Exploration Designation: 4XXX/G-005/1
Date:
< BEGIN LOG >
<##:##> AES G-005 enters the anomaly. Minor visual distortion is observed momentarily, and all audiovisual recording devices fail shortly after.
<##:##> Recording is restored. AES G-005 is situated in a vast black expanse of indeterminate size. Slight discolourations directly ahead suggest the presence of some manner of object or boundary, but their nature and distance are both uncertain.
<##:##> AES G-005 attempts to signal command via TCGs.
<##:##> Command response signal detected. Time dilation established as negligible. AES G-005 begins automated environment sampling.
<##:##> Sampling concludes. Area revealed to be a perfect vacuum, or as close to perfect as the probe's sensors were able to detect. The vehicle's ectoentropic thrusters are activated, and the probe accelerates to an estimated 200 kmph.
<##:##> No differences observed in the discolourations, suggesting a distance and size several orders of magnitude greater than what was already predicted. Velocity increased to 500 kmph.
<##:##> No differences observed in the discolourations. Possibility of a memetic quantity noted, footage analysis begins. Velocity increased to 2,400 kmph.
<##:##> A small quantity of an unknown material impacts the probe, lodging in its front surface. No measurable differences in any discolourations, velocity increased to 65,000 kmph.
<##:##> Several further items begin to impact the front of the probe. The AIC requests permission to
<##:##> Velocity increased to 103,300 kmph.
<##:##> Velocity increased to 400,300 kmph.
<##:##> Subluminal processes of the probe's Bifrost Superluminal Engine activate and increase velocity to 1x106 kmph. Discolourations have grown larger by a factor of 0.01% since initial investigation. A number of periods of minor visual distortion are observed over the course of the next 7 hours, with no other recorded anomalous activity.
<##:##> AES G-005 activates its Bifrost Engine, with the intention of leaving the area.
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<END LOG>
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Exploration Designation: 4XXX/G-005/2
Date:
< BEGIN LOG >
<##:##> AES G-005 enters the anomaly. Errors with audiovisual equipment begin.
<##:##> Audiovisual errors end. The probe enables RCS thrusters and adjusts course to point towards the region of discolourations.
<##:##> The AIC unit performs faster-than-light jump calculations and activates the Bifrost Superluminal Engine. In accordance with FTL jump protocols, TCGs are disabled for the duration of the jump, resulting in communication loss for two hours.
<##:##> Communication reestablished. AES G-005 is located within SCP-XXXX-Z, which superficially resembles the interior of a complex tunnel system, extending from the probe's position while branching at various locations, eventually curving out of sight at either end. The "walls" of the area take the appearance of a continually flowing blue fluid. Behind the probe is a wormhole. The size of the area is undetermined.
<##:##> Ectoentropic thrusters activate and the probe increases velocity to 400,300 kmph. No measurable differences in surroundings are apparent.
<##:##> A 1 light-year FTL jump is performed. No measurable differences in surroundings are apparent.
<##:##> A 10 light-year FTL jump is performed. Minor measurable differences in surroundings are apparent, suggesting that SCP-4XXX-Z is at a scale of thousands or hundreds of thousands of light-years in size. The absence of visual errors (as would be expected over such a large distance) is noted, but deemed minor enough not to impede the mission.
<##:##> Abnormal gravitational distortions are detected. AES G-005 is dragged towards an opening wormhole, which is expelling large amounts of plasma. An emergency FTL jump is performed. Contact is lost for 11 hours.
<##:##> Contact is reestablished. AES G-005 is orbiting one wormhole in a grid of dozens of wormholes, embedded in a wall of SCP-4XXX-Z. The wall's fluids bend around each wormhole, occasionally passing over them. The AIC requests to enter the wormhole it orbits. Permission is granted by Command.
<##:##> An FTL jump into the wormhole is initiated. Contact is temporarily lost.
<##:##> Contact is reestablished. AES G-005 is in baseline reality, orbiting SCP-4XXX-A1 (one half of a previously binary star system). Telescopes observe a single exoplanet in the far distance.
<END LOG>
Afterword: Exploration of additional spatial instabilities within SCP-4XXX-Z has been approved by the Extrasolar Activities Division. The Heimdall Council will supervise exploration in the event of encounters with extraterrestrial organisms and civilizations.
[Exploration Logs 4XXX/G-005/3 Through 4XXX/G-005/42 Hidden For Brevity]
Exploration Designation: 4XXX/G-005/43
Date:
Foreword: Exploration 4XXX/G-005/43 is the last exploration to have been performed within SCP-4XXX-Z.
< BEGIN LOG >
<##:##> AES G-005 enters the anomaly, and begins standard exploration procedures — intermediate details have been redacted for brevity.
<##:##> Contact is lost for three hours, with AES G-005 manifesting with SCP-XXXX-Z as expected. Visuals are similar to previous missions, but slightly altered in terms of the tunnel system's layout, suggesting some measure of impermanence in the location's structure. The satellite is directed to move down one tunnel, estimated to be several million light-years long. Visuals become unclear as distance from AES G-005 increases, preventing any view of the tunnel's end.
<##:##> After four hours, AES G-005 is instructed to initiate superluminal acceleration. Velocity increased to 230c over the course of 30 minutes.
<##:##> Velocity increased to 400c.
<##:##> Velocity increased to 900c. Onboard AIC notes minor alterations to subjective reality, adjusting the range of allowable 'sizes' in its perception range. Eidological shielding is activated.
<##:##> Velocity increased to an undetermined value. Craft is now moving at speeds higher than those permitted under standard FTL travel methods. AIC continues to note reality alterations.
<##:##> AES G-005 begins to move down the tunnel at a visually detectable (albeit gradual) rate. This suggests either an alteration in the tunnel's size or in the method by which momentum functions — due to the non-compression of the trace matter around the craft, the latter seems more probable.
<##:##> AES G-005 turns a corner, moving upwards of 10,000,000 light years in just under twenty minutes. Several dozen wormholes, several expelling plasma, are clustered on the tunnel walls. A main-sequence star hangs in the tunnel's centre. AES G-005 is ordered not to approach the star — a sudden gravitational surge renders this impossible. The craft decelerates rapidly and attempts to enter a stable orbit; to accomplish this and conserve power efficiency, communications are shut down.
<##:##> Communications reestablished. AES G-005 is in orbit around the star, at an estimated distance of around 30 AU. The walls of SCP-XXXX-Z appear distorted, and command theorises that this is due to the inability to reconcile the two scales. Footage is designated a minor cognitohazard, as all persons viewing it report severe vertigo, nausea, and lasting acrophobia. The star itself is moving down the tunnel at a visually perceptible rate, and the onboard AIC cites this as sufficient evidence to recalibrate its base axioms (approved). The craft enters an idle state for 17 hours.
<##:##> The star, and AES G-005, turn a downward-facing corner, enteriÏ1η/N§|
[REDACTED; MEMETIC HAZARDS DETECTED]
<END LOG>
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Following the incident, Mobile Task Force Eros-01 ("Event Horizons") was dispatched in a high-speed vessel to the site of SEV M-001. Upon arrival, all members of the crew were discovered unconscious, and no connection with AES G-005 could be established.
Notably, Dr. Fabian Embrey (lead communications officer and direct liaison with the exploration satellite) was found gripping a knife, and had gouged a short message into the command terminal's surface. It is transcribed below:
[REDACTED; MEMETIC HAZARDS DETECTED]…
They were unable to recall writing this message after waking.