The containment vault for SCP-076-1 was silent—a silence that, in this place, meant safety. The cube sat in its stasis cradle, frost lingering on its surface, ancient engravings throwing shadows under the Veil Core's clinical white lights. Mira Han stood at the main interface, a dozen sensor feeds and data projections hovering at her fingertips.
Here, research was not an act of desperation but a methodical peeling-back of cosmic layers. The Akashic Foundation's main base was built for anomalies that defied reason; a murderous immortal in a stone box was a curiosity, not a crisis.
Mira's Daily Log, Day 1: "Transfer complete. SCP-076-1 secured with triple-redundant logic fields and a local isolation array.
Initial scans confirm previous findings: cube measures exactly 3 meters per side, composition consistent with black metamorphic stone, unknown mineral inclusions. Engravings show no match to known civilizations—pattern analysis suggests deliberate obfuscation, perhaps a conceptual defense.
Internal temperature constant at 93 Kelvin, impervious to all Foundation heating protocols.
SCP-076-2 remains dormant."
Mira flicked through the Foundation archives, pulling up breach records, containment failures, autopsy attempts, and ancient field reports. The logs were a testimony to both human ingenuity and repeated, bloody failure.
Foundation Log Excerpt (Historical): "Subject reanimates at unpredictable intervals, seeking out and killing any humans encountered. Superhuman strength, speed, and resilience confirmed.
Unusual ability: summons bladed weapons from spatial discontinuities. Weapons are formed from a non-reflective, void-like material—disappear rapidly after leaving subject's possession.
Subject ignores pain, can sustain catastrophic trauma, and continues to fight until physically destroyed.
Death is not permanent: remains degrade, cube reseals, and the entity reforms after a variable interval (6 hours to 25 years observed)."
Research Team Meeting – Secure Conference Room
The room was filled with a dozen researchers, analysts, and one silent N1S unit standing in the corner. Dr. Jan led the discussion. Dr. Jan: "Let's review: What makes 076-2 tick? Why does it keep coming back, and why can't we communicate with it?" Mira: "I've cross-referenced all previous attempts at engagement. The entity enters a trance-like rage upon reanimation—no evidence it can be reasoned with
As for the resurrection cycle, I think the cube functions as an anchor on some deeper ontological level. I'm preparing a pattern resonance scan to test for sub-logic anomalies."Researcher Kaito: "What about the weapons? Anti-material, anti-hazard—nothing sticks. We lose more data every time one is summoned."Mira: "My working theory is that the weapons are not 'created' but drawn from a pocket of null-space. The material is a negative, not a positive—an absence, not a substance. That's why we can't analyze it."
Technical Analysis – Pattern Resonance Scan
The lab filled with the hum of exotic sensors. Holo-screens mapped the cube's internal geometry, revealing impossible angles and recursive spaces. Mira watched as the scan traced the coffin and the chains binding it. Technician: "No measurable energy signature. The chains—whatever they're made of—exist in logical opposition to the anomaly itself. Like a lock built to hold an idea, not a body."Mira: "And yet, every time the entity reconstitutes, the chains are restored too. Self-repairing pattern—could be a failsafe, or just a feature of the object's origin."
She activated the world-tree terminal, requesting access to the Akashic Records. Most of the cube's history was redacted, but enough remained to paint a picture of centuries of human error, loss, and adaptation.
Akashic Record – SCP-076 (Summary): "Artifact recovered in 19th-century Mongolia. All initial expedition members lost.
Subsequent containment by the SCP Foundation, multiple breaches resulting in total site loss.
Entity's anomalous properties remain consistent across all observed cycles.
Key unknowns: origin of the cube, purpose of engravings, and the reason for the entity's hostility.
Catalogued as a 'universal hazard' in the early years, now considered a low-tier anomaly by current Foundation threat models. No projected upward recursion risk."
Internal Memo – Dr. Mira Han to Dr. Jan "Given the current containment integrity and N1S readiness, I propose controlled reanimation and behavioral observation under full lockdown.
Objective: test the effect of logic field manipulation on the entity's rage state and attempt nonlethal immobilization using meta-conceptual restraints.
Requesting clearance for limited activation protocol."
Dr. Jan's Response (in person, after reviewing the memo): Dr. Jan: "You've got the green light. But remember, 076-2 is a curiosity here, not a priority. No heroics, no unnecessary risk. If the N1S says pull back, you pull back. Understood?" Mira: "Understood."
Controlled Activation – Observation Log
The containment vault was locked down. Only Mira, Dr. Jan, and the N1S unit monitored the sensors as the temperature inside the cube began to climb—anomalous heat signature, always the first sign.
A tremor. The chains inside the cube shuddered. The stone door rotated, locks clicking open in sequence. From the heart of the darkness, SCP-076-2 rose, eyes vacant and unseeing, body shrouded in frost and arcane tattoos. Mira (into recorder): "Subject reanimated. No response to auditory stimulus. Rage state onset in four… three…" SCP-076-2 screamed, a raw animal sound, and threw itself against the logic field. The N1S unit responded instantly, stepping into the containment cell's outer buffer, arms raised. N1S-01: "Hostile detected. Initiating nonlethal restraint."
Meta-conceptual tethers—strands of light and anti-pattern—snaked from the vault walls, binding the entity in a net of pure logic. SCP-076-2 strained, muscles tearing, bones cracking, but the restraints held. Mira (calm, clinical): "Vital signs: elevated but stable. No sign of cognitive response. Attempting remote analysis…"
She sent a pulse through the cube's internal sensors, mapping the entity's structure. There was no clear boundary between flesh and anomaly; the subject's body was a lattice of contradictions—alive yet dead, human yet not. The core, she saw, was a void—an engine of recursion, forever resetting. Dr. Jan: "We're done. Shut it down." N1S-01: "Entity neutralized."
The logic field surged, and SCP-076-2's body collapsed into dust, the rage spent. The cube resealed itself, chains reforming in perfect sequence.
After-Action Report
Mira compiled her findings, voice low but steady as she dictated her conclusions. "SCP-076 is a relic of a more violent age—dangerous, yes, but manageable with current Foundation systems. Its true nature may never be fully known: a weapon, a curse, or a punishment.
The entity inside is not evil, only bound to repeat a cycle of violence beyond its own will.
Recommendation: continued observation, but no further active testing unless threat model changes.
For now, SCP-076 is contained. The Foundation endures."