 Item number SCP-001 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-001 is to be kept locked along with all data pertaining to it inside the primary archival vault on sub-level 1 of Site 10. The vault is a custom manufactured reinforced concrete and steel vertical octagonal prism with a 2000 kilograms 0.9 meter thick time-locked access portal in the ceiling. The time-locking schedule should be classified and available only to Dr. Y. Mirsky. Access is conditional on three-factor authorization, e.g. keycard fingerprint passphrase. SCP-001 is among the safest artifacts in the Foundation's possession and these measures are primarily intended to prevent theft. Description SCP-001 is a smooth black perfectly ellipsoidal Onyx gemstone roughly 15.1 centimeters by 15.4 centimeters by 16.5 centimeters with a modeled white pattern. Wrapped around its exterior encompassing its equator in both poles is a complex and layered fractal filigree of gold metal. The gold is sculpted into broad strokes at what is now usually agreed to be the lower or south pole of the object but with increasing latitude. The pattern becomes progressively more intricate near the north pole also called the lock or singularity. The pattern complexity progresses beyond the capability of optical or electron beam microscopes to resolve. Further investigation is pending advances in microscopy technology. The gemstone continually emits a small quantity roughly 34.5007 to 34.5010 megawatts of thermal radiation in the microwave range. As a result the gold filigree is warm to the touch the white modeled areas emit fractionally more radiation than the black Onyx areas. Other than this SCP-001 is totally inert. It is opaque to all forms of electromagnetic and hard radiation and so far indestructible. Its Onyx and gold composition is guessed from visual inspection since the taking of samples for chemical analysis has proven impossible. Project Pluto master log the following experiments have failed to open SCP-001. Conventional lockpicking, brute force assault with hammer, chisel, sledgehammer, bolt cutters, welding torch, band saw, etc. Sustained heating to 5000 degrees centigrade in an industrial furnace, artifact reflected all thermal energy and did not increase in temperature. Direct application of an industrial cutting laser roughly 160 kilowatts per square centimeter concentrated on the lock artifact reflected all energy compression in vise car crusher hydraulic diamond face press all destroyed application of corrosive acids and other highly oxidizing compounds no reaction detonation of plastic and solid explosives up to 0.5 kilotons tnt equivalent at point blank range no effect detonation of a 15 kilotons tnt equivalent atomic warhead at point blank range authorization granted retroactively by Dr. Mersky no effect the following text has been struck through project Pluto is to be immediately terminated Dr. Hack end of strike through project Pluto is ongoing with the full support of foundation resources Dr. Mersky SCP-001 acquisition report the earliest record of SCP-001 is in the handwritten journal of the minor Scottish aristocrat Sir Edwin Young Third Baronet 1611 to 1677 as was customary at the time young kept a cabinet of curiosities a small room of artifacts of undetermined provenance such as sculptures preserved creatures and trinkets young's journal includes references to his acquisition in 1654 of an bound jewel of onyx and filigree gold of fineness beyond rational statement while traveling across the Mesopotamian desert the journal indicates that SCP-001 was found buried in the ruin of a bitter blasted place older than days or what young took to be a temple to a fearsome death god SCP-001 was found encased in stone at the center of four enormous runic stones young's journal includes a sketch of the most readable side of the most well-preserved stone but he was unable to read the runes or find a scholar who could translate them young's account of his journey to the location of the ruin is incomplete it has not yet been located young's selections of curious provenance lay in storage for several centuries after he died in 1805 his descendants donated SCP-001 to the Scottish National Museum in Edinburgh the curators of the museum regarded SCP-001 as an ancient fragile and priceless example of ancient Sumerian metalworking they therefore failed to discover its anomalous warmth its indestructibility or its impossible microscopic scale construction they were however able to identify the ruins in young's sketch as tertiary Sumerian cuneiform circa 3400 BCE only a partial translation is possible with loss and unknown we I unknown a noun a pocked probably a proper noun on this ending finality unknown joy plus permanence possibly protection Mr. McAndlish who performed the translation noted this appears to be some sort of incantation or spell of containment a pocked is the name of whatever is imprisoned within the gemstone SCP-001 was finally placed on semi-permanent display in 1949 in 2003 foundation staff observed that the modeled white patterns on the surface of SCP-001 resembled the cosmic microwave background a pattern of microwaves encompassing the entire observable universe as mapped by NASA's Wilkinson microwave and isotropy probe earlier that year closer inspection showed the two patterns to be identical SCP-001 along with Baronet Young's journal was immediately purchased by a foundation front organization and transferred to site 10 where Dr. Q. Hack and Dr. Y. Mirsky performed initial routine analysis research continues under the auspices of Dr. Mirsky Dr. Hack having recently left the foundation Young's journal also includes several detailed sketches of SCP-001 in one of the sketches a small ornate object resembling a key is shown fitted into its north pole the key has not been recovered lesson complete to continue with your orientation training subscribe to scp orientation right now and make sure you don't miss any of our upcoming videos