Special Containment Procedures: Foundation web-crawlers and 
embedded personnel in the entertainment industry are to monitor for 
and prevent any distribution of SCP-2577. Copyrights have been 
registered under Foundation front corporations for this purpose. 


Mobile Task Force Alpha-4 (“Pony Express”) are to 
intercept all international shipments to individuals credited in 
SCP-2577 (See Document SCP-2577-Rho for a complete list) and 
confiscate any packages ostensibly originating from SCP-2577-A. 
All confiscated items should be treated as anomalous until 
confirmed otherwise. 


Per standing policy, all investigations into former GRU Division P 
revenue practices are consolidated under Foundation Intelligence 
Agency operation GOLD RUSH. Reconnaissance efforts to locate 
SCP-2577-A have been discontinued, pending IA approval. 


Description: SCP-2577 is a 2005 documentary series titled “Frozen 
Steel” occasionally appearing on streaming video services or small- 
scale physical media releases. SCP-2577 purportedly documents 
the operation and daily lives of the staff of SCP-2577-A, a 
decommissioning yard ostensibly located in , Siberian Federal 
District, Russia, used for the disposal of military ships ranging in age 
from the early to mid-twentieth century. SCP-2577-A consists of a 
single central command tower and barracks surrounded by a 
square km runway constructed from level, packed tundra. Ships are 
delivered to this runway through means never expressed in the 
documentary, arriving ballistically at soeeds exceeding 900 km/h 
before violently embedding themselves in the runway. 


SCP-2577 goes to great lengths to describe the extreme danger 


faced by the individuals conducting recovery operations, who are 
responsible for stripping ships of valuable material, breaking down 
and scrapping their hulls, and, if possible, repairing the runway, 
under the constant threat of being in the path of one of over new 
ships entering SCP-2577-A on a daily basis. The few ship names or 
designations displayed in SCP-2577 do not match any known 
vessels, and the rate of ships entering SCP-2577-A far outstrips 
both the documented decommissioning and construction of Russian 
military vessels. 


The following episode transcript, typical of SCP-2577, was retrieved 
from the streaming video service. 


S01E04 

Anton and Team Odin race against time to remove the 
flight deck from the perilously listing Admiral Nikolai 
Yezhov. Demolition charges may allow them to shed the 
dead weight and stabilize the hull, but failure could 
collapse the ship into unrecoverable slag. 


Meanwhile, Misha and Team Dva continue to lose men 
and equipment to the labyrinthine wreck of the hospital- 
ship Sankt-lakov. All of their work comes to naught as 
the incoming submarine TK-455 collides with the 
converted freighter, reducing her to a shattered heap. 


SCP-2577 appears to have been funded, directed, and narrated by 
American actor Ron Perlman. Perlman is revealed in director’s 
commentary in a home blu-ray release to have a deep admiration 
and personal connection to SCP-2577-A, stating that he 
corresponds regularly with the operators, identifying rare items 
salvaged from the hulks and returning them free of charge. 


Perlman and other individuals credited in SCP-2577 have failed to 
provide any further information on the documentary, and have been 
amnesticized and released following interviews. In spite of 
Perlman’s stated ignorance of the project and lack of qualifications 
as an antiquarian, MTF Alpha-4 annually intercepts approximately 
tons of assorted naval equipment addressed to him for appraisal. 
Notable confiscated objects are listed in Document SCP-2577-1. 


Aerial and satellite surveillance of the area believed to contain 
SCP-2577-A has proven inconclusive, and overland approaches 
have failed to locate the facility. Investigation into West Siberian 
steel production and former GRU-P revenue stream D-584 
(Codename: Caako) is ongoing. 


Document SCP-2577-1: Items purportedly originating from 
SCP-2577-A 


Access documentation. 


Object Description Disposition 
Object Iron chest Stored in Site-76 
2577-215-217 containing one Secure 

SA-18 "Grouse" | Armaments Wing. 
man-portable 
surface-to-air 
missile. Warhead 
is constructed of 
precious materials 
in style of Peter 
Carl Fabergé. 
Payload has been 
replaced by one 

4 cm iron needle 
suspended in 
empty canister. 


Object Fragments of Stored at Site 77 
2577-314-329 maple wood and| pending discovery 
silver wire of additional items. 
displaying 
workmanship and 
material 


appropriate to 
12th-century CE 
stringed 
instruments. 

AO-11824 (1-205) 205 uniform name Remanded to 
plates (ranks and Anomalous Object 
style circa 1915)| processing. 


crafted from gold/ 
copper alloy. 
Plates are buoyant 
in water 
regardless of 
density. 

AO-11825 One lacquered Remanded to 
pinewood officer's Anomalous Object 
door plaque. Sinks processing. 
in water 
regardless of 
density. 


Document SCP-2577-2: Select portions of the 79 /A Report on 
Anomalous Revenue Practices in the GRU-P 


Level 3/2577 Clearance required. Please enter credentials. 


By / /19 , persistent surveillance of known 
GRU-P front organizations and operatives had 
demonstrated that any substantial, covert 
GRU-P financial transaction requires one or 
more parties to consult a copy of The Bylina as 
Collected by . . , 18 , acollection of 
Russian folkloric sung epic poems. Continued 
difficulty in tracking GRU-P financial activity 
has led to several theories of the purpose of 
this volume, including: 

- Use in non-anomalous encryption techniques 
(e.g., book ciphers) 

- Use of the books to transport memetically 
camouflaged text 

- Use as a temporary inoculant to anti-memetic 
or cognition-spoofing text 

- Shared access point for interdimensional or 
retro-causitive information storage 

- Sympathetic thaumaturgic focus for 
anomalously concealed information based on 
thematically-relevant code-phrases 


- Thaumaturgic focus for anomalous fund 
creation 

This volume is known to contain an expanded 
number of common bylina, including: 


CafKo 
(Page 17/35) 


Summary of selected Bylina (continued) 


CagKo (Sadko) 

The musician Sadko becomes a wealthy 
merchant through the aid of the Water Tsar, 
but refuses to pay tribute when his ships pass 
over the sea. His fleet is becalmed, and after 
casting lots Sadko is forced to give himself to 
the sea to save his sailors. Sadko is brought 
before the Water Tsar and Tsarina to settle an 
argument: Which is more valuable in Novgorod 
above, iron or gold? Sadko explains that iron is 
more valuable because it is necessary for daily 
life, enraging the Water Tsar. Sadko calms the 
Tsar by playing his gusli, but the Tsar’s wild 
dancing thrashes the oceans, causing many 
ships to be smashed upon the sea. 


(Page 22/35) 


END SELECTED PORTIONS. Full report 
available from RAISA to personnel with 
GREAT GAME clearance. 


« SCP-2576 | SCP-2577 | SCP-2578 » 


SCP-2578: "This Machine Kills Fascists" 


Item #: SCP-2578 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Global email networks are to be 
monitored by the Foundation for indicators of SCP-2578-A. If the 
counter on a confirmed instance of SCP-2578-A reaches 24, a 
response team from MTF Iota-10 ("Damn Feds") is to be 
dispatched to the location of the corresponding instance of 
SCP-2578-B in no more than 10 hours. Over the last two hours, the 
team will monitor the situation and await further instructions. 


In addition, the response team will escort one D-class Foundation 
employee scheduled for termination ("The Scapegoat" for the 
purposes of Contingency 12-Azazel), along with ampules of low- 
grade hypnestics. 


In the case of an in-progress Impaler Event, the response team is to 
carry out Contingency 12-Azazel as soon as possible. 


Contingency 12-Azazel: 


1. Through the use of hypnestics, the response team 
will implant the scapegoat with artificial memories 
of assassinating SCP-2578-B. 

2. The scapegoat will be handed over to the law 
enforcement authorities of SCP-2578-B's 
government. 


In the case of an aborted Impaler Event, the instance of SCP-2578- 
B is to be detained and released after amnestic therapy. 


Due to the potential for civilians to communicate with SCP-2578-D, 
instances of SCP-2578-C are to be excised from global email 
servers upon detection. 


reassignment surgery. Homosexual subjects are affected by their 
actual gender - a male homosexual will not react to the female ring, 
just as a female homosexual will not react to the male ring. More 
testing upon sex and gender is pending. 


The potential for SCP-288 to create a "domestic slave" proves 
disturbing to some and seems useful to others, and records show 
that is has been used in such a fashion before. [See Addendum 
288-A] 


Preliminary testing of SCP-288 has proved inconclusive - the rings 
themselves display no physical anomalies compared to a normal 
wedding ring of similar type. It is theorized that the rings profile their 
subjects memetically, drawing on the experiences present in the 
subject to influence their behavior upon activation. This theory is 
supported by SCP-288's ability to differentiate subjects based on 
their self-perception of gender, rather than their physical sex. 


SCP-288 was discovered by Dr. Rights in [DATA EXPUNGED]. 
Thankfully, her boyfriend grew wary of her extreme mood changes 
and called the Emergency SCP Contact number she had left for him, 
delivering SCP-288 into the Foundation's hands. 


"I'm just glad | got suckered into it before somebody else did...even 
if it was horrible." 
-Dr. Rights 


It should be noted that both instances of SCP-288 resist being 
separated, and wearers may feel compelled to buy or even steal the 
rings in order to keep them nearby. 


Addendum 288-A: It has been revealed through extensive 
backtracking of SCP-288's history that it has caused five instances 
of homicide, three suicides, and two (reported) cases of spousal 
abuse. It has regularly resurfaced in pawn shops across the United 
States for at least 80 years, though all attempts to track it past the 
early 20th century have failed to reveal further evidence. 


« SCP-287 | SCP-288 | SCP-289 » 


+ 4/2578 clearance required 


At this time, due to its location and destructive potential, 
containment efforts of SCP-2578-D will focus on non- 
intervention and repeated attempts to negotiate. 


Description: SCP-2578 is the collective designation for a series of 
phenomena related to the deaths of at least 1 human subjects 
since 1995. Prior to death, all victims (referred to as individual 
instances of SCP-2578-B) shared the following characteristics: 


SCP-2578-B was a political figure, or was due to hold office at 
a future date. 

SCP-2578-B intended to engage in all of the following political 
activities at a future date, and had the adequate military, 
financial, and political resources to do so: 


© Ethnic cleansing 

© The establishment, continuation, or reinstatement of 
government-sponsored slavery and/or child labor 

© The violent suppression of peaceful protest and/or 
dissent 

© War crimes against foreign powers 

© The establishment of absolute control of the national 
press, media, and religion 


SCP-2578-B was relatively unopposed in these views by its 
constituents, and dissent or rebellion was curbed in such a 
way that, had the subject not died, all of its plans could have 
been successfully implemented. 


72 hours prior to its death, the instance SCP-2578-B will receive a 
message, SCP-2578-A, on its primary personal e-mail client. The 
sender will only be identified by a set symbol', shared with all 
instances of SCP-2578-A. 


The content of SCP-2578-A is consistent throughout all instances: 


SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS2 


[subject's latitude and longitude] 


[a number, which is 144 in the first message] 


| never miss my mark. Abdicate and you will live. [This 
part of the message is then repeated in Spanish, French, 
German, Russian, Ukranian, Arabic, Farsi, Mandarin 
Chinese, Japanese, and Tagalog.] 


After 30 minutes, the message will be resent to SCP-2578-B, but the 
value of the second number will decrease by one. Once the number 
reaches zero, an Impaler Event will occur 72 hours after the initial 
SCP-2578-A. The corresponding SCP-2578-B can stop the 
countdown in a variety of ways, including: 


¢ Resignation of their post, 

¢ Rescinding any pending orders that correspond with the 
aforementioned political activities, 

Surrender to a war crimes tribunal or a resistance movement, 
and/or 

* Suicide. 


Impaler events are characterized by the sudden appearance of a 
borehole in the targeted instance of SCP-2578-B, which usually 
begins at the top of the head and ends at the groin, though 
alternative locations, such as with SCP-2578-B-429, have been 
noted. Though these incidents bear evidence of a high-powered 
gunshot, no bullets have been recovered from these events, and the 
holes will appear even when the instance is on an airplane, 
underground, or in a building, with no damage to the surrounding 
area. 


SCP-2578-C refers to a set of emails sent to various politicians, 
civilians, and other human subjects after a successful or aborted 
Impaler Event. The content varies and can be personalized, but will 
usually include a declaration of victory and/or words of 
encouragement, such as this message sent to a synagogue 
scheduled to be bombed after the election of SCP-2578-B-429: 


[three-crescent symbol] is victorious. loan Lupescu 
successfully terminated 5/12/2009. 


Payment Due for Services Rendered: 


- Abandon your fears of tyranny. 

- Know that [three-crescent symbol] will always watch 
over you, [three-crescent symbol] will always protect you, 
and [three-crescent symbol] will always love you. 


[The entire content of this message is then repeated in 
Spanish, French, German, Russian, Ukranian, Arabic, 
Farsi, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Tagalog.] 


+ 4/2578 Clearance Required 


SCP-2578-D is a metallic spacecraft approximately 3 
meters in length. It has been identified as the source of 
all Impaler Events and SCP-2578-A and -C 
transmissions. Whether SCP-2578-D is a manned or 
unmanned spacecraft is unknown at this time. 


The origin of SCP-2578-D is unknown, but its design has 
been noted as similar to that of a horseshoe crab. This is 
believed to be an aesthetic design choice rather than to 
serve a definite purpose. Various painted decals of the 
triple-crescent symbol associated with SCP-2578-A and - 
C have been identified on its sides from satellite 
photography. 


The "tail" of SCP-2578-D can be positioned from three 
points of articulation. The tip of the tail contains what 
appears to be a projectile weapon system used to carry 
out Impaler Events. The mechanism behind this weapon 
is not currently understood. In addition to this weapon, it 
also contains an unknown amount of surface-mounted 
energy projection devices. (See incident-2578-1427 for 
more information) 


The location of SCP-2578-D varies as needed to carry 
out its objectives and avoid detection, but it will rarely 
descend lower than 4,000 km above the Earth's surface. 
The propulsion mechanism of SCP-2578-D is unknown. 


Addendum - Excerpts from the log of recorded SCP-2578-B 
instances: 


Designation 
SCP-2578- 
B-013 


SCP-2578- 
B-326 


SCP-2578- 
B-429 


Name, Titie 
Radovan 
Karadzié, 
President of the 
Republika 
Srpska 
Mohammad bin 
Salman, Deputy 


Crown Prince of 
Saudi Arabia 


loan Lupescu, 
President-Elec; 
of Romania 


impaier Even 
Occurred 
4/19/1996 


Aborted 


Occurred 
5/12/2009