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DrPulcino (account age 6 days, site membership 22 hours) recently posted the following draft thread without greenlights, which has multiple indicators of AI-generation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-17139012/scp-001-proposal-draft-project-astra:stardust-feedback-and-c
Hello there!
This is a completed SCP-001 proposal titled **"Project ASTRA – Stardust"**. The concept revolves around a CK/ZK-class scenario in which the stars do not disappear physically — they vanish *conceptually*. No one remembers what constellations were. Astronomical data becomes corrupt. Cultures forget mythologies tied to the night sky. Emotional memory linked to starlight is the primary casualty.
The event was triggered by the failed activation of a Foundation device called ASTRA-9 — designed to anchor cosmic identity into universal memory to prevent entropy. Instead, it caused reality-wide memetic unbinding, and meaning itself began to unravel.
This proposal is a mix of:
- Metaphysical horror
- Poetic narrative
- Psychological decay and memory erosion
- SCP-3001-style personal logs and collapse (or at least, inspired by it)
- Tragic existential themes
The document includes logs, personal reflections from Dr. Nemo Specter, failed containment attempts, and one hopeful post-collapse addendum describing attempts to "rebuild" the stars through shared myth.
**I would really appreciate critique on:**
- Overall tone and flow — does it feel immersive and weighty like a true SCP-001?
- Emotional resonance — does the horror *land*, or does it feel too abstract?
- Clarity — are the science-fictional and metaphysical elements understandable?
- Is anything too vague or too heavy-handed?
- Any parts you think could be cut, expanded, or refined?
This is my first SCP-001 proposal AND first SCP Article! I’m aiming to eventually post it on the mainlist, once it's ready.
**Here is the sandbox link:**
[ https://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/sandbox:drpulcino ]
I hope i explained myself well!
Thank you so so much in advance for your time and thoughts!
Excerpt of note:
This is a completed SCP-001 proposal titled "Project ASTRA – Stardust". The concept revolves around a CK/ZK-class scenario in which the stars do not disappear physically — they vanish *conceptually*. No one remembers what constellations were. Astronomical data becomes corrupt. Cultures forget mythologies tied to the night sky. Emotional memory linked to starlight is the primary casualty.
The event was triggered by the failed activation of a Foundation device called ASTRA-9 — designed to anchor cosmic identity into universal memory to prevent entropy. Instead, it caused reality-wide memetic unbinding, and meaning itself began to unravel.
This proposal is a mix of:
- Metaphysical horror
- Poetic narrative
- Psychological decay and memory erosion
- SCP-3001-style personal logs and collapse (or at least, inspired by it)
- Tragic existential themes
The thread links to a sandbox, which also has obvious indicators of AI-generation: https://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/sandbox:drpulcino note that the draft is fully formed upon creation; user's only edits are to the modules at top and bottom, and adding some additional bold text.
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+ **Special Containment Procedures**
**NOTICE:** As of 21██/██/██, containment of SCP-001 is no longer viable. The entity’s physical manifestation has ceased. Its metaphysical effects are now embedded within baseline spacetime and collective conceptual infrastructure.
All efforts are redirected toward stabilization of psychological continuity and prevention of total memetic dissociation in affected populations. Global Project MNEMOSYNE protocols remain in emergency deployment. See Addendum MNEM-A.
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[[collapsible show="+ Archived Containment Notes (Obsolete)" hide="- Archived Containment Notes (Obsolete)"]]
- Maintain active temporal anchors across ██ Foundation sites.
- Reinforce Class-VIII memetic counter-collapse rituals every 12 hours.
- Avoid ritual exposure to archived starlight simulacra after 00:00 UTC.
- Preserve all known instances of the "Event Horizon Choir" in cryo-digital vaults.
[[/collapsible]]
+ **Description**
SCP-001 refers to an ongoing reality-wide metaphysical decay event, initiated during the failed activation of an experimental reality-retention array at Deep Space Research Station ∞.9. The array, designated ASTRA-9, was engineered to anchor conceptual constants — specifically celestial identity — to a universal mnestic field, with the aim of preventing entropy-based collapse scenarios.
It did the opposite.
On ██/██/20██, all stars beyond Earth’s solar system ceased to exist — not in matter, but in meaning. Astronomical imagery remains unchanged. However, all cognitive, emotional, and cultural associations with starlight have vanished.
Entire poetic traditions, constellational memory, and cosmic mythos—
**Gone. Forgotten. Unfelt.**
Affected individuals describe:
- A profound sense of never having looked at the night sky.
- An inability to recall, recognize, or even describe constellations once intimately known.
- A growing cognitive pressure — a “cold knot in the mind,” suggesting systemic conceptual unraveling.
**SCP-001 is not the absence of light.**
It is the collapse of *meaning* behind it.
This marks the first confirmed instance of a metaphysical anomaly directly targeting emotional memory and shared symbolic perception on a cosmological scale.
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+ **Addendum 001-A: Final Transmission – Dr. Nemo Specter**
> “Do you understand what we’ve done? The stars... they weren’t just stars. They were scaffolding — for myth, memory, wonder. They were the stories we whispered to ourselves when the dark got too loud. And now—”
> “Now the silence feels hollow. Not empty — broken.”
> **(static)**
> “Sometimes I wonder if I ever really saw them at all. I think they looked back at me once. But I can’t remember why that mattered.”
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+ **Incident Log / Narrative Reconstruction — Dr. Nemo Specter**
I don’t remember how it started.
Only that it did.
I was reviewing memetic decay logs in Sub-Basement Theta, Site-09. Then the stars began to vanish. No fanfare. No explosions. Just… **absence.**
The monitors stuttered. The night sky turned cold and sterile. And we felt it — not in our eyes, but in our bones.
> "The sky didn’t go dark. It went silent."
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+ **Log Entry #1 – 03:17 UTC**
> “Stars missing. Telescopes return null. Memory contamination confirmed. Astronomical data corrupt. Civilian reports describe 'blank skies'. Hoax dismissed. This is real.”
> — Dr. Specter
**CK-Class: Conceptual Collapse Scenario**
By Day 3, SCP-001 was reclassified as a full CK-Class event: not merely the vanishing of stars, but a cascading decay of all associated cultural, linguistic, and symbolic references.
- Nursery rhymes stopped being understood.
- Cultural stories ceased to make sense.
- Astronomers cried—not from grief, but from incomprehension.
One cosmonaut aboard the ISS awoke screaming. He no longer knew what the word *cosmos* meant.
By Day 5, no celestial body beyond the Moon remained cognitively perceptible. The Milky Way was rendered linguistically inert. The sky became… unnameable.
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+ **ZK-Class Trigger: The Worm in the Light**
Not erasure. **Unmaking.**
Analysis suggests a memetic worm embedded in a dying star’s final emissions. A psychic fracture. A thought that thought itself into being:
> **“What if there were no stars?”**
It fed on shared meaning. It ate belief. And it spread — faster than light, deeper than thought.
By Day 7:
- Foundation servers began auto-purging celestial data.
- SCP-████ neutralized itself.
- SCP-1548 ceased transmission.
- The Moon dimmed perceptually — still visible, but *unbelievable.*
> “If this continues,” I recorded, “even the word *sky* will unravel. ‘Orbit’ feels wrong in my mouth. I can’t recall a sunset. Only the shape of forgetting.”
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+ **Containment Attempt 03: The Recall Array**
SCRI – Shared Conceptual Reconstruction Interface.
Thirty-seven D-Class were plugged into a ritual mnemonic lattice, tasked with remembering the stars.
It failed. Catastrophically.
What they remembered were not stars, but watchers.
Eyes. Intent.
One whispered: *“They’re angry we forgot them.”*
Three died of conceptual hemorrhage. One still mutters:
> *“The stars remember you. Even if you forget them.”*
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+ **Final Log — Dr. Nemo Specter**
Day 11. The sky is black. Not night. Not space. Just absence.
Human cognition no longer retains “nighttime.”
Photosynthesis is failing.
Clocks glitch.
Birds fall.
Language cracks.
I don’t know what I’m writing this on.
A screen? A page? The inside of a dying thought?
But I remember something:
I once wished on a star.
I can’t recall its name.
But I remember **wanting** to.
And that… still burns.
Not fire. Not light.
Longing.
Maybe that’s enough.
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+ **Recovered Addendum — Project MNEMOSYNE**
**Internal Memo – Senior Researcher Elara Qamar**
We recovered this log from a corrupted capsule near Station ∞.9’s blackout perimeter. Most dismissed it as poetic breakdown.
But I read it again.
And when I looked up, I saw nothing.
But I **felt** something.
So we wrote the stars down.
Not as they were — but as they **needed to be.**
Names. Myths. Shapes. Stories.
We taught them to the children.
And though the sky stayed dark, one girl smiled and said:
> **“I remember the one that looked like a wolf.”**
It never existed.
**But now it does.**
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[[div class="scp-licensebox"]]
*SCP-001: “Project ASTRA – Stardust”*
Written by [[*user DrPulcino]]
All images and components used are released under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA 3.0] license.
You are free to share and adapt the material, provided appropriate credit is given.
Portions of this article may reference themes and SCPs from the SCP Foundation wiki at large. All derivative works remain under CC BY-SA 3.0.
[[/div]]
Excerpt of note:
Affected individuals describe:
- A profound sense of never having looked at the night sky.
- An inability to recall, recognize, or even describe constellations once intimately known.
- A growing cognitive pressure — a “cold knot in the mind,” suggesting systemic conceptual unraveling.
SCP-001 is not the absence of light.
It is the collapse of *meaning* behind it.
Compare with the user's only other forum post, a reply to a staff member asking if they have greenlights: http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-17139012/scp-001-proposal-draft-project-astra:stardust-feedback-and-c#post-7016273
Hi! Thanks a lot for checking my post.
No, i have not.
This is currently just a sandbox draft - i haven't posted it to the main Wiki yet.
Im still trying to gather feedback and planning to seek Greenlights properly before doing so.
I'd be happy to move this back to the sandbox and get proper feedback if that's required.
I apologize profusely if i generated confusion.
Membership revoked, PM sent.
