Dr McBride

Level 3

Department of Records

Office of Research and Analysis

Data Summary Report

Dr. Jonathan W. McBride, Senior Archivist
Compiling Staff Member

Subject: the SCP 4906 “Message in a Bottle”

In the data recovered from the Chaos Insurgency during a raid on one of their facilities, R&D Site 34, a cache they referred to as a “message in a bottle” on the SCP we have classified as 4906 was discovered. In the cache’s original files––archived in collection 4, 46L-54r6 in the Foundation Primary Archive––it has multiple identifying numbers (AO-11421, SCP-23, and SCP, Type Scipio: 101 are all used) due to it be identified separately in different realities by different foundations or similar organizations. Due to certain persons and SCP’s mentioned in the original files being regarded as sensitive in our reality, the unredacted files have been classified level 4.

Data from alternate foundations was compiled and made available by them in an off-site back-up after their failure to contain 4906. Consequences of complete containment failure are inconclusive. However, the implication from the recovered files is that the, at best, the foundation in these realities was destroyed or rendered ineffective. From now on, these realities will be referred to as 11421, 23, and 101 realities based on how they classified SCP 4906. When it became clear to each of our Foundation's counterparts that containment or neutralization could not be achieved, they created back-ups of all data on 4906 using other SCPs. Some of these items have been identified by our foundation and some have not. They move the back-ups into another reality hoping that another SCP Foundation might recover their data and achieve containment or neutralization if they encountered 4906.

The following summarizes the information collected from each foundation which identified 4906 as a higher dimensional entity, completely alien to human levels of thought. It is theorized to forcefully stabilize time/space around it in a way that overrides the affects of many SCPs and then erode the stabilized time/space. How it does this is not made clear in the data. Speculation on its purpose range from divine judgment to the entity perhaps being an agent or agents from a foundation-like institution from yet another reality pursing an SCP that seems present in all accounts in the cache. Most of this information is speculation, and only the last reality (101) produces any conclusive evidence.

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SCP Foundation Reality 23 Data Summary

First encountered as SCP 23 in 1896. This counterpart of the Foundation was relatively new and some of the documents reference founding members of the SCP Foundation. Responding to reports of unusual behavior by local animals and strange "burned" areas in the forest, they went to investigate. There they encountered 4906 chasing what they describe as "shadows." The attempted to communicate with the entitt, with no success. It seemed to ignore them and all other human life as it carried out its destruction. They tried conventional methods to contain and eventually kill it afterwards with no effect. The reality 23 foundation did not have the SCP’s or the technology to do more damage than what conventional weapons could and were unable to harm or contain 4906 themselves.

Their speculation on it is often apocalyptic religious theory, deciding that 4906 was the angel of death sent by God, and that it was the start of Armageddon. The more scientific analysis speculate that it was either some mindless gollum sent by forces unknown to destroy humanity, or perhaps a specific SCP while humanity was simply in the way. Alternatively, that its intelligence was so completely alien to theirs, that it did not even register human beings as living creatures. At one point it is speculated that “Humanity see’s germs as the lowest kind of life, so low that killing it is not even removing life from this world. Surely we are germs.”

After 4906 had begun to destroy some of the major population centers of Europe, members of the foundation approached the SCP we have identified as the Gate Guardian and made attempts to try and communicate with it. This ended with one of them hearing the message “gather.” He then gathered what information they had on 4906, before the Guardian moved and then took him away to another reality.

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The following attachments have had sensitive information redacted or omitted in translation. They have also been edited to exclude information considered superfluous to 4906 by the archivest. The unaltered original documents may be viewed only with written authorization of the Departments of Records Chief Librarian.

ISPRC Reality 11421 Data Summary

This counterpart to the Foundation was very similar to the Reality 23 Foundation. Absorbed into the League of Nations, then the United Nations as the International Service for Paranormal Research and Containment or ISPRC. ISPRC recovered the reality 23 data in 1945, from records taken from German Archives after the Second World War but fell into obscurity after decades without any signs of 4906.

ISPRC first encountered Anomalous Object 11421 (SCP-4906) in October 25th, 2089 by a research team studying AO8300 (Not yet cataloged) where they were observed to flee from it and attempt to shift realities to escape. Those who were quick enough did, and those that were not were caught inside its reality stabilizing field and were then subject to severe entropic effects that destroyed them. ISPRC initially attempted to use several reality warping SCPs to contain 4906, include AO 7991, which they called the “Thrasher machine.¹” AO 5000 (SCP XXXX) was also deployed with no effect. None of their attempts were successful as 4906 was unaffected by reality warping SCPs. It was able to forcefully stabilize time and space around it in a bubble observed between four and fifty meters in diameter with actual maximum size unknown. After several failed attempts to kill or contain 4906, ISPR determined that it was unlikely they would contain 4906. They then used SCP-093 the Red Sea Stone, to move their data into another dimension using a XXXXXX. The final report in the Reality 8421 files is on the entropic effects of 4906, which were theorized to be some kind of induced Vacuum Metainstability.
SCP Foundation Reality 101 Data Summary

SCP Foundation Reality 101 Data Summary

The Reality 101 Foundation recovered the Reality 11421 back up during their second exploration of the Red Sea Object dimension in 1995. As a precaution, the immediately halted all experiments involving SCP-093 until they could review the data on 4906. Afterwards, they set up a subcommittee to prepare contingencies for an encounter with 4906 and classified it as SCP, Scipio: 101.² They did not encounter 4906 until three years later. They also encountered it while researching the SCP Andromeda: 5607 (identified previously as AO 5000) this time in the German Black Forest. They noted that 5607 fled from 4906. The Reality 101 Foundation initially decided to only observe 4906 and discovered that it was hunting AO 5000s. They did not confirm its reasoning but had several theories.

It was initially hoped that 4906 would hunt down all the 56075s it could find and leave, but it apparently kept finding more of them. initially it appeared to avoided heavily populated areas. Once it had cleared the forest in a given area it began to move into first the less than more populated areas. This implies a higher intelligence and awareness of humans than previously see, and perhaps that not every encounter with 4906 was with the same 4906. They believed that the 4906 was intelligent but attempts to make contact with it both through conventional means and with SCPs were unsuccessful. They concluded that its psyche was simply too alien for communication on the human level.

They attempted to use a more overt approach than previous Foundations, by using several powerful reality warpping SCPs in conjunction to overwhelm it, so other weaponized SCPs could be used to destroy it. The utilization of SCPs identified in this collection as XXXX and XXXX in conjunction with others was a small success, and detectable fluctuations in the forcefully stabilized reality around 4906 were measured but it was not significant enough to allow for containment or destruction of 4906. They then attempted to lure it into an engagement with the Gate Guardian (this SCP does not appear to have been present in reality 11421,) based on the Reality 23 data hoping for communication or confrontation with no success. They made additional attempts to bring it into confrontation with several other powerful SCPs, the results being either failure to engage, or their termination by 4906; with entities existing in more than three dimensions sometimes communicating with 4906 before departing.

They concluded that its extreme entropic abilities and resistance to reality distortion meant that it could not be practically combated with other SCPs. Attempts to suppress its effects had measurable but inconsequential effects and only resulted in the destruction of said SCPs. Final remarks by the 101 Foundation determined that 4905 could not be an SCP. Corruption of the recovered data meant that no elaboration on this was found.

Footnotes

1. It is unclear if this object has any relation to the device encountered during the Site-13 Incident (see Collection 2, 40D-54j02 for the full Site-13 report.)

2. Scipio being the Reality 101 foundations designation for highly dangerous uncontained SCP’s.