Special Containment Procedures
Orbital Satellite Quiby-7 is to continuously monitor SCP-XXXX for any change in position and/or composition. Due to the location of SCP-XXXX, direct containment has been deemed unnecessary and all containment resources are to be reallocated to concealment efforts. Foundation assets within major government-funded space agencies1 will redact or destroy all evidence of SCP-XXXX or any irregularities of Mars I. Any publicly derived evidence will be confiscated and/or discredited by assets within the academic community.
Testing of SCP-XXXX is suspended until a change in status has been observed, at which time containment protocols will be updated.
Description
SCP-XXXX.
SCP-XXXX is an amorphous object of unknown composition and origin, located on the Limtoc Crater on Mars I2. Measuring approximately 2 km in diameter, the exact dimensions of SCP-XXXX are in a constant state of flux due to its continual shifts between differing fractal geometric compositions.
SCP-XXXX, or an entity therein, is capable of communication through manipulating natural radio waves at frequencies replicating human speech, specifically Ancient Greek. Since its discovery, SCP-XXXX has not changed its geographical position and it is unknown whether it is currently capable of locomotion.
Due to the nature of the anomaly and its location, further information on SCP-XXXX is currently unavailable.
Discovery
Timeline of Events:
2000/03/22 – SCP-XXXX was initially discovered by Foundation Observational Probe Q-66 during a routine flyby of Phobos.
2000/05/13 – A secondary probe, FOP Q-68, was launched in order to confirm the anomaly.
2000/12/19 – FOP Q-68 entered the orbit of Mars I and directly observed SCP-XXXX, capturing several minutes of video in the process.
2001/01/20 – O5 Command approves a manned mission to Mars I to document SCP-XXXX and establish an observational outpost.
2001/05/22 – Foundation astronauts Lieutenant Kelly Foster and Lieutenant Michael Reid board Destiny-8 and launch from Lunar Station Alpha-7, on course for Mars I.
2001/11/28 – The landing module of Destiny-8 arrives on the surface of Mars I at 23:32 GMT.
2001/11/29 – 00:02 GMT, contact.
Video Log | XXXX.Incident.2001/11/29
Location: Destiny-8 landing module, Limtoc Crater, Mars I.
Depicted: Lt Kelly Foster, Lt Michael Reid, SCP-XXXX (audio)
Foreword: Amidst post-landing preparations, Lt Foster and Lt Reid observed abnormal radio signal originating from SCP-XXXX using equipment onboard the Destiny-8 landing module. This signal increased in clarity until becoming audible. Translation units deciphered the vibrations as Ancient Greek and broadcast the English translation through an onboard intercom.
[Foster and Reid are huddled in front of a computer screen as Lt Foster taps at the keyboard erratically.]
SCP-XXXX: I [static] Phobos, Son [static] Ares, [static] of Fear. Heed my [static], leave [static].
Reid: No, that's not it.
Foster: Hold on–
SCP-XXXX: Please [static] from this world [static] you [static] welcome.
Reid: It's still all broken up, you got–
[Foster holds her index finger up in a shushing motion.]
Foster: Give me a minute, I got this.
SCP-XXXX: Do you wish to incite my wrath!
[Gesturing to the intercom speaker Foster jumps from her seat.]
Foster: See– I told you it would work! We should be able to communicate with it now.
Reid: Great, but now what? That's not the warmest of welcomes.
Foster: (Through radio translator) Hello? Can you hear me?
SCP-XXXX: Maybe they are ill of mind and can not understand; they have wandered quite far from Hallas3.
Foster: (Through radio translator) We are from planet Ea–
SCP-XXXX: I– said– leave– now!
Foster: (Through radio translator) Hello, we come in pea–
SCP-XXXX: For the gods' sake, you're going to get your miasma everywhere, I can just feel it.
Reid: Maybe it can't hear us?
Foster: Why don't you go topside and check to make sure the transmitter wasn't damaged during landing.
Reid: You got it.
[Reid dawns his spacesuit and prepares to debark.]
SCP-XXXX: Why are you not listening to me? Can– you– hear– me?
Reid: Entering airlock.
Foster: Got eyes on the exterior, you're good to go.
[As the exterior door of the airlock opens a shrill wailing echoes from the intercom.]
SCP-XXXX: I swear, do not take another step. You're getting it everywhe– my Gods, you're going to do it. Oh, oh no— do not— You stay where you are!
Foster: Hey Reid, maybe wait a min–
[As Reid places his foot on the lunar surface the intercom wails again. At the moment of contact Reid's body is abruptly liquefied, blood and viscera sprays from the joints of his spacesuit.]
SCP-XXXX: [A sound resembling gagging.] L-look what you made me do! It is getting everywhere! It is ruined, the whole world is ruined.
[Foster frantically closes the airlock and rushes to the module control booth.]
SCP-XXXX: [Sounds resembling weeping.] I told you not to– I told you to leave, you did the– the filth will take millennia to purge– I'm sorry but you have to leave.
[Foster attempts to initiate the landing modules launch sequence.]
Foster: Fuck, fuck, fuck. [Into radio] Command we have a problem, sending data now. I don't think I'm gonna mak—
[The landing module shakes violently before the video feed abruptly concludes.]
[END LOG]
Afterword: At 00:31 GMT probe Q-68 detected seismic activity originating from the landing zone. At 00:33, an approximately .89 km2 piece of upper-crust was lifted from the Phobian surface and ejected into space at >30,000 kpm. The Destiny-8 landing module had been obliterated several seconds after the ejection.
All further attempts to contact SCP-XXXX have met with failure, the only communication recorded since the 2001 incident has been periodic weeping and a faint noise resembling the scrubbing of a brush. All further attempts have been suspended until defensive protocols can be established.
