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Item #: SCP-STARMOTHER

Object Class: Safe (Awaiting Confirmation)

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-STARMOTHER is to be kept in a low-lit room at least 300 square meters large and 25 meters tall, but STARMOTHER seems to be more… "comfortable," in a room that appears natural or rocky, such as a cavern repurposed for containment. Ensure that it has a nesting place, and no stalactites within the STARMOTHER's frequently paced paths are to be within 4 meters of its height (at time of recording, this height was around 15 meters.)

Description: SCP-STARMOTHER, or Starmother for short, is an oddly canine-shaped creature around 15 meters in quadrupedal height, and it's maximum body length if it were to stand on it's hind legs is calculated to be around 45 meters. It has very dark, blue-grey skin that often wrinkles and contorts with it's movements. It has long, wispy strands of hair distributed randomly across its body. Some sections of it's skin are noted to have been falling off, shedding, or generally unhealthier than the rest, in patterns that are coherent with the aging patterns of typical terrestrial canines. Starmother, instead of typical ears, has holes in the sides of it's head, like that of a bird's. Its eyes are atypically large, and reported to have "reflections of stars that aren't really there," when looked directly into—otherwise, they are reported to be black. It does not have nostrils. Its mouth is lacking teeth, but is otherwise typical for a canine creature. Its limbs are atypically long, and end in strangely bear-like paws, complete with non-canine fifth phalanges. It spends most of its time sleeping, only getting up to pace about once a week. It is reported to "look skyward," frequently, whenever it's not sleeping or pacing.

(THIS LOG IS DATED MAY ██, 2019. AUTHOR UNKNOWN.) Starmother was sighted in a particularly shady clearing in the woods near the [DATA EXPUNGED] park in New Jersey, on April ██, 2019. It was reported to park animal control, which reported it to the federal government immediately. The federal government sent a team to ensure anomalous activity, upon which its whereabouts were then obtained by the foundation, and it was placed into containment on May ██. During this time-span, the original discovering civilian passed away of suicide, and all animal control and federal agents found similar fates. Foundation agents tasked with its containment had varying results, but the first several agents have been relieved of duty following violent hallucination and psychotic episodes. This will be looked into once Starmother is ensured to be contained effectively. Starmother does not seem to need to eat or drink, but this is only the beginning of its directly anomalous properties. Please see testing log for details. Testing of SCP-temp will be referred to Dr. Jonathan Keres, the on-site psychologist.

Addendum: Apparently, the foundation's standard collection and containment protocol doesn't allow for skin-to-skin contact. I should have taken note of this…

Addendum #2: Topology research has shown that a meteorite landed approximately 6,000 years prior to SCP-temp's discovery, in its discovered vicinity. It was reported to be approximately only 415 meters from the center of the crash. As of now, this is one of few explanations for SCP-temp's existence in this world, on this planet.

+ OPEN TESTING LOG 01

1. Testing Log temp-01

Dr. Keres: So, D-0134, could you please take a seat in the chair?
D-0134: Yeah. So what is this all about?
Dr. Keres: It's about SCP-temp. We've discovered that it has some… particularly anomalous properties, that we weren't anticipating. We know that it's an alien creature, so that's why we've contained it, but I'm going to let you in on some background knowledge. Every person who has had vision contact with SCP-temp has undergone severe psycho-emotional metamorphosis.
D-0134: And..?
Dr. Keres: Well, of course, as you know, this is a testing facility. We perform tests on anomalous entities, particularly using volunteers. Today we want to see if administering amnestics has any effect on the psychological changes. We'll do several tests, waiting longer and longer to administer amnestics and see if any changes occur yet.
D-0134: So you want… me. To look at the mind-blending creature that we've just discovered. Yes?
Dr. Keres: Of course. I can't do it, somebody has to be there to write down what happens.
D-0134: I see. Where is she?
END INTERVIEW temp-01-A

Doctor Jonathan Keres. The date is June First, 2019. The time is 09:21. Yesterday I had D-0134 undergo a short test where he bravely entered SCP-temp's containment chamber for about 5 minutes. This will be the control variable for this test; each time… if the amnestics even work, I will time D-0134 to watch SCP-temp for exactly 5 minutes before extracting him and placing him in the test-observation cell. For this first test, I'll let his mental state degrade by about a day, and at the end of the day I'll administer an amnestic before doing an MRI and a cognition test.
23:12: Exactly 24 hours from the end of yesterday's test has passed. It's late, but D-0134 seems chipper. His state, upon immediate note, is… for lack of a better word, just… looney. Not unusual, not anomalous yet. It's just like he dropped his marbles today, or got up on a geometrically-impossible side of the bed.

Dr. Keres: How are we feeling today, D-0134?
D-0134: A bit silly. She's so beautiful, did you know that? She's so pretty.
Video Note: At this section of the recording, D-0134 has slumped forward on the interview table and has begun tapping his leg rapidly. He's quiet and alert, however.
Dr. Keres: Would you mind taking this pill for me?
D-0134: Sure, doc. Sure, I'll take your pill!
D-0134 proceeds to take the amnestic, designed to wipe the last 36 hours from his memory.
Dr. Keres: Thank you, D-0134.
D-0134: (after sitting up straight, grasping at his head, other typical post-amnestic habits, and several minutes passing in silence.) Hi, doc. What are we up to today? Did you just give me an amnestic? I don't remember how I got here.
Dr. Keres: Keen, D-0134. I administered a 36-hour amnestic. You should remember our interview two days prior, correct? About how we're seeing what SCP-temp does to the human mind with amnestic resets?
D-0134: Yeah… Yeah I remember. Did we do that? Is that what happened?
Dr. Keres: Yes. I'm going to give you a typical cognition test, and then we'll scan your brain to see if anything happened.
D-0134: Alright. Sounds good to me. Does it hurt?
Dr. Keres: Does what hurt?
D-0134: The scan?
Dr. Keres: You do know what a brain scan entails, right?
D-0134: They put me in a scary machine, right doc?
Dr. Keres: It's not particularly scary.
D-0134 seems to have calmed down, but he still appears alert.
END INTERVIEW temp-01-B

Doctor Jonathan Keres. The date is June Second, time is 00:13. D-0134 has completed the cognition test with little deviation from his on-file baseline cognition report. He seems to be lacking in the fields of object permanence and recognition. No hallucinations have been reported. His MRI has shown that his frontal lobe is more active than usual, with his fusiform gyrus, the area responsible for facial and object recognition, is less active. No shrinking or deterioration has been detected yet.

One week has passed with little further changes. D-0134 has reported feeling empty and has said he passes his time by staring at the walls of his cell for hours and hours, seldom sleeping. CCTV footage suggests this is true, but the fidelity is not clear enough to determine if his eyes are open or closed when he sits up in his bed and stares.

Dr. Keres: The time is 10:24. The date is June Ninth. Exactly one week from cognition test.
D-0134 enters the room, escorted by one foundation guard.
D-0134: Hi, again, doc! Oh, man, I missed you!
Dr. Keres: Please have a seat, D-0134. We're going to have a short chat before our test today. I have some things to remind you of.
D-0134: What's up? How ya been? Don't you want to chat before we do anything?
Dr. Keres: Yes. I have to remind you that SCP-temp is not to be touched, and SCP-temp must be viewed for only five minutes at a time. Do not close distance between yourself and SCP-temp. Do not avert your gaze from SCP-temp. Et-cetera, right?
D-0134: Right, doc. Wouldn't dream of it. You know, I miss her, but I've never seen her. I don't remember seeing her. But you know I know of her, right? You know her stars are in my sky, right?
Dr. Keres: What do you mean? I'd love to know more.
D-0134: Do you really think I stare at nothing? No! I stare at her stars! They're all so beautiful.
The interview footage ends abruptly.

This report is being re-assumed by Doctor Everest Cavallero, onsite keter-containment specialist, previous MTF commander.
Log date July 5th, 2019. SCP-temp has gone intense containment restructuring. No human subjects are allowed within its interior containment center, and armed guards must always be present in its secondary containment layer, which is to be a channel that surrounds the cavernous cell that we've repurposed for its containment.
I will now proceed to play video and audio footage from SCP-temp's cell and containment door. Video footage of SCP-temp has proven to be ineffective in ailing one's mind. Cameras are not to be improved from 144p fidelity due to uncertainty posed by human recognition trends.

Doctor Keres: D-0134. Do not approach the subject. Anything could happen. Just follow the test instructions.
around thirty seconds pass, before he says again,
Doctor Keres: D-0134, do not approach the subject! …
Holy shit!
No more intelligible dialogue exists in this file. Video action transcript is as follows.
Doctor Keres equips a blindfold and enters the cell alone. Foundation guard personnel are called to the scene.
Video footage from inside the door as it briefly opens and closes suggests D-0134 has begun to pet SCP-0134. He has begun screaming loudly, and that's all the camera can hear. Keres begins screaming, but it's quickly ended.
Something has begun beating on the steel containment door. Scratch marks can be seen even from this side. Foundation guards have entered the containment cell's lobby, as shown by the laser pointers facing the door. A large gash is torn through the door, and Foundation guards begin to open fire. The beast that was damaging the door seemed to have died with little force. Footage shows Foundation personnel dragging the corpse out of the containment chamber. SCP-temp appears to be resting in its room still, and has not even considered the containment breach.

Biopsy and medical examination file of SCP-temp-01
The creature recovered from the incident has been proven to be genetically identical in some places to D-0134, and genetically indeterminable in all other places. Blood and viscera of Doctor Jonathan Keres was found in its digestive tract, and all over its vestiges and body. The body recovered as well as the film suggests that D-0134 went intense and incredible metamorphosis in under 25 seconds. It appears to be viscerally transformed to a similarly bestial creature to SCP-temp. It had large gashes in its skin, inconsistent with the 9mm bullets used to terminate SCP-temp-01. Its skin has changed to a greyish black, and is covered in hair, exposing typical red flesh and blood. More on their limbs, which will have, in most cases, twisted and reshaped due to incredible muscle exertion, instead of via genetic changes as in the rest of their body, and nails have either fallen off or have lengthened and harden to talon-like carapaces. Facial changes include a prominent central gash and split-iris, bloodshot eyes. Faces is completely unrecognizable, but it is clear that it still has a mouths and eyes. Nostrils are likely nonfunctional.

Doctor Cavallero. It appears that SCP-temp creates a new subject on skin-to-skin contact, designated from that point on as SCP-temp-01. SCP-temp uses the contacting subject's body to brutally reshape it into a creature similar to… pop-culture werewolves, but infinitely more… disgusting, and apparently much flimsier. SCP-temp-01 is designated Keter, and all designated SCP-temp-01 are to be killed as soon as possible, unless being used for testing.