BY THE ORDER OF CLASS A PERSONNEL
The following document is Level 4 classified. Unauthorized access is forbidden.
SCP-001: Level 4 (Top Secret)
CLASS A & B EYES ONLY
ANY ATTEMPT TO VIEW THIS DOCUMENT WITHOUT PRIOR CLEARANCE WILL RESULT IN DETAINMENT.
This is dossier pertains to the nature of / containment procedures for SCP-001. Any staff class C or below attempting to view these files will be detained. Administrator ████████████ of Sector ███████████████████ has authorised the use of Class E amnestics on C, D, E or F class staff who have attempted to gain access to documents relating to SCP-001. Full medical procedure concerning the administering of amnestics can be found in document SCP-001.MEDX09. It is highly encouraged that new Class A and B personnel unfamiliar with SCP-001 thoroughly read all attached documents - we encourage you to understand, to the best of your ability, what it is you will be working with.
The Foundation is to take every conceivable measure to ensure the knowledge of SCP-001 remains in the hands of Class A, and select Class B, personnel. Please see BLINDPROTOCOL.SCPX for instruction.
Item #: SCP-001
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: The area in which SCP-001 resides has been acquired by the Foundation and established as Area-770. This Area extends for 25Km² around SCP-001. The existence of SCP-001 at this Area is top secret - any parties interacting with Area-770 must be handled on a need-to-know basis. The cover story provided by the Foundation is that Area-770 is a containment zone for a Euclid-class cognitohazard, with the ficticious designation SCP-5987. See LOG.SCP-5987.SCPX for more information.
To prevent physical intrusion the perimeter of Area-770 is to be manned at all times by no less than 200 active security personnel: patrolling of the perimeter is to occur continuously, with no interruption. Security staff based at Area-770 are to alternate patrol shifts and ensure the perimeter is always manned. See patrol document 01GUARD-ROT.SPCX for additional information. Procedure requires that no active security personnel at Area-770 are made aware of what is is they are guarding. The Foundation's cover story for guards onsite is that they are guarding a Euclid-class cognitohazard, with the ficticious designation SCP-5987. See LOG.SCP-5987.SCPX for more information.
Intelligence Unit-I1 has been established onsite to monitor and control the spread of information regarding SCP-001. The Unit operates under the assumption that they are working to perform surveillance on SCP-5987 - see file 001DIRT.SPCX for more information. Unit-I1 is instead responsible for all surveillance regarding SCP-001, and controls the creation / spread of misinformation regarding SCP-001's true identity. Any post or mention of Area-770 online is to be reported immediately. The civilian poster's location is to then be ascertained, with a Mobile Task Force being dispatched to detain the person/s involved. The detained person/s are to be admitted to the nearest Foundation medical facility, where they are to undergo a program of mental reconditioning and will be administered with Class C amnestics - see SCP-001.MEDX09. Any electronic equipment in the possession of the detained is to be completely wiped by specialists from MTF Rho-9. Unit-I1 is to create a cover story explaining the disappearance of the detained subject, with the person in question being returned once cleared by medical staff. When their term of employment comes to an end, Unit-I1 staff are to be admitted to a Foundation medical facility, where they undergo a two week mental reconditioning course - see medical file SCP-001.MEDX09 for additional information.
The only member of site staff at Area-770 permitted to remain fully aware of the existence of SCP-001 is the site's director - Dr. Alan Monroe. Direct contact with SCP-001 itself must be approved by Dr. Alan Monroe and at least two other Class A personnel. Any subject experimenting on SCP-001 must be accompanied by a team of medics and psychological specialists. Once research has concluded, all personnel involved in testing must be subjected to the same amnestics procedure as previously described - see SCP-001.MEDX09 for additional information. Subjects directly exposed to SCP-001 are exempt from this amnestic procedure - requiring their own conatinment procedures. See 001SUBJECTHAND.SCPX for further information.
Description: SCP-001 is a device of unknown construction measuring 2.4m x 3.6m x 1m. At its centre there is a door measuring 2m x 0.9m, concealing a chamber of similar proportions within (2m x 0.9m x 1m). Please see document 001MEASURES.SCPX for more technical information. Inside this chamber there is a seat, as well as a screen on the right wall. The screen displays the words "SACRED GEOMETRY", with a button below. Material analysis has failed to identify what SCP-001 is made of - while visually resembling steel, this material exhibits what can only be described as a anomalous level of hardness - far in excess of any known metal. Efforts to collect and analyse samples of this material have repeatedly failed owing to the extreme properties exhibited. Further testing has been scheduled, pending approval from Class A personnel.
Once the button has been pressed, the door to SCP-001 will lock. Any subject within SCP-001 at this time will become sedated by a gaseous substance emitted from an as yet unknown point within SCP-001. Within 10-20 seconds emission the subject will become unresponsive. A period of typically between 20-30 minutes will pass - during which the subject will remain in an inactive state. Attempts to contact subjects during this period have proven unsuccessful - medical analysis of subjects during this time have shown no physiological, psychological or biochemical deviation from what would be expected in a healthy, conscious human.
Upon exiting SCP-001, subjects typically enter into a state of creative and intellectual mania. A majority of subjects will begin frantically attempting to describe and draw geometric patterns they claim to have seen during their time in SCP-001. Pictures drawn by subjects after exposure to SCP-001 display remarkable levels of accuracy and photo-realism, as well as a tendency to express exceedingly complex geometric forms. Of note are instances where subjects have described experiencing a revelation - that, in some as yet unknown manner, geometry forms the very foundation of the universe. Subjects during this time are consumed with a desire to write down, draw and express a vast array of extremely technical information encompassing thousands of subject areas. During this period it is typical of subjects to function with less than two hours' sleep per night.
Some subjects have claimed that, through SCP-001, they have seen the origin, truth, and nature of all existence: extensive interviews with test subjects have produced results which suggest the visions within SCP-001 are not simply substance-induced hallucinations. Furthermore, interviews with subjects have lead to breakthroughs in many fields - some examples being technology, biology, chemistry, material science, and physics. Subjects interviewed during this period of mania exhibit an extremely advanced understanding of a seemingly random topic - interviewed individuals have become exceedingly knowledgeable in areas ranging from quantum physics to food studies. The information gathered from subject interviews has allowed for rapid advancements of Foundation technology - allowing the Foundation to raise funds from the sale of advanced technologies (see OPERATION-HANDSHAKE.SCPX for more information). For further reading, several transcribed audio logs have been attached to this document (see INTERVIEW-187.SPCX, INTERVIEW-405.SCPX, INTERVIEW-679.SCPX, INTERVIEW-045.SCPX and INTERVIEW-1209.SCPX).
When questioned, some subjects seem to have gained an extreme, in-depth understanding of various SCPs. These insights gleaned from subject interviews have been of profound benefit to the Foundation's efforts in containing and understanding SCPs.
After exiting SCP-001, the mania experienced by subjects will only intensify. Test subjects have been shown to, over a period averaging between 2-5 weeks, become increasingly maniacal. Subjects during this period have been observed to perceive increasingly stimulating insights; however, the reliability and quality of information they offer decreases with time. Eventually, subjects will start to exhibit symptoms of severe psychosis and insanity - eventually becoming unable to communicate in any understandable form. The ultimate manifestation of this insanity has resulted in a 100% suicide rate from exposure to SCP-001. Subjects in this final period before suicide have been responsible for near containment breaches on numerous occasions - see incident logs 001INCDNT-012.SCPX, 001INCDNT-021.SCPX and 001INCDNT-034.SCPX for more information. Even when restrained, subject's vital functions will diminish steadily until they enter a comatose state - where all attempts at resuscitation are unsuccessful. It is currently unknown how this process occurs. As a consequence of the aforementioned details, any test subject entering SCP-001 must be deemed expendable by the Foundation. Despite the high cost in human lives, the scientific and technological advancements the Foundation has made owing to SCP-001 is deemed too significant to discontinue.
Discovery of SCP-001 was responsible for the formation of the Foundation in 19██. For more information regarding the discovery of SCP-001, please read documents SCP-001RETRIEVELOG.SCPX and FROM-OUR-FRIEND.SCPX.
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