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Credits
Title: SCP-1093-JP - Our Flesh, and How to Surf the Internet While Being Embraced by It
Author: ©︎ukit
Year: 2019
One of the decontaminated SCP-1093-JP-2 instances. Presumed to be a standardized greeting as it is observed on multiple occasions.
Item #: SCP-1093-JP
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1093-JP is contained in a large water tank lined with non-corrosive material in Area-8129, around which a stone sarcophagus has been constructed. All buildings established within the Area are required to maintain a Class 3 biohazard containment environment. SCP-1093-JP is to be provided with 1200 kg of Feed-1093-JP per day by an automated feeding system, and its excrement is to be removed from the containment environment by D-class personnel equipped with Class 4 biohazard suits. In the event of feed shortage, any meat and grain mixture can be used as a substitute.
SCP-1093-JP's attempts to access the Internet are directed to a copy of the Internet as of 2018, which exists on servers located in the Area. It should be noted that no measures have yet been established to completely prevent SCP-1093-JP from accessing the Internet; any image postings identified as originating from SCP-1093-JP are to be deleted by the monitoring team in charge.
Description: SCP-1093-JP is a large, amorphous aggregate of human cells discovered in ██████, Hokkaido, Japan, with a total estimated weight of approximately 250 tons based on its composition. Numerous SK-BIO Type 006 instances1 are present throughout it, and given its features and other examples found in the past, it is presumed to have been an SK-BIO Type 006 culture unit. While its other portions consist of human soft tissues, bones, and muscles, these are scattered throughout SCP-1093-JP without regard to the normally considered structure of a human body, and the limb-like parts protruding from it have never been observed to show any signs of movement.
SCP-1093-JP has multiple mouths and human brains at its apex, and is able to ingest food through these mouths. Partial X-ray and [REDACTED] scans have revealed that at least ████ brains are present at its apex, several of which are fused together in an overlapping pattern. Analysis of the neural arrangements of these brains suggests that they may be used as data storage and computing devices by the multiple consciousnesses hypothesized to reside within SCP-1093-JP. Based on the characteristic fluctuations in the surrounding Hume readings, it appears that modification of these neural arrays and their use as computing devices is accomplished via Lihakut'ak, a practice unique to Sarkic cults2; which specific portion of SCP-1093-JP is responsible for the internal modifications is still under investigation.
Although the near-surface portion of these human cells is affected by decay, analysis of selected sections removed from SCP-1093-JP revealed that they are alive deeper than 2 cm from the surface. It is unclear how SCP-1093-JP consumes food and maintains healthy human cells other than its epidermis, despite the lack of a digestive system and other vital organs.
The entire surface of SCP-1093-JP exudes a small amount of mucus containing a microbial pathogen similar to the one observed in SCP-2075, which can easily be transmitted by contact or airborne transmission. Once an individual becomes infected with this pathogen, they invariably attempt to contact SCP-1093-JP and, if continually prevented from doing so, transform within 72 hours into a human cellular mass that resembles a smaller version of SCP-1093-JP. When the infected individual makes contact with SCP-1093-JP, they are absorbed into it from the contacted body parts, along with any clothing or other objects worn by them. Signals from a tracking device attached to the head of an infected D-class personnel indicated that they moved to the apex portion of SCP-1093-JP over approximately 2 days after their absorption. At this point, the absorbed individual's consciousness is presumably stored inside SCP-1093-JP, as an SCP-1093-JP-1 instance described below.
SCP-1093-JP has demonstrated the ability to connect to the Internet via the nearest Internet-connected device. It is believed that this ability does not have a distance limit, and attempts to block the connection by placing SCP-1093-JP in an electromagnetic anechoic chamber have been unsuccessful. Current efforts are focused on directing SCP-1093-JP to a copy of the past Internet stored on on-site servers and disguised as the present one; most of the consciousnesses residing within SCP-1093-JP is unaware of this disguise.
SCP-1093-JP's ability to access the Internet is presumably achieved by POI-1093-JP's cybernetized brain, which is believed to be present within SCP-1093-JP, as well as by Lihakut'ak originating from an unidentified portion of SCP-1093-JP. POI-1093-JP is a member of the Church of Maxwellism (GOI-004C) and has been disappeared since his entry into Japan. POI-1093-JP has a high level of expertise in telecommunications and networking technologies, and traces of his past attempts to crack public institutions have been assessed to be identical to those left by Internet connections from within SCP-1093-JP.
In 2014, after a vulnerability was discovered in the Internet connection through the aforementioned cybernetic procedure, SCP-1093-JP was hacked by a Foundation technical team. This revealed that SCP-1093-JP contains an online community used by a number of consciousnesses, established with its nervous system including multiple brains as servers and other equipment, as well as various websites and social networking services with features similar to those on the modern Internet. However, there is no credible hypothesis as to how POI-1093-JP, an affiliate of the Church of the Broken God (GOI-004), came into contact with SCP-1093-JP in the first place. Of the consciousnesses residing within SCP-1093-JP, none of those contacted by the Foundation have self-identified as POI-1093-JP.
The intercepted transmissions from SCP-1093-JP suggest that there are several different types of consciousness within it. After a thorough review of the contents of these transmissions, specialists in the Foundation Psychology Department reported that while some of these consciousnesses are relatively close to normal, most groups exhibit dissociative identity disorder-like conditions. These consciousnesses are collectively designated SCP-1093-JP-1.
SCP-1093-JP-1 instances are capable of using multiple languages to some extent, although for the majority of other communications, collage images made of human body parts have been observed to be transmitted between instances. These collages were identified as constituting a unique language within SCP-1093-JP, some of which exhibit anomalous memetic properties, and are therefore designated SCP-1093-JP-2. About 30% of SCP-1093-JP-2 has already been decoded, and each image is almost always accompanied by a single word in a different, normal language; the exception to this is a series of pictures depicting only a distorted human face, which continue to be transmitted in an unknown manner from SCP-1093-JP to the outside world.
It appears that SCP-1093-JP-1 instances had unrestricted Internet access from devices present in the surrounding areas until SCP-1093-JP was contained in 2011, and since then the Foundation has directed their access attempts to a copy of the Internet stored on on-site servers and partially blocked their connection to the outside. Given that new collage images originating from SCP-1093-JP continue to appear online, countermeasures are underway to enable their complete blocking from the Internet.
The current research approach is to investigate the origins of SCP-1093-JP through decoding and recording the unique language and communication within it, while Foundation agents posing as SCP-1093-JP-1 instances interact with them to study their social structure and search for POI-1093-JP.
Addendum: The following are sample instances of SCP-1093-JP-2 after memetic decontamination process.
