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A SCP-XXXX-1 instance containing an SCP-XXXX instance.
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: The only known instance of SCP-XXXX is currently recorded on its SCP-XXXX-1 instance within a secure container in Site-19's anomalous storage sector. Access to SCP-XXXX requires permission from the site director. Any duplicate instances of SCP-XXXX-1 should have their data contents manually wiped and undergo standard infohazardous decontamination procedures. SCP-XXXX-1 instances should not be otherwise altered or inserted into an electronic device.
Due to the nature of SCP-XXXX, research on it and its anomalous effects are limited, including investigation of [REDACTED] 57.32% of the population of Switzerland.
Description: SCP-XXXX is an informational construct with the infohazardous property of only being able to exist through the medium of floppy disks. Any floppy disk that contains an instance of SCP-XXXX is to be designated as SCP-XXXX-1.
When SCP-XXXX is encoded in any information medium other then a floppy disk, approximately 0.1 seconds later it will anomalously convert the information medium into an instance of SCP-XXXX-1. SCP-XXXX can only be erased from an information medium in the process of conversion through the destruction of that medium. If there is not enough space around the medium encoding SCP-XXXX at time of conversion, surrounding matter will be converted into the SCP-XXXX-1 instance, regardless of composition or relation to the original encoding medium.
If an SCP-XXXX-1 instance suffers significant damage to non data storage components, SCP-XXXX will activate due to its storage device no longer being a standardised floppy disk. SCP-XXXX-1 instances may still be destroyed as sufficient damage to key data storage locations within SCP-XXXX-1 will cause SCP-XXXX to be wiped. Once SCP-XXXX is deleted from an SCP-XXXX-1 instance, the SCP-XXXX-1 instance is no longer anomalous and as such loses the SCP-XXXX-1 designation. If SCP-XXXX is encoded on a non anomalous floppy disk, that floppy disk is now designated an SCP-XXXX-1 instance.
SCP-XXXX-1 instances are not anomalous in any way. All anomalous properties SCP-XXXX-1 instances appear to posses are in actuality the effects of the SCP-XXXX within the SCP-XXXX-1 instance.
Known information mediums that SCP-XXXX can affect include:
- electronic devices
- electronic display screens
- electromagnetic waves
- sound waves
- nervous systems
- reflective surfaces
- paper
Due to SCP-XXXX's nature, the following anomalous properties are beleived to belong to SCP-XXXX, though not experimentally verified:
- SCP-XXXX's inforhazardous properties apply to all possible information mediums beyond those experimentally verified.
- Sufficient [DATA EXPUNGED] 57.32% of the population of Switzerland.
Recovery Log: SCP-XXXX came to the attention of Foundation agents after a news story in ██████, Maine, started circulating concerning the murder of ██████████ Smyth. The story mentioned unexplainable floppy disks slightly protruding from apparent "incisions" within Smyth's eyes, as well as odd placements of floppy disks around the victim. Foundation operatives quickly moved in, suppressed media coverage through standard procedures and secured the location for anomalous investigation.
Smyth's body was found sitting in a standard office chair in front of the plastic shells of a computer and monitor containing several SCP-XXXX-1 instances. All reflective surfaces within view of what was presumably the computer monitor had an instance of a SCP-XXXX-1 manifest within them. Autopsy of Smyth revealed two SCP-XXXX-1 instances in the eyes and five SCP-XXXX-1 instances within the skull (no brain matter remained).
Investigation by Foundation operatives have discovered that Smyth worked as a census analyst. Documents and evidence recovered from the location suggest that SCP-XXXX is a ███████ interpretation of the ████████ 19██/██/██ Swiss census of █████████ concerning █████ of [REDACTED] and standard deviation [REDACTED] 57.32% of the population of Switzerland.
Addendum: Foundation anomalous investigation efforts from the location of SCP-XXXX's recovery have concluded that SCP-XXXX anomalous effects are not inherent to the method by which the floppy disk stores information. That is, SCP-XXXX only needs to be stored on a floppy disk but does not need to be digitally stored; This implies that one could theoretically construct an object out of floppy disks where the structure of the object encodes the information that is SCP-XXXX.
It is theorised that such an object would possess, but not be limited too, the following properties:
- Any individual seeing this object would have their nervous system converted into floppy disks.
- Any shadow cast by this object would turn the surface the shadow is being cast on into floppy disks.
- Any fluid current passing through or around the object would be modified in accordance to the object's structure, thus encoding SCP-XXXX into the fluid and converting it into floppy disks.
- Minute modifications in the gravitational feild caused by the object would convert the gravitaional feild around the object into floppy disks.
- [REDACTED] 57.32% of the population of Switzerland [REDACTED] floppy disks [REDACTED].
Such a structure would at best be a Keter-class entity and at worst cause everything within 0.1 light seconds (about 30 thousand kilometers) to convert into floppy disks, causing a XK-class End-of-the-World scenario. While SCP-XXXX's properties would make constructing such a structure implausible, the possibility cannot be ruled out that study of SCP-XXXX could allow it. As such, study of alternative means of encoding SCP-XXXX is restricted by order of O5 High Command.
