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SCP-X encoded in birch wood
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures:
All discovered instances of SCP-XXXX are to be stored in 10mx10m containment chapter at Site-_. The chamber is to be kept at a temperature close to absolute zero. The walls of the chamber are to be coated with (easily encoded material).
No digital storage devices are to be allowed within a 50m radius around the containment chamber.
Description:
SCP-XXXX is a █ KB/██ base pairs/██ ███ long piece of data that encodes a copy of itself on nearby objects when deleted or destroyed. These new instances, hereafter referred to as SCP-XXXX-1, exhibit the same anomalous behaviour.
Appearances of SCP-XXXX-1 are not limited to objects that are commonly used for data storage, although ease of encoding seems to be a factor in choosing a destination.
SCP-X was discovered when an unusual number of hard drive defects ocurred in the offices of Dr. ████, a researcher in the field of climate sciences at ████ University. Dr. ████ was analysing the pattern of ██████ █████ in Earths history. It is believed that SCP-X was encoded in this data. Multiple theories as to the origin of SCP-X exist, but as of yet none have been proven.
The Foundation was alerted after Dr.████ and ██ other research staff were diagnosed with a new form of cancer and suffered symptons indicative of early onset Alzheimers. MTF-XXX was sent to investigate what was thought of as a biochemical anomaly.
SCP-X follows no known forms of encryption or encoding standards, all attempts at translation into a human readable form have been unsuccessfull. Further testing has been suspended indefinitely due to the risk of creating new instances of the anomaly.
Experiments have concluded that all copies of SCP-X, including temporary copies in the random access memory of any electronic device and memories of humans or animals, retain the ability of SCP-X.
Empirical analysis has suggested that SCP-XXX chooses it's next substrate as a function of distance and ease of encoding. Ease of encoding seems to be determined by the amount of energy required to store itself on the present substrate.
