 Item number SCP-2013 Object Class Keter Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-2013 is to be treated through global dispersal of an aerosolized version of the Cardiff compound, distributed via Foundation-owned aircraft, disguised as normal aircraft trails. Treating employees affected by SCP-2013 are to be subjected to regular Class C amnestic administration to treat infection. Individuals refusing treatment are to be administered Class A amnestics and have their positions at the Foundation terminated. All previous documentation regarding SCP-2013 has been archived for the sake of posterity. To view previous containment procedures, please input password. All instances of SCP-2013-A currently holding positions within any world government are to be neutralized at any cost. Wild instances of SCP-2013-A as well as all instances of SCP-2013-B are to be destroyed using Parker Class Weaponry. Information about SCP-2013 is to be disseminated publicly via television and radio broadcast. Media pamphlets, and through various new media such as online video sharing sites and blogs. Foundation personnel are encouraged to publish their findings in SCP-2013 publicly in any manner possible to weaken the overall power of SCP-2013-A and the effectiveness of SCP-2013-B. Once approximately 20% global awareness of SCP-2013 has been reached, the Hereford Protocol is to be carried out. Description SCP-2013 refers to a Renard-class memetic agent. SCP-2013 can be spread via visual, auditory, or tactile vectors, and has an infection rate of approximately 72%. The latter is known to only work if the individual being affected by SCP-2013 can read and understand the Braille alphabet. SCP-2013 causes affected individuals to develop a belief in SCP-2013-A. SCP-2013-A is allegedly an extraterrestrial race that has infiltrated various world governments, including the USA, United Kingdom, Iran, Russia, and North Korea. Individuals affected by SCP-2013 cannot be cured, but can be treated through regular amnestic consumption or administration. Further infection has been prevented by global dispersal of the Cardiff compound. Currently, less than 1% of the population of planet Earth believes in the existence of SCP-2013-A, with the highest concentration being in the United States, where 4% believe in the existence of SCP-2013-A. SCP-2013-A instances were previously believed to be actual anomalies, as opposed to the illusions caused by SCP-2013. For previous documentation, please input password. Previous Documentation SCP-2013 refers to two related anomalies. SCP-2013-A is a humanoid species of extraterrestrials with reptilian characteristics, believed to have originated from the Alpha Draconis star system. The average instance of SCP-2013 stands approximately three meters tall, with skin that is capable of changing color due to climatophores cells similar to those found in chameleons. SCP-2013-A instances are hematophagic and cannot survive without blood for more than two weeks at a time, and do not require any additional sustenance, despite the fact that they have been known to eat other forms of food. If an instance of SCP-2013-A dies violently, their bodies sublimate into a large quantity of nitrogen-based gas, whose molecular chain resembles some forms of amnestic used by the Foundation, causing memory loss in all individuals within a 50 meter radius. SCP-2013-B refers to technology used by SCP-2013-A to alter their appearance to resemble human beings. SCP-2013-B has several variations, including a pill ingested by SCP-2013-A on a weekly basis to alter their DNA and body chemistry to resemble humans, to skin suits that act as size-altering disguised to SCP-2013-A instances, to permanent cosmetic alteration of their features. SCP-2013-A instances are functionally immortal, provided that they imbibe a volume of approximately five liters of blood at least once every two weeks. However, SCP-2013 as a whole can be weakened provided that humans are both aware of the existence of SCP-2013 and believe that it exists. For example, if an individual views an autopsy video of an SCP-2013-A instance but does not believe the instance to be a genuine article, SCP-2013 suffers no detrimental effects. However, if one out of five individuals viewing a live feed of an SCP-2013-A specimen believe it to be real, the specimen will be weakened to the point where it can be killed using small arms fired with no detrimental effects. Addendum- The Herford Protocol The Herford Protocol is a global series of military coups and assassinations to be carried out against SCP-2013, once information saturation has reached 20%. Daring this, a series of coordinated attacks across several countries, including ██████, are to be carried out to eliminate SCP-2013-A instances. By this point, SCP-2013-B instances will have ceased to be effective in disguising SCP-2013-A as humans, and the populace of countries where SCP-2013 has control will begin to question the legitimacy of their rule. Known SCP-2013-A instances that will be neutralized during the Herford Protocol include all current and former presidents of ██████ as well as their families, several actors and musicians including ██████ and ██████ the royal families of ███████ and ██████ of GOI-02-Black, the chaos insurgency. The Herford Protocol is expected to be carried out sometime in late 2011 or early 2012. Addendum ████, on May 6 ████, a believed instance of SCP-2013-A died of natural causes. The Foundation took the body in the custody for autopsy, only to find that this alleged instance of SCP-2013-A was, in fact, a normal human being. Further inspection by unaffected personnel showed that all deceased instances of SCP-2013-A in storage were, in fact, human beings. All reports on SCP-2013-A were written by individuals affected by SCP-2013. Given this information, we are canceling the Herford Protocol. New containment procedures have been written regarding SCP-2013-05-2. It all comes down to money. We couldn't get funding in the early days. The various governments of the world refused to fund us, and we didn't have SCPs that made endless amounts of gold, or jewels, or could be used to cheat the stock market. The President of the United States said no. The Czar said no. The Crown said no. They didn't believe what we were doing was right or useful. Despite our lack of resources, we had one thing we could use, SCP-2013. Neither of the files he just read about SCP-2013 is the actual one. The original, original file doesn't exist anymore. But the gist of it was this. SCP-2013 was a clutch of eggs that we found at the bottom of the sea in 1900, brought up by a fishing trawler. The eggs were dead, but the Foundation kept them as a curiosity. In the early days, the Foundation was obsessed with bringing the dead back to life, thanks to Frankenstein. We tried to revive the eggs in various ways, from supporting the embryos outside the egg, which failed, to electrocuting them, which cooked them, to just plain incubating them, which also cooked them. Eventually, we tried an experimental compound that's long since been lost to history. It was made up of mercury, iridium, radium, and a few other elements that science didn't yet know about. And then the eggs hatched. They acted just like children, but they looked like iguanas mixed with gorillas. They had blood chemistry we had never seen before, and could mimic human speech and behavior to a startling degree. At the same time, the Foundation had been developing disguises to hide its agents in unfriendly lands, and they were so high-quality, a fifty-year-old man could wear a face that could make him look like an eighteen-year-old girl, and, except for perhaps the height, it would be impossible to tell the difference. The creatures that hatched from SCP-2013 were cooperative, and viewed us as their parents. They also matured very quickly, and grew to adult size within six months. All we needed to do was educate them about the world at large, put them in a skin suit, and then we sent them out into the world to be the best of their job. They were politicians, writers, singers, actors, kings, queens, inventors, agents. They were all important in their own way. Five out of the last 17 US presidents had been these creatures, as of 2012. The Queen of England got replaced long ago, and her family still doesn't know it. Our greatest success was probably infiltrating a major cell of the chaos insurgency back in the 1970s. Over the years, we've bred over 1,500 instances of SCP-2013-A, and technology improved to make the disguises more convincing. We could alter their height, their DNA, even permanently sculpt their appearance so that they never ran the risk of being exposed. That's how the Foundation got a large part of their funding, up until they discovered that we could literally make gold from lead using simple vision and fusion reactions. Platinum's actually simpler to make, but that's besides the point. We eventually discontinued the SCP-2013 program, and we rounded them up and essentially expunged them from existence. We thought we had killed them all, except for a couple we kept alive for the sake of testing. And then we got word that the Global Occult Coalition had been infiltrated by an SCP-2013-A instance. They had made their way up the ranks quite a way, to the point that they were a consultant for the Ambassador from Czechoslovakia. Nobody was no wiser until we received a reconstituted report from the Agent himself. We informed the GOC, it was detained and written off in an isolated event. We thought that was the end of it, until the elections happened. A small constituency in England elected its MP for the term, and then we found out that all the candidates were actually SCP-2013-A instances. We didn't know about this until after the election, and after that, it was too late to take any of them out. They were public figures, they were in the media, and any action against them would draw suspicion. We found that on our own. SCP-2013-A had spread all over the globe. For all intents and purposes, they ruled the world. More than half, but less than three-fourths of the world's governments are controlled by them. We classified them as Keter, made them aliens, and said that they were effectively immortal to discourage any assassinations. But we weren't without hope, there was always a secondary effect. SCP-2013-A, for some reason, got weaker when people observed them. One of the researchers studying them called it a detrimental anti-mimetic effect, or the more people know about them, the less effective they are. They grew less intelligent, lost muscle mass, underwent osteoporosis, and all around just became easier to kill. The more of them there were, the less harmful the overall effect was. Mimetic dilution was the phrase that was thrown around. So we began a plan to kill them, crack the masquerade, however so slightly, reveal the existence of them to the world at large, to cancel out the mimetic dilution. And it was working for a while. And it was working for a while. People who were called crackpots by their peers realized the truth, that their government, their world, was not their own. They were called mad, but soon, the whole world would see the truth. The program was cancelled, and the, it was all just a weird meme explanation slapped on it after the course was found. The Cardiff compound was engineered to prevent anyone else to give into what was called a crackpot conspiracy theory, and distributed through airplanes via chemtrail. But they are real. But for some reason, this order was passed down. It has come to my attention that we have incorrectly documented SCP-2013. SCP-2013-A is not existent, as is evidenced by the exhumations of several purported SCP-2013-A instances, as well as DNA samples and the recently recorded autopsy. Gentlemen, it appears we have been had. SCP-2013 was clearly nothing more than a harmless memetic agent that caused mass paranoia and made us interpret certain people in positions of fame or power as something none of this world. How this happened, we don't know. Who made it? Or even how it was made? We don't know. Why it was made, we don't know. But we will find out. SCP-2013 is to be reclassified as safe, and its containment file rewritten. For the sake of context, the current containment procedures are to be archived and are accessible to any researcher with level 4 slash 2013 or higher clearance. Secure. Contain. Protect. O5-2 By now, it has been more than 60 seconds since you opened this page. I apologize for any consequences that may come about as a result of you viewing this document. But it eases me, knowing that the truth is out, even if I am the one that is crazy. Secure. Contain. Protect.