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Article: SCP-250-DE - Bielefeld? Das gibt's doch gar nicht (mehr).
Original-Autor: 
Dr Ore
Translator: Dr Ore
Pictures: see discussion page
Object #: SCP-250-DE
Object Class: Thaumiel
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-250-DE is currently stored in Outpost-DE4/250 and must remain in its Eisler-Johann Space Isolator System at all times. This System must be powered at all times and has two backup generators for this purpose, which are activated in the event of a power failure. Should the power supply fail completely or SCP-250-DE be stolen, normal containment conditions must be restored within six months. Otherwise, Site-DE9 and all personnel and anomalies therein shall be considered lost and its accesses shall not be reopened.
The Eisler-Johann Space Isolator may only be operated and adjusted by persons with clearance 4/250-EN. Maintenance and repairs must, if possible, be carried out during operation. If this is not possible, the apparatus can be deactivated for up to two days with prior notification as well as evacuation of site-DE9.
Due to its strategic importance, an infantry platoon consisting of forty security personnel must be placed in housings close to Bielefeld University to guard SCP-250-DE in shifts of ten personnel each at all times. Furthermore, half of the present combat personnel from Site-DE3-EX, -DE4, -DE8, and -DE15 must be on call at all times in the event of an attack on SCP-250-DE's isolation cell in Outpost-DE4/250.
In order to conceal SCP-250-DE's existence, Bielefeld University's power bills must be manipulated to hide the energy consumption of the Eisler-Johann Space Isolator System. The Foundation reimburses the university via donations for the electricity costs incurred.
If a message with the code word TITAN is sent to Outpost-DE4/250, a wormhole with the desired specifications is to be opened at the coordinates received in the message using the Eisler wormhole projector after receiving permission from the site director of Site-DE9. It should be noted that such an action can currently only be performed safely at intervals of one year or longer.
The safety of wormholes generated by the Eisler-Johann Space Isolator System should be verified before use by throwing an object, such as rocks or tennis balls, through them.
SCP-250-DE. The background appears black due to backlight.
Description: SCP-250-DE is a 75 cm diameter sphere made of an unknown material. Its weight is about 15 kg. It glows from within and has a continuously changing bubble pattern in the pink to red spectrum. So far, it has not been possible to take samples from the object because it could not be damaged by any methods used by the Foundation.
When SCP-250-DE is subjected to electric currents of at least 200 volts, it begins to distort the spatial structure around it, an effect whose radius of action continuously expands at a rate decreasing by the square the longer energy is applied to it. Under SCP-250-DE's undirected action, wormholes spontaneously form and spatial dimensions are stretched and compressed. This usually remains without consequences for static objects when the energy supply is stopped, but objects and living beings that have been moved within the radius of effect may retain spatial deformations that manifest themselves in a distortion of their physical shape and, in rare cases, wormholes in their interior. Wormholes, in particular, often prove fatal in living creatures as they connect organs whose contents negatively affect each other. The largest distortion field documented to date was 50 meters in diameter.
It has also been found that the effect can be deflected by strong magnetic fields, intensifying it in the remaining area of effect and directing it so that it no longer bends space, but merely exerts extremely strong pressure on the fabric of space. This can result in the opening of passageways to other adjacent spatial constructs such as pocket dimensions and metaphysical planes.
The Foundation became aware of SCP-250-DE and its associated studies in 1993 when rumors surfaced that "space experiments" were being conducted at Bielefeld University, that the university was gradually being converted into a spaceship, and that a conspiracy existed to cover up the fact that Bielefeld did not exist. An investigation revealed the existence of SCP-250-DE at the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Bielefeld und Umgegend e. V. (i.e. Natural Science Association for Bielefeld and the surrounding area), and the Foundation took custody of the object and all those involved in the studies of the object.
The object came into the possession of the association in 1972 through the donation of an amateur geologist who had allegedly found the object on Puys de Sancy in the Massif Central, France. After apparently accidentally dropping the object and destroying a lamp in the process, its anomalous properties were noted.
By using an induction furnace from the Faculty of Mathematics and Engineering at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, it was later possible to focus and align SCP-250-DE's effect in such a way that a harmless wormhole could be created. However, this wormhole did not connect to any location on Earth, but instead opened access to SCP-250-DE-1.
Recording from SCP-250-DE-1.
SCP-250-DE-1 is a pocket dimension with an area of about 270 km2. The sky of the place is at all times covered by gray clouds through which light from an unknown source shines on the whole pocket dimension. Inside the pocket dimension, the air temperature is a constant 23.5 °C. At the time of its discovery, it housed the partially overgrown ruins of a dilapidated city, as well as the remains of its former inhabitants, which were examined by the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Bielefeld und Umgegend e. V. According to their findings, the ruins were the remains of the city of Bielefeld, which had apparently been transported to this dimension in 1637.
Foreword: The interrogations are conducted in Site DE4 in an appropriate room. Together with Agent Koschwitz, the interrogator and the primary subject █████ ████ there are two guards in the room.
<Begin of Recording>
█████ ████: Okay, uhm, before we get started, I think there's a huge misunderstanding here.
Agent Koschwitz: Of what kind?
█████ ████: Well, uh, we- we didn't do anything unjust. Everything that was dead in there was dead before we even opened a wormhole.
Agent Koschwitz: Ah, no. You're not here for any crimes, you're here because you and your people messed around with something we commonly refer to as "anomalous."
█████ ████: Wha- Holy shit, is this the MIB?
Agent Koschwitz: Yep.
█████ ████: Oh … that's not exactly fair … Have we broken intergalactic law?
Agent Koschwitz: Possibly, but we won't prosecute you for that. On the contrary. We would like to continue your research, preferably in a way with which we do not risk the whole world suddenly getting into the photo distortion filter.
█████ ████: Uhm … You'll excuse me, but you have a strange way of coming at us for this. I mean, I got dragged into a car on the way to work and everything.
Agent Koschwitz: You are on sick leave for the time. Sudden flu. And the handling stems from the fact that the publication of your findings at this time … could make waves. Do you know what some organizations would do if they knew you had a device that created wormholes?
█████ ████: How do I know they're not one of those?
Agent Koschwitz: By the fact that they are still alive and not being blackmailed in any way. We are as curious as you are. And I can assure you, we have much more precise and comprehensive methods than an induction furnace.
█████ ████: I admit, that was improvised … But, what should I tell you?
Agent Koschwitz: First of all, how did you get this stone?
█████ ████: It was donated by a certain Georg Siebenwurst, sometime in 1972. According to him, it comes from Puys de Sancy. That is a mountain in France.
Agent Koschwitz: Where is this Mr Siebenwurst now?
█████ ████: If no one has dug him up, he should still be lying in Bielefeld's central cemetery …
Agent Koschwitz: Oh … So, um, how did you figure out how this object works? I mean, who holds electrical contacts to a stone?
█████ ████: We found that out last year when we were reorganizing. Bill was tasked with clearing out the storage area where the sphere used to be. The stone had never been displayed in its time, it was too heavy and too big to put in one of our display cases, and no one wanted to leave it free standing because it could easily roll away. Well, anyway, the thing rolled away from him. It bounced down a flight of stairs and crashed into a wall light. Apparently docked directly to one of the contacts, because it immediately started distorting its surroundings.
Agent Koschwitz: How did you come up with the idea of turning off the power?
█████ ████: We didn't, the thing drew so much juice that it caused a short circuit. But we drew our conclusions from this when we reconstructed the accident.
Agent Koschwitz: I see. But why did you start the research?
█████ ████: Do you know anything comparable? We felt as if we had landed on the moon. We thought to ourselves, "If we explore this, we'll go down in the annals of history." And that's what we did.
Agent Koschwitz: And the furnace?
█████ ████: Funny thing, the magnetic field thing was an accidental discovery. The room we experimented in had a white board with a few refrigerator magnets. Surprisingly, those weren't affected as much as the rest of the room. So we wondered if the effect couldn't be used directionally. One of our members is a materials scientist at the University of Bielefeld and provided us with access to the induction furnace.
Agent Koschwitz: And it did not melt the cables that supplied the stone with energy?
█████ ████: We lowered the frequency so that there was no significant induction to melt copper in the first place.
Agent Koschwitz: Okay. And the wormhole?
█████ ████: Oh, you can't imagine how surprised we were. A whole dimension that opened up to us. We did lots of experiments to find out if we could safely move around in there. Then we did a week-long excursion with the wormhole closed, because we couldn't block the furnace all the time.
Agent Koschwitz: Weren't you afraid that you wouldn't be able to go back?
█████ ████: I think each of us hat a little bit of goosebumbs, but you needed strong nerves to get around in there. I mean, there were mummified corpses everywhere in there. Animals, men, women, old people, children … babies… Uiuiui … We camped outside the city on purpose, where death wasn't so ubiquitous, but it still gave us quite a shiver. Still, what we found out was worth the horror.
Agent Koschwitz: Mhm? What would you have done with your findings?
█████ ████: Well, the plan was to open the whole thing as a compendium, to have the story confirmed by scientific representatives and to announce completely new findings about our city.
Agent Koschwitz: That doesn't exist?
█████ ████: Uh, yeah, that was a running gag among us. I mean, if Bielefeld is in there, it can't exist in our world. Ergo, Bielefeld does not exist. Well, it doesn't exist anymore. And someone tries to hide that with all his might.
Agent Koschwitz: And the thing with the spaceship?
█████ ████: I assume the students were aware of our experimental setup, which we were constantly tweaking. We had been given permission to just move the whole rack into the corner so we didn't have to keep rebuilding it. The rest is the result of the rumor mill, I'm afraid.
Rest of interview shortened due to irrelevance.
<End of recording>
Closing remarks: █████ ████ and several other research members were later recruited by the Foundation for their outstanding work in researching SCP-250-DE-1 and are currently pursuing their work at Site-DE9. The remaining members were subjected to an amnestic regime and released.
At that time, the Foundation did not have the means to completely suppress the "Bielefeld conspiracy theory" that had arisen and therefore limited itself to modifying its origin in such a way that no more parallels to SCP-250-DE could be drawn. In retrospect, this turned out to be a stroke of luck, as █████████ ██████, then a member of the SCP-250-DE excursion, suffered a relapse in 2009 due to a previously unknown resistance to the amnesics used at the time. However, his attempted disclosure was dismissed by the public without Foundation influence as a marketing stunt for the upcoming film The Bielefeld Conspiracy. ██████ was later taken back into custody and his memory purged with further, stronger amnesics.
The Foundation established an outpost-DE4/250 in remote, underground facilities at Bielefeld University, inaccessible to the public and university faculty, after the conclusion of the investigation. Maintenance workers and janitors with access to the area are all employed and paid by the Foundation. This action was unavoidable because SCP-250-DE could not create a portal at any other location the Foundation tested in Bielefeld.
After the establishment of Outpost-DE4/250, extensive studies of SCP-250-DE-1 and the reasons for its existence began. Numerous documents were recovered from the pocket dimension, but due to their age and lack of maintenance, many of them were no longer legible.
Note: The following texts were recovered from SCP-250-DE and consulted for the reconstruction of SCP-250-DE's creation and its aftermath, and are listed in the order in which they were written.
All these years, this city has experienced nothing but suffering. As a young lad, we experienced a severe earthquake in which my mother was killed by a brick that had come loose from a wall. As a man I had to face the armies of the Dutch and the Spanish and now wait for the Hessians and the Swedes to liberate us. I can count on one hand the days in recent years when I fell asleep with a full belly. And now that I am gradually graying and there is still no peace in sight, the Black Death is descending upon us. Have we not suffered enough? Have we not earned peace, fought for security? The Lord God seems to have abandoned us, but I say enough is enough. If He does not hold His hand over us, then I will force us into His hand.
I, as a scholar of sciences, have never thought much of the practices of holy men and witchcraft, for I believe that He alone decides on whom He sets His gaze. But this book that I now hold in my hands could be the key to solving our torment. I got it from the possessions of the sorcerer who sent us the plague. I was able to save it before it burned at the stake along with him and the rest of his possessions. I followed the book's instructions and sure enough, I was able to create an ice cube in my bowl of water. Perhaps with this power I can save what the wizard and the war have corrupted.
My power is growing, but I need to hide it and the book even better. People are still talking about the explosion a few weeks ago, but they seem to believe in a misplaced powder keg.
I think I've found a way to save Bilevelt. The book talks about ghosts. Powerful beings who are said that the most powerful of them can divide heaven and earth. With them, I can save my people. I can force entrance into the kingdom of heaven.
The preparations are completed. On all corners and all borders of Bilevelt the sacrifices were offered and rituals were performed. I had to sneak out of the city and into the Hessian and Swedish camps at night to get everything ready, but thanks to my powers it didn't take much effort. All that remains now is to speak the last words and release the slingshot that will rapture Bielefeld. Let the angels judge the Spaniards who sit in our castle.
Lord knows what happened, but our beautiful city was shaken by an earthquake. Above us now is a cloudy sky stretching to the horizon. The mayor has had a count done to see if anyone was harmed. Everyone seems unharmed, but the scholar Heinkel has disappeared. We'll look for him tomorrow, if we don't find him while we're surveying the damage.
We can't go out. Bilevelt and part of the siege forces have been enveloped in gray fog. Whoever enters it appears on the other side of the city. What's more, all the streams and rivers in the area have dried up and large lakes have formed on the borders of the fog, gradually seeping into the ground. Is this one of its trials? I confess, the church was caught in the skirmishes and I have not repaired it in full, but can this already anger you, Lord?
The Swedish and Hessian soldiers seem to be as confused as we are and did not try to stop us. A ray of hope in these gloomy times.
Heinkel seems to have made it out, we couldn't find him anywhere. Where might he be? Can't he take us with him?
The mayor has made an inventory of the supplies. Our fields are not enough to feed the population, even though the seeds have been planted. Our food should last for a while; however, it has already leaked out that rationing is being done. The Spaniards have entrenched themselves in the fortress, they only send someone every now and then to check on things.
We have lost sight of the plague. In the confusion of this chaos, more cases went unnoticed. A field hospital was set up outside the city.
Can not sleep. Day and night no longer exist in here. Always the same cloudy sky. Only through the tower clock do we know when it's time to go to bed. Today a child came to me and asked when the sun, moon and stars will return. I told him, if God wills it, and encouraged him to say his evening prayer with full fervor.
The besiegers have offered to help us where they can as long as we are trapped here. Good people. The Spaniards, however, hardly set foot out of the fortress. Some wonder about their food supply.
The sky is eating away at our sanity. No sun, no rain, no wind, not even the temperature changes. Saw some children and also adults running through the streets, simply because they want to feel the wind.
You might think that without rain we dry out, but the green continues to thrive, although slower. Maybe the water can't leave here either and collects somewhere.
The plague continues to spread, despite our efforts to contain it. I am not a doctor, but could it be that the lack of wind is causing the disease to settle in the walls like soot?
More and more people come to me to pray. The plague claims more victims. The doctors say that at this rate we will all be sick in three months.
The boy who asked me about the stars was taken to the military hospital today. It's getting bigger and bigger. Probably soon it will take up a whole district.
One of the supply depots caught fire. I thought I was not seeing right, instead of extinguishing it, people were standing in front of it, enjoying the sun, before the fire department called them back to their senses.
The damage has been quantified. It looks like we will succumb to hunger rather than disease if the Spaniards don't let us into the fortress.
A mob, led by the besiegers, broke into the military hospital. The guard was no match for the sheer volume. All the patients and those who tried to defend them are dead. Apparently they don't want to give any more food to those who seemed doomed.
Despite the purge, the plague persists. There are new cases, most among those who stormed the military hospital. Distrust spreads because everyone thinks everyone is infected.
Today, fights have broken out at the supply depot. The camp administrator does not want to give out any more food for plague patients, so now everyone is stealing and robbing each other.
Several men are trying to break into the fortress. They have improvised a battering ram. A plague corpse from the castle was thrown at their feet. So death has come there too. Who knows if their food is even edible anymore.
Today a fire broke out in the forge. Apparently the blacksmith Höfer was defending his wife against a burglar. It was probably believed that she had fallen ill with the plague.
I have discovered black bumps on my arm.
Note: The following texts come from various archives of Foundation precursors active in Germany, as well as the Vatican archives, and relate to Bielefeld's disappearance and its aftermath. They are listed in the order in which they were written.
Military report by Obrist Stöcker
It was an unfathomable sight that presented itself to us. From one moment to the next there was a flash of light and the city we had sought to conquer was no more. Along with our frontline troops, it had disappeared. In its place there was only empty wasteland and the man.
The man was a terrible apparition. He glowed bright blue from within, and sparks crackled on the ground whenever he took a step. He spoke with a voice that could not belong to one man alone, but to a whole choir.
In a louder voice than should be possible for a living being, he introduced himself to us. He said he was Arbarab, spirit of another plane and devourer of Bilevelt.
I and my soldiers did not know what to make of this, but if he could destroy a whole city, it was more than necessary to strike him down as soon as possible. Our cannoneers fired at him, but the cannonballs were deflected by an invisible force and fell harmlessly behind him.
I asked the riflemen to fire together with the cannoneers at this abomination, because, I thought, he could not deflect all the bullets and if he did, it would not be indefinitely. But things turned out differently. The cannonballs continued to be deflected off course and hit the wasteland, but the rifle bullets turned back in mid-flight and struck down the gunners.
While we were still recovering from the shock, our enemy suddenly disappeared and reappeared abruptly in the midst of our ranks. A movement of his hand was enough to separate the heads from the shoulders of twenty men around him.
He was sadistic. He asked us to surrender to him and become his vassals with whom he would conquer the surrounding lands. "Peace" he wanted to bring, he said, so that there would never be war again. None of us believed him.
Some of the Swedes must have thought they were being mocked, because they simply charged while their guns thundered, regardless of the fact that they were crossfiring at my troops. A stomp from the enemy lifted them off their feet and made them recoil. Lightning twitched from his fingers and felled the brave Swedes, while the rifle shots continued to hit only their own riflemen. And during this, he laughed.
This monster was so busy with his carnage that he didn't even notice how a small powder keg rolled towards him from our ranks. I didn't know what that was about until I noticed the fuse. The barrel exploded the moment it hit the man's heels. It was not enough to kill him, but he was on fire and writhing on the ground in cries of pain. I instructed my troops to stab him with the swords and spears, so that he may become one with the steel.
He did not stop us. Apparently he couldn't, yet it took two dozen stab wounds for him to stop moving. I and my men can testify that afterwards a blue shadow left his body and burst high in the sky above us. Whatever had gone into that poor fellow had left him.
Several soldiers tried to take credit for the bomb, but I know my men. One group of them referred to young Wilhelm Steiner. He has a smart head on his shoulders, so I would like to propose him for promotion.
Note: The following letter was written by Cardinal Carlo Emmanuele Pio di Savoia from Vatican City and had been addressed to the newly appointed German-Roman Emperor Ferdinand III.
His Holiness Urban VIII, as well as I, congratulate Your Majesty on your coronation as Emperor. Before you continue reading, I must insist that you keep the contents of this letter as well as any steps you may take as a result of it as secret as possible, because it is a matter of such importance that entire kingdoms could suffer if you approach this problem, which I will now describe to you, in the wrong way.
It came to the Vatican's ears a few weeks ago that a blasphemous creature had wiped out the city of Bilevelt. Based on the description we received, our archivists have a very precise idea of the creature capable of such destruction. In this regard, it is better if we now remain silent about this beast.
Unfortunately, we must assume that others also know about the existence of such an abomination and will try to subjugate it in order to repeat the tragedy of Bilevelt. I hope I do not have to explain to you what a disaster this would mean for the Empire.
With the help of some allies, we are leaving no stone unturned at the moment to hide this disaster, but the fact that the city no longer exists is irrefutable. His Holiness therefore implores you to repopulate Bilevelt's former territory, if possible under the same name. To this end, we offer you the prospect of 5,000,000 gulden if you can accomplish this undertaking without breaking the silence.
I wish you all the happiness that the Lord can give you.
Cardinal Carlo Emmanuele Pio di Savoia
At the behest of His Majesty, the Roman-German Emperor Ferdinand the Third, the destroyed city of Bilevelt is hereby refounded. It is intended to pay peasants who will begin to reclaim the land, while architects, masons, roofers, carpenters and all the other workers needed to erect buildings will rebuild the Sparrenburg Fortress, as well as the houses of the city, as it was recorded in paintings and frescoes. Residents of the city will be forbidden, on pain of death, to report on their coming here or the rebuilding of the city. Violators will be discreetly punished. Spies will be sent into the city to uncover them. The House of Hohenzollern is responsible for ensuring compliance with these guidelines. inevitable failure in this task will result in the comprehensive removal from nobility by decree of His Majesty the Roman-German Emperor.
(Taken from Fraktur: At the behest of His Majesty, the Roman-German Emperor Ferdinand the Third, the destroyed city of Bilevelt is hereby refounded. It is intended to pay peasants who will begin to reclaim the land, while architects, masons, roofers, carpenters and all the other workers needed to erect buildings will rebuild the Sparrenburg Fortress, as well as the houses of the city, as it was recorded in paintings and frescoes. Residents of the city will be forbidden, on pain of death, to report on their coming here or the rebuilding of the city. Violators will be discreetly punished. Spies will be sent into the city to uncover them. The House of Hohenzollern is responsible for ensuring compliance with these guidelines. inevitable failure in this task will result in the comprehensive removal from nobility by decree of His Majesty the Roman-German Emperor.)
A magnetic ring component of the Eisler-Johan Room Isolator System.
In order to freely explore SCP-250-DE, the Eisler-Johann Space Isolator System was developed at Site-DE12 and completed in 1998. These devices use magnetic fields to align and adjust the effect of the anomaly. After some experimentation, it was found that the effect could be relayed, deflected, and amplified within SCP-250-DE-1 via ring-shaped electromagnets. Taking advantage of these properties, it became possible to open wormholes of arbitrary diameter to distant locations. Therefore, after extensive experiments, a wormhole was opened in site-DE19, through which the pocket dimension could be explored without much effort. In 1999, a project proposal was sent to the O4 Council by the responsible project leader, Dr. Buchenwald, based on the knowledge gained.
Project Proposal WARP
From: Dr. Ines Waldtraut Buchenwald
To: O4 Council
Date: 25.10.1999
Esteemed O4 Council,
As our research into SCP-250-DE-1 continues and progress is made in the further development of the Eisler-Johann Space Isolator System, we see great potential in this pocket dimension for the establishment of a new Foundation site. This space construct offers the possibility of secure containment of high-intensity and high-risk anomalies without running the risk of the public learning of their existence even in the event of a containment breach. In addition, the last option would be to permanently lock down all access points to SCP-250-DE.
Furthermore, the use of SCP-250-DE makes it possible to create wormholes to all locations in our area of responsibility, if not beyond, which greatly simplifies the logistics of emergency forces and especially of highly dangerous anomalies.
The only problem we have is the power supply. Experiments with the Eisler-Johann Space Isolator System have shown that SCP-250-DE's bending effect can be directed to several different points simultaneously, but once completed and with access to all sites, this design would require about twenty times the amount of power currently expended. Therefore, establishing priorities for wormholes to be preserved and establishing a power plant within SCP-250-DE is strongly recommended.
The Eisler Wormhole Projector.
Following a 9-4 decision by the O4 Council in favor of the proposal, construction began on Site-DE9, while at the same time efforts were being undertaken to expand the Eisler-Johann Space Isolator System so that multiple sites could be simultaneously connected to SCP-250-DE. In addition, construction began on the Eisler Wormhole Projector, an enhancement of the Space Isolator System that allows temporary wormholes to be opened at theoretically any location in the universe. It was determined that accesses to sites DE19, DE25, and DE6 had top priority and had to be specially secured.
Site-DE9 went into operation on Nov. 15, 2007. At this time, however, the Eisler-Johann Space Isolator System was not calibrated well enough to connect additional sites, so the first major logistics ventures were using the Eisler wormhole projector. In 2008, site-DE20 was connected, followed by site-DE6 in 2009. However, further sites could not be connected due to Incident 250-DE-1 in 2010.
Incident 250-DE-1: The incident occurred in the morning as further tests were being conducted to open a suitable wormhole to Site-DE12. SCP-250-DE suddenly exhibited previously undocumented activity and began to increase and decrease the intensity of its effects seemingly at random, regardless of the applied current. This anomaly was noted when D-28837 was asked to drive a sheep through the newly created wormhole for testing. The sheep was shredded by a spatial distortion upon entering the wormhole, with D-28837 recoiling before he could also become a victim of the anomaly. Similar incidents also occurred when people passed through the pre-existing wormholes, with the exception of the original portal in Outpost-DE4/250.
The Eisler-Johann Space Isolator System was then reworked over a period of six months to better withstand such phenomena and to ensure the stability of the existing wormholes. While this effort succeeded to the complete satisfaction of all involved, the new, unpredictable nature of SCP-250-DE complicated the calibration of new wormholes to such a degree that their creation was no longer economically viable. In addition, SCP-250-DE now appears to have a sort of "colldown time" of one year, which affects the deployment of the Eisler spacetime projector. After its deployment, the intensity of fluctuations of the anomaly increases to such a degree that further deployment of the device carries a high risk of a malfunctioning wormhole and, in addition, jeopardizes the safety of the entire Eisler-Johann Space Isolator System and thus the existing wormholes. The security measures have been adapted to this end.
It is now believed that SCP-250-DE has been damaged by the ever-increasing load, but Site-DE9 is by now such an important containment site that the risk of anomaly failure must be accepted.
Appendix 250-DE-1: Post-incident measurements have shown that SCP-250-DE-1 has begun to expand at a rate of about 5 cm per year, perfectly mimicking the topography around Bielefeld. Research on the implications of this phenomenon is ongoing.
