 Item number SCP 1591 Object Class, Keter Special Containment Procedures SCP 1591 is to be contained at Area 79 within a containment vault 100 meters below the surface level. SCP 1591 is to be placed in the center of this vault, with 30 high-intensity spotlights arranged in a 1 meter circular pattern above, below and around it. Once every month, the spotlights are to be replaced by D-Class personnel, due to the damage caused by SCP 1591's effect. An equivalent set of spotlights are to be kept in position outside the vault in case of containment procedures failing or being enacted incorrectly. An R&D team headquartered within Area 79 is completely dedicated to developing and engineering the increasingly advanced containment light mechanisms and maintaining the electrical infrastructure necessary to continue SCP 1591's containment. Materials from SCP have been implemented as part of their research, and use of other objects is under consideration. Photosensitive broadcasting units are to be set up above, below and around the vault to monitor for a containment breach. If any photosensitive broadcasting units cease to function, surface teams are to prepare 75 high-intensity spotlights with an intensity 600,000 LX greater than SCP 1591's intensity, to seize the expansion of SCP 1591's effect. In the event that containment is breached, O5 command is to be alerted to the possibility of an XK-class end-of-the-world scenario. Description SCP 1591 is a glass sculpture in the shape of a star, surrounded by 14 sheets of stained glass. The central sculptor weighs 1.2 kg, with the individual panels weighing 12 kg each. All components of SCP 1591 are suspended approximately 6 meters above the ground through an as-yet-unknown mechanism. To date, efforts to affect the levitation of either the sculpture or the panels have been unsuccessful. SCP 1591 constantly produces light, with gradually increasing brightness and intensity. Any surface illuminated by SCP 1591 will appear to become inconsistently transparent, and if not removed, any affected matter will disappear from observable space. Non-solid matter that makes contact with light produced by SCP 1591 will begin to rapidly decrease in temperature until it takes on a solid form. SCP 1591 is immune to its own effect. Organisms will retain consciousness and mobility while being affected by SCP 1591, although the ability to create speech will be lost. Affected organisms will usually react in a panicked manner, attempting to flee from SCP 1591's light as quickly as possible. If an affected organism ceases being exposed to SCP 1591's light, it will quickly fade and vanish. Further research of this effect has been inhibited by the continued distraction of observational equipment. SCP 1591 being exposed to lights, with a greater intensity than its own, will cause the rate at which its brightness increases to be reduced by 10,000 Lx to 50,000 Lx every 24 hours. The intensity of the light produced by SCP 1591 does not decrease over distance. SCP 1591 was recovered in 1940 from ****** Italy, where it was in the possession of known serpents hand operatives. During initial containment, SCP 1591's effect was negligible, taking over 82 hours to completely destroy a 3x4x3 meter wooden block. It was contained within Site 77's safe containment wing. Focusing light on SCP 1591 was discovered to prevent its effect from spreading. Initially, the light required for containment of SCP 1591 was relatively low. In February of 1941, Site 77 was partially damaged by allied bombing raids. These bombs caused SCP 1591's containment to be breached, resulting in most of the remaining portions of Site 77 being destroyed. After control of the facility was re-established, SCP 1591 was discovered to be significantly more hazardous and reclassified as the Euclid. A second containment breach resulted in Site 77 being severely damaged and the loss of ****** personnel. Addendum 19th May 1941 Several documents relating to SCP 1591 were recovered by Mobile Task Force Sigma 3, bibliographers, from a location inhabited by members of the serpents hand. These included photographs, diagrams and documents. One example has been included in this report. Killed, all killed. I saw a little boy strung up by the bags, snapping in half as they were wrenched up towards the stars. Woman was struck down in the streets, lanced and stepped until they begged to die. Men who fought back were blinded and made lame, then displayed proudly in shop windows. My mother was shaved, boiled and eaten by a pillaging group of warriors. It was pure decimation, far beyond what had been necessary to bring vengeance to their kingdom. Where the heavens saw this, they cast their eyes away, disgusted by the elriching carnage. The heavens cast themselves to earth. They could not stand to watch any longer, and soon they were falling every moment. First only in our lands, then on theirs, bringing an even worse carnage than what we had suffered. I could smell the burning from the northern provinces. This star is a gift to you, from heaven. In the right hands it will be a tool to bring down senselessness, but do not forget its origin. If the hatred and carnage once again reaches light, it will cast down purity, wiping it from your lands. The stars are beautiful tonight.