SCP-2998.
Anomalous Transmission, 2485 MHz.
When the average person thinks of an alien, they'll often picture a small grey creature
with large eyes, or perhaps a more ferocious black skinned creature from a film series.
Fans of Lovecraft's cthulhu mythos might conjure up images of amorphous blops or unimaginable
cosmic enties.
The SCP universe has no shortage of alien creatures, although many of them don't exactly
come from outer space.
One of the most interesting examples of alien life interacting with our own is scp-2998.
The scp report takes on a unique format, as it goes through a progression of different
iterations, showing a sort of timeline of events for these alien interactions.
Some consider this scp to be a little confusing, so I'll do my best to summarize and explain.
Before we get to the traditional information we expect from an scp however, we first see
a notice from the director of the recordkeeping and information security administration.
She informs us that this document contains a series of false documentation related to
scp-2998.
Due to a strangely resilient infohazard, the foundation can't seem to delete these documents,
but eventually we'll reach the current, accurate information.
SCP-2998 is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency of 2485 mhz, with an indeterminate
origin source, although it can apparently be found throughout our entire solar system.
The foundation modified standards worldwide for radio frequencies and electronic manufacturing
so that no civilian piece of equipment could pick up the signal.
The signal was originally believed to be simply white noise that was being anomalously broadcast
across great distances, but eventually the foundation found and decoded information being
broadcast along with the signal.
This information turned out be video footage, of a humanoid entity floating in a dark room,
under extreme physical distress.
It would seem that the figure is being held in place and harmed using telekinetic forces.
This footage doesn't give a great amount go on as far as why or how this is being broadcasted
to us, but the foundation is continuing to work on decoding further information.
The next iteration of the document, written some time later, provides a number of new
details.
The foundation has learned that the signal is not being broadcast from a single place,
although further research is required to figure out exactly where its coming from.
Additionally, they discovered that certain humans possess abnormal nerve bundles in the
brains that allow them to perceive additional information from the signal.
The foundation is starting to purposefully expose both personnel and d-class individuals
to the signal to discover more about it.
More time passes, and the foundation learns that the signal is actually not originating
from any point in space that we can find.
It seems to be coming from a source that transcends four dimensional space, and is emerging into
our universe.
Those individuals that have been found to posess the unique nerve bundle, dubbed the
rosetta cluster, are being exposed to the signal for 12 hours every day, followed by
a debriefing.
When someone with a functional rosetta cluster hears the signal, they also begin hearing
a high-pitched sound alongside it, and they soon begin having seizures.
During the seizures, the individuals speak constantly with no apparent meaning, although
as time goes on, they grow more coherent.
This continues for as long as they are exposed to the signal, and they retain some mememories
after they recover.
Interviews with two affected individuals shows that they perceive the experience as more
of a strange fever dream, and when the interviewer mentions something named Adidal, the individual
immediately states, "all glory adidal. all power.
all fall before adidal. all light bends. all sound spreads.
All glory."
One of them describes a feeling of being larger than everything in the universe, with a sense
of being above everything else.
They also mention someone named Ruhar, and that they committed a crime.
The other individual describes the experience as watching a 3d movie with all of his senses,
but unable to understand the language.
He goes on to describe the plot of this movie as we would understand it.
He describes an entity, neither male or female, with great power and respect, like al capone.
There's also another entity who wants to take his place, but knows that he can't just go
after the leader himself, so he goes after his family in order to send a message.
He hurts them in ways we can't really comprehend, beyond just physically or mentally.
In retaliation, the leader entity captures him, and tortures him in a similar manner,
publically and for all time, to send a message to any others who would attempt something
similar.
It seems clear that the leader goes by the title of Adidal, and the one being tortured
is Ruhar.
The next iteration is when things start really to involve humanity.
At one point, while monitoring the video footage from the signal, researchers found that a
long period of time passed with the floating entity no longer in pain.
While it was normal for there to be periods where this would occur, this was a much lengthier
event than normal.
During this event, eight d-class personnel with rosetta clusters that were currently
being exposed to the signal experienced simulatenous seizures.
Afterwards, the entity remained unconscious after the d-class were removed from the testing
room, and then the signal stopped broadcasting entirely.
During transfer to a medical site, all 8 d-class overwhelmed the escort team and fled from
custody, displaying an unsual amount of cooperation since they had never been given a chance to
communicate with one another, and researchers believed prolonged exposure to the signal
had caused motor deficiencies in the d-class.
With the next iteration, the scp document changes drastically, with it now posessing
a keter object class.
Two years after the 8 d-class fled from the foundation, an alien object approached and
stopped near earth.
The object consisted of 512 pods linked together, although practically nothing else is known
about it.
This object began transmitting new signals to earth that were picked up by radios, televisions,
cell phones, gps devices, and other electronics.
The signal seems to take over control of humans, currently 3400 of them, and the foundation
is attempting to capture or terminate as many of these affected individuals as possible.
These individuals show advanced cooperation with one another without verbal communication,
but also suffer from periodic motor deficiencies and hemorraghing.
The foundation so far managed to capture five affected people alive, but three of them killed
themselves using their teeth or nearby objects.
One of them destroyed her vocal chords and gave herself brain damage, but the final one
gave a successful interview to the foundation.
The individual spoke in a strange halting way, but the alien controlling them did provide
some new info.
Adidal came to our world to find a fugitive, named Ruhar, who escaped here.
We learn that these aliens don't exactly possess physical bodies themselves, but are more of
an idea that can move into different forms, sometimes only existing as a thought.
Due to the abnormal rosetta cluster present in some humans, ruhar was able to unexpectadely
transfer his consciousness to a group of d-class.
Adidal sent a single ship with 512 of his agents to take over as many humans as possible
in order to find ruhar's consciousness.
The facility where this captured individual was being held was soon overrun by affected
humans, and the foundation began working on a project that would stop these signals from
reaching earth.
The next iteration changes the scp document even more, with it seemingly written by someone
controlled by the aliens.
Ruhar has taken over a great number of humans, and the forces of Adidal landed on earth to
continue their efforts of wiping out Ruhar.
The documentation of the scp foundation is used as religious propaganda, and a war is
taking place between the two alien forces mainly focused in north america, with humanity
caught in the middle.
A small percentage of humans prove to be immune to being taken over by the aliens of either
side, but humanity is largely lost.
The next iteration is largely meant to be the same text, but the letters of many words
have been jumbled or changed, as it seems the database has been corrupted.
We find in the footnotes of this iteration however is a series of communications between
immune survivors of the alien war.
The foundation's connectivity is largely damaged due to their own efforts to block the signals,
the aliens landing and taking over the foundation, and from the fighting during the war, but
the footnotes feature still works.
We learn that the aliens neutralized or moved as many keter class scps as they could off
world, but there are still a large number of anomalies that the aliens now have to look
after.
One of the survivors says that the eight d-class that Ruhar took over were killed by the foundation
three days after they escaped, possibly implying that there was no war, Ruhar is dead, and
the other aliens took over the planet themselves in a futile search.
They concoct a plan together, of combining two seperate keter objects, scp-055 and scp-579.
055 is an antimemetic object, meaning that no information about its form, properties,
or history can be remembered by anyone after leaving its presence.
It could be incredibly dangerous and no one would ever remember that it is.
579 is something just as unknown, as practically all info about it has been expunged, but it
is known to be highly dangerous.
There is a reference to roget's proposal for scp-001, about not being able to fit a round
peg into a square hole, referring to 055 and 579.
One of the survivors is sent to get 055 and bring it to 579, putting the round peg into
the square hole.
The next iteration is the same document, but completely blacked out, leaving the document
effectively blank.
THe following iteration is actually blank, with no text whatsoever.
Finally we get to the last iteration of scp-2998, and a notice at the top tells us this is the
only accurate one.
The object class is listed as safe, and the description tells us that 2998 is a signal
broadcast throughout the universe, which seems to just be white noise, although researchers
are hopeful to continue working on the decoding process to figure out more.
So what happened?
It would seem that by combining those two unknown scps, the universe effectively reset
itself back to a time when the foundation first discovered the signal.
Events were turned back in time, the aliens no longer had a presence on earth, and everyone
forgot what had happened.
Things went back to exactly as they were, except for some odd reason, the various iterations
of scp-2998 could not be edited or deleted in any way.
Whether the foundation believes that those events occured or not is unclear, but they
put up a notice at the beginning that all iterations except the final one were falsehoods.
If they choose not to believe it, unfortunately, it would seem that history will end up repeating
itself.
To quote the author of the scp, the horrifying part of scp-2998 is not that these aliens
came here and took over humanity, it's that they did it simply to recapture a criminal.
It's often the scp foundation's mode of operating to accept collateral damage if the ends justify
the means.
It's interesting then to see an instance of alien creatures that operate in a similar
way.
SCP-2998 can be a conflicting scp, as it involves some massive scale events and then the resetting
of the universe, but it's done in such a unique way that garners a lot of praise.
Hopefully the foundation takes a good look at those permanent iterations, as those who
cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.