SCP-7256
rating: -2+x

Item #: SCP-7256

Object Class: SafeApollyon

Special Containment Procedures (Defunct): SCP-7256 is to be kept in an individual secure storage area in Site-██, it is to be kept under constant surveillance and visited by armed guards at regular intervals. A medium-yield explosive device should be placed at the base of the object to be remotely detonated if any unauthorized individual attempts to operate it and cannot be prevented by other means. Testing may only occur with permission from Site Command.

Updated Special Containment Procedures: SCP-7256 should be kept in the specifically designed underground vault approximately 1 kilometer below the earth's surface at Site-███. No electronic equipment of any kind should be allowed within 100m of the machine and anything within said radius should be entirely incapable of action with or without stimuli. All ways of accessing the vault should be heavily monitored and a zero contact policy with the machine should be enforced, but under no circumstances should the machine or any of the signals it produces be viewed by a being capable of even simple decision making. Any personnel that comes into contact with these signals should be given Class A amnestics, undergo psychiatric evaluation, and be quarantined for a minimum of one month. Any non-sapient life that comes into contact with these signals should be terminated immediately. Testing is suspended indefinitely and may only continue with direct 05 approval.

Description: SCP-7256 is an early digital computer that strongly resembles the D-17B computer used in the LGM-30 Minuteman I, an ICBM developed by the United States during the Cold War. It has several major modifications from the original D-17B design, the purpose of most are unclear, but they do include a large computer terminal w/keyboard, a number of LED lights along the upper rim, and a small thermal printer all fully attached to the main body of the machine. These modifications have also removed all means of connecting to other electronic equipment; how the machine remains powered is unclear. Though detailed analysis is impossible, radio imaging has shown internal components that are relatively standard and do not directly imply an anomalous nature though the interior of some sections are still not observable.

The main feature through which SCP-7256’s anomalous traits are expressed is the terminal, which passively displays the text ‘Enter desired event’, only briefly switching to ‘Processing Request’, ‘Request Complete’, ‘Archiving Request’, or ‘Request Invalid’ when provided with the correct stimuli. Typing out a request that meets the parameters defined below will cause the machine to activate for 2-5 minutes, producing sounds similar to what the D-17B would while in use. Upon concluding this process the object will make a typewriter ‘ding’ sound. It will then begin flashing its lights for an amount of time that has not yet exceeded 3 hours and/or expel a slip of paper with no more than 100 non-space ASCII characters printed on it in standard IBM Courier font. How it is meant to intake paper is not yet known; Senior Researcher Dr. A█████ S██████ has hypothesized that paper generation and continued functioning without a power source may be a secondary anomalous capability.

The sequence in which the lights flash and the material on the paper slip follow little to no set patterns, though both are often able to be interpreted as intelligible data. In all cases where this occurred, the specific output of the machine has led to a series of events that resulted in the event occurring as requested at some point in the future. The complexity and length of this ‘Rube Goldberg’ effect varies highly, but the event has always occurred eventually in a manner that can be traced directly back to the output of the machine. There is no known way to avoid or subvert this effect.

History: The machine was seized by Foundation field agents from ████ ████ following an investigation into his defiance of projected economic models by gaining large amounts of wealth unusually quickly. Interviews and memory scans revealed that he had held the machine for approximately four months in his private residence since finding it in an abandoned ██████ bunker near ███████, Tennessee, and was using the device mostly for personal enrichment. Original creator(s) unknown.

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