 The Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of His holy ones to judge everyone and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defied words ungodly sinners have spoke against Him. The Book of Jude, chapter 1, verses 14 and 15. Welcome to Object Class Explained, where I spend a bit of time doing a deep dive on SCP lore. Today, we're going to talk about SCP-093. This episode of Object Class Explained is produced in partnership with SCP Declassified, who have a full write-up on this particular SCP on their subreddit. While I'll be consulting that write-up for this video, this is meant to be a shorter dive, otherwise I think we'd probably be here for about an hour or two. If you want an even more in-depth look at SCP-093, click the link in the description for the Declassified subreddit. In the meantime, let's get started. Part 1, The Red Sea Object I speak to you now in the shadow of Him, for it is only by standing in His shadow that we can truly be free of sin. Here you may gaze into the mirror and know that you are pure and good and faithful. But there will always be those among us who wish to remain impure. Those that eschew temperance and chastity in exchange for a pittance of pleasure. Those that will not accept the truth of our great existence. And a truth it is, that we must lay down more than just our lives for His blessing. We must lay down our souls, and from that sacrifice, gain life eternal. The Most Holy Father, 1927 SCP-093, The Red Sea Object, is one of my favorite SCPs on the site. It's also one of the first SCPs that really grabbed my attention. A lot of early series 1 SCPs never really drew me in any kind of serious way, but The Red Sea Object with its half-dozen supplements told a story that I could really get into. First, a little history. SCP-093 was one of the SCPs that was poured over to the wiki during the move to Wikidot by far too. The original writer is apparently lost to time, but the rewrite of it was accomplished about 7 months later by Neco Chris. The version most people know and remember is the rewrite, not the original. It starts out simply enough. The core SCP object isn't too hard to really understand. It's a red disc with strange carvings on it that seeks out the nearest mirror when not being held by anyone. It also changes color based on who holds it. Oh, and also if a person places it on a mirror, they'll go through the mirror into another world. Yeah, that last part is probably more important than all the rest. In an added detail that's pretty easy to miss if you're not paying attention, every person has a different effect on the object. I mean, it seems to react to a person's history and knowledge. You'll see hints of that come up later in the various explorations once you read them. It's important to also note that the containment procedure seemed to have a strong directive that exploration of these other worlds are not to be carried out for any reason. And those might leave you wondering, what happened? But the plentiful exploration logs and recovered materials are available to tell you exactly what's going on. Part 2 All the colors of the rainbow. There is nothing more dangerous in this world or the next than a man who believes he is right, seen painted on the site of a building during the violet test. Source unknown. There are a total of five test logs in the documentation and each reveals more and more information about the other world. One thing is clear from all of them, something happened here and it wasn't good. The whole of their society crumbled to nothing and now monsters roam the ruins. I could recap the test themselves, but there's a lot of detail here and you're probably going to read them yourselves. I'm just going to go over the common features that this world has. So this world ended in the 1950s, but it has very advanced technology for the time. That includes laptops and self-driving cars. This world was also highly religious and religious influence seems to have had an effect over most aspects of society. While the end does seem to have closed in fairly quickly, there are a number of hints that society was crumbling long before whatever killed everyone actually did that. There's a brown sludge that stinks and features in almost every single test to some level. And each test seems to be surrounded by, in some cases, hundreds of entities that watch them move through the world but which are only visible through the cameras. Also, giant faceless monsters with legs and arms of various sizes and shapes crawl around the landscape looking for anything alive. And it seems when they spot a testee, they do their best to get to them. What we can infer from all these details is that the government of this society was highly religious. Specifically, some altered form of Christianity. Something was encroaching on the civilization from the outside and the government was doing its best to fight back, but eventually they lost. It's highly possible that these giant faceless monsters are the things that the government couldn't beat, but if that's true, then there either is more of them than we've seen or they are very powerful because this society was incredibly technologically advanced. Finally, the red test happens. And this one is enough of a departure that deserves to be expanded on a bit here. See, in the red test, instead of a D-class or a doctor, a technician is used and he's able to make the object take on a bright red hue, a much brighter red than the object normally has. This is intriguing and leads to a new test. This test takes the technician to a room filled with other copies of SCP-093 and portals to other places and something happens there. And he loses contact with control and he comes back through. He seems fine, but during his debriefing, he shows superhuman strength and kills someone. And then after being shot several times in no effect, has to be riddled with bullets by security in order to finally be put down. Questions and then more questions again, perhaps here in the end, we're finally going to arrive at some answers as to what's going on. Part 3, Recovered Materials I'm an agent at the SCP Foundation. The year in my world is 1972. I assume it's the same in this world, but from what I've seen, life in this world ended somewhere around 1954. I've used SCP-093 to visit a number of locales starting and ending here in this center. I've seen the landscapes where no grass will grow. They'll run from the unclean as they pursue anything they sense. I have no understanding of how they hunt, but I have learned what they are. Approximately 350 years ago, this world experienced a technological boom. Ours did not. The source of this seems to have been the arrival of he, a god-like being of unknown origin. He declared the world unclean and full of sin. And the only way to purge itself of this sin was to purge the sinners. A war. Whoever was left alive was clean. Amazing advances in science were bestowed to all cultures for a period of ten years to prepare them for this war. And during that time, he disappeared. The war happened anyway. The instigated the Holy Union of Land, apparently the land mass that for us would become the United States. Records are sketchy, but detail anything about this time period of forbidden in the world. I located a cache of recorded history by following a series of corrupted computer communications. It seems the primary weapon used in this war for his love was, in fact, people. Exposed as something called his holy tears, a liquid compound I have seen in use even today in abandoned medical facilities. His holy tears purged the sin from the unclean and make them love him. At least that's what the label says. The records I recovered are very unclear about how this war was waged except to state his holy chosen walked the lands of the sinful and took their sin unto themselves. Those who cried for his salvation received it and are now our children. Those that denied his love were purified in his radiance. But something apparently happened that no one knew how to deal with. The unclean, the large creatures that are half a man and devour whatever they touch that lives and breathes. I actually found a scientific report written by someone who stumbled here with an SCP-093 copy. These creatures are the result of exposure to a very pure form of his tears resulting in a genetic apocalypse occurring within the exposed. There are terms in here, something about quantum restructuring. I don't understand any of this, but it means they were once humans like everyone else. They couldn't be controlled. They could be contained. It seemed to be attracted to his tears and a central point was established in various regions where a person with the purest form of his tears stays keeping the unclean in that area known as an unfertil land. But something went wrong with that too. Not sure what, but everything fell apart. The power structure, the culture, the people all of it felt ruins. And now those things shambles around the land as its new owners with no purpose or direction. You could stand next to one of them if you could stand the stink and they just slip right past you. If you catch their attention though, that's it. They move like lightning if they need to and like a snail unless they have a reason to speed up. Sometimes I think they chase just to do it, others move to kill. I think someone is in this facility or someone's. Keep hearing voices and requests coming from the areas under the floor. I want to leave this before I explore the facility any further. I've sent SCP-093 back through the entry mirror to seal the gate. These things can't be led into our world nor should we have anything to do with this one. We're simply not smart enough to understand it all, I feel. I don't think the unclean can die. They're immortal, but they don't want to be. They just want to die. They're in my head, I think. I didn't notice it until just now, but equipment in this room is starting to react to me. Words on the screen begging for help. I remember touching the tears, smelling it, tasting it. Just a touch. I'm eating it, just touching it. Tasting for acidity. We have pretty stupid investigative procedures, I think. The High Fathers are alive. They have technology we only imagine in our comics, given by him. Some of the records on the machine indicate space travel, but they didn't go far. Just far enough to watch the world fall apart and wait to come back and take it. But if they're up there, who's in this building with me? I've seen the faces of the people, the unclean. They show up on the pictures cast by the machine in the room with me, watching me. I think they're everywhere on this world, only seen by machines now. They don't look happy or sad, just curious. They want to know, why? Why them? Why did it all happen? I don't know. I just don't know. They showed me things when I touched them and it's not quite like the records say, they don't remember at all. Every person they touch becomes part of them, safe inside of them, but dead to us, every mind, every feeling, every terror. It's eternal to them. I want to join them, but there's too much to do. They want me to find them, to kill him. There was no war. It was him, him, him, him, him. It, it. It came from between the folds of space and worlds and time and light and dark. Nothing that is but should not be slipped in and called out to them as their God and they believed it and they tasted it and touched it and became its property and did its well. And it is still here. The SCP-093, it brought with it, filled forcefully with it, built it. I don't know. They don't know, but it belongs to him. It lets him move between places, between worlds, so I threw pieces up it away and threw holes so those doors are closed just like ours is closed and I can't go home. So what else can I do? It calls out through the rock somehow. It knows where they are, but it can't touch them. If you hide the rock, it can't call out and he's stuck too. I got you, you son of a bitch. I got you. Bang, bang. I touched him with my fist and my gun and he fell down. But he'll get back up soon. I'm sorry. I did all I could. Let me sleep now. Please let me sleep. Part 4, Conclusions. All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither. Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadows shall spring. A renewed shall be the blade that was broken. And the crownless, again, shall be king. J.R.R. Tolkien. Given that the recovered materials pretty much explain exactly what happened to this world, I'm going to let Modulom's statement from the SCP-declassified subreddit stand as a fitting conclusion. SCP-093 is a story about the power of the past. A parallel world like ours was visited by a black entity that preyed on the foolishness of its people. And what remains of this broken, dead world is its legacy. Traveling from universe to universe along the red discs, he arrives at another world and slowly destroys it. Like a predator. He prays on our humanity and our beliefs, perverting them against us. And when the world is dead, he moves on. SCP-093 is one of these worlds. But those that remember our history will not be doomed to repeat it. The knowledge that our foundation gained from listening to his victims, the unclean trapped in a dual hell, allowed us to seal him away inside SCP-093's world, to keep it in stasis as a reminder of our imperfections and weaknesses. And what it can do to us when a false god comes and tries to take it all away from us. That's all. If you enjoyed this episode, please hit the subscribe button. If you want to follow what I'm up to and get update for videos via Twitter, check me out there at D. Sumerian. And if you want to support my making more content like this, check out my Patreon at patreon.com forward slash D. Sumerian. Thanks for watching.