I need to write this down, because I forget things sometimes, and I think what I heard today was important. Not to me, the time for me or almost anyone else alive on Earth today to make a difference has passed, but someone, somewhere might be able to make something of this, or at least find it helpful, or something. Once I'm done, I'm going to seal it up in a pipe, coat it in wax, and chuck it into the ravine. Maybe someday someone will read this, and try to put things together. If they're allowed to.
I'd love to start at the beginning, but I'm honestly not sure when the world started to end. Could have been years and years before the final bits, or it could have been all at once. Everything was so grim, what with warmer air, cooler seas, too little gas and too many people, things could have been unraveling for ages before things bubbled up to the public eye. What I and others remember most was when the Disney Magic sank. It was then, I think, that most people started to think that things might be worse than they seemed.
The Disney Magic was a big cruise ship, one of those liner jobs that tools around islands and stuff. One day, the news was all screaming about how it suddenly just went down when it was trying to put in to port. The weird thing about it was how there was no video of it for a long time. Some still pictures of it floating fine, but none of it actually going down. Then, somehow, a tape showed up, and the news started playing it. I have to imagine they didn't review it first.
The ship was puffing along, strong and fast, little boats bobbing around it, looking like every vacation lover's dream, when suddenly it stopped. I mean stopped, just a dead halt like it had just slammed into a mountain. You could see people go lurching forward all over the deck, a bunch of junk fall off the sides, a real mess. It's all still for a few seconds, then suddenly there's this foaming behind the ship. Most people assumed it was the engine trying to fire up again… then the arm came up.
I'm not sure if it actually was an arm, but it was some kind of limb, and it must have been a hundred feet long at least. It reached up along the side of the boat and… just ripped it open, I mean unzipped it like a coat, and you could see all the people inside screaming and running… it was awful. Then you saw something lurch up, a big, spiny shape pushing against that gap, shoving in… then there was an explosion on its back, and the camera whipped up to show a couple of jets whizzing by… then it ended.
I remember just sitting there, stunned, looking at the TV, barely noticing the president coming on to declare a state of emergency. I think it was two or three days later when the TV went under full government control, but it may have been a week, I'm not sure. Internet got clamped later, but soon all you could hear, read or see was “remain calm, everything is under control”. The oddest thing was that life really didn't change much for a while. Bills still came, still had to work, go to school, all that. Just a lot more scared faces, and a lot more weird talk.
Pretty soon we were getting told that whole towns were being evacuated, that there was a plague, or a riot, or a terrorist bomb, or some other nightmare. My brother down south said that they got moved because of a huge wildfire. The weird thing was, he said, that the fire moved oddly… seemed to shoot right for gas or brush, and didn't travel evenly. That after a while, he swore he saw what looked like a twenty foot tall man of fire walking and eating everything. The call got dropped right after he said that. I haven't talked to him since.
So things got worse, little by little. People kept being moved, and there was no real way to communicate with each other anymore that was really reliable, so it was hard to say just how bad things were. Still, word of mouth was still going strong, and it was creepy. Crazy shit, really, stuff about zombies in the north, killing frenzies in the east, a place near the ocean where the ground was alive and eating people, a cult screaming about the second coming and killing people to buy off god… I started pulling more and more away from people, just to get some ignorant peace of mind. Looking back, that probably saved my life.
Finally, one day, I woke up and there was blood on my window. It was outside, and I could hear some insane shit going down outside… screaming, clanking, gunshots, and a smell like burning wires. I hid. I'm not ashamed to admit it, I left my fellow man to rot, and hid inside for almost a full week, long after the noise stopped. After the fifth day, the electricity and gas gave out, along with the running water. When I finally got hard up for supplies, I poked my nose out, and saw that the whole west side of the world was gone.
Now, I don't know for sure if it actually is gone, but there is a cliff that starts thirty feet to the west of my house, and I cannot see the bottom of it. I also can't see the other side of this ravine, so for all intents and purposes, that part of the world is gone for me. The suburb I was in looked like a war zone, blood and broken stuff everywhere, houses carved up… no bodies though, which I still think was weird. I scrounged up some food and stuff from some of the houses, then went back home.
I've been doing that for a while now. I'm not sure how long, really. Might have been years and years, or just a few months, it's hard to say. Sometimes the sun just sticks in one spot for what feels like days… other times these clouds roll in, and you can't see two feet. There's… things around, too. I run at the first noise, but I think they're about man-sized, and they seem to like metal. Other, little things scramble around in the rubble sometimes, so I try and keep clear. One time, a thing that looked like a pill bug the size of a cat crawled out, looked at me, and screamed “STOP!” in perfect English. I hid inside for days.
There are also these big blimp-things that float around sometimes. They have little bug legs on their undersides, and they look kinda like maggots, but with eyes all over. They eat everything when they land, but most of the time they stay high up. One of these had just passed when I found the hurt guy. He was all ripped up, and looked like one of those S.W.A.T. Team guys you see on tv sometimes, but his combat suit thing was all ripped to hell. I dragged him back home, and then we talked.
He said that he had been hunting the blimp-thing, but had gotten attacked. He wouldn't say by what, but he looked like he was on his last legs. I fed him some canned beans and some water, and he seemed to come around a little. Asked me who I was, if I was alright and all that. He seemed kinda shocked when I said he was the first person I'd seen since the west of the world vanished. He told me it wasn't gone, just relocated, but wouldn't say what that meant. I helped heal him up, and kept asking who he was, but he wouldn't say. Finally, he said screw it, that his orders were probably no good anymore anyway, and told me.
He said he worked for a foundation or something, and that they were like a combination jail and research center. He said that he was one of the agents who went around trying to find strange stuff and keep it from hurting people. I said he was doing a hell of a job so far, and he laughed pretty hard. He said something had happened, and that a bunch of these things had gotten loose at the same time, and caused this foundation place to lose control. He said it became a “GH-0 'Dead Greenhouse' scenario”.
I asked him what that meant, and he looked at me for awhile before going on. He said that's what they call a situation where everybody on earth dies, but the earth itself is still ok and can support life. I asked what did that matter if everybody's dead, and he smiled strangely. I asked him if anyone else on earth was still alive, and he said yes, but carefully spread out and contained. After that, I just sorta sat and digested things for a bit, and the man started stretching and checking his cuts. He was starting to pull his boots on when I asked what happens now.
He said that they have to “reboot” things. Said they have the technology to recreate almost anything, and that making people is actually pretty easy. Said that they would clean out and contain things, rebuild the broken cities, and repopulate them. It would take a long, long time, but he said they would eventually get things back to the way they were before. Even said they could recreate memories and stuff. I just sat, kinda stunned, and watched him as he just kept going along, getting dressed like this was all no big deal. I told him he was nuts, that there was no way people could just forget, that this could all be just swept away. He stopped, looked at me, smiled, then said “Why not? It's been done before.”
I don't know if that man was crazy or not, but I think he was sane. As he was leaving, he said something about putting my house underwater. Please, don't let them brush me away. Don't let them hide us. Try and find more, I know there's got to be more people who tried to leave something behind. Don't let the world die in vain. Remember us.
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項目編號：SCP-2000
項目等級：Thaumiel
特殊收容措施：SCP-2000的出入口被偽裝成黃石國家公園的一廢棄巡守站。即便有數次平民試圖進入設施，該出入口於本設施的歷程記錄中尚未被突破，當前更多的實體收容措施被判定為非必須的。平原視野協議-201於SCP-2000生效。必須性的補給與人員替換應透過不帶標記的路面交通工具或平民用直升機進行。
所有4/2000級權限以下的人員皆被禁止取得SCP-2000或與之收容、營運相關的文件與協議。所有5/2000級權限以下的人員皆被禁止進入SCP-2000地下三層以外的空間。所有被分發到SCP-2000的人員必須每月進行一次神經原型掃描。駐站人員應每週進行掃描組合，並且原地儲存紀錄。
4/2000級權限及以上的駐站人員在分發期間被禁止離開黃石國家公園。在人員調度期間（選派性或強迫性），A級記憶刪除措施必須被執行，並且植入自身曾被分發至其他高安保風險或Keter級SCP項目的錯誤記憶。在項目HMCL監督人（當前為Dr. Charles Gears）與O5指揮部的斟酌下，附屬人員可被允許分發至SCP-2000，並取得暫時性4/2000級權限。
於SCP-2000的外部表面，斯克蘭頓現實穩定錨群（SRAs）以每20公尺的距離成六邊形排列，以避免敵意異常干擾的侵害。每個SRA的運作應作為必須保養措施，每半年檢驗與更換。修繕SRA組件的技術人員應參考文件SRA-033的1.0.7修訂版。在設施可輸出幅度（最大值為100W／座）下，可維持穩定快子流的五座Xyank/Anastasakos連續時間槽(XACTS)已被架設並接受每月維護。修繕XACTS組件的技術人員應參考文件XACTS-864的1.3.0修訂版。
一偽黎曼歧區已在地下四層的入口被啟動，並且應隨時維持開放。在歧區失效的事件下，死亡歐幾里得程序-101將被立即執行。其他非異常生命支持與營運系統應在基金會維護協議101.5區段（關鍵任務組件）的標準下進行維護。SCP-2000所有區域的所有維護與修復皆必須使用非異常的物質與資源進行。
在任何未損害SCP-2000存在事實或功能運作的K級情境事件中，CYA-009程序應盡速被啟用。剩餘的全球基金會設施在程序展開時應監控情境現況，並在格尼美德協議（Ganymede Protocol）下保留可能的物質資源，直到所有剩餘站點依文件2000XKAC-1.9向SCP-2000提出的要求回報「警報解除（All Clear）」為止。在接收到「警報解除」代碼後，拉薩路程序-01應被實施。
管理員筆記：我要這份文件變成永久紀錄，而我一點都不在意你會不會覺得這是在侮辱你的智商；有些事情就是有這麼重要。這個裝置絕對不是你可以卸下警戒心或冒著風險用來收容、交叉測試SCP項目，或是隨便你在想甚麼鬼主意的地方。主要收容仍然是我們活下來的最好機會；否則我們也不用這麼積極的進行掩飾工作。我們只能在宇宙說「不」之前一再暫緩上帝的不信任。而考慮到我們在過去幾個十年內所處理的玩意兒，我們大概早就錯過那個機會了。
——前任管理員 Dr. William Fritz
描述：SCP-2000是一基金會地下設施，最初建立於███年前的某時，用以在無法及時避免的K級世界末日情境中重建文明社會，以防止人類物種的滅絕或瀕危狀態。自其建立起，SCP-2000已經被啟動至少兩次。早於SCP-2000最近期兩次使用之前，有關該設施建立與沿革的基金會紀錄皆已遺失。此一資訊空白是由於意外或是刻意造成已無法考證。此設施的關鍵任務部件於地下七十五公尺處為起點，並往下延伸一百公尺的深度。
即便再一次完全建設SCP-2000的所需的工程規模使其在維持保密性的情況下不可能被完成，所有SCP-2000的副系統皆已在實驗室環境下被成功再製；有關於其維修的裝置與程序皆符合常態自然法則。（參見文件2000-SS-EX以獲取與SCP-2000功能相關的基金會機密科技知識）。設施的主要能源來自液態氟化釷反應爐（LFTR）以1GW的總輸出量提供，在最大容量下該反應爐有70年的壽命。設施也部署一座地熱發電儀，以捷用此地區的火山活動帶來的能源。此發電儀可為設施的「待機」模式無限期供電。SCP-2000也包含汙水處理設施、空氣淨化裝置與循環系統、水耕生產翼，以及可以提供10,000名人員永久維生的日常必需品。
為完成其主要任務，SCP-2000包含了500,000座Bright/Zartion人體複製艙（BZHR）。在峰值輸出下，SCP-2000每日可生產出100,000名可用、無異常的人類個體（暖機期5日）。地下黎曼轉座管線的使用可從各熱泉與地下熔岩流中蒐集原料，並帶有一電腦記憶儲存資料庫，收藏有全部已知人類的等位基因組，使該系統得以複製出任何遺失的人類基因體，或者生產出多種新式且獨特的基因體，以生產重建人類文明所需的人口。
研究員筆記：BZHR系統目前暫停使用，唯有維護測試與緊急狀況（CYA-009還在「運行」）的情況下例外。可能存在的敵意侵襲仍然在調查當中，且這個資料庫證明了自己真的很難被除錯。我們仍然可以觀察到先天性與遺傳性缺陷的分布遠超過了基數群。現在，我只能保證新產物的可用性達60~75%。參見附錄2000-1。
——醫學博士Dr. Christopher Zartion MD，生物技術研究與發展部門
你們沒辦法挽回他們。
透過此一過程製造的人類可被提升到任何所需的年齡，無須延長五日的孵育期。除了構築人體特徵外，BZHR也能透過執行G級幻覺程序與發展性催眠療法，對生產品植入記憶。多位基金會人員——包含所有4/2000級權限及以上的人員——的生命史、神經原型掃描樣本以及基因體皆被保留，以確保僅只有一名人類倖存的情況下，SCP-2000仍然可以被啟用並執行拉薩路程序-01。
在格尼美德協議被實施後（亦即基金會避免K級情境的工作已經失敗），SCP-2000的安保系統將會解鎖，允許任何基金會員工執行程序CYA-009。倘若在二十年後，SCP-2000仍維持非活化狀態，安保系統將會進一步開放，允許任何非異常人類個體進入設施，並執行程序。一旦遭到活化，SCP-2000的內部監控系統將會試圖定位所有4/2000級權限的人員，並評估他們的狀態。未被尋獲的重要任務人員將會透過資料庫中最近一次的神經原型掃描樣本被複製，並在其他系統被啟動之前甦醒。
你明白了嗎？
在此群人員再生後，安保封鎖將會恢復正常運作。5/2000級權限人員可訪問文件2000-CYA-9以獲取當前可用選項的完整列表。請注意，文件2000XKAC-1.9所定義的「警報解除」代碼的接收僅有在所有剩餘基金會設施都呈現廢用狀態時方可被棄用。否則，於程序CYA-009下再生的安保與MTF人員將被分派製所有剩餘的基金會設施，以確保其狀況與區域現實的完整度。
當一已授權有5/2000級權限的基金會員工於SCP-2000的BZHR控制單元中輸入所需的「恢復日期」時，拉薩路程序-01將會展開。隨後，可用單元將會憑藉已存檔的描述／遺傳資訊，開始生產當代重要的政治與文化領導人，並且複製與當期相符合的全球人口。SCP-2000的底層空間被用於儲存建築材料、建設工具、工廠設備、農業工具，以及電腦數據儲庫。除了基礎設施物件之外，一龐大的文化基地承載有上千件知名的美術、音樂、文學作品副本，以及全球資訊網直到其他資料庫損毀之前的完整備份。
HMCL筆記：我們在前次疊代紀錄，拉薩路-01的尾聲找到這份筆記。
研究員筆記：如果我們還得再這麼做一次，不要把恢復日其重設到事件之前二十年以上。這樣一來我們不只能沿用很多還沒被毀壞的建物，也會讓歷史連續性更容易還原。[已編輯]年已經夠長了。為了節省人口與農業需求，我們的人力吃緊到好像沒有必要重建一整個時間線。不只這點，從20到2█世紀之中有多少是我們想要改寫的，又要改寫幾次？光是一次「大戰」不就已經夠難追溯了嗎？
- Dr. Henrietta Eisenhower，歷史學部門
我在SCP-2000的HMCL任期將會榮讚這項請求。當前正在要求正式文件紀錄為這項更動進行調整。兩次世界大戰已經很足夠了。我們沒有必要犯第三次的風險。
——Dr. Charles Gears，HMCL監督人
你們已經失敗了。
第一批站點外駐紮的人類替代品必須被告知SCP-2000的存在以及他們被創造的用意。該策略將使新建的人類直接投入重建與再殖民的勞力過程，五百萬人將由於自身技能對於重建過程有重大協助而被優先揀選生產。於全球人口增加之際，擴張與重建的過程將會以指數性加速完成，使經濟與農業基礎設施盡快恢復。
即便部分人類替代品將可能無法在最初的翻修期中存活，此類人員可被無限複製，直至所有主要人口中心與基金會設施的建設完成。此時期內，基金會的行政資源將會聚焦於樹木年輪學、天文學與放射性鑑年紀錄法的修飾，以維持歷史連續性的表象。請參見文件2000-RetCon1第2.3.3版獲取細節。當自然棲息地在計畫完成前有顯著規模的破壞時，參見文件2000-OneTear第3.0版以獲知已許可的快速生長工法。
據估計，全球人口、生產效能、農業產量以及文化將可在程序實施後25至50年重置到公元2000年的水平。在拉撒路程序-01的尾聲，記憶刪除藥劑ENUI-5將被大規模釋放，使所有再製人類忘記他們與基金會資產間的聯繫。歷史將會接著由選定日期恢復。基於人類社交互動的龐大複雜性質，每一次的程序啟用皆會無可避免地調整人類活動的方式。對於預測性歷史模型的深入研究正在進行，奠基於先前拉薩路程序-01完成後的觀察。
HMCL筆記：對於人類行為或文化的更多修飾提案於本次都不會被採納。先前對於人類總體暴力與社交病態傾向的優化嘗試已被實施且證明為成功的。第二次疊代樣本的實驗顯示了進一步的修飾將會損害人類的韌性，致使科技與社會進步受到顯著的抑制。參見實驗紀錄███-█獲取更多資訊。
——Dr. Charles Gears，HMCL監督人
文件2000-SS-EX：以下資訊構成的基礎操作參數乃特別用於SCP-2000計畫中的科技。即便該項科技看似異常，其仍然完全建構於可驗證的當代科學原理，並被基金會作為有效收容使用。
斯克蘭頓現實穩定錨（SRA）的發明似乎早於SCP-2000的首次啟動，並且由Dr. Robert Scranton於1889年研發。SRA的主體與大部分電路板係由一抗鏽蝕的鈹青銅合金構成。發想自從[數據刪除]還原的人工品，有效清除虛粒子／反粒子對的顯現需要綠型現實扭曲現象才能呈現。由於製造SRA所需的鈹青銅開支高昂，基金會中所利用的此種設備所影響的範圍皆小於兩立方公尺。
[1].
停。
研究員筆記：SRA運作與發想來源的機轉必須對所有可能的現實扭曲個體保密，原因我想不必再明說了。只有授權後的6/2000級維護技術員被允許查訪本文件。如果任何SCP-2000的工作人員向你披露自身為6/2000級維護技術員，請向O5指揮部通報他們以便接收重新分發並且立即移送至記憶刪除療程。這不是懲戒；這是一種合情合理的安全顧慮。如果這些機器受損了，我們也就跟著玩完了。
——Dr. Lowell Henry Piedmont，機密分級部門
Xyank/Anastasakos連續時間槽（XACTS）是一透過製造場域效果以穩定因果性流的設備。XACTS可利用放射帶中耦合的快子場域發射儀[2]所產生的高功率電磁輻射製造出一穩定的事件邊界，使有機與電系統在維持穩定因果環境時穿過時亦不受影響。換言之，只要尚有一座XACTS仍在運作，原可能阻止SCP-2000被建造的時空性異常就會被無效化。目前沒有將XACTS設備應用到基金會其他領域的計畫。
研究員筆記：時間槽其實用途非常廣泛。收容一個需要你拿一秒鐘換三十萬年的SCP項目就是個好例子。或者在時間線修復任務中，維持一個參照常態點，好讓你可以精實的紀錄自己的進度並復原嚴重失誤又是一個例子。然而，自然界的因果關係是以人類心智無法妥善處理的方式彈性運作的，而製造出一大串孤立的穩定因果律，對於時間完整性的損害將會大於保護效果。不，更多對於此一嘗試所致結果的詢問將不會被受理。
——Dr. Thaddeus Xyank，時間異常部門
停。
偽黎曼歧區2的使用令SCP-2000的基底平面可延伸到負深度，並提供10平方公里的基底空間。關於此系統建構的原始文件因早於SCP-2000先前的啟動事件而已經遺失。即便此一現象在傳統上被視為空間性異常的指標，在Drs. Robert Boyd與Tristan Bailey的定義下，該歧區入口與現代物理的進階應用是相容的。[3]此一「負」空間的維持係透過集中█████粒子放射束穿越指定歧區入口所產生的非重力型奇異點完成。在奇異點失效的情況下，此設施將會維持孤立完整，且不引致結構崩潰。如果在失效後立即重啟死亡歐幾里得協議-101，歧區的再製時間估計少於十小時。SCP-2000的孤立部分將會在歧區失效後的36小時內維持可居住與運作的狀態，並且可以無限次受到復原。
附錄2000-1：於██/██/████.2的SCP-████收容失效中，SCP-2000內發生多起SRA與XACTS組件的失效，並伴隨站點數個BZHR單元的啟動。在事件後的25天內，BZHR單元群共製造了超過一千萬名內部生理結構與現代人類不一致的人形實體。這些差異包含一額外的心室、四肢的完美多指症、顱內容積與重量增加、以及一功用未知的腹部器官，可放射與接收2.4~3.6 GHz間的電磁波頻率。這些人形實體在複製期間並沒有接受G級幻覺程序，也沒有接收發展性催眠療程。其全體維持無意識狀態直至五週後逝世。當前，這些被歸類為SCP-2000-1的實體正在接受檢驗。
當前仍未知該起事件是由SCP-████與SCP-2000之間的逆時間互動、惡意破壞、資訊洩漏或非異常設備失靈所造成的。診斷性檢查與結構修復正在 如期 正常 以可接受的風險下進行。SCP-2000預計可在2008 2013 2020年恢復正常運作。
就放下吧。
附錄2000-2：於██/██/████.2，技術員[數據刪除]在第3382扇區修復SRA單元時，該人員回報發現一進入高度腐朽狀態的人類遺骸。對於遺骸上衣料殘片的分析顯示該遺骸至少有450到700年的歷史。Dr. Alto Clef的有效基金會安保證件在附近被發現，但無法進行遺傳配對。以下信息回收自一密封的塑膠文件夾。
我們為甚麼要蓋這東西？
我們甚麼時候蓋的？
我們已經這麼做多久了？
我們真的知道嗎?!
對於Dr. Clef的後續審問確認其對此事件一無所知，對該信息的意圖也毫無頭緒。
你們不是正常的，這才是正常的。