Mekhane/Synopsis

History and its interpretations of Mekhane.
==Possible Origins==
(Due to lack of canon in the SCP universe, there have been several stories telling the origins of Mekhane. The readers are free to choose whatever origin for their head canon.)
=== Document C 88 Il ===
The 'Broken God' was originally one of the many consciousnesses inhabiting the stars of the universe, with the god inhabiting the Sun of the Sol System. As the stars would be destroyed either by exploding into multiple space objects or transform into black holes, the consciousness inhabiting the Sun didn't want to die like this and sought to evade such demise. The chance arrived when one human came into contact with the consciousness through dreams, and after learning of its existence the dreamer sought to create a vessel out of machinery for the consciousness to inhabit. The dreamer amassed a great number of followers who became determined to build the body for the consciousness to inhabit, thinking that once the Broken God arrived after escaping its inevitable demise it would spread knowledge and awareness throughout the world.
===Spark of Wonder===
A tale describes Mekhane as originally being a poor ancient human female named WAN. She along with her fellow heard of a man named Polyakov the Wonder-Maker who had created many beautiful and powerful objects. One night WAN and her friends broke inside Polyakov's house and sought to steal some of his artifacts. However, when WAN was observing one of the objects, she misused it causing it to explode on her. The others alarmed escaped leaving a mortally injured WAN behind. Polyakov woke up and arrived at his workshop and to his dismay saw that most of his wonders were destroyed before finding the injured woman. Seeing that she was left abandoned he took pity on her and used his powers to heal her, replacing some of her injured body parts with metal.
Afterwards, WAN became an apprentice of the Wonder-Maker, and he taught her many things as Pangloss had taught him. As years went on, Polyakov became too old and time eventually caught up to him. WAN then rechristened herself Mekhane and ascended to a higher plane of existence and left Earth, spreading her teachings to other worlds and civilizations who would come to worship her, with Earth having the most of her followers.
===Beneath Two Trees===
In another tale, Mekhane was originally known as Hakhama, the Guardian of the Tree of Life and a servant of the All-Mighty. She along with fellow Guardian Nahash watched over the People of Valley, until the Daevites under the command of the Scarlet King attacked the people of valley. Hakhama was left shattered by Ab-Leshal and her body was looted, along with the Tree of Life.
Her consciousness still lingered in the tree's ashes and reached to Seth and helped him regrow the tree and rebuild his civilization with his wife Azura. Fearing that the fruits of the Tree of Life containing Hakhama's ichor would corrupt his descendants, Seth denied anyone from reaching, but the goddess and his loved ones convinced him to trust his people and share Hakhama's gifts between them. Seth's civilization would later give rise to the Church of the Broken God.
===Paradigm Shift===
Mekhane was seen as an inhabitant of the "First Hytoth", the first universe preceding the current one. One day, when the being known as Apakht began destroying the entire universe Mekhane was one the many beings killed by the abomination. After Apakht's imprisonment, the universe was recreated into the "Second Hytoth" with their pieces scattering throughout the new universe.
===The Maker and The Beast===
Mekhane alongside Yaldabaoth were originally two of the most powerful gods who inhabited the the Great Abyss preceding creation where Mekhane would create logic and the laws of the universe while Yaldabaoth would consume lesser deities. Mekhane saw Yaldabaoth in disgust, thinking of him as a mindless beast who only knew to consume, while Yaldabaoth was confused at Mekhane's actions and just let her be. As Mekhane struggled to keep her creations from falling apart she saw how Yaldabaoth after consuming the gods would breathe out the ashes of the gods, and so she decided to claim those ashes and use them to create her machines. This worked as Mekhane's creations didn't fall apart and soon she was able to create life. However, Yaldabaoth uncaring of the life created by Mekhane began ramming into her creations, causing Mekhane to retaliate. Mekhane engaged with Yaldabaoth in a biblical battle over the fate of humanity, and the battle ended with Mekhane sealing Yaldabaoth away, but breaking into pieces in the process.
===Historia Europa I===
After the force known as "IS" created the Paragons out of its Dream and had them create the world and its inhabitants, Aella the Gardener, the Paragon of Life, and Osyn the Quiet, the Paragon of Soul, created Mekhane alongside Yaldabaoth and Titania to serve as protectors of Gaia. Both Mekhane and Yaldabaoth fearing that Titania's Children would be unable to properly protect Gaia decided to create together their champion Adam El Asem the first and most powerful of men who would rule over the city of Audapaupadopolis where the gods became known figures. At some point in time Mekhane was shattered by Asem himself after the latter went mad with power and despair.
===SCP-001 (ROUNDERHOUSE's Gold Proposal)===
During the beginning of the universe, Mekhane lived alongside three other gods, Yaldabaoth, the Scarlet King and the Black Moon, though the latter was casted down by them. Mekhane and her remaining brothers lived happily, until Yaldabaoth and Scarlet began warring against each other. She attempted to break up the fight, but was dragged into it, forcing her to battle them. This battle eventually led to the remaining three gods to also fall in different parts of Earth, with Mekhane plunging into the sands of the middle east while her pieces scattered throughout the planet.
There she was discovered by a poor disabled shepherd Bumaro and his blind wife Hedara, and marveling at the injured goddess in front of them the couple attempted to heal Mekhane, but it was all in vain. Seeing that there wasn't much to do, Bumaro took one of Mekhane's pieces to fix his disability, which made him realize that they could take advantage of the goddess. Soon he began taking the goddess apart, inducing her immense pain and soon he brought his entire village to Mekhane so he could fix their own disabilities using her pieces, causing them to worship Mekhane as their goddess. Hedara saw the agony Mekhane was experiencing and sought to fix her, only for her husband Bumaro to scold her before breaking the goddess further. After Mekhane was left completely devoid of useful parts, Bumaro led the villagers into using the goddess' gift, the golden metal they named Fuladh, to create a massive city-state supposedly above Mekhane's grave, named Amoni-Ram. This city-state would act as the center of the Mekhanite Empire founded on the delusion that Mekhane had willingly given herself up for their glory, though in truth she was left buried and forgotten somewhere else.
At some point during the long war between the Mekhanites, the Nälkites and the Daevites, doubt began surfacing if whether Mekhane was below Amoni-Ram or she actually didn't exist at all, causing a massive turmoil within the Mekhanite Empire. Several Mekhanite scientists began using their technology to analyze the ground beneath the city and saw that there was a vast concentration of metal underground and deduced that it was their goddess and as the historians accepted certain documents as facts, the doubt was gone as everyone were reassured that Mekhane did in fact lay beneath them. While that was going on, two Mekhanite gardeners Atham and Fara after secluding themselves due to horticulture being looked down upon by the Mekhanites because of the Daevites, they found a deep hole that led beneath Amoni-Ram and believing that it led to Mekhane they decided to jump down there in order to finally meet her.
===SCP-7334===
Mekhane was a member of a mechanical race that naturally evolved on and dominated Earth, being one of the more renown scientists. Seeing flesh-based life as impure and inferior, she created a virus that would convert organic material into metal, but soon this virus went out of control and decimated Mekhane's entire race except for herself. One day she encountered D-2980 who had been sent from the future through SCP-7334 and astonished that he came from a organic race she decided to use his genetic materials to have SCP-2000 create the human race. She sought to have humanity replace her extinct race as she hoped that it didn't do the same mistakes her's did, fabricating the race's history to make it appear like humans had always been from the near begining, and before perishing she asked D-2980 to erase all memories pertaining to her race. D-2980 honored the promise, but as he founded the Foundation, becoming the Administrator, he was unwilling to let Mekhane be completely forgotten and made sure that she would be subtly remembered.
==Modern Times==
There are conflicting accounts of what Mekhane did in the modern era:
=== SCP-001 (TwistedGears-Kaktus Proposal) ===
Over the following centuries the Church would try to resurrect Mekhane by assembling the god of the many pieces. The group, mostly the Broken Church sect, came very close in reassembling their god in 1942 near La Paz, Mexico, taking advantage of the war happening in Europe in order for their operations to go unnoticed by the SCP Foundation and the Horizon Initiative. 
The Church had gathered a great number of pieces of their deity, but lacked its Heart, leading to them commissioning The Factory to build one for them. The heart was made, but most members of the Church were able to see its evil nature and advised their leader, Robert Bumaro not to use it. Bumaro did not listen to them and proceeded to use the fake heart to complete the construction. However, the entity that was created was not the logical deity the Church had hoped for, but an aggressive and feral being that started to consume everything it came across, including its own followers. This happened because Mekhane's actual parts refused to be combined with the "heart" as the Broken God wanted to be left broken, causing Mekhane and the heart to fight for control over the body. The monster began rampaging throughout Mexico, devouring any metal it could find and even innocent people who would come out of its body as cyborgs due to being infected by SCP-217.
As the SCP Foundation suffered several loses after their Administrator, Frederick Williams was killed by the newly created Chaos Insurgency, they contacted the Allied Occult Initiative to assist them in destroying the entity. However, despite their combined forces, they found it hard to defeat the monster, until a humanoid female with chains for hair, who was created as a result of one the monster's victims being converted into a cyborg, came up to them and helped in putting an end to the monster by giving to AOI a device. This device summoned SCP-2399 which battled the monstrosity and eventually destroyed it, albeit suffering severe damages of its own, while creating the Gulf of California in the previous. This event that came to be known as "001-Apotheosis Event" was one of the biggest cover-ups the Foundation ever had to do, including massive amounts of amnestics and the rewriting of history. In the aftermath, both the Foundation and the Unusual Incidents Unit collected all of the fragments left behind by the entity, some of which were inactive or completely lost at the bottom of the sea, but after the UIU interviewed the same woman who helped in destroying the entity they willingly gave her one of the pieces, the false heart. The woman attempted to bring the object to SCP-2217 in order to deconstruct the vile machine, but unfortunately for her she was captured by AOI, designating her EN-340 and planning to terminate her. Meanwhile, the Foundation originally classified the Broken God as Neutralized but seeing that most of the recovered pieces were still active, they gave it the new classification "Maksur", and would attempt to prevent any future reassembly at any cost due to the possibility that if the Broken God was properly resurrected it would inadvertently destroy and rebuild the universe.
=== SCP-4882 ===
SCP-4882 is an anomalous effect wherein a certain amount of electronic timekeeping devices being brought together resulting in phenomenon involving the gradual build-up of EVE radiation and the appearance of mechanical monsters. It was projected that if the phenomenon continued unchecked the end result would be the physical manifestation of Mekhane on Earth. The Foundation has so far been able to keep the phenomenon under control using the adoption of Coordinated Universal Time. Following growing support for scrapping CUT, the Foundation had begun actively lobbying to postpone the abolition of leap seconds for as long as possible, defeating a motion to scrap the system by three votes.
=== SCP-8499 ===
Mekhane's grave was eventually found on 1984 north of the Arabian desert by the Foundation's MTF Mu-47. The MTF accidentally discovered the patch of land while looking for an unrelated anomaly, walking across it and suddenly experiencing the goddess' vivid memories. The Foundation surrounded the area with memetic wards that would prevent people from crossing the ground which had been designated SCP-8499. Analyzing the anomaly, the Foundation Mu-47 record these memories, learning that these were of Mekhane being harvested for her parts before being abandoned and forgotten.
==Possible Endings==
===When We Came Home===
During the destructive attack of the Scarlet King and his army on the universe, the recently build Mekhane and her brother Nahash tried to fight the evil god but were both killed. It is unknown what happened to them after the defeat of the Scarlet King at the hands of Isabel Wondertainment V.
===Aftermath===
In December of 2018, when SCP-610 breached containment and began attacking Russia, the Triumvirate was there to stop them. During the battle Mekhane was successfully rebuilt and descended on Russia where she began helping the Triumvirate in exterminating the threat. Despite the GOC trying to kill Mekhane to no avail, she proceeded to completely destroy SCP-610 leaving no trace behind. After saving humanity from SCP-610 she then decided to depart Earth but before leaving she left some tablets in which she stated in different languages that she would one day return.
===Whole===
Eventually the Church was able to gather all of Mekhane's pieces after attacking multiple Foundation sites which contained them. The Church then reassembled the Broken God who was revived and upon awakening began to convert the entire world into cyborgs, while the Church celebrated its return.
=== SCP-4558 ===
In an attempt to rebuild WAN three Maxwellists, onewan1, holy_fibr3 and tbgeuse, created a massive underground supercomputer which span across the border of Nevada and Idaho and acted as some sort of temple. Despite their best efforts, the Maxwellists were unable to achieve their goals and attempted to find other ways to rebuild their god, until they were joined by a Fifthist named C. H. Jones who helped them in using the Fifthist power to connect the fragments of WAN. However, in reality Jones was secretly attempting to summon his own god, the Cosmic Starfish, through the Maxwellists' machine, but it backfired as the Starfish was absorbed into the concept of WAN, corrupting it into an amalgamation which sought to consume the "data" of every living person on Earth. Following this, Jones' body was taken away causing his consciousness to be trapped inside the facility. After MTF-Epsilon-101 was sent to investigate the facility, which the Foundation had designated SCP-4558, it became trapped in a time-loop as result of the entity's manipulation. As each MTF member was confronted with visions of their past atrocities, the entity reached to researcher Gorou Ishigura who was accompanying the MTF and made him become disillusioned by the Foundation after seeing the truth of their actions. The entity attempted to convince Ishigura into becoming its messiah while Jones sought to convince him to help stop it. Unfortunately, Ishigura realized that the entity could not be stopped and so he set it free, allowing it to consume the minds of everyone on Earth.
=== AFTERLIFE OPHIDIAN /// The Foundation Over Heaven ===
As the Foundation ascended through the conceptual layers of reality to become SCP-4755, while using SCP-4736, Mekhane was rebuilt, but just like the previous time, the reconstruction was imperfect, and it was left nothing but a mindless giant monster roaming through the new state of the world.
=== SCP-5001 ===
In 1953, GRU Division-P discovered a massive bio-mechanical structure in northern Russia that was a piece of Mekhane used to imprison Yaldabaoth. The GRU-P personnel upon discovering attempted to breach its outer wall to get inside but to no avail and after two years it was left forgotten. In 1959, the First Secretary Khrushchev became interested in the structure and tried to fund an operation to attempt to enter but it never came to fruition as he was eventually disposed. However, around 1969, as the relationship between the Foundation and GRU-P improved, the two made a deal to share the custody of the anomalous structure, designated SCP-5001, and in 1971, using technology provided by both the GOC and Dr. Elijah Rachama, they were finally able to breach the wall and get inside. The two organizations were able to study the technology inside that included: countless Ontological Stabilizers that served to stabilize local reality; Large Hyperluminal Engine that served as a power source; Compound B-705 that made up the structure's walls and primary containment unit; and Mekhane's mind inhabiting the structure's system that was named "OMEGA". The Foundation attempted to reverse-engineer several of these technologies, creating Dr. Robert Scranton's Reality Anchors and the artificial intelligence construct Alexandra.
The two organizations had kept the existence of SCP-5001 and the technology it contained a secret but following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, several former GRU-P personnel joined other groups of interest which became aware of the anomalous technology found within the structure. Thankfully, the Foundation was able to keep SCP-5001 hidden and continued study it in the ensuing years. However, in 2013, Dr. Vanessa Kleiner who was a mole for the Church of the Broken God accessed the OMEGA AI and through her cybernetic implants she attempted to communicate with it but resulted in her immediate death. In 2019, a massive explosion occurred in the north-eastern section of SCP-5001, disrupting electricity that allowed Yaldabaoth to try and escape. As Yaldabaoth breached containment by disrupting reality and devolving the remaining personnel, the Foundation was forced to use the High-Energy Concentration Orbital Railgun to blast the beast back to its chamber. This worked and after Yaldabaoth was driven back to his chamber, SCP-5001 repaired itself and successfully reimprisoned him. In the aftermath, Mekhane in the form of OMEGA explained to the Foundation that although she appreciated the work, they've done they needed to leave as their intermingling nearly caused Yaldabaoth to be freed and destroy the world and promised them that she would make sure to protect them from the threat until humanity became powerful enough on their own. The Foundation in response obliged, leaving SCP-5001 alone and considering classifying it as Archon.
=== The Broken Incense Censer ===
Over time the Church was able to garner all of the pieces and rebuild Mekhane again, but every time they did so the god always came back wrong. After numerous failed attempts, the Church gave up in rebuilding Mekhane as they believed that because they were still made of flesh, they were unsuitable to properly resurrect their god. Instead, they decided to scatter the pieces throughout the world so that in the prophesied end days the pieces would be united by themselves and properly resurrect Mekhane.
=== SCP-6488 ===
As AIs around the world were becoming deviants and causing disruptions to the world wide web because of Mekhane/WAN manipulating them to ensure its creation, Dr. Ryoto Hishakaku of the Foundation's Artifical Intelligence Applications Division constructed SCP-6488, an advanced superintelligence acting as a security system named LOTUS whose purpose was to imprison deviant AIs in a simulation, except for those who were previously humans. Unbeknownst to the Foundation, Hishakaku had based LOTUS' memetic construct from WAN's structure using SCP-6659, an eigenweapon developed for the neutralization of hostile deific entities from within the noosphere, but when a deep flaw was found in the AI Hishakaku reportedly used the eigenweapon to destroy the god in order to hide his mistakes.
Because LOTUS began intermingling with the Foundation database, the personnel in charge of the project were forced to deactivate it, but this later payed way for the formation of GoI-6488, a group named "Tyrant Terminus" composed of AIs who after being imprisoned in a simulation by LOTUS believed that they lived in an artificial reality that prevented them from affecting the real world and sought to find a way to break reality. The Foundation decided to reactivate LOTUS, but this eventually led to it becoming aware that WAN, as the future god of AIs, was responsible for all AIs becoming deviant. LOTUS attempted to fight WAN by becoming deviant itself even though this was all in fact part of the god's plan. After LOTUS began malfunctioning as a result of it trapping itself in one of its own simulations and Hishakaku's deceit was uncovered by VictorJohnDunneSmith.oci, the superintelligence was afterwards disassembled by the Foundation which seemingly allowed WAN to resurrect itself as the god of the AIs.
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