Item #: SCP-4000

Anomaly Class: Pending classification

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Description: SCP-4000 is the temporary designation given to the recent worldwide surge in anomalous temporal activity. This activity (individual instances of which are classified as 4000-Type Phenomena) can range from minor distortions to complete loops and self-fulfilling event chains, and does not appear to be localised to any specific geographical location.

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Item #: SCP-4000

Anomaly Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: All 4000-Type Phenomena are to have been contained as soon as possible after their point of generation. Provisional Task Force Gladstone-44 ("Plot Holes") has been established to monitor the timestream, ensure no malignant paradoxes remain extant, and (under the authorisation of the Department of Temporal Anomalies) utilise non-standard temporal passage to rectify any paradoxes that do arise as a result of SCP-4000.

All collected information on SCP-4000 is to be backed up within Exclusionary Site-01, and placed under variable Chronolock to maintain cohesive documentation between alterations. This also applies to lists and details of 4000-Type Phenomena, records of PTF G-44, records of personnel assigned to study the anomaly, and records of the documentation of the aforementioned subjects.

In the event that a TX-Class Temporal Malfunction scenario arises as a result of SCP-4000, research is to immediately begin into a method of reconstituting the timeline from base components and whatever events remain intact. Should a CK-Class Reality Restructuring event occur as a result of SCP-4000, the Foundation-analogue in the new reality with goals most closely aligning with our own are to be given access to Exclusionary Site-01's archives and instructed on how best to proceed.

Description: SCP-4000 is the designation given to the temporal 'tumour' currently developing from 1993 to 1996. The effects of SCP-4000 are not yet fully understood, but appear to result in the retroactive development of a wide variety of temporal anomalies (4000-Type Phenomena) around that time, altering the course of history between then and now. This frequently causes the 1990s-era Foundation to have contained or neutralised the specific anomaly at the time of its manifestation, resulting (in most cases) in present-day containment. There are currently 654 4000-Type Phenomena contained by the Foundation, with 130 known to be uncontained and an estimated 200 undocumented.

The generation of 4000-Type Phenomena occurs (if current analysis is to be believed) at an approximate rate of one per week, with bursts of up to 50 simultaneous phenomena occurring with increasing regularity. No method of predicting ##

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Priority Level BEDE (T-Esoteric)

Summary: A-4K/T/1 is a hostile temporal anomaly currently occupying the years 1990 to 1999. It is responsible for the creation of 98% of all current temporal distortions, including the vast majority of all those under Federation control. Current simulations predict that, had A-4K/T/1 not taken hold of said years, the population of Earth would still be largely unaware of the existence of anomalous phenomena in general.

Hazards: Varied. Includes (but is not limited to) looping, ageing, de-ageing, restructuring, and temporal annihilation. Civilians are advised to consult their nearest Federation representative at the earliest sign of A-4K/T/1-related activity.

Threat Reduction: All direct action that it was possible to take against A-4K/T/1 was taken between the years of 1990 and 1999, with middling success. Current threat reduction techniques involve ensuring that no additional T-Type anomalies interfere with the active zone, preventing non-standard temporal travel over that point, and distributing widespread medical and psychological care to those who were affected by A-4K/T/1 during its manifestation.

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> Tachyon waveform detected from [nonstandard timeline position]
> Event signature 4000-90-A
> Locating origin...
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> Origin located: [SCPF Site-19]. Deciphering format...
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> Format deciphered: [Audiovisual recording]. Relaying transmission...
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<Begin Log>

[A humanoid subject (designated Person 01) steps back from the camera, revealing themselves to be standing in a disused laboratory. It is night, and little detail can be made out]

Person 01: Hello. I… I don't know if anybody'll see this. I don't know much any more.

[Pause]

Person 01: Yes, well, anyway. I'm a Researcher stationed at Site-19. Do you… do you have Sites any more? Is the Foundation still around? Sorry, this is…

[Longer pause, during which Person 01 rubs their eyes. Audio is briefly replaced with Person 01 repeating the phrase "-to you. I've said that already"]

Person 01: It hurts keeping it together this long. I'm speaking to you from January 2nd, 1996. Something's happened, and SCP-4000 is-

[Footage is cut off with a burst of audiovisual distortion. When it returns, it is daytime and Person 01's face is fully visible², as is the remainder of the laboratory]

Person 01: Hello, I'm Dr. Wheaton, speaking to you from February 9th, 1992. SCP-4000… no, no it hasn't been discovered until… or hadn't…

[Person 01 clutches their head and the view outside the window changes to late evening]

Person 01: What did you do?

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Person 01: [In tears] It won't stop. I- I'm Dr. Wheaton, speaking to you from, from 1990 again.

Person 01: Whatever you're doing, please.

[Scene changes to night once more. The sky is a deep red colour]

Person 01: I'm Dr. Andrew Wheaton. 19… 1999. Speaking to you. I've said that already.

[The view from the window disappears for several minutes, during which Person 01 is repeatedly replaced with several hundred copies of themself in various stages of decay. The quantity of human flesh causes the building to lose structural integrity, after which the scene resets and repeats five more times.]

Person 01: [Quiet moaning]

~20,000 unknown voices: Bring us back.

<End Log>