 Item number SCP-794 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures The area in a 10 kilometer radius surrounding SCP-794 has been designated as a no-fly zone and all unauthorized personnel attempting to enter the area are to be detained for questioning. All unauthorized aircraft attempting to enter the airspace around SCP-794 are to be signaled off immediately and any that fail to follow instructions are to be intercepted and detained at containment site 794-Alpha. Personnel may only approach within the 1,400 meter red zone of SCP-794 with prior permission from at least two Level 4 personnel and may stay within the area for no longer than 30 minutes at a time. Personnel experiencing any nausea or exhibiting any strange or psychotic behavior must be removed immediately and quarantined pending psychological and physical evaluation. Description SCP-794-1 is the derelict remains of an ocean-going vessel located near in the Sahara Desert. According to markings in Cyrillic, the vessel is the built-in in the city of in 19. This is inconsistent with available records as no vessel by this name was ever constructed. The vessel is in an advanced state of disrepair consistent to exposure to the elements for a period of at least years and to date it is not known how SCP-794-1 came to rest in its current location nearly one kilometers from any body of water. SCP-794-2 is an enormous mass of living nervous tissue integrated into the cargo hold of SCP-794-1 currently estimated at approximately 167 kilograms. While experimentation has shown significant neural activity, it is currently unknown how SCP-794-2 functions or how it obtains sustenance. Living human subjects that approach within 1400 meters of SCP-794 report feeling an increasing compulsion to approach and enter the vessel, peaking at approximately 60 minutes of cumulative exposure. At this point, affected subjects will attempt to enter the vessel by any means possible and must be terminated in order to prevent them from approaching SCP-794. Once within the vessel, affected subjects will enter the ship's cargo hold whereupon they will immediately collapse and cease all life signs. SCP-794 was discovered during a routine satellite surveillance pass. The vessel was located shortly thereafter by Foundation agents and current containment protocols were established following the loss of members of the initial survey team. Addendum 794-1 Analysis of Recovered Bodies Following limited experimentation performed via the use of remotely piloted robotic vehicles, the bodies of unidentified individuals have been recovered from SCP-794-1. Of these were members of the Foundation initial survey team where unidentified army personnel reported missing in 1991 appeared to be unidentified civilian explorers and the rest are too far decomposed to identify. Autopsy of the intact bodies has shown a complete lack of neural tissue including the brain, spinal cord, and all muscular and sensory nerves. During this time, SCP-794-2 has also grown by an estimated 3.4%. Further investigation is ongoing, but difficult due to the inherent danger of SCP-794 and our inability to approach it directly. Declass assets have been secured in order to derive a method by which SCP-794's compulsion effect may be mitigated or suppressed. Dr. Lesson Complete If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-793, The Ghost Sickness, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.