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atlas1C (account age 9 hours) recently applied for site membership. They have the following sandbox, which has common indicators of AI-generation: https://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/scp-16660
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+ **Item Number**: SCP-16660
++ **Object Class**: Apollyon
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+++ **Special Containment Procedures**
//Direct containment of SCP-16660 is physically and virtually impossible.// Containment efforts focus on global information suppression, astronomical data obfuscation, and redirection of public or civilian scientific attention away from the Crux region. All Gaia DR3 data referencing source █████████████████████ is to be intercepted through Foundation-owned ESA liaison assets. Civilian observatories detecting its gamma-band output are to receive automated false telemetry packets attributing readings to instrument error or known background sources.
Monitoring **Station Nox-South** is to maintain continuous deep gamma-ray surveillance of SCP-16660. //**Any fluctuation in emission intensity exceeding 0.00002 percent is to be immediately escalated to Director-level command and the O5 Council.**//
Under //NO// circumstances are researchers permitted to attempt direct distance measurement of SCP-16660. Prior attempts have resulted in anomalous values that produced acute psychological breakdowns, derealization, aggression, and panic attacks in staff, causing them to attack nearby staff, which has been labelled **SCP-16660-2.**
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+++ Description
SCP-16660 is a compact stellar object located within the constellation Crux. The object was first registered in ESA Gaia Data Release 3 as the source Gaia DR3 █████████████████████, displaying astrometric parameters inconsistent with any known physical model. The official designation for SCP-16660 is FRST, meaning First Revolutionary Sighting Trace.
SCP-16660 possesses a visually detectable diameter of ████████ kilometers, however the true approximate diameter is uncertain due to its contradictory values.
Values above 2.9 Solar Masses is not theoretically possible for any neutron star, yet the object's gravitational effects indicate a mass between 5 and 235.2 Solar Masses. These values violate the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit for neutron degeneracy stability and imply that SCP-16660 occupies a previously unknown and anomalous stellar regime.
SCP-16660 appears as a dim red halo encircling a perfectly black core. The halo is believed to be atomic excitation produced by continuous gamma-ray bombardment. The interior region absorbs all detectable wavelengths including high-energy radiation. This feature has earned SCP-16660 several unofficial titles used by Foundation astronomers, including ██████████ ███████████ and ███████████.
SCP-16660 emits a constant, non-periodic gamma-ray output unlike pulsars or gamma-ray burst remnants. It is entirely undetectable in optical, radio, and X-ray spectra. The gamma emission signature is stable but produces a fixed luminous corona that appears in all gamma observatories as a circular void with a faint perimeter glow.
SCP-16660 is observed as a Low Proper Motion Stellar Object. The small observable drift may indicate either extreme distance with extreme velocity to Earth or extreme proximity combined with "snail's pace" velocity. Attempts to reconcile these possibilities produce unsolvable contradictions in spacetime modeling. As a result, the true distance, size, and intrinsic luminosity of SCP-16660 remain unknown.
SCP-16660 can produce high-intensity gamma-ray pulses far exceeding baseline output. More concerning is its ability to discharge narrow, directed beams of hyper-dense neutron-phase matter. The only confirmed discharge event, designated Event 16660-1, was traced to the destruction of a remote neutron star approximately 45 years prior to Gaia’s observation, which was in 1420.███ MHz frequency. Foundation astrophysicists believe that the beam originated from SCP-16660 and instantly destabilized the target body, Any sign or instance of Event 16660-1 being produced will **REQUIRE immediate notice of the O5 Council.**
This behavior suggests an active mechanism within SCP-16660 capable of projecting relativistic matter concentrations with //extreme precision// and //destructive// capacity
Current leading hypotheses propose that SCP-16660 is the product of an anomalous stellar collapse that produced a stable, non-rotating, neutron-based core held in equilibrium by unknown quantum interactions spread across its unusually large surface area. A minority theory claims catastrophic measurement error by ESA equipment, yet this would imply systemic failures across multiple independent systems and thus a fundamental collapse of modern astronomical methodology.
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+++ **Addendum A**
+++++ Dr. H. ██████, Senior Astrophysicist
> Every FUTILE attempt to determine the object's distance produces impossible answers. EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING contradicts each other, It's like the universe is refusing to let us know.
+++ **Addendum B**
+++++ Dr. Thomas, Senior Psychologist
> I observed them when they were trying to get data the second time, it seems gradual, exponential even. One by one they went insane, looks to be symptoms of psychosis, insanity and deprivation. They said "The end is near." and "Before its too late." before one of them attacked me with a shiv.
++ Incident Report
A -
++++ **SCP-16660-2**
+++ First-hand Affected:
Junior Researcher ███████.
Researcher ███████.
Researcher James V.
Researcher ███████████.
Senior Researcher Aaron M.
+++ Second-hand Affected:
Security Guard ████████████.
Security Guard Robert L.
Security Guard ██████.
Researcher ███████████.
Director ███████████.
B -
++++ **SCP-16660-2**
+++ First-hand Affected:
Junior Researcher ███████.
Junior Researcher Mitchell S.
+++ Second-hand Affected:
Security Guard ████████████.
Security Guard Rondd T.
Security Guard ██████.
Psychologist Dr. Thomas H.
//All affected have been restrained and kept in light containment for further observation, This incident will be reported to the **O5 Council.**//
Excerpts of note:
Monitoring Station Nox-South is to maintain continuous deep gamma-ray surveillance of SCP-16660. Any fluctuation in emission intensity exceeding 0.00002 percent is to be immediately escalated to Director-level command and the O5 Council.
Foundation astrophysicists believe that the beam originated from SCP-16660 and instantly destabilized the target body, Any sign or instance of Event 16660-1 being produced will REQUIRE immediate notice of the O5 Council.
This behavior suggests an active mechanism within SCP-16660 capable of projecting relativistic matter concentrations with extreme precision and destructive capacity
Current leading hypotheses propose that SCP-16660 is the product of an anomalous stellar collapse that produced a stable, non-rotating, neutron-based core held in equilibrium by unknown quantum interactions spread across its unusually large surface area. A minority theory claims catastrophic measurement error by ESA equipment, yet this would imply systemic failures across multiple independent systems and thus a fundamental collapse of modern astronomical methodology.
Addendum A
Dr. H. ██████, Senior Astrophysicist
> Every FUTILE attempt to determine the object's distance produces impossible answers. EVERYTHING and EVERYTHING contradicts each other, It's like the universe is refusing to let us know.
Addendum B
Dr. Thomas, Senior Psychologist
> I observed them when they were trying to get data the second time, it seems gradual, exponential even. One by one they went insane, looks to be symptoms of psychosis, insanity and deprivation. They said "The end is near." and "Before its too late." before one of them attacked me with a shiv.
Second-hand Affected:
Security Guard ████████████.
Security Guard Rondd T.
Security Guard ██████.
Psychologist Dr. Thomas H.
All affected have been restrained and kept in light containment for further observation, This incident will be reported to the O5 Council.
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