spikebrennan/SCP-616

SCP-616

Item #: SCP-616

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-616 is housed and maintained at Site 8-1 or at a qualifying backup airfield meeting the specifications set forth in Document Ez-7:2. While grounded, maintenance personnel with Miller-level clearance are permitted to enter the aircraft, and are to conduct maintenance and inspections to assure that SCP-616 is ready for flight at all times on 40 minutes notice. On flight days, only the flight crew of SCP-616 and members of MTF-Omega-144 are permitted to enter the aircraft until after Contraeschatological Procedure 1 (CEP-1) is completed. At all times, the then-current rotation of MTF-Omega-144, plus at least 3 alternates, and a qualified flight crew, are to be maintained on standby status at the airfield.

On a periodic basis, as scheduled by the Foundation's computus desk, CEP-1 is to be performed. Each performance of CEP-1 must occur at its scheduled time and in accordance with the specifications of the applicable CEP Plan. If for any reason CEP-1 is not successfully completed, Contingency Plan Aharit Ha-Yamim is to be enacted.

CEP-1 consists of a flight of SCP-616 meeting the specifications with the applicable CEP Plan. The crew and passengers aboard SCP-616 during CEP-1 are to consist only of certified flight crew members and the applicable rotation of MTF-Omega-144. The flight crew of SCP-616, and all members of MTF-Omega-144, shall be comprised exclusively of personnel certified as consistently rating between 115 and 135 centiakiva/hour in piety.¹ The flight plan of each CEP-1 flight is to be carefully timed so that at T-time, the position of the aircraft is at the Reference Point² (tolerance +/- 60 meters), and with the altitude, velocity, bearing and aircraft principal axes of SCP-616 to be within the parameters specified by the CEP Plan for that flight. The Foundation's computus desk is responsible for scheduling each instance of CEP-1, and for calculating T-time and the other components of the CEP Plan for that instance, based on data provided by a consortium of cooperating outside sources.³. At T-time, SCP-616-1 will spontaneously open, at which point the participating members of MTF-Omega-144 are to face and direct their attention toward SCP-616-1 and recite and/or perform their respective CEP Protocols with conviction in a loud, clear voice (repeatedly, as necessary), while maintaining line-of-sight with SCP-616-1 at all times until SCP-616-1 closes. If any member of the flight crew or of MTF-Omega-144 deviates from his or her respective duties during CEP-1 or engages in behavior that, in the judgment of the flight crew observer (or, in the event of the observer's incapacitation, his or her designated alternates) jeopardizes the performance of CEP-1, the individual in question is to be immediately incapacitated. At all times, extreme caution is to be taken so as to assure that personnel do not fall through SCP-1844-1 while it is open.

+ Current Roster of MTF-Omega-144

The current roster of MTF-Omega-144 consists of the individuals identified on the table below, each of whom professes an Abrahamic faith, has qualified by means of apostolic succession or equivalent extra-Foundation protocol and who has been screened by the Foundation's Special Duty Office. At least eight members of MTF-Omega-144 are to participate in each performance of CEP-1, with participating members rotating on and off-duty as appropriate to mitigate stress. Retiring members of MTF-Omega-144 are to be administered a Class B Amnesiac.

Designation	Name	Affiliation	Containment Protocol
XS9923-231	His Holiness ████████ █████ ██████████	Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria	Recitation of Book of Zechariah (Coptic trans.)
YS0121-821	██████ ██████████ ████	Islam (Sufi movement)	Approved dhikr ceremonial recitation in Qawwali style
PR21338-002	Catholicos ██████ ██████████	Armenian Apostolic Church	Recitation of Nicene creed (Armenian liturgical version)
ASD01-0886	Rabbi ████ ███████████	Orthodox Judaism (Chabad movement)	Recitation of Sh'ma Yisrael
JA1136-039	Queen ████████████	Mansion of Bobo Ashanti, Rastafari Movement	Niyabinghi chant "Jah in Zion"
CV1666-616	███████ Cardinal ███████████	Roman Catholic Church	Recitation of Nicene creed (Latin liturgical version)
AE213-718	His Holiness Abuna █████ ████████	Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church	Recitation of Mäshafä Kidan (Ge'ez translation)
CV1666-617	█████ Cardinal ███████	Roman Catholic Church	Exorcism rite per Rituale Romanum
JS124-143	Rev. ██████ █████████	Lord's House Holiness Church	Glossolalia, accompanied by snake-handling
PQ2742-353	Rišamma ██████ █████████	Mandaean community of Chaldea	Recitation of Genzā Rabbā
HB3383-264	██████ ███████, of the lineage of Cohen ha-Mašíaḥ	Orthodox Judaism	Birkat kohanim
BE2322-848	Brother █████ ██████████, O.S.B.	Roman Catholic Church (Ordo Sancti Benedicti)	Vade retro satana
JS124-143	Lady Mujtahideh ███████ █████	Usuli Twelver Shī‘ah Islam	Recitation of Quranic sura Al-Qaria
EF1266-212	Sheikh █████ ████████	Druze (al-ʻUqqāl)	Recitation of Rasa'il al-hikmah
LD5344-866	Prophet-President ██████ ███████	Reorganized Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints	Recitation of Book of Revelation (Joseph Smith trans.)
CV1666-621	Archbishop ███████ ███████████	Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church	Liturgy of St. Basil (Greek version)
BY0206-844	High Priest █████ █████	Samaritan community	Animal sacrifice in accordance with Samaritan scripture
CV1666-621	Mother Superior █████ █████████	Roman Catholic Church (Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo, 2nd Ordo)	Rosary (Latin liturgical version)
CC9699-012	Ayatollah Uzma █████████ ███████	Usuli Twelver Shī‘ah Islam	Recitation of Various Quranic sura
DG12310-813	Rev. Dr. ████ ██████ █████████	Evangelical Protestant Christianity	Extemporaneous sermon on Revelation, Chap. 8

Description: SCP-616 is an Airbus A-380 aircraft. The aircraft was originally manufactured to the specifications of a national flag commercial airliner but was acquired by the Foundation after Incident Qiyamah. The Foundation has subsequently modified the interior of the aircraft to facilitate the performance of CEP-1. The aircraft is ordinarily unliveried between flights, but livery is applied when deemed necessary for operational security.

SCP-616-1 is the starboard, upper-deck rear emergency exit door of SCP-616. The interior surface of SCP-616 is extensively inscribed in Koine Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, Ge'ez, Old Church Slavonic and other liturgical languages, and bears a representation of a malformed juvenile specimen of Ovis aries with supernumerary horns and eyes. While SCP-616 is grounded, SCP-616-1 can be opened and used normally, although some personnel have reported experiencing a sense of nausea, vertigo or anxiety while passing through SCP-616-1.

During a flight of SCP-616, SCP-616-1 will spontaneously open, resulting in cabin depressurization and turbulence. At that time, cabin lighting within SCP-616-1 generally fails (as a result of which the flight crew and MTF-Omega-144 are equipped with supplemental lighting sources). The space perceived to be beyond SCP-616-1 does not conform to the external environment of the aircraft, but instead [DATA EXPUNGED]. While SCP-616-1 is open, personnel aboard SCP-616 will perceive that the aircraft is violently shuddering and falling although these sensations are not consistent with instrument readings. Additionally, personnel aboard SCP-616 will perceive intense heat and luminosity radiating from the space beyond SCP-616-1, accompanied by extremely loud [DATA EXPUNGED], but these phenomena are also not detected by instruments. No means of closing SCP-616-1, other than CEP-1, has been found effective. Probes sent through SCP-616-1 while it was open have failed to return usable data and have not been recovered; indeed, all personnel and equipment that for any reason pass through SCP-616-1 during flight must be regarded as lost.

Upon the successful completion of CEP-1 (which generally correlates to the time when the aircraft reaches a distance of approximately 800 km from the Reference Point), SCP-616-1 will close, whereupon SCP-616 can be landed normally.

Failure to close SCP-616-1 is believed to result in [DATA EXPUNGED], according to eschatological models.

Addendum No. 1: Memorandum dated April 23, 20██

+ Cleared SCP-616 Personnel Eyes Only

Folks: Wednesday's run of CEP-1 was just disgraceful. We most of us were lucky to land the plane and walk away, let alone finish the mission. A few reminders:
(1) All inventories of procedural equipment (incense, Monza ampullae, saintly relics, and so on) are to be confirmed before lift-off.
(2) Don't feed or water the parah adumah or other sacrifical animals within 30 minutes before boarding.
(3) Check your harness before we take off. If the turbulence knocks you down and you can't see the door, you're done. Learn from Shlomo's mistake. By the same token, all ritual equipment is to be secured before takeoff. Loose garments and lit candles are a hazardous combination, especially on a plane.
(4) Armed crew members: if and when a team member starts manifesting, you take them out. I don't want to hear excuses about how she's an old lady, or how he's the Pope, you take them out. Immediately. You see the tongues of flame, you fire. End of story. Wednesday was a close call, but we can't afford hesitation like that and the book says that we only need two Omega-144's still operating while the door is open. Remember, it's easy to explain a split-second judgment call to the review board than to face the End of Days.
Yours in Christ,
Fr. Hector Gomez, S.J., Site 8-1 Asst. Dir.

Footnotes

1. While SCP-616-1 is open during CEP-1, persons within the area of effect of SCP-1844-1 who are rated at greater than 1.5 akiva/hour generally experience a variety of symptoms including stigmata, supracranial combustion, bioluminescence, and rapid anatomical alteration including the appearance of a supernumerary eye in the subject's forehead, the growth of additional limbs (often protruding from the dorsum, and covered with avian-like integumary structures). Additionally, persons experiencing these symptoms tend to suffer permanent neurological damage, presenting as vivid and persistent perception of direct communication with incorporeal entities and a compulsion to obey instructions given by the entities, resulting in modified behavior that tends to obstruct the performance of CEP-1. Further, persons within the area of effect who are rated at less than 0.8 akiva/hour (the rating applicable to most D-class personnel and virtually all Foundation personnel) are subject to a high probability of death due to forceful exsanguination through the mouth, followed by disintegration or combustion. For these reasons, all personnel involved in the conduct of CEP-1 are to be subject to frequent screenings to confirm that they do not fall within either of those extreme ranges, to reduce distractions and interference with the completion of the procedure.

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3. The participating sources include the Institute of Umm al-Qura Observation, the Vatican Observatory, the Department of Physics at Brigham Young University and the Scientific Office of the Bahá'í Universal House of Justice, based on astronomical observations and other sources.