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**Title: **
Item №: SCP-4XXX
Anomaly Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Containment of SCP-4XXX by the Foundation is impossible. Undercover agents operating within Luna Korea must be outfitted to avoid and combat all components of SCP-4XXX that may emerge, taking careful measures to prevent drawing the attention of local security forces. Operatives embedded within the Luna Korean government will continue searching for and relaying any and all new information that can be recovered regarding SCP-4XXX.
The Luna Korean government is aware of Foundation actions regarding the anomaly. Agents must proceed with caution.
Description: SCP-4XXX is the anti-Foundation SEGYEUI-NUN (세계의-눈) Security System, developed by the government of Luna Korea1 with the intent of preventing Foundation involvement and incursion into areas under their control. The only area SCP-4XXX is presently active in is the capital city of New Seoul,2 though it is expected that the system will be integrated into neighboring cities and, eventually, all Luna Korean territory. The existence of the system is kept classified by the Luna Korean government; the country's populace and the interplanetary community as a whole is unaware of its existence.
Several key components of SCP-4XXX are known to exist, based on Foundation encounters with the security system. These and their associated designations are listed as follows:
ALPHA: SEGYEUI-NUN/PRIME, the central control system of SCP-4XXX. What SEGYEUI-NUN/PRIME is, where it is located, and how it functions is unknown. Documents recovered from Luna Korean National Intelligence Service databases make reference to the existence of SEGYEUI-NUN/PRIME, describing errors in its handling of BETA and GAMMA components, though do not detail the system. The leading theory is that SEGYEUI-NUN/PRIME is an extension of Eun M13, but this currently lacks substantiating evidence.
BETA:
GAMMA: Geulimja-T.O. units, amorphous spectral entities formed from ectoplasm, which act as offensive drones. All units are controlled by means of a psionics-sensitive communication chip implanted into their bodies, presumably tuned to register only psionic signals they produce and those sent from specific Luna Korean agents. The units can display selective intangibility and the ability to levitate indefinitely. Stealth capabilities also exist in the form of the natural invisibility of small quantities of ectoplasm, requiring interaction with electric currents to release visible light. In tandem, these properties allow the drones to pursue, harm, and terminate Foundation assets with ease.
The main hinderance to the movement of Geulimja-T.O. units is their communications chips. While 1 cm2 in area, the chips cannot be turned intangible, and must be kept inside the drones at all times to ensure continued communication. This limits the maneuverability drones have, though their amorphous nature and selective intangibility allows them to stretch up to distances of 10 m from their chip while phasing through obstacles.
Protections against the drones have been developed in the form of the Ambient Electrical Detector (AED), a wearable back-mounted device that can generate ambient electric fields of varying strength to cause the ectoluminescence of any drones in an agent's vicinity (up to 5 m). The only known method of damaging Geulimja-T.O. units is by breaking their communication chips, a process that causes the drones to slow activity and release pained vocalizations. Further methods are in development.
DELTA:
EPSILON: The SEGYEUI-NUN/0 Monitoring Network, a set of AI that scan all messages sent over standard communications channels in Luna Korea. Normally this does not affect Foundation personnel due to the use of encrypted radio signals, but the AI can detect any messages sent by civilians or others that can indicate signs of Foundation activity.
In addition to the aforementioned components, SCP-4XXX will alert and dispatch New Seoul GOLD Special Response Teams to areas of discovered Foundation activity, who will act to aid present component anomalies or cover for losses of the anomalies. The police forces of each New Seoul administrative region have been directed into involvement on occasion.
History: SCP-4XXX was created as the result of continued tensions between South Korea, Luna Korea, and the Foundation. In the aftermath of the averted Korean Peninsula XK Scenario, the South Korean government turned disdainful of the Foundation for how it had not made them aware of the K-Class anomalies present in North Korea, a matter publicly described as "the utmost concern to national security and the lives of everyone in the nation" by 19th President Moon Jae-in. From 2020 to South Korea's collapse as the result of widespread ED-K Lethe events in 2035, the government repeatedly attempted to secure control of Foundation containment facilities and/or anomalies stored in them through various legal disputes. This was accompanied by a growing distrust of the Foundation's presence among the South Korean populace, heightened by leaked information on secretive anomalies and attempts by the Foundation to expand its influence.
This distrust spread to Luna Korea, which, upon full organization into the Lunar Republic of Korea in 2035, passed legislation forbidding the Foundation from having any influence in the nation. Government officials have stated the country's need for autonomy, claiming that the Foundation's secrecy and "expansionist behavior"4 pose a security threat that will be avoided if Luna Korea has control over all anomalies within its territory.
The legislation was initially respected but subverted with the decision to perform undercover operations in Luna Korea, which received a notable influx of Persons of Interests and Groups of Interest hostile to the Foundation over coming years. Operational mishaps led to the government discovering these operations, detaining any personnel they found to be working for the Foundation, only releasing if the Foundation provided information on potential anomalous security threats.
The SEGYEUI-NUN Security System was developed by the Luna Korean National Intelligence Service from 2067 to 2069. Information on the development process is lacking, with the only information known relating to:
- Experiments to commune with dead Luna Korean police, security personnel, and military personnel; likely the basis behind Component GAMMA.
- The mass transportation of anomalous computing technology from Anomaly Storage Compounds5 to covert research facilities.
- The summoning of and communion with extraterrestrial tartarean entities, spirits, and thaumaturges.
SCP-4XXX began operation in January of 2070, resulting in the near immediate capture and termination of twelve Foundation undercover teams in New Seoul. Foundation officials questioned Luna Korean representatives on the matter, all of whom consistently claimed that the SEGYEUI-NUN Security System does not exist and that the deaths of any Foundation agents resulted from them entering conflict with government forces. Since then tensions have greatly increased.
No plans to cease undercover operations in the country presently exist.
Addendum.1:
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Tags: scp keter extraterrestrial
Title: Collected Minor Astronomical Anomalies of Interest, 2030—2039
OVERVIEW: The Foundation Astronomy Department has had dramatic increases in both funding and activity over the past decade. Under the UPWARDS YGGDRASIL Initiative6, the Astronomy Department has been investigating various areas of interest in the Milky Way Galaxy and extragalactic regions, aiming to determine what degree of anomalous activity humanity would encounter if allowed to colonize beyond the solar system. As of 1/1/2040 over 300 astronomical anomalies have been detected with 90 potentially or determined anomalous phenomena observed.
Minor astronomical anomalies define any extrasolar anomaly which can be directly observed but is either:
- Outside of the Foundation's current range of explorable interstellar space.7
- Within extragalactic space at distances where all light that reaches us is from the far past.
- In the case of phenomena, short lived and unlikely to ever repeat.
Compiled below are anomalies of this type which are considered to be of interest to the Astronomy Department and the Extrasolar Activities Division.8
Further information and full astronomical anomaly logs may be provided on request.
Secure, contain, protect.
Director A. Devaraj,
Astronomy Department.
RECORDS: 2030—2039
X-ray imaging of 10 Ursae Majoris.
Object Identifier: AA-17542/MW/NC
Date Discovered: [date]
Location: 10 Ursae Majoris binary system, 52.4 ± 0.6 ly9
Description: Several objects superficially resembling bones orbiting 10 Ursae Majoris and its companion star, ranging in size from 10,000 km to 20,000 km, first registered by Foundation exploratory crews in nearby star systems. Metallic structures extending from them that are gradually expanding in size indicate possible signs of habitation.
Phenomena Identifier: AA-09270/MW/cPa
Date Observed: [date]
Location: HR 7644 star system, 57.8 ± 0.8 ly
Description: HR 7644 was observed to be extending portions of its mass into luminescent "tendrils," which moved towards an orbiting object, circled around it, and shredded it. Spectrographic analysis of the plumes of materials released from the object indicate that it was likely one of the star's planets. The tendrils then retracted.
Initial EVE heatmap imaging of the central AA-01289/MW/cTr object.
Object Identifier: AA-01289/MW/cTr
Date Discovered: [date]
Location: Constellation Triangulum, Milky Way Galaxy (presumed), distance unknown
Description: Ten objects invisible to all forms of light that are only observable from continuous Elan-Vital Energy10 (EVE) emissions. The objects orbit in a formation like that of a star system, a large central object producing the majority of the EVE output with the nine others orbiting it. Their distance from the solar system is yet to be determined, as more studies in EVE redshifting are necessary.
The objects are several of a number of recently discovered astronomical objects only visible from their EVE emissions. Increased funding for EVE astronomy has been approved. Full lists on discovered astronomical EVE sources require Astronomy Department Level 4 clearance.
Phenomena Identifier: AA-98476/MW/cAn
Dates Observed: [date] — Present
Location: WISE 0221+3842 star system, 73.1 ly
Description: WISE 0221+3842 converted from a brown dwarf into an ontokinetic mass. Light released by the star now erratically shifts in wavelength, generating a "white noise" appearance when viewed, and anomalous gravitational effects frequently occur, so far resulting in the ejection of orbiting debris at speeds in excess of 0.6c and the short-term formation of multiple naked singularities. The star is presently shifting into a spiral shape.
False-color image of the Cone Nebula prior to the manifestation of AA-00380/MW/cMO.
Object Identifier: AA-00380/MW/cMo
Date Discovered: [date]
Location: Cone Nebula, 2,700 ly
Description: A massive entity (~0.5 ly long) formed from ectoplasm, which rapidly grew outwards from a smaller spherical mass into a similar to cydippid organism bodies, extending eight tendrils that stretch into the Cone Nebula. Structures formed from ectoplasm and a metallic substance extend from the "back" of the entity, having towers in which Class A stars are positioned at set intervals, ringed by structures presumed to be Niven rings or energy harvesting devices.
Continued observation of the tendrils over six years has found that they exhibit a high gravitational attraction on the surrounding dust clouds and forming stars of the nebula. The leading hypothesis is that the entity is harvesting raw materials for itself or a civilization that inhabits it, the Cone Nebula being being its current resource supply. Further observation will be necessary to confirm this.
Object Identifier: AA-68790/EG/cOc
Date Discovered: [date]
Location: Constellation Octans, intergalactic space, 13 Mly
Description: An octahedral galactic-scale megastructure structure formed from an unidentified exotic matter, size undetermined. Its function is unclear, though it is noted that from two of its vertices extend two spiral "arms," similar to the arms of spiral galaxies.
Globular Cluster Terzan 2.
Phenomena Identifier: AA-26531/MW/GB
Dates Observed: [date] — [date]
Location: Globular Cluster Terzan 2,11 28 kly
Description: A rapid series of upwards of 60 Type Ia and Type Ib supernova within Terzan 2, followed by a series of X-ray communications emissions from SCP-3417. Ortothan Extraterrestrial Language specialists and extrasolar Ortothan personnel have so far translated commands to "construct light-speed lance shielders" and references of a "union of twelve stars."
Phenomena Identifier: AA-09820/MW/cVe
Date Observed: [date]
Location: HD 91324 binary system, 71.5 ± 0.3 ly
Description: Two objects similar to the now-anomalous WISE 0221+3842 manifest around the star system and enter, gravitational disrupting the orbit of its two stars and the system's planets. The objects then collided, formed a true vacuum,12 and contracted into an indefinitely small point. The stars and presumably all planets are destroyed.
Object Identifier: AA-00201/MW/cVe
Date Discovered: [blah]
Location: ψ Velorum binary star system, 61.4 ly
Description: Two potentially biomechanical machines encompassing stars ψ Vel A and ψ Vel B, acting as cannons. The components found on each star are:
- A star lifter system.13
- Hemispherical structures suspended over the star's poles to capture outflowing stellar matter from the lifter.
- Two conical luminal projectile cannons in equatorial orbits, half the width of the stars yet possessing minimal gravitational effects.
Collected stellar matter is transferred to the cannons from the hemispherical structures via highly luminous particle beams, where it is converted into projectiles through an unknown process. The projectiles, which emerge the cannon barrels in the form of luminescent spheres at 0.1c, quickly accelerate to speeds nearing or reaching the speed of light before exiting the star system.
What details of the hemispherical structures that can be observed display features bearing likeness to organic life, the most prominent ones being antenna, "fins" extending from the cannons that act as heat radiators, and thin tendrils lining the undersides of the hemisphere that move to fully direct stellar matter into them. The extent to which the cannons are biological is not known.
Based on current observations, the estimated trajectories for each projectile place their target as being the WISE 0221+3842 star system.
Object Identifier: AA-89200/EG/cCe
Date Discovered: [blah]
Location: Constellation Centaurus, intergalactic space, 12 Mly
Description: A broken octahedral megastructure of the same make as AA-68790/EG/cOc. Half of it is torn off and missing, the remaining half expelling a cloud of machinery. This exerts a minimal gravitational attraction on surrounding stars, which seem to be in the process of dissipating outwards. One-third of the stars are being pulled by an unknown force into a spiral formation as wide as the megastructure.
Frame from a computer simulation of the AA-00380/MW/cMo-01 explosion.
Phenomena Identifier: AA-00380/MW/cMo-01
Date Observed: [date]
Location: Cone Nebula, 2,700 ly
Description: Gravitational waves are released by a point near the AA-00380/MW/cMo entity, corresponding to the formation of a wormhole from which a WISE 0221+3842-type anomaly emerged. The anomaly accelerated at 0.9c toward the entity but was impeded by an unknown barrier, forming a shockwave of energized particles as it attempted to progress. Extreme gravitational disruption of the nebula's matter began.
One hour after entrance four thaumic glyphs, each at widths of 0.5ly and in the form of overlayed heptagrams, generated thin rods only visible in EVE emissions and fired them at the anomaly. Exact events for the next two hours are not known due to the ensuing 2×1044 J14 explosion. AA-00380/MW/cMo seems to have survived the event, though half of its body was disintegrated by the blast. The stars on its remaining towers have since noticeable dimmed.
Messier 97.
Phenomena Identifier: AA-80300/MW/Or
Date Observed: [date]
Location: Messier 97 (Owl Nebula), 2,800 ly from Sol
Description: A high energy X-ray burst forming the shape of the Foundation seal. The burst lasted for one hour before shifting into the formation of a circular spiral and ceasing activity. WISE 0221+3842-type anomalies manifested around and entered the nebula at speeds of 0.75c at this time.
The nebula vanished eleven hours after.
In which I write a bunch of extraterrestrial anomaly ideas that wouldn't have enough meat to them to make full SCP articles but are still cool.
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Images:
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cone_Nebula_(NGC_2264)_Star-Forming_Pillar_of_Gas_and_Dust.jpg
- https://images.nasa.gov/details-GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001855.html
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2000/0065/
- https://images.nasa.gov/details-GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001102.html
- https://images.nasa.gov/details-GSFC_20171208_Archive_e002049.html
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"We've run it past some of our Martian archaeologists. It's one of their old war relics."
"Eigenweapon?"
"Far from it. If it was one of their eigenweapons there'd be a smoldering crater instead of a desert by now."
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Misc. Stuff
EXPECT SPOILERS IF YOU VENTURE INTO HERE.
Draft 1 [ACT 1]:
All throughout the sky is the sound of explosions.
First Orbital Shield broken.
[stuff]
Second Shield broken.
[stuff]
Connection to orbital defense systems is lost.
[stuff]
"I can't connect! What's it look like?"
« Like the sky's on fire. »
All orbital defenses lost. Twelve Stars has entered.
[stuff]
The bombers are hypersonic arrows that slam through the clouds and sky with the intensity of a lightning strike. Frictionally heated fires blaze along their chassis. Their backs pry open and insectoid missiles plunge out, camera eyes taking aim then engines boosting in the direction of the outpost. The ground ordnance fires, projectiles swooping up and turning on wings of steel to meet their attackers. A dance of metal ensues as the explosives hunt each other down, warheads shredding through warheads and dotting the air with bursts of fire. Most of the counter projectiles are destroyed but what remain of the missiles are well off course, too fast to swerve back for the outpost.
They redirect to the ordnance. Dozens of impacts level the artillery, explosions liquifying the debris, spirits of the bombs possessing the slag to drag balls of magma through the land and tear through the remaining cannons. The first minute of invasion ends and smoke billows from the ashes of the outpost's defense matrix. The bombers shriek toward the horizon, banking for round two.
[stuff]
The orbit will be irreparably ruined but it doesn't matter — this has to be done.
[stuff]
Currents of ectoplasm pool into the ship's frame. They phase through the wires and girders, swimming through the metal into the central generator and its blinding orb of cold fusion. Filaments stretch from the currents, stabbing into the orb and every chunk of machinery around it, and pulse the totality of the thaumic life force once belonging to [name] straight in.
The ship jolts. The engine enters overdrive.
[stuff]
In her dreams N.J. Watts remembers the light of the drone.
[stuff]
The cracks fractally expand through all dimensions of her headspace, several of which she never knew existed, and root themselves in.
[stuff]
Draft 2 [ACT 2]:
[stuff]
The psiminder is shredded to pieces against the ground but its job is done. A blinding white light bursts in her eye and tears through her vision. The world explodes around her. She faints—
and the Tracker rebuilds and slings twelve rounds of psychic ammunition straight into her mindform.
[stuff]
N.J. awakes to the interior of a coffin and the rumbles of projectiles impacting the Kessler-002.
Draft 3 [ACT 4]:
SCP-4XXX is an extradimensional space adjacent to and in the process of intersecting with baseline reality, inhabited by the hostile "Twelve Stars" extraterrestrial civilization.
"Positive about that?" Min-Jun Cho unholsters his gauss rifle from his right eye. A quick tug and it slides out of his eye socket, protruding like a spear driven through his head, primed to fire at the right brain signal.
"Yes. I'm positive," NULL/UUU, or more accurately the voice synthesizer/translator plugged to the front their skull, replies. Like many of the recent Carina–Sagittarius refugees, blah
"Think we'll die?"
A moment's silence, occupied by the rumblings of the elevator as it rockets up the sides of the blah
"Worse?"
"…Possibly."
Act 1:
- SCP-4XXX — An Exoplanet Looking Down War's Gun Barrel
- …Closer and Closer to the Storm
- Bombardment
- They Move On Tracks of Never-Ending Light
- Exit To (Anywhere)
Intermission 1:
- Primordial Drums
Act 2:
- Molniya Terminator
- 28,000 Light-Years From Home
- SCP-4XXX — Dead Zone
- Live
- on your own now
- ORB█S TERRARUM █NCOGN█TUS
- SCYLLA/CHARYBDIS
- SCP-4XXX — The Bifrost Superluminal Engine (The Dead Never Die)
Intermission 2:
- You May Emerge From This More Dead Than Alive
Act 3:
- Necrodeithaumics
- Bear the Waves Alone, Together
- Klemperer Rosette Flechette
- ()
- Clouds as Tall as Mountains / Deep as Ravines
- Ephemeris
- Intrusion
Intermission 3:
- Light Torches the Shore
Act 4:
- Escape scene
- SCP-4XXX — Thirteen Suns
- 2074 (You Were Never Safe)
- World Killer
- I Wish That I Could Turn Back Time
- Shining More Than These Stars that Bathe the Galaxy
- Interlopers II
- Faster-Than-Light Epilogue
- Coda: In Other Words
Description: SCP-9999-EX is the collective designation for all non-anomalous lifeforms not native to Earth.
Why is my coworker a space bug? Why is my coworker a space bug? WHY IS MY COWORKER A SPACE BUG?
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