Okay, I get that there's an anachronous knowledge component, but this SCP just seems bland to me.
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
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I've always been fond of this one, although if the Log of Anomalous Items had been around at the time these were written they probably would have been moved there. Hardly worthy of containment on their own, but I think they are really neat.
Is the image layout wonky for anyone else? I can try to fix it if it's actually a problem.
I thought it was just me. Go ahead and fix it.
There's a first attempt. I might give it another go when I'm more conscious.
The tone and pictures on this article quickly caught my eye, but the ending was just jarring. There is nothing special about this. It's an SCP that can actually exist now, as it absolutely does nothing scary or even odd. Sure, some might say that it's creepy that Earth is no longer there and that there are extra planets in our solar system, but this is still due to simple imagination on the part of the person who built the machines. Others might remark that the idea that the orreries are very old is enough, but then this could be applied to anything that requires modern technology. Oh look, it's a working cellphone, but it's been found in the sarcophagus of a Pharaoh!…
I'm sorry, but I don't feel this article adds anything to the site. It's well written and the tone is great, but there is absolutely no idea or "catch" to it. Downvote.
I agree with you, but I don't want to downvote it, because … well, I enjoyed reading it. Maybe I should downvote it, but I like it.
It would be pretty cool if we had a section for anomalous items that allowed for more than just a short list entry. This would fit right in.
I do love orreries, but these don't really strike me as worth the SCP's attention. They have no unique powers and are at best a historical anomaly. Confusing to historians, maybe even worthy of a cover up, but not really an SCP. More of an Out-of-place artifact then anything.
…and I'm finally upvoting this. This could go in the section for anomalous items, true, but if the qualifier for SCP status is 'interesting', as opposed to 'needs containing', this works very well.
(Yes, initially I thought it wasn't interesting, and on first read, it wasn't. But there's something about this one that sticks with me, and 'memorable' qualifies as 'interesting'.)
Interesting insofar as it it anomalous, but I'm neutral for now. As is, the Foundation would only keep such an object under SCP status as long as an investigation was pending or ongoing; until then, it's a set of normal- if odd- orreries that do not warrant Foundation resources beyond the minimal.
Perhaps research logs would round this out?
On the other hand, what resources would they really have to expend on these? A small room with a couple of shelves? Hardly back- or budget-breaking. Arguably the only actual resource they would be consuming would be an SCP number, and there are only self-imposed limits of those, and an unlimited resource can't really be considered to be being consumed in that way.
Agree though that some research logs to give these things some more strange, anachronistic, confounding, or amazing traits would not go unwanted, though. Nothing too big, but something to make them worthy of actual study instead of just sticking them on a shelf.
Either way I think it's fine, but it would be better with giving these some strange properties. It might risk turning them into a copy of the little wind-up stars-and-date box but I think it'd be a worthy risk to take.
I like this, but I have to downvote because it's barely worth containment. If, as iamtycho suggests, something is added to it to make it legitimately supernatural, then I will upvote. As is, this SCP can easily be explained with "Some orrery-making dude got bored and made some weird ones, a couple of which coincidentally line up with known extrasolar systems." It's a little bit like the Negro Bank, which I downvoted for the same sort of reason.
You're not the only one. I wish there was something else that indicated anomalousness besides the fridge logic of "well if they made it an SCP they must have a reason even if it is classified"
I still like it, though.
I think the qualms about non-anomalousness could be fixed with some minor editing. Nothing that would shift the focus of the article, mind you, just making it more clear that Yes, this is an SCP. I'll let some ideas percolate in my head for a while, see what happens.
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That's all this page has going for it though. Cool pictures. It's nowhere near enough.
That's why I'm not saying "This isn't even an SCP, let's delete it." Because as an article, it's fine and interesting, it's just not all that anomalous.
What about moving this guy over to -EX? Anomalous once, but nowadays these things wouldn't make a normal human being go "Oh my gosh the supernatural is real!" Plus, it keeps the pictures.
I think -EX could work.
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Hrm. -EX is for explained SCPs right?
… Wouldn't that necessitate some explanation of how the creator of these created apparently accurate orreries of far-off star systems that they wouldn't have actually known about or been able to plot?
I'm not saying it's a bad idea at all, just seems like to be an Explained SCP, they'd need an explanation of how they came to exist in the first place, even if it's just that they found out who made them, researched his life, and found out he was amazingly accurate at making various predictions, had an active imagination that happened to match up with reality quite often, or something like that. Maybe he was just a genius at interpreting stellar phenomenon who was just never recognized for his potential and the "ring of doom" was his final creation and an expression of his dissatisfaction at feeling ignored, that would even add an extra bit of melancholy flair to the SCP.
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