What Happened Down In Samothrace

A pending collaborative series/canon about the thing down in Samothrace.

Main Contributors:

Core Ideas:

  • Samothrace was the most developed historical nation in terms of antimemetic weaponry/defences.
  • It was besieged by a memetic entity, perhaps SCP-3125 or a similar being, and attempted to defend itself by preserving its current info-state. (what does this mean? Essentially, there's a very information-centric aspect to this battle, and they tried, maybe, to keep themselves as they were — a kind of last-ditch attempt to preserve their research, and maybe withstand the attack.) The process was only half-complete, and now half the world believes it doesn't exist at all, and the other half thinks it exists as a worse version of what it used to be.
  • There was some kind of Samothracian governmental department, maybe the Ministry of Anti-informational Techniques, that developed the technology.
  • The ruins of Samothrace are completely bonkers. There are survivors, and things that look like survivors, and if you're not careful you'll get stuck in a memory loop until you die of dehydration. It is Not A Good Place.

Bad Ideas:

  • Project IVORY GATE, some kind of antimemetic shield generator developed by the Foundation alongside the Samothracian government, designed to shield either the Antimemetics Division from the rest of the Foundation and 3125 so that they can develop a weapon to kill 3125 or shield Samothrace from the rest of the world so that it can be used to contain 3125, with the Foundation and government working together to kill it as they are both inside. There was internal struggle in the Foundation over which one should be used. Unknown if it was ever implemented prior to the apocalypse, and on how large of a scale. Could be cool, and add a little mystery to the series/canon about who has stakes in what aspects of the war. Plus, neither the Foundation or Samothrace would know about 3125, so there would be the tension of having both sides working on a project when none of them know what it's for.
  • 1173 mentions homeless veterans of US military intervention in Samothrace, American war crimes, and Samothracian resistance. What was the Foundation's reaction to the sudden loss of Samothrace, are the veterans the remnants of a failed joint Foundation-US reclamation attempt? Did 1173 appear immediately after the end of Samothrace, or was it spread by the veterans of the reclamation attempt?
  • The Mykoparastai from SCP-2517 are mentioned as having been active in the anatolian peninsula, and are implied to be some form of proto-Fifthists who worship 3125. Do they have a role in this, and are they somehow connected to the Christian refugees from 1173 as they are Gnostic Christians?
  • If this ever gets a hub, I have an extremely cool (read: extremely bad) idea for a header. It'd be some large image of the text SAMOTHRACE IS REAL in large text, but it's actually a really long gif, that shifts between SAMOTHRACE IS REAL, SAMOTHRACE IS NOT REAL, SAMOTHRACE HAS ALWAYS BEEN REAL, and SAMOTHRACE HAS NEVER BEEN REAL at regular intervals, with cool glitch effects, five-pointed stars, sequences of fives, and the lettering suddenly changing to greek lettering before the change between texts. I would 100% love to see this. When/if we write it, we can see about getting an artist on board. (Perhaps Cyantreuse, this idea was inspired by his SCP-2758)
  • Going off of the "conceptual nation" concept, how would other conceptual entities react to this? Oneiroi West might try to establish relations. Rudie? Anyone remember that canon? What about intra-fictional entities? Murphy Law establishing an office in Samothrace? SCP-2747 (though that one might be a bit of a stretch)? What if someone managed to "break out" of Samothrace? Or "break in"? Intra-conceptual warfare?
  • I don't personally want pataphysics in my antimemetics, the story and concepts are most likely going to be complicated enough without them, and I also want this to be its own thing rather than a deviation of an existing canon. The other parts are interesting though. I personally have been thinking about Nobody, as well as what would happen when a piece of The Administrator gets severed from the rest of it in such brutal ways.

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