SCP-3201

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**Item #:** SCP-3201

**Object Class:** Thaumiel
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**Special Containment Procedures:** Containment procedures for SCP-3201 are limited primarily to disinformation protocols surrounding SCP-3201, exchanges and agreements with SCP-3201, and communications with SCP-3201.

Foundation assets are to maintain a continual presence within media and meteorological organizations listed in Document Q5/903. SCP-3201 instances are to be referred to as "ball lightning" or variations thereof, depending on the nature of the incident. Standard Class-A amnestics are to be administered aerially to populations situated within 1.5km of the location of the appearance of an SCP-3201 instance with discretion based upon flight path and diameter (see Document AW/N3-K1).

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Only CL/3000 and above personnel who have obtained WK-11/5340 authorization are permitted to directly interact and communicate with SCP-3201 instances, with reasonable exceptions for task-force personnel and D-class personnel during testing. Foundation personnel who have not obtained WK-11/5340 authorization, or individuals from partner organizations, may be assigned to SCP-3201 research, under the condition that they are amnesticised following the discontinuation of their research (see Document EH/RO-2E).

Exchanges, bartering, and trade agreements with SCP-3201 must be conducted by personnel familiar with Collingua, the constructed interlingua used for communication between humans and SCP-3201 instances. Researchers are required to study records of the 1983 Archivist-Foundation Accords as a basis for conduct in negotiating future agreements. Negotiators are advised to familiarize themselves with the aesthetic preferences of particular SCP-3201 instances. Keter-class anomalous objects must not be used for bartering purposes.

Routes to Logashkino, located in Sakha, Russian Federation, must be restricted to Foundation personnel. Satellite imagery, property records, and all forms of print and digital media are to suggest that Logashkino was formerly a trading post, but has been completely uninhabited since 1998 with the exception of outposts by Russian logging and mineral corporations. Twenty permanent personnel are to remain on site at all times for maintenance. 

Personnel who have not obtained WK-11/5340 access credentials are to be amnesticised after departing from the Logashkino site. It is suggested that internal Foundation employees without WK-11/5340 authorization be led to believe that Logashkino is an isolation site for a logograph-based cognitomorphological virus in order to discourage undue interest in Eigen-12.
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[[include component:image-block name=drawing.png|caption=A 1967 preliminary document, first illustrated documentation of SCP-3201]]

**Description:** SCP-3201 is the collective designation for a class of sentient, mobile hyperdimensional entities, appearing as luminous spheres with variations in colour and diameter. SCP-3201 instances identify themselves as "Archivists" to Foundation personnel, and are usually identified as ball lightning in the wider scientific community.

SCP-3201 instances were first brought to the attention of the Foundation as potential anomalies after several aerial sightings of "kraut fireballs" or "foo-fighters" over Germany in November 1944, described as "resembling Christmas tree lights, usually non-hostile and unable to be outmaneuvered". 

Initially classified as naturally-occurring electromagnetic phenomena, an SCP-3201 instance was reported once again by MTF Chi-3 ("Exorcists") in 1959 as a central figure of worship within an anomalous Melanesian cargo-cult community — stones, shells, gems and animal bones chiselled into polyhedral shapes, would be ritualistically offered to the instance, in exchange for which the instance would provide crates of canned foods and various Western manufactured goods from nearby parallel universes (see Addendum AJ/151). 

In 1968, it was ascertained that eigenstations, originally constructed by the Foundation to meet increasing energy requirements for dimensional containment operations in Site-62, acted as "attractants" for SCP-3201 instances. Repeated contact between SCP-3201 instances and Site-62 researchers enabled the analysis and translation of symbols used by SCP-3201, which enable topologically and mathematically precise communication. SCP-3201 instances were capable of transferring knowledge of this constructed language between themselves.

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Through these communications, SCP-3201 instances communicated their intentions to "collect" and "archive" specific types of objects. For example, SCP-3201-4 primarily archives spotted turtles (//Clemmys guttata//), with a preference towards specific spot patterns and weights. According to SCP-3201-4, no other nearby parallel universes host spotted turtles. SCP-3201 instances are known to change preferences after finding an appropriate item. 

By order, the first eight SCP-3201 instances expressed the desire to collect "ideal versions" of the following items:

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# **Platonic solids (tetrahedra, cubes, octahedra, dodecahedra, or icosahedra)** ranging between 5cm and 30cm in width. Preference for smoothness.
# **Dark green Wellington boots.** Preferences unknown.
# {{[REDACTED]}}
# **Turtles resembling //Clemmys guttata//**. Preference for specific spot patterns, weight between 100g-130g.
# **Seeds of unclassified organism.** SCP-3201-5 provided examples of said seeds, which were transported to Site-103, and cultivated in a high-moisture, carbon-dioxide-rich environment. Seeds germinated into a vine-like plant containing pockets of methanous hydrogen gas. After eighteen days, the plant appeared to detach itself, developed into a free-standing floating structure in the center of the greenhouse, and continually dispersed seeds onto the ground before incinerating itself two days later.
# **Denominations of currency bearing the number '5'.** Preference towards warmer colours. (?)
# **WWII-era foxhole crystal radio receivers.** Preference towards functional receivers.
# **Unknown object class.** Described as spherical in shape, metallic in composition, covered in elongated spindles, and approximately two metres in diameter - apparently extant in nearby universes. SCP-3201-8 provided researchers with an example of the object, which appears to be neutrally buoyant, and emits electromagnetic radiation in structured pulses at 528 Hz. Air temperatures within 1.5km of the object decreased by 8 degrees Celsius over the course of three hours over the duration of testing. Function unknown, researchers were requested by SCP-3201-8 to manufacture more. Request was denied.
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++++ KEY INFORMATION

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* Incident occurred in Liwan Ceramics Co. Ltd. a ceramics manufacturing factory in Liwan, Guangzhou.
* Factory was of no interest to foreign intelligence agencies.
* Incident occurred from 11:33 to 3:08 (May 21, 1983).
* Thirty-four witnesses were present. Most accounts are consistent.
* Unlikely to pose immediate security threat.
* At 11:33, a slightly-indistinct "sphere of light" was observed in the workshop, hovering in the air, approximately three metres off the floor, with no visible supports. Over the next minute, the sphere of light grew and became more distinct. The sphere was orange/red tinted (twelve report orange, eight report red, fourteen are unsure). The sphere measured 3.5 metres in diameter at its maximum. The sphere had the luminescence of an ordinary light-bulb, and was not extremely bright, nor did it radiate heat. ██ states that, nevertheless, the air surrounding the sphere distinctly rippled in a manner suggestive of a heat wave. This was confirmed by nineteen other witnesses.
* The sphere started to slowly circle the room in a "predatory" / "inquisitive" / "uncertain" manner at 11:37, passing through several solid objects unimpeded. These objects show no signs of damage nor do they display any unusual features.
* At approximately 1:00, the sphere appeared to lightly burn several seemingly-handwritten Traditional characters onto a wall. These were: 貿 ("commerce, trade, barter"), 有 ("1. to have, 2. to exist"), 罐 ("jar"), 要 ("1. to demand, 2. to want"), 愿 ("1. honest, sincere, 2. wish, hope"), 錢 ("money"), and 金 ("1. copper, 2. gold").
* The first batch of Ming-era reproduction vases had finished in the morning.
* ██, the site manager, approached the sphere and attempted to communicate with it. ██ established a system by which ██ would ask a question and the sphere would burn either a circle or a cross to indicate affirmation and negation over the course of one hour.
* ██ reported having successfully made a trade agreement.
* From 2:35 to 2:39, the sphere "swallowed" thirty-four vases (accounts are inconsistent).
* Over the course of a minute, the sphere slowly diminished in magnitude and distinctness until it completely disappeared.
* Starting from 3:01, the sphere reappeared in the same manner as previously described.
* After fully reappearing, the sphere circled over the workers for three minutes while "showering" them with approximately 600 kg of currency in the form of the renminbi, pristine Imperial-era copper coins, silver coinage, and various unidentifiable forms of currency (most notably banknotes featuring both Chinese and French with a silhouette of the current borders of the People's Republic of China in addition to Mongolia and the northern portion of Vietnam). Over the next three minutes, the sphere deposited approximately 1900 kg of molecularly-pure gold in long, cylindrical bars measuring 0.38 metres in diameter onto the factory floor. Objects were confiscated.
* The sphere disappeared over the course of a minute in a manner consistent with previous descriptions.

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Researcher Nouell Bourland (10291) has recently joined Site-62, with L2340 access permissions.

Researcher ███ K█████ (████) has been promoted to Head Researcher. Efforts to retrieve former Head Researcher G███ █████ from SCP-███, located on the lunar surface, are still ongoing. Communication with the American space program for hastened retrieval is suggested.

Local government is proposing the construction of a motorway close to Site-62 operations, please advise.

Project Ambriel, more informally known as the "Eigenstation Project", was successfully completed this month, and has begun operation. Eigenstations operate through the Gillenstrap-Hume Dispersal Principle – Kosen cyclers are used to create extremely rapid fluctuations of Hume concentrations within areas of space approx. 3.5nm^^2^^, resulting in "ripples" within causal reality, which are easily harvested. Appears to be manifesting "ball lightning" or "foo fighter" entities, we are uncertain as to whether this is a psychological effect or a physical phenomenon.

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[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]In that case, what is the earliest cosmological event you remember having observed?[[/size]]

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[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]Could you describe to me your concept of an Earth year?[[/size]]

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[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]How many years have you existed for?[[/size]]

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[[size 90%]] | {{«CONFUSION»}} | [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]Was there a point in time at which you did not exist? [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«CONFUSION»}} | [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]Were you created?[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«CONFUSION»}} | [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]Have you seen any other civilizations apart from ours?[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«AFFIRMATION-OF-ACCURATE-INFORMATION»}} | [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]How many apart from ours have you have observed?[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«3»}} | [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]But there are more?[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«AFFIRMATION-OF-ACCURATE-INFORMATION»}} | [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]And you haven't observed them directly?[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«AFFIRMATION-OF-ACCURATE-INFORMATION»}} | [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]Why?[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«DISINTEREST»}} | {{«ABSENCE-OF»}} |  {{«GEOMETRIC-DESCRIPTION-OF-TURTLE-PLURAL»}} |[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]Are these civilizations extant?[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«NEGATION»}} |[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]How many years ago did the last civilization cease to exist?[[/size]]

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[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]Was this civilization in our galaxy?[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«NEGATION»}} |[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]Was this civilization in the Local Group?[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«NEGATION»}} |[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]I see. Why are the Archivists here?[[/size]]

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[[size 90%]] | {{«BEACON»}} | {{«INVESTIGATION»}} | [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]What are your purposes here?[[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__//SCP-3201-4://__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]] | {{«OBJECTS-WITH-LOW-ENTROPY»}} | {{«PURPOSE / DUTY»}} | {{«UNIVERSE-MUSEUM»}} | {{«ARCHIVE»}} | {{«PRESERVATION-FROM»}} | {{«UNIVERSAL-THERMODYNAMIC-EQUILIBRIUM»}} | [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]By universal thermodynamic equilibrium ... you mean ... the heat death of our universe?[[/size]]

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[[size 90%]] | {{«AFFIRMATION-OF-ACCURATE-INFORMATION»}} | [[/size]]

[[span style="background-color:#FFFFD5;"]][[size 90%]]**__Head Researcher K██████:__**[[/size]][[/span]]
[[size 90%]]That won't happen for trillions of trillions of years.[[/size]]

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[[size 90%]] | {{«AFFIRMATION-OF-ACCURATE-INFORMATION»}} | [[/size]]

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[[size 170%]][[span style="color:#FFFF00"]]**THE ULTIMATE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE: A SHORT GUIDE FOR FOUNDATION PERSONNEL**[[/span]][[/size]]

[[size 140%]][[span style="color:#FFFF00"]]//DR. ████ LUNSFORD//[[/span]][[/size]]

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**CHAPTER THREE – THE HEAT DEATH**

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The idea of the heat-death fascinated and frightened cultures and civilizations for millennia, before it was given a basis in scientific fact. 

In the twenty-thousand-year-old mythology of the Oplachuyayan tribe of SCP-███, was the balanced triality of the three primal gods. The Oplachuyayans believed that since their progeny, Chaos and Order had fought battle upon battle with one another, and although immortal, would grow steadily weaker as time passed. In Oplachuyayan storytelling, it was said that in 10^^100^^ years, Chaos and Order would have their last battle, after which their third brother, Silence, would come to rule over the universe. 

In 12QNum, a manuscript fragment attributed to {{[REDACTED]}}, an anomalous Judaist sect dated to the 2nd century CE, are the words: " ... dreamed of one in one hundred stars falling, and those stars remained, and none rose thereafter. And he waited for ten years, and one hundred years, until all the stars that had remained had fallen, and there was nothing. And nothing remained."

The observation that turned the heat death from story to certainty, was Edward Hubble's 1929 discovery that every galaxy in the universe appeared to be receding from our own. From this, he concluded that the universe was expanding, rather than static as Einstein had assumed.

The heat death as a concept in cosmology refers to another possible fate of the universe, distinct from the Big Crunch, the Big Rip, the Big Split, and the Big Merge, very far into the future.

According to our current scientific knowledge, the gas required for normal star formation will no longer be available in 100 trillion years. This will result in a universe dominated by white dwarf stars, growing fewer and fewer as each star slowly runs out of available fuel. 

As cold ex-stellar bodies merge together and fall into enormous black hole singularities over trillions of trillions of years, eventually, the universe will be completely devoid of light. Any life that comes into being in this time will never know stars – the sky will be empty.

But not even these black holes would last forever – our current understanding of Hawking radiation indicates that all black holes, even those with masses exceeding galaxies, slowly leak subatomic particles into space. Over a period of 10^^100^^ years, every single last black hole will have vanished. The universe by this point will be rapidly expanding – so empty, dark, and cold, that the distance between one photon and its closest neighbour, will exceed the current distance between the Earth, and the edge of the observable universe.

At this point, the universe will be in its highest possible entropy state, and for all intents and purposes, it will have reached its final fate, its final end.

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[[size 110%]]CLASS: //ELECTRONIC OBJECT//[[/size]]

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[[size 80%]]Entropy increased as expected. [[/size]]

[[size 80%]]Total universal thermodynamic equilibrium was attained at 2.829383810393928102 x 10^^104^^ years after creation, in contrast to the predicted date of 1.0102920192899092 x 10^^100^^ YAC, due to extended entropy-reducer activity. [[/size]]

[[size 80%]]Entropy-reducer activity ceased following significant proton-decay.[[/size]]

[[size 80%]]A group of 3,461,501,019 entropy-reducers re-created a Beacon.[[/size]] 

[[size 80%]]Archivists were sent to investigate. Stranded Technicians were not found within 86,700 light-years of Beacon location, and search was concluded negative. [[/size]]
 
[[size 80%]]Contact with entropy-reducers was retained until entropy-reducers self-terminated for unknown reasons 1.16 x 10^^2^^ years after initial Beacon creation.[[/size]]

[[size 80%]]6,908,017,318,855,191,004,119,248,194,872,949 Exhibits were preserved, including the preceding electronic object.[[/size]]

[[size 80%]]See Addendum 11/A103931 for further information.[[/size]]

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[[size 80%]] [[span style="color:#bd0000"]] //**REPORT COMPILED BY THE FOLLOWING ARCHIVISTS:**// [[/span]]
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173191 
660383 
367958 
377071 
955125 
749420 
796348 
714989 
395983 
458576 
613648 
580616 
221836 
480144 
805020 
140647 
335238 
375758 
371976 
288823 
599177 
689331 
452829 
189770 
853142 
548056 
941269 
170059 
953813 
969140 
705209 
940107 
153904 
635085 
252039 
741710 
883825 
637667 
970862 
600936 
100475 
988699 
544769 
348289 
288882 
773351 
683959 
925806 
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549884 
109562 
746128 
989156 
155388 
827374 
940146 
245856 
609298 
297850 
612337
344459
808233
850402
572905
530248
720638
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397096
297506
974519
594750
576402
115125
186190
549483
972716
588953
792183
945441
208035
570133
796798
752779
824892
881027
742615
289714
978322
531719
267557
892804
767119
352076
604033
616024
883305
129723
581215
940265
154541
382035
431398
244985
799192
496245
953725
952282
555127
132456
924214
685675
919861
718206
999259
713618
562350
795023
526005
939856
183488
274530
741211
426695
676459
581748
822144
479969
566830
553525
326575
201311
637430
803435
860373
744561
795577
492693
769168
145506
852272
279395
741608
167443
600049
959523
394689
858106
776646
315932
193710
996791
686630
335186
846891
259215
920519
659273
330751
898664
919404
523736
999730
619882
613517
546730
584502
474204
541234
886503
949587
769238
822761
343573
196859
863308
340934
965728
538967
709014
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676145
850327
615872
520095
637569
858678
426257
385053
510112
489288
595302
218182
973093
494747
351193
269849
742772
475653[[/size]]

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[[size 90%]] [[span style="color:#bd0000"]]**SUMMARY OF UNIVERSE #139331920100933**[[/span]]

It was mostly nothing.

But there were some interesting parts.

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