Item #: SCP-4191
Object Class: Keter
Site Responsible: NETHOZ Site-98
Director: Hector Henshaw
Research Head: Aveline Du Laguerre
Assigned Task Force: N/A
SCP-4191-A (Left) and SCP-4191-B (Right). SCP-4191-C not present in photograph.
Special Containment Procedures: Due to the distance and size of SCP-4191, all research personnel assigned to this anomaly are to study ways of stopping SCP-4191. Field Agents are to be dispatched to various scientific institutions and civilian observatories in order to restrict and suppress further dissemination around the discovery and knowledge pertaining to SCP-4191.
The Orobas Command Center (OCC) are to relay a direct line of communication to all Foundation Sites and Areas across the planet to provide updates on the current events around SCP-4191. The OCC are to constantly monitor SCP-4191 through the use of Foundation satellite feed.
Description: SCP-4191 appears as a star system in the Large Magellanic Cloud located 940,000 light-years away from Earth. SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B emit visible light. Despite both SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B appearance as as binary stars, both lack a barycenter as they have never been observed to orbit around each other.
SCP-4191-C is an large gravitational or spacetime anomaly spanning over 300 light years across in diameter; situated below both SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B. Planetary systems that encounter SCP-4162-C are subjected to its gravitational pull and enter its threshold. It is unknown if objects that enter SCP-4191-C are destroyed or simply become undetectable by Foundation equipment. It is unknown if they can be recovered at all. SCP-4191-C is capable of emitting strong gravitational forces comparable to its own size. However, the gravity emitted by SCP-4191-C is inconsistent as it has shown at times to not affect other planetary and star systems around it. SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B are immune to these effects.
Addendum 4191.1: Log of Anomalous Phenomena
The following is a list of events and anomalous phenomena originating around or affecting SCP-4191.
Date of Occurrence |
Event Description |
04/13/88 |
SCP-4191 is discovered for the first time by NASA. Staff involved in the discovery were subsequently amnesticized by Foundation agents implanted in the observatory. All research data and notes taken of SCP-4191 have been taken by the Foundation as well. |
04/29/93 |
SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B disappear simultaneously. Foundation equipment detect no radiation or light from the area around SCP-4191. SCP-4191-C remains however. |
05/24/93 |
SCP-4191-C is reported to have expanded by 1.96%. |
06/08/09 |
According to Foundation satellites, SCP-4191-C is reported to be ovoid in shape. SCP-4191-C is noted to expand it's diameter at a rate of 0.17% every three months. |
06/26/93 |
SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B reappear simultaneously. No other changes are observed. |
07/13/09 |
SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B disappears again. SCP-4191-C is later observed to move forward in the direction of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Orobas Command Center is later established as a result of this change in behavior. |
08/11/09 |
SCP-4191-C comes into contact with a red supergiant star; WEDO C1085+33. The star is torn apart by the gravitational force of SCP-4191-C. |
09/01/14 |
SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B reappears again. Equipment in the OOC detect a spike in gravitational waves from SCP-4191-C. |
09//22/16 |
SCP-4191 encounters SCP-████ and it's moons; SCP-████-1, SCP-████-2, SCP-████-3, and SCP-████-4. All of which are consumed by SCP-4191-C. SCP-████ is later classified as Neutralized. |
10/29/16 |
SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B disappears once again. |
12/04/19 |
SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B reappears again. |
03/08/19 |
SCP-4191 encounters the home planet of SCP-████. Multiple distress messages are picked up by Foundation satellites in their species' language with the OCC shutting out any radio wave transmissions to Earth. Monitoring of SCP-4191 reveals approximately 50 space-faring vessels taking off from the planet's surface but are unable to escape the gravity of SCP-4191-C. All vessels are pulled into SCP-4191-C. Before the planet is enveloped by SCP-4191-C, a message is sent directly to the Command Center. When decrypted, the radio transmission takes the form of a pictogram depicting two entities: a male and a female member of SCP-████'s race screaming in visible distress and fear. SCP-████ is later deemed Neutralized. |
05/23/20 |
Multiple spikes in gravitation are detected around SCP-4191. SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B disappear from view but reappear again 15 hours later. |
07/01/22 |
SCP-4191 arrives at the planetary system of AV 683124-g. SCP-4191 proceeds to envelop the planets closest to it. The surface of AV 683124-g breaks apart, revealing SCP-████ underneath the exterior. SCP-████ sends out several of its appendages onto the moons orbiting it in an attempt to escape but are eventually destroyed by its own strength. SCP-████ gets caught by the pull of SCP-4191 and attempts to reach out to the other planets nearby to no avail. SCP-████ is later classified Neutralized. |
Addendum 4191.2 Internal Memo from Dr. Aveline Du Laguerre
I do not like this. Not at all.
4191-C is… rather unique from the other gravitational anomalies we've encountered. It's about a quarter the size of the Boötes Void and has a strong gravitational pull like that of the Great Attractor. We've been picking up the faint gravitational waves pulsating from within 4162-C, it'll be a while but decoding it will take some time.
But that is not what this is about.
As of late, we've tried everything we can to pick up anything from 4191. Anything but light and the occasional gravity pulse from the giant gravity well below it.The destruction of SCP-████, SCP-████, and SCP-████ are unsettling, given the sheer amount of power and danger they posed, they could not drive away or even escape SCP-4191. What was even more unsettling was the purpose of SCP-4191-A and SCP-4191-B; what purpose did they serve? Why do they disappear and reappear at irregular intervals spanning months or even years?
I've had some suspicions about it but I never gave it much thought. I didn't want to think about it. I didn't want to be right about it. It scares me to realize that it all lead to this one plausible conclusion:
They're not stars, they're eyes.
And it's looking right at us.
Addendum 4191.3: Internal Memo from Dr. Geoff Hallon
As of late, recent evidence suggests that SCP-4191 may not be some strange cosmological phenomenon but rather a sentient being with ties to Earth's history.
Research on SCP-4191 has yielded some interesting results. We've discovered that the phenomenon is closely related to several dead and forgotten religions. In the past, it was referred to as "Night-Bringer", "Black God", "False One", "Shadow-of-All", and even the Demiurge in Gnostic Theology.
Studies into these religious sects has revealed that an indigenous tribe of North America referred to it as a twisted, dark reflection of their chief god. Details are sketchy, but with the help of MTF-Kappa-6, their help has shed some serious light on this by their discovery of a now-dead Native American tribe known as the Manqgoni.
Through the ancient script of the Manqgoni tribe, it was said that the lands, seas, and skies were all made by one god. This god created all the light in the world and split it into the seven colors that would be known as the rainbow. As all the light in the world grew, so too did his shadow. This shadow would then achieve sentience and separate itself from god; becoming self-aware in the process. God was appalled by his own shadow and condemned it for not being filled with light as the rest of the world. His shadow, enraged by this, would wage war with everything God built. All of creation will be destroyed and he would engulf all the colors of the cosmos into a pitch black emptiness. This war went on for untold thousands of years, neither side showing any weakness. Worlds crumbled, sky-rocks fell, stars trembled, and the heavens shook as a result of their battle.
God would later be struck with insight to end the feud. He used all his strength to rend the shadow's body from itself, leaving behind its face. The god would grab a sky-rock, forced the body of his enemy inside it, and threw it at the sun to contain it. The sun would suppress the shadow's body forever by bathing it under constant light as it could not sense or see anything in the light. What was left of the shadow was his face. His face contained his very identity and soul. God would exile the shadow from the world but not before he cursed him with the knowledge that humanity would eventually betray him; the men of the Earth will give back what was once torn from it. This shadow would curse the ground and sky of Earth, proclaiming itself not as the shadow of God, but as Wahtu-Shya, The Shadow of Creation.
All of these were taken from one of the scrolls located within the secret archives of the Vatican Library which the Holy See of Rome deemed it as information pertaining to the Demiurge entity. Of note is that Wahtu-Shya actually stems from the Manqgonian language as "That-Which-Made-Darkness."
Roughly translated as "He-Who-Made-Dark".
Addendum 4191.4: Transmission
On March 18, 2017, Foundation Satellites picked up a series of gravitational fluctuations originating from Andromeda. Specifically, from the center of SCP-4191-C. These messages were then relayed to the OOC for decryption. These fluctuations came in the form of gravitational waves spiking in a pattern similar to that of Morse code. The following transmission reads as follows:
Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha,_Beta_and_Proxima_Centauri_(1).jpg
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