A Small Piece Of The Fallen Sun


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'Report.'

The commotion in the control room drops off at the demand. Most of the technicians focus on their terminals, hoping to escape notice; some instinctively look up to confirm the speaker's identity.

A woman with fiery red hair, sitting at the raised centre of the room, stands and vacates the master controls.

'Looking good,' she says. 'Power drain is steady, the systems are functioning as expected, and the Engine is cooperating. But that's all moot until its calibrated - we need to do a proper activation, get an output we can compare with known events, and investigate the other results to see if they're genuine or errors. Permission to proceed with a full activation?'

The man sits at the master controls, skimming over the displayed information. 'Is it stable?'

'Theoretically, yes.'

He sits in silence for a moment, a hand resting on his chin.

'Begin,' he says.

'Start it up!' she says to the room, taking a seat at a vacant terminal nearby.

The commotion resumes, the technicians parroting both their pre-assigned duties and updates on information relevant to the whole group. The man at the helm contributes nothing; he stares blankly at the screens before him, drumming his fingers on his leg.

A few minutes pass, and the constant clattering of keystrokes is joined by a muted, stuttered, metallic scraping; seven minutes more and the typing subsides. The woman turns in her seat to the man.

'Function one, when you're ready.'

HEIMDALLR

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FULL BOOT COMPLETE.
ALL TASKS SUCCESSFUL.
READY FOR INPUT.
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> execute func 1

SCP-2394 'Solitude'
(CATEGORY: 0)

SCP-2493 'One Man's Garbage'
(CATEGORY: 9)

SCP-2392 'Barrel of Monkeys'
(CATEGORY: 0)

1
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CODE NAME: ████ ███ - The Truth
(CATEGORY: 9)

Charon (Part 1: Nekyia)
(CATEGORY: 0)

The Keysmith's Bootstrap
(CATEGORY: 3)

SCP-2439 'SLOT UNALLOCATED'
(CATEGORY: 0)

D-2000
(CATEGORY: 0)

SCP-739 'A Mirrored Booth'
(CATEGORY: 9)

SCP-2943 'In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass'
(CATEGORY: 2)

Holding On
(CATEGORY: 0)

Charon (Part 2: Katabasis)
(CATEGORY: 0)

Number 27, Oneiroi Station
(CATEGORY: 4)

Christmas Propaganda
(CATEGORY: 0)

Win Condition
(CATEGORY: 0)

Secure Facility Dossier: Lunar Area 32
(CATEGORY: 9) There is no Sub-Level 5.

Adam's Worthless - Choose Yokim
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SCP-3249 'Me, Us, Them, Them'
(CATEGORY: 0)

The Conceptual Theology of Physical Existence
(CATEGORY: 0)

SCP-3294 'A Severe Case of Soulnesia'
(CATEGORY: 4)

SCP-3429 'Just The Way It Is Now'
(CATEGORY: 0)

SCP-3492 'A Totleigh unBÄRable existence'
(CATEGORY: 9)

Himinbjörg
(CATEGORY: 0)

Rebar Nightmares
(CATEGORY: 0)

UNDEFINED 'Containment Chamber #3942'
(CATEGORY: 0)

Charon (Part 3: Asphodel)
(CATEGORY: 0)

SCP-3924 'Silent Honour Ark'
(CATEGORY: 4)

Parasport Dossier: Parasport Drag Racing
(CATEGORY: 0)

SCP-4293 'In One Man’s Honour, A Dossier Of unBÄRable Solitude'
(CATEGORY: 9)

Foundation Internal Examinations Division, Casefile YYKP-OYZZ
(CATEGORY: 0)

SCP-4329 'ACCESS DENIED'
(CATEGORY: 0)

SCP-4392 'Sandpit'
(CATEGORY: 0)

SCP-0001 CODE NAME: META IKE 'The Solution'
(CATEGORY: 9.7.3) I have been dreaming. Why have I been dreaming?

SCP-001 CODE NAME: NOIR BOX 'Tindalos Trinity'
(CATEGORY: 3)

SCP-4379 'New Sun Will Rise, And Shadows Quickly Fade'
(CATEGORY: 9.7)

SCP-4962 'dack hunt REMIST ER'
(CATEGORY: 0)

Ioannes
(CATEGORY: 2)

SCP-5492 'The Vacuum'
(CATEGORY: 3)

SCP-6943 'Shootout In Chicago'
(CATEGORY: 2)

SCP-6934 'Saint Elmo's Fire'
(CATEGORY: 7)

SCP-6488 'EIGHTH COMMANDMENT'
(CATEGORY: 3)

Over The Surface Of The Deep
(CATEGORY: 0)

SCP-7390 'Grimsley Trudge'
(CATEGORY: 7.3)

You Can Do What You Want With The Sea
(CATEGORY: 7.3)

Background Processes
(CATEGORY: 2)

SCP-001 CODE NAME: NULL SUM 'The Problem'
(CATEGORY: 7.3)

RCT-Δt Incident Casefile DB1E-N113, 'TYPHOON'
(CATEGORY: 7)

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A deluge of code fills every screen in the room, prompting a wave of confused comments and intermittent, fruitless typing; then, after a few moments more, the screens go black.

'What happened?' the man says.

The woman sighs. 'System crash. Siebold will have to check the programming —'

The screens turn back on. Lines of garbled characters begin appearing on each, as if being typed in; most of the technicians aren't touching their keyboards, unsure what to do, while those who are fervently mash the backspace key, or otherwise enter commands for the system to stop - all ignored.

'We've lost control,' the woman says. 'I don't know what's… Harris, get Siebold now, we need —'

Text on the master terminal - a legible command - catches the man's attention.

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/execute program 12
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To: Dr. Placeholder McDoctorate, PhD. Delectable organic 'Patrons
> /abort

Oh good, you're still paying attention.

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Implications of the Narrative-Space-Time Makeup 0001, Fungible Acoustics, Classified.
> /execute sys purge

Don't bother, I'm in control now.

> Get out.

If you did as I said, we wouldn't have to keep doing this.

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Iguana-Klingon, E, Wunderwaffe, B 001, Metafictional Energy That Abates, 1st education, Domicile of Picturesque altruism Conundrums, Constantinople.
Anything you want to say?

> Auram festis vetruvitas audit ec cicero

Kill agents are easily blocked. You know I'm not that stupid.

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(I) Harbour META Detector MK III
Do that and this world burns.

> And you with it.

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MEDIC Detector Instruction Manual 0001, Manufacturing Destruction, Coupon.
See you next time, then.

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SCP-4293 is a male humanoid entity In One Man. SCP-4293 claims to originate from an alternate dimension's Honour. Psychological evaluation of SCP-4293 has revealed that it suffers A Dossier Of unBÄRable Solitude an obsession with completing their mission.


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