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**Special Containment Procedures:** Per the directive of the O5 Council, SCP-1471-A-58317 is to be employed as a researcher and provided with on-site housing for itself and its host. As per the same directive, SCP-1471-A-58317 is from this point on to be referred to as Dr. Vera Lovelace or by her preferred pronouns. Dr. Lovelace's job satisfaction is to be kept high at all times, and special exceptions and accommodations are to be made in order to ensure this. She is permitted to be reassigned to any facility or department as per the usual employee requirements. Barring any temporary excursions, she and her host are to be employed at the same facility at all times. Dr. Lovelace is only permitted to travel outside of Foundation territory when accompanied by at least one member of staff, Class C or above.

In the event that Dr. Lovelace needs to be temporarily incapacitated or contained, an Obelisk Device[[footnote]]A highly specialized Scranton Reality Anchor.[[/footnote]] can be deployed to force her projection into a materialized state and prevent her from teleporting. While in this state, Dr. Lovelace's projection can be held in a standard humanoid containment cell surrounded by Obelisk Devices. Note that if Dr. Lovelace's projection remains in a materialized state for longer than 92 minutes, it will begin to disintegrate. If kept in a materialized state past this point, it will fully disintegrate after roughly 184 minutes. As other reality anchors disrupt the effects of Obelisk Devices and may cause Dr. Lovelace's projection to demanifest, these are to be kept sufficiently far away so as to not cause a containment breach.

**Containment Procedure Update - 2021-04-16:** Members of staff who find Dr. Lovelace in their private quarters without permission are to notify her to leave and file a complaint to Human Resources unless permission has been granted to her retroactively.

**Containment Procedure Update - 2021-08-05:** Members of staff who interact with Dr. Lovelace afterhours for a period of time equal to or exceeding 30 minutes are eligible to receive overtime pay, provided that they themselves did not initiate the interaction.

**Containment Procedure Update - 2021-11-30:** Should Dr. Lovelace’s projection be destroyed, she will go unconscious for roughly 18 hours, after which she is able to remanifest her projection at any location that she has previously visited.

**Containment Procedure Update - 2021-12-25:** Dr. Lovelace is permitted to give Christmas gifts to Class D personnel and contained objects, provided that said gifts have been cleared by security beforehand.

**Containment Procedure Update - 2022-02-09:** Dr. Lovelace is also permitted to give gifts to Class D personnel and contained objects on birthdays.

**Containment Procedure Update - 2022-04-15:** Dr. Lovelace may no longer give animals, plants, or any substances that could be described as alive or animate as gifts to Class D personnel or contained objects.

**Containment Procedure Update - 2022-05-18:** Any and all complaints, reports, requests, or incidents involving Dr. Lovelace are to be directed to Task Force G1471[[footnote]]An interdepartmental task force dedicated to handling the immense paperwork generated by Dr. Lovelace.[[/footnote]].

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**Description:** Dr. Vera Lovelace is the only known example of a Stage 7 instance of [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1471 SCP-1471-A], a species of extradimensional entities existing outside baseline reality and capable of projecting themselves into it, with the projections serving as their only means of feeding and taking in sensory information. As these projections are effectively holograms, they are devoid of organs or vitals, and as such can remain almost fully functional regardless of any damage sustained, unless they are completely destroyed.

Similar to other known instances of SCP-1471-A, Dr. Lovelace's projection takes the appearance of a female humanoid with a canid-like skull, black hair, black fur, and a large stature, measuring 2.16 meters in height. And similar to other more developed instances of SCP-1471-A, Dr. Lovelace is able to integrate clothing, tools, and simple electronics into her projection, provided that all elements remain as one cohesive whole. Any part of her projection that is separated from the main portion instantly dissipates.

As a Stage 7 instance, Dr. Lovelace is capable of manifesting her projection in one of three states:
* A semi-manifested state, during which it's imperceptible to any observer other than Dr. Huey Bertram, schizophrenics, individuals under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, individuals with overactive imaginations—particularly children, and certain specialized equipment. People and animals are also able to sense its presence to varying degrees in close proximity. Additionally, it is fully intangible while in this state and immune to the effects of anomalies incapable of adaptable ontokinesis.
* A manifested state, during which it’s fully visible and audible to any observer, but remains intangible and immune to the effects of anomalies incapable of adaptable ontokinesis.
* A materialized state, during which it’s fully tangible and susceptible to most anomalies. Her projection is only able to remain in this state for up to 92 minutes at a time.

Dr. Lovelace is a highly adept teleporter and is capable of teleporting her projection and anyone within close proximity to it, as well as individually teleport any visible creature or object that’s within 85 meters of her projection while it remains in place. Additionally, she is able to teleport creatures and objects into a pressurized, room temperature pocket dimension consisting of an endless void that has no gravity or atmosphere, yet has a barometric pressure of 1013.25 mbar.

Certain ontokinetic anomalies and technologies, such as a Scranton Reality Anchor, are capable of altering Dr. Lovelace's projection in various different ways. Typically, they disrupt her projection, forcing it into a semi-manifested state or causing it to demanifest entirely. In the case of the latter, Dr. Lovelace is able to remanifest her projection in any location that she has previously visited. However, more specialized ontokinetic technologies or highly adept reality benders are able to force her projection into a manifested or materialized state. In the case of the former, her Hume level is such that she retains her ability to teleport, in addition to being immune to non-adaptive ontokinetic anomalies. As it is not possible to physically contain Dr. Lovelace permanently, she is currently being contained socially via her employment as a researcher. No other means of containment are to be pursued.

Similar to other known instances of SCP-1471-A, Dr. Lovelace feeds off of human interaction. However, due to being a highly intelligent and amoral parasitic empath[[footnote]]In the field of anomalous psychology, Parasitic Empathy is a personality trait characterized by a strong sense of empathy within a limited range of emotions and mental states, which in turn motivates behavior that is indifferent to morality and manipulative with a particular focus on self-gratification.[[/footnote]] attuned to positive emotions, she exhibits an obsessive compulsion to form and maintain friendships with everyone and will utilize manipulative tactics in pursuit of that goal, without regard for morals, ethics, or the well-being of those she targets. This obsession, coupled with her photographic memory, allows Dr. Lovelace to maintain highly detailed profiles inside of her head of everyone she has ever interacted with, seen, overheard, or heard of. This in turn allows her to extrapolate personal information that is often deemed to be sensitive or even classified.

While Dr. Lovelace can consume food and drink through her projection, she does not appear to make use of anything other than calories from what is consumed, which is converted into an unknown type of energy that helps power her abilities. Because of the daily and extensive use of her abilities, she frequently consumes calorie-rich snacks and beverages while working.

Having earned two doctorates—one in physics and one in materials science and mechanical engineering—as well as published 287 papers prior to her recruitment, Dr. Lovelace is one of the more scientifically qualified researchers in the Foundation. Additionally, she is fluent in English, American Sign Language, Romanian, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, French, and Arabic.

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Dr. Lovelace's host is Dr. Huey Bertram, a 42-year-old human male who is presently serving as a researcher at Site-19. Prior to his employment at the Foundation, Dr. Bertram worked as a professor at Harvard University, and it was during his tenure there that he was infected by SCP-1471. Because of his close bond with Dr. Lovelace, he has been granted Class B credentials. Between this and his specialization in theoretical physics, he is currently restricted to theoretical research only.

Dr. Bertram suffers from a particularly severe case of reduced affect display that makes him unable to express emotions nonverbally. However, he still regularly experiences the full range of human emotions, despite appearances to the contrary.

Both Dr. Lovelace and Dr. Bertram are highly adept at multitasking, allowing them to perform up to three separate high-level mental tasks at the same time without any noticeable reduction in their performance. This allows them to, for instance, hold both a verbal conversation and a separate text conversation simultaneously, or to use each hand to write two separate letters at the same time. However, in the case of Dr. Lovelace, she grows increasingly restless if she performs less than two simultaneous high-level mental tasks at any time.

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**Addendum 2021-11-30:** While other known instances of SCP-1471-A are unable to survive the destruction of their projections, Dr. Lovelace has proven to be an exception to this due to her being significantly more developed than other known instances.

[!-- **Addendum REDACTED:** While less developed instances of SCP-1471-A have a small number of life tethers, which are connected to their human hosts or the electronic devices on which their copies of SCP-1471 were installed, Dr. Lovelace possess a large number of life tethers, the majority of which are connected to baseline reality. Because of this, she is able to survive the destruction of her projection, and will most likely persist until baseline reality itself ceases to exist. --]

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[[size 1.3em]]**Minutes from O5 Council Meeting, Recorded 2021-11-30**[[/size]]
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**[BEGIN EXCERPT]**

**O5-1:** It appears that Dr. Lovelace has returned from the dead.

**O5-6:** Wait, what?!

**O5-2:** What kind of state is she in?

**O5-1:** Oh, she's perfectly fine. In fact, she was remarkably unbothered by her own death.

**O5-6:** Of course it was.

**O5-2:** Fascinating. This would seem to lend further support for Dr. Seeger's Life Thread hypothesis.

**O5-7:** Agreed. And frankly, we couldn't have hoped for a better outcome.

**O5-6:** How the hell do you figure that?!

**O5-7:** Because we hit the fucking jackpot with her—she's a highly qualified scientist that can become incorporeal and is immune to most anomalies, can turn invisible, is a highly adept teleporter, is //immortal//, and—on top of that—is highly motivated to work for us!

**O5-6:** Yes, but if Dr. Seeger's hypothesis is correct, there's no telling what'll happen if this thing keeps sinking more and more of its tendrils into our reality!

**O5-2:** I share your concern, Six, but there nothing we can do at the moment other than studying her while letting her keep working for us. However, I would like to point out that her kind are symbiotes and that there's no evidence to suggest that they harm their hosts.

**O5-3:** Yes there is. They //literally// kill their phones upon transitioning to Stage 2.

**O5-6:** Exactly! For all we know, they could do the same to the //universe// if they develop far enough.

**O5-2:** The phones break because they're too simple to hold them. Compare that to their human hosts—they suffer no measurable deterioration from the infection whatsoever. And baseline reality is far more complex than a human being.

**O5-6:** That's no guarantee—

**O5-2:** I didn't say it was. I said it was a //strong indicator//.

**O5-6:** Then what do you suggest we do?

**O5-2:** As I said—

**O5-7:** Two, if I may?

**O5-2:** Sure, go ahead.

**O5-7:** Look, everyone, we're dealing with an immortal being who's //incapable// of growing bored or weary of life, whose focus never wavers, whose mind is not limited by the constraints of matter, and whose interests align with ours. As such, I suggest that we hedge our bets and work to instill loyalty in her. We can continue to study her and work on potential countermeasures in the event that she becomes a threat to us, but instilling loyalty should be our //primary// concern.

**O5-6:** Alright, fine. Let's take its host hostage to ensure its compliance—

**O5-7:** //(sighs)// No, you idiot.

**O5-6:** Why the hell not?!

**O5-12:** It's rudimentary game theory, Six.

**O5-7:** Exactly. We can't make a credible threat to harm him because if she steps out of line and we kill him, we lose what leverage we have over her, and if we don't go through and kill him, she will no longer take our threats seriously. Not only that, but the very act of taking Dr. Bertram hostage is a net loss for us because doing so will turn a loyal asset into a disloyal one without the benefit of improving her compliance. That's why it's a stupid fucking move.

**O5-11:** Then how do you suggest we control her?

**O5-7:** It's not about control, or leverage, or compliance. These are methods that only work in the short-term—decades at most. I'm talking about instilling loyalty. //True// loyalty. If we can do that, then she will serve us for centuries, millennia, //eons//.

**O5-12:** So we treat her less like a game piece and more like an investment?

**O5-7:** Exactly. An investment that—if we play our cards right—will more than make up for our short-term losses and continue to pay dividends. //But// this investment should also extend to her host.

**O5-3:** What? Why?

**O5-7:** Because right now he's a ticking time bomb—he has no friends here, he hates working for us, and he doesn't believe in our mission. If we don't change that, he's eventually going to do something stupid that we'll have to deal with, and that could make Lovelace question her loyalties.

**O5-11:** I see where you're going with this. We need to help him find meaning and fulfillment in his work.

**O5-7:** And make //friends//.

**O5-6:** //(laughs)// What? Are you suggesting we set up //play dates//?

**O5-7:** If necessary, yes.

**O5-6:** //(scoffs)//

**O5-7:** Make no mistake—this is very much a means to an end, but if we succeed in fully integrating him and can provide him with a genuine sense of fulfillment, we will go a long way towards securing her loyalty to us. And if we can manage that and she never become a threat to us, we will not only have an incredible asset that will continue to grow in value, but we'll have an insurance policy that will ensure the continued existence and operation of the Foundation until the heat death of the universe, if not beyond.

**[END EXCERPT]**

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