Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: (V.1, obselete as of 4/29/33, See incident “OCHRE Spill” case file)
Due to its general inertness when not receiving input data, SCP-XXXX is suitable to be contained in any storage room or locker amenable to it’s size. Currently it is stored at site-XXX commanin memetics research lab #7, for use by the Onto-Conceptuals Research Group.
V.2:
SCP-OCRG-1 is to be kept in secure vault #(redact) accessible only to the site-107 director with permission of a majority of the O-5 council. All research utilizing SCP-XXXX is to be halted and any further requests indefinitely rejected due to immediate risk of ZK-class end-of-reality event.
Description:
SCP-XXXX is a transparent rectangular prism, exactly 3.5m x 3m x 3m in dimension, the surface of which is embedded with a series of metallic, circular ports measuring 5 millimeters in diameter, each of which is constantly listening for information input via pressure wave, electromagnetic radiation, electric charge, weak and strong nuclear forces.
SCP-XXXX's measurement of the input does not seem to be affected by any method of encoding, including encryption techniques that would take conventional computing methods longer than the estimated lifespan of the universe to decode, with all data being processed instantaneously, and identically when semantic content does not differ
The object is currently believed to have been created by entities existing outside of our universe. For unknown purposes. Researchers have postulated it may have been used as a sort of navigational device for conceptual entities. Following the events of incident “Ochre Spill” SCP-XXXX has been confirmed to be earthly in origin
When exposed to outside stimulus via one of its input ports, the object will holographically display an image, as well as a set of coordinates which the image would appear to represent. Several auxiliary ports also allow for “reparametrization” of data, making the new zero of one or more coordinate axis the current focused point.
SCP-XXXX was initially brought into foundation hands after several of NASA’s EOS program climate satellites observed a large scale spike in ocean temperature of the west coast of the united states. US military forces investigated the anomaly, believing it to potentially be a weapons test by foreign powers. After discovering SCP-XXXX and performing preliminary tests, they discovered it to be anomalous and relinquished it to foundation control.
The initial foundation research team assigned to SCP-XXXX performed tests believing it to be an extraterrestrial measurement device of some sort, initial testing showed that regular binary pulses, as well as frequancy.
Reality is a very, very large place.
By writing this document it is the hope of the authors that reality can be classified into a hierarchical structure, each level representing a level of separation between earth and its surrounding locality, and the rest of reality.
By formally laying down uniform, non-technical notation for these levels of separation we hope to lower the barrier to entry for any research into fields directly related to or adjacent to parts of reality far from our own universe.
The system we put forward in this paper will henceforth be known as the "Hierarchy Of Universal Separation and Existence" system or the "HOUSE" system, and the place of an object on this hierarchy its HOUSE level. For certain levels where a finer granularity is required, HOUSE sublevels are defined, with the full level followed by the sublevel, which are, like the full levela denoted with ordinal numbers.
The use of "object" here is not to mean a physical object like a chair or an apple, but as an abstract term for anything that exists whatsoever. You, me, planets, galaxies, our universe, numbers, ideas, ghosts, sherlock holmes, god, all of these things "exist" in some sense, and all are given a place in this hierarchy. A hierarchy that, without further ado, we will define.
HOUSE Level 1:
Objects in HOUSE level one reside in a a roughly speherical area around earth that includes anything that can be reached from it by traveling at or below the speed of light, in finite time.
This includes the earth itself, its solar system, galaxy, and local galactic cluster. Outside of this radius the universes expansion prevents travel, with farther away galactic clusters and superclusters moving away so fast that at a certain distance even light cannot reach them from earth.
HOUSE Level 2:
Level two includes all objects which can only be reached from earth traveling at a speed that is faster than light relative to flat space (or at the speed of light in highly curved space), or any other means of travel which takes someone to a location faster than light would take to get to the same location in a flat vacuum.
This includes galactic clusters other than earths local cluster, parts of space outside of the currently observable universe, but within any as-of-yet unobserved border to the universe.
Sublevel 2.1:
Sublevel 2.1 is a place in the hierarchy for unconfirmed but possible objects which may exist within our universe, but expanding away from earth so quickly that not even a warp drive utilizing the entire mass of the observable universe could reach them.
Little is known about such objects other than that they would exist in the same three dimension space as earth, and have similar physics but likely with slightly different physical constants.
Sublevel 2.N:
The Nth sublevel of level 2 represents completely hypothetical objects which still exist in level 2's space but cannot be reached from sublevel 2.(N-1) even with all physical resources available from that level.
HOUSE Level 3:
Level 3 includes objects outside of earth universe, but inside of a set of very similar universes known as the "Earth-Prime Multiverse" or simply "the Multiverse".
The vast majority of these universes are interpreted to be alternate outcomes which could have taken place during a wave-function collapse in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Some research contradicts this interpretation, and the theory of multiversal physics is currently in development, but in general the idea holds. An idea of "distance" can be defined between two universes based on their probability relative to eachother, although this is not meaningful in all cases.
Despite the popular notion that there any conceivable multiverse would have infinite members, the observed multiverse has a vast, but finite number, estimated to be about 5*10^100. This may be due to some property which collapses extremely close together universes back onto eachother, difficulty/impossibility discerning extremely close together multiverses, or some more complicated effect. Despite the truly massive amount of wave-function collapses which take place in any given moment, the amount of universes in the multiverse seems to be staying about the same or as indicated by some more recent studies, shrinking.
In addition to these probability oriented universes, any pocket dimensions, parallel universes, or other etcetera spaces and objects included in them, which are reachable only by inter-spatial transportation also reside in this level.
Sublevel 3.N:
Sublevel 3.N represents unconfirmed but theorized universes which are part of the local multiversal space, but not accessible from universes in sublevel 3.(N-1)
HOUSE Level 4:
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This interview was supposedly conducted following incident OCHRE STAIN with John Zielinski, a foundation telepath employed during project OCHRE LIGHT HUE. -LA
Interviewer: John. If you can, please summarize for me the events that took place ██████ ███ ██████ on the day of incident “OCHRE STAIN” as you remember them.
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Interviewer: Jesus. Why’d you continue on that route if you knew it was hollow like that?
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Interviewer: Alright. Continue.
John: Right, so on that day we basically knew we were going to have some kind of breakthrough. The techs set the safety parameters on high, a few times in the past we ███ █████████ ███ ███ █████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ██████████ ████ ███ ███████ █████████ ██████ ████ ██ █████ enough. Definitely saved my life, ██ ██ █████ ██ ███████.
Interviewer: you're lucky to be alive, you're a lucky guy.
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Interviewer: and what did it ████ ██ ████?
John: like I said, the safety parameters were on high, █ ██████ █ ███ █████ ██ ███ ██████ █ ██████████.
Interviewer: You were debriefed after the incident, clearly you remember something. What can you tell me?
John: I don't want to tell anything. In my mind, and I was the one who saw it. In my mind there's nothing to say. But I'll say it again for the record.
John: Those 8 nanoseconds, to me, felt like hours. The thing, It was one, whole thing with many parts, and so much of it touched me at once, each of the souls that makes up the portal feeding me a little piece of it. It was an ocean, an unfathomably huge, uniform ocean. I suspect it’s many times larger than our own universe. In fact to take it farther, it might, in it’s unfathomable depths, be larger than the entire rest of reality combined. More than any other universe or Multiverse, or, or anything.
Interviewer: John.
John: yes?
Interviewer: You’re rambling, but I’m still not sure you’ve given us a good idea of what this thing is. Is it dangerous? Is it useful? Is it important?
John: Mason, I’m not sure you understand. You weren’t in there.
Interviewer: Let’s try.
John: It’s… It’s the source of… nothing. It’s where things that don’t make sense come from. And not things that don’t make sense because they’re magic, or don’t fit the uninformed’s intuition on what makes sense. Nothing in there is magic, or just funky, or created by some cult, or from a parallel universe, or a corrupted soul or some kind of broken god. This isn’t some place where sense died, this is the part of reality sense never touched.
John: I mean imagine that, try and imagine that for even one second. You’ve never known anything but sense. But there’s just another half of the world, of everything, that we’ve never even touched because it’s unfathomable. Cthuhlu drives you mad by being so mind wrenchingly difficult to grasp it breaks you. This thing has nothing to grasp. And all the parts that make it up are just shoved in there all mish mash, no relation, no grander structure, just so many god damn things right next to eachother. Some of them look like things you’d think wouldn’t be there, like things you recognize, but there’s nothing to them, they’re senseless shadows of those things.
John: There’s whole worlds. Shadow copies of worlds like ours, but where there’s no material, no reason to exist… There was something else Mason. There was something else in there.
Interviewer: What was it? What did you see?
John: That fucking thing. The fucking statue. It was in there, looking at me.
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