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Gravitational Malachite (SCP-1706)

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^^ An instance of SCP-1706-a ^^

Item #: SCP-1706

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1706 is positioned on a pedestal, entirely made of iron, 1.5 meters high. The pedestal is positioned in the middle of a 3m x 3m x 3m room at Site-19. SCP-1706 must be monitored by at least two (2) Level 3 personnel, inside the room. Only Level 3 or higher personnel is allowed to enter the room. Copper and malachite must not be introduced into the room, due to the effect of SCP-1706 on these materials. The SCP-1706 must not be moved from its position.

Description: SCP-1706 is a sphere made entirely by malachite. Its radius is 10 cm, and its weight is 16.75 kg. While the characteristics of the malachite itself are not different from those of the common malachite, the sphere has a particular effect on malachite at the distance of 1.3 meters or less from the center of the sphere, and on any object made of copper at the distance of 1 meter or less from the center of the sphere. Also, breaking the sphere, its parts will rebuild it fastly, through a pseudo-magnetic force. The rebuilt sphere will not show any hint of the damages.

A sample of copper, at the distance of 1 meter or less from the center of the sphere, will immediately transform into malachite (denominated SCP-1706-a). SCP-1706-a is instantly affected by SCP-1706. It is supposed that the other molecules necessary for the building of the mineral (OH and CO3) are directly taken from the ambient in the zone of influence of the sphere.

A sample of malachite of any dimension, or copper turned into SCP-1706-a, at the distance of 1.3 meters or less from the center of SCP-1706 will be influenced by the sphere almost immediately (from this point, the sample of malachite or SCP-1706-a is denominated SCP-1706-b). SCP-1706-b will be rejected from SCP-1706, with a pseudo-magnetic force which will give an acceleration of 5 meters per squared second. SCP-1706-b will continue to escape until a spherical object of any dimension, not made of malachite, will be at a certain distance from the center of SCP-1706-b (this distance has been approximately calculated as two times the cube root of SCP-1706-b's volume). The spherical object (from now defined as SCP-1706-c2) has not to be perfectly spherical. SCP-1706-b will consider “spherical” objects like the crown of a tree, an egg, or a human head. Also, objects which are not too big or too small relatively to SCP-1706-b seems to be preferred (the most common ratio, observed in experiments between SCP-1706-b's volume and SCP-1706-c2's one seems to be 1/27). When SCP-1706-b has detected SCP-1706-c2, its behaviour changes. From now, it is defined as SCP-1706-c1.

SCP-1706-c1 will gravitate around SCP-1706-c2. Its orbit is circular, while its speed is costant, and approximately equal to (volume of SCP-1706-c2)/(volume of SCP-1706-c1) m/s. The SCP-1206-C1 cannot be blocked, stopped, or removed in any way. The analysis on SCP-1706-c1 shows how it is still malachite, but it is very very weaker than the common malachite. In the Mohs scale, common malachite is 3.5-4, while SCP-1706-c1 is just 0.3, so SCP-1706-c1 will be damaged and will break if it enters in contact with any external object (SCP-1706-c1 will never touch SCP-1706-c2). If SCP-1706-c1 is broken, it will enter its Phase 1. SCP-1706-c1 has 6 different Phases:

  • Phase 0: it has been already described. If SCP-1706-c1 is broken, it enters in Phase 1.
  • Phase 1: SCP-1706-c1 re-arranges itself and creates four smaller SCP-1706-c1, which will orbit four times faster than the previous phase. The four pieces' positions will correspond to the positions of the vertices of a tetrahedron. If one of the four pieces is damaged, SCP-1706-c1 enters Phase 2.
  • Phase 2: SCP-1706-c1 re-arranges itself again and creates six smaller SCP-1706-c1, which will orbit six times faster than Phase 1. The six pieces' positions will correspond to the positions of the vertices of an octahedron. If one of the six pieces is damaged, SCP-1706-c1 enters Phase 3.
  • Phase 3: SCP-1706-c1 re-arranges itself again and creates eight smaller SCP-1706-c1, which will orbit eight times faster than Phase 1. The six pieces' positions will correspond to the positions of the vertices of a cube. If one of the eight pieces is damaged, SCP-1706-c1 enters Phase 4.
  • Phase 4: SCP-1706-c1 re-arranges itself for the fourth time and creates twelve smaller SCP-1706-c1, which will orbit twelve times faster than Phase 1. The twelve pieces' positions will correspond to the positions of the vertices of a icosahedron. If one of the twelve pieces is damaged, SCP-1706-c1 enters Phase 5, the last one.
  • Phase 5: SCP-1706-c1 re-arranges itself for the last time and creates twenty smaller SCP-1706-c1, which will orbit twenty times faster than Phase 1. The twenty pieces' positions will correspond to the positions of the vertices of a dodecahedron.

At this point, if one piece of SCP-1706-c1 is damaged again, the speed and the orbits of all the pieces will be unstable and [REDACTED] the SCP-1706-c2.

SCP-1706 has been found in the laboratory of a science teacher in [REDACTED]. The teacher did not go to work for a week, so the principal, after calling a lot of times the teacher with the phone, without having response, called the police, who discovered at the teacher's house a little laboratory, full of residues of a lot of different material, and the teacher's corpse, without [REDACTED]. SCP Foundation has been immediately adverted, and provided to remove SCP-1706 the next night with a special helicopter built appositely for the SCP-1706.

Test 1706-A – Date ██/██/20██

Subject: a sample of malachite (volume: 8 cm^3), a soccer ball, a tennis ball.
Procedure: the sample of malachite and the two balls are put at 1.3 meter from SCP-1706
Results: the sample of malachite becomes SCP-1706-b, then SCP-1706-c1, and starts to orbit the soccer ball, which becomes SCP-1706-c2.
Analysis: SCP-1706-c1 can orbit only around objects of determined dimensions. These ones are related with its dimensions.

Test 1706-B – Date ██/██/20██

Subject: two samples of malachite (volume: 8 cm^3), a soccer ball, a tennis ball.
Procedure: one sample of malachite and the two balls are put at 1.3 meter from SCP-1706; the other sample is put at 1 meter from SCP-1706.
Results: the two sample of malachite become SCP-1706-b and are both “attracted” by the soccer ball. After the first sample (the closest one)becomes SCP-1706-c1 and orbits the soccer ball, the other sample of malachite starts to orbit the tennis ball.
Analysis: Different SCP-1706-c1 cannot orbit the same SCP-1706-c2.

Test 1706-C – Date ██/██/20██

Subject: a sample of malachite (volume: 8 cm^3), a Class D-personnel.
Procedure: the sample of malachite and the Class D personnel are put at 1.3 meter from SCP-1706
Results: the sample of malachite becomes SCP-1706-b, then SCP-1706-c1, and starts to orbit around the Class D-personnel's head, who is not affected in any way by the SCP-1706-c1.
Analysis: SCP-1706-c1 has no particular effect on SCP-1706-c2.

Test 1706-D – Date ██/██/20██

Subject: a sample of malachite (volume: 8 cm^3), a Class D-personnel.
Procedure: the sample of malachite and the Class D personnel are put at 1.3 meter from SCP-1706. When the sample of malachite starts to orbit around the Class D-personnel's head, SCP-1706-c1 is broken until it reaches and exceeds Phase 5.
Results: [REDACTED]
Analysis: [REDACTED]