THoK

Special Containment Procedures

Environment

Anomaly SCP-5077 is to be contained within a habitat with a general radius of 1.618km. Habitat must be open to the outdoors, and be rife with vegetation suitable to dietary requirements of anomaly. Habitat optimum boundary height has been established at 3m to prevent unauthorised personnel from inadvertently accessing anomaly.

Habitat temperature should remain within the range of -25°C to 10°C as anomaly appears to operate optimally within these conditions. However, anomaly has been observed operating in climate conditions with temperatures as low as -30°C and as high as 21°C with no noticeably adverse effects. Anomaly has not been observed operating in conditions outside of these extremes, but, with respect to anomaly's existing capabilities, confidence may be permitted in its ability to withstand perhaps double those values.

Meterological properties such as barometric pressure and humidity appear to have no correlative effect on anomaly's biophysical state. Ambient electrical fields may be interacted with by anomaly, intentionally or otherwise, but appear inert to anomaly in all other cases.

As the anomaly appears capable of adjusting local meterological properties, much of the habitat will be maintained in the conditions best suited to, and determined by, the anomaly.

It has been subsequently noted that the following individual states are interrelated, correlating proportionally to one another:

  • the anomaly's biophysical wellbeing
  • certain biophysical states within the anomaly
  • and the meteorological fluxes within the anomaly's respective spheres of effect
This, in due course, allows for multiple stable triphysical model states, provided sufficient monitoring and recording apparati are available.

With the above data in mind, it has been deemed unnecessary, and potentially detrimental to personnel and property, to contain the anomaly beyond the limits established in this document.

Personnel authorised to engage with anomaly must successfully complete an orientation and testing process prior to contact with anomaly: a level 2 psyche profile, five supervised visits, and a level 3 psyche profile.

Risk Assessment

SCP-5077 is considered a mild risk, and only a risk to those who threaten or obstruct it.

Anomaly appears to be able to alter climatic and electromagnetic properties within individually maintained, but interacting, spherical volumes of 3m and 4.5m, respectively.

Anomaly appears to also have the capability of generating or inducing vibrations and complex resonances within one or more objects. This effect has not been studied in depth due to the conditions having been restricted under which anomaly must engage a target in such a manner.

Anomaly combines a rapid drop in temperature with resonance inductions in order to destroy targets which impede or cause harm to it. Targets may be inanimate or animate. Disintegration by anomaly effects is explosive, and causes shard projectiles which may breach skin, eyes, and other sensitive materials.

Anomaly target protocol has been recorded as follows:

  • Inanimate: Anomaly will first engage visual contact with target, its head and eyes orienting appropriately. After five seconds, a measurable temperature drop and resonance induction within the target volume can be found. Within ten to fifteen seconds, the target explodes
  • Animate: Anomaly will engage in an escalation protocol depending upon the offensive inflicted upon it:
    • Obstruction or restraint: Inanimate Protocol
    • Minor assaults: Electrical discharges, properties vary depending upon severity of offense
    • Harm or other physical offenses: Explosive effects occur within one second, according to current measures
Locations of interest to the anomaly involve objects anomaly prefers to consume or investigate, flora and fauna alike. However, it will not venture away from its chosen base.

Due to its inherent defensive capability, anomaly is not considered to be at risk of harm from other animals, including moose and other cervines.

Note that anomaly may test portions of the barrier habitat from time to time (once every two to six weeks, approximately). These portions should be repaired as soon as possible, as hyperoxidation from the material stresses induced by the anomaly's assaults will compromise the surrounding structure, spreading through inorganic materials much more rapidly than organic materials.

Provisions

  • Food: SCP-5077 must be provided with plenty of botanical sources of oxygen, and leafy vegetables rich in minerals and electrolytes, including lichens and mosses, tall grasses, and shrubs. Aquatic plants are also of interest to it, as it may gorge on them.
  • Water: Naturally-sourced water (for example from mountain runoff or spring) must be provided unrestricted to the anomaly, and it will treat a convenient source of such as a home, sleeping and grazing nearby.
  • "Treats": Pinecones appear to sate it if applied conservatively (as a "snack"); replenish salt licks as they're depleted.
One D-class reported that the anomaly had consumed a small bird, possibly a finch, akin to behaviours noted in ungulates of other orders.

Description

Physical Characteristics

Anomaly shares almost entirely the physical and genetic characteristics to a Canadian Western Moose. It stands 2 metres shoulder to hoof, and weighs 721.96kg. Its antlers span 1.66 metres, and emit a faint off-white glow.

Its hair is a dark brown colour, and each strand along various patches of hair is tipped with an icy sheathe. Three patches of ice-tipped hair stretch from the head to the base of the tail as follows:

  • one along the neck and bottom of the torso
  • one each along the left and right side 120 degrees from the bottom patch
Sheathes are incidental from the climatological effects of anomaly, and have thus far melted instantly to the touch with no damage noted.

Cognitive Capacity

SCP-5077 is capable of two basic responses: nonaggression and aggression.

Anomaly's primary state is nonaggressive, where it engages in behaviour typical of ungulate animals including:

  • Grazing and foraging
  • Investigating flora, fauna, minerals, and environment
  • Resting or sleeping
  • Positive response to externally forced actions of a constructive nature
  • May shy away from, but will likely assault, sources of moderate to severe disruption
Anomaly's aggressive state is described under Risk Assessment.

Anomalous Features

SCP-5077 is a vector of two volume effects originating from the anomaly's torso, centered from the anomaly's scapulae, fore ribs, and chest bone. Volume effect regions are described as follows:

  • climatological fluxes measured up to ~3m from vector center
  • electromagnetic fluxes measured up to ~4.5m from vector center
Climatological and electromagnetic fluxes occur independently between the regions separated by the respective volume membranes.
Anomaly appears able to alter this flux in order to reach a location or fend off a potential threat, but otherwise the effect has no discernable pattern (although one researcher suspects it's Fibonacci based), and the flux has no discernible cause. Meteorological properties will change overtime, causing variations in properties including temperature, humidity, air pressure, and electromagnetic influences, and thus the snowfall changes over time and has not ceased since discovery of the anomaly.

Anomaly can target effects to specific objects, areas, or any region within its respective volume of influence. All effects have a measurable spherical vector of 0.5cm in diameter.

Anomaly can also generate electrical discharges between objects. So far, this has been noted only to occur during attempts to fend off predators, although three occurrences of anomalous discharges between two objects within anomaly's viscinity have been reported.

Anomaly also appears to be capable of inducing complex physical resonances within an object. Applied after dropping the object's temperature noted on numerous occasions, the object will explode.

Of note here is the anomaly's apparent ability to freeze objects, and then induce complex physical resonances within the object, causing the object to shatter in places (if not all) where it was frozen. Targets have been noted as only been mildly destructive to the anomaly (attacks from weaker animals), and appeared benign to anomaly prior to aggressive engagement. It is hypothesised that these resonances are either electromagnetic or, less likely, acoustic. An acoustic system would likely be minor and coupled to a strongly-probable electromagnetic system.

Experiments

The following experiments are ongoing:

  • Continue allowing interactions between personnel and anomaly for psychological studies of anomaly and personnel alike
  • Record precise volume of anomalously vectored effects
  • Analyse results of video and audio recordings of anomaly's habitual and nonhabitual activities
  • Cellular structure appears normal; continue DNA analysis
  • Continue research on anomaly's dietary sources, with regards to anomaly's probability of attraction to particular sources, to determine mechanism behind anomalous effects
  • Record data of latency between anomaly state and meteorological effects
All interactions with the anomaly carry the following warnings:
  • Do not intentionally cause anomaly to destroy materials
  • Allow it to destroy materials on its own, and study those samples instead
  • Do not obstruct or adversely disturb the anomaly
  • Do feel free to interact calmly and amicably with the anomaly
  • The anomaly appears to enjoy conversation, one-sided though it may be

Containment Log

Stamp September ██, 1982
Author Phillip S. Stratton - Field/Lead Researcher - D-Class: 4
Infil ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
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Origin ██████████████████████████████, Saskatchewan, CA
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16:03 Team arrived at infil. Weather conditions: chilly, mean temperature 10°C, slightly overcast with chance of rain.
16:11 Left vehicles behind as roadwork hazard. Offloaded hauler rover containing sensory equipment and general and defensive stores, as well as prepared aerial drone. All personnel were equipped with standard multispectral ocular gear and temperature-sensing and regulating outerwear, with protection including head and extremities.
16:32 Rover and aerial drone operations were status quo. Rover's autonomous capacity was stable. Writer was tasked with monitoring sensors, while one D-class handled fore with drone and one scouted ahead, and trailing behind fore group was one on each of the rover's nose and tail. Team set out from infil.
16:48 Route was thick with maple trees of perhaps a couple of varities. Grasses, small wiry shrubs, and various root vegetables were well rooted, hale, and well numbered in many areas. Hauler and drone connections were strong, and combined navigation allowed for an average travel speed of 1.75mph. Climate and EM readings had us heading eastward.
18:02 Rest break. As rain had began falling at 17:43, team set up a tent. Temperature warmed slightly, causing a mild chinook. No anomalous readings noted, but climate continues to flux toward matching the available satellite records.
18:21 Team set back out. Rain was steady, temperature dropped to 5°C.
18:57 Rain eased up. Nightfall setting in.
19:09 Noted numerous trunks and shrubs and wood debris in area, moist and chill to the touch compared to the surrounding environment. One tree appeared to have had a spherical volume of about 1.4m torn, perhaps, from it, causing the upper trunk and leaves to drop in the appropriate direction. Cause of devastation unknown, but of note is a path of destruction which appeared to have been cleared in the direction team is heading.
19:20 An object was sighted, appearing as a standard sized and proportioned Western Moose with sky blue fringes on its hair down its back and the sides of its legs, grazing on some wiry shrubs. A volume approximately 3m in diameter appeared to be spherical and centered on the anomaly. Inside the volume existed an apparently perpetual snowfall of light consistency. Snowfall appeared contrary to, and presumably regardless of, the light rainfall external to the volume. As local climate signature matched satellite readings, object appearing as a Western Moose was registered as target anomaly.
19:38 D-class approached anomaly with a reign fashioned from softstraps to coerce it back to infil. As D-class neared anomaly, writer recorded rapid decrease of local ambient temperature, and patches of light blue "traced" along anomaly exterior, while anomaly gazed at reign with a "visible intent". Writer instructed D-class to retreat and, upon retreat of D-class, temperature gradually returned to normal, and anomaly physical response calmed to match.
19:42 D-class who held the reign noted there were a detectable a drop in temperature and buildup of vibration in the reign during attempted initial contact with anomaly.
19:52 Requisitioned a pack of peeled, baby-cut carrots from caravan stores. Anomalous cervine was receptive to the produce, and showed affection after being fed before returning to grazing. Writer instructed one D-Class to retrieve 100L of filtered water from a river located earlier by drone into the hauler's provisional tanks, and two D-class to identify and gather various nutrient-rich flora to secure compliance from anomaly as well as research its diet.
20:06 Noted no ill-effected from physical contact with anomaly. Coloured fringes noted earlier on hair appeared to be the result of cooling, but was otherwise simple ice and melted upon touch, leaving behind anomaly's natural hair. Awaited return of D-Class.
20:19 D-Class returned with 100L of filtered river water. Set out back to infil. Anomaly was compliant with follow directive.
21:35 Requisitioned two packs of peeled, baby-cut carrots and six apples. Anomaly continued to comply.
22:02 Rest break. Gear protected team from climate effects, which varied nonuniformly during mission.
23:32 Arrived back at infil. Loaded anomaly onto large covered flatbed trailer, and hauler and drone on to small covered flatbed trailer. Noted all comestibles requisitioned during field containment process were consumed.
23:47 Exfil, en route to base. Will stop once per hour to tend to anomaly.
24:42 Ambient climatological modifications within anomaly volume of effect appeared to cause the drive shaft and axle of the large trailer to freeze. Convoy broke stride to side of highway, and set up roadwork hazard equipment to inspect the problem. One D-class led the anomaly to graze nearby, kept hidden from view.
24:48 Attempts to thaw the trailer undercarriage mechanisms failed as said mechanisms immediately shattered upon heating due to extreme icing.
25:03 Requisitioned climate-protected covered flatbed trailer. ETA 2h30m. Begin recording sensory readings of climate conditions, and record video, audio, and aerochemical samples in foot-accessible area 6m from center of anomaly, noting obstacles in the volume for later analysis.
27:33 Flatbed trailer arrived. Began transferring anomaly. Noted temperature-resistant copper-lined tarpaulin material surrounding trailer interior.
27:48 Road hazard equipment loaded. Anomalous effects appeared to be dampened considerably by tarpaulin material. Anomaly appeared calm. Continued en route to base.
29:59 Arrived at Foundation site without further incident. Unloaded anomaly, uploaded drive storage, submitted paperwork. 10-7

Anomaly Quick Reference

Please refer to the following table for identification, containment, and provisory data:

Appearance:
  • Sized and proportioned to Western Moose;
  • Measures:
    • 2m shoulder to hoof
    • 2.6m nose to tail
    • 2.40m antler to hoof
  • Weight averaged at 721.96 kg
  • Antlers span 1.66m
Sustinence:
  • Vegetables rich in minerals and electrolytes, particularly:
    • Leafy plants, tall grasses, and shrubs
    • Lichens and mosses
    • Aquatic plants and algae
    • Treats include nuts (whole or shelled) and pinecones.
  • Water sourced from spring or mountain runoff
Environment: Outdoors, -25C to 4C, max -50C to 21C or more
Risk:
  • Affects ambient and localised temperatures
  • Electromagnetic effects 4.5m diam from core
  • Anomalous climatological effect 3m diam from core
  • Material (or spatial) audio or EM destructive resonance capacity