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Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX entities are kept in a small mammal habitat at Site-64 animal research lab with a warren of cottontail rabbits.1 While SCP-XXXX entities have no biological needs, food and litter for the rabbits should be supplied. SCP-XXXX entities must have access to full or partial sunlight for about two hours per 24-hour cycle to maintain performance.
Additionally, SCP-XXXX may be supplied with eight sticks of chalk as a part of an ongoing study. SCP-XXXX may be supplied with cleaning products to maintain the rabbit habitat with permission from the project director or as part of a set schedule. See document 89-9.
Description: SCP-XXXX is the collective designator for eight (8) autonomous non-living sapient entities. They are somewhere between 75 and 78 centimeters tall. Their main bodies are rounded cone shapes made of a molybdenum-steel superalloy.2 Each of the eight entities main bodies are different in dimensions. Weighing the entities is impossible due to their anomalous movement. SCP-XXXX entities hover through an unknown means of propulsion and do not touch the ground even when in a dormant state. Each entity possesses one head on a long flexible stock. Each possess two arm-like limbs that bend at an elbow but are as flexible as the neck. The arms of each entity end in hands, though the number of wire-like digits, their length, and how often they split into other, smaller digits remains varied with each entity. SCP-XXXX entities posses no obvious sensory receivers. The entities seem able to process data similar to sight, hearing, and smell. The entities head analogue has three main surfaces, each suggestive of a pseudo-face though they do not function as sensory units or communication aids. Some staff have reported a sense that the entities are always watching them, thanks to the positioning of these faces and the entities movements. Some staff have described the faces as expressing serenity, sorrow, or eeriness. This conflicting emotional response to SCP-XXXX entities is mundane.
At initial containment, SCP-XXXX entities were thought to be non-sapient, performing complicated but pre-programed tasks and behaviors. As of Incident 67, researchers believe the entities to be sapient, if hyper-focused on their tasks.
Discovery Log:
September 21st, 2017: SCP-XXXX came to Foundation attention when GOI-466 ("Wilson's Wildlife Solutions") contacted agents repeatedly over an incident well under the threshold of plausability.
- Civilian reports of “little silver aliens drawing all over the old children’s petting zoo”.
At the time, Foundation leadership at Site-64 declined the request.
September 25th, 2017: GOI employees followed up with their initial findings.
- A civilian artist, Rich Brautigan, told GOI employees he had evidence. He then told GOI employees he was “a terrible photographer”. He provided evidence in sketch form.
Sketches later linked to specific entities. From right to left, SCP-XXXX-2 and -3, -8, -5, -1 and -4.
Foundation staff, once again, declined to become involved.
September 28th, 2017: GOI employees investigated the derelict petting zoo after residents of the area continued to complain that the ‘silver carrot aliens’ were vandalizing houses near the park.
- GOI employees record pictographs of animals around the petting zoo and nearby buildings.
- All pictographs appear no higher than 70 centimeters from the ground.
However, this too was insufficient to warrant full Foundation investigation.
FROM: roger.tarpan.EAD@scipnet
TO: twilson466@scipnet
RE: aliens?!?
Why don’t you just go there yourselves and catch a video of your silver carrot aliens if you’re so sure they exist, Tom?
I will refer you to the Agreement's mandatory standards of proof. Again.
Please, Tim. Again. Please use the encrypted email. Please.
- Tarpan
Department of External Affairs Representative
Secure. Contain. Protect.
September 30th, 2017: The GOI employees alerted the Foundation. They had observed and then caught a set of anomalous entities.
- GOI employees went on record describing them as “cute little robot guys who just seemed to love animals.” And additionally, “we really don’t know what to do with alien robots. You’d better take them.”
With the provided video evidence, a collection team was dispatched to the Boring County Community Petting Zoo where SCP-XXXX was classified and contained.
Primary Behavior Observations:
After vigorous testing and recorder observations of the entities in the wild prior to containment, the following conclusions have been drawn.
- SCP-XXXX entities require two hours of sunlight daily to continue autonomous movement and all behaviors save for their anomalous floating.
- In the presence of animals the same relative size or smaller than the entities, they will tend and care for the animals.
- If provided with the material, SCP-XXXX entities will clean and repair the habitat of animals in their care.
- SCP-XXXX are capable of synthesized speech, but rarely utilize it to engage with human beings. See Incident 67, 68 and Observation Log 93.
Other specifics of behavior are demonstrated in the testing abstracts below.
Incident Log 67:
On May 1st, 2018, researches made a note of abnormal behavior among SCP-XXXX entities. The entities had gathered in a corner of the enclosure. They hovered together in a tight group, digits from one entity entwined with the next. After a brief discussion, researchers entered the enclosure to get a better look at what they were standing around. To the shock of observing Foundation staff, one entity turned a pseudo-face to the approaching staff and communicated with synthesized speech.
“Minor tectonic activity last night. Crack deep in cement. Protect the rabbits.”
Staff cleared the enclosure and relocated SCP-XXXX until they could investigate. The entity proved to be correct, and minor repairs were made, preventing millions of dollars of damage if it had been discovered later, as well as a possible containment breech by more dangerous SCPs.
For some time after the incident, Foundation staff was unable to initiate communication with or from SCP-XXXX entities.
Incident Log 68:
While collecting photos of SCP-XXXX pictograms, two of the entities came to hover near Junior Researcher Betty Anderson. Anderson was local to Clackamas County. Anderson has no other significant links to the entities or the rabbits.
The SCP-XXXX-2 and SCP-XXXX-4 touched her leg just beneath the knee several times, but as their actions were non-hostile, Anderson’s supervisor instructed her to remain where she was and observe.
One entity produced synthesized speech. “The water supply. Check for nitrates. Also, clot in your leg. You must treat.”
Foundation staff checked the water supply and had Junior Researcher Anderson seen by a doctor. Both of the warnings proved true. While Foundation scientists do not understand the nature of sensory mechanisms, the entities used to collect data, it is not anomalous.
Observation Log 93:
April 1st, 2018. After rigorous debate, Site-64 command acquiesced to researchers’ request to allow GOI employees on-site to assist in an attempt at communication. Employee Peggy Marquez was selected for the task after her assistance in the capture of SCP-3467. After briefing discussion with SCP-XXXX’s research team, a hypothesis to test was arrived at. Marquez was let into containment with SCP-XXXX.
She joined SCP-XXXX entities with their work, cleaning and tending the animals. After several quiet hours of working alongside them, they calculated her behaviors and incorporate them into their patterns, up to and including providing her a sponge to and gesticulation to instruct her. At that point, with supervisor approval, she asked questions. SCP-XXXX entities responded to many verbal questions. See the log below.
