belltuta.blogg.se - Scp in the corner of your eye

The real kicker? It IS the best outcome, in the sense that it's the only one the Foundation has observed where humanity survives the first century of the 2000's. Of all the possible futures the Foundation has encountered, this is the best outcome.

What happens in scenario XN? In 2349, an asteroid hits the Earth, wiping out most of humanity and rendering the planet uninhabitable. There's a memo explaining that the Foundation is using all its resources to try to keep the timeline on-course for a particular future designated XN. The method used is pretty horrific in itself (only brain and nervous tissue survives time travel intact, so travellers must be 'prepared' suitably) but that's not the scary part.

SCP-2003 is a straight-up time machine used by the Foundation to find out about possible futures and guide humanity onto the correct path.

The Wrong Proposal suggests that SCP-2000 has only been around since approximately the first half of the 20th century (the first O5-5's successor note was likely written at the very beginning, when the facility was merely an idea.) Which means that, based on the corpse, the machine has been used at least a whopping 22-35 times. Yes, the doctor's walking around fine, and has absolutely no idea why there's a centuries-old corpse that has his security credentials, and yet there it is, with a note marking that even he, and then, had absolutely no idea when, and for what, they built the facility. That corpse? It may have been Doctor Clef's. One note even says that they will not try reducing humanity's violent and sociopathic tendencies, because they already did, successfully. Attached notes also indicate that we've still screwed it up by rewinding too far before its repopulation began, which ended up causing World War II. A corpse found in it is dated back 450-700 years, and a letter accompanying it indicates that it was around long before then.

The scary part is it has already been pressed who knows how many times.

Essentially, it is a huge facility capable of cloning the entirety of the human race in the event of an end-of-the-world scenario, able to set the culture and civilization of mankind to any time period chosen, with politically important figures copied exactly to get the world running back on track. Then you see its classification: Thaumiel.

Right from the get go, you know this is something big when you see they've got a cognitohazard safeguard, just like the SCP-001 page.