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Isolated specimen of SCP-5872
Item #: SCP-5872
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5872 is contained within a 10m by 10m by 3m air tight steel lined unit in site-██, the floor of which should be covered with a 20cm thick layer of soil procured from its native ██████ forest in ████. The entrance to the chamber is fitted with a flash-heat decontamination airlock. The chamber is to be kept in complete darkness outside of interviews with SCP-5872-1.
Access to SCP-5872 is restricted to research personnel and maintenance assigned D-class only upon approval by project Director Dr ██████. Entry to the containment unit requires the use of a class 2 isolation suit.
Should the airlock to SCP-5872's chamber ever malfunction and both doors be opened simultaneously, a full lock-down of site-██ will be ordered pending the arrival of MTF-DC2, upon which any compromised on site personnel will be terminated during the decontamination process.
Description: SCP-5872 is a colony of arachnids resembling common household spiders with an elongated silver coloured abdomen. All observed individuals in SCP-5872 are linked together via a thin strand of neural tissue secreted from their abdomens in the same place a spider's spinneret would be. This "neural webbing" allows every arachnid within SCP-5872 to communicate with the whole colony. Specimens of SCP-5872 normally range in length from 2mm to 12cm, the colony has however been observed to produce much smaller individuals under certain circumstances (see recovery-log 5872-02).
Specimens of SCP-5872 are somehow able to completely integrate into living tissue in order to connect their neural webbing to a prey's nervous system, thus beginning assimilation processes (see experiment report 5872-ex1).
Once a prey animal is assimilated it will either be kept paralysed and slowly consumed by the colony or, if SCP-5872 lacks any defensive hosts, be converted into an instance of SCP-5872-1
SCP-5872-1 is an organism assimilated by SCP-5872 and physiologically modified to serve the colony's defensive needs. Notable modifications include the following :
- increased bone density
- increased muscle density
- heightened visual and olfactory senses
- sharp bone protrusion on the elbows and fingertips
- dense growths mostly composed of keratin plating the skin in vulnerable areas
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