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BY ORDER OF THE OVERSEER COUNCIL

The following document is to be reviewed and updated following all Cosmological Reports and Surveys.

001

Photo of SCP-001 confiscated from records belonging to Finnish newspaper Borgåbladet.

Item #: SCP-001

Object Class: Euclid

Further Classification: Information Restricted

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-001 is contained in Humanoid Containment Suite-C16 on Site-02. SCP-001 may not be removed from its confinement without unanimous consent of the O5 council. The enormity of SCP-001's proposed influence on this iteration of reality, have necessitated extreme prejudice in its containment, specifically regarding interactions between SCP-001 and Foundation personnel. All following containment procedures are required to maintain the health and cooperation of SCP-001, and to prevent information leaks. SCP-001 poses little threat in any physical capacity.

+ Expand: Environmental Conditions.

SCP-001's containment has been modified with two redundant climate control systems. The first is an Anthermal^® refrigeration unit¹, model #200, set to -50^oC as a standard precaution. During attempts to sabotage to its containment, neutralization procedures will commence with both systems being set to -150^oC. This shall decrease by one degree centigrade every five seconds until SCP-001 cooperates with the terms of its containment. Information regarding the nature of Suite-C16's second climate control system is restricted. Requests to perform maintenance on this system, or to be briefed on its nature, must be approved by both Council members O5-2 and O5-5.

+ Expand: Interaction Conditions.

Communication with SCP-001 is restricted without an ongoing or proxy O5-Directive. Only Dr. Gueller and Dr. Mara have ongoing access to SCP-001, but they may assign access rights by proxy as needed. Suite-C16 must be visually monitored at all times to ensure SCP-001's cooperation. Due to the extreme temperatures within its containment, the cameras monitoring SCP-001 are prone to accumulating frost damage and rime deposits, necessitating regular maintenance. As the nature of SCP-001 and the information it carries are classified at the highest level, such maintenance should be performed remotely whenever possible. In the event that SCP-001 interferes with these operations (refer to Incident Report 001/2), live personnel may be permitted to undergo the task. Any maintenance personnel with clearance below Level-5 interacting with SCP-001 or its containment cell, are to be equipped with trauma-resistant insulation suits, and complete audio-deprivation gear. The latter equipment is required to prevent unauthorized access to classified information known by SCP-001, as it is both eager to and insistent on revealing it.

Addendum 001.1: Dr. Veula's Standing Orders.
Any and all clearance Level-5 personnel are permitted to speak with SCP-001 at their leisure, but must log each conversation as an official interview. To reduce the strain on Level-5 resources, any Level-4 personnel being considered for clearance upgrades, by the recommendation of both Dr. Muellag Dr. Gueller and Dr. Veula Dr. Mara, may speak with SCP-001 and take part in its monitoring, if escorted.

+ Expand: Casualty Event Conditions.

SCP-001 is to be treated as a serious casualty risk. It has disemboweled research personnel in the past² and should be considered capable or repeating the action. In the event of SCP-001 causing injury or death to personnel, Security Protocol 001/A should be considered. If enacted, Suite-C16 is to be rapidly cooled as near to -273^oC as possible, eliminating the possibility of SCP-001 from acquiring bodily heat from its victim. This protocol has seen SCP-001 return to cooperative behavior when used, however, use of this protocol is discouraged, as extreme cooling procedures have a positive correlation with SCP-001's declining mental health.

+ Expand: Addendum 001.2: Amenities.

Addendum 001.2: Amenities.
To encourage SCP-001's mental health, and subsequent cooperation (chiefly in research inquiries), it is permitted a degree of concession in what amenities it may request.³ The following are lists of previously approved items that SCP-001 requests with some regularity and may be given at any time conditionally without acquisition forms, and notable requests.

Pre-Approved Requests

• A hot beverage (Not exceeding 30^oC or 5oz in portion.)
• A hot meal (Not exceeding 30^oC or 200g in portion.)
• A single book (Previous book is to be confiscated.)

Note:
No books of a historical nature, factual or parody, or to be given to SCP-001.

Note:
Due to harassment on SCP-001's part in taking advantage of previous protocol wording, as of 4/5/1981, SCP-001 is not to be granted more than two pre-approved request items on any given day.

History of Notable Approved Requests

• "Someone to talk to.": Granted

Accommodation coincides with Foundation efforts to maintain and research SCP-001. Dr. Veula is assigned as SCP-001's psychiatric administrator.

• "A quieter room.": Denied Granted

Removing the source of the 'god damned hum' places substantial risk in security. Accommodation necessary for repairs and improvements in SCP-001's containment.

• "Someone else to talk to.": Granted Provisionally

Accommodation does not put SCP-001, its containment, or personnel at risk, nor do provisions risk information leak. Clearance Level-5 personnel are reminded by monthly newsletter that they may volunteer to converse with SCP-001, and are encouraged to do so. Reminders will be executed in person by SCP-001's psychiatric administrator.

• Confiscated object #12,089:⁴ Denied Granted Provisionally

Significant security risk. Request is granted on the provision that the object is returned to SCP-001, sealed in a solid 0.7m x 0.7m x 2.1m block of high-impact resistant clear polymer resin. SCP-001's demeanor is improved and it begins taking a more active part in cooperative research efforts.

• An accordion or similar musical instrument: Granted

No risk. A small plastic toy accordion was provided. SCP-001's demeanor is markedly improved despite the low quality of the instrument, and the difficulty with which SCP-001 plays it. Behavioral incidents have not occurred since.

History of Notable Denied Requests.

• "Some damn privacy": Denied

Significant security risk. SCP-001 in under the impression this request was granted, and that it would not be monitored during the hours of 12am and 2am Monday and Tuesday mornings. Personnel assigned to monitor Suite-C16 during these hours should be forewarned; SCP-001 has since been infrequently observed attempting to ██████████ during these hours.

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Description: SCP-001 is a Caucasian human male of mixed northern European ancestry. SCP-001 has modified its body with invasive cybernetic enhancements, and subjected itself to extreme genetic mutation, resulting in the ability to survive and thrive in lethally low-temperature environments. This ability extends even into temperatures which, in laboratory conditions, hinder all forms of chemical and kinetic energy. When frozen, all entropic forces and chemical decay in SCP-001's body appear arrested, despite its continued ability to utilize select cerebral and bodily mechanisms. How SCP-001 is able to move when frozen and maintain cognitive functions without detectable brain waves, is unknown. When SCP-001's body is frozen, it benefits from extreme resilience to physical trauma, however its flesh remains pliable and permits a full range of motion. SCP-001 has been either unable or unwilling to detail the specifics processes that accomplished this.

Early DNA analysis has proved that SCP-001's genome is severely damaged. Exposure to temperatures exceeding 0^oC increases SCP-001's genetic decomposition, causing both physical and mental anguish to it. This damage can be partially reversed by immersing SCP-001 to a long cooling period. Although the healing it experiences sees diminishing returns over time, SCP-001 has noted that 'infinite time grants infinite healing', claiming to have 'eventually survived' both supernovas and black holes. As of Research-Directive-001/O5/B, SCP-001 is to remain in its frozen state at all times.

When frozen, SCP-001 requires no use of its involuntary systems. This includes and is not limited to, its respiratory, circulatory, digestive, somniatic, and metabolic system (despite SCP-001's frequent requests for hot meals and beverages). SCP-001's nervous system appears similarly defunct, yet SCP-001 still achieves cerebral and motor autonomy. Frozen or thawed, SCP-001 does not age. Appearing to be in its early forties, SCP-001's actual age is indeterminable and hypothetically infinite according to the Foundation's current understanding of space-time physics.

+ Expand: Robotic Adaptations.

SCP-001's left arm and leg have been surgically altered with robotic replacements. These enhancements are designed to appear of modern make for the year of there invention⁵ and are constructed using materials commonly available in the early 19th century of Germany, yet use electrical wiring and advanced mechanics not yet devised in that time. Both artificial limbs have been removed from SCP-001 for study and archival.

Inserted into the wrist of the prosthetic arm in a hidden compartment, was discovered a device created by SCP-001, designated SCP-001-1. After activating SCP-001-1 via a button attached to it, a faint green energy pulse will emanate from the device every sixty seconds. SCP-001 claims this pulse is a mapping operation akin to echo-location, with the purpose of identifying quantum fluctuations in the universe. The pulse moves slowly at first, crossing a distance of one meter in one second. Its speed however, raises exponentially at the same rate its opacity decreases. It becomes visually undetectable after three seconds and twenty meters. Analysis of the pulse registers unknown radiation. So far, attempts to quantify and further analyze this radiation, have been inconclusive.

SCP-001 claims the pulse accelerates until it hits the edge of the universe and bounces off of it. The return signal, which has yet to be detected by Foundation resources, supposedly indicates that this iteration of reality is identical to SCP-001's original universe. Recommended further reading: Interview with the Universe, officially documented as Cosmology Report 2711 sections S.04 through T.38.

+ Expand: Cosmological Presence.

SCP-001 is tentatively believed to be at least partially responsible for a number of anomalies discovered by the Foundation, as it has demonstrated partial, substantially valuable, and incorrect knowledge of hundreds of anomalous objects, both already contained by the Foundation and unknown to it. According to its own testimony, SCP-001 is a pivotal component of the 'ongoing corruption and degradation of reality,' resulting in numerous anomalies in this iteration of reality. SCP-001 states that it has 'survived in immortality' to a point that is has traveled forward through time into, and past, the [Heat Death of the universe], into the next universe. SCP-001 has supposedly repeated this process ad infinitum, living through uncountable iterations of reality and the universe vastly different and similar from our own, until reaching this one.⁶ Th event responsible for the creation of this universe is supposedly a duplicate of the one that created SCP-001's original universe, realized through the detection the [quantum fluctuation] signature of this universe.

There is very little evidence to support SCP-001's claims and equally little to disprove it. Under direct order of the O5 Council, SCP-001 and all information regarding its claims, are to be quarantined under Access Restriction: Alpha-Alpha-001.

+ Expand: Identity.

SCP-001 refers to itself as ███████ ████████, born in Finland 12/24/2304, a junior director level employee of a company called 'Clear Global', supposedly an affiliate of the SCP Foundation established in the 'Federated Scandinavian Alliance,' established in 1990. No such political entities are known to exist. Efforts to confirm SCP-001's identity have been indefinitely postponed, as it is low interest data, and any attempts to do so would pose substantial risk to temporal continuity. See Interview Logs 001/6 - 27 for a complete description of SCP-001's original timeline, or Document 001-45t to review all significant differences between that timeline and this one.

SCP-001 frequently refuses to cooperate with any personnel who refer to it as '001' and will not consign to that designation. See Incident Report 001/1 and 2 for a further details on current safety suggestions when interviewing with SCP-001.

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Discovery & Retrieval:
SCP-001 was discovered living on a river shuttle in Kárášjohka Norway, 25/12/1861. An investigative agent was dispatched to the region after a south Finnish newspaper began circulating an article describing a 'Polar Man braving Icy Depths'. The article detailed SCP-001's habit of skinny dipping in frozen waters for extended periods. Upon coming into contact with SCP-001 Agent Heraldr was greeted by name, and SCP-001 requested it be brought to the O5 Council immediately to relay 'priority Alexandra' information.

Agent Haraldr took SCP-001 into custody without issue, and it went willingly into his custody, relaying classified Foundation information to any and all Foundation personnel it met with during the process. It specifically explained to Agent Heraldr that it instigated the news article written about it to notify the Foundation of its existence, claiming it did so at the time and in the manner it did, to compel belief in what it had to say, as the Foundation would not believe its full tale if it had arrived any earlier. SCP-001's arrival into custody coincided with [DATA EXPUNGED]. All personnel involved in its securing, up to Dr. Hod's first involvement, had their encounters with SCP-001 amnestically removed from their memory. All preliminary reports made were confiscated, and interviews with SCP-001 began shortly after.

Note:
The Foundation at this time operates without a priority Alexandra protocol, and has never had one in its history. Considerations for the addition of Alexandra to security contingencies were denied.

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Restricted Access Files.

Enter ID code and password to authenticate identity and verify transaction rights.

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Psyche Evaluation: Updated 1/1/2018
SCP-001's metal state is elastic, capable of deviations, but rarely deviating far from its default condition, and never for long. SCP-001 has an obsessive personality, bordering on a fixation disorder, as well as advanced depression and an acute post traumatic stress disorder. SCP-001 is bored with its confinement.

SCP-001 requires frequent if not constant stimulation to encourage its mental health and subsequent cooperation. Any prolonged absence of stimulation places a burden on SCP-001's mental health, often resulting in minor violent outbursts. No casualties have resulted from these events, though it should be noted that SCP-001 is capable and willing to perform much more aggressive action when put under more stressful conditions.

Following Incident-001/4, Dr. Mara has placed SCP-001 on suicide watch, and re-issued a Testing-Moratorium-001-1, petitioning for all tests which will knowingly induce high levels of stress in SCP-001 to be banned, citing it as 'cruel and unnecessary' and akin to 'prodding a stab victim with a sharp stick.' Dr. Gueller's own reports concede that SCP-001's anomalous qualities are already well understood. Awaiting new developments in cosmological theory, Dr. Gueller issued Research-Directive-001/154/A to accommodate her suggestion.

SCP-001 is clinically depressed, derives pleasure almost solely from attention, and displays sociopathically amoral and obsessive behavior. It will stop at nothing to complete its agendas. What this man… what SCP-001 experienced goes beyond anything any of us can comprehend. None of us can know what he went through. We can't even prove its possible! I don't think I'll ever be able to help him. Not really. -Dr. Mara

+ Expand: Addendum 001.3

Addendum 001.3: Expressions of SCP-001's Activity by Environmental Temperature.

0^oC and Above:

Physical: SCP-001 experiences mild pain and weakness, and eventual collapse. SCP-001 suffers internal bleeding, and accelerated decay of soft tissues.
Emotional: Angst, light-headedness, and a mild delirious state. Eventual mania.

0^oC to -75^oC:

Physical: Normal.
Emotional: Normal.

-75^oC to -150^oC:

Physical: Uncontrolled laughter, and panicked pleading to get out of 'the black.'
Emotional: Extreme reactions including fear, paranoia, gratitude, and self-depreciation.

-150^oC and Below:

Physical: SCP-001 retreats to a solitary corner and remains motionless in the fetal position. SCP-001 occasionally sobs or whispers 'No tears' or 'they were all frozen.'
Emotional: Nearly a complete loss of emotive expression. Severe depressive state.

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Footnotes

1. Installed on 19/1/2001, replacing the original unit sabotaged by SCP-001.

2. See Interview Log 001/2, also known as Incident Report 001/1.

3. REMINDER: SCP-001 is not a member of the Foundation, and should not be relied on for research. It is not to be explicitly trusted or given any over indulgent concessions. All amenities must follow standard review and approval to determine the likelihood of SCP-001 to harm either itself, its containment, or personnel.

4. A fossilized wooden spear found in SCP-001's possession when discovered, carbon dated to have been crafted during the Mesozoic Era.

5. These limbs were removed prior to SCP-001's discovery, apparently during the Napoleonic wars. They have each made an 8% regenerative recovery since what remained of the limbs were first measured by the Foundation. Reportedly constructed in 1845, these limbs are camouflaged to appear as articulated wooden prosthesis.

6. SCP-001's testimony is neither guaranteed true or reliable. Multiple conflicting evidences exist to discredit SCP-001's testimonies. The Foundation has explored numerous alternative theories (those publicized solely within the Foundation and those in public domain) on the nature of time, the origins of the universe, and the ultimate fate of the universe. Researchers are highly recommended to disregard all of SCP-001's claims, as they have little bearing on SCP-001's own anomalous status.