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Item#: 6XXX

Level3

Containment Class:

euclid

Secondary Class:

none

Disruption Class:

amida

Risk Class:

critical

link to memo

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-6XXX is to be held in a dedicated, air-tight containment chamber measuring 20 cubic meters at Containment Area 09 in Antarctica. The entrance to SCP-6XXX's containment chamber is to locked behind an airlock. The interior of the chamber is to be kept in a vacuum state with an electromagnetic grid built around it. An array of six lasers is to kept running at all times, with the beams converging at the center of the chamber to induce a Bose-Einstein condensate¹ within the chamber. All power supplies for the systems used to contain SCP-6XXX are to remain outside of the containment chamber. The chamber’s interior is to be monitored by thermographic cameras.

No personnel are to physically enter the chamber. Any maintenance on the interior of SCP-6XXX’s containment cell are to be done via remote-controlled robots equipped with liquid helium coolant systems. All systems used to contain SCP-6XXX are to be inspected every 24 hours for any signs of mechanical or electronical failures. Any disruption of the Bose-Einstein condensate within SCP-6XXX's containment chamber or any increase in temperature beyond 2 degrees Celsius within SCP-6XXX's containment chamber is to be immediately reported to Site Director Melusina Beckett. Any experiments on SCP-6XXX are to be done only with authorization from the O5 Council.

Description: SCP-6XXX is an entity of vaguely humanoid shape measuring approximately 5 meters in height and weighing 512 kilograms. SCP-6XXX is completely invisible to the naked eye, and can only be visually observed with the use of thermal imaging. When viewed by thermal imaging, SCP-6XXX’s body shows up as a pitch-black void compared to any background heat around it, as its body registers at absolute zero (-273.15 degrees Celsius).

SCP-6XXX acts as a sort of vacuum for heat energy, draining heat from its surroundings into itself. As it drains heat energy, SCP-6XXX grows in size through unknown means. The area from which SCP-6XXX can drain heat and the rate at which it grows heat increases proportionally with its increase in size. Researchers believe that there may be a point where if SCP-6XXX were to grow large enough, it would reach a critical mass and continuously absorb heat energy to the point where it would drain all heat from the sun, and then go on to absorb all heat from the universe, causing a TK class Heat Death scenario.

Addendum 6XXX-1: The following is a summarization of the discovery and containment of SCP-6XXX.

SCP-6XXX was discovered in Antarctica on August 10th, 2010 at ██.█ °S ██.█ °E by Foundation satellites when the temperature at that location reached -98 degrees Celsius. Thermal imaging of the area showed a roughly bipedal void in the thermal imaging that was growing in size. The Foundation agents immediately dispatched an element of MTF-Delta-14 “Winter Wonderland” to investigate the phenomenon. At the time of the Foundation’s initial discovery of SCP-6XXX, the entity was only estimated to be 2 meters in height and its area of effect only extended a meter out from its body. In the 2 hours it took for MTF-Delta-14 to be activated and arrive at the site, SCP-6XXX had grown to 3.7 meters in height and nearly doubled its area of effect.

+ Transcript of audio recordings from MTF-Delta-14

TANNER: “14-1 to Oversight, we’re at the designated checkpoint, no visual on the target.”
OVERSIGHT: “Are you sure, 14-1? Satellite feed confirms you’re in front of the entity.”
GRIFFITH: “Then why is there nobody here but us?”
SANTIAGO: “Oversight, what imaging are you using?”
OVERSIGHT: “Thermal.”
(Santiago activates thermal imaging goggles)
SANTIAGO: “Oh, (expletive expunged)! Guys, turn on your thermals!”
(Other members of MTF-Delta-14 activate their thermal imaging goggles)
TANNER: “Target is only visible on thermal imaging.”
SANTIAGO: “Jesus, that thing is huge.”
KRISTOPHSEN: “Is it…getting bigger?”
BURKE: “Looks like it.”
TANNER: “Oversight, what’s our next course of action?”
OVERSIGHT: “Approach the entity.”
BURKE: “Hey, is anyone feeling cold?”
GRIFFITH: “Of course it’s (expletive expunged) cold, Burke, it’s Antarctica.”
BURKE: “No, I mean…colder than it should be. Even through all this insulated gear, I feel like…like something’s pumping ice water into my veins.”
GRIFFITH: “…yeah, now that you mention it, it’s like my insides are getting cold…”
TANNER: “Santiago, Kristophsen, flank the target.”
SANTIAGO: “Copy.”
KRISTOPHSEN: “Copy.”

(Footsteps as Santiago and Kristophsen move to get behind SCP-6XXX. After 8 seconds of movement, both Santiago and Kristophsen stop moving.)

TANNER: “What’s the hold-up?”
SANTIAGO: “S-S-Something’s wrong…can’t s-s-stop sh-sh-shaking…so…cold…”

(Two muffled noises as Santiago and Kristophsen abruptly fall over.)

TANNER: “Santiago? Kristophsen? Can you hear me?”
BURKE: “Their vital signs just cut out- (expletive expunged), they’re dead!”
(A low rumbling sound is heard in the distance. At this point, thermal imaging of SCP-6XXX confirms a sudden increase in its rate of growth, which stabilizes at approximately 5.3 meters in height.)
GRIFFITH: “(Expletive expunged), it’s moving towards us!”
BURKE: “B-Boss, I-I can’t feel my hands…”
GRIFFITH: “Y-yeah…I’m losing feeling, too.”
OVERSIGHT: “MTF-Delta-14, you are ordered to retreat immediately and await further instructions.”
TANNER: “(Expletives expunged), MOVE!”

(The following minute and twelve seconds are of heavy breathing, footsteps, and a rhythmic low rumble as the remaining members of MTF-Delta-14 attempt to escape from SCP-6XXX.)

BURKE: “Wait, I have an idea! That thing only came after us when Kristophsen and Santiago moved up to it, right? What if it’s just chasing heat signatures?”

(According to interviews after the encounter, Burke pulls an emergency flare from his supply kit and ignites it before tossing it perpendicular from MTF-Delta-14’s escape route. Thermal imaging confirms the ignition and throwing of the flare. SCP-6XXX slows its pursuit when it notices the flare and changes trajectory to approach the flare. It comes to a stand-still near the flare. Satellite feed shows the burning of the flare growing weaker and weaker until being extinguished immediately despite having a burn time of 15 to 30 minutes.² )

After the encounter, MTF-Delta-14 were immediately evacuated from the area, and the Foundation began constructing the facilities and equipment for what would become Containment Area 09. Once the facilities were operational, MTF-Delta-14 was redeployed with instructions to maintain distance and visual contact on SCP-6XXX via thermal imaging in an attempt to use heat sources to lure the entity into Containment Area 09. MTF-Delta-14 were successful in using a series of flares to lead SCP-6XXX into containment, but the process resulted in the entity growing to its current size.

Footnotes

1. A state of matter wherein a low-density gas is cooled to a point approaching absolute zero.

2. This phenomenon is likely due to SCP-6XXX’s anomalous thermo-absorptive properties interrupting the process of combustion by removing heat from the reaction.