I won't be churning out SCP articles very frequently, but I WILL be working on them in more than one location. As such, I'd like to maintain a sandbox so as to add to them whenever i find myself at a computer with the inclination to do so.
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Item #: SCP-XXX
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXX is to be kept in a place with the stuff and the things blah blah think this up later.
Description: SCP-XXX was found in the desert and attention was called to it because there was no good reason for it to be growing there. if you're reading this this is not how i'll be writing this article by the way, i'm just noting the idea down for later expansion. anyway, SCP-XXX is a tree approximately 7m tall and 1.5m wide at the base, looking like a deciduous tree, with large broad leaves on long and spindly branches and a central group of branches with needles going up the middle. the tree obviously offers a lot of shade and looks inviting to sit under. a pheromone excreted by the tree lulls a person to sleep, after which if no other individuals are within visual range the leafy branches swing downward and press the individual against the trunk, obscuring them from external view. the central branches swing down and change the appearance of the tree to be more like an evergreen while the leaves do their work. the evergreen needles are sharp and full of a liquid form of the knockout pheromone used earlier, presumably as a form of defense against discovery by outsiders. the deciduous leaves smother the individual inside and excrete an acid which breaks down the person's body and allows it to be absorbed by the trunk. the process takes about an hour.
shortly afterward, a pod will begin growing from the tree, which develops into a full size version of the original person. once they have finished growing (takes about a day) the seed clone wakes up. the clone has the same appearnce, intelligence, and knowledge of the original individual, and its sole mission is to find someone else to bring to the tree. once about 8 clones have been made (though this can vary to as high as 16 or as low as 5), the clones will search out a secluded spot and bury themselves, after which over time a new tree will grow from seeds contained inside the clones(time to maturity is 1 - 10 months, depending on how many seed clones were used.
Addendum: the tree's method of operation seems to be based upon secrecy rather than rapid expansion. it poses no significant threat to people aware of its properties, but the clones are of interest, as a clone can last for up to 6 months in its attempts to bring others with them to the tree, so long as its tree is still alive and it visit the tree for nourishment once every few weeks. if no new people have been brought in that time it will reabsorb a clone. the closer it gets to this time limit the more frantically the seed clones make efforts to bring new people to it, eventually resorting to violence, but only in secret. a tree can live for up to 2 years without absorbing new people.
the clones will use any methods necessary(friendship, romance, scientific curiosity) to bring a person to the tree, but only one person at a time, apparently so as to avoid discovery. if the clone finds that bringing an individual to the tree alone will be impossible, it will seek out new targets. if questioning is directed its way or it is captured and imprisoned, the clone will find the first opportunity to die while unobserved. autopsies on the clones show normal human physiology. a large seed from the tree is contained where the appendix would normally be, but upon death this rapidly decomposes and gives the appearance of a burst appendix and the body shows signs of acute appendicitis.
this is probably entirely too much information and most of this will not be included but ideas keep coming to mind so might as well get them down and figure out what to use later when i refine this.
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Item #: SCP-XXX
Object Class: Euclid/Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXX-1 is contained on Site 65 for study and experimentation. No guards are necessary for the object itself as theft is impossible and the object is harmless for the moment. SCP-XXX-2 is impossible to contain and should be monitored as best as possible as it travels, with constant updates as to its current position, speed, and trajectory, along with future projections as to its estimated flightpath for the next 50 years. In the event that a collision course with SCP-XXX-1 is detected, every effort must be made to alter it from its course, with no limitations placed upon the resources to be directed toward that end.
Description:
SCP-XXX-1 and 2 are silver metallic spheres of unknown origin, each with a diameter of 0.681 meters. XXX-1 appears stable and motionless, but is in reality moving in a geosynchronous orbit above earth, at the exact speed of earth's rotation, maintaining the exact same position above the earth at all times.
Gravity appears to have no effect upon it, as it maintains position approximately 7.3 meters above the ground. No amount of force brought to bear on it in any direction has any effect upon its position, and all tools and weaponry currently available to us appear to have no effect upon it physically.
XXX-2, on the other hand, maintains a continuous orbit around the sun that is nearly synchronous with earth's orbit. It does not orbit around the earth at all, giving the appearance of travelling at velocities in excess of 1,600kph, depending on its current relative altitude.
Since it was first observed it has never dropped below a relative altitude of 2km, generally staying between 3km - 12km above the surface. It appears unaffected by the gravitational forces of earth, and is equally unaffected by tools and weaponry currently available. It should be noted that its positional alterations are not due to the object changing its course, but rather to eccentricities in the earth's orbit
Addendum:
To reiterate: no effort to move or damage XXX-1 has had any effect, and no effort to stop or damage XXX-2 has had any effect. XXX-2 destructively travels through any object in its path without pause or pushes it out of its way, regardless of that object's composition, being essentially unstoppable. XXX-1 is unaffected by any amount of force brought to bear on it in any direction, to the point of being essentially immovable.
This brings immediate concerns of what would happen should the two objects collide. Projections based upon the estimated amount of material contained between the two objects(.33 cubic meters, est. 2,600kg) show that should the objects completely annihilate each other upon contact, the detonation would contain a minimum of the power of a 65 gigaton nuclear explosion, possibly much higher.
Should the objects be incapable of variation from their respective courses yet also completely unable to be damaged even by each other. The amount of energy generated should those both be the case is completely incalculable and dependent upon how much energy is truly contained within each object to keep them on their trajectories.
