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Item#: 4706

Level3

Containment Class:

safe

Secondary Class:

none

Disruption Class:

dark

Risk Class:

caution

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SCP-4706 during a CLEAR-SKY event. (Hover to enlarge).

Special Containment Procedures: The observatory encompassing SCP-4706 has been transferred to Foundation Astronomical Command. SCP-4706 is to remain activated and unobstructed. Reserve-engineered instances of SCP-4706 are to be researched by the Foundation and all major space agencies worldwide.

All actions pertaining to the manual operation of SCP-4706 are to be monitored by Stationary Task Force Lambda-42 ("Pew Pew!").

Description: SCP-4706 is a 589 nm laser guide star unit located at a large observatory in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in France. SCP-4706 is sentient and sapient, possessing the ability of rotating itself and limited synthesized speech through a small speaker system.

The laser system of SCP-4706 is significantly more electrically charged than what is physically possible for its size. SCP-4706 is capable of discharging a focused laser beam that has been observed to reached a height of up to 1,200 kilometers, thirteen times the maximum length for a non-anomalous laser guide star unit.

When an emitted beam (hereafter designated SCP-4706-1) hits an object, the object will begun to undergo disintegration on the subatomic level, resulting in the total destruction of the struck object. SCP-4706-1 appears to have a "blast-radius" in a section of 1 km². Objects close-by in that range will also undergo disintegration.

It is possible to manually control SCP-4706 through its computer terminal. Beams discharged in manual control have a modified wavelength of 552 nm. Disintegration is not present within manual mode, however concentrated beams have been estimated of reaching a voltage of up to twelve megajoules.

Currently, SCP-4706 has exclusively targeted space debris and derelict satellites in Earth orbit. Its motive for doing so is currently under investigation.

A CLEAR-SKY event refers to an event in which SCP-4706-1 is emitted from SCP-4706 without manual interference. CLEAR-SKY events occur throughout random points in the year, however events can be partially predicted by speaking to SCP-4706.

Addendum 4706.1 Discovery

SCP-4706 was first alerted to the Foundation in 2041 after an email forwarded to the European Space Agency was intercepted by web crawlers. The email subject was titled "Rogue observatory, help!".

Previously, the observatory installed an artificial intelligence system in order to test the effectiveness of an unmanned observatory and to cut costs. Foundation embedded agents, disguised as EU-OSHA safety inspectors, raided the building and discovered SCP-4706 and its computer system.

Addendum 4706.2 Manual Testing Log

+ Manual Testing Log

Addendum 4706.3 Automatic Target Reports

+ Automatic Target Reports

Addendum 4706.4 Interview

+ Interview

Addendum 4706.5 Notice

Manual Operation Report #1
Date	23/1/2042
Subject	Brick wall placed 100 meters from SCP-4706.
Result	Wall was cut in half. Laser continued to penetrate through the wall afterwards.

Manual Operation Report #2
Date	19/2/2042
Subject	Trailer home placed within 150 meters from SCP-4706.
Result	Several holes were created. The laser remained stationary. Trailer home caught on fire after an estimated 5 seconds.

Manual Operation Report #3
Date	14/7/2042
Subject	Foundation-owned SUV placed in the center of the observatory parking lot.
Result	Vehicle was cut diagonally and then in a bevel. The gas tank of the vehicle was ruptured, soon causing a violent explosion after laser contact.

Manual Operation Report #4
Date	6/8/2042
Subject	Large angled mirror placed within 75 meters of SCP-4706.
Result	Laser was deflected off the mirror for approximately 0.9 seconds before the mirror to melt.

Manual Operation Report #5
Date	7/10/2042
Subject	D-11919, who was located 40 meters from SCP-4706. D11919 was restrained to a wooden chair after violent refusal to be tested on.
Result	Laser was fired onto D-11919's torso region. Laser penetrated through his torso in approximately 0.3 seconds, rendering D-11919 deceased. The corpse of D-11919 and the chair immediately caught on fire after laser impact.

SCP Sandbox III

Sandbox III: Revenge of the Sandbox

Target #1
Date	3/1/2041
Location and Target	Mid-Atlantic Ocean. Target was the remnants of a satellite collision.
Result	Successfully struck area. Resulted in the destruction of 42,000 pieces of debris.

Target #2
Date	29/1/2041
Location and Target	Above France. Target was several satellites approaching Low Earth orbit.
Result	Laser contact resulted in the successful disintegration of three derelict satellites and 12,000 pieces of debris in the surrounding area.

Target #3
Date	8/2/2041
Location and Target	Above the British Isles. Target was believed to be the Vanguard 1 satellite¹.
Result	Vanguard 1 was disintegrated along with an unknown number of surrounding debris.

Target #4
Date	17/5/2041
Location and Target	Above Hungary. Target was the Genesis II space habitat. The habitat was currently in the lower stratosphere and falling fast.
Result	Target was disintegrated. No other debris was disintegrated due to its dangerously low location. This CLEAR-SKY event is currently the lowest altitude an object was targeted.

Target #5
Date	30/7/2041
Location and Target	Northeastern Spain. Target was the International Space Station, which was rendered abandoned after a high-speed collision between itself and a derelict satellite in 2034.
Result	The colliding satellite and the ISS were successfully disintegrated. This resulted in the neutralization of 532,492 pieces of debris. Foundation Astronomical Command later spoke to the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration privately regarding the incident.