Aletheosis

Notice: The documentation for this article is outdated.

Please see Project Sepulchre Recovered Files for more information.

Item #: SCP-3455

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3455 is contained in Site-120, Keter Containment Wing, Containment Unit 3. Four Scranton Reality Anchors are placed surrounding SCP-3455, creating a focal point of a geometric center directly on the subject. SCP-3455 remains restrained to a psychiatric table permanantly. Kant scanners are monitored in shifts, noting that Hume levels fluctuate most often during waking hours. Psychiatric evaluations are conducted bi-weekly. While the subject has remained compliant during detainment, SCP-3455 is likely to experience acute psychological deterioration due to its anomalous effects. No testing or documentation regarding SCP-3455 is allowed in Detainment Unit 3; all records are to be taken externally.

Update: ██/██/0█: If the subject begins to initiate a CK-Class Restructuring Scenario, the Einstein-Rosen Singularity generator¹ placed in Containment Unit 3 will be activated, SCP-3455 will be admitted into the singularity, and the generator will be deactivated. The frequency used will then be blacklisted from Foundation records. See Addendum for more information.

CURRENT FREQUENCY: 137440

Description: SCP-3455 is the designation of Jesse R. Mantell, a Level 5 researcher previously assigned to the testing of the device designated the "Scantron-Locke Reality Generator". Kant readings taken of SCP-3455 are uncertain due to the nature of its properties- however, it is believed to have, on average, a total of at least ███, ranking the highest measured ontokinetic entity based on hume levels.

SCP-3455 has been thus far compliant in containment procedures and testing, likely due to its former employment with the Foundation. SCP-3455's reality bending abilities are incredibly effective- because of this, SCP-3455 is unable to control itself properly. SCP-3455 often enters an intangible or supertangible state due to this, primarily during heightened levels of stress, and thus cannot be feasibly terminated to prevent use of reality manipulation.

Kant scanner readouts, Left taken on ██/10/0█, right on ██/17/0█

Addendum: As of ██/██/0█, data suggests that SCP-3455 has begun to exponentially increase its internal hume value. This would suggest the prompt occurrence of a CK-Class Reconstruction Scenario event within the next 200 days, resulting in both the death of SCP-3455 and an estimated 478% rise in hume levels surrounding the local solar system.

From: ten.pics|ydennekj#ten.pics|ydennekj

To: Group: Keter Containment Wing, Site-120

Subject: SCP-3455

Do not assume we are relegating SCP-3455 to the gallows. We are working diligently to decrease the Hume levels of SCP-3455. Giving him the opportunity to harness his reality-altering powers to attempt to self balance could cause just as much destruction as a "superreality" event, if not more. However, it is in all of our best interests that SCP-3455's anomalous behavior reduces, as they have previously been very beneficial to the Foundation. Mantell was one of our best and brightest. We will not give up.

-Dr. Kennedy

Project Sepulchre Recovered Files

Archived Copy of Original SCP-3455 Documentation

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Notice: The documentation for this article is outdated.



The object's item number has been revoked and reassigned due to violation of Foundation Ethical standards and failure to meet the requirements for SCP designation (does not meet extranormalcy qualification). See Project Sepulchre for more information. Please note: expungements contain Thaumiel-Classified data unsafe for leakage.

A CGI construction of the reality propagation generated by SCP-3455.

Item #: SCP-3455

Object Class: Thaumiel/Explained

Special Containment Procedures:

Please note: SCP-3455 is only to be operated by trained personnel (those familiar with SCP-3455's workings & user interface). In the event of an emergency, personnel untrained for the operation of SCP-3455 are advised to seek shelter in Site-120's Reality Stabilizer Safe Room, and not attempt to shutdown the object. Do not abort Procedure-380 Sepulchre once initiated.

SCP-3455 is held at Site-120 during preliminary testing phases, in the Mechanical Projects Wing, Testing Bay A. No personnel under clearance level 3 are to be permitted entrance to Testing Bay A. [DATA EXPUNGED]. Reality altering devices at or near Site-120 must be disabled for at least 24 hours prior to initiation of Procedure 380-Sepulchre. In the event SCP-3455's internal hume readings surpass 100, emergency shutdown will be initiated automatically. Triggering the activation or failsafe of SCP-3455 unauthorized constitutes a Class Delta code violation.

Additionally, leaking information regarding SCP-3455 to any Foundation staff not directly involved with Procedure 380-Sepulchre constitutes a Class Epsilon code violation, and will be dealt with immediately. SCP-3455's documentation is to be separated completely from data backups or document compendiums, preferably in analog format (this article being an exception.)

Procedure 380-Sepulchre: Following precautionary testing, Procedure 380-Sepulchre is to be executed on ██/██/0█, which constitutes four Phases. Procedure 380-Sepulchre is only to be only be conducted under supervision of Research Team 9. If at any point an error is noted in SCP-3455’s calibration or startup, Procedure 380-Sepulchre is to be suspended immediately.

[PROCEDURE 380-SEPULCHRE EXPUNGED FOLLOWING ETHICS COMMITTEE DISCIPLINARY MEETING ██/██/1█]

Description: SCP-3455 is an advanced apparatus consisting of twelve modified Scranton Reality Anchors (divided into three classes), and various other anomalous and non-anomalous mechanisms, created or assembled by Level 5 Research Team 9 to [DATA EXPUNGED], a project initiated by O5-9. SCP-3455 (also known as the Scantron-Locke Reality Generator) is in testing phase 0.4.2 as of ██/██/0█. Each successive iteration had yielded exponentially higher Kant readings than the previous, suggesting that Procedure 380-Sepulchre will be successful. SCP-3455 generates an anomalous phenomenon designated SCP-3455-1, scientifically classified as "Event 357-Locke".

[REMAINDER EXPUNGED FOLLOWING ETHICS COMMITTEE DISCIPLINARY MEETING ██/██/1█]

Incident Report ██/██/0█ - Recovery Log

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Foreword: On the date of ██/██/0█, the project started by ████ ███████, formerly O5-9, was discovered by the other members of the O5 council. While MTF Alpha-1 ("Red Right Hand") was en-route, ████ ███████ and his team attempted to begin Procedure 380-Sepulchre before SCP-3455-I1 was fully completed. Below is a transcript of the incident, based on audio recordings as well as eyewitness accounts from the reality repair team.

BEGIN LOG: 12:03

Computer: Message for: Harding, Gary.

Lead Researcher Harding: Shit. Shit, shit, shit! We're going to have to engage 3455² now. We've been compromised.

Several expressions of surprise and expletives can be heard.

Researcher George Dreul: Where's Nine?

Harding: He's on his way. Prep everything. (shouting) I want every system triple checked within the next five minutes!

Several Scranton Reality Anchors can be heard initiating.

Computer: Sanitation of chamber completed.

Researcher Danton: Phase Psi is ready!

Harding: Mantell, where's Phase Chi?

Researcher Mantell: It's gonna take some time to set up. The full process-.

Harding: That's the one thing we can't afford to spare right now. Skip the externals, and speed up the rate of draw! I want the Hume ball ready in the next five minutes!

Dreul: (distressed) Where is Nine?

████ ███████ and several armed agents enter.

████ ███████: Is it prepped?

Harding: It's almost there, sir. We just need-

████ ███████: We don't have the time. Red Right Hand is on their way.

Harding: Get him prepped for Phase Omega. Go!

[EXTRANEOUS DETAILS REDACTED]

Mantell: Phase Chi is a go!

Harding: Load him in, Alpha-1 is in the Site! Let's go!

An audible fracture can be heard, followed by the hiss of a failed vacuum seal. Alarms begin to sound.

Computer: Warning: Field Stabilizer damaged. Recommending halt of experiment.

Harding: Oh shit! Get him out of there! It's going to-!

████ ███████: Gary, if you pull me out of here I'll have your head! Keep me in! Do not open this chamber!

An explosion occurs, and the audio fails for several minutes due to distortion.

Dreul: Oh, oh shit! Mantell's-

Researcher George Dreul begins to scream but ceases abruptly. Dreul is permanently immobilized, freezing in place indefinitely. Any attempts to move Dreul since Incident ██/██/0█have failed.

Mantell, now SCP-3455: (disorientedly) Wha-?

SCP-3455's voice catches as its arm passes through the desk it is leaning on.

The reality suppression system initiates, causing a slight hum.

SCP-3455: Oh my-, oh my god. Oh…

Several members of Site-120's reality-stabilizing team arrive in Testing Bay A, and begin to assist SCP-3455 in stabilization. One member of the team powers down all devices in the Bay, ending recording. Level 5 Research Team 9 and accompanying personnel (including ████ ███████) were recovered by MTF-Alpha-1.

END LOG: 12:18

Ethics Committee Disciplinary Meeting ██/██/1█

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Foundation Ethics Committee

Disciplinary Meeting Minutes

██/██/1█

Call to order

Committee Director ███████ called to order the regular meeting of the Ethics Committee at █:██.

Roll call

Secretary ██████ conducted a roll call. All committee members were present.

Open issues:

Disciplinary Hearing: Gary Harding

Foreword: Concerning the events of ██/██/0█, Researcher Gary Harding stands trial for treason against the Foundation & illegal use of Foundation resources and information. Below is a transcription of his evaluation.

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Director ███████: Please begin by describing to us how you first got involved with this entire situation.

Harding: Well, that can be answered fairly simply. As head of O5-9's personal research team, we were chosen to work on Project Sepulchre.

Director ███████: And what exactly would you say this "Project Sepulchre" was primarily concerned with?

Harding: The whole ordeal contains a wide range of reasons, but if you'd like me to boil it down, it was O5-9 obsession with his… might I say, "immortality crusade"?

Director ███████: Would you elaborate?

Harding: Well, you know how he is. He has this air of professionalism, but deep down you know he's scared, right? You spend some time with him, talk with him in the same room, you can see it's all a ruse after a while. He becomes an open book. I should know; I spent six months working side by side with the man. He's a human being. There are some things I know he's seen that would make a man crave death, just to escape those ends. There's probably a million world-ending anomalies behind locked doors that only he and the rest of the council have keys to. Beyond his goal to prevent his own untimely demise, he also gets to prevent everything earthly from ever being harmed ever again.

Director ███████: Where did this concept come from then? Who gave him the idea to use artificial generated ontokinesis to achieve this goal?

Harding: We know he's made attempts in the past to bypass death, and this is just one of them. He's essentially the 963-2, seeing as he's tied to the damn thing. Also, I don't know what's going on with █████████, but the phrase V 20.0 came up a lot during testing, and I can only guess where that rabbithole goes. It's essentially the next step he could take. You Ethics Committee knuckleheads may have a better chance at it, you're much above my paygrade, even if I had Level 5 clearance.

Director ███████: Sir, I would think you would be better off realizing who commands this discussion here. You've already sustained previous transgressions. You are here only because you are a seriously valued member of staff. Otherwise you would have already been reassigned.

Harding: I'm pretty sure my fate is sealed already.

Director ███████: (sighs) How did this entire situation go unnoticed for some time? I would think something would fall through the cracks eventually.

Harding: It did. Christensen, or at least, I think it was him, leaked to someone. You know, I never quite liked that guy. He tried to get me removed from the program entirely at one point. But before that, we were meticulous, and everything was under "Expenses" of Site-120. Our team grew only slightly, but the people we nabbed were important. Mantell was pivotal in the construction of the Slug-

Director ███████: Excuse me, the "Slug"?

Harding: Oh, yeah. The SLHG. Scranton-Locke Hume Generator. Easier on the tongue.

Director ███████: Please continue.

Harding: Anyways. Jesse was necessary to build that scrap heap through and through, Danton was instrumental in the calculation and… well, Dreul was our biological expert, but we know what happened to him. The payroll was nonexistant, and we had to borrow components, etc. Until Christensen.

Director ███████: We are… well versed in where he came in. What do you think caused the failure in the… "Slug"?

Harding: I'd assume the construction failed in some way. The machine was never supposed to be powered up at that time. Mantell never did quite finish them structural supports, only the internal wiring. I watched as one of them crystals got messed up in the process. All our months of research to shit over a leak, an information one and a literal one. I'll tell you what, too: that thing woulda worked. The Hume Ball was there, I saw it with my own eyes. If we'd just had enough time…

Director ███████: Do you have any idea of the ramifications of such an action? The potential outcome of giving anyone, even if they are a member of the O5 council, abilities like this? The horrible things people with power do in this position?

Harding: Alright, Mr. Committee Director. Imagine you're faced with a big red button. Say you press that button, and there's a 50 percent chance you and everyone is the world dies, and a 50 percent chance whatever you want most in the world would occur instantly. Would you press it? I'd say, if I may speak for me and the rest of my staff, that that chance was too big to turn down.

Director ███████: You would risk the life of every human being on this planet to the wrath of someone with near infinite power for your own progression of goals?

Harding: It's not just our own progression. With power like our predictions specified, every Apollyon & Keter class could be zapped away in the blink of an eye. Overpopulation, world hunger, anything, all solved with a wave of your hand. Distant galaxies could become exploitable or profitable in an instant. Nothing ain't too far fetched.

Director ███████: You fail to grasp the concept of all the innocent billions of lives populating this planet, not knowing a single thing about what lies under the bed, living their lives peacefully. 3455 is likely to go superhume, and if we fail the transport, who knows what kind of CK our reality will undergo? Something of this magnitude has never even been simulated, let alone tested.

Harding: Would you think perhaps for a second past this situation? How many things out there are inches from doing exactly that already, how many things are unpreventably growing out of control right now? 2 minutes faster isn't going to alter anything. It's meaningless to attempt to struggle.

Do you fear death, Director? That's exactly what got us into this mess originally. Of course, if we didn't, the Foundation wouldn't really have a purpose, would it then?

Director ███████: I fail to ascertain your point, Gary.

Harding: How many times will this happen! How many times does a researcher have to suffer horribly after being exposed to some kind of anomaly? How many times do we have to destroy an entire world simply to plunder the resources or simply dispose of our "hazardous waste", as you so eloquently described my esteemed colleague. He had a name! His name was Mantell! Jesse Mantell!

Director ███████: Doctor-!

Harding stands up in his seat, straining against his restraints.

Harding: O5-9 would have been a fluke anyways, and I realized that too far into the project! There's no one way to run this place, because absolute power corrupts absolutely, and fear makes good men do horrible things! Give someone an opportunity to be self generous at the expense of others, and they're gonna do it! It doesn't matter that someone already tried to play nice and failed thousands of times before, because every person thinks "I can do it way better than the last guy." They just fail to get the fact that the next guy will think the same of them, until someone DOES inevitably end the chain by blowing us all to holy hell, and even THEN-

Director ███████: Thank you for your time, Gary. I think we have heard enough.

Harding: No, you don't understand. It's a time bomb! We're sitting on a time bomb, and there's no wires to cut! No-

Researcher Gary Harding is forcefully removed from the function.

Director ███████: We're going to have to make an example out of this. I don't want to see anything like this ever happen again.

<End Log>

Closing Statement: Pending sentence.

Adjournment

Committee Director ███████ adjourned the meeting at █:██.

Incident Report ██/██/1█ - Decommissioning Log

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Foreword: On the date of ██/██/1█, during a routine psychological evaluation, SCP-3455's behavior became erratic and unstable. Despite the best efforts of all staff involved, SCP-3455 had to be decommissioned as a result. However, complications in the process created a fault in the Einstein-Rosen Singularity Generator.

SCP-3455: I-… I have to go.

Dr. Joseph Botsky: You what, Jesse?

SCP-3455: My… my friends. They're important.

Botsky: And why are they important?

Staff Member Arthur Messer: Sir, readings are spiking dramatically.

Botsky: I’m trying to calm him down.

SCP-3455: They need my help.

Botsky: Jesse, you need to stay here. Do not go with whoever you hear.

He turns off the microphone momentarily.

Botsky: He’s delusional. We can’t keep him much longer.

Researcher Jerry Kennedy: No, don’t do it. Please, we were almost having a breakthrough!

Messer: It’s going to have to happen. He’s going to be critical soon.

Messer: Readings are reaching critical condition.

Kennedy: No! We have it! We almost have it! We were so close to finding a cure! We simply needed the proper dosage values, and then-!

SCP-3455: They just want help. They want me to be with the constellation.

He reactivates the microphone.

Kennedy: Mantell, snap out of it! Jesse! Jesse!

Messer: Engaging the ERSiG. Please insert and turn your safety keys.

The Botsky and Messer both insert their key and turn it.

Kennedy: No, I won’t do it. He’ll die outside of the chamber!

Botsky: And we’ll die with him here! You are acting like an idiot, not a scientist! Insert your key!

Kennedy: He will stabilize! I’m not doing it unless it’s truly necessary!

Messer draws a handgun.

Messer: Turn the key, now.

Researcher Kennedy turns the key, initiating the slowly moving track hooked to SCP-3455’s restraints.

The room is quiet, the only sounds being the whooshing of the ERSG and the motors in the track wheels.

SCP-3455: Don’t let them take me a fourth time. Please. I just want to be here. I just… want to be here.

Several ceiling tiles become dinner plates, falling from the ceiling and shattering.

Messer: Wormhole is destabilizing. I don’t know what’s causing it.

Botsky: It’s the excess reality. It’s affecting the portal. We must get him through quicker.

Kennedy: No, we don’t know if it will work! Abort the transference!

Messer: We are not aborting this! Either we send him in that hole or we’re all dead! The keys are locked in!

Kennedy: Goodbye, Jesse. I… (sighs).

The microphone is deactivated.

Kennedy: I hope it’s better for him to go than to be here any longer. One less guy strapped to a table around here is good, I would… I would suppose.

SCP-3455: I would suppose as well.

(SCP-3455 enters the wormhole, and it closes afterwards.)

Messer: Oh. Jesus Christ, the destination! The destabilization had shifted the frequency! 194546 is…

Kennedy: What… What have we done?

END LOG

Universe Log - Delta-Chorba

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Best photo of Universe-Delta-Chorban within Foundation database, collected from Hermes 8.

Designation: Universe-Delta-Chorban

Frequency: 194546

Universe Class: Euclid

Safety Precautions: All Einstein-Rosen Singularity generators and similar devices are blacklisted to frequency 194546. No contact or transportation to Universe-Delta-Chorban is permitted. If any member of the Foundation be transported to Universe-Delta-Chorban, no return travel is permitted. Returning to Universe-Alpha-Ask or disclosing information about Universe-Alpha-Ask to other dimensional entities is a Level 5 code violation.

Description: Universe-Delta-Chorban's solar system is binary. As a result, a higher level of ambient ultraviolet radiation than baseline permeates the observed area of the reality. It is hypothesized that the dominant species of the observed area (designated BIO-194565-1) possess a visual spectrum closer to this range of light, and additionally have biologically and technologically evolved despite and alongside this alteration.

Previous interactions with Universe-Delta-Chorban have been limited. Logs concerning Universe-Delta-Chorban predating Incident 3455-██/██/0█ consist only of the loss of connection Hermes 8, and a small selection of recovered images and videos. The recovered video from the disconnection of Hermes 8 on ██/██/9█ would indicate Hermes 8 was recovered by several instances of BIO-194546-1 in identical protective clothing (obscuring features), labeled in infrared symbols of unknown translation, which could possibly be a team from an organization similar in purpose to the Foundation.

This area has been exposed to high levels of elevated reality, the results of which are not entirely clear. This is a result of SCP-3455 initiating a CK-Class Reality Restructuring event, wherein which SCP-3455 was transported incorrectly via Einstein-Rosen Singularity generator to Universe-Delta-Chorban. Due to the nature of the event, we can assume this reality has undergone a CK-Class Reality restructuring event. As a result, Universe-Delta-Chorban is considered a hazardous location and no to or from travel is permitted.

I hope I've achieved some semblance of a working production. Upon potential success this will be my second SCP, third in the line of my WHAC Canon. The first can be found here, and the second here.

Acknowledgements are in order:

YossiLiener: My main man. This should be marked a collaboration, because of the amount of effort he's put in to help.

TheeSherm: Not only providing constant and exceedingly helpful critique, this person was one of the few present when the idea was sparked.

The SCPDeclassified server: Too many to name individually. Every one of you has been an instrumental part of this process over the past 8 months or so.

The IRC Chat & Draft Forums: The same to you. Each of you has helped tremendously.

-Diana.

Footnotes

1. The device having been keyed to a frequency linked to a reality which has previously recorded to have undergone a K-Class scenario, excluding EK-Class.

2. This references the Scranton Locke Hume Generator.