Spider Proletariat

Item #: SCP-XXX "Spider Proletariat"

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures:

SCP-XXX is contained within a 213m radius in [EXPUNGED] national park and should be checked biweekly. Access is restricted to civilians using an 'endangered species' cover story. Relocation of SCP-XXX is strongly discouraged due to the fragility of individual members and their sensitivity to habitat changes. Observation Post 45 has been set up within the containment zone and supplies SCP-XXX with various audiobook versions of communist and classical literature at SCP-XXX's request, as well as black ink and poster board as necessary.

Protective breathing apparatuses and level C HAZMAT suits must be worn by all personnel on-site, to help facilitate better breathing in the compromised environment and to prevent spiders 'hitching' a ride out of the park.

Description:

SCP-XXX is an organized collective of an unknown species of the genus Araneus. Individual members have achieved sapience through an unknown means and have established a rudimentary system of government resembling Marxist communism.

The original mass of SCP-XXX was discovered on 4/1/19██ by a hiking couple, who alerted park authorities. The Foundation took over after the discovery of written propaganda inside the central web, along with evidence of marked use of extremely simple tools, webs resembling faces of passerby, and simple attempts to block off the area via fallen branches.

SCP-XXX is a social community, with some members maintaining the web and others apparently chosen to maintain the agenda of the 'whole'. Once supplied a source of black ink and poster sheets, SCP-XXX will communicate with humans by creating signs written in English. These communications are largely centered around demands for the dismantling of western imperialism, a scathing critique of the bourgeoisie, and a request for less mosquito spraying in the surrounding area of the park.

The 'head' of the government is a large spider that resembles a wolf spider, taking up refuge in the largest tree of the cluster. Communication has been relayed with this spider, who views the outside world as 'merely something that belongs to us that is being maintained by the bourgeoisie humanoids.' It has given its name as 'Benevolent Leader.'

SCP-XXX is currently located in a cluster of black oak trees, within a massive and complex central web and several secondary webs. The webs appear to be very well maintained, with damage being constantly repaired. The surrounding area has a nauseating odor due to the presence of thousands of dead insects, individual members of SCP-XXX, and an occasional dead bird and small animal.

Close study by arachnologists and sociologists have discovered that the members of SCP-XXX utilize a central collective think-tank that passes on ideas of the 'Benevolent Leader' to the collective numbers through complex frequencies in the web.

Addendum:

The skeletal remains of a male human being were found in area of the web, surrounded by dead insects and a variety of small shiny objects such as bottle caps and pebbles, along with the occasional pocket watch and bit of metal in apparent reverence. SCP-XXX does not allow skeleton to be disturbed, but passive analysis indicates that the male died decades prior from a blunt trauma to the back of the head. Identification located near the body identifies him as a known political radical, reported missing from the nearby town of ███ ████, Texas, in 1976.

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