How is there no discussion here? It's a boat which sails through time! That's AWESOME!
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Almost /too/ awesome, though. It opens the giant can of worms that is time travel.
So SCP Agents can't travel outside of their lifespan without becoming a completely different person? I smell trouble.
No, corpses, I think. That bit is pretty weak, in my opinion. The entire mechanism by which technology is translated into its nearest analogue makes very little sense, as well, but I guess it's self-consistent.
So how do we do time travel here? Causality or alternate universe? Or terminator rules. Please say it's terminator rules.
Not particularly fond of this one. As noted, it's a little too awesome, and honestly, it doesn't really add anything other than the standard "oh noes! We might change history!" aspect of time travel. Downvote for me.
Too bad you become a different person if you travel outside your era. Unless you're unaffected as a person if you're on the boat? Otherwise, you could go back and try to find your most admired person and/or religious figure and ask him/her questions.
I can see how this would be an issue for some people, but dang it, if I could go back in time just once with a return trip to my time, that's so what I would do.
Of course, as an SCP, the way it is just makes it harder to screw up certain times when time-traveling.
This part kinda bugs me:
It is unknown if operation of SCP-276 can fundamentally alter history, due to the retroactive nature of time.
After taking into consideration SCP-276's ability to "fix" anachronisms and errors in time, all missions involving temporal tampering are to be headed by Rho-5.
"Let's keep poking at time until it reacts!"
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