ANOMALOUS CHRONOLOGY DEPARTMENT MEETING TRANSCRIPT
Date: 1/14/19
Subject: SCP-7203
Meeting Lead: Henry Orion
Meeting attendees: Department Head James Sino, Senior Researcher Jeremiah Smith, Senior Researcher Abigail Holmes, +37 ACD staff
[BEGIN LOG]
The video log opens with most of the ACD staff already seated in the conference room, and as the remaining personnel shuffle in, Henry Orion turns on a projector and stands up to begin speaking.
Henry Orion: This is our former co-worker, SCP-7203.
Orion presses a button on the projector to begin the slideshow, the first slide being a photo of SCP-7203
Henry Orion: Or as many of you already know it, William Conwell.
The room erupts into confused and worried discussion regarding this development. Orion clears his throat and begins speaking again once the room succumbs to tense silence.
Henry Orion: I understand that this information comes as a shock to many of you, as SCP-7203 desired to keep this secret until the true nature of his anomalous properties were discovered, which is what I am here to discuss with you today.
Orion switches to the next slide, which displays the three items manifested by SCP-7203 during the initial testing phase.
Henry Orion: Can someone tell me what these three objects have in common?
Tory Spanier, who is undergoing his foundation internship at the Department of Anomalous Chronology, raises his hand to answer the question.
Henry Orion: Yes, Spanier?
Tory Spanier: Sir, these objects are all things seen and used in daily life.
Henry Orion: To the untrained eye, yes, however these objects hold a far greater importance than it may seem at first glance.
Orion switches to the next slide, which displays the same three objects, but this time complete with overlaid captions which point out the abnormalities in each object.
Henry Orion: As you can all see, there is another common pattern in all of these objects. None of them come from our time, carbon dating has revealed that the objects show no signs of atomic decay and I believe that they will resume the natural process of carbon decay when the time comes that they were pulled out from.
James Sino: You don't mean to imply th-
Henry Orion: Yes I do, James. My research has found that SCP-7203 is pulling objects from points in time that have not yet occurred for us. Not only that, but the method SCP-7203 uses to accomplish this is both shocking and time sensitive.
The room once again returns to an unorganized heap of confused murmurs.
Henry Orion: Please, calm yourselves, we aren't 5 years old.
A collective murmur of agreement from the crowd before silence once more.
Henry Orion: SCP-7203 is actually not anomalous. However, SCP-7203 is destined to create the world's first "time machine", which is going to prove revolutionary for this department.
James Sino: And what is your evidence for this claim?
Henry Orion: It has been a long standing belief by this department that the future is in a super-fluid state, and is only solidified when it becomes the present. However, the construction of a time machine is a monumental event which would've always happened since its creation at that point in the future. In other words, its creation would cause time to solidify around that point. And in even simpler terms, the creator of the time machine would be able to make decisions about how to use it in the current time, and have their future self carry out those actions.
Henry Orion: For instance:
The projector switches to a video displaying an excerpt from an interview with SCP-7203
Recording of Orion: So, what process do you go through when conjuring an item? Are there any limitations imposed on your ability?
Recording of SCP-7203: Well there really isn't much to it. I just tell myself that I was to bring an item here, and then a couple seconds later it appears with that flash of blue light. To answer your second question, I can't seem to summon anything larger than a mini-fridge. When I try, nothing happens, no blue light or anything. It's almost like I am telling someone to manifest objects using my own thoughts.
Recording ends
Henry Orion: It is very clear to me that what SCP-7203 does when summoning an item is making a promise to itself to relocate an object from the time of the time-travel devices creation to some point further down, or hypothetically further up the time stream.
Henry Orion: I think the implications are very clear. We are all aware of the bootstrap paradox, and the potential consequences lest it be left violated. My proposal is this: we continue to study SCP-7203 until it creates the time-travel device, then allow it to fulfill the guidelines of the bootstrap paradox to prevent a BVK-Class event. I will be taking questions now, as I imagine you all have many.
[END LOG]
Post meeting overview:
The proposal to continue monitoring and studying SCP-7203 as well as allowing it to create the time-travel device when the time comes has been accepted by James Sino. Tests conducted following the interview have begun to narrow down the time at which SCP-7203 will create the device, and a list of all items needing to be transported back along the time-stream has been assembled.
