The SCP Foundation has faced a number of wide,
potentially apocalyptic threats in its mission to uphold normalcy and save humanity. We know the
SCP Foundation could be ruthless in this mission, the events of SCP-5000 before Agent Pietro
restarted the universe show what happens when the Foundation is pushed to its final decisions
regarding normalcy being upheld. In SCP-5000, it seems that the SCP Foundation decided to cease
research further into the anomaly they needed to neutralize, but what would have happened if they
didn’t? In any case, we know the SCP Foundation is dedicated to normalcy and the containment of
the anomalous, but what happens when the SCP Foundation is faced with a dire decision:
uphold normalcy or destroy their universe. The multiverse is a concept in science fiction
that has gained mass amounts of popularity over recent years, especially recently, thanks to a
certain wall-crawler’s movie. Multiverses are parallel universes that are similar or extremely
different from the main ones. Scientists have pondered over the existence of a multiverse for
hundreds of years, with the most popular being the Many Worlds Interpretation, a theory of quantum
mechanics that states there are many worlds that exist in parallel at the same space and time as
our own. Some interpretations even state that every decision a person makes causes a branch in
reality, where the person made the other decision. We’re familiar with the SCP Foundation’s run-ins
with the multiverse, from SCP-2935: O, Death, a cave that allows the wanderer to enter a parallel
dimension that’s fully and completely dead only for the same thing to happen to their
world once they return through the cave, or SCP-1437, a hole that allows
the Foundation to send, receive, and read parallel dimensional documentation
from other, multiversal SCP Foundations. Combine those two concepts with an SCP-001
proposal. The importance of an SCP-001 proposal is not lost on the Foundation. Researchers of
the SCP Foundation save the SCP-001 slot for only the most dangerous, apocalyptic, or widespread
anomalies that could affect the Foundation itself, humanity, and normalcy. Arbelict’s SCP-001
Proposal and the research within its file found the answer to the question we posed above, when
the SCP Foundation is faced with a dire decision, do they uphold normalcy or destroy their
universe and all the people who live in it? The file begins somewhat different from
what we’re used to with SCP Foundation files. Instead of an item number or containment
procedures, we begin with a yellow notice from The Records And Information Security
Administration, or RAISA for short. The notice states that the following file was
received in 2026 from dimension R-42. Is dimension R-42 potentially the cause of SCP-001? Could they
be attacking this version of the SCP Foundation? The notice continues with a description
of the file that follows it, it states the file below describes an anomaly
threatening all members of humankind in all of the multiverse. This file had been emitted to this
version of the SCP Foundation for 8 minutes as an extremely dangerous congitohazard, classified
as a class 5 cognitohazard capable of easily destabilizing and penetrating this universe,
however, it was found to not be dangerous, only reading as a danger level 0. While this
Foundation was unable to quickly counteract this cognitohazard, it appeared to not pose a
threat to the affected universe’s humankind. Part of this notice is crossed out,
indicating that it is no longer true: “There is a high threat of
repeated cognitohazardous or other forms of attack from dimension R-42” Instead, this part has been
replaced with the following fact: “dimension R-42 no longer exists.” Did that version’s SCP Foundation fall
to SCP-001? Their entire universe no longer exists, so perhaps, this file that
this dimension’s SCP Foundation received could be a potential warning.
Under this RAISA notice, the reader is not greeted with the standard
Foundation documentation yet again. Instead, it seems that the original senders of this file
left a note for the readers of this file. It says “Greetings. You are reading this
dossier in a paradimension of the relict dimension R-42. Due to the
colossal size of your world's address, for your convenience, your dimension
will be hereafter referred to as "PD".” Paradimensions? It seems as though we’re reading
this SCP-001 file through the eyes of the SCP Foundation in this so-called Paradimension, so if
the original SCP Foundation and their universe, R-42, is now destroyed,
what does this mean for us? The note continues: “The following message has been constructed by
the SCP Foundation of the relict dimension R-42 and is addressed to the SCP
Foundation of paradimension PD. Enclosed you will find information about
SCP-001, which is a threat to the multiverse.” Here we go, SCP-001 is definitely
the cause of R-42’s destruction. But how can we be sure of this? Maybe SCP-001
caused the Foundation to destroy their universe? The note also includes the following statement: “As you may have noticed, this message was
preceded by a burst signal containing a non-dangerous cognitohazard. The burst signal was
constructed in such a way that minimal change to the signal would have caused indiscriminate and
overwhelming casualties among the denizens of PD. As you can see, R-42 is capable of eliminating
the absolute majority of PD denizens but has not exercised this capability. In the context above,
we ask you to consider this action not as an act of aggression, but as a demonstration of the
fact that R-42 has no pretension for conquest or other forms of aggression towards PD.
Take the following information in earnest.” Well, at least this version of the SCP
Foundation is being someone friendly with the paradimension. If R-42’s SCP Foundation
needs to quell this multiversal threat though, why are they leaving it up to an SCP
Foundation that may not be so inclined? The SCP-001 file begins with the object
class. This anomaly is of the joint class of Paradox-Apollyon. We know from SCP-001 When Day
Breaks or SCP-3999 that Apollyon class anomalies are extremely dangerous, posing an immediate
and almost unstoppable threat to normalcy, the SCP Foundation, all of humanity, or even the
universe itself. The paradox part is interesting. What exactly is paradoxical about an Apollyon
class anomaly? A footnote explains this for us: “This anomaly's distinguishing feature is that, in order to eliminate the anomaly that
will inevitably eliminate mankind, it is imperative to eliminate mankind
or release another K-Class Event.” Oh boy. It seems that the SCP Foundation
of R-42 was not eliminated by SCP-001, they eliminated themselves to contain SCP-001. Is
this paradimension faced with this decision now? The containment procedures of the SCP
file continue on this note. The only way to contain SCP-001 and prevent a ZK-Class
cross-reality failure event is the annihilation of humankind. K Class scenarios are not a
concept used lightly by the SCP Foundation. We’re familar with the Omega K class
scenario where we are completely rid of death or XK-Class End of the World scenarios, so we
know the danger these anomalies hold to humankind, normalcy, and the world. The SCP Foundation
will do anything to prevent these scenarios from occurring, apparently even including the
elimination of all humankind or entire universes. The description goes more in-depth on the
SCP-001 anomaly. SCP-001 consists of all living members of the Homo sapiens species living
within dimension R-42 and the Paradimension, or PD for short. It seems as though this anomaly
was created out of a mistake from dimension R-42 and PD, as the description states
“The anomaly first came into existence and developed in the relict dimension R-42,
and later activated in PD by accident.” How could this have happened? Are these dimensions
linked much more closely than we first thought? Let’s continue with the description
to find more information. Scarily, this portion of the description contains a
note that states that unchecked growth of SCP-001 will cause the annihilation of the entire
multiverse. The SCP Foundations of dimensions R-42 and PD are not met with this decision,
as now the entire multiverse is at risk. The R-42 SCP Foundation has done immense
research on the topic of the multiverse of their universe. After the Big Bang a
finite number of universes were created, only 57 to be exact. However, only one dimension
was able to form humanity, dimension R-42, and it is unknown why this happened, but all
we know is that with the destruction of R-42 and the potential annihilation of PD, humanity
will cease to exist in the multiverse. The danger of SCP-001 is that it has the
anomalous capability for wide-scale replication of paradimensions. We are reading this article
from one of these paradimensions, so this SCP Foundation is technically an anomaly that must
contain itself. A paradimension is defined as a parallel reality that has an extremely small
deviation from its parent dimension, in this case PD is a paradimension of R-42. It seems that
these paradimensions form as a result of human decision making. So if you’ve ever been between a
type of shirt to buy or were confused on an exam and guessed a question, a paradimension could have
formed from this decision, where the paradimension has you take the other choice. Because of this,
dimensions housing living instances of SCP-001 uncontrollably "grow" a colossal number of
minimally differing paradimensions every second. No sign of paradimensions have been
found in the other 56 parent dimensions. The picture on this file shows
how PD has branched from R-42, but at this point, it seems that millions if
not billions or trillions of paradimensions now exist. The real problem of Paradimensions is
that the multiverse has a limit on the number of paradimensions that can exist, and once
this is crossed, the ZK-Class cross-reality failure event will begin and the multiverse
will be destroyed. The R-42 dimension’s SCP Foundation has also discovered that once
humankind emerges in the paradimension, they can begin to have paradimensions
themselves. The ZK-Class cross-reality failure event can be expected to begin between 4
to 2 months from the PD receiving this message. To summarize, SCP-001 is humankind,
specifically its decision-making. When a person makes a decision, a paradimension
may be created. The multiverse has a limit on the number of paradimensions it can have, and
since paradimensions can have paradimensions, they are quickly approaching this
ZK-Class cross-reality failure event. The SCP Foundation of R-42 is approximately
17 years ahead of PD, which allowed them to research and develop containment procedures to
contain the anomaly and save the multiverse. R-42’s SCP Foundation discovered SCP-001
five years before writing the file we’re reading now. And from that, they developed
two Operations: "Castling" and "Minimal Gain" to slow paradimension creation and prevent
the ZK-Class cross-reality failure event. In stage one of Operation Minimal Gain,
the Foundation began with neutralizing and decommissioning all of their contained anomalies
under the classification of Euclid or Keter, specifically those that were expensive to
contain or required high levels of personnel and researchers. Stage Two saw
Operation Castling be commenced, the R-42 SCP Foundation launched rockets with
"Variant C-Global" amnestic-dispersing warheads, took control of all countries in order to
hold power over all humankind. In Stage 3, the Foundation began to move their
world to a more natural state, destroying all hazardous radioactive, chemical
and bacteriological objects, removing dams, and stopping oil extractions. During Stage three,
Stage Four began. The R-42 SCP Foundation began eliminating humanity in third-world countries by
use of viral and biological attacks. Stage Five was a wider spread attack on humanity, where the
SCP Foundation added deactivation-resistant viral agents to water treatment and collection plants,
food products, medications, and household items of developed countries. By Stage Six, only 0.1%
of humanity remained and they were targetted with drone strikes or put into concentration camps
for elimination. Stage Seven: of the remaining survivors the Foundation sampled them to find
the fittest of those left to preserve humankind. Stage Eight saw 15,000 of these people put into an
indefinite cryosleep and the remaining survivors were eliminated. Stage Nine saw the destruction
of the remaining SCP Foundation personnel. We move on to a list of proposals that were
made before or during Operations "Castling" and "Minimal Gain". Proposals rejected include,
the use of SCP-objects or other technologies to eliminate derivative dimensions, the
development of nanorobots with the capability to control human decision-making
capabilities and eliminate variability, full replacement of humanity with bionic hybrids
acting explicitly within standard behavioral models, unification of humanity into a neural
network with control given to an AI control unit, and the destruction of Earth and/or all of its
inhabitants. While most of these seem like clear solutions that would prevent the elimination
of humanity at the SCP Foundation’s hand, these proposals were all rejected for one reason:
The SCP Foundation did not have enough time. One proposal was accepted, however, the use
of SCP-0000. This appears to be the solution the R-42 SCP Foundation concocted to fight
SCP-001 and potentially save the multiverse. It poses the question, if the R-42 SCP
Foundation used this anomaly to contain SCP-001, as proven by the fact they no
longer exist, will PD do the same? The file explains that the R-42 SCP Foundation
opened a dimensional wormhole into PD, as they did not know at the time if paradimensions could
cause the creation of more paradimensions. In doing this, the SCP Foundation seemingly infected
PD with the ability to create paradimensions. The author of this file goes on to explain that
the R-42 SCP Foundation had plans to attack PD and use Operations "Castling" and
"Minimal Gain" in the dimension, however, they could not access the dimension again
and they believed that the Foundation personnel of PD would have made use of Thaumiel class
anomalies to save themselves and their world. A note from R-42’s Overseer Council is left for
PD. If the Apollyon designation was not enough, the Overseer council is involved.
The importance of the neutralization of this anomaly can not be forgotten,
so the Overseer Council explain to PD: “The world has existed before us and must remain
after us. Our multiverse is ill, and the name of the illness is humanity, SCP-001. The only way out
is SCP-0000. We'll cease to become a threat with its help. It is in our power to leave a chance
for other sapient species that, perhaps, will not be afflicted by the same anomaly, or will find
a way to get rid of it before it's too late. We, the O5 Council and other survivors from R-42, have
chosen our fate. We hope you will do the same.” What is this SCP-0000? How did the SCP
Foundation of R-42 find this solution? The file for SCP-0000 is placed within this
SCP-001 file. SCP-0000 is a Paradox-Thaumiel class anomaly without any containment
procedures. SCP-0000 is a device that, once activated, will destroy the
universe it was activated in. It will also destroy all paradimensions
that are not creating other paradimensions. As such, PD would not be destroyed, however the
billions or trillions of other paradimensions the R-42 parent dimension created will be
destroyed. PD is left with this harrowing decision to continue living, or destroy
itself to save the rest of the multiverse. In the file, a note from R-42’s Joan Simpson is
written for an SCP Foundation Overseer, O5-1. As part of Operations "Castling" and "Minimal
Gain", the remaining Foundation employees were allowed one family member to uphold morale. Joan
is not writing for R-42’s O5-1, instead, she’s writing for PD’s O5-1, this dimension’s version
of her father. She begins with wondering whether she can call this version of O5-1 her father, as
her version of her father recently passed away. She remembers the day the Foundation employees
were allowed to choose the one family member they would save for the time being. Her father
was opposed to allowing two family members, as he claimed it would cause unnecessary
stress and schisms among the remaining few-hundred Foundation staff. O5-1 chose to
have Joan over her mother and she understood everything by the look in his eyes, and grew
angry, but that feeling is long gone now. She began to work with her father and
the remaining Foundation personnel that called themselves hostages behind
the backs of those higher up the ranks. On days she felt sad, Joan and her father would
go up to the surface of the Earth in hazmat suits, sitting on the grass and watching over the empty
city at the bottom of the mountain. No humanity remained, with the only life she could see being
birds. Her father promised her that they’d return there and build a giant monument to humanity at
the center of the city. She knew this was a lie. Joan remembers when someone proposed
that they should open a portal, the one that opened to PD. This was their fatal
mistake, as after that the paradimension began replicating paradimensions. The countdown
went down to months again and the promise he made to his daughter became impossible.
O5-1 died and left the position vacant. Joan says to the PD’s O5-1 that she doesn’t
care whether they destroy their world or not or whether the universe will continue to
exist or if there will be new life in it. Her world was crushed long ago. The note also reads the following: “It's good that this message is encrypted with
your key, that was passed on to me - or these lines would've been deleted. Everyone wants
to save the world. But who needs it like this? Empty and cold. Without those to
appreciate its beauty. Without humanity.” “Do whatever you think is right.” “I truly feel better now.” “Love you. Faithfully yours, Joan Simpson.” We’re not too sure if PD went through with
destroying their universe to save the multiverse, but it seems that whatever decision was made
would cause the destruction of that universe, whether that be through the use of SCP-0000
or the ZK-Class cross-reality failure event, humanity will cease. But maybe if they make
the decision to use SCP-0000, sapient life can begin to exist again, and hopefully, no
paradimensions will be made from their decisions. Decisions are an extremely innate part of
humanity. You decided to get out of bed this morning. You decided to open up your computer or
phone, and you decided to watch this video. Who knows the amount of paradimensions we may have
created today, but in our world, we’re not at risk, but in the SCP Foundation’s universe,
anything can be anomalous, even humanity. Now go check out “SCP-507 -
Reluctant Dimension Hopper” and “SCP-2935 - O, Death” for more
Multiverse madness and explanations!
