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Item #: SCP-5179

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5179-1 is contained at site-██, an iceberg located in the arctic sea. SCP-5179-1 is to be encased in a box comprised of lead with a hole at the top to prevent the destruction of its container. All personnel responsible for the containment of SCP-5179 are required to wear radiation suits. Foundation operatives are to patrol the surrounding waters around SCP-5179 in an area of 60 kilometers. If an unauthorized individual somehow manages to get access to SCP-5179-1 they are to be detained and given a Class-A amnestic. However if an unauthorized individual comes into contact with SCP-5179-1 after a SCP-5179-2 event they are to be reported missing and not to be recovered.

Description: SCP-5179-1 is a standard issue firework made by the company TNT Fireworks. SCP-5179-1 will remain in an inactive state until its activation conditions are met what these are and how common they occur are currently unknown. The duration of time between the inactive and active phases vary per year but SCP-5179-2 events always occur at least once a year. During SCP-5179-1's inactive state SCP-5179-1 floats 2 meters from the peek of the iceberg. Once SCP-5179-1 goes into its active state SCP-5179-1 will launch into the air causing a SCP-5179-2 event to begin. No methods of preventing SCP-5179-1 from firing have been successful.

SCP-5179-2 is a phenomenon of lights that are visible in the northern hemisphere. The lights produced by SCP-5179-2 have not produced any anomalous properties as of yet. After an SCP-5179-2 event concludes SCP-5179-1 will rematerialize after 1 hour. After SCP-5179-1 rematerializes high doses of gamma radiation discharge from SCP-5179-1 within 30 kilometers of its materialization point for 5 to 10 seconds. Since the lights caused by SCP-5179-2 are not able to be contained the Foundation enacted Protocol-5179-Alpha¹.

SCP-5179 was discovered by the Foundation in 1921 when operatives received reports of over 70 ships going missing in the arctic sea. SCP operatives discovered SCP-5179-1 during an inactive state allowing the Foundation to form site-██ around it. The TNT Fireworks company has claimed to have no knowledge of SCP-5179-1 or its connection to SCP-5179-2. No further instance of SCP-5179-1 has been located. Foundation operatives are to investigate anything resembling an SCP-5179-2 event such as the Aurora Australis².

+ Addendum 5179-A

Record of SCP-5179 by explorer Scott Colgate.

December 5, 1685

Why doth thy god in the sky allow such unbeknownst death and cruelty? Why doth thy mother nature kill her offspring and children under this earth? I count ten I say to thee I count ten and after that twenty more of the devil's gift come down to this earth. Even though I count death itself I look at thy beauty in the sky. This heavenly light that bathes itself in sacrifice and matrimony to thy gods who make thine light shine forever more on the blood of the innocent and unaware.

Scott Colgate

+ Addendum 5179-B

Record of Scott Colgate returning to SCP-5179.

October 16, 1690

Thy beauty shines as vibrant as before but thine icy chair hath grown shorter over the years. How you once towered above men now I ask thee how hath thy throne shrunk in such short time? For hath god to smite thee yet nor anytime in thy future. Why hast thou sacrificed one beauty for another? Why must this cycle continue? Will thou continue to shine your bright lights until there is none left shown in the depths? I tell not whether you be sent by god or devil. I tell not whether you be heathen nor holy you must be nature. If not then this brutal cycle be for naught and thy untold tragedy will be shown in thy house of god for its brutality. Is this the price we pay for purity?

Scott Colgate

+ Addendum 5179-C

Scott Colgate's last record of SCP-5179.

July 29, 1692

Tis naught that long ago that I saw thy beauty. Thy shape were odd and unknown but thy colors were bright and vibrant. Doth thy like death or find some pleasure in its wake or could thee be gods will. Maybe thy master of worlds wish to show mankind a new beauty at the price of another. My health hath declined over the years. Am I next? Will god smite me now so that thy light may shine brighter than ever before? I feel the cold grasp of death coming to shake my hand. Tis I who found god or devil in this life, tis I who found peace or death in this life, tis I who will live on or die out in this life, and tis I who found the end of times. The beast, the god, the devil, the saint, the heretic whatever it may be I know one thing. Thy light be death and with it I will see it soon.

Scott Colgate

Note: It has been discovered that at least 12 more explorers over the past 500 years have documented SCP-5179. All documentation of SCP-5179 found in public has been confiscated and replaced with authorized Protocol-5179-Alpha documents. If any other historical records of SCP-5179 are found please report them to Dr. Garter

Footnotes

1. [A set of scientific explanations given to the public to hide SCP-5179-2's true nature.]

2. [Southern Lights]