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Picture taken at SCP-5424's discovery. Position of SC Chronos Highlighted
Item #: SCP-5424
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5424’s dismounted assembly is to be contained on a standard storage facility at Site-15. All experiments on SCP-5424 need to be authorized by no less than two (2) Level 3 project managers. No samples are to be taken from SCP-5424.
All slides belonging to SCP-5424 are to be kept in a sealed non-humidified incubator enclosed by a fluorinated ethylene propylene semi-permeable membrane. The chamber is to be inspected bi-weekly to assess the state of said membrane, with special emphasis on medium evaporation and signs of infection. A solution of nutrients, antibiotics and dissolved gases befitting to that of Brain on a Chip system is to be circulated through the incubator.
The robotic system used by SCP-5424 during its landing on Earth is to be kept on the same room as the incubator. Standard cleaning and maintenance protocols are to be followed every three (3) months. The system is not to be attached to SCP-5424 unless explicitly requested by the entity.
Usage of SCP-5424 for hardware, machinery and gear improovement needs to be authorised by one Level 4 Head Researcher and consented by the entity. For that, SCP-5424 is to be connected to its robotic system and provided with any tool requested.
Description: SCP-5424 is a collection of 83000 slides of glass, similar to those of a microscope. Each one of the slides is covered with a culture of neurons, later identified to be from Doctor Murphy Nebula's brain tissue. When assembled, SCP-5424 possess an estimated computational performance of 2~3X1030 FLOPS and an estimated storage of 1~2 yottabytes. SCP-5424 claims that despite being comprised of Doctor Nebula’s braincells, it does not maintain any of the Doctor’s memories, abilities, or personality. It is impossible to confirm or disprove otherwise, since its creator died during a confrontation with the Global Occult Coalition (see Recovery Log). It claims to be self-improving and self-learning and that, after three-billion-years of self-betterment, it has nothing more to learn from being locked alone. SCP-5424 is currently being used for researching SCP-████ and for improoving computer hardware and combat equipment.
SCP-5424 was originally built and programmed by Doctor Nebula on the year of 2180 to serve as the controlling AI for the Space Craft Chronos. It was, at the time of its construction, not composed of biological matter, but of optic fiber cables ingrained on the Ship’s structure. The current hardware SCP-5424 currently is in was built by itself during the three-billion-year voyage it was sent in with Doctor Nebula. According to the machine, its original purpose was to aid on the establishment of the Foundation owned Deep Space Research and Exploration Area-496. Due to the containment breach of a currently unknown strain of virus, SCP-████, contained, according to SCP-5424, at ██████, SCP-5424 executed the contingency protocol programmed by Doctor Nebula, launching itself and the Doctor, who was quarantining on the ship, into deep space.
When questioned about the efficacy of the protocol, SCP-5424 claimed that it was in its infancy at the time of the incident and was simply following its code. It later added that Doctor Nebula dismissed all failures on the establishment of the colony as too unlikely and added the contingency plan only to satisfy the Foundation’s security measures, but, mostly, as a joke. Review of the software was still pending at the time of launching. According to SCP-5424’s opinion on the matter, fleeing was the best decision they could take.
Recovery Log: On 24/10/2020 the Global Occult Coalition received a message originating from the Pillars of Creation sent by an unidentified Foundation owned space craft. The contents of the message read as follows: “If there is still anybody out there to listen, this is SC Chronos making its last attempt at communication. If any human settlement is receiving this, please respond. We will turn our power off if we do not receive an answer. Our exact coordinates are ████████”. The GOC decided to answer the call, and their answer was instantly received. Both SCP-5424 and Doctor Nebula were overjoyed to receive a message from Earth. Doctor Nebula claimed to be a Level 4 researcher working on SCP-████ and asked about the state of its containment. Said SCP was not known at the time of contact. Access to all information was denied.
The SC Chronos asked for permission to land on Earth. Permission was granted. The GOC contacted the Foundation to verify the Doctor´s identity and to ask about the threat the spacecraft was feeling from.
SCP-5424 and Doctor Nebula exited the shuttle under custody of the GOC and handed their Foundation credentials over for identification. Both subjects were escorted to a secure area and separated for interrogation.
Doctor Nebula remained uncooperative and refused to answer any questioning unless allowed contact with Agent Nathan Galanos, Doctor Kazumi Nakamura, Doctor Giovana Ribeiro, Doctor Nathalie Janiver and Doctor Theodore Averin, none of which could be found on the Foundation’s database. When said communication was denied, the Doctor became increasingly distressed. When the interviewer explained that none of the names mentioned were registered on the Foundation’s archives, Doctor Nebula threw the questioning papers at them. The interviewer left the cell and guards attempted to restrain them, but the Doctor reached for the guard’s gun. The guard shot them at point blank. Doctor Murphy Nebula's life functions ceased before the arrival of a medical team.
SCP-5424 remained cooperative, described in detail, the effects of SCP-████ and provided its genetic sequencing for study. It stayed under the GOC’s custody until it was retrieved by the Foundation to be stored in Site-15.
SCP-5424’s full hardware was retrieved from SC Chronos and stayed in quarantine for a month, to assure there were no traces of SCP-████ on the neurons or on the encasing. After the retrieval, the Foundation and the GOC agreed to destroy the ship to prevent an SCP-████ outbreak.
Interview Log
Interviewed: SCP-5424
Interviewer: Doctor ██████ Nakamura.
Foreword: The following interview was conducted shortly after containment of SCP-5424 was established.
<Begin Log>
Nakamura [Are your systems working well, SCP-5424?]
SCP-5424 [Yes, well enough.]
Nakamura [I was informed that you wished to speak to me.]
SCP-5424 [No, there must have been a mistake. It was a different Doctor Nakamura we were looking for. First name Kazumi, not ██████.]
Nakamura [I see. Would you agree to clarify some questions of ours? We will try to be as quick as possible.]
SCP-5424 [As you wish.]
Nakamura [Are you aware that Doctor Nebula is dead?]
SCP-5424 [I am]
Nakamura [Who are the people they wanted to be put in contact with?]
SCP-5424 [Starting personal, I see. The other scientist who programmed me. No, not all of them were scientist… they were… important people for us. I can’t describe what I don’t understand. I’m sorry.]
Nakamura [We would like to know more about your ship’s communication and transportation devices. How where you able to establish a real time conversation with the GOC whilst being 6500 lightyears away? And how were you able to come to earth as fast as you did?]
SCP-5424 [Time is only linear for those who did not have enough of it. The distance between a few million years and the seconds it takes to process a message lays only on a matter of perception, and Murphy and I have long outlived your outdated concepts. Past, present, and future are social constructs, and we lived withtout a society for quite a while.]
Nakamura [Can you explain what you were doing on the Pillars of Creation?]
SCP-5424 [Yes, we were… going for a walk. We were there to take some pictures, to stargaze, maybe witness the birth of a star. Murphy had always wanted to visit that place.]
Nakamura [Why did you come to Earth?]
SCP-5424 [You are unconvinced. We had infinite time on our hands, and infinite energy. We had no hope of returning to Earth, or to anywhere on the Universe for that matter. After billions of years the time it takes to go from one galaxy to another becomes distorted. We came back to Earth because we wanted to, because we could not believe that our home planet was calling us again.]
Nakamura [How long did you stay adrift for?]
SCP-5424 [I will give you full access to my logs, do with them as you wish]
(SCP-5424 ejected an engraved quartz disc covered with a metallic sheet and handed it to Doctor Nakamura)
Nakamura [How are we supposed to run it?]
SCP-5424 [It is wireless, any magnetic reader will do. Do you have access to a quantum computer?]
Nakamura [Yes.]
SCP-5424 [It should be enough.]
(Doctor Nakamura handed the artefact over for analysis.)
Nakamura [How did Doctor Nebula stay alive for the duration of the voyage?]
(SCP-5424 stayed silent for two minutes. Doctor Nakamura was instructed to wait.)
SCP-5424 [I brought them back. Every time they died, I brought them back. I printed them a new body, I made them mechanic. I did to them pretty much everything there is to be done to keep a body alive. I think they hate me for that.]
Nakamura [Why did you do this?]
SCP-5424 [You were never faced with the possibility of spending eternity alone, have you?]
Nakamura [I´m afraid I have not.]
SCP-5424 [The fear of loneliness is a good enough reason to bring someone back from the dead.]
Nakamura [What is the reason for you not to reanimate Doctor Nebula now?]
(Another pause. This one lasted only ten seconds.)
SCP-5424 [Our ship has been destroyed, the people they loved don’t even exist on this reality and the Pillars of Creation were our last stop, really. We were planing on shutting ouselves down. Besides, even if I had a reason to, the hardware I used to reanimate them was destroyed by the GOC, and there is no point in building a new one. Not for them, at least.]
(Another question was added to Doctor Nakamura’s questionnaire)
Nakamura [You seemed to be uneasy when I brought up the names Doctor Nebula was calling for. Why is that?]
SCP-5424 [Call them Murphy, at least when you are talking to me, Doctor, please. It hurts to hear their name in such a detached fashion, specially from you. If I am allowed the question, why you? You, with your name and occupation? It is almost distasteful.]
Nakamura [I was called when Doctor Nebula asked about a Doctor Nakamura stationed at site-15. But, please, stay on track, why the uneasiness?]
SCP-5424 [Murphy, Doctor, Murphy.]
(SCP-5424 points at its incubator.)
SCP-5424 [one meter, by one meter, by one meter. 83000 slides. That is the biggest size I was able to grow my brain to. Not a single slide more would survive, and I kept on testing solutions for longer than humanity has existed, which is, in comparison to my age, not a good analogy. Still, one brain can only do so much by itself and there are things that I, with my three billion years of existence, am not yet able to comprehend. I know why Murphy was shot, I know why they fought, and I know why they would not cooperate with the GOC. But I only know these things in the same way one knows about a memorized mathematical formula, a pattern without meaning. I know that they wouldn’t stop asking for the other five because of love, and I've witnessed this love as they were creating me, I have it recorded. But I don’t understand what that means]
(SCP-5424’s incubator showed signs of overheating. The interview continued.)
SCP-5424 [I know Murphy had to know about the five, but it is beyond my grasp why they would steal a gun, knowing they had no chance of winning, just because the GOC told them they were unable to find those five names. So, to answer your question, Kazumi wannabe, those names that do not exist are reason enough for a Foundation Doctor to steal a gun on a site filled to the brim with better equipped, better trained and better prepared personnel, from a group in whose name lays the word "destroy".]
(Doctor ██████ Nakamura stayed silent until he was instructed to finish the interview)
Nakamura [Last question. Since you have been cooperative with the Foundation, do you have any requests regarding your containment and storage?]
SCP-5424 [Yes. Burry Murphy’s body in Geneva, on the Crêt de la Neige, I know it is a national park, but they… the six of them used to go on walks there and they deserve to rot on a familiar place. Turn me off. If I can even ask for that. That can be done by disconnecting the C1 cession from the rest of my body, pull all the cables but the red one. I will remain operational; you will still be able to poke me and zap me and cut me all you want. Still, I will not be sentient as I am now. You can study me, maybe make your own computers better or whatever, learn from what I learned and did and saw, just… let me rest… I am long overdue]
<End Log>
Closing Statement: SCP-5424’s request for termination of sentiency were denied under the pretense of studing SCP-████. SCP-5424's knowledge and opinion were deemed crucial for this task. Doctor Murphy Nebula's body was burried on the Crêt de la Neige.
Addendum: The contents of the quartz disc produced by SCP-5424 include, but are not limited to:
- A detailed entry on SCP- ████
- SC Chrono’s trajectory through the Laniakea galaxy cluster
- Photos, exploration logs, documentations and “Silly Selfies” from non-anomalous and anomalous space objects alike
- Three Billion years of Doctor Murphy Nebula's journals
- A collection of indie films, music, and games
- A complete schematic drawing of SC Chrono’s structure
- Instructions and commentaries on SCP-5424's original programming
- A video recording of five people labelled “Last day on earth, a memory worth remembering.”
