SCP-158

SCP-158, nicknamed the "Soul Extractor", is a large mechanical arm capable of tearing the soul out of a target and placing it within a container, typically a glass jar. Originally found in a burned out hospital, SCP-158 was contained by the SCP Foundation and stored in Biological Research Area-12. It was used in several experiments, and was key to Professor Kain Pathos Crow's Olympia Project.
== History ==
=== Containment ===
It is unknown how SCP-158 was created, but it was used at a hospital in an unidentified city. The hospital was destroyed in an inferno before 2002, and the SCP Foundation discovered 158 in late 2007 inside the husk of the hospital. A badly damaged owner's manual was also recovered, in which the surviving parts were transcribed and copied for future use. However, the sections on what it exactly did and who created it were too badly burned for legibility. SCP-158 was moved to Biological Research Area-12, being stored in Operating Room 07.
=== Experiment Log 158-AA ===
In 2008, Dr. Heinrich Driesch, a medical researcher assigned to SCP-158, began experimenting with the device. In Experiment-01, he noted that the substance extracted from Subject-001A was dark brown and was in a strange state between gaseous and liquid, being analyzed within the hour. No brain activity was found in 001A.
Another subject had a light blue substance extracted out of them, being more active than the dark brown substance. Driesch later wrote that the analysis of the substances was inconclusive, only showing emission of light and heat. A substance was extracted of differing qualities, which resulted in Driesch finding the situation odd.
Driesch's assistant, Lucy, accidentally spilled one of the substances on her laptop. Despite it not being powered, it powered on and began acting on its own volition. Meanwhile, Driesch discovered that the substances were determined by age and vitality. Continued use of the substances on mechanical and electronic devices resulted in their activity regardless of power source. After Lucy's laptop reacted negatively to the camera and microphone being turned off, a Turing test was performed, where it passed.
Driesch concluded the experiments, believing the substances were souls and that SCP-158 extracted them for a variety of purposes.
=== Olympia Project ===
In 2008, Professor Kain Pathos Crow began the Olympia Project, with the goal of creating an artificial humanoid with the assistance of several SCPs for the benefit of the SCP Foundation; SCP-158 was one of these SCPs.
==Alternate realities==
===Unfounded===
In this reality in which the Foundation the Foundation didn't exist, SCP-158 was claimed by inventor Daniel Sloane alongside its manual. Being an acquaintance of Anderson Robotics CEO Vincent Anderson, he offered the businessman to sell the machine to him for a high price. Seeing use in it for his failed project relating to the Saker Series Androids, Anderson immediately bought it, but after Sloane went to fetch him the manual, Anderson sent a robot to take him out and keep this exchange a secret from the Unusual Incidents Unit.Putting a Ghost in the Machine
== Attributes ==
== Containment procedures ==
== Meta ==
=== Appearances ===
* Entry Page: 158
* Experiment Log 158 Aa
* Entry Page: 244-ARC
* Olympia Project
* Experiment Log 158 AG
* Entry Page: 702
* Experiment Log 702
* Entry Page: 1344
* Visions of a Better World
* Entry Page: 2486
* Entry Page: 2798
* Entry Page: 3461
* Entry Page: 4973
* Secure Facility Dossier: Area-12
== References ==
Category:Objects
Category:SCPs
Category:Euclid