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Left to right, SCP-0000-B, -C, & -F upon initial discovery.

Item #: SCP-0000
Object Class: Safe Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: Instances of SCP-0000 are allowed to freely roam Site-██, so long as they are confined in their containment cells during breach or lockdown events, or during their designated feeding time. Instances are to each be fed one (1) 1.75oz bag of Doritos-brand Tortilla Chips of Nacho Cheese flavor variety once per day. Due to their non-violent and cooperative tendencies, no further containment procedures are required.

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North-east Entrance of ██████ Plant.

The entirety of Site-██ has been constructed within a 2km vicinity of the ██████ Plant, owned & operated by the Frito-Lay company. Site-██ has received appropriate permissions from O5-Command and Frito-Lay to acquire any amount and/or variety of product from the ██████ Plant, so long as it is necessary for the containment of SCP-0000. Under no circumstances can any product acquired from the ██████ Plant be consumed by Site-██ personnel, nor can it be used as a substitution for any food shortages in the on-site Cafeteria.

Instances of SCP-0000 are stored in a High Security, 8m x 8m x 3m Containment Chamber, fitted with one security keypad. The chamber walls are to be reinforced with 5cm Tungsten lining. The chamber is to be furnished with seven (7) cushioned beds for sleeping, and access to a 4m deep saltwater pool that is kept at a constant temperature of 10° C at all times. A 1000kg capacity container, connected directly to a gravity feeder, is to be stocked with Doritos-brand Tortilla Chips, of Nacho Cheese flavor variety, provided by the ██████ Plant. The container’s contents is to never be below 50% of its maximum capacity. Access to the feed is to be unobstructed at all times. The chamber is to be monitored at all times by on-site personnel to ensure that access to feed is unobstructed.

In the event that access to feed is obstructed, or the container is to run out of feed, Site-██ is to observe Event Protocol #0000-100. All non-essential personnel are to be evacuated from the facility immediately, and the ██████ Plant will be notified and subsequently provide all of its on-hand product in a time-sensitive manner to the Site. The product is to be transferred to the Site and loaded into the feed container, as well as the secondary 1000kg panic container that is connected directly to the gravity feeder to double the available feed. All ██████ Plant employees will be subsequently administered amnestics, and their digital inventory system is to be modified such that the lack of product is innocuous. The process should take no less than thirty (30) minutes to prevent instances of SCP-0000 from being without feed for more than thirty (30) minutes.

Description: SCP-0000 is the collective designation for seven (7) male Giant Isopods most closely resembling the species Bathynomus giganteus, designated as SCP-0000-A through -G. Instances of SCP-0000 are able to persist on-land and without access to water for an indefinite amount of time, and remain in perfect health, although instances appear to prefer being submerged when not feeding. Instances of SCP-0000 cannot be destroyed, nor can they be displaced temporally, interdimensionally, and/or extradimensionally, as they will subsequently reappear wherever they have the most convenient access to feed relevant to their pre-displaced location1. Instances of SCP-0000 have been in Foundation possession since 2001, and have shown no signs of aging. Instances are physiologically identical to Giant Isopods aged three (3) to four (4) years.

In their non-agitated state, instances of SCP-0000 are mostly docile, but will occasionally attempt to interact playfully with human subjects. Instances are observed to sleep for an amount of time no less than four (4) hours per day, and no more than sixteen (16) hours. Instances of SCP-0000 display the anomalous property of thriving on a diet that consists exclusively of Doritos-brand Tortilla Chips, of Nacho Cheese flavor variety, produced by the Frito-Lay company. Instances will refuse any other form of subsistence, including that which is consistent with the diet of naturally occuring isopods, chips that are not produced by the Frito-Lay company, and even Doritos-brand Tortilla Chips that are not of the Nacho Cheese flavor variety. Instances have not been observed to produce excrement. Forceful ingestion of anything other than Nacho Cheese Doritos results in [REDACTED].

Instances of SCP-0000, when without access to feed for a period of time greater than approximately forty (40) minutes, will enter an agitated state. Once agitated, SCP-0000 instances begin to expand in size by a process that appears biologically similar to cellular mitosis, only at a rate that is anomalous in nature. Agitated instances of SCP-0000 have been observed to double their initial body mass within seconds. This rate of expansion is not constant while agitated, and tends to slow down once instances are approximately 800% of their initial size, but have not been observed to ultimately stop expanding.

Agitated instances of SCP-0000 will attempt to locate and consume more Nacho Cheese Doritos by any means necessary. Agitated instances have been observed to use their pincers to pierce and insert cavities in solid Tungsten as a means of escaping captivity, and are capable of using their immense body-mass and invulnerable exoskeleton to knock down walls and buildings with relative ease. Agitated instances do not appear to become hostile, and all human casualties caused by them are generally inadvertent trampling. Instances of SCP-0000 possess an innate ability to sense the nearest location of Nacho Cheese Doritos, and are observed to always take the most “optimal” route. All attempts to recontain SCP-0000 in this state are futile without simply providing it with more Nacho Cheese Doritos, which at that point, the instance will rapidly reduce its size back to its initial size, and become docile.

As instances increase in size, their capacity to consume Doritos increases as well. Due to this, it becomes increasingly difficult to provide agitated instances of SCP-0000 with a satisfactory amount of Nacho Cheese Doritos. Due to this, the Foundation has prioritized the acquisition of satisfactory amounts of Nacho Cheese Doritos to Site-██, as all attempts to destroy or displace SCP-0000 have failed.

Addendum: Instances of SCP-0000 are, with time, requiring larger amounts of Doritos to remain docile. Instances are currently observed to consume nearly 250kg of feed daily, which at $0.30 per oz, costs the Foundation nearly $18,500.00 USD per day. The Foundation is currently working with Frito-Lay to further reduce their costs.

Update ██/██/20██: Due to a packaging error at the ██████ Plant, an instance of SCP-0000 was able to consume a single Doritos-brand Tortilla Chip of Cool Ranch flavor variety, and is no longer consuming Nacho Cheese flavor variety. Current Containment Procedures are being revised.