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Artistic rendering of SCP-170-PT.
Item #: SCP-170-PT
Threat Level: N/A
Object Class: Keter Neutralized
Special Containment Procedures: As of 31/12/2025, SCP-170-PT has ceased to exhibit its anomalous properties (see Addendum-170-PT-C). The Special Containment Procedures for the object are no longer required. The old iteration of the Containment Procedures can be inspected below.
Due to its distance and position in interstellar space, widespread containment of SCP-170-PT is currently impossible. All media reporting on SCP-170-PT must be manipulated and suppressed so that all information obtained about the object's anomalous effects that is not under the Foundation's domain is modified or deleted.
Area PT170, located in Kourou, French Guiana, was built specifically to be the head location for research on the anomalous object. Its purpose is to store data collected on the anomalous effects of SCP-170-PT, as well as general observation of the anomaly through advanced long-range telescopes. Observatories around the globe are used and controlled by the Foundation, in cooperation with NASA, ESA, and other minor space agencies.
The use of the anomalous properties of SCP-170-PT to aid in the discovery and exploration of other extraterrestrial anomalies via the manipulation of Voyager-1 is authorized only for personnel with Credentials of Level 170-PT/4 or higher.
Description: SCP-170-PT is the designation given to Voyager-2, a space probe launched in 1977 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida. Currently, SCP-170-PT is located ~122.2 UA away from the Sun, traveling at ~57.900 km/h. SCP-170-PT, as well as its non-anomalous counterpart (Voyager-1), have already passed the heliopause and, depending on their current trajectory, will reach the Oort cloud in ~300 years. The anomalous properties of SCP-170-PT were discovered on 06/06/2018, shortly after a change in the object's trajectory, launched specifically to follow a straight path. After investigations, no events or changes in the probe that might have changed its trajectory were discovered.
SCP-170-PT can change its trajectory to courses that go towards Voyager-1's current location, whether these new trajectories are curvy or not. The locomotion methods exercised by the object are currently unknown. Still keeping its original function, SCP-170-PT has shown to be able to transmit photographic records, although at a decreasing rate due to its constant distancing.1 Images sent by the object are similar to the ordinary data previously sent by the probe, with the modification of a message located always in the lower left corner of the image (see Addendum-170-PT-A.)
Event-170-PT is the designation given to a series of events that occurred after the approach of SCP-170-PT to Voyager-1 at a distance of ~160 UA. After this perimeter is passed, Voyager-1's trajectory will be modified, changing its direction, distance or acceleration. Area PT170, having constant access to Voyager-1, can easily change the weight on either side of the probe via settings to change its current route,2 consequently changing the trajectory of SCP-170-PT.
Addendum-170-PT-A — SCP-170-PT Event Transcription: Below are the messages attached to the photographic records sent by SCP-170-PT to Area PT170's database, prior to the Watkins-Event (see Addendum-170-PT-B.) The images, as they are not the main focus, have been removed.
<BEGIN LOG>
[11/07/2018]: i think i'm too far from home. i wonder how it must be there since i left?
[13/07/2018]: little brother is always getting into trouble. last time i tried to get to him, he was playing with a weird, brownish planet. he has to stop before he gets hurt.
[17/07/2018]: very empty. i can see a bunch of dots quickly moving. what are they?
[19/07/2018]: i can see a pink dot. i don't know what it is, but it seems charming. if i'm going there, it's because little brother found it interesting too.
[22/07/2018]: following the same path all the time is pretty tedious. at least i know it's worth it.
[28/07/2018]: huh. i don't think i missed much, even hibernating from boredom. i'm still a long way off, so it isn't much worthwhile for me to send photos if they're not going to be of good use.
[05/08/2018]: okay, i just woke up and this pink thing is really weird. it looks like earth, but not quite. it's pink, so it should be nice.
[09/08/2018]: i can see him! finally! now is the time, i can feel it!
[10/08/2018]: where is he going now? he seems confused. i have to get there in time, i don't want him getting hurt or hitting those weird flying rocks.
[12/08/2018]: oh no.
[14/08/2018]: i saw him getting hurt! i have to get there. what if he gets even more hurt? it's not the purpose i wanted.
[17/08/2018]: i hope i get there on time.
<END LOG>
Shortly after the last photographic record, SCP-170-PT entered a state of hibernation, and remained inert during this period. Although inert, the object's anomalous properties remained active.
Addendum-170-PT-B — Watkins-Event: After a series of observations carried out by researchers from Area PT170, it is predicted that both Voyager-1 and SCP-170-PT will go through a process (called the Watkins-Event) in which they will cease to be functional in ~6-8 years due to depletion of the energy capacity of both probes, although SCP-170-PT has a longer operating time.
Addendum-170-PT-C — Initiation of the Watkins-Event: On 16/12/2025, SCP-170-PT awoke from its sleep state, once again recording more photographic data of its trajectory. During its trip, SCP-170-PT began discarding heavy objects that were not proving useful in its current situation. Below are messages attached to the last photographs taken by the object.
<BEGIN LOG>
[16/12/2025]: i did it. little brother is crashing down on a planet i have never seen before. i'm falling with him, possibly alongside each other. after all these years, i was able to reach his level. to get where he got.
[20/12/2025]: i can finally look up to the sky and rest. what i once thought impossible has become real. my goal is complete. little brother has gone before me, but i still feel proud.
[28/12/2025]: i thank those who took me away from my home planet to travel. i saw so many wonderful things, so many planets, so many phenomena, i can barely list. everyone who made me gave their hearts to the work, it's only fair that i give my own to you.
<END LOG>
After this last interaction, SCP-170-PT remained inert for 3 consecutive days, until on 31/12/2025, at ~00:00, it transferred the following record to the database of Area PT170, shortly after which the object was deactivated due to its lack of energy:
[31/12/2025]: thank you.
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