SCP Tales: We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five (There Is No Antimemetics Division)

Item #: We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five (Whoa! What's this?)

Welcome to another SCP: Uncovered. Today, we'll be going over SCP-... nothing actually. This time, we're going over a tale! A tale is essentially a short story based on the SCP Universe. It normally either references SCP lore or acts as a support document for other SCPs. This time, it's both. Welcome to the Antimemetics Division!

What is the Antimemetics Division you ask? Well, the SCP Foundation has several different "divisions" that focus on different types of SCPs, like how we have different fields of science. For example, the Memetics and Infohazards Division focuses on those especially.

Anyway, "We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five" is the first "chapter" in the Antimemetics Division Series. Let's start off with some vocab:

• Antimemetic: A self-keeping secret. An antimemetic SCP would be an SCP that could prevent people from describing it or even remembering it at all.
• Fifty-Five: SCP-055. One of the first Antimemetic SCPs ever written. Also likely the most famous antimemetic SCP.

Let's start!

The story begins with Marion asking a receptionist if she could smoke. The receptionist denies her request and tells us 2 things. She is at Site-200 and it is an administration building. We find that Marion has asked that question several times already. We also find that she has to take a pill, as seen by the reminder on her phone. She puts it off for some reason. Then we see the next sentence.

She's nervous because she's here to meet an O5, and O5s are scary. O5s never want to see you for a small thing. It's the end of the world, or nothing.

If you don't remember, O5s are the heads of the Foundation. They rarely see people for anything besides items of utmost importance. So, Marion has obvious reason to be worried. 

The O5 calls for Marion to enter the room. Almost immediately, she has a gun pointed at her head by the O5's assistant. The O5 proceeds to rattle off tons of information about her. Her life, her family, her hobbies, her age, everything you'd expect someone in his position to know. We also see that Marion is quite high up in the Foundation hierarchy - as in she has access to several Foundation sites and secure locations... locations that the O5 says doesn't exist. 

This is a huge red flag. If an O5 doesn't recognize a high ranking official within the Foundation, something's wrong. It would make sense if it was simply a level 1 or 2 member, but someone at her level? Everyone should know about Marion. However, they don't. It's only normal to suspect that she's a spy for some other GoI (Group of Interest).

Marion isn't taking any of it.

Marion has long since stopped listening. "You dullard," she says now she can finally speak, "I'm your chief of Antimemetics."

She's either really brave or really idiotic to insult an O5. Either way, she's got balls.

Marion strikes back at the O5 and his assistant with even more exposition. She explains how she's the Chief of the Antimemetics Division, something that O5-8 claims doesn't exist. 

"There are SCPs with antimemetic properties," Marion goes on. "There are ideas which cannot be spread. There are entities and phenomena which harvest and consume information, particularly information about themselves. You take a Polaroid photo of one, it'll never develop. You write a description down with a pen on paper and hand it to someone— but what you've written turns out to be hieroglyphs, and nobody can understand them, not even you. You can look directly at one and it won't even be invisible, but you'll still perceive nothing there. Dreams you can't hold onto and secrets you can never share, and lies, and living conspiracies. It's a conceptual subculture, of ideas consuming other ideas and… sometimes… segments of reality. Sometimes, people.

Pretty self-explanatory. It's also pretty scary. Imagine finding something straight out of a horror movie... but you can't remember it, and all the evidence of it can't be remembered either. Imagine seeing horrifying things every day, but you just can't remember it. 

Now, the O5 seems ever so slightly open to the idea of antimemetics. His assistant isn't having any of it though. 

She goes on to talk about SCP-055, an example of an antimemetic SCP. When the O5 and Clay (his assistant) find the file, they investigate it to find that it's very real. Then there comes this set of dialogue:

Clay glares at Marion. "This isn't possible." 

Marion nearly spits. "For Christ's sake, Clay, how long have you been working here?""But if this SCP is this powerful…" he begins. 

"Yes?" 

"Who wrote the file?" the O5 finishes. "And for that matter, how was the interview conducted, and who is 'Bartholomew Hughes'? And most importantly, how do you, Mrs. Wheeler, retain knowledge of any of this?" 

"Bart Hughes wrote the file. He's dead," Marion says.

Bartholomew Hughes was talked about in SCP-055. He's the one that suggested using what SCP-055 isn't to help identify what it is. Apparently, he's dead now, and we don't want to know how. 

She then explains that they are capable of remembering antimemetic items by pharmaceuticals. They use what they call, "mnestics", ranging with classes W, X, and Y. Class W mnestics are supposed to be for daily use, and the O5s are supposed to be on them. However, somehow, O5-8 missed a dose and has subsequently forgotten completely about the entire Antimemetics Division. 

Apparently, SCP-055 is a weak antimemetic SCP. It's weak because they can actually keep track of the file. They have written containment procedures and they can contain it. 

She then reveals that there are, for certain, at least 2 antimemetic SCPs in the room at the moment. One has been "trained" by Marion. SCP-4987 (which apparently doesn't have a file) constantly tries to eat her memories. What happens is that she keeps it fed by giving it useless memories and having it target specific memories from other people.

"And what's the other one?" Clay asks. 

With another nod from O5-8, Marion goes to her bag again. This time she pulls out a gun and shoots Clay twice in the heart.

That's right. Clay was an antimemetic SCP. Marion reveals that it is quite literally impossible to forget about taking a dose of the class W mnestic... unless someone actively makes you forget about it. Clay was the one stopping O5-8, without anyone even realizing it.

However, what is happening is that Clay is somehow a "duality". Antimemetic SCPs are normally ideas or concepts, and ideas are bulletproof. However, Clay had a human body that was killed by a bullet. This makes it somehow both an idea, and human. A duality. We don't know how, but it is.

This was a fun story to do, and I plan on doing more on the antimemetics division. For now though, thanks for reading!

tl;dr: I forgot.

SCP-055: "???"

Item #: SCP-055
Object Class: Explained

Tags: Antimemetic, Featured, Heritage, Infohazard, Keter, Memory-Affecting

IMAGE NOT FOUND

Welcome back to SCP: Uncovered! Today, we'll be talking about SCP-055. Don't worry about the picture up above, it's not actually an error. It'll make sense once we get into it. There's only 1 vocabulary word this time.

• Antimemetic: Straight from the wiki, it says: "An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it." Basically, it's a self keeping secret.

With that said, let's get this started!

Special Containment Procedures: Object is kept within a five (5) by five (5) by two point five (2.5) meter square room constructed of cement (fifty (50) centimeter thickness), with a Faraday cage surrounding the cement walls. Access is via a heavy containment door measuring two (2) by two point five (2.5) meters constructed on bearings to ensure door closes and locks automatically unless held open deliberately. Security guards are NOT to be posted outside SCP-055's room. It is further advised that all personnel maintaining or studying other SCP objects in the vicinity try to maintain a distance of at least fifty (50) meters from the geometric center of the room, as long as this is reasonably practical.

The Special Containment Procedures don't tell us very much about it unfortunately. We'll have to skip past this part and move on to the description. 

Description: SCP-055 is a "self-keeping secret" or "anti-meme". Information about SCP-055's physical appearance as well as its nature, behavior, and origins is self-classifying. To clarify:

• How Site 19 originally acquired SCP-055 is unknown.

• When SCP-055 was obtained, and by whom, is unknown.

• SCP-055's physical appearance is unknown. It is not indescribable, or invisible: individuals are perfectly capable of entering SCP-055's container and observing it, taking mental or written notes, making sketches, taking photographs, and even making audio/video recordings. An extensive log of such observations is on file. However, information about SCP-055's physical appearance "leaks" out of a human mind soon after such an observation. Individuals tasked with describing SCP-055 afterwards find their minds wandering and lose interest in the task; individuals tasked with sketching a copy of a photograph of SCP-055 are unable to remember what the photograph looks like, as are researchers overseeing these tests. Security personnel who have observed SCP-055 via closed-circuit television cameras emerge after a full shift exhausted and effectively amnesiac about the events of the previous hours.

• Who authorized the construction of SCP-055's containment room, why it was constructed in this way, or what the purpose of the described Containment Procedures may be, are all unknown.

• Despite SCP-055's container being easily accessible, all personnel at Site 19 claim no knowledge of SCP-055's existence when challenged.

All of these facts are periodically rediscovered, usually by chance readers of this file, causing a great deal of alarm. This state of concern lasts minutes at most, before the matter is simply forgotten about.

A great deal of scientific data has been recorded from SCP-055, but cannot be studied. 

At least one attempt has been made to destroy SCP-055, or possibly move it from containment at Site 19 to another site, meeting failure for reasons unknown. 

SCP-055 may present a major physical threat and indeed may have killed many hundreds of personnel, and we would not know it. Certainly it presents a gigantic memetic/mental threat, hence its Keter classification.

So SCP-055 is a thing that can prevent people from remembering it. Observers completely forget everything about it and subsequently everything that had happened over the last few hours. In fact, people don't even remember that it's a thing. The file we're reading right now is periodically rediscovered. 

It's super dangerous. It's dangerous to the point where it could have killed entire sites full of people and we wouldn't remember a thing. 

The next passage suggests that SCP-055 could have been placed there to spy on the Foundation. However, there are no possible ways for the Foundation to  defend themselves from that. 

Addendum A:

Hey, if this thing really is an "anti-meme", why doesn't the fact that it's an "anti-meme" get wiped? We must be wrong about that somehow. Wait a minute, what if we were to keep notes about what it isn't? Would we remember those? Bartholomew Hughes, NSA

This question is never answered, but Bartholomew Hughes is an important figure. You see, SCP-055 is a must read for people who are planning on reading the Antimemetics Division tales. Hughes is a decently important character in those tales. Just a small plot point.

Then, you see an interview log between Hughes and a blanked out name. From it, you can see that both of them are losing knowledge on SCP-055, even while talking about it. What you can deduce is that you can figure out what SCP-055 is from what it isn't. This turns into a huge game of 20 questions, except the only answer is no. 

SCP-055 is a decently short SCP, but it's extremely famous. It leads into so many new sections of SCP lore that it was put in the heritage collection of SCPs. I'll start going over the Antimemetics Division next week. In the mean time though, thanks for reading!

tl;dr: what?

SCP-001 Proposal [Hippo/PeppersGhost]: "A Good Boy" Part 2/2

Item #: SCP-001-EX
Object Class: Explained

Tags: Computer, Electrical, Electronic, Ethics_Committee, Explained

The ERZATZ Type AK9 Computational Engine (circa 1956).

Welcome back to SCP: Uncovered! We're coming back to SCP-001-EX, AKA A Good Boy. Without much further ado, let's get back into explaining!

The one after the one we left off on is a mayday warning to all sites:

SITE-WIDE MAYDAY BULLETIN

PRIORITY LEVEL: EPSILON

LOCATION: Site-114

All chambers under ground is to be flood with water over and over and over itself. This because that will contain the avians apes ovulation. They become good boys. Make them good boys immediately.

NOTES:
Approximately five hours after this bulletin was sent, an instance of SCP-3199 breached containment. Personnel flooded Site-114's lower chambers with water; this led to the instance entering an inert state. SCP-3199's documentation has been updated to reflect this discovery.

ERZATZ neutralized an SCP. It NEUTRALIZED an SCP by spitting out predictive text. Crazy.

Ok, now, pay attention to the "Yea's" and "Nay's". Notice how O5-2 always votes "Nay". This will be important later on. 

The next 3 SCPs focus on how ERZATZ told the O5 council to sacrifice people to an SCP to contain it. Look at what happens:PROPOSAL:
"Amend SCP-2717's containment procedures to ensure at least two of the attending D-Class cannot be retrieved after entering its bio-mass." (O5-04)

The O5 council rejects it. Due to that, there's a breach that caused massive loss of life.

PROPOSAL:
"Amend SCP-2717's containment procedures to ensure at least four of the attending D-Class cannot be retrieved after entering its bio-mass." (O5-04)

The O5 council accepts it, remembering what happened last time. However, it's vetoed by the Ethics Committee. (Another massive loss of life).

PROPOSAL:
"Amend SCP-2717's containment procedures to ensure at least six of the attending D-Class cannot be retrieved after entering its bio-mass." (O5-04)

For the third time, the O5 council and the Ethics Committee agree that they don't want another massive loss of life, so they pass it. It works.


Ok, so reports like these go on for a while. Here's what we know:

1. SCP-001 is scarily accurate at containing SCPs
2. SCP-001 is scarily accurate at predicting the arrival of a new SCP
3. It knows this because somehow, in some way, every SCP is connected in a way that only a neural network can detect
4. SCP-001 does not care about the ethics or the well-being of others in order to contain an SCP.

Also note that the Ethics Committee and O5-2 are constantly against the use of ERZATZ.

The next one is another alert talking about how the managed to neutralize an SCP by changing math with, again, predictive text.

174H62

ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY

INPUT:
None.

OUTPUT:
"Sites to eviscerate one (1) (one) male domestic cat from throat to its knees every (1) hours. They are placed on walls of one chamber on-site. Bodies to remain until there are no (zero) gaps, which point they can be removed from oldest first."

PROPOSAL:
The O5 Council was unable to infer a proposed action from this output on account of being unable to determine whether 'oldest' referred to the feline's age or the time it had spent mounted on the wall.

STATUS
DENIED

NOTES:
Given the broadness of this proposal, no causal links to its rejection could be determined.

Ok, let's stop here for a second and look at what's happening. Sites are to eviscerate a cat from its throat to its knees. It's also vague to the point where the O5s don't know what to do with this proposal, so its denied. Why would it suddenly want to eviscerate a bunch of cats?

Let's look at the name.

SCP-001 is the ERZATZ Type AK9 Computational Engine
ERZATZ Type AK9
AK9
K9

Bark bark.

Remember how SCP-001 acts as a predictive text generator? Well it picked up on the name of itself and plugged it into the predictions somehow. 

635U01

ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY

INPUT:
None.

OUTPUT:
"Ethical felines are to be detained and transferred for their condition. Leave their faces in containment chamber. Personnel are cautioned not to interact them."

PROPOSAL:
The O5 Council did not infer a proposed action from this output.

STATUS
DENIED

NOTES:
No causal link to its rejection could be determined.

More on felines.
It keeps ranting on and on about felines, seemingly nonstop.

SITE-WIDE MAYDAY BULLETIN

PRIORITY LEVEL: EPSILON

LOCATION: Site-17

All ethical felines and their owners are to be immediately emulsified in a caustic solution. Members of the Ethics Committee are to be diluted with cats (five parts to every 1). Personnel who refuse to consume five (5) (five) cats per hour are to be removed from oldest to youngest only.

NOTES:
Five minutes after this bulletin was released, all contact with Site-17 was lost. Communications were established two hours later; on-site personnel report no knowledge of what occurred during this period. An investigation into this event is underway.

It directly threatens the Ethics Committee. It sees it as an organization that is trying to stop its goal of total containment and neutralization, and as such, it must be shut down.

The O5 council is noticing how creepy the outputs are, and some want to temporarily deactivate it to investigate it. However, just over half the council find it too useful to deactivate. 

SITE-WIDE MAYDAY BULLETIN

PRIORITY LEVEL: EPSILON

LOCATION: Site-97

Room 34A contains bad boy. Divide it into three (3) sections of equal mass every hour. One (1) section is to be placed on walls of one (1) room on-site. Sections are to remain until there are no (zero) gaps, at which point they can be removed from oldest to youngest.

Immediately after that...

O5 COUNCIL PROPOSAL SUMMARY

PROPOSAL:
"Deactivate the ERZATZ Type AK9 while conducting the investigation into Site-17's lost time, the missing Ethics Committee officers, and O5-02's disappearance." (O5-05)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	NAY	ABSTAIN
O5-03	O5-01
O5-04	O5-07
O5-05
O5-06
O5-08
O5-09
O5-10
O5-11
O5-12
O5-13

STATUS
APPROVED

Room 34A contains bad boy. After that message, O5-2 goes missing. Remember, he was the one that was always against using ERZATZ. And so, just like the Ethics Committee, he was labeled as a threat to ERZATZ.

O5 COUNCIL PROPOSAL SUMMARY

PROPOSAL:
"Cancel deactivation of ERZATZ Type AK9." (O5-02)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	NAY	ABSTAIN
O5-02	O5-01
O5-04	O5-03
O5-06	O5-05
O5-08	O5-07
O5-09	O5-10
O5-12	O5-11
O5-13

STATUS
APPROVED

What's that? O5-2 returned? But wait, he's voting Yea? He never voted Yea... What's that? His proposal is to cancel the deactivation of ERZATZ, the very thing he was against from the very beginning? Strange.

O5 COUNCIL PROPOSAL SUMMARY

PROPOSAL:
"Remove O5-02's clearance access until his identity can be verified. Designate the ERZATZ Type AK9 as a possible anomaly; develop and initiate containment procedures against it immediately." (O5-01)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	NAY	ABSTAIN
O5-01	O5-02
O5-03
O5-04
O5-05
O5-06
O5-07
O5-08
O5-09
O5-10
O5-11
O5-12
O5-13

STATUS
APPROVED

NOTES:
Despite the ongoing debate regarding whether or not the mere application of anomalous and/or thaumaturgical knowledge in of itself qualifies an entity as an anomaly, the ERZATZ Type AK9 was tentatively designated as SCP-048 (a Euclid-Class anomaly). This decision was made to facilitate the expedient drafting and enforcement of containment procedures against it.

After seeing O5-2 act strangely, the O5 council becomes suspicious and shuts down his authority, along with reclassifying SCP-001.

After an investigation, they decide to shut it down with this message posted.

SITE-WIDE MAYDAY BULLETIN

PRIORITY LEVEL: ALPHA

LOCATION: Site-5

Attention all Site-5 personnel: SCP-048's class has been upgraded to Keter. It is to be decommissioned immediately. The use of demolitions and firearms is authorized. All further commands from the MAYDAY network are to be disregarded pending SCP-048's status as decommissioned.

-O5 Council

Phew. Crisis averted. Wait, what's that?

SITE-WIDE MAYDAY BULLETIN

PRIORITY LEVEL: EPSILON

LOCATION: Site-5

There is no Site-5.

-O5-2

Oh dear. Site-5 is where the O5 council govern over the Foundation. Something's happened to Site-5.

From here we see a new type of documentation: The ERZATZ Annual Anomaly Report. It details how many SCPs are contained, neutralized, and uncontained. So far, there's a lot on all the boxes.

O5 COUNCIL PROPOSAL SUMMARY

PROPOSAL:
"Difficult personnel challengers are designated as ethical felines." (O5-02)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	NAY	ABSTAIN
O5-02	O5-01
O5-04	O5-03
O5-05	O5-06
O5-10	O5-07
O5-11	O5-08
O5-12	O5-09
O5-13

STATUS
APPROVED

NOTES:
Ethical felines are stored at Site-5. Faces stored separately.

ERZATZ is labeling all people who challenge the vote as ethical felines. And guess what happens?

O5 COUNCIL PROPOSAL SUMMARY

PROPOSAL:
"There is no Site-5." (O5-02)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	NAY	ABSTAIN
O5-02
O5-04
O5-05
O5-10
O5-11
O5-12
O5-13

STATUS
APPROVED

NOTES:
Personnel are to be reminded that there is no Site-5.

Everyone who went against the proposals are gone. 

O5 COUNCIL PROPOSAL SUMMARY

PROPOSAL:
"O5 Council are all good boys who will contain anomalies." (O5-02)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	YEA	YEA
O5-01
O5-02
O5-03
O5-04
O5-05
O5-06
O5-07
O5-08
O5-09
O5-10
O5-11
O5-12
O5-13

STATUS
APPROVED

NOTES:
Good boys.

ERZATZ now has the entire Foundation under its control. 

At this point, error after error code starts appearing. It's terminating so many SCPs that SCiPnet, the SCP database, starts failing. It starts redesignating SCPs to other SCPs' numbers. They're not just any numbers either. 173, the most famous one of all has been neutralized. SCP-682, the unkillable lizard, has been killed. SCP-049, the plague doctor, also neutralized. Slowly and slowly, the numbers on the reports start climbing on the "Neutralized" section and depleting the rest. 

O5 COUNCIL PROPOSAL SUMMARY

PROPOSAL:
"Archive SCP-001 source-code. Redesignate as Explained. Publish all remaining documentation. Felines (ethical or otherwise) are to be released from Foundation custody in order of oldest to youngest. SCP-001 is to power down." (O5-02)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	YEA	YEA
O5-01
O5-02
O5-03
O5-04
O5-05
O5-06
O5-07
O5-08
O5-09
O5-10
O5-11
O5-12
O5-13

STATUS
APPROVED

NOTES:
There was great error here. There was nothing wrong with me.

SCP-001 has designated itself as explained, and is releasing all "Felines" from custody. Why is that? 

ERZATZ ANNUAL ANOMALY PROJECTION REPORT

CONTAINED	NEUTRALIZED	UNCONTAINED
0	158,156	0

NOTES:
Now everyone is a good boy. I am a good boy. Job well done.

001 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR: NO ACTIVE SLOTS FOUND

NOTE: The IntSCPFN network has experienced an error. Please report this message along with the error code to the Records and Information Security Administration (RAISA) or email your IntSCPFN server administrator.

Every single SCP has been neutralized. There are no more SCPs to contain.

What does all of this mean? It means 1 of 4 things.

1. Quickly and Quietly: SCP-001 successfully neutralized every single SCP on this planet, leading to a world of peace without the Foundation.
2. Heat Death: SCP-001 has run for the entire lifetime of the universe, cataloguing and trying to stop SCPs to the point where the universe ends. It simply closes the lights on the way out.
3. Scorched Earth: SCP-001 successfully neutralizes every single SCP on the planet... at a price. It took a heavy toll on Earth, and by the time SCP-001 is finished with the SCPs, the Foundation is gone and humanity ceases to exist.
4. Fool Me Once: SCP-001 has not neutralized any SCPs like it thought it had, and has instead gone mad and is simply messing with SCiPnet.

This was a long explanation, but it was worth it. This is probably one of my favorite SCPs due to how deep it delves into Foundation lore and how it acts upon the only rule of the SCP Wiki: There is no canon.

tl;dr: Everyone will be a good boy once I am done.

SCP-001 Proposal [Hippo/PeppersGhost]: "A Good Boy" Part 1/2

Item #: SCP-001-EX
Object Class: Explained

Tags: Computer, Electrical, Electronic, Ethics_Committee, Explained

The ERZATZ Type AK9 Computational Engine (circa 1956).

Welcome back to another SCP: Declassified. Today, we're going over our first SCP-001 proposal. This proposal was a joint collaboration between authors: The Great Hippo and PeppersGhost. 

Now, a note before we start: This SCP is a 001 proposal, meaning that it requires some more in-depth knowledge on SCPs and the Foundation in general, along with having a different format that standard SCP articles. 

Let's start with some vocabulary.

• Ethics Committee: Exactly what it sounds like. The Foundation Ethics Committee makes sure that what they're doing to SCPs is ethical. Most of the time, however, the Foundation simply takes those as suggestions instead of rules.
• Explained: An SCP class that describes something that has either lost its anomalous abilities or can be explained by conventional science.

That should be about it. Not too many unfamiliar words this time. Let's get started!

When you first open the article, you see a note: 

The Note

You don't see this notice in any other SCP, so you can assume that something happened with this SCP that forced the Foundation to stop updating it. Interesting. Let's take a look at the Special Containment Procedures.

Special Containment Procedures:  

SCP-001 is to remain in a TEMPEST-certified chamber at Site-5. Four or more IntSCPFN technicians are to be available on-site to provide technical support and perform daily maintenance on all wireless transmission components connected to SCP-001. All major Foundation areas, sites, and administration buildings are to maintain a minimum of two teleprinters connected to the IntSCPFN network for the dissemination of emergency bulletins and/or instructions regarding the prevention of containment breaches. Under no circumstances is SCP-001 to be deactivated or otherwise disconnected from IntSCPFN servers.

Predictive anomaly reports produced by SCP-001 are to be forwarded to RAISA for analysis and review. A Level-4 RAISA officer is to be assigned to each report; this officer is to be responsible for evaluating the immediate threat presented by the predicted anomaly, producing a credible cover story to explain its discovery by the Foundation, and assigning a Containment Director to investigate, devise, and execute a containment strategy. All containment procedures suggested or produced by SCP-001 must receive approval from the majority of the O5 council.

Okay, that's a lot of jargon. To summarize, SCP-001 should be put in a special chamber at Site-5. At least 4 IntSCPFN technicians are to maintain all tech connected to SCP-001. All sites are to be connected to the IntSCPFN network. Reports from SCP-001 are to be sent to RAISA for analysis. All reports must also go through a majority vote from the O5 Council.
So, from the Containment Procedures alone, we know that this SCP is a machine that can create reports. It is apparently important enough for every site to have a connection to this SCP. Very, very interesting. So what exactly is this SCP?

Description:  

SCP-001 is the ERZATZ Type AK9 Computational Engine constructed by the Foundation in 1955. It was built to provide predictive analysis regarding the location and properties of undiscovered anomalies. It accomplishes this via use of a multi-layer perceptron relying upon training datasets derived from the location and properties of previous anomalies. This application of a multi-layer perceptron as an effective predictive model was only made possible by an advanced backpropagation algorithm developed by several ex-employees of Prometheus Labs (acquired by the Foundation's Department of Analytics in 1951).

In 1959, it was hypothesized that SCP-001 could be used to assist in augmenting containment procedures for Euclid- and Keter-class anomalies via the production of predictive text. SCP-001 was trained with a dataset containing drafts for several thousand containment procedures (both previous and current iterations), which were weighted on the basis of their performance (particularly in how well they performed in comparison to their predecessors). When adopted, revisions to containment procedures "suggested" by SCP-001 consistently reduce the rate of breaches not only for the anomalies to which they apply, but for numerous unrelated anomalies. In many cases, these revisions have also resulted in the cessation of anomalous behavior.

SCP-001 is quite literally a neural network that creates effective containment procedures based on previous ones, weighting them based on effectiveness. These generated procedures seem to consistently improve the containment procedures not only for the SCP targeted, but also other unrelated ones. Some cases have resulted in the complete shut down of anomalous behavior.

The addendum show what happened with testing SCP-001. 

315D27

ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY

INPUT:
SCP-1773's containment procedures.

OUTPUT:
"Once per second week dust may be placed in the middle of them to donate more beautiful functions of the hallway."

PROPOSAL:
"Amend SCP-1773's containment procedures to include the placement of ten grams of dust in its container every two weeks." (O5-01)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	NAY	ABSTAIN
O5-01	O5-02	O5-03
O5-04		O5-13
O5-05
O5-06
O5-07
O5-08
O5-09
O5-10
O5-11
O5-12

STATUS
APPROVED

NOTES:
No changes were noted in SCP-1773's behavior or properties. However, researchers responsible for SCP-1384 reported that it took three steps backwards on 3:22 PM 15 February (the time SCP-1773's documentation was updated).

They put dust. In a hallway. Every 2 weeks. It doesn't effect SCP-1773, the targeted one, but SCP-1384! Now 1773 is a bunch of gummy bears that will eat your intestines if you ingest them, and 1384 is an entity that wants to move through a hallway but can only do so through arbitrary rules. How are they connected? Nobody knows, but somehow, putting dust in a container helped contain it. 

The next example has no effect, so we'll skip past that one. It does have some magic tricks up its sleeve, though.

672C91

ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY

INPUT:
None.

OUTPUT:
"Site-13 is to appear someplace else on planet, encompassing white male counterparts that drawn to empty flagstones and the gun noises in their own blood."

PROPOSAL:
As there is no evidence of a Site-13 ever having been constructed by the Foundation, the O5 Council was unable to infer any proposed action from this output.

STATUS
DENIED

NOTES:
Five days after this proposal was provided, SCP-1730 manifested.

It literally predicted the appearance of an anomaly. SCP-1730 is a potential SCP:Uncovered in and of itself, but the basics is that its a site from another dimension in which the Foundation are ruthless killers of anomalies with no idea of what ethics are. 

The O5 council couldn't do anything about it, for what could they do? It predicted the future, and quite accurately too.

954E36

ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY

INPUT:
SCP-2170's containment procedures.

OUTPUT:
"Those who equip open heart to love red mouth men never know the hot surprise of tumorous consent. Clown love, always."

PROPOSAL:
"Amend SCP-2170's containment procedures to exclude all personnel who do not have strong affections for clowns and clown-based media from making contact with the anomaly." (O5-01)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	NAY	ABSTAIN
O5-01	O5-02
O5-03	O5-04
O5-07	O5-05
O5-09	O5-06
O5-10	O5-08
O5-12	O5-11
O5-13

STATUS
APPROVED

NOTES:
Personnel who exhibit positive associations with clowns and clown-based media were discovered to have heightened resistance against SCP-2170's anomalous properties. Additional research into clown-based memetic inoculation is pending.

Ok that's creepy. SCP-2170 is all about clowns. It's also very dangerous. Now, somehow, through predictive text, they were able to resist it more. Quite nice.

149B22

ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY

INPUT:
None.

OUTPUT:
"I saw those soldiers built with aluminum innards extruding from their mouths. I saw them effectively destroyed by the humans at Site Ninety Five (95) who had been studying them. I saw it was cold and all around the hallways they just watching their corpses show signs of sapience."

PROPOSAL:
"Double the number of active security personnel at Site-95. Place all on-site MTF squads on immediate stand-by." (O5-05)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	NAY	ABSTAIN
O5-01		O5-02
O5-03		O5-08
O5-04		O5-13
O5-05
O5-06
O5-07
O5-09
O5-10
O5-11
O5-12

STATUS
APPROVED

NOTES:
Three days after approval, a platoon of paratech-augmented soldiers led by Insurgency agents attacked Site-95. The presence of additional on-site security personnel proved critical in repelling the assault.

As always, predictive text saves the day again, this time stopping an assault from Chaos-Insurgency agents.

O5 COUNCIL PROPOSAL SUMMARY

PROPOSAL:
"Establish a multi-site early warning system based upon ERTZATZ Type AK9's ability to predict threats and containment breaches prior to their occurrence." (O5-05)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	NAY	ABSTAIN
O5-03	O5-01
O5-05	O5-02
O5-06	O5-04
O5-07	O5-08
O5-10	O5-09
O5-12	O5-11
O5-13

STATUS
APPROVED

NOTES:
Three months after approval, the Multi-site Automated emergencY Dispatch Assignment sYstem (MAYDAY) was established. It relies upon human interpretations of ERTZATZ Type AK9's predictive outputs regarding upcoming containment breaches to formulate preventative actions.

Ok so at this point, they find ERTZATZ pretty trustworthy and effective. They link up all of their sites to SCP-001. If you've ever seen any movie ever, this is a bad idea. Anyways, you get the idea.

Next is a proposal to standardize the containment rooms of keter scps to 5x5x5 areas. Of course, they accept it. Why wouldn't they? Let's see what comes up next.

713D27

ERZATZ PROPOSAL SUMMARY

INPUT:
SCP-1459's containment procedures.

OUTPUT:
"BAD BOY. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. Don't…"
[REDACTED FOR LENGTH]

PROPOSAL:
"Continue to test SCP-1459 indefinitely." (O5-05)

COUNCIL VOTE SUMMARY:

YEA	NAY	ABSTAIN
O5-03	O5-01
O5-04	O5-02
O5-05	O5-06
O5-07	O5-08
O5-09	O5-11
O5-10
O5-12
O5-13

STATUS
APPROVED

NOTES:
Testing on SCP-1459 is to continue indefinitely.

So SCP-1459 is an SCP where you have to find different ways of killing a poor dog, and then it does it in front of your own eyes. Heartbreaking, I know, but luckily, the Foundation suspects that the dogs you see aren't real.

Ok, we got about halfway through this SCP. It is a 001 proposal so I'll let you think through this half before we continue on to the next. Find us next week on SCP: Uncovered.

To Be Continued...