ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: For security reasons, certain elements of the previous document are intentionally incorrect. The following is an accurate and truthful version of SCP-3908's documentation. All incorrect containment procedures have been removed and replaced with accurate information highlighted in blue for ease of reading. The sections of the document beyond the containment procedures are entirely new, and so have not been highlighted.
Item #: SCP-3908
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: In order to prevent knowledge of SCP-3908’s true nature from being spread, two instances of false documentation have been created and placed within the Foundation database, one for general use and one for Level 2/3908 personnel. The general use file is intended to masquerade SCP-3908 as a harmless, nonhuman, Safe-class anomaly, while the Level 2/3908 file is meant to justify all containment measures without alerting non-Level 4/3908 personnel to SCP-3908’s true nature. All information contained within said documentation beyond the special containment procedures is to be considered incorrect disinformation; nevertheless, all Level 4/3908 personnel must be aware of said documentation's details in order to ensure that the cover story remains intact.
SCP-3908 is to be held in a standard humanoid containment cell in Section 12 of Low-Level Anomaly Containment Site-27. No personnel are to enter the containment cell outside of specific testing procedures. The walls and door of this chamber are to be completely soundproofed. The camera feed monitoring SCP-3908 is to be muted as well. To ensure minimal contact between SCP-3908 and personnel lacking proper security clearance, no other anomalies are to be stored in Section 12. No Site-27 personnel are to enter Section 12 without Level 2/2908 clearance. All personnel receiving Level 2/3908 clearance must first pass a Franklin-Briggs Memetic Anomaly Resistance (FBMAR) test to ensure that they believe that communicating with SCP-3908 presents a high risk of cognitohazardous infection.
Due to SCP-3908's abilities and the risk of infiltration or attack by outside forces, standard guard rotations are not to be used. Instead, schedules will be distributed orally by the lead operative at the appropriate time. No further information about the details of SCP-3908’s containment beyond this form is to be written down or entered into the primary Foundation database. Planned experiments must be handwritten on ordinary paper devoid of Foundation markings before they are put into effect. The results of experiments will be placed into the database or not at the discretion of the project director.
Only individuals who have received Level 4/3908 clearance are permitted to interact or communicate with SCP-3908. If an attempt by SCP-3908 to communicate with Level 2/3908 personnel is reported, any affected personnel are to be placed in quarantine observation and questioned. If it is determined that an individual has been exposed to classified information regarding SCP-3908 or any other Foundation documents, they are to be administered amnestics and transferred to another position if necessary. All non-vaccinated personnel interacting with individuals exposed to classified information by SCP-3908 must wear complete ear protection in order to prevent further spread of classified information. Individuals exposed to classified information may communicate via writing, provided that their words are first analyzed by Level 4/3908 personnel as well as cognitohazard-detection software to maintain the appearance of cognitohazard risk among Level 2/3908 personnel. Personnel exposed to information that has proven resistant or immune to Class-A amnestics may be terminated as deemed necessary by the project director and at least one O5 Council member. SCP-3908’s project director is to be chosen by majority vote of the O5 Council and report directly to them.
Level 4/3908 personnel are to be advised that SCP-3908 may be aware of personal information about them or other high-level employees.
No Keter-class or high-risk Euclid-class anomalies, nor any objects which are considered to be valuable by hostile groups of interest are to be contained at Site-27. In the event that a containment breach or assault by hostile forces makes it likely that SCP-3908 will escape the perimeter of the site, it is to be terminated by any means necessary, up to and including the detonation of Site-27's failsafe nuclear warheads. Additional measures to ensure that SCP-3908 cannot escape Site-27 alive include [DATA EXPUNGED], which have been redacted from this documentation to ensure maximum effectiveness. Any individual who requires further information on these measures must speak with the relevant personnel in person.
Following the conclusion of the “Trophonius” incident, all Foundation redaction protocols have been revised. Please see File RA-3-7-2 for further details.
Background: The Foundation first became aware of an individual or individuals operating under the alias “Trophonius” on ██/██/████ while analyzing Chaos Insurgency documents obtained during Operation Catclaw. Additional operations against the Insurgency revealed "Trophonius" as the source of Insurgency information regarding SCP-███, SCP-████, and SCP-████. This information proved critical to their attack on Area-██. (See Incident Report ██-29-351.) It soon became clear that “Trophonius” had also been selling high-level Foundation information to several other groups of interest, including Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd, the Organization For The Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts and [REDACTED], causing considerable damage to Foundation information security. The identification and neutralization of Trophonius was made the top Foundation counter-intelligence priority, with MTF Beta-1 “Cauterizers” assigned to lead the investigation. However, the agents in charge were initially stumped by the sheer spread of Trophonius’s knowledge, involving items at over a dozen different Foundation facilities and information only accessible to personnel with Level 5 clearance. The situation worsened when Trophonius was confirmed to have leaked information regarding the location and security of Thaumiel-class SCP-[REDACTED] to the Insurgency, resulting in Incident 2███-[DATA EXPUNGED]. Administrative paranoia began to run rampant, and even O5 Council members were suspected.
Fortunately, an agent involved in the ongoing Operation Raven’s Gold (dedicated to tracking the black market sale of anomalous objects and materials) traced a payment from ██████ ████ Ltd, to █████ ████████ of ███████, Virginia. The subject’s house was immediately raided and Mr. ████████ detained. Within the house were paper and electronic copies of over 230 SCP documents, all apparently made by Mr. ████████ himself despite a complete lack of connection to the Foundation or any other group of interest. Analysis of Mr. ████████’s bank accounts determined that he had received millions of dollars in payments from various illicit sources. Further interrogation confirmed that he was, in fact, Trophonius, and that no other co-conspirators appeared to exist. Attempts to uncover the method by which Mr. ████████ obtained his information led to the discovery of anomalous properties. Mr. ████████ was declared terminated and covertly classified as SCP-3908, with his success attributed to non-anomalously hacking the Foundation central database. All instances of SCP-3908's original name and personal details on files unrelated to its capture and "termination" (including this one) have been redacted or expunged to reduce the possibility, however slim, of its former affiliates learning of its survival.
Description: SCP-3908 is a 3█–year-old Caucasian male with dark brown hair. SCP-3908 possesses an intuitive and systematic knowledge of all information contained within the primary Foundation database, regardless of clearance level, access restrictions or cognitohazardous defenses. Such knowledge includes, but is not limited to, SCP documentation (including Keter and Thaumiel-class objects), official records, incident reports, guard rotation schedules and the majority of personnel files, including those of senior staff members. The method by which this knowledge is acquired is unknown; SCP-3908 is able to instantly recall at will any information currently within the database, even if it had only been added seconds earlier. This instant recall appears to be the equivalent of an eidetic memory, and SCP-3908 has described “reading” the files in its head. Additionally, SCP-3908 can recall information that has been removed from the database that it has accessed previously, but only at normal human levels (consistent with having earlier read a document no longer available). Attempts to alter the nature of the database (including two complete changes of servers and significant alterations to the setup of the internal Foundation computer network) have been unable to prevent SCP-3908 from accessing information, and it has also proven capable of “reading” physical documents with no electronic counterparts. However, handwritten documents and those which are not in any official format (and not on Foundation stationary) appear to be inaccessible. SCP-3908 is not able to access properly redacted or expunged information (assuming that it has not “read” said information beforehand). However, if such data is later declassified, SCP-3908 will once again have access. Additionally, SCP-3908 is incapable of distinguishing genuine documents from internal disinformation. Thus, even it appears to be uncertain about the exact nature of [DATA EXPUNGED], despite having admitted to accessing 1█ different versions of the file.
SCP-3908 has demonstrated considerable resistance to amnestics, recovering from triple doses of Class-AAA drugs within seconds. It also possesses a high level of resistance to anomalous memes and cognitohazards, including Berryman-Langford memetic kill agents. The cause of this resistance is currently unknown, but it renders all cognitohazard-based database defenses useless for deterring SCP-3908. It has also proven resistant or immune to the mental (although not physical) effects of certain other anomalous objects. See File 3908-6b for details.
With the exception of its database access and high resistance to amnestics, memetics and mental anomalies, SCP-3908 appears to be a physiologically ordinary human. Lacking any special skills or training, it is, on its own, a low escape risk. However, the unique nature of SCP-3908’s abilities (as well as the seeming impossibility of preventing its access to the database) require that containment be focused on two goals: preventing SCP-3908 from sharing classified or harmful information with personnel lacking proper security clearance and ensuring that no hostile groups of interest attempt to liberate SCP-3908 for their own purposes. To the latter end, false documentation has been created to ensure that even those groups of interest who interacted with SCP-3908 before its containment do not know of its continued existence, let alone where to find it.
SCP-3908 has proven to be highly uncooperative with Foundation personnel. Its motivations for its actions as “Trophonius” appear to have primarily been monetary in nature. Psychiatric analysis suggests narcissism, delusions of grandeur and anti-social tendencies. SCP-3908 has on occasion attempted to offer its services to the Foundation for a considerable salary. These offers have been consistently rejected.
Addendum 3908-1: Excerpt from O5 Council Meeting #[REDACTED], ██/██/████
O5-3: “It’s too dangerous. It’s too big of a risk. We have to terminate him.”
O5-6: “I agree. The only way we know of to protect the database from him would be to make it entirely handwritten, and that would reduce our effectiveness by an unacceptable amount. He sold out SCP-[REDACTED]. If he wasn’t anomalous, we’d have killed him months ago.”
O5-4: “No. We can’t risk it. Containment is working. We have to study him. Understand how his abilities work.”
O5-3: “Why? So we can spy on ourselves?”
O5-12: “SCP-3908 had no known connection to the Foundation or any known group of interest prior to his activities as Trophonius. By his own admission, the information just popped into his head one day. Even he doesn’t know why.”
O5-10: “Or at least that’s what he claims.”
O5-4: “Regardless, if it happened once, it could happen again. One additional instance of SCP-3908 could prove catastrophic to the Foundation, to say nothing of what several could do. We have to learn why it happened and see if there’s any way we can stop it.”
O5-9: “Agreed. But if he comes even close to escaping…”
O5-7: “It won’t happen. The initial psych work is pretty clear. He’s a narcissist and a coward with no relevant training or experience. His work as Trophonius was sloppy, and he only evaded us for so long because we were looking for a conventional spy or leak. In a way, he’s lucky. It looks like the Insurgency was plotting to try and kidnap him. I guess they got tired of paying for what they could steal.”
O5-3: “Does the Insurgency know precisely what his capabilities are?”
O5-7: “It doesn’t appear so. Even if they did, he has been reported dead.”
O5-2: “And you really think they will believe that?”
O5-8: “It doesn’t matter. To free him, they will have to find him. That's why he's not in a steel bunker with a full battalion guarding him. SCP-3908 is a harmless rock that generates illusions, a few of which resemble a human male. No connection whatsoever."
O5-2: "Hidden in plain sight."
O5-3: “And if they somehow work it out and come after him anyways?”
O5-4: “He’ll be put down. No matter the cost.”
[pause]
O5-4: “I hope you understand that, SCP-3908. I’m sure you’ll read the transcript of this conversation eventually, so I just thought I’d make this clear: You are alive because it is in our interests to study you, and that currently outweighs the risks you present. That could change at any moment. You are not going to escape. You are not going to be freed. Any rights you may have had vanished when you decided to risk dooming humanity for personal gain. You will remain in our custody until we decide that you are of no further use to us, at which point you will be dealt with in a manner appropriate for your behavior and cooperation. Who knows? If you're good, you might even survive.”
Note: The day after Addendum 3908-1 was added to this file, SCP-3908 was noted to be unusually agitated and aggressive. Subject became increasingly uncooperative until rations were cut in half for the following week.
Addendum 3908-2: As of this writing (██/██/20██), no known attempt has been made to free SCP-3908 (though records of an attempt have been fabricated in order to justify additional security measures, as detailed in the Level 2/3908 clearance documentation), and no reference to SCP-3908 or "Trophonius" has been detected in intercepted GoI chatter. As it has been ██ years since its capture, it seems likely that containment has been successful. SCP-3908 appears to have realized this, and has become gradually more cooperative. Testing into the nature of SCP-3908's abilities is ongoing.
Addendum 3908-3: SCP-3908 occasionally comments upon elements and even entire documents that are not and have never been present in the database, or otherwise insisting that a document has been changed despite it not being edited. Whether this is a limit to its ability to perceive the database, deliberate disinformation by SCP-3908, simple delusion or the result of subtle alterations in reality that we cannot otherwise detect is unclear.
Addendum 3908-4:
To any additional instances of SCP-3908 who happen to have found this document: I must ask that you turn yourselves in. SCP-3908-1 is where he is because of his choices, not because of his abilities. His fate doesn't have to happen to you. Containment doesn't have to mean a lifetime of solitary confinement labeled as a piece of pumice.
I know that probably hasn't persuaded you, and I doubt there is much else I can say to convince you. Therefore, I ask that you at least use whatever knowledge of the Foundation that you've acquired more responsibly than he did, which is to say, frankly, not at all. You know what our mission is. You know how important it is. And you know what we'll do to those who try to sabotage it.
-Dr. █████