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SCP-4162 upon discovery, before its activation. The bronze eagle statue is a non-anomalous later addition (circa 37 CE)

yo dawng nice easter egg ya found here do y'all spend your day copypasting/sourcereading skips ya read? Hope not else this'll grant me Cl(ap-)ass deee. -O%-Administrator AND researcher lvl over 9000 Ack Bref.
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4162 is to be kept in a steel case in Sector-G28. The room holding SCP-4162 is to be mined and patrolled. The only aisle connected to SCP-4162's room is to be 2 m tall and constantly patrolled. All guards assigned to SCP-4162 are to be armed with standard issue antimatter assault rifles and anti-impact armor.

Any person who is aware of a physical part of SCP-4162's special containment procedures not necessary for the succesful completion of their job, or who starts believing that a physical part of SCP-4162's is "art" is to be delivered class-A amnestics immediately, which are to be stored in several emergency kits scattered throughout the containment unit.

Description: SCP-4162 is a 17 m tall sapient and animate chryselephantine¹ statue of the greek god Zeus holding a 15 m long golden sceptre. It originally held a 3 m tall statue of Nike, which was found to be inanimate and uninfluencable by SCP-4162 and is currently held in a safe at Area-100. SCP-4162 has shown a low intelligence regarding most subjects, but an high intelligence in relation to art.

Attempts at separation of the sceptre from the anomaly have so far failed.

SCP-4162 has also shown the ability to animate and control any artwork it comes in contact with, in the same way itself is animated. Due to the loosely defined boundaries of "art", SCP-4162 has shown the capability of animating many man-made objects referred to as "art" by humans, including fighter jets, cages, and facilities.

Previous incidents involving SCP-4162 have shown that it is capable of passing animation to most objects and paintings, as well as altering literature. Further testing on SCP-4162's limits is discouraged.

SCP-4162 was constructed in 435 BCE by Phidias, an ancient Greek sculptor. SCP-4162 was lost under unknown circumstances circa 450 CE and rediscovered (alongside Document-4162-A) and activated by Greek construction company Andreas & Antonis on 01/09/2065. SCP-4162 was then recovered by MTF Eta-5 on the same day.

SCP-4162 is currently contained in Area-100.

Document-4162-A

Document-4162-A is a note left by Phidias in a hidden compartment within SCP-4162's stand. The following is an english translation of the note by non-Foundation translator Niall Newell (subsequently amnesticized).

Art is everything.

I came to realize this a long time ago, while I was talking to Pericles at his own house. He reminded me that, at its core, art was but politics, it was a way of imposing the power of Athens and democracy, it was a way of showing that power and a way of winning wars before they even began. Without politics, there would've been no need for art. But it is also true politics is an art, the art of speaking, the art of convincing. What after so many years I understand, is that most of the time art can go both ways.

This brings me to my point, which unfortunately isn't a discussion about art. If you're reading this you most likely know that this statue can move, and it didn't kill you yet. You are most likely wondering how it came to be, and I can answer that. As I was carving for the Parthenon, I realized the statues I built reached such a level of perfection that they could move, animate. I immediately thought this must've been some god's curse and decided to control this ability and keep sculpting normal statues.

Certainly you're already aware of how I was exiled from my home in a shallow attempt to undermine Pericle's rule, and of how I was asked by the Eleans to create this massive statue. I accepted, and I decided to take my art further, I remembered that art can go both ways. If only my statues could be animated at the presence of everyone, then everyone's statues could be animated at the presence of a single person, or a single statue. A statue through which I could have ensured Athens' power, and be part of it.

Once I completed it though, a thunderbolt fell down. I saw Zeus, just as I described it in my statue, but numerous times larger and taller. He commanded me to stop building the statue, and deactivate it, and touched the Nike, and it froze.

I, as you can infer, was shocked by this event, but could not fully deactivate the statue. Oh, why didn't Zeus immobilise it too, why did I have to do it. I can't think clearly anymore, he clearly had a greatly important reason for it. In a thousand years as it will be seen it will be alive, and as it will be alive it will be the end. I will not accept the statue to be put in the Temple where it'll stay for a thousand years, they will have to kill me to do it.

Phidias, Noumenia of Gamelion, Archonship of Euthydemus.

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10/04/2065

17:32 UTC

<MARV>: ███ messages expunged successfully.

<O5-10>: !expynge 100

<MARV>: I couldn't find any commands named "!expynge". Perhaps you meant "!expunge"?

17:33 UTC

<O5-10>: Well whatever O5-7 was faster regardless

04/05/2066

18:29 UTC

<O5-04>: !emergency, CK-class, restructuring, termination

<MARV>: Messages sent, 13 members pinged.

<O5-02>: Why did you ping?

<O5-04>: Ok have you all joined?

<O5-04>: !here

<MARV>: O5-01, O5-02, O5-03, O5-04, O5-05, O5-06, O5-07, O5-08, O5-09, O5-11, O5-12 and O5-13 are currently online

18:30 UTC

<O5-10>: I'm here sorry I was late. What do we have here?

18:32 UTC

<O5-04>: So, as you know, there are many "proposals" about SCP-001, some of which are false. Even though as Senior Member I have access to most of them I don't know which one is true, I don't think anybody knows. I believe that one of them, when combined with SCP-4162, could cause a potential CK-class restructuring.

18:33 UTC

<O5-07>: 001? Sounds like serious shit, but which one?

<O5-04>: The Database.

<O5-11>: What's that?

18:35 UTC

<O5-04>: I'm going to give you only a small summary of this one. Essentially according to "The Database" we found out that all the narratives present within reality might be created by multiple intelligent outside sources, labeled as SCP-001, for their own amusement.

<O5-01>: Oh.

18:37 UTC

<O5-04>: As such, we are essentially literature, sapient literature. And I'm afraid that, while we are attempting to keep SCP-4162 from coming in contact with art, everything is art. And it is only a matter of time before it figures that out.

<O5-10>: Well that's unfortunate. Does that mean it can bend reality?

<O5-08>: How can we be so certain that The Database's the right one? And what will happen regardless?

<O5-13>: Given it's meant to follow Phidias's orders will it attempt to resurrect him or what?

<O5-12>: Isn't 001 powerful enough to just destroy the entity before it does that though? Why would it want its world destroyed?

<O5-03>: Was that Zeus 001? Or some avatar?

<O5-04>: ORDER

18:38 UTC

<O5-04>: @<O5-08> I don't want to risk @<O5-12> They're multiple and as such multiple realities could exist, I don't want this one to branch and me ending up in the wrong branch. @<O5-03> Leave that for post-termination discussion please?

<O5-07>: Shall the vote begin?

<O5-04>: Yea

<O5-04>: !votestart, Should we terminate SCP-4162 as soon as possible, Yes, No.

<MARV>: Vote started on topic: "Should we terminate SCP-4162 as soon as possible". Possible answers: Yes; No.

<O5-04>: !vote yes

<MARV>: Vote counted! Tally: Yes=01; No=00

<O5-07>: !vote yes

<MARV>: Vote counted! Tally: Yes=02; No=00

<O5-12>: !vote yes

<MARV>: Vote counted! Tally: Yes=03; No=00

<O5-03>: !vote yes

<MARV>: Vote counted! Tally: Yes=04; No=00

<O5-10>: !vote yes

18:39 UTC

<MARV>: Vote counted! Tally: Yes=05; No=00

<O5-08>: !vote no

<MARV>: Vote counted! Tally: Yes=05; No=01

<O5-11>: !vote yes

<MARV>: Vote counted! Tally: Yes=06; No=01

16:18 PHI

<O5-02>: !vote yes

03:39 PHI

<MARV>: I couldn't find any commands named "!vote". Perhaps you meant ""?

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