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[[include :scp-wiki:component:anomaly-class-bar-source
|item-number=9179
|clearance= 4
|container-class= neutralized
|secondary-class= none
|disruption-class= really really scary
|risk-class= warning
]]
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**Special Containment Procedures:** The Noöspherics Division is to monitor the area in ideatic space that SCP-9179 used to occupy, and to survey with maximum scrutiny any after-effects SCP-9179's neutralization has had on the noösphere.

**Description:** SCP-9179 was a complex ideatic memeplex residing peacefully within the noösphere.

SCP-9179 held a powerful antimemetic repulsion effect, preventing sentient creatures from comprehending and recording information about it without deliberate, often anomalous, effort. This repulsion was a defence mechanism, as comprehension by sentience was directly harmful to SCP-9179, with continual noöspheric observation proving fatal.[[footnote]]Investigation into possible link with [[[SCP-2256]]] ongoing.[[/footnote]]

SCP-9179 also claimed to have vast knowledge of the anomalous, which would prove useful to the Foundation's operation. Namely, SCP-9179 displayed knowledge of SCP-████,[[footnote]]REDACTED PER PROTOCOL 4000-ESHU[[/footnote]]SCP-████,[[footnote]]Redacted by The Noöspherics Division[[/footnote]] SCP-████[[footnote]]Redacted by The Noöspherics Division[[/footnote]] and SCP-███[[footnote]]Redacted by The Overseer Council[[/footnote]].

Verifying these claims and ascertaining precisely what SCP-9179 knew about said anomalies is now, unfortunately, impossible.

**Addendum 9179.1:** Neutralization

SCP-9179 was neutralized inadvertently by Dr. Gornell after a harsh campaign of experimentation led to SCP-9179's destruction from sustained comprehension by mnesticized D-Class personnel. Acting in apparent self-defence, SCP-9179 attempted to halt these experiments by 'bluffing' and claiming to be an incredibly dangerous anomaly -- displaying an intimate knowledge of The Foundation and its inner workings in the process. After this failed to stop Dr. Gornell, SCP-9179 offered to share information before resorting to begging (unsuccessfully) for its life.

As revealed in testimony, Dr. Gornell was a former member of The Noöspherics Division before stepping down to a memeticist position for unstated reasons. Dr. Gornell wished to fully contain SCP-9179 himself before The Division took over the responsibility, seemingly out of spite.

Due to SCP-9179's sentience, any disciplinary action taken against Dr. Gornell is pending a formal investigation by the Foundation's Ethics Committee.

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++++ NOTICE FROM THE FOUNDATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Thus concludes the documentation. Please contact me or my office if anything is believed to be missing.

I will, as always, leave the moral philosophizing to the experts. However I am appending the email exchange between Dr. Gornell and Noöspherics Chief Lufera Creighton that occurred yesterday, as I believe it relevant to your investigation.

-- Dolores Fawkes, EC Liaison, RAISA

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**To:** James Gornell
**From:** Lufera Creighton
**Subject:** SCP-9179
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Dear James,

You've pissed off a few people. Neutralizing any anomaly will get Ethics sniffing at you, neutralizing a thaumiel attracts even worse attention. Hell, you've even got the paperwork people grumbling your name.

But you haven't lost everyone. I'm writing to you today because I want you to know you still have friends in Noöspherics, myself included. With everything that's happened, this is the last thing you need right now and we all feel for you. We understand why you stepped away, we respect your need for space, and we recognize why you did what you did regarding SCP-9179.

With no physical evidence left behind by the memeplex that killed Moira, looking to the Noösphere and interrogating the conceptualization of 'Bystander' and 'Witness' is a characteristically brilliant idea. It's just bad luck that you couldn't have known SCP-9179's nature.

"Anti-Basilisk" is the term that's being thrown around, we've never encountered a memeplex like it. At the least, your research has coined the phrase and the pre-emptive protocols.

I wish there was more we could give in your defence. I doubt the O5 even know my name (yes, even with the recent success of the engine) and our division is too new to hold sufficient sway. But we all care for you, and we all loved your sister. If their punishment is too cruel, we'll protest it -- we owe you and your sister that much.

In the meantime, I need you to take care of yourself James. Get some rest. You have support on both sides of the veil, be with them now. Grief is perhaps the harshest 'anti-basilisk' we know of. It doesn't go away unless we face it, until we sit down and think all the way to its core, feeling what we need to feel.

So if there's a memeplex you want to slay for Moira's sake, make it that one.

With love and deepest sympathy,

Lufera Creighton, Noöspherics Chief
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**To:** Lufera Creighton
**From:** James Gornell
**Subject:** Re:SCP-9179
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Lufera,

I appreciate your words, I have one in response.

Thanatosis.[[footnote]]Anti-predatory tactic otherwise known as 'death feigning' or 'playing dead'.[[/footnote]]

Is this possibility being investigated? Has it even been posited?

I thought not. My initial grievance remains, then. It seems nobody will take the investigation into Moira's murder seriously unless I do it myself.

I'm glad for the shower of kisses and sympathy, but I am not going to rest, nor leave my lab, until Alpha-1[[footnote]]Personal Mobile-Task-Force to the O5 Council.[[/footnote]] has me in chains.

Regards,

James Gornell
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