SCP-ES-021

Item #: SCP-ES-021

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-ES -021 has been confined in Dimensional Containment Area-993, located in the urban center of Taipei, Taiwan, as part of a cover involving the government of the Republic of China and Taiwan. The Foundation maintains permanently deployed the local teams of the Mobile Detachments Dseda-8 ("Desperta Ferro"), Eta-18 ("I Ching") and Gamma-4 ("Good Morning , Innsmouth") along with local teams from the Global Occult Coalition, who are standing by in case the current containment fails.

If SCP-ES-021 escapes from the Limit Containment Sector and reaches Dimensional Containment Area-993, the Chief Director of Armed Dimensional Command and Containment Site-994 will inform the government authorities of the Republic of China and Taiwan and request the evacuation of Taipei as part of the Grade 5 Unconventional Weapons Primary Protocol. The civilian population, as well as the international community, will be alerted to the possibility of a terrorist attack using nuclear weapons or radiological dispersal devices.

If SCP-ES-021 escapes from Containment Sector Two within Dimensional Containment Area-993, catastrophic casualties occur in the Dseda-8 or Gamma-1 Mobile Detachments stationed inside it or cause a complete collapse in the primary dimensional effect of the Area-993, it will be the immediate authority of the Chief Director of Site-994 of Command and Armed Dimensional Containment to demand a joint attack with the units of the Global Occult Coalition stationed or deployed in Taipei, if possible within the Limit Containment Sector or in the interior of Site-994. In order to enable a more or less direct supervision of the event and its circumstances in safe conditions, multiple observation posts have been established around Taipei (Posts 9345, 9346, 9347 and 9359),

In the event of a complete failure of all containment mechanisms described above, any Clearance Level 4 personnel present in Taiwan may request the use of Containment Protocol 994-0. Final permission to use Containment Protocol 994-0 rests on a unanimous vote of the O5 Command Council. O5-13 has an administrative veto on this vote. Since the diplomatic and social consequences of this event are difficult to predict, limited reports have been received by Foundation partner governments concerning Containment Protocol 994-0 and the direct consequences of its implementation.

Under no circumstances should the Global Occult Coalition or the main body of the United Nations be informed of the existence of Containment Protocol 994-0.

Description: SCP-ES-021 is an entity of unknown origin and of which the Foundation has no information prior to its appearance, on 03/21/20██, in the Taiwan Strait.

SCP-ES-021 appears to be a biological organism, although the study of samples obtained from it does not reveal cellular structures, identifiable molecular machinery or DNA-like molecules. Although this could be due to the extreme methods necessary to cause enough damage to SCP-ES-021 to allow the extraction of samples or its vulnerability to rapid degradation due to exposure to the atmosphere, it has been proposed that SCP-ES- 021 does not resemble any previously known biological system.

Structurally, SCP-ES-021 consists of three large main portions:

• Central body: A rigid and approximately spindle-shaped structure 459 meters long and 34 meters in diameter at its central point, with multiple protuberances of unknown function that run lengthwise until the source of the handling and transport structures. Covered by a shell that, to date, has resisted any attempt at penetration, including anti-tank artillery weaponry, [REDACTED], [DATA EXPUNGED], various esoteric methods deployed by the attack forces of the Global Occult Coalition, thermonuclear weaponry ( one kiloton, three kilotons, [REDACTED], [REDACTED]), and [DATA EXPUNGED], which should be impossible for all known material. Precisely for this reason it has been impossible to extract any sample of this structure.

• Manipulator appendages: SCP-ES-021 has a variable number of tentacular appendages (between 230 and ███.███) composed of a partially gelatinous material that arise from two openings located at both ends of the shell of the central body. Their length is also variable, with members up to ████ meters having been recorded). SCP-ES-021 can regenerate or project new appendages at high speed, and it has been proven that it has fine control over all of them simultaneously. Due to the corrosive properties of its structure, contact of any form of living organic matter with the manipulating appendages of SCP-ES-021 has invariably resulted in death. On multiple occasions, groups of manipulative appendages have been organized to form replicas of more or less functional anatomical structures, including human or animal organs and limbs, as well as plant components. This component of SCP-ES-021 is quite fragile, and its growth and regeneration is prevented at temperatures below -34ºC.

• Transportation appendages: SCP-ES-021 has demonstrated considerable self-propelled transition capacity, reaching speeds of [DATA EXPUNGED] through the use of tentacular appendages (between 3 and 34) that arise from a single opening in the upper face of its central body. These appendages have also been shown to be able to organize themselves into coherent anatomical structures that allow translation, including fins, elytra, wings, [DATA EXPUNGED], or humanoid legs. Despite the immense tensile force to which they are subjected and the mass under which they continue to function under normal conditions, the appendages have not been able to withstand prolonged attacks with conventional weapons, making them a prime target in the event of an attack. containment failure.

• [DATA EXPUNGED] sensory organ. The type of information that SCP-ES-021 obtains from it is unknown, but given its continuous and precise response to multiple threats and targets in real time, it could be assumed that it absorbs all types of information (visual, auditory, infrared, ultraviolet, vibration , [REDACTED]). Unfortunately, its regeneration rate is excessively fast, making it impossible to permanently damage it under normal conditions. It is notable to mention that COG assessment teams have confirmed that this organ [DATA EXPUNGED] Facet Radiation.

SCP-ES-021-1 is the designation given to molecular destabilization phenomena that occur around SCP-ES-021, generally in those objects or people that try to attack SCP-ES-021, and that occur within a radius of approximately 13 and a half kilometers around SCP-ES-021. SCP-ES-021-1 usually encompasses areas of between ten and fifteen meters around the primary objective, and its effects are variable and generally catastrophic for all types of living organisms, affecting all matter involved in the affected volume. SCP-ES-021 does not seem to have direct control over SCP-ES-021-1.

Documentation SCP-ES-021-GAMMA-4: Containment Log

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SCP-ES-021 is an entity of unknown origin that was recorded for the first time when it was sighted by the civilian personnel of a merchant ship in the vicinity of the Penghu Islands. No images of the encounter are preserved, but the Chinese government informed the Foundation as soon as the alerts corresponding to the requests for help from the ship were processed.

SCP-ES-021 was detected again near the southwest coast of Taiwan, which it reached during the night of 03/22/20██. Foundation personnel resorted to the use of satellites and communications platforms from the government of the People's Republic of China from this point on. At this moment, the visible part of the entity is an oval shell with organic-appearing bulges from which it emerges approximately 230 meters in length above the sea surface. Its means of propulsion are unknown.

SCP-ES-021 is intercepted by a Foundation early response team, which [DATA EXPUNGED] There are no survivors. O5-03 calls an emergency meeting of grade 3 of the O5 Council. It is established that SCP-ES-021 constitutes an entity with a Response Risk Level III-Supposed Keter Alpha, and the Mission Toca Noodles is established.

During the organization of the military forces that will constitute the Mobile Task Force ██-█, SCP-ES-021 makes landfall near [REDACTED]. Although the civilian population of the area has been evacuated, SCP-ES-021 is recorded by multiple Foundation response and reconnaissance groups. SCP-ES-021 appears at this moment with its known appearance. Its carrying appendages take the appearance of five lower limbs of various insects. Its manipulative appendages interact with multiple structures present in the area, causing considerable damage. When producing these damages, SCP-ES-021 tries to interact with the damaged structures, trying to restore their integrity without succeeding. SCP-ES-021 comes into contact with multiple living beings at this time, including local fauna and flora, resulting in the death of most beings that come in contact with its appendages. SCP-ES-021 spends approximately three hours burying ███ domestic animals in a field.

Next, SCP-ES-021 reconfigures its transport appendages, turning them into elytra that propel it until it is suspended at a height of 121 meters above the ground, with which its handling appendages are just above all life forms.

After thirteen minutes, an interval in which it remains immobile, SCP-ES-021 sets a course in a straight line towards Taipei at a speed of ██ kilometers per hour. Given the imminent breach of secrecy, O5-██ declares the activation of Administrative Protocol 22, authorizing direct contact with local government and prioritizing information containment and control efforts. All of Taiwan's media outlets are shut down under the cover of a complete communications failure.

SCP-ES-021 is intercepted by the Mobile Containment Task Force ██-█ ("█████ ██ ██████"), whose members deploy tactical weapons with the intention of evaluating the capabilities of the entity and, if possible, shoot it down over [DATA EXPUNGED], an area already evacuated. As a result, SCP-ES-021-1 occurred on 309 documented occasions, neutralizing missiles, bombs, ballistic artillery shells, small caliber projectiles, █ armored vehicles, ██ transport vehicles, and ███ members of the Mobile Task Force in fifteen minutes. SCP-ES-021 suffers moderate damage to its transport appendages, which it recovers from in two hours and fifteen minutes. Task Force is disabled by catastrophic casualties (██% casualties, █ surviving), and the O5 Council declares the mission a partial failure.

Once it recovers its mobile capacity, SCP-ES-021 develops multiple configurations of transport appendages until it forms [DATA EXPUNGED] eighty-nine fingerings that seem to support its movement without difficulty. SCP-ES-021 proceeds to perform a jump of ███ meters, which leads it to land in a [DATA EXPUNGED] shelter, causing ███ civilian casualties. The transport elements of SCP-ES-021 seem to lose coherence when these casualties occur, and its central body falls to the ground.

The manipulator appendages of SCP-ES-021 begin to quickly remove debris until there are no survivors, resulting in ██ additional casualties. After locating and coming into contact with the last survivor, who [DATA EXPUNGED] in contact with his manipulating member, SCP-ES-021 remains motionless for forty-three minutes. SCP-ES-021 proceeds to extract all the human corpses from the location, one by one, causing even more chemical trauma, and begins to dig multiple mass graves in which it deposits ███ corpses. The remaining ██ corpses, all belonging to infants, are buried in ██ individual graves. All the graves are covered with slabs or rubble that are recorded by the manipulative appendages with [REDACTED] and SCP-ES-021 seems to remain latent.

A joint team consisting of Mobile Task Forces Dseda-8 ("Wake Up Iron") and Gamma-4 ("Good Morning, Innsmouth"), along with a Strike Team from the Global Occult Coalition, confront SCP-ES-021. Thanks to the use of bombers and long-range heavy artillery provided by MTF Dseda-8, SCP-ES-021 is devoid of any appendage and reduced to its central body. This asserts the existence of a scope limit for SCP-ES-021-1, and its association with SCP-ES-021.

However, when one of the Gamma-4 teams sends out a scouting robot, SCP-ES-021-1 destroys it by approaching less than 450 meters from its central body. The Foundation proposes to begin its containment in situ, creating a semi-permanent exclusion area until it is feasible to remove the organism, to which the Coalition forces respond by requesting a destruction mission due to the intrinsic risk of preserving such an organism intact. . As the negotiation proceeds, SCP-ES-021 begins to regenerate its transport appendages, to which Dseda-8 responds by restarting the bombardment. However, SCP-ES-021-1 acts on this occasion on the projectiles, acting directly as a perfect proximity defense system. SCP-ES-021 regains its mobility at dawn on 03/23/20██,

SCP-ES-021 is intercepted by a Global Occult Coalition Strike Team, which [DATA EXPUNGED]

[DATA EXPUNGED]

[DATA EXPUNGED] the Foundation's Star of Honor, as well as various decorations from the Global Occult Coalition. The remnants of MTF Dseda-8 are then reunited with MTF Gamma-4 and moved to the command camp of MTF Mi-7 ("Red Button"), who proceeded to use conventional nukes as directed. recommended by the leader of the Coalition Strike Team.

After the use of a screen of shots made by the remains of Dseda-8 and a complete wing of Chinese fighter-bombers operating from the aircraft carrier [REDACTED, RECLASSIFIED DATA: LEVEL 4], which again saturated the capacity of SCP-ES-021- 1, Mi-7-3 deployed, armed and activated a one-kiloton tactical nuclear warhead, which was enough to severely damage all of SCP-ES-021's appendages. Once the resulting dust cloud dissipated, however, monitoring elements of MTF Gamma-4 and COG Assessment Teams sighted [REDACTED] more slowly, but still aimed at Taipei. Mi-7-2 then received authorization from the O5 Council to deploy a two-kiloton tactical weapon; however, the use of this device did not have better results, after which it was [REDACTED]

At dusk on 03/23/20██, SCP-ES-021 has recovered its mobile capacity, this time supported by transport appendages similar to the limbs of a pachyderm, which surround the central body and easily sustain the combined fire of Dseda-8 and the [REDACTED, DATA RECLASSIFIED: LEVEL 4] fighter-bomber wing. Subsequently, SCP-ES-021 resumes its original route and continues moving towards Taipei, at a very reduced speed. Council 05 authorizes the deployment of Mi-7-0, equipped with a Grade 5 Unconventional Weapon, and orders its use before SCP-ES-021 reaches Taipei. Unfortunately, SCP-ES-021 avoids the direct impact of Mi-7-0's ANC-G5 by projecting a large mass of manipulator appendages that are capable of [DATA EXPUNGED] The resulting volume is reclassified as Dimensional Containment Area-992 ,

SCP-ES-021 quickly regenerates its damage and reaches Taipei before arriving on 03/24/20██, without the population having been properly evacuated. However, SCP-ES-021 is considerably slowed down by the volume of population and urban structures, and tries to cause as little damage as possible to adjacent structures; no civilian casualties are reported during its approach to downtown Taipei. Making use of their executive authority, O5-3 and O5-12 order a new launch of Mi-7-0, which fully hits SCP-ES-021, located thirteen kilometers from the urban center of Taipei, with civilian casualties - -considered— [REDACTED] minimum, according to projections of SCP-██-███. SCP-ES-021 is completely contained in its current enclosure, designated Area-993.

On 04/04/20██ the local information control, mnemonic erasure and personal recalibration operations end. All individual information from the passage of SCP-ES-021 has been completely erased. Multiple observation posts are installed in Taipei with Class B-Suggestive amnestic dispersal devices in aerosol form as a method of information dispersal prevention.

On 06/19/20██, after carrying out the corresponding cleaning and information control operations, the construction of Site-994 began, as well as the revitalization of the Mi-7-0 impact area. Mi-7-0, -1, -3 and -4 are permanently assigned to the containment of SCP-ES-021. From the SCP-ES-021 research team, the Eta-18 Mobile Detachment ("I Ching") is formed, in charge of tracking and controlling the activity of SCP-ES-021 within Area-993 of Dimensional Containment, as well as to evaluate and report its possible intelligence.

Appendix SCP-ES-021-01: On 02/13/20██, due to a possible breach in the containment of SCP-ES-021 and advised by the Commander of MTF Eta-18, the Chief Director from Site-994 orders the evacuation of Taipei, using as a cover the same story used after the arrival of SCP-ES-021 in Taipei, a terrorist attack with non-nuclear radiological weapons. SCP-ES-021 returns to a latent state thirteen hours after its first activation. On 02/15/20██, it is announced to the public that a defective explosive has been found, a group of suspects arrested and the city secured, authorizing the return of the population.

Documentation SCP-ES-021-ETA-18: Final Containment Evaluation of SCP-ES-021

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Attn members with Security Clearance Levels 3, 4 and 5 of the Foundation.
Last day 05/09/20██, Director ████ ███ requested a reassessment of the containment risk of SCP-ES-021. I can only reaffirm what the experts from the containment groups and the Detachments dedicated to its recontainment have determined: SCP-ES-021 is a Keter-Ultra object. If it breaks out of its current containment, that is, if it breaks out into Taipei City, it could cause hundreds of thousands of deaths in a matter of minutes and untold numbers over days or months.
However, we should not fear for those citizens. SCP-ES-021 hates killing human beings. What's more, SCP-ES-021 hates seeing how human beings die. The D-class subjects we have been able to send into Area 994 confirm this; SCP-ES-021 does not want anyone to approach its designated area, because it knows that it is a one-way ticket.
During the last ██ years, we have been trying to understand the nature of SCP-ES-021's capabilities within its containment, which we have not been able to. But we have determined that SCP-ES-021 is capable of understanding written and spoken language. To be more specific, he is able to understand and write Mandarin Chinese fluently. Each of its manipulative appendages can, in fact, "write" Mandarin, on any surface, in near-perfect calligraphy.
That's what we found in the [REDACTED] burials: prayers to Baosheng Dadi acid-etched into the rock and cement slabs he used as grave markers. In fact, we believe that SCP-ES-021 did not try to destroy our troops because they had attacked him. We believe that SCP-ES-021 tried to destroy our troops because we had devastated their graves. Or at least that's what he told us.
It is impossible to know with certainty what he thinks, since we do not have access to the interior of his central body and what, we assume, would be his organs. We only know what he has told us. He has told us that he had a name before he became what he is, a name that he does not remember. She has told us that she was a fisherwoman before she became what she is. She has told us that she doesn't remember how she came to be what she is. She says that she is sorry for all the damage she has caused.
From the point of view of an emotional psychologist, I can only say that SCP-ES-021 is a young woman with retrograde amnesia, quite intelligent and with dependent personality traits, who suffers from a deep depression with elements that could be psychotic. Given the very nature of SCP-ES-021, affirming with certainty that she suffers from depression would be very premature.
As a containment specialist, I must report that she has asked us to kill her.
We don't know how to do it, and if I knew how to do it myself, I would have presented my dismantling proposal. But it has withstood thermonuclear explosions and dimensional charges. This poses a further serious complication.
I don't know how to tell him. I don't know how to tell her that we can't kill her.
As you know, when launching the prototype Mi-7-0 ("Bag For Gods") we contemplated how the central body of SCP-ES-021 got stuck halfway to what should have been a bridge to a universe of artificial and unstable pocket, but its mere presence has stabilized this universe creating a space of 0.02 Astronomical Units in which SCP-ES-021 drifts, orbiting the access to our universe at the limit of the volume that we have called Sector of Containment Two. The point is that, inside Dimensional Containment Area-994, SCP-ES-021 is the only thing that "exists." Anything else degrades with worrying speed. Even space-time is unstable within Area-994.
Just like we did with Area-992, we could build a building around the anomaly, draw a vacuum inside, and let this micro-universe stew in its own entropy. But with SCP-ES-021, an entity that apparently ignores entropy, the Area-994 anomaly could be permanent, as permanent as SCP-ES-021 itself. We can wait for Area-992 to destabilize because all it could produce is a burst of gamma radiation and small doses of exotic radiation directed straight up into the sky, but Area-994 will never destabilize. SCP-ES-021 keeps it anchored, static. And if SCP-ES-021 disappears at some point in the future, Area-993 will quickly degrade, with which the tension accumulated over the Area will dissipate abruptly,
However, SCP-ES-021 cannot know anything about this. It is essential that you never know.
SCP-ES-021 is able to move without difficulties through Area-993, either through Containment Sector Two or Containment Sector One, since it learned to generate new appendages and use them to generate momentum by cutting them at will. If he wanted, he could exceed the Limit. But she doesn't want it, because she wants to be destroyed; He wants, in his own words, "to stop killing and murdering when the only thing I want, (…) is to capture the fragility of life and give it strength, not encourage it and end it."
SCP-ES-021 must believe that we are looking for new ways to destroy it, or the Incident of February 13, 20██ could happen again, when he briefly lost his temper. This outburst of anger is because she suspected that we are trying to trick her. If it weren't for the quick action of an engineering group from MTF Dseda-8, who deployed a zero-gravity artillery prototype in the Limit Containment Sector, SCP-ES-021 could have reached a critical mass of appendages in time that it would have propelled her across the dimensional bridge, back to Site-994.
Communication with SCP-ES-021 is currently based on gestures and movements made by its appendages, which take the form of Mandarin characters, and on laser responses traced on the surface of its sensory organ. It's a mechanism that allows for a constant connection, whereby we continually talk to her and try to get her to remember how she became who she is. SCP-ES-021 says she appreciates the efforts of our psychologists, but she is completely convinced that she wants (and deserves) to die. Implicit in several sentences addressed to containment personnel are threats that she will try to escape again if her wish is not granted.
I recognize that several of my colleagues have mentioned the existence of a paradox in this attitude. She doesn't want to kill, and she understands his position. You have agreed to cooperate in their containment for the good of the people of Taipei. You also do not wish to cause property damage or rediscover your existence to the world, as you understand how difficult it would be to erase your existence from the media a second time, and we have also informed you of the side effects of exposure to aerosol amnestics at entire populations. It therefore seems unlikely that she would be willing to follow through on her threats; but the fact is that we can't risk it, and we've already lost a prototype piece of orbital weaponry worth [REDACTED] millions of yen by withholding a simple feint.
In summary: SCP-ES-021 must be permanently confined to Area-994, and MTF Eta-18 will be in charge of keeping her busy, both emotionally and intellectually. Meanwhile, I recommend to the members of the Dimensional Research Sector that they look for a way to close Area-994 permanently or a way to break the shell of SCP-ES-022, or at some point in the future we will lose Taiwan.
For all of the above, and as a response to the Chief Director of Command Site-993 and Armed Dimensional Containment, I recommend that the current containment process continue and that the budgets for SCP-ES-021 be ratified.
Sincerely,
Commander [DATA EXPUNGED], Eta-18 Mobile Containment and Investigation Task Force.