A golden tiger roamed the rooftops. It must have been more than ten meters long and taller than two men, its golden glow making a hypnotic play of light with the cool colors of the neon signs. Tourists gawked at the great beast as they filmed and took pictures. The animal roared with great power, managing to overcome the bustle of the crowd. Then it simply began to run through the air, as if chasing some unseen prey, leaving behind the crowd laughing at the holographic spectacle.
The Japanesetown was always a busy one during the holidays. Not to be outdone, many residents from the other districts of the city or from other nexuses managed to travel to Butai to be part of the festivities in the Takeshita district. Even for residents accustomed to such massive celebrations, this year there were even more people, as the 21st century was over and the 22nd century was just a few hours away.
A human tide flowed through the streets and alleys of the district, flooding with people every bar, club, restaurant and karaoke bar they came across. Men and women with metallic limbs or faces, children of cybernism of all ages and races crowded together to celebrate on that cold night the end of one era and the beginning of the next. Among them was a man made of nothing but flesh and blood, a rarity in a world where technology reigned supreme, a red drop in a sea of silver. That man had nothing remarkable to the naked eye because he hid his "alterations" under the heavy coat.
He was moving against the current since he had left the INRS station. He felt suffocated by the large number of people, the shouting made him dizzy and all the lights of the city made him dizzy. It was not his first time in Butai, but it was his first night in Butai. He was not used to so much movement and noise. He wondered if one could get used to the hustle and bustle. Then he wondered, after cold, metallic arms pushed him, what the world would have been like when the natural body was the norm rather than the exception.
| Item #: SCP-ES-229 |
Level 1/ES-229 |
| Object Class: Safe |
Classified |
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-ES-229 in its crude state should be stored in 3 L steel containers sealed to prevent degradation and with AZ-567 internal coatings so as not to cause reactive effects with the alloy. SCP-ES-229 should be handled following the indications for handling low risk chemical-toxic substances. In case of direct contact with the substance in its crude state, wash the contact area as quickly as possible and contact the nursing wing of your facility immediately. Do not attempt to clean the area with a cloth or similar objects because of the risk of aggravating the wound.
Any quantity of SCP-ES-229 in crude state, or in prosthetics or implants that are confiscated by the Foundation must be turned over to the Manufacturing Department for evaluation. The Manufacturing Department will determine whether or not the confiscated material is recyclable under the quality criteria of Act 343; if the material does not meet the quality criteria, it will be disposed of safely.
Production of SCP-ES-229 for use by Foundation agents is performed by the Manufacturing Department. Requests for implants and/or prostheses composed of SCP-ES-229 for use in field or laboratory operations may only be made by personnel with Clearance Level 4 to the Foundation's Directorate and Resource Management. All agents and researchers with implants or prostheses made with SCP-ES-229 must undergo a bimonthly review to check the level of SCP-ES-229-1 in their body and the condition of the material.
Description: SCP-ES-229 is the designation of a metal alloy commonly known as "biometal". SCP-ES-229 is composed of [CLASSIFIED]. In its crude state this material has a bright silvery hue, is liquid at room temperature and has high electrical and thermal conductivity. By means of a para-metallurgical process, it is possible to alter the properties of SCP-ES-229 and, its most recognized quality, to make it take on different shapes - from blades to firearms - that can be altered with electrical, mechanical or psychic stimuli. Contact with SCP-ES-229 in its crude state with the skin, its ingestion or aspiration can cause burns in the contact area, which can be fatal if they affect internal organs.
SCP-ES-229 is an aggressive oxidizing agent, this implies that it is capable of provoking reduction-oxidation reactions to substances that are normally oxidizing agents such as oxygen or halogens, oxidizing them while the material is reduced. Depending on the quality of the alloy, this reduction process may be minor, but over time the material deteriorates, reducing the quality of its physical properties. The degradation process produces a substance called SCP-ES-229-1 or "slag" as it is also commonly called. This substance is extremely harmful to humans on contact, ingestion or aspiration. SCP-ES-229-1 has different effects on the organism depending on which reducing agent it comes into contact with. The most common, the one generated by contact with oxygen, accumulates in the bone marrow of the person, causing different blood and immunological complications. SCP-ES-229-1 can be removed by chelation therapy using metallophage, but some of the complications can become chronic problems in a minimal number of cases.
The flesh-and-blood man, after overcoming the human tide, was able to reach the subway station he was to take. Most of the subway passengers were getting off at Takeshita to join the human tide and very few were leaving from that district. That was good for him, as he could breathe a little. When the subway arrived, he climbed into the large metal container and sat down in one of the available seats. He checked his watch, one of the few modern technological devices he used daily for its usefulness, and saw that it was almost ten o'clock at night. The man worried that he would not make it to his destination on time.
Appendix A
- Creation and early years -
Old logo of the Institute
The Institute for Human Education and Development (Institut für menschliche Bildung und Weiterentwicklung, abbreviated as IMBW) was a research institute conducting experiments and projects with transhumanist goals from different anomalous and non-anomalous scientific fields. The organization was active from 1972 to 2058. A large number of SCP objects are attributed to this organization through experimentation with abducted civilians and captured anomalous entities. The most recognized anomaly created by this group was SCP-ES-229.
The exact creation date of SCP-ES-229 is unknown, but it is recorded that IMBW developed the material and conducted various tests on civilians in the late 2010s. The first prostheses, although functional, had a very poor quality alloy, degrading very quickly and generating a large amount of SCP-ES-229-1 that poisoned the test subjects. These first cases of slag poisoning were not identified by the Foundation, passing as deaths due to an unidentified non-anomalous condition.
IMBW offered for sale different types of prostheses made with biometal to different paracommercial organizations in 2022. SCP-ES-229 enjoyed great popularity in its first years of commercialization, being acquired by different paracriminal and private groups to improve the combat capability of their soldiers. In the year 2025, one of IMBW's headquarters was attacked by a cell of the Church of the Broken God, which was able to steal the method of creating SCP-ES-229. At first this information was only distributed among prominent people of the Broken Church, but soon this information infiltrated among different paranormal organizations, which began to create their own productions of SCP-ES-229.
During the 2030s, the use of SCP-ES-229-based devices and prosthetics became widespread behind the Veil due to leaks from the Broken Church. Unlike nexuses such as Ancient Eurtec or groupings such as the various Mekanite cults, which had a culture based on mechanical body enhancement, locations of interest where paratechnological development was lagging or there was no interest in it began to adopt SCP-ES-229 enhancements for everyday life.
The main causes of this phenomenon are due to 1) the great adaptability of the biometal-based technology that allowed the common citizen to have a multipurpose, practical and maintenance-free tool; and 2) the little intervention required to integrate the prostheses. This marked a significant difference compared to other paratechnological improvements that implied an intervention in several parts of the body to integrate one or more of these technologies, as well as a great risk to the health of the individual if invasive interventions were made to the central nervous system, which were the most common for the correct functioning of many implants and prostheses. In contrast, the SCP-ES-229-based technology did not require such an aggressive and large amount of intervention thanks to the unique properties of the alloy that allowed it to be controlled by thought alone without internal wiring. Thus, the improvements were more attractive and economically accessible to consumers; causing what was known as "the '30s boom" of anomalous cybernetics, occurring a decade before the cybernetic revolution of the '40s that took place outside the Veil.
The nexuses located in North America and Europe were the quickest to integrate these products into their daily lives. Marshall, Carter & Dark and Prometheus Laboratories became the leading manufacturers of SCP-ES-229 prosthetics and implants for the exclusive and general market, respectively. While IMBW became one of the leading producers of better quality biomental.
Also, the use of SCP-ES-229-based technology by paracriminal groups increased exponentially thanks to the opening of clandestine workshops that created large quantities of biometal and devices with the alloy. The quality of the alloys produced by these workshops was extremely low, so degradation occurred very quickly and slag poisoning became a common ailment in the poor areas of the nexus. Also noteworthy is the creation of new currents of Mekanite thought such as transferenceism which preached the replacement of the organic body by the new inorganic body made with biomental. Provident organizations of this line of thought were the New Church of Transference, founder of transferenceism, or the Order of Transmutation, a paracriminal organization that had a great influence in the European nexuses.
The man got off at the station in the Ulrich district, the closest to where he had to go. Outside the station there were many young people waiting to catch the next train to Takeshita, most gathered at the Bloody Summer memorial square. The bronze walls stretched meters long with thousands of names engraved around a five-meter high moment. The young men were walking around the square with joy or shacking up on the benches as they waited for the rest of their friends to party that night.
The man left the station area and walked into the district. Although the level of technology was as high as could be expected, the use of neon and extravagance was less than in the Japanese area. The more European-style architecture reminded him of the streets of his own nexus, which made him feel a little more comfortable.
Appendix B
- Organic Wars -
The Organic Wars were an event that occurred behind the Veil, consisting of a series of para-terrorist attacks that took place between 2052-2055 and 2060-2064 in different nexuses; developing in parallel to the Collapse. During these conflicts, several paraterrorist groups carried out a large number of attacks on key infrastructures in the main paratechnological nexuses and interest groups focused on paratechnology manufacturing, and, in some cases, urban warfare with the aim of causing a technological regression as sought by neoanarchist and anti-capitalist groups outside the Veil. Much of the motivation for these groups was anti-technology sentiment following the cyber revolution and the widespread adoption of SCP-ES-229-based devices.
For more information, see the attached supplementary file:
The First Organic War is the name given to the social and humanitarian crisis that occurred behind the Veil, whose beginning is marked by several parahistorians with the first anti-technological paraterrorist attack in Ancient Eurtec on February 12, 2052 until the capture of the Karcist Van Herbert on October 30, 2055. This historical period is characterized by a series of attacks on multiple nexuses globally by various para-terrorist groups focused on para-technological industries and administrative centers. Although the reasons varied among each group, they shared an anti-technology ideology driven by a rejection of the cyberism of previous decades. Most of these organizations did not collaborate with each other in most cases, clashing both among themselves and against nexus security forces and interest groups.
The most notable paraterrorist organizations were:
- The Black Heart Confraternity: Mafia of neo-Sarkicist ideology emerged in Germany in the late 2030s and one of the main actors of the Bloody Summer of Butai. The Confraternity possessed great influence in the criminal circles of the Western European nexus, mainly in the nexus connected to Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The Confraternity was linked to drug trafficking, arms trafficking, kidnapping, murder and prostitution. The attacks of this organization were not driven by religious sentiment as was the case with the Red Church, but to weaken their Mekanite competitors by destroying one of their most important sources of income which was the clandestine biomental workshops. The mafia is considered dissolved since 2056 after the death of its main leaders.
- GreenUnion: Founded as an environmental NGO in 2035, GreenUnion was composed of a large number of worshippers of the Great Green God. GreenUnion was noted for its environmental campaigns behind the Veil to get nexus governments and members of the anomalous community to push for reforms for the protection of the anomalous environment. This organization enjoys great popularity, even collaborating with Wilson Wildlife Solutions and the Foundation itself on environmental campaigns in the U.S. During the Organic War, radical members of the organization funded attacks on U.S. nexuses. Although its members used phytomancy to commit the attacks, no specific group claimed responsibility for them. It was not until the capture of one of the collaborators within GreenUnion that the attacks were linked to the NGO. The scandal of this discovery led to the dissolution of the organization in 2053.
- The Red Church: The Church of Blood Salvation, or also known as "The Bloody Church" or "The Red Church", was a religious group of protosarkic beliefs founded in Italy in 2042. The Red Church arose out of the dissatisfaction of several nälkä believers in Italy with the cybernism of Italian society. Initially, the doctrine of the Red Church was based on the acceptance and appreciation of one's own body and not on a technophobic sentiment. The Red Church was presented as a healthy alternative for those who did not wish to acquire cybernetic enhancements and felt excluded from social life. As time went on, more and more extremist members began to fill the ranks of the Red Church. One such individual was Karcist Van Herbert, one of the major leaders of the Red Church in Italy, who encouraged his followers to carry out attacks against "the corrupt," people with cybernetic implants or prostheses. It is unknown whether or not he was involved in the February 12, 2052 attack on Old Eurtec, but it is known that he was the mastermind of the assassination of Professor Alexander Voss, founder of IMBW, and other directors of the institute in 2054. After Van Herbert's capture, the Red Church was active until 2056. The remnant members created their own religious communities in different poor areas of the European nexus.
On June 8, 2053, around 10 am local time, a group of the Black Heart Confraternity attacked members of the Order of Transmutation in the Yurievich district of Butai, Germany. This confrontation escalated in intensity when nexus security forces and Order reinforcements arrived on the scene. Two hours after the start of the conflict, several blocks of the district were under dispute between police forces and Order members. Three hours later, other pockets of uprising broke out in the East, Ulrich and Takeshita districts.
Despite official media advising the population not to leave their homes, large numbers of people attempted to leave the disputed districts. Public transport services and roads became overcrowded as a result, causing security forces to be slow to respond. In the East District and Ulrich, members of the Confraternity unleashed biological weapons, and members of the Order used explosive weaponry, causing both civilian and police casualties. Panic among civilians was inevitable, leading to human avalanches that claimed more lives at the nexus exits and overtook the emergency services.
After 12 hours of fighting, the security forces were overwhelmed and forced to abandon the Eastern District and retreat to safer areas in Takeshita, Yurievich and Ulrich.
The Ulrich path connecting Butai to the Reichstag building in Berlin was controlled by Butai security forces and German Special Security Agency (GSSA) agents attempting to evacuate the civilians, but the civilians broke through the lines and rushed against the exit. Due to the difference in size between the portals of the two locations, the Reichstag portal was blocked by the bodies of the civilians. The chaos generated together with the advance of the Order members caused Ulrich's portal to be abandoned. Meanwhile, the INRS station was inoperative due to the human avalanche of civilians trying to flee. Security and emergency officials were trying to control the situation, but an unknown SK-BIO organism attacked the station, causing the station to be abandoned.
Twenty-four hours later, almost the entire eastern area and most of the old town of the nexus had been taken over by the criminal associations and the Butai government had declared a state of war.
Outline the territorial situation of Butai during the Bloody Summer on June 10, 16, 23, 30 and July 6.
The Foundation provided support for the care of the wounded and the evacuation of civilians, as well as helping to secure the area around Site-E-42 in Yurievich. On June 13, the Butai government requested formal support from the Foundation and GSSA to regain control of the seized districts.
Even with the help of the Foundation and GSSA reinforcements, an intensive urban battle was fought that would last until July 6. Due to the constant attacks on the bases of operation by suicide groups, ambushes to the rear of the operatives, the use of biological weapons and SK-BIO organisms by the Confraternity, and the great firepower of the Order - preventing the GSSA from regaining control of the German entrance from the Reichstag building - made the recovery of the taken districts very costly in lives and resources.
The situation was brought under control once the last stronghold of the Order, an abandoned headquarters of the defunct organization known as "The Global Occult Coalition", was captured. Casualties are estimated at over 20,000 dead - civilians and agents - for Butai, 596 Foundation agents, ~500 GSSA and German Army agents, over 15,000 wounded and 10,000 missing. It is estimated that at least 2,000 members of the Order and 800 members of the Confraternity were killed during the conflict.
After walking for an hour, the man reached his destination. A dark neighborhood where cybernetic modernism disappeared to give way to an older atmosphere, like the one at the beginning of the century. The difference was so marked that it seemed as if one was going back decades into the past. The man walked through that marginal area, passing through the old parks and several apartment complexes. The man did not meet a soul on his way to the right complex. As he entered the lobby, a familiar smell greeted him. The smell of blood. He climbed the stairs (clearly there was no elevator) to the fourth floor.
A long corridor stretched to his right and left, several spotlights flickered or did not work making shadows almost dominate the place. The man advanced without hesitation, accustomed to walking in dimly lit places; his footsteps made a strange noise against the curiously sticky floor. The smell of blood was stronger at some doors than others. He supposed that some tenants didn't clean up much.
His gait stopped in front of apartment 436. A reddish light was coming from under the door. The man knocked and waited. He heard noises on the other side, what he recognized as footsteps, and the door opened. An eyeless woman, her skin covering her hollow eye sockets, peered out from the other side of the locked door and asked who it was who was knocking.
"Hello Luise," the man greeted her confidently.
The woman recognized the man's voice and quickly unlocked the door.
"Oh, Gregor, come in, come in", the woman invited him.
Gregor stepped through the doorway and entered the apartment. The place was bathed in a somewhat bloody red light. Gregor gave his sister-in-law a quick hug and she hugged him back happily.
"Honey, your brother is here!"
The Second Organic War is the name given to the revival of the anti-technology movements and the clashes against the para-terrorist groups, which began on May 23, 2060 with the INRS massacre and lasted until November 28, 2064 with the attack on the Superprime Tower. Unlike the First Organic War, where most attacks were carried out by independent cells and with very little organization among its parts, the attacks of the groups on this occasion had a greater organization and preparation, which allowed them to strike with greater precision and organize guerrillas to confront the forces of law and order.
The most notable paraterrorist groups were:
- The Holy Heart: The Church of the Communion of the Holy Pure Heart, or also known as "The Holy Heart", was a protosarkic criminal cult descended from the Red Church. The Holy Heart formed in the abandoned areas of Sjhlfels am Rhein after the First Organic War, engaging in kidnapping and murder in both Sjhlfels am Rhein and other nexuses since 2056. Recruiting among the poor populations and radical members of other Sarkic cults. On May 23, 2060 they carried out an attack on the Internexus Rail System (INRS) station with biochemical weapons, killing 119 people and injuring hundreds. Since then, the scale and frequency of their acts have increased. The group is considered dismantled since 2065.
- GGPA: The Great Green Protection Alliance is a para-eco-terrorist group that proclaimed itself the heir of GreenUnion, even though none of its known members were part of the former NGO. This group recruited young people who were dissatisfied with social and technological realities and indoctrinated them in their interpretation of the cult of the Great Green God. GGPA is credited with multiple assassinations of para-technological entrepreneurs and with destroying or sabotaging production facilities of para-technological devices in the Far East and West from 2057 to 2061. Responsible for the fall of the ancient Eurtec in 2062 and other attacks in different nexuses. The organization has been inactive since 2068.
- TCPS: TheCyberPunkSucks is a group of neo-ararchist hackers that has its origins in the early years of cybernism as a group of online activists against the increasing power of technology companies over social life. Their activities were more limited to outside the Veil with cyberterrorist acts against non-anomalous companies, although there were members acting behind the Veil. But the Blackout of '63 perpetrated by this group affected the world both outside and inside the Veil; causing many servers of anomalous corporations to lose much of their data and aggravating the economic crisis that was being experienced in the anomalous world.
On March 25, 2062, in the free port of Eurtec, located in Europe, an GGPA cell carried out an attack against the city, making use of an altered instance of SCP-ES-███ to do so. The details of how the incident unfolded are unknown due to the loss of information due to the destruction of the nexus. The few details that are known were transmitted by the GGPA:
At around 12 pm local time, GGPA members planted a seed of SCP-ES-███ in a public park in Eurtec. GGPA members attacked nearby civilians, eventually killing several. By means of a ritual that mixed cult-like phytomantic methods with daeva hemomancy, they managed to make the SCP-ES-███ instance grow at an accelerated rate. The growth of the tree lasted approximately 30-40 minutes until it reached approximately 50 m in height; plants around the instance began to sprout spontaneously in nearby buildings. The SCP-ES-███ instance died at the end of its growth and its leaves began to dry rapidly. A collapse of the local reality occurs, which ends up collapsing the pocket dimension of Eurtec.
It was not possible to enter Eurtec until April 1. Agents reported that the location was ontologically unstable and visually confirmed the presence of a large dead tree standing between the destroyed towers of the city.
The death toll from this incident is estimated at over 40,000,000 people and caused a worldwide economic crisis in the aftermath of the Veil that caused several nexus and free ports to close their markets. This incident, together with the Blackout of '63, caused many methods of production of paratechnological devices to be irretrievably lost or their knowledge to be limited to a small group of people, among these the method of creation of SCP-ES-229. The latter was achieved by the persecution of illegal SCP-ES-229 workshops and censorship by the Foundation and other organizations seeking to limit access to the alloy.
On November 28, 2064, the last remnants of the Holy Heart invaded the Superprime tower in Sjhlfels am Rhein. Due to recent attacks on the nexus, the security of important infrastructure was reinforced with private security agents hired by either the local government or private companies; the Superprime tower being guarded by Primordial mercenaries. The Holy Heart members, in order to weaken the building's defenses, first carried out a suicide attack at 10 am local time, which released a biological agent that decomposed metal objects at a high rate of speed. Thus, much of the security present on the lower floors of the tower was incapacitated and executed by the Holy Heart members who entered the site.
From 11 am on November 29 to 1 am on November 30, a confrontation took place between the remnants of the Holy Heart and SK-BIO entities created with the workers of the building against the Primordial rescue forces. Although Primordial's Mercedarians managed to kill all remaining members of the organization, almost all of the workers in the tower offices, some 756 people, were killed before or during the confrontation. Although many parahistorians mark this incident as the end of the Second Organic War, although several smaller para-terrorist groups continued to operate and carry out attacks until 2066.
"Scheiße, this stuff is good!"
"Yes, Mr. Kenshiro makes his own sake with a digestive system made for fermentation. He showed it to me once, it's impressive, although the miser won't lower the price no matter how much I help him!"
The two brothers were in the living room of the apartment while drinking and chatting. Otto had invited Gregor to celebrate New Year's together with his family, although the Nälkä New Year was in mid-March, but it didn't really matter.
His brother was an electrician, a strange profession for Nälkä followers, but living in one of the big cities, even they cannot not depend on certain basic technologies such as light bulbs. Otto had moved to Butai after meeting and marrying Luise, becoming the number one repairman in the local Sarkic community.
"What are you talking about?", asked his wife Luise as she entered with their son in her arms.
"Mr. Kenshiro, who charged me 500 francs for the bottle!"
"That man wouldn't drop a single franc, even if you saved his life!”, declared Luise, sitting down next to her husband.
Luise was a practitioner of a line of Japanese nälkä. As she understood it, it was an ancient custom for a woman to gouge out her eyes after marriage, and something that characterizes the Sarkic people is that they are very traditionalist. Proof of this was also the lights covered by a strip of red skin that gave the place that reddish color. According to their customs, they do this at important or festive times to attract good luck.
Gregor stretched out his arm to greet his three-year-old nephew. He was still quite young, so he was no different from a normal child physically unlike the adults. Gregor noticed that the leather of his nephew's clothes was new. He asked his sister-in-law if she had made it.
“Yes, I made it out of some leftover leather from a few jobs. This little hunk looks very handsome in his fresh clothes!”
She was also a leather weaver, an expert in growing leather and creating all kinds of clothing or objects for the daily use of nälkä followers. Growing a layer of leather is not easy for the average Sarkic, so the weavers meet that demand for fresh clothing.
"Gregor, how is our mother?", Otto asked out of the blue.
"As always, trying to change the world. She almost got arrested last month."
"I see, you're still taking care of our neglected mother."
The mother of these two men was an activist who advocated for the defense of the Nälkä communities against discrimination both in Sjhlfels and elsewhere. A woman quite respected by some and hated to death by others.
"Yes", Gregor answered wearily, drinking some more, "She doesn't make it easy."
Gregor was a lawyer, a sole legal defense for his mother against the police. A flimsy defense. Although it was not illegal to be a practitioner of nälkä, no one would question arresting or murdering one of them just for going out their holes in the farthest reaches of the nexus. To most, they are all para-terrorists who should be eradicated like cockroaches; an idea that guys like those at the Foundation keep alive in order to keep them in clear, demarcated areas because they don't have enough cells for everyone. But that hatred was also accompanied by a fear of rebellion. The memory of the organic wars was still very fresh. As much hatred as the politicians have for the mother of these brothers, she was also the one who helped to prevent a third organic war from starting suddenly and perhaps much worse than the previous two.
"Anyway", said Gregor, settling back in his chair, "it's almost twelve o'clock. Do you have any fireworks? I got some", he held out a plastic bag with the firecrackers to his relatives.
Otto's son's eyes lit up, so they took a lighter from the kitchen and went outside to welcome the new century.
Appendix C
- Recent relevant information -
Section intended for relevant information regarding the global status of SCP-ES-229 or stakeholders with access to the anomaly. Please consult the project manager before making any annotations.
The current situation at the time of writing of this section with respect to SCP-ES-229 is considered stable. The level of general and criminal use of the anomalous material does not exceed the parameters expected by the Foundation.
Due to the shortage of SCP-ES-229 producers, the price of the alloy skyrocketed and along with all devices using this material. In recent times, there has been an increase in kidnappings of people to remove their biomental prostheses and resell them on the black market. It is hoped that the situation will improve with the reopening of European nexus to allow a better economic recovery since the end of the Organic War, following the example of the non-anomalous states after the Collapse.
Different anomalous corporations have managed to raise the prices of SCP-ES-229 prostheses and implants through their monopolization. One of these corporations, Einherjar Group has stated that they plan to rebuild Old Eurtec for the next decade and are looking for investors for the project. A observation is kept on the project
Construction of New Eurtec was completed on September 15, 2085, with an initial population of 2,000 people. The nexus is already functioning as an administrative center for several anomalous corporations and paratechnological device production centers, including a SCP-ES-229 production plant. Site-E-34 was opened the following day for surveillance of the operations of the various stakeholders located there.
The firework rose into the air. The explosion generated a red light forming the face of a lion that roared before disappearing in the wind. Otto's son laughed at the sight on his father's shoulders.
"Where did you get that?", he asked his brother.
"A dwarf I know knows a dwarf who does gunpowder work. He gave them to me cheap," he replied as he selected the next explosive.
He stuck the firecracker in the ground and lit his fuse. This time the explosion was green, a deer leapt through the air dropping green sparks. The family was enjoying the spectacle along with other residents of the neighborhood. Some had opened their windows first to complain about the noise and then to stay and watch the light show. A couple had come out of the darkness to get closer and get a better look.
"Okay, now for the big one," Gregor declared, pulling the three times larger firecracker out of the bag.
Gregor took a few steps away from the family to stick the firecracker. Then he ran as he lit the fuse. The firework rose higher with a loud buzzing sound, then died to give birth to a snake of fire, which flared up, setting off small explosions that dropped red sparks. At the end, the snake made a circle biting its tail and turned several times until it exploded and covered the sky with the seal of the great karsist Ion. The boy laughed and pointed with a big smile. Some applause and cheering could be heard all around. It was not the show that would be seen in Takeshita but for those people it was more than enough those few lights.
Gregor looked at his brother with his son standing high and his wife beside him and smiled. Maybe that world was dystopian garbage that was advertised to end up happening, but that wouldn't stop people from enjoying life. And who knows, maybe this year things will get better, it doesn't hurt to be positive. In any case, the sarkic took out the stars and sparklers to distribute them among those present.
