by Kothardarastrix

Original Document
Initial Containment Breach
Revision 1
Abnormal Pathology
Revision 2
Communication Attempt

Item#: 2068

Level1

Containment Class:
safe

Secondary Class:
none

Disruption Class:
dark

Risk Class:
notice

link to memo

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2068 is currently contained at Site-15. No audiovisual equipment is to be brought within 20 meters of SCP-2068 unless approved for testing.

SCP-2068 when discovered.

Description: SCP-2068 is an oil pump jack manufactured by Kervier International. It does not include a rod or any underground components. Internal imaging indicates that the object's internal components are likely identical to its non-anomalous equivalents, but it has thus far proven impossible to disassemble.
When a device capable of producing audio or video output is brought within 20 meters of SCP-2068, it will begin to play media related to armed conflicts in the Middle East or war in general. Video devices will usually display news broadcasts or political speeches; audio devices typically play music with an antiwar message. This continues until the device leaves the radius of effect. Devices capable of recording audio or video receive similar media instead of normal input.
Addendum 2068-1: Origin
The first documented encounter with SCP-2068 occurred during Operation Desert Storm, when it was discovered by United States soldiers in an Iraqi oil field. The United States Paranatural War Command ("PENTAGRAM") subsequently seized the object. In 1998, it was determined to have no strategic or economic value and traded to the Foundation in exchange for information about the ASCI facility that preceded Area-14.
PENTAGRAM representatives stated that the object was initially seized in hopes that its anomalous properties pertained to oil production.

As there were no security cameras near SCP-2068's containment chamber, no direct record of this event exists. The timeline below has been assembled from eyewitness reports and post-event forensics.

Three research personnel (Researcher H██████, Researcher M█████, and Research Assistant W█████) are attempting to disassemble SCP-2068.
At approximately 17:30, SCP-2068 spontaneously activates, despite the lack of a power source. H██████'s hand is caught in the crank. He manages to withdraw it before it is crushed but suffers a severe laceration.
M█████ stands up and collides with the horsehead, injuring her scalp.
Crude oil begins to appear beneath the horsehead and spread across the floor. W█████ slips in the oil and falls, lightly abrading the palms of both hands.
All three personnel retreat into the hallway and close the chamber behind them.
W█████ acquires a nearby first aid kit and begins treating H██████'s injury. M█████ runs down the hallway and begins shouting for a security officer.
The PA system speaker nearest SCP-2068's containment chamber vocalizes the phrase "Die for oil, sucker."1 At the same time, W█████ suddenly vomits a large amount of oil onto H██████ and collapses. H██████ panics and attempts to flee.
Suspecting a contagious hazard, M█████ attempts to restrain H██████ before he spreads it to the rest of the Site. She successfully convinces him not to flee, but becomes covered in oil during the struggle.
Two security officers, having heard the commotion, round a corner in the hallway and start to approach. M█████ shouts at them, warning of a possible contagion. The officers attempt to radio for help, but their radios produce music2 instead. One officer retreats until he is out of SCP-2068's new apparent range to call for help. The other remains at the end of the hallway and instructs H██████ and M█████ to remain calm.
H██████ begins vomiting oil.
M█████ reaches toward her head injury, notices the oil on her hand, and stops.
H██████ falls unconscious.
Blood from M█████'s head injury runs onto her face. She wipes it off and notices that it has turned black. She faints.

All oil produced by SCP-2068 during this event was collected and incinerated at high temperature to ensure complete combustion. All three personnel were found to be deceased and, after examination, also incinerated. SCP-2068 was subsequently transferred to Armed Bio-Containment Area-14, as that facility was better equipped to handle contagious anomalies.

Item#: 2068

Level3

Containment Class:
euclid

Secondary Class:
none

Disruption Class:
vlam

Risk Class:
caution

link to memo

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2068 is currently contained at Armed Bio-Containment Area-14. No audiovisual equipment is to be brought within 50 meters of SCP-2068 unless approved for testing.
SCP-2068's containment chamber includes four grated drains, each 0.25 meters in diameter, to facilitate the drainage of SCP-2068-A into the blast furnace below the chamber. All SCP-2068-A is to be immediately incinerated.
Personnel exposed to SCP-2068-A are to be placed under quarantine if possible, or terminated otherwise. Personnel responding to an SCP-2068 breach are to be equipped with MOPP-4 gear.
Only D-Class personnel are permitted to enter SCP-2068's containment chamber at this time. They are to be equipped with protective gear unless infection is intended.
SCP-2068 containment staff are to monitor news of armed conflicts in Iraq and neighboring countries. Area-14 is to be placed on high alert during large battles, major announcements from involved parties, or the commission of massacres and other large-scale atrocities.

A sample of SCP-2068-A.

Description: SCP-2068 is an oil pump jack manufactured by Kervier International. It does not include a rod or any underground components. Internal imaging indicates that the object's internal components are likely identical to its non-anomalous equivalents, but it has thus far proven impossible to disassemble.
The object does not require power to operate, and frequently activates without any apparent external stimulus. When active, SCP-2068 performs its typical pumping motion at a varying speed. This causes SCP-2068-A to appear beneath the horsehead, at a rate that varies linearly with the speed of the pumping motion. SCP-2068-A is chemically identical to non-anomalous crude oil.
When a device capable of producing audio or video output is brought within 50 meters of SCP-2068, it will begin to play media related to armed conflicts in the Middle East or war in general. Video devices will usually display news broadcasts or political speeches; audio devices typically play music with an antiwar message. This continues until the device leaves the radius of effect. Devices capable of recording audio or video receive similar media instead of normal input.
If liquid SCP-2068-A enters the bloodstream - typically through an open wound - it will begin to transmute the host's blood into more SCP-2068-A. Affected subjects begin to violently purge SCP-2068-A from multiple orifices, posing a significant infection risk. Death usually occurs within 20 minutes of exposure, due to poisoning, shock, or organ damage.
Addendum 2: Activation Events
SCP-2068's first activation event occurred at 17:34 on March 19th, 2003. The object was initially assumed to be acting in self-defense, as personnel were attempting to disassemble it at the time. However, most subsequent events occurred without any apparent prompting. Holistic analysis eventually determined that the actual activation trigger was violence in the state of Iraq; the first event had occurred simultaneously with the start of the US invasion, and the others with major battles, bombings, and other violent occurrences.
Activation events are expected to become significantly less common or cease entirely with the final withdrawal of US troops on December 18th, 2011.

The worst SCP-2068 breach to date3 occurred on August 3rd, 2014, at the start of the Sinjar Massacre. The breach was eventually halted by Janitorial and Maintenance Co-Head Micah Wegley, who climbed into the unlit blast furnace and unclogged the tar-filled drains from below with a broom handle. In the process, he suffered severe burns and became infected with SCP-2068-A. For reasons unknown, the infection has been considerably less aggressive than usual, only transmuting his blood at approximately the same rate the oil is cleared from his system. The concentration of oil in Mr. Wegley's body is not high enough to be fatally poisonous, but he does suffer from fatigue, headache, memory problems, muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, and indigestion. The exact pathology of these symptoms remains unclear, but a similarity to Gulf War syndrome has been noted.4
The trace amounts of SCP-2068-A in Mr. Wegley's blood are still sufficient to infect others, as indicated by testing with live blood samples. In all cases, uninfected blood exposed to Wegley's underwent rapid and total transmutation in keeping with typical pathology. Wegley has therefore been demoted to Class E and placed under quarantine until a means of purging SCP-2068-A from his system is discovered.
Mr. Wegley was in a delirious state and speaking incoherently when first discovered by medical personnel. Attending doctors recorded the following statements before he lost consciousness:

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.5 Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.6 What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.7 Twelve. Eighteen. We will stop al-Qaeda.8 Moloch. Moloch. Moloch.

Item#: 2068

Level4

Containment Class:
keter

Secondary Class:
none

Disruption Class:
ekhi

Risk Class:
danger

link to memo

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2068's containment vault is situated at the end of a 100 meter hallway extending eastward from the Heavy Containment Zone of Armed Bio-Containment Area-14. There is a security checkpoint at the west end of the hallway, within section N2; this station is to be manned by no fewer than four security officers at one time. From this checkpoint, the hallway can be accessed through a secure airlock. There is an identical airlock at the east end. No electronic devices are to be brought beyond the checkpoint.
The containment vault itself is shielded with a blast door and lined with heat-resistant steel plates; the metal lining also functions as a Faraday cage. The vault is to remain filled with deoxygenated air and kept at 200 kPa pressure, to prevent combustion or the escape of gasses from within. Any increase in pressure is considered a breach of containment. The vault is to be monitored visually from the checkpoint; this is accomplished by a series of lenses and mirrors, as cameras are prohibited beyond the airlock.
Natural gas detectors are to be installed throughout section N2. These detectors are to be inspected monthly to ensure proper function. If gas is detected outside the containment vault, Area-14 personnel are to prepare for a containment breach.
SCP-2068 is encircled by a large grated drain 1 meter wide, to facilitate the drainage of SCP-2068-A into the blast furnace below the chamber. The sides of this drain include electric heating elements, so that viscous forms of SCP-2068-A may be heated to flow more easily. All SCP-2068-A is to be immediately incinerated.
The water sprinklers in section N2 have been replaced with dry chemical fire suppression systems.
In the event of an SCP-2068 breach, all personnel within section N2 at the time are to don respiratory protection and shelter in a sealed environment, such as a quarantine suite or unused containment chamber.
No samples of SCP-2068-A are to be removed from the containment chamber.
If any device within Area-14 begins to unexpectedly play media related to military conflict, personnel are to prepare for a containment breach.
Description: SCP-2068 is an oil pump jack manufactured by Kervier International. It does not include a rod or any underground components. Internal imaging indicates that the object's internal components are likely identical to its non-anomalous equivalents, but its apparent indestructibility has thus far prevented disassembly or detailed examination.
The object does not require power to operate, and frequently activates without any apparent external stimulus. When active, SCP-2068 performs its typical pumping motion at a varying speed. This causes crude oil (classified as SCP-2068-A) to appear beneath the horsehead, at a rate that varies linearly with the speed of the pumping motion. The source of this oil, if any, is unknown, as is any upper limit to production that may exist. SCP-2068-A may take the form of any naturally-occurring variety of petroleum, including tar and natural gas. Flammable forms of SCP-2068-A will sometimes spontaneously combust. All forms of SCP-2068-A are chemically identical to non-anomalous petroleum.
If liquid SCP-2068-A enters the bloodstream - typically through an open wound or inhalation of unburned aerosol droplets in smoke - it will begin to transmute the host's blood into more SCP-2068-A. Affected subjects begin to violently purge SCP-2068-A from multiple orifices, posing a significant infection risk. Death usually occurs within 20 minutes of activation, due to poisoning, shock, organ damage, or spontaneous combustion.
SCP-2068 seemed to exhibit intelligent planning capability during the August 2014 breach. Attempts to communicate with the object through affected electronics have been unsuccessful.

On September 11th, 2014, Mr. Wegley became agitated and began to suffer heightened symptoms. He claimed that he could "feel the pump thinking," and that it "wanted to talk to [Director MacLean]." The Director proceeded to the observation chamber outside Mr. Wegley's quarantine suite and spoke to him through the glass partition. Anticipating equipment failures, Researcher Lee Roy Carlson accompanied the Director to transcribe his conversation.

<begin log>
[MacLean and Carlson are seated on one side of the partition. Wegley sits on the other, sweating profusely.]
[Carlson places his tape recorder on the desk and turns it on, in order to detect SCP-2068 activation.]
MacLean: Okay, Mike, we're here. What does 2068 want to tell us?
[Wegley rubs his head and groans.]
Wegley: Uhh, I don't know, Tom. I don't think it thinks like we do. I can feel it, sort of, but it doesn't have a voice.
MacLean: How does it expect to talk to me, then?
Wegley: I'm just a…translator, I think. It needs a voice. Something with speakers and a screen.
MacLean: Lee, go find a voice.
Carlson: I-
MacLean: Do it.
Carlson: Yes, sir.
[Carlson leaves. He forgets the tape recorder, which remains on and captures the next portion of the conversation.]
[MacLean and Wegley sit in silence. Wegley refuses to make eye contact.]
MacLean: They're going to give you a Foundation Star.
[silence]
Wegley: Thought those were strictly posthumous.
[silence]
Wegley: 500 could do it.
MacLean: We don't know that.
Wegley: We could find out. I know we have one here, for emergencies.
[silence]
MacLean: The Council would have to approve that.
Wegley: Right. [Wegley hangs his head.]
MacLean: Maybe if I-
Wegley: Save it, Tom. I'd rather have the Star than a lie.
[silence]
[Researcher Carlson returns, carrying a computer monitor.]
Carlson: Will this work?
[Wegley nods. He opens his mouth to say something. Instead, he cries out in pain and doubles over, clutching his stomach. His teeth are gritted and his eyes tightly closed.]
[The monitor powers on, despite being unplugged, and Carlson quickly places it on the desk. It displays only static. The tape recorder is unaffected.]
[The static resolves into what appears to be footage of George W. Bush's January 10th, 2007 address to the nation. When Bush speaks, Wegley silently mouths along.]

still frame

Bush: My fellow Americans.
[Bush opens his arms, as if for a hug, and smiles]
MacLean: I'm Irish.
[Bush laughs]
MacLean: What do you want?
Bush: I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
MacLean: What?
Bush: There— it's— you know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.
[MacLean crosses his arms.]
MacLean: So you're just gonna throw Bushisms at me? Is that all you called me down here for? Is that why you did this to Micah?
Bush: I'm the commander, see. I don't need to explain—I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the President. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation.
MacLean: You owe me. You owe Micah. You owe the two hundred people you burned alive last month!
[Bush laughs, then grunts and clutches his head. For 45 seconds, he sways slowly from side to side. The sound of helicopter rotors is faintly audible.]
MacLean: I've had enou-
Bush: WELCOME TO MY HANGING!
[The view of Bush's office is replaced by a series of video clips. Audio from George W. Bush's infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech plays over the footage.]
In this battle, we have fought for the cause of liberty and for the peace of the world.
[a news story of the CIA-sponsored 1953 Iranian coup d'etat, which overthrew the democratic government and reinstated the monarchy]
Our nation and our coalition are proud of this accomplishment.
[a prisoner being waterboarded by masked interrogators, presumably in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility]
Yet it is you, the members of the United States military, who achieved it.
[Thaer Thabet's famous video of the Haditha massacre's aftermath]
Your courage, your willingness to face danger for your country and for each other made this day possible.
[a cloud of nerve gas engulfs a wave of child soldiers in the Iran-Iraq war, both sides of which were supported by the United States]
Because of you our nation is more secure.
[footage of the oil fields in Kuwait, set ablaze by retreating Iraqi forces in the Gulf War]

still frame

Because of you the tyrant has fallen and Iraq is free.
[a line of prisoners being beheaded by Islamic State fighters]
Thank you for serving our country and our cause.
[Video reverts to Bush's office, which is now on fire. Bush burns but is not consumed.]
I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best.
MacLean: Do you even know where the Hell you are? We're not the US government!
Bush: This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.
MacLean: The Foundation had nothing to do with that war. Nobody you've killed did.
[For 21 seconds, Bush rapidly shakes his head. The sound of a large vehicle's engine is audible until he speaks again.]
Bush: See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
[The footage becomes overlaid with an image of General George Bowe shaking hands with O5-█.]
Bush: Weapons of mass destruction.
[footage of Mobile Task Force █████-█ ("█████████ ███") and SCP-███-█ battling ORIA soldiers in Iraq]
Bush: Weapons of mass destruction.
[O5-██ speaking [DATA EXPUNGED] the PATRIOT Act]
MacLean: The Bowe Commission is history. We don't-
[The monitor briefly produces the extremely loud sound of machine gun fire.]
Bush: I think we agree, the past is over. But our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
[MacLean stands]
MacLean: Alright, I get it. You said your piece. Now let Micah go.
[Bush sighs and leans heavily on the podium.]
Bush: See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
MacLean: What do you want, a formal apology? Reparations? A letter from the bloody president?
[A laugh track plays from the monitor. Bush shakes his head.]
Bush: You misunderestimate me.
MacLean: What?
[Bush grins. His teeth are bullets.]
Bush: Now watch this drive.
[Wegley screams and falls from his chair.]
Wegley: GET DOWN! IT'S G-
[Wegley explodes]
<end log>

It is now known that Mr. Wegley had been emitting natural gas since he became infected. The gas built up over the twenty days of Wegley's confinement to the sealed quarantine suite, then exploded when he spontaneously combusted.
Fortunately, Area-14's quarantine suites are strongly fortified to contain patients with anomalous capabilities. Due to these fortifications and Director MacLean's quick response - tackling Researcher Carlson to the ground, to place them both below the level of the window - both men survived the explosion and are expected to make full recoveries.
A third revision of SCP-2068's containment procedures is being drafted.

« SCP-2067 | SCP-2068 | SCP-2069 »

Footnotes
1. a snippet from Jello Biafra's anti-war spoken-word track of the same name
2. System of a Down's "Boom!" an anti-war song released the previous day
3. ███ casualties, extensive damage to Section N2, [DATA EXPUNGED]
4. Covert blood testing has ascertained that non-anomalous GWS is not the result of SCP-2068-A infection.
5. - Vice President Dick Cheney, before the invasion of Iraq
6. - President George W. Bush, after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime
7. - Secretary of State Colin Powell, regarding the false claims of WMDs in Iraq
8. - SCP-1981, 1993


Item #: SCP-2069
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: All recovered instances of SCP-2069 have been stored in a re-purposed warehouse at Area-29 following the completion of mandatory biological and memetic hazard screening and quarantine procedures. Transcripts and data extracted from SCP-2069 instances are available through the Foundation research database and direct access to SCP-2069 instances may be granted with permission from at least one (1) Level 3 Senior Researcher.
Description: SCP-2069 is a collection of 2,308 inert objects of presumed extradimensional origin that were discovered washed up on the shore of [REDACTED], Australia during a period of eleven months between 2000-04-08 and 2001-03-02.
Mobile Task Force Sigma-8 ("Beachcombers") was mobilized and assigned to recover objects suspected to be instances of SCP-2069; the occurrence of such objects increased in regularity before suddenly dropping off at the end of February 2001. MTF Sigma-8 was eventually demobilized and disbanded on 2002-09-01, eighteen months after the last confirmed recovery of a SCP-2069 instance.
A full catalog of confirmed instances of SCP-2069 is available by request from the central Area-29 database.
Addendum 2069-01: Notable Instances of SCP-2069
Item: SCP-2069-3 — SCP-2069-97
Date Recovered: 2000-04-18 — 2000-04-21
Description: Fragments from multiple autonomous tracked drones of unknown, possibly non-human manufacture. Tools attached to drones appear to indicate mining and/or construction as their primary purpose and analysis of similar components suggest that the drones were mass-produced via automated assembly. Damaged components are consistent with having received fire from small arms, explosives, and vehicle-mounted weapons.
Item: SCP-2069-198 — SCP-2069-267
Date Recovered: 2000-04-23 — 2000-04-25
Description: Wreckage from a Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter. Analysis of the remains revealed indications of modifications specific to those operated by the Foundation, but serial numbers did not match those in any Foundation registry. Markings on the hull indicate that the aircraft was being operated by an organization named AEGIS. Wreckage is consistent with having crashed due to suffering a catastrophic loss of engine power. Analysis of engine housing shows evidence of high-temperature vaporization consistent with exposure to a focused, high-intensity laser weapon.
Item: SCP-2069-466 — SCP-2069-508
Date Recovered: 2000-05-13 — 2000-05-18
Description: Fragments from multiple autonomous hybrid multiped/tracked drones of similar manufacture to SCP-2069-3 — SCP-2069-97. These instances differ in that they appear to be weaponized and feature armored hulls and high-caliber electromagnetic coilguns. Components recovered from these instances also indicate vastly different optics and sensors, focused primarily on acquiring and tracking fast-moving targets as opposed to prospecting and mining. Damage inflicted to these fragments are mostly consistent with military weapons, but a few instances have damage consistent from exposure to [REDACTED] and [REDACTED], experimental weapons developed from 1992-1997 in a joint research program between the Foundation and Global Occult Coalition.
Item: SCP-2069-821 — SCP-2069-908
Date Recovered: 2000-05-29 — 2000-06-02
Description: Wreckage of a McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle fighter with markings consistent with those used by Mobile Task Force Sigma-9 ("Valkyries") based in [REDACTED]; however, in place of the standard Foundation markings, the AEGIS emblem is present. Analysis of the wreckage revealed damage consistent with impacts from high-velocity coilgun rounds resulting in structural compromise of the aircraft's starboard wing.
Item: SCP-2069-1112 — SCP-2069-1308
Date Recovered: 2000-06-02 — 2000-06-17
Description: Partial wreckage of a Nimitz-class supercarrier believed to have been the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), also commandeered by AEGIS. Analysis indicates that the vessel took multiple non-catastrophic hits from high-caliber air-launched coilgun rounds before taking a catastrophic hit to its stern from a high-intensity laser weapon.
Item: SCP-2069-1403 — SCP-2069-1499
Date Recovered: 2001-06-19 — 2001-06-22
Description: Fragments from what appears to be large, autonomous aerial drones of non-human manufacture. Drones are powered by highly advanced engines of similar design to ramjets and are equipped with electromagnetic coilguns as well as high-powered laser turrets. Most notably, several fragments exhibit damage consistent with exposure to SCP-███ or weapons derived from the same.
Item: SCP-2069-2088
Date Recovered: 2001-02-27
Description: Damaged remains of a Foundation-standard field-issue laptop computer. Unit is water damaged and unusable, but hard drive was recovered intact.
Research Team Note: See Addendum 2069-02 for transcripts of recovered data.
Item: SCP-2069-2283 — SCP-2069-2308
Date Recovered: 2001-02-28 — 2001-03-02
Description: Wreckage of a Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning & control aircraft. Recovered data from aircraft appears to indicate that the aircraft was originally operated by the Global Occult Coalition before being re-purposed by unknown organization AEGIS. Wreckage appears to have been partially melted as a result of exposure to a high-energy event of unknown origin and power.
Research Team Note: See Addendum 2069-03 for transcripts of recovered flight recorder data.
Addendum 2069-02: Data Recovered from SCP-2069-2088

Transcript of Recorded Video Fragment — 2000-01-02 09:01:18 US-Eastern
(Unknown Female Announcer): […] from SETI have confirmed the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. According to the official statement, long-range telescopes detected multiple bright emissions on the morning of New Year's Day, what is now believed to be high-energy engine exhaust from a dozen large objects on the edge of our solar system. The statement indicates that these objects are traveling at tremendous speed but rapidly slowing down in a way that suggests they are trying to head straight for us.
(Unknown Scientist): At this time, we believe that these are interstellar vessels of unknown origin en route to our solar system. From our observations so far, we know that there are at least a dozen of them and they are of a size and mass that would indicate that they are not any kind of deep-space probe. Our analysts are continuing to [indecipherable]
[end of transcript]

Transcript of Recorded Video Fragment — 2000-02-03 17:48:01 US-Eastern
(Unknown Male Announcer): […] despite having been a month since the announcement, there is still no word from official government sources on what plans exist in case the extraterrestrial visitors turn out to be hostile. New data released by SETI and NASA indicate that these objects were originally traveling at a speed close to twenty percent the speed of light, a rate that would imply tremendous technological power and capability. According to these calculations, with the deceleration rate of the ships, they could be in Earth orbit within another six weeks.
Meanwhile, civil unrest continues to erupt around the world, with the newest reports coming in from [indecipherable]
[end of transcript]

Transcript of Recorded Video Fragment — 2000-02-04 05:11:33 US-Eastern
(Unknown Female Announcer): […] breaking news, we have… yes, we have just confirmed that there has indeed been some kind of massive explosion or impact event on the eastern seaboard at approximately five AM this morning. Conflicting reports are still pouring in, but we are hearing from the U. S. Geological Survey that this was centered somewhere near New York City… we are unable to reach anyone near the affected area…
(video begins shaking, screaming is heard before video cuts to a technical difficulties overlay)
(dead air for approximately 37 minutes)
(Unknown Female Announcer): We… we have just received report of another event near Maryland… we are getting panicked reports from across the east coast of a massive earthquake and a huge cloud of what appears to be smoke… from the direction of Washington… oh, my God…
[end of transcript]

Transcript of Recorded Video Fragment — 2000-02-04 18:22:19 GMT (Translated from Russian)
(Unknown Male Announcer): […] of over a dozen impacts over the last eight hours across the United States and Pacific rim, all centered on major population centers… we have lost contact with all of our sources in America at this time… there are reports of mass rioting and panic in the streets as people are fleeing cities as quickly as they can… there have been no reports from military officials…
(pause)
We have just been told that Tokyo has just been hit…
[end of transcript]

Transcript of Recorded Audio Fragment — 2000-02-05 02:53:52 GMT
(Unknown Male Announcer): […] a second impact in Germany… at this time, we are no longer receiving any signals from any areas east of Zurich… here in London there is anarchy in the streets… we will continue transmitting as long as we can…
(static)
(Unknown Male Announcer): […] just felt a massive tremor, which we can only imagine to be very close now, perhaps Paris… this is BBC World Service, signing off. Godspeed.
[end of transcript]

Recovered Document
February 27, 2001
I can't sleep, so fuck it, I'm typing this out because I have nothing better to do. If by some miracle we survive the night, maybe someday some kid or something will want to read this. If we don't, then I guess it doesn't matter.
Where to start? The fuckers hit us first, and they hit us hard. Apparently they'd launched the relativistic kill vehicles before they started slowing down. It just so happened that their engine emissions were so bright that they blinded our telescopes to the slugs, which were probably painted black and super-cooled anyways. They staggered the slugs so that they hit over the course of about sixteen hours, which was just long enough for the planet to turn and present all of our cities right at them. By the time we noticed them coming, it was already too late; before we could warn anyone, New York was already a ninety-megaton crater.
I think they were targeting people, just trying to wipe out as many of us as they could. Maybe they didn't have enough rounds or mass, or maybe they didn't quite get how we work. Either way, it's the only way we managed to get our shit together, because most of our major sites and a couple of other bases like NORAD managed to stay in one piece. Of course, that wasn't much consolation at the time with half the human population dead or dying.
With most of the civilian governments wiped out or crippled, the only big players left were us and the Coalition. We put out as many fires as we could, then put our heads together and decided the only way any of us were going to get through this was if we joined forces and took over as much of the worldwide military that was left. With only about two months left before the ships got to Earth, we didn't have much time to scrounge together a defense.
But we did, and we stockpiled as many weapons as we could in the meantime. We hid in holes as the aliens drew into orbit, and we waited. Maybe they didn't account for our tenacity to live, or maybe they just expected us to turn on each other long before we'd ever manage to unite to fight a bigger threat. Either way, they didn't bother to wipe us out from orbit before they started landing. Of the dozen or so ships that they brought, they landed half of them in Australia — probably the least devastated landmass — and began to set up shop.
That's when we struck back.
We fired over half of our nuclear arsenal at them, all at once. Almost none of them got through; most of them were shot down by lasers and bullets and god knows what else before they got to their targets, but that was just a distraction anyways. The warheads we had hidden on our satellites vaporized or crippled their ships in orbit while their guns were busy tracking missiles, taking away their high ground. Then we launched every ship, plane, and tank we had at the rest of their grounded ships.
It almost worked. We wiped out thousands of the things only to discover that they were all drones. Someone once told me that it was impossible to send humans to the stars because you'd never be able to carry enough food and water for a thousand-year journey and your body would never survive being frozen for that long. The only way we'd ever reach another solar system is if we sent nothing but eggs and embryos and let robots raise our kids when they got there.
We'd managed to hit two of their bases and wiped out most of their worker drones when the shit really hit the fan. The robots in charge must have realized that we were a much bigger threat than they'd anticipated, and they started building real war machines out of materials pulled from our own planet. Overnight, we went from fighting bugs and crawlers to spider tanks and gunships.
We fought well. We all fought damned well, but we always knew that the aliens were far more advanced than we were and they were playing hardball now. We started taking serious casualties and our air support started running out of missiles and bombs. The brass decided to start using experimental tech and stuff we'd adapted from weaponized skips, but the more resources and reserves we pulled up, the more specialized their drones got at killing us in return. Every day, we lose good men, but the machines just recycle their parts and come back just as strong.
Sometime around Thanksgiving, the machines managed to jam our comms; the egg-heads fixed them as quickly as they could, but by the time we pulled our shit out of the fire, Mike and I were the only ones left out of our original squad. By the time Christmas rolled around, we'd been reinforced, but… well, some of the replacements you can barely tell were once human. We managed to break through around the time the new year rolled around and take down another one of their grounded ships, but that's when their aerial hunter-killers started showing up and we had to retreat once more.
We're going to push with everything we have left tomorrow. We've never been more desperate; there's rumblings and rumors among the officers that the brass have something really big planned, but I don't even want to know any more, not after I saw what they did to José and Tom after the first time they died. I know we have to win, that there will be nothing left if we fail, but at what cost?
— PFC Evan Winters, Mobile Task Force Omega-23

Addendum 2069-03: Data Recovered from SCP-2069-2287 (E-3 Sentry Flight Recorder)

[begin transcript]
[static]
(over radio): [indecipherable] I repeat, all [indecipherable] fall back to minimum safe distance.
(over radio): Transports are clear. All remaining aircraft, break off!
(over radio): NOVA detonation in thirty seconds.
(over radio): Reaper Three-Three is hit… we can't hold them!
(over radio): [indecipherable], hit your burners [indecipherable]
(Co-Pilot): We're taking fire!
(over radio): NOVA in twenty seconds.
(over radio): Reaper Three-One is hit, we're —
(Co-Pilot): Engines three and four are out!
(sounds of mechanical failure, screaming from crew)
(Pilot): I'm losing her…
(over radio): NOVA in ten… nine…
(Pilot): Mayday mayday mayday. Oracle Two is going down, I repeat, Oracle Two is going down.
(over radio): … five… four…
(Pilot): It's been an honor, gentlemen.
(over radio): … two… one… NOVA deto — [static]
[end of transcript]

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Item #: SCP-2070
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Due to their apparent omnipresence, containment of SCP-2070-1 and -2 is focused on suppression of knowledge. Disinformation campaigns intended to discredit and/or totally drown out anyone who reports discoveries of SCP-2070-1 and -2 are to be maintained at all times. These campaigns consist of two components:

A barrage of variously plausible, but false, claims;
Extensive debate regarding these claims which tends to expose the claimants as frauds.

Mobile Task Force Eta-121 ("Navel Gazers") is responsible for collecting and subsequently sabotaging all relevant cosmological data as it is acquired. Members of MTF Eta-121 are to report their findings to embedded Foundation agents who have assumed leading roles in modern theoretical and observational cosmology. These agents are responsible for formulating and advocating for the standard cover explanations. Astronomers who persistently report findings inconsistent with said cover explanations are to be administered class-B amnestics and have their research altered to conform to consensus.

[SUBMIT LOGIN CREDENTIALS TO CONTINUE: LEVEL 4/2070 CLEARANCE REQUIRED]

[CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED]

Extraterrestrial activity on Earth is to be monitored for knowledge of SCP-2070-1 and -2. Any confirmation of such knowledge is grounds for implementation of Protocol 167-Tully.
SCP-2070-3 is held in Research Bunker-477 at Site-280. Two (2) armed guards are to be posted outside the bunker at all times to prevent unauthorized entry. Requests for study have been suspended until further notice or until Protocol 167-Tully is enacted; in either case, proposals for experiments must be submitted to Site Director Arnheim no fewer than twenty-four (24) hours prior to the requested time. The bunker is to be monitored at all times by one (1) level-4/2070 research staff for anomalous tachyon emission. Any such activity must be reported immediately to Site Director Arnheim and MTF Eta-121 Leader Rose. Following experimentation or report of anomalous emission, MTF Eta-121 Leader Rose is to report back as soon as possible on any shifts in the observed large-scale galaxy distribution.
Research Site-79 is to observe the SCP-2070-2 instance in the ████ galaxy cluster following any SCP-2070-3 activity.

Description: SCP-2070 is the collective designation for several anomalies related to modern observational cosmology.
SCP-2070-1 is the observed tendency of the distribution of galaxies in the universe to be elongated and pointed toward our position on Earth. This tendency manifests itself as extended lines of galaxies resembling arrows. SCP-2070-1 instances are known in the astronomical community as "fingers of God." Public discussion of SCP-2070-1 is to explain them as an effect of galaxies' velocities on observed redshifts on cosmological scales.1
SCP-2070-2 is the observed formation of galaxies into coherent, recognizable pictographs and symbols. Examples of SCP-2070-2 instances include:

A stick figure representation of a human being
A miniature depiction of the sun and its eight planets, as well as several of the larger Kuiper belt objects and two as-yet unobserved bodies
In three instances, characters consistent with Shang-dynasty-era oracle bone script. Rough translations of messages include "WE ARE KINGS", "WE ARE SPECIAL", and "WE ARE THE CENTER"

Although instances of SCP-2070-2 are never perfectly formed, they are consistent with their identified shapes to within observational uncertainties. At least one instance of SCP-2070-2 has been identified in each major galaxy cluster, with suspected instances in smaller formations of galaxies pending further data collection. Public discussion of SCP-2070-2 instances is to dismiss them as random formations among meaningless noise, and only instances which could conceivably be disguised as such are to be made available to the public.

[SUBMIT LOGIN CREDENTIALS TO CONTINUE: LEVEL 4/2070 CLEARANCE REQUIRED]

[CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED]

SCP-2070-3 is a hinged box constructed of jade and an unidentified alloy measuring 1.0050 m on each side and 0.335 m tall.2 SCP-2070-3 remains locked by an unknown mechanism under normal circumstances. The top face is covered in symbols that correspond to no known language, as well as a sequence of Shang-dynasty-era script apparently describing the Hubble expansion.3 Touching symbols on the outside of the box that correspond to instances of SCP-2070-2 identified in the ████ galaxy cluster will open the box. The inside contains a layer of sand 4.672 cm deep. Drawing a symbol in this sand and closing SCP-2070-3 will cause three things to happen:

The box will emit a directed burst of tachyons.4
The symbol(s) drawn in the sand will manifest as an instance of SCP-2070-2 in a part of space along the direction of the tachyon burst. Instances of SCP-2070-1 in the surrounding region will appear and/or become more pronounced.
The instances of SCP-2070-2 in the ████ galaxy cluster will change to correspond to different symbols on SCP-2070-3.

How SCP-2070-3 accomplishes this retrocausal reorganization is unknown at this time. Further study of the effects of targeted tachyon emission in general is currently marked as a LEVEL-6 Research Priority.
SCP-2070-3 was unearthed during an archeological dig in ████████ Province, China in the year 19██. Its anachronistic markings led to it being stored as an anomalous object in the Site-230 Vault until Level-4/2070 Researcher ██████ identified three of the symbols as matching instances of SCP-2070-2 found in the ████ galaxy cluster. Subsequent experimentation established its anomalous properties and its link to SCP-2070-1 and -2.
Document 2070-1: Description of Protocol 167-Tully

MEMORANDUM TO ALL SCP-2070 PERSONNEL
██/██/19██

Fellow scientists,

Amidst all our data, all our little daily fights with observation and analysis and theory, I think it's easy to lose sight of the fact that science is an unavoidably human endeavor. We defend our conclusions not just because we believe them to be right, but because we want them to be right. Think of how hard physicists in the 20th century worked to keep the luminiferous aether hypothesis alive. Once you have an idea of how reality should be, it can be the hardest thing in the world to overcome.
Of course, all of you know the danger of preconceptions. We as a community fought the battle against geocentrism many centuries ago. That fight gave us the Copernican principle: the assumption that there is nothing special about our location in the Universe. The Copernican principle has since become one of the fundamental bases of astronomy. It's so familiar to us that most of you probably never think about it.
The ancient Chinese astronomers had never heard of the Copernican principle, and SCP-2070 leads me to believe they had no equivalent. When our culture realized our non-central place in the cosmos, we rebelled against it but suffered the indignity without violent objection and have suffered it ever since. The Shang dynasty took a different approach and altered space itself to restore their special place. Arrows pointing to us, symbols and codes and pictures - the iconography of a people striving towards godhood.
But they were not gods, and they did not think through their actions. The ancient astronomers didn't just leave their mark, they left a trail for every being in the universe to follow. They drew maps of our solar system, of the solar neighborhood, even rough sketches of the Milky Way. Any life outside of our own planet is bound to get a little curious about where the arrows are pointing.
So far, research on the effects of SCP-2070-3 has been conservative and measured - just enough to establish the link to SCP-2070-1 and -2. As Senior Researcher, I and Site Director Arnheim have sought to keep our hands out of the cosmic web as much as possible. But if we find any reason to believe extraterrestrial life has followed the directions we so kindly left for them, we're going to have to take a more aggressive approach. Outlined below is our joint proposal; as always, feedback is welcome.

PROTOCOL 167-TULLY
GOAL: To wipe away humans' cosmological footprint.
GROUNDS FOR IMPLEMENTATION: Discovery of extraterrestrial knowledge of SCP-2070.
DESCRIPTION: Protocol 167-Tully is a plan in two phases.
Phase I: Increased experimentation on the functionality of SCP-2070-3. In this Phase, Site Director Arnheim will accept research proposals, which she and Senior Researcher Bryce may choose to approve. Approved proposals will be given LEVEL-7 Research Priority and the acquiring of relevant astronomical data following experiments will be fast-tracked. A successful experiment is one that returns all or part of space to a homogeneous distribution.
Phase II: Reverse-engineering of SCP-2070-3 with the goal of building a device capable of undoing SCP-2070-3's effects. As further experimentation with SCP-2070-3 is likely to be impossible following full Phase II execution, Phase II is to be attempted only if Phase I fails to produce favorable results within five (5) years of research.

I have no idea what a cosmic restructuring on this scale would entail, and I'm sure none of us are eager to find out - but if it means preventing the end of the world, we have to be willing to try.

Senior Researcher Bryce

Footnotes
1. In reality, this effect only exacerbates observations of SCP-2070-1.
2. Respectively equivalent to 1 bu and 2 chi, ancient Chinese units of measurement.
3. The observed expansion of the universe.
4. Particles which travel faster than light and therefore backward in time.

« SCP-2069 | SCP-2070 | SCP-2071 »


Item #: SCP-2071
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2071 is stored in Vault 86 at Site-11. Vault 86 is to be kept at a constant temperature of -10°C. Tests involving SCP-2071 and reptiles require approval from both the current Site Director of Site-11 and the head of SCP-2071 research.
Maintenance staff assigned to Site-11's storage vaults are to be trained in reptile handling in the event of a containment incident, and a stock of snake and amphibian antivenin is to be maintained in Site-11's medical wing.
SCP-2071 may only be transported in a sealed container and by personnel wearing suitable protective clothing to prevent any contact between SCP-2071 and exposed skin.
Description: SCP-2071 is a full-length portrait measuring 106cm by 48cm, entitled Sir Michael Cavendish in the Guise of the King of Serpents. The painting is a work in oil paints on canvas, purportedly painted in 1799 by Adam William Jardine as a portrait of English military officer and baronet Michael Cavendish, though it does not appear to be a factual likeness.
The painting's central subject is a male humanoid figure in 18th-Century British military dress seated at a table, facing to the left of the painting, with his right arm resting on the tabletop and holding a cup or goblet, his left arm by his side. The figure is clearly not human, and possesses mottled green skin, scales on portions of the face and hands, eyes with yellow irises and vertically slitted pupils, and no hair. The scene is illuminated by light from a window to the right of the subject, and a second, indistinct humanoid figure is visible standing behind the subject's right shoulder, obscured by darkness.
Skin contact with the painted surface of SCP-2071 is fatal. Through an undetermined process, individuals exposed to SCP-2071 in this fashion begin to produce a number of fast-acting neurotoxins within their own bloodstream, leading rapidly to death by respiratory failure. Examination of toxins found in specimens exposed to SCP-2071 indicate a wide variety of toxins are produced, some of which appear to be the active components of a variety of snake venoms.
SCP-2071 causes significant behavioural alterations in any member of the class Reptilia. Reptiles within a certain distance of SCP-2071 will attempt to reach it by any means available to them. The exact distance of this effect is difficult to ascertain accurately and appears to vary over time, but is believed to extend at least 5 kilometres around the painting at all times. Reptiles affected by SCP-2071 will attempt to travel to its location even at the risk of injury.
Reptiles affected by SCP-2071 congregate around the painting and largely remain motionless. Reptiles in SCP-2071's presence do not appear to require food, water, exterior heat sources, or sleep, and despite their lack of movement tend to remain in good physical health. SCP-2071-affected reptiles react violently to attempts to remove them from its presence, though they are otherwise largely nonresponsive.
Prolonged exposure to SCP-2071 causes physiological changes in reptiles, usually beginning after several days of continued exposure. Typically, this results in increases in size, and the development of venom glands in non-venomous species.
Addendum 2071-1: Abridged test log for SCP-2071:
Test 2071-8 Date: ██/██/██

Rationale: Analysis of physical changes in SCP-2071-affected reptiles over long periods of time.
Procedure: A single female Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) measuring 1.4m in length was placed in SCP-2071's chamber (cooling of Vault 86 was suspended for the duration of the experiment). The specimen was selected for its size, herbivorous nature, and docility. The iguana was monitored regularly by a qualified herpetologist and veterinarian throughout the experiment.
Results: Growth in the specimen was first detected on day 3 of the experiment. By day 4 of the experiment, the specimen had increased to 1.45m in length and had begun to develop venom glands. By day 6, the subject's rate of growth had accelerated - specimen was now 1.6m in length. Growth continued unabated until day 28, by which time the specimen was 3.4m in length. Between day 30 and day 34, the parietal eye of the specimen underwent a significant metamorphosis into a large, seemingly functional lidded eye.
On day 47, research staff discovered that the specimen appeared to be carrying eggs. As Site Director Feccini had not sanctioned the reproduction of an anomalous lifeform when the experiment began, he requested that the experiment be halted. The specimen was subsequently euthanised and autopsied.
The autopsy revealed that substantial internal modifications had been made to the specimen's reproductive track, allowing it to bear live young. A single foetus was found in the specimen's uterus. This foetus was reptilian, with a humanoid body plan, developed cerebrum, scaled skin, slitted eyes, pointed teeth, and a vestigial tail. The genetic makeup of the foetus did not match the mother, and some sections of its genome closely resembled the human genome. A full report on the biology of both specimen and foetus can be found in document 2071-Padraig.

Addendum 2071-2: SCP-2071 is one of 4 known paintings by Adam William Jardine believed by the Foundation to be both currently extant and to possess anomalous properties, and the only one presently in containment. Of the other paintings, The Rood and the Pit (E-456) is believed to be in the possession of the Horizon Initiative, while The Hunting Party (E-459) and Celia Penrose, in the Guise of a Fountain (E-460) are in the possession of an unknown private individual.
Jardine was a minor English painter active between 1790 and 1819, when he is believed to have died of tuberculosis. Contemporary sources indicate that Jardine was widely believed to be mentally ill and suffered from visual hallucinations.
The portrait is not believed to have had any anomalous properties at the time it was painted. It is unknown when these properties manifested, but SCP-2071 remained unknown to the Foundation until ██/██/1925, when it was recovered after two people died as a result of an attempt to place the painting, along with others, in the public trust in lieu of inheritance tax.
Addendum 2071-3: Extracts from the diary of Michael Cavendish:

…I have been informed of a painter, a Mr. Jardine, from Northumbria. I am told the man is quite mad, and possessed of visions of a spiritual bent. He claims to be able to see the souls of people both living and dead, and to put his visions down in pencil sketches and oils. His work has been recommended to me by a friend, and by that same friend I have been able to engage this Mr. Jardine in dialogue.
In person, Mr. Jardine seemed in rather good humour for a madman. He talked rather sensibly, though he seemed somewhat troubled, as if trying to suppress his nerves, and seldom looked directly at me the whole time. Indeed he seemed so sensible, if somewhat shy, that I began to wonder if the supposed insanity was genuine. But when he showed me his portfolio, I was astounded. Jardine had conjured up a whirl of grotesques and wonders such as would awe anyone living.
Despite his obvious talent, he told me that his work sells poorly; I am told that there are few in the country with the discernment to see his work as anything more than a perversity. As such, he was more than happy to offer his services to me upon seeing that I enjoyed his work, provided I provide payment regardless of his own view of the eventual portrait. This I am more than happy to accept. If Jardine is mad or a charlatan, then it will be a wonderful and curious indulgence; if not, then what is more worthy of payment than a glimpse into my own soul?

…I promised to pay the man regardless of my own opinion, and pay him I have. That said, my own opinion is less than favourable. The damned painter has rendered me as some sort of hideous freak, a combination of lizard and human. It is beyond what I had envisaged when I commissioned the portrait. It cannot be displayed.
If the man has visions, I am now certain that they stem from a disordered mind rather than a divine visitation. I am, at least, convinced that I know enough of my own soul to know that I am no snake, and that this painting is not a reflection even of my principal sins.
The more I look at it, the more I believe that the painting is a poor likeness. Disregarding the obvious, the figure in the portrait is too gaunt, and looks far too old to be a true likeness. This was a waste of time and money…

In early 1829, Mary Cavendish, wife of Michael Cavendish, was found dead in their home by a servant. The cause was, at the time, believed to be a stroke. Michael Cavendish, by now suffering from an undetermined chronic illness, committed suicide in 1842 by drinking poison, confessing in his suicide note to having murdered his wife. Suggestions that a large number of snakes were found alongside Michael Cavendish's body are not verifiable.
The following is an extract from Michael Cavendish's suicide note:

I confess only that the truth might be known. I do not hope to save my soul by atonement. I do not believe in Hell any more. If, all those years ago, that painter saw me, in my youthful vigor, for the bitter, spiteful creature I became, then this was all predestined, and so no just god could damn me.
[…]
I do not take this measure out of guilt. I do it to escape my present purgatory. I hate my current life, but I do not fear death. After all, a snake can slip out of its skin and become young again. If I am the King of Serpents, as that bastard said I was, why shouldn't I do the same?

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Item #: SCP-2072
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: At least one Foundation staff member (designated Level 1-SCP-2072 or higher) must be present and armed with a standard-issue sidearm at all times. Access to SCP-2072 is restricted from the general public.
Instances of SCP-2072 are to be covered with opaque, waterproof materials at all times. If the covering on instances SCP-2072-8 to SCP-2072-22 is disturbed to the degree that the text on said instances is readable, staff replacing the coverings must be administered amnestics immediately after said replacement.
Following the next change in the Prime Ministership of Montenegro, the assigned staff member will exhume the corpse buried beneath SCP-2072-8 and collect a sufficient sample for genetic testing to ensure continued accuracy of SCP-2072.
Description: SCP-2072 is the former Garden of Love Pet Memorial Park, located approximately one mile south of ████████, Florida, United States. Upon the discovery of human remains beneath the northeast section of headstones in 1977, Foundation Local Mobile Task Force 352-Lamedh (“Stump Knockers”) seized control of the area to investigate. After discovering that four of the corpses located in the cemetery were genetically identical and buried under the same name, the Foundation opened a Provisional Containment Site on the premises.
The full significance of SCP-2072 was not known until June 1991, when a routine check of international political leaders' genetic records discovered that Prime Minister of Montenegro Milo Đukanović (b. 1962, Prime Minister from 1991–98, 2003–06, 2008–10 and 2012–present [as of 2014-██-██]) was a genetic and name match for the first, third, fifth and seventh corpses located in SCP-2072, whose headstones are designated SCP-2072-1, -3, -5, and -7. The headstones and corpses have correctly reflected the holders of the office of Prime Minister of Montenegro from the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia to the present day. As SCP-2072-8 through SCP-2072-22 potentially represent future Prime Ministers of Montenegro, and SCP-2072-1, -2, -3, -5, -6, -7 and -23 contain dates of death and corpses of still-living political figures, the information in SCP-2072 is to be strictly controlled to prevent potential issues of causality.
List of anomalous headstones located in SCP-2072:

Designation
Name
Subtitle
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Notes

SCP-2072-1
Milo Đukanović
The Smuggler of Nikšić
1962-2-15
████-██-██*
Prime Minister on four non-consecutive occasions, and currently serving as of 2014-██-██. This headstone and corpse appears to represent his term as Montenegro's first Prime Minister after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, from 1991 to 1998. Title may refer to (unproven) allegations of organized criminal activity.

SCP-2072-2
Filip Vujanović
The Unguarded Man
1954-9-1
████-██-██*
Prime Minister from 1998 to 2003, currently serving as President of Montenegro as of 2014-██-██. Title may refer to his refusal to travel with bodyguards or security. Corpse displays signs of ███████ ██████.

SCP-2072-3
Milo Đukanović
The Smuggler of Nikšić
1962-2-15
████-██-██*
Corpse genetically identical to SCP-2072-1.

SCP-2072-4
Željko Šturanović
The Stricken Acceder
1960-1-31
2014-6-30
Prime Minister from 2006–2008. His resignation due to lung cancer and signing of the document beginning Montenegro's accession to the European Union may be the source of his title.

SCP-2072-5
Milo Đukanović
The Smuggler of Nikšić
1962-2-15
████-██-██*
Corpse genetically identical to SCP-2072-1.

SCP-2072-6
Igor Lukšić
The Pawn
1976-6-14
████-██-██*
Prime Minister from 2010 to 2012, at which time he was the youngest head of government in the world. Title may refer to opponents' insistence that he was too influenced by former party leaders.

SCP-2072-7
Milo Đukanović
The Smuggler of Nikšić
1962-2-15
████-██-██*
Corpse genetically identical to SCP-2072-1.

SCP-2072-8
█████ ████████*
The Secretive Bureaucrat
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Name, birth date and genetics match current member of Montenegrin parliamentary majority.

SCP-2072-9
███ ██████*
The Old Guard
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Name, birth date and genetics match currently-serving Mayor of █████████.

SCP-2072-10
██████ █████ ████████
The Reformer
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Name, birth date and genetics match current member of Montenegrin parliamentary minority.

SCP-2072-11
█████ ███████
The Younger Unificationist
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Date of birth in future.

SCP-2072-12
██████ ██████████
The Elder Unificationist
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Name, birth date and genetics match current member of █████████ city assembly.

SCP-2072-13
██████ █████ ████████
The Reformer
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Corpse genetically identical to SCP-2072-10.

SCP-2072-14
████ ██████
The Murderer of Two
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Name, birth date and genetics match current student at █████ Primary School.

SCP-2072-15
██████ ████████
The Woman Who Was Blind to the Light
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Date of birth in future. Corpse's eyes appear to be gouged out.

SCP-2072-16
████ ███████
The First Heretic
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Date of birth in future. Buried in suit made from natural fabrics and dyes only.

SCP-2072-17
██████
The Superior Man
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Date of birth in future. Lifespan well beyond current human expectations. Corpse heavily modified with metallic prosthetics and artificial eyes.

SCP-2072-18
Godhead
Eternal
Coffin filled approximately 15 cm deep with pure silicon powder. No corpse.

SCP-2072-19
███████ ███
The Second Heretic
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Date of birth in future. Buried in suit made from natural fabrics and dyes only.

SCP-2072-20
████ ███
The Third Heretic
████-██-██*
████-██-██*
Date of birth in future. Buried in robes made from natural fabrics and dyes only. 13 years old as of time of death.

SCP-2072-21
Godhead
Eternal
Coffin filled approximately 15 cm deep with pure silicon powder. No corpse.

SCP-2072-22
Blank.
Coffin empty.

SCP-2072-23
Milo Đukanović
The Smuggler of Nikšić
1962-2-15
████-██-██*
Corpse genetically identical to SCP-2072-1. Date of death same as other Đukanović headstones, well before date of previous Prime Ministers' birth.

*Not yet verified as historically accurate as of 2014-██-██.

« SCP-2071 | SCP-2072 | SCP-2073 »


Item #: SCP-2073
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: The current iteration of SCP-2073-A remains contained in a standard Humanoid Containment Cell within the Esoteric Research Sector of Area-08 (Deck 02). Until such a time that SCP-2073-A may produce a biological son, its location and properties will be accessible only to Clearance Level 4 personnel and authorized 2/2073 personnel from Area-08.
Should SCP-2073 occur outside Foundation control or SCP-2073-A escape containment, Esoteric Mobile Task Force ϱ-4 ("Red Net") will be warned and deployed immediately to re-instate containment.
Description: SCP-2073 is a set of hazardous reality alteration phenomena centered around a humanoid entity, designated SCP-2073-A.
SCP-2073 events consist of multiple Localized Reality Shifts, consistently described as: themed (materialization of dark-colored matter forming sinew-like veins on surfaces of baseline reality objects, frequently in recognizable patterns, and the manifestation of mist and clouds of ashes); observable; and non-congruent with pre-existing reality (usually causing moderate to severe damage to nearby structures, due to the emergence of SCP-2073 matter through static surfaces). Witnesses have often compared Localized Reality Shifts to earthquakes with successive replicas that grow in intensity and range.
SCP-2073 will occur only if:

SCP-2073-A has produced a biological son in previous years.1

SCP-2073-A becomes convinced that SCP-2073 will occur, and that if left unchecked SCP-2073 will trigger an unspecified XK end-of-the-world scenario.

Once SCP-2073 manifests, SCP-2073-A will typically seek to commit suicide while in close proximity to its firstborn son. This event, designated "Lullaby Event", occurs between 3 and 10 years after the latter's birth; at this point, its son will become a new, latent instance of SCP-2073-A.
If a Lullaby Event is delayed, SCP-2073 will become fully manifest after two to ten hours; SCP-2073 reality alterations at this point will be able to severely damage buildings, alter local seismic activity and/or cause meteorological anomalies (such as the appearance of winds in excess of 50 kph and clouds of ash). Observed progression of the area affected by these Localized Reality Shifts indicates that, if unwilling to or prevented from completing a Lullaby Event for long periods of time, SCP-2073-A will become the focal point of an XK-class end-of-the-world scenario due to the SCP-2073 phenomena.
Measures to facilitate or enforce this willingness have been deployed in the current iteration of SCP-2073-A.
Addendum SCP-2073-01: Interview with SCP-2073-A-2 and recording of Lullaby Event 2.

Foreword: SCP-2073-A-2 (████ ███████ █████ ██████████, construction worker) had been detained by local authorities in ██/██/2008 after his wife (a ██████ ██████████) called the police due to a domestic incident in which SCP-2073-A-2 attempted to gain access to ██████ (first born child of the couple) armed with a knife; Mrs. ██████████ would declare later that SCP-2073-A-2 had behaved erratically and violently on occasion since ██████'s birth.
During its detainment, SCP-2073-A-2 repeatedly requested to be brought to ██████ or to have him delivered to its current location. This was denied by police officers for approximately two and a half hours, after which SCP-2073's reality alteration properties became manifest and Foundation field agents from Site-██-████ took over the case, arresting all three family members and establishing preliminary containment in SCP-2073-A-2's current location, a police station of Whispering Pines, IL, with the cover of a potentially hazardous gas leak.
An abridged version of the interview between SCP-2073-A-2 and Agent █████ follows. Note that the subject was in a state of exhaustion and agitation.
Agent █████: Please, explain why are you here [in detainment].
SCP-2073-A-2: My wife called the police because she thought I was gonna do something bad to little ██████. Because of the knife and all, see.
Agent █████: Were you?
SCP-2073-A-2: Look, I am not the best father, alright! I have hurt him, hit him, and ██████, too! But that was when I was drunk, and I drink to not think about it. I don't even know how can people stand it, I mean-do you get what I mean?
Agent █████: I am afraid not. Please explain.
SCP-2073-A-2: Well, we're all going to die, right? (subject momentarily pauses, agitated; resumes conversation by screaming) Right?!
Agent █████: Yes, that seems to be the case.
SCP-2073-A-2: And we still have children. (subject behaves in a more collected manner) We had'im and we knew-guess we all know we're gonna die and think, oh, little Joe will have a nice life, little Jenny will be happy and have kids, but they all die, don't they? We all die. (subject falls silent)
Agent █████: We do.
SCP-2073-A-2: (hesitating, agitated) I've been hearing things. I mean, not like I am crazy or something, alright? I've been hearing these voices. Swished things that said this whole shit was coming down. The dreams, too, the things I saw-
Agent █████: Please, calm down, ████. Start over when you're ready, there's time.
SCP-2073-A-2: Nah, there is no time, not for me anyways. Besides, I wanna let this all out, haven't talked to anybody about it yet… Okay, see, when the kid was born? That night I had a dream. I was holding him in my arms, clutching him and crying. He was dead. Guts spilling from his belly, a little eye plucked out… And everything was filled with black dirt and burnt, and there was smoke and the sky was cold-but you could still see the stars! And- they felt wrong. Out of place, like lined up in rows… I mean, how could the sky just feel out of place? (subject whispers) And there were… okay, like not people, something just a bit like people, all around, whispering that I didn't do it.
Agent █████: Do what?
SCP-2073-A-2: Do my part. It's always a dream like that, month after month after month and then I see it even when I'm awake; black dirt, the world burnt, ashes and smoke, that goddamned sky and them, just walking around and wailing that I didn't do it.
Agent █████: What does your part consist of?
SCP-2073-A-2: That I must pass it on.
Agent █████: Pass what on?
SCP-2073-A-2: Nothing, it's… It's my responsibility, our responsibility.
Agent █████: Are you doing this in order to prevent these events from occurring? Have you ever seen anything like this? (Note: Agent refers to the SCP-2073 manifestations taking place at the enclosure; in debriefing, agents and witnesses would describe these events as "dark sinew-like tissue in walls and ceiling, forming cracks displayed in circles and geometrical motifs", this last aspect speculated to be an unknown language.)
SCP-2073-A-2: N-no, the walls cracking's new, too… Listen, I have to do it.
Agent █████: Do you think you will stop this if you kill yourself?
SCP-2073-A-2: No, you don't-you don't get it, it will never stop. Why, why did I bring him into this shithole-(subject stands up and repeatedly steps on a motile tendril of SCP-2073 matter.) They're coming already.
Agent █████: Who is?
SCP-2073-A-2: You don't see them yet, but they just wanna do their part. And it's either me or everything else. It must happen.
Agent █████: How can you know it will work?
SCP-2073-A-2: Look, I-I dunno! Do you think that I like this, that I want ██████ to die? I've seen this, I've dreamed this. The damn things (Note: SCP-2073-A-2 may be referring to the entities observed during its dreams) hammered it into me, I guess. For a while, I just didn't want to believe it. I mean, who wants to believe that he has to become a human sacrifice, right? (scoffing, low whimper) But the last months… I know this will happen to my kid too, and I don't really want to… I must. I must do this.
Agent █████: Are you certain that you want to?
SCP-2073-A-2: Yeah. (subject composes itself) With me out of the picture-Just… just tell ██████ that I love her. That this is what I want. And to be strong, too. She'll have to be for him. (subject exhales heavily) Take me there. Don't all our kids die too, in the end? At least I won't have to hold his corpse.
SCP-2073-A-2 taken to the presence of ██████ in an annex to main building of the police station. ██████ remains sedated for the duration of this incident. A new SCP-2073 Localized Reality Shift occurs, causing progressive physical damage to facility.
Subject sits by its child (sedated per request of Agent █████) and cradles him, singing a song also recorded in other Lullaby Events. Event recorded as per protocol.

++ Access to Lullaby Event-2.

Opening record; your access has been recorded.

SCP-2073-A-2: I have seen the world burning. I have seen the world turning. The tipping point is my life-

Note: Reportedly, the largest concentrations of SCP-2073 matter begins to generate humanoid protrusions, which crawl towards the containment enclosure occupied by SCP-2073-A-2 and ignore all other present human witnesses. All forms manifested laugh for the duration of the event.

SCP-2073-A-2: The father must spill blood over the son. For the curse is bound to the life of the father, and blood is life's coin; since such life is the father's, it is the father that must (sobbing, audible rumbling in background) pass his blood to the son. A life (sobbing) for all things, a worthy bargain. So receive this my bound, my child, and be anointed with this mourning life. (quiet crying interspersed with a faint cracking sound; laughter is heard over the voice of SCP-2073-A-2) I love you.

Note: Variations on the last sentence have been encountered, but all the recorded subjects have sung this "lullaby" before completing the event.

SCP-2073-A-2 commits suicide. SCP-2073 ceases, baseline reality re-asserts itself.
Foundation observers report that SCP-2073-A-2's blood spills directly over its child's face, turning into a black organic substance (Note: later confirmed to be human serum, extremely thickened with ashes.) upon contact; subject wakes up at this point and is subdued by agents.
██████ is taken into custody and preemptively classified SCP-2073-A-3.

Administrative Order ██-███-████-█: Only Authorized Personnel.

++ File sealed as per Administrative Order ██-███-████. Continue only if authorized by Level 5/Global personnel.

–– File sealed as per Administrative Order ██-███-████. Personnel identified and cleared. BE ADVISED: your access has been recorded.

 ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER ES-057-2073-L4

To: ϱ-4, Area 08 RARP personnel, pertinent Level 5 personnel.

From: Office of the Head Archivist of Area-08.

Ref: Special SCP-2073 Archival Report.

As per Administrative Order ES-057-2073, all references to SCP-2073-A-1, the Reality Alteration Research Program and the SCP-2073 test schedule have been stricken from the main database. Further documentation involving SCP-2073 procedural creation, behavior, and deactivation may be requested to the Head Archivist of Area-08. Information that may be used to track SCP-2073-A-1's genealogy has also been erased from public record and the main database. Only Clearance Level 4 personnel or members of the RARP or the EMTF ϱ-4 may browse these materials.
Since SCP-2073-A remains under heavy monitoring by Area-08 personnel, no SCP-2073 events are expected. A list of potential candidates to bear SCP-2073-A's descendant in order to advance the RARP projects is being considered at this time. SCP-2073-A will be moved to a dedicated research facility when the next phase of the RARP may begin.
Were new cases of SCP-2073 to manifest outside of Foundation control, EMTF ϱ-4 will respond by eliminating SCP-2073-A and tracking down the person or persons responsible for its binding. Tracking of anomalous individuals related to the "Palacian schools" is underway as a preventive measure.

Footnotes
1. While all █ recorded instances of SCP-2073-A have been cisgender males and have produced biological descendants, there is no evidence that SCP-2073 phenomena may only manifest in instances of SCP-2073-A that are biologically related to their children, or that they could not manifest in transgender or male-identifying descendants.
Female at birth SCP-2073 instances are not expected to occur.

« SCP-2072 | SCP-2073 | SCP-2074 »


SCP-2074

Item #: SCP-2074
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2074 is not dangerous. Information or expeditions to SCP-2074 by the public should be monitored and diverted if necessary. Currently, the Foundation believes that at least one person or group is aware of, or may be monitoring or controlling, the anomalous features of SCP-2074. Attempts are underway to identify this party.
Description: SCP-2074 is a hydrothermal black smoker vent located in the Southern Explorer Ridge seismographic area, west of Vancouver Island, in the Pacific Ocean. It is located at a depth of 1770 meters in the bathypelagic zone.
The anomaly was identified from a buoy probe array operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the purpose of monitoring acoustic activity from nearby vents, which had a positive result in the Morisato-Vaux Signal Test (MVST) program.1 The Foundation isolated the anomalous signal's source as SCP-2074.
An extended effort on the part of Dr. █████ and Dr. ███████████ concluded that certain modulations in activity (output of minerals and superheated water) correspond to syllables in four languages. During active periods, the “message” is repeated for 16 hours in English, Spanish, Nuu-chah-nulth (indigenous language from the Nuu-chah-nulth people of western Vancouver Island), and Ditidaht (indigenous language from the Ditidaht people of southwestern Vancouver Island) with Russian loanwords.
Attached to the ocean floor 4.6 meters from SCP-2074 is a heavily corroded but functional electronic device measuring 30 cm x 30 cm x 10 cm. The device has no obvious controls, inputs, or outputs aside from an illuminated seven-segment display panel. The device is unlabelled, and its purpose, origin, and manufacturers are unknown, as well as its connection to (or interactions with) SCP-2074. Classification as an anomalous object has been postponed, pending further data.
Addendum 2074-A
12/16/201█
The first positively identified signal is translated as follows:

UNDENIABLE PROOF OF THE HYDROTHERMAL ORIGINS OF LIFE

This appears to be a reference to the abiogenetic theory of the origins of life on earth from undersea hydrothermal vents. A remotely operated exploration vessel (ROEV) is sent to SCP-2074 to investigate, and finds no evidence of unusual activities or features. Several samples from the nearby area are collected and determined not to be unusual.

1/29/201█
A second period of anomalous activity begins and is translated as follows:

EVIDENCE THAT ALIENS VISITED EARTH THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO

A second ROEV is deployed, and takes several observations (including video) from SCP-2074 and 0.5 km of the surrounding area. Nothing aside from the vent activity has markedly changed from the last exploration. The message itself, given the established knowledge of SCP-2005, SCP-471, and SCP-163, was observed not to be highly insightful.
During this expedition, the electronic device is also observed for the first time, due to the ROEV's alternate angle of approach. At this time, the illuminated display panel reads "00002."

2/07/201█
A third ROEV is deployed to the area during an inactive period. Only changes other than the vent activity is that the display panel now reads "00003."

Further translated signals from SCP-2074 include the following:

POSSIBLE UNDERSEA WORMHOLE TO EUROPA

WRECKAGE OF THE GHOST SHIP CELESTE CELESTE (sic)

BUY PELAGI-COLA

ADORABLE BABY POMPEII WORMS

BACTERIA CONTAINING ENZYME PATHWAY THAT CONTRADICTS LAWS OF PHYSICS

HOLE THAT GOES STRAIGHT TO THE PLANET'S CORE

INSANELY DEEP HOLE FILLED WITH MOLTEN ROCK

BUY PELAGI-COLA

9/13/201█
A fourth ROEV is deployed to investigate SCP-2074 and the nearby area during an active period. While the surrounding area is unchanged, the aforementioned display panel now reads "00005" and appears to have been cleared of barnacles and debris. All further expeditions to SCP-2074 have been postponed.

Footnotes
1. An investigative program which has been running on over 80,000 incoming data streams from both Foundation and civilian natural monitoring stations around the globe for the past eight years. The MVST becomes positive for a particular data stream when it detects pattern-based (rather than random) variation that is either:

Complex and repetitive, and not corresponding to a known phenomenon or natural cycle
Displaying levels of informational entropy close to that found in natural language.

See: Vaux, C. Morisato, H.; Voices in a Noisy World: Interpreting MVST Results. Detection: an SCP Foundation Journal. 2006.

« SCP-2073 | SCP-2074 | SCP-2075 »


Item#: 2075

Level3

Containment Class:
euclid

Secondary Class:
humanoid

Disruption Class:
vlam

Risk Class:
warning

link to memo

Oldest known photograph of SCP-2075.

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2075 is to be held in isolation within a Containment Unit capable of being hermetically sealed when required. Containment Unit is to undergo remote decontamination daily (more if deemed necessary). SCP-2075 is to be supplied with bottled water and nutrient capsules via a pneumatic tube three times a day. All interactions with SCP-2075 are to be done by remote microphone.
Observational windows are constructed of laminated ballistics glass. Any damage to the containment cell must be repaired immediately by personnel equipped with Level A hazmat gear. SCP-2075-A are to be terminated via incineration and disposed of per hazardous waste protocols unless authorized for research by Site Director. Biopsies are to be stored within individual cryogenic storage units.
SCP-2075 has been contained at Sector-G of Biological Containment Site-66 since its transfer from GRU Division "P" on ██/██/1991 in wake of the USSR's dissolution.
Description: SCP-2075 is currently a sixty-three-year-old Caucasian male formerly known as Aleksei Kravchuk - a security guard employed by GRU Division "P". SCP-2075 exhales a microbial pathogen capable of extreme neurological alterations. An individual infected by SCP-2075 is classified as SCP-2075-A and is considered an extension of SCP-2075. SCP-2075 is able to exert its anomalous effects regardless of distance after initial infection and will maintain control indefinitely unless SCP-2075-A is destroyed. Experiments using D-Class have suggested SCP-2075 is able to simultaneously use SCP-2075-A as it would its own body. If the primary host is destroyed, the surviving SCP-2075-A will become the acting SCP-2075, exhibiting its anomalous pathogen. SCP-2075 is unable to control more than one SCP-2075-A at a time.
SCP-2075 has shown an eager willingness to communicate with Foundation personnel. SCP-2075 claims to have been born in the year 1204 CE.1 Although there exist no records in which to verify its claim, if true then SCP-2075 is estimated to have been 787 years of age at time of its transfer into Foundation custody on ██/██/1991.
SCP-2075 prefers to speak in Russian but has also revealed itself fluent in English, German, and an archaic Uralic language that does not coincide with any modern known variants of the Uralic language family. Subject is literate but has made no request for any literature or writing implements.

Interview ██/██/1991

ACCESS GRANTED

Interviewed: SCP-2075
Interviewer: Dr. Albert Cronenberg
Foreword: First interview with SCP-2075 after its successful transportation and containment at Biological Containment Site-66.
<Begin Log, [13:06]>
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Welcome SCP-2075. I hope that you are comfortable.Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Good. I would like to ask you some questions. Please answer truthfully.Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Noted. First, what is your name?Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Karcist? Not your birth name, I presume?Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Very well. Do you know why you are here?
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Please explain your anomalous nature, if able.Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Try me.I can show you. Come inside, doctor.
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: I think we'll stop here. Thank you for your time.
<End Log, [13:09]>

Interview ██/██/1992

ACCESS GRANTED

Interviewed: SCP-2075
Interviewer: Dr. Albert Cronenberg
Foreword: Seventh interview with SCP-2075. Conversation to focus on missing GRU Division "P" reports.
<Begin Log, [14:30]>
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: When were you first detained? GRU Division "P" were unable to provide much documentation about you. Said something about a fire in '55?I was proselytizing in Novgorod. Spreading the good word. A massacre had occurred just thirty years prior and I could feel the mounds of dead as I walked. Serf, szlachta, and boyar. All were pleased to receive me.
But not one, dear doctor. I had one detractor.
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Please continue.He whipped mob into frenzy. Torn to pieces, I was. Watched the entire event from afar.
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: So you say. Explain to me your experience.Dr. Albert Cronenberg: An interesting tale but that was not my question. When were you first contained by GRU Division "P"?<End Log, [14:35]>

Interview ██/██/1996

ACCESS GRANTED

Interviewed: SCP-2075
Interviewer: Dr. Albert Cronenberg
Foreword: Forty-third interview with SCP-2075. Conversation to focus on missing origin and extent of anomalous abilities.
<Begin Log, [14:30]>Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Yes. Of course. I wanted to discuss your abilities.Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Have you always been able to control others?Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Yes. I've gathered you have built some superstitions around your ability.Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Broken?Dr. Albert Cronenberg: I take it you are aware of the Church of the Broken God then?Dr. Albert Cronenberg: We will discuss them later then. Tell me, who is Ion?Perhaps, dear doctor, you shall meet his Holiness one day.
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: What is Adytum?Dr. Albert Cronenberg: I see. I would like to ask you about your anomaly again.Dr. Albert Cronenberg: How does the pathogen work? Are you transferring your consciousness or altering their own to suit your needs?Tell me. Is finite life worth living? I heard about wife. My heart *truly* bleeds for you.
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: This interview is over.
<End Log, [14:35]>

+ INFORMATION RESTRICTED TO LEVEL 4 PERSONNEL OR ABOVE

- ACCESS GRANTED

Item#: 2075

Level4

Containment Class:
keter

Secondary Class:
humanoid/uncontained

Disruption Class:
ekhi

Risk Class:
critical

link to memo

Special Containment Procedures: As of ██/██/2014, SCP-2075 is currently uncontained and its location is unknown.
Description: SCP-2075 is a gestalt consciousness currently occupying an unknown number of hosts. SCP-2075 exhales a microbial pathogen capable of extreme neurological alterations. Those infected by SCP-2075 are SCP-2075-A and are considered an extension of SCP-2075. SCP-2075 is able to exert its anomalous effects regardless of distance after initial infection and will maintain control indefinitely unless SCP-2075-A are destroyed.

<Site-66 Surveillance [24:00]>
[Three men enter the Containment Site. They have been identified as Dr. Albert Cronenberg and security personnel Jacob D. Moore and Jonathan Li.]
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: You requested to speak with me? I am not at your beck and call, SCP-2075.Dr. Albert Cronenberg: [Audibly sighs] My patience with you has long since waned. Speak and be quick about it.
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Are you threatening a containment breach?Dr. Albert Cronenberg: What is this?Dr. Albert Cronenberg: [glances at the security camera]Jacob D. Moore: "'For you!' they cried before the blood drowned their tongues. And Ion said, 'Now do you see?'"

Jonathan Li: "And Nadox wept, as more did skewer themselves in Ion's name, for he had seen and now knew the truth of his words."
Dr. Albert Cronenberg: Security! Security! [Dr. Cronenberg appears to struggle with Security Officer Li][Security Officer Li appears to hold Dr. Cronenberg while Security Officer Moore stabs him in the abdomen with a dagger of ceremonial design; weapon later designated an anomalous object.]
<Video ends abruptly, surveillance camera destroyed>

Security Personnel were alerted when SCP-2075's Containment Unit ruptured. An amorphous mass of flesh and bone, considerable in size, destroyed or disabled defense parameters. Sector-G was flooded with chlorine trifluoride, eliminating the biological agent. Heavy casualties were suffered, including fifty-six fatalities. Sector-G was deemed a complete loss and is currently being reconstructed. DNA found spread throughout Sector-G matched that of Dr. Albert Cronenberg, presumed deceased.
Investigation concluded that Jacob D. Moore and Jonathan Li were both aspects of SCP-2075. Each had over ten years of exceptional service to the Foundation. It is unknown when they were first linked to SCP-2075 but is believed to have occurred prior to joining the Foundation. Partial remains with their DNA, as well as that of SCP-2075, were found within Sector-G. Due to the true capabilities of SCP-2075, it is now believed to have never been fully contained by GRU Division "P" or the Foundation.
Discovered within Sector-G was a ring-shaped object constructed of palladium weighing 2.26 kilograms and with a circumference of 22 centimeters. Object is non-anomalous and depicts an Ouroboros, believed to be a symbol of religious significance.
GRU Division "P" personnel associated with original containment have been sought for information about SCP-2075; all were recorded as deceased or missing.

Footnotes
1. "6712" which further questioning revealed to be based upon the now obsolete Byzantine calendar.
2. The Time of Troubles (Russian: Smutnoye Vremya) was a period of political crisis in Russia that followed the fall of the Rurik dynasty in 1598 and concluded with the establishment of the Romanov dynasty in 1613.
3. Bogomilism was a Gnostic sect founded in the 10th century.

« SCP-2074 | SCP-2075 | SCP-2076 »


A scanner reproduction of an instance of SCP-2076 affecting an advertising folder

Item #: SCP-2076
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Due to its properties, active containment for SCP-2076 is to be established through live remote monitoring of any media sources connected to any cities in the state of Illinois. The activation of Disinformation Protocol CEIRT-27-04 ("Bowdlerization") is to be carried out on a weekly basis by Foundation-operated assets linked to active distribution to major informative sources.
Any sentient beings currently affected by SCP-2076's longstanding infohazardous property are to undergo continuous neurological remapping through the usage of long-term amnestic agents and monitoring of psychotic episodes matching the patterns of Infohazard-linked Chronic Catatonic Psychosis.1
Description: SCP-2076 is the defined designation for an infohazardous publicity campaign currently manifesting through folders, billboards and local radio and television transmissions in the state of Illinois. When compared to non-anomalous publicity efforts, SCP-2076 shows no visually perceptible signs of anomalous properties in its layout, design or distribution, and is laid out as a common low-budget marketing operation.
The content of instances of SCP-2076 will invariably consist of false or incomprehensible messages delivered through short sentences highlighted in vibrant colors and depicted by forms of imagery representing a part of the situation or statement described by the phrase. This combination will be perceived by sapient beings as a part of a common and credible advertisement asset solely distributed through means of communication and will be interpreted as legitimate by any affected instances.
Any sapient beings affected by an instance of SCP-2076 will show continuous interest in taking part in the activities described by the infohazard, while holding a constant need to permanently introduce the depicted situation to one's daily activities in an ordinary manner and while not being able to perceive any egregious peculiarities involving one's recent behavior.

+ Enter Level 2-2076 Credentials: Incident Log 2076-A

Credentials Accepted: Gathering Files

Incident Log 2076-A

A depiction of SCP-2076's manifestation during Incident 2076-A

On the date of July 21st, 20██, active containment measures detected an anomalous manifestation affecting several folders being freely distributed in the "████████ Neighbors and Women's Association"2 matching the pattern of previous activity involving SCP-2076. The manifestation was initially observed as a publicity folder showcasing a large amount of cardboard boxes being carried and pushed by human beings. The captioning of the folder during this manifestation was: "Feeding your cardboard box with baked potatoes can increase the survival of the Golden Lion Tamarin?". Following this manifestation, a significant turnover in capital stock related to packaging industries in the city of ███████, IL was registered along with a sudden increase in food chain sales of baked potatoes. A Foundation-elaborated public research conducted on the date of July 26th, 20██ revealed that two in three members of "████████ Neighbors and Women's Association" had recently acquired a relevant amount of cardboard boxes with no apparent given purpose. At time of writing, no alterations in the life cycle for specimens of Leontopithecus rosalia3 was registered in the wild or Foundation-operated preservation centers.

Addendum 2076-A: The following is an excerpt of a report elaborated by the ███████ Health Surveillance Department following a complaint made by a citizen identified as the side neighbor for Ms. Addison █████████, known by the local community as the current president of the "████████ Neighbors and Women's Association".

[…] Entering the house, a foul scent identified by our on-site specialist as that of rotting vegetation was noticed by the crew. The source of the scent was then detected as several cardboard boxes positioned on the inside and the outside of Ms. █████████'s household. Inside each one of the cardboard boxes, several pieces of vegetal matter were found in an advanced state of decomposition. […]

─ Dr. Gregory Masters, Health Surveillance Inspector

Incident Log 2076-B: On the date of December 12th, 20██, active monitoring detected a massive influx of emergency services requests reporting a shooting of massive proportions inside the ███████ Police Department Precinct. Medical evacuation assets addressed the number of casualties as 2██ human beings holding self-inflicted facial bullet wounds. A covert Foundation-operated inoculated response team ruled the cause of the incident as a mass hysteria episode related to a cognitohazardous manifestation of SCP-2076.

+ Addendum 4/2076-B: Crime Scene Investigation Inventory

Credentials Accepted: Gathering Files

Footnotes
1. CDC-SCP-4298, The Foundation Guidebook For Anomalous Pathological Conditions, Edition 3, Page 782
2. ███████, IL
3. Golden Lion Tamarin

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