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Maybe it's just me, but the image seem to be missing its source.
Nevermind, all good
Alright scp regardless.
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After some months of work, here is my first SCP.
The image is from Wikimedia Commons.
Special thanks to The Great Hippo for all of his feedback, this article is much better than it would have been without him. And also to the YouTube channel Extra Credits, whose series about the hunt for the Bismarck provided the initial inspiration. It's worth checking out if you're interested in the real-world version of the story.
The majority of the real-world information in this article is sourced from the Bismarck's Wikipedia page
One minor gripe, Bismarck was sunk on 1941-05-27, not -24 (that was the Hood)
I swear I remember noticing that mistake earlier, but I thought I'd fixed it since then. Weird. Anyway, it's corrected now.
I dig it. Especially good for it being your first.
I love me a good historical skip, and this is quite impressive for a first outing. Could you give me a brief spoiler explanation btw? I picked up on the 1500, log, and 2399 piece hints but I'm not sure how they all fit together.
I'm glad you like it.
I'm not sure where you're seeing a reference to 1500, because I didn't mean to include one.
The "Black Forest Specimen" from the first Nazi memo was a living biomechanical spaceship; if you've ever seen the show Farscape, think of the Leviathans from that. It thought our solar system seemed interesting and came to take a look, and one of the first things it chose to investigate was Jupiter's Great Red Spot. This led to its unfortunate run-in with 2399, and the BFS just barely escaped. Radio signals from Earth clued it in to the fact that a technological civilization existed here, so it limped its way over to us and crash-landed in Germany in the early-mid 1930s. That's when the Nazis found it and poked it with sticks until they figured out how to attach jumper cables to the alien and use it to power a giant battleship.
The mutagen that makes the -1 instances is "Compound 17", a failed super-soldier serum. Most of the Bismarck's crew and the BFS were exposed to the entire remaining supply during that final battle, causing them (along with any unfortunate marine life nearby) to fuse together into 4217-B. The biomechanical nature of the BFS further allowed this amalgam to fuse to the Bismarck itself, resulting in the new SCP-4217. This transformation took place over the course of a few decades, during which time it slept on the ocean floor.
4217 has the memories of the alien, sailors, and fish that it was made of, but these pieces were… poorly assembled. I tried to make its dialogue reminiscent of an ape using sign language, because that's about the level of intelligence it's operating on. On top of that, all of these conflicting memories that it doesn't fully understand result in what is essentially a case of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Hostile states are when it switches to "Nazi Mode" and its instincts drive it to perform the mission assigned to the Bismarck: Hunting and sinking Allied shipping vessels.
(account deleted)Really good, especially the attention to detail.
Easily a +1
I have very mixed feelings about this one.
It being a famous ship in particular, the description of the being as squid-like, the fact that it enters an aggressive state where is sinks civilian ships and the Foundation has to attack it, the organic/self-healing thing, the log of an underwater expedition getting wrecked, the garbled message from the inhuman "crew", it's just all been done before. See SCP-2846 and SCP-1264 (which are similar but either have a better narrative or weirder imagery), but there are many others with a few of these elements. Even if you didn't know about these, this all feels like low-hanging fruit.
The narrative had a lot of interesting ideas and elements, particularly the alien and somewhat the idea of breaching multiple anomalous defenses, but the story presentation was inconsistent (some parts felt like filler/weren't effective), and overall the story wasn't unique or driving enough to push me past no-vote territory.
I like it. Also I had a dream a while back that the red spot was caused by a "Space Nazi" ship crashing into Jupiter.
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