 Good afternoon Foundation staff, this is Level 4 Research with Theron Sherman, and today's briefing is your favorite kind of time travel shenanigans. We're talking about SCP-711, Object Class, SAFE, Special Containment Procedures. Under no circumstances whatsoever is SCP-711 to be operated. Operation or attempted operation of SCP-711 is to be punished in all cases by the severest and most extreme measures available to the SCP Foundation. Enforcement of this zero-tolerance policy, should it become necessary, is to become the single highest priority assignment for all available Foundation personnel. The current instance of SCP-711 is to be embedded in concrete, and stored in a type 2 high-value item vault at storage site **** secured by at least 4 multiply redundant locking systems and guarded by all Foundation agents of no less than level 2 security clearance. The item should never be stored in operable condition. In any major crisis during which the survival of the SCP Foundation, or of any significant portion of human civilization, greater than 20%, is called into question, the item supervises how to destroy it immediately, and determine a safe time and place for its reassembly. No person capable of operating SCP-711 is permitted to have any knowledge of the contents of string 17, see below. Description, built by the SCP Foundation from Bland's Retrieve, SCP-711 is a device assembled from several highly modified, high-energy physics equipment. Its primary function is, in short, capable of sending data into its past and of receiving data from its future. Transmission is strictly one way. When an operation of the item is therefore causally impossible, any message it receives will necessarily be sent at some point in its future. All SCP-711 messages predetermine their own existence and content. To date, exactly 17 messages have been received via SCP-711. The first string was received at 1300 hours on ****, the day the item was created, and sent 4 minutes later. It consisted only of the character's TEST. With successive operations, signal quality is declined dramatically. String 1 was transmitted perfectly, reading precisely TEST, both when sent and when received. String 16, when sent, also precisely read TEST. When received, it consisted of the characters T, dollar sign, 3, S, carrot, F, at symbol, followed by 5 kilobytes of meaningless noise. Additionally, over the course of testing, 4 strings were received which were never sent, and which consist demonstrably P less than 0.0001 of nothing but noise. String 17 was detected 10 years after the object's construction. It consists of 347 characters, either heavily encrypted or within the first 50 characters however, is sufficient data to establish that ****, P ****, that it will be sent by a dolly-authorized agent of the SCP Foundation. Its date of origin is unknown. To date, it has not yet been sent. Since String 17 will necessarily been sent, and since it is known to be sent by an agent of the Foundation, the survival of the SCP Foundation and of humanity in general is guaranteed at least until such time as String 17 is transmitted. Transmission to String 17 must therefore be postponed at all costs. The above containment procedures are calculated to ensure that it will not be sent until such a time as the SCP Foundation is too weak to enforce them, in which case the Foundation will have already de facto ceased to exist. Note, SCP 711 is an insurance policy of sorts. Until we send String 17, we know we have to survive any crisis, otherwise that String is a BL-class predestination paradox. Once it's sent, we no longer have that guarantee. Yes, we'll have to fail at some point. We did receive String 17 after all. But the longer we postpone it, the longer we know we can survive. Stop that signal people. A continued existence may just depend on it. Dr. P*****. Woo! Alright, well at least we're safe for now. For later? For then? For when? Ah! Alright staff, that ends our broadcast. Use the Foundation's encrypted YouTube account to like, comment, subscribe, hit the bell and support our broadcast at Patreon.com to site 42.