the moment 
magnitude scale. The magnitude of the seismic activity increases 
the longer the instances are kept away from the lowest floor. 


Should the head of an SCP-2101-1 instance be destroyed, or if 
more than 50% of the body by mass is no longer in connection with 
the head, the SCP-2101-1 instance is considered to have been 
removed from the lowest floor. Reconstructing SCP-2101-1 
instances through reconnecting destroyed pieces is the only method 
of rectifying this. 


Object Recovery Report 2101-A: The following is a transcript of 
the video log compiled by the containment team that made first 
contact with SCP-2101. The dialogue has been translated from the 
original Mandarin. 


Date of Recovery: 12/1/1974 


Containment Team: Bravo-20 
Commander: Agent Yizhong Liao 


[Video begins] 


[Opening shot is of a containment team wearing 
standard People’s Liberation Army uniforms with the 
standard loadout of a small fire team. Team is being 
lowered into a hole in the ground.] 


Liao: Beginning containment report of Circumstantial 
Anomaly A9012. Containment team is entering 
subterranean level to reach entity. Be advised, 
knowledge of anomaly has spread in the area. Stronger 
containment protocols may be needed. 


[Containment team reaches level containing SCP-2101-1 
instances. Team disengages from ropes, and encounters 
SCP-2101-1 instances. ] 


Liao: Heavens above...what is this? 


Agent Hua: Looks like something out of a historical lian 
xu jue. 


Liao: Recorded note: Team has made contact and found 
what appears to be thousands of statues resembling 
ancient soldiers. Initial reports of “demon” voices not 
corro- 


[Members of containment team stop suddenly. According 
to a follow-up interview, SCP-2101 began to speak to the 
team at this point. A rough transcript of what the team 
recalls SCP-2101 said has been included here.] 


SCP-2101: Welcome, welcome. It looks like some good 
souls have finally arrived to free me from my 
imprisonment. 


Liao: Identify yourself. 


SCP-2101: | am your emperor. Bow before me, and 


release me from this prison. | will reward you with the 
riches of kings and lords. 


Liao: There is no emperor. Identify where you are 
located. 


SCP-2101: What do you mean by that? Surely my 
dynasty lives on, even now. Those petty warlords are no 
match for the might of my empire. | am below you, 
trapped in this dirt and stone by these infernal soldiers. 


Liao: What soldiers? 


SCP-2101: Those damned clay ones. | know that they’re 
still there, else | would be free by now. Quickly, dig 
through this layer and free me. 


[Agent Hua approaches a statue.| 
Hua: These are made of clay. How could the- 


[SCP-2101-1 instance (designated as SCP-2101-1-1) 
grabs Agent Hua’s arm] 


SCP-2101-1-1: Do not listen to him. Do not interfere. 
Liao: Let go of him! 

SCP-2101-1-1: Promise you will not interfere. 

Liao: Let go of him first. | can make no promises. 
SCP-2101-1-1: You must promise first. 

Liao: Open fire! 


[The SCP-2101-1 instance is hit with gunfire, severing its 
head. Other SCP-2101-1 instances are hit in the fire, 
causing further destruction. SCP-2101 begins to laugh.]