出典: SCP-5238 (rev.37, 2022年10月09日)
著者: HarryBlank HarryBlank
作成日(EN): 2021年03月23日
SCP-5238 - The Ship of Dreams
SCP-5238 - 夢を乗せた船
Tags: _cc _licensebox _marine alive aquatic concept doctor-blank document esoteric-class giftschreiber historical humanoid jam-con2021 loop narrative on-guard-43 sapient scp vehicle
タグ: en _海 生命 水中 概念 ブランク博士 文書 esoteric-class ギフトシュライバー 歴史 人間型 jam-con2021 ループ 語り on-guard-43 知性 scp 乗り物
備考: 訳が不安な部分およびしっくり来ていない部分は緑色で表示しています。
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[フレーム]
Agent Farrow repositioning RMS Gigantic for its sinking in 1996./1996年、RMS ジャイガンティックの沈没地点へ同船を牽引するエージェント・ファロー。(代替画像が見つかりそうにないため削除予定)
Special Containment Procedures: The wreck of SCP-5238-A is to be declared off-limits under the cover story of private ownership. Periodic dives by Foundation personnel are to be made to maintain this cover.
特別収容プロトコル: 海底のSCP-5238-Aにはカバーストーリー"個人所有"の下で立ち入り禁止が宣言されます。このカバーストーリーを維持するため、財団職員による定期的な潜水が行われます。
SCP-5238-B are to be kept cryogenically frozen in Low-Priority Humanoid Containment Facility 3 at Site-43. They are only to be awoken if modification of SCP-5238-E is required beyond what can be effected through editing Wikipedia or other databases.
SCP-5238-Bはサイト-43の第3低重要度ヒト型実体収容施設内で冷凍保存されます。彼らの覚醒は、Wikipedia等のデータベースの編集で可能な範囲を超えたSCP-5238-Eの改変が必要となった場合のみ許可されます。
SCP-5238-D is to be kept in a sealed container within Anomalous Documents Repository 1 at Site-43.
SCP-5238-Dはサイト-43の第1異常文書保管庫内の密封容器に保管されます。
Description: SCP-5238 is an anomaly complex surrounding the concept and physical form of RMS Gigantic, an ocean liner built for the White Star Line in Belfast, Ireland between 1911 and 1914. The ship (SCP-5238-A) and its occupants (SCP-5238-B) were locked in a flexible annual time loop between 21 November 1916 and 21 November 1996, at which point the anomaly's component elements were separated and became dormant. Gigantic is presently a wreck located one hundred and twenty-two metres below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, known to the public as HMHS Britannic.
説明: SCP-5238は1911年から1914年にかけて、海運会社ホワイト・スター・ラインへの供用目的でアイルランド(当時)・ベルファストにて建造された遠洋定期船、RMS ジャイガンティック(RMS Gigantic)の概念的・物理的存在を取り巻く複合的異常です。ジャイガンティック号(SCP-5238-A)およびその乗員(SCP-5238-B)は1916年11月21日から1996年11月21日までの80年間にわたって、柔軟性の高い1年周期のタイムループに囚われていました — 1996年11月21日、アノマリーの構成要素が分離されたことでこのループは不活性化しました。ジャイガンティック号は現在地中海中の水深122m地点に沈没しており、一般にはHMHS ブリタニック(HMHS Britannic)の名で知られています。
SCP-5238-B is five hundred and thirty-seven human beings from the late Edwardian era.
SCP-5238-Bはエドワード朝後期のイギリスを出自とする537名の人間です。
SCP-5238-C is Futility, and SCP-5238-D is Hubris, a pair of novels by American author Morgan Robertson published in 1898 and 1902 respectively. A limited print run of the former was produced; only one copy of the latter is known to exist.
SCP-5238-C『愚行(Futility)』およびSCP-5238-D『驕慢(Hubris)』は、アメリカ人作家モーガン・ロバートソンが著し、それぞれ1898年と1902年に出版された1対の小説です。前者はごく限られた部数のみが発行されており、後者については存在が知られているのは1部のみです。
SCP-5238-E is the narrative surrounding Gigantic in the collective imaginary of mankind.
SCP-5238-Eは人類の集合的夢想空間内においてジャイガンティック号を取り巻く物語ナラティブです。
Addendum 5238-1, Phenomenological Overview: Morgan Robertson, member of the secretive Rosicrucian Order of occultists, published the novel Futility after an extensive period of experimenting with anomalous literature. It sold modestly, a curiosity outside of shipbuilding circles. It concerns the maiden voyage of a vast ocean liner called the Titan, which strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean in April and sinks with tremendous loss of life due to its inadequate provision of lifeboats.
補遺5238-1, 現象学的概観: オカルト秘密結社・薔薇十字団の団員であったモーガン・ロバートソンは、異常文学を対象とした長期間の実験の後に小説『愚行』を発表しました。同作は造船業界外において珍重され、中程度の売れ行きを記録しました。その内容は、「タイタン(Titan)」と呼称される巨大な遠洋定期船が4月の北大西洋での処女航海中に氷山に衝突して沈没し、救命ボートの備えが不十分だったことにより甚大な死者が生じる様子を描いたものでした。
The owner of the White Star Line of British shipping, Thomas Ismay, was particularly taken with the novel. Despite the obviously cautionary nature of the tale, he envisioned a series of ocean liners built to the rough specifications of the Titan, flaws inclusive. Though he died many years before construction began, his dream eventually resulted in the Olympic class of Royal Mail-carrying steamships, the most famous of which by far is RMS Titanic..The original liner in this class, RMS Olympic, was unaffected by the events described in this file.
イギリスの海運会社ホワイト・スター・ラインの経営者であったトーマス・イズメイは同作に大きく魅了されました。作品の内容が明らかに海難事故の危険に対する警告的な意味合いを含むものであったにもかかわらず、彼はタイタン号の仕様に欠陥まで含めて概ね沿った客船の系列を建造することを夢想していました。彼自身は建造が始まる数年前に死亡したものの、彼の夢は後にオリンピック級英国郵便汽船という形で実現されることとなりました — 同系列の中で群を抜いてよく知られているのは、その二番船、RMS タイタニック(RMS Titanic)です。.同系列の一番船であるRMS オリンピック(RMS Olympic)は本ファイルに記述されている事象群の影響を受けませんでした。
Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in almost precisely the manner Robertson imagined for the Titan, killing over fourteen hundred crew and passengers and shaking global faith in the products of British industrial engineering. Morgan Robertson was hailed as a clairvoyant, and his novel enjoyed a brief surge of popularity. He had never chosen to publish its sequel, Hubris, but instead mailed his only copy to Thomas Ismay's son J. Bruce Ismay on its completion.
1912年4月15日、タイタニック号はロバートソンが構想したタイタン号の遭難とほぼ正確に一致する様式で沈没しました。犠牲者は乗員乗客合わせて1,400人を超え、イギリスの工業製品に寄せられてきた世界的な信頼を揺るがす事態となりました。モーガン・ロバートソンは予言者として持て囃され、彼の小説は短期間人気を博することとなりました。彼は生涯にわたって続編である『驕慢』を発表することはなく、その完成時に唯一の版をトーマス・イズメイの息子であるJ. ロバート・イズメイに郵送しました。
Hubris details the sinking of the Giant, sister ship to the Titan, during a war between Great Britain and France. It is carrying troops to the continent when it strikes a hidden reef in the English Channel and sinks with all hands. Ismay's reaction to Robertson's gift is unknown; what is known is that he was responsible for overseeing the completion of his father's fleet of ocean liners, the third of which he named RMS Gigantic. It, too, would sink in almost precisely the same manner as its fictional counterpart on 21 November 1916.
『驕慢』は英国とフランスの間で勃発した戦争の最中に発生した、タイタン号の姉妹船「ジャイアント(Giant)」の沈没を描いた作品です。ジャイアント号は大陸側への兵員の輸送の最中にイギリス海峡で暗礁に衝突し、全乗員と共に沈没します。ロバートソンから郵送された同作を読んだイズメイの反応は不明です。判明しているのは、彼が父親の思い描いた客船の完成を監督する責任者の立場にあったことと、その三番船にRMS ジャイガンティックと命名したことです。同船もタイタニック号と同じく、1916年11月21日に小説内での対応する船とほぼ正確に一致する様式で沈没することとなります。
Postcard featuring RMS Gigantic, now held by Archives and Revision at Site-43./RMS ジャイガンティックを描いた絵葉書。現在はサイト-43の記録・改訂セクションが保有している。
Futility continues for half its length past the sinking of the Titan, describing the misadventures of one of the disaster's survivors. Hubris also continues past the sinking of the Giant, but for entirely different reasons. The crew and soldiers on board the ship refuse to believe that it can sink, as seen in the passage excerpted below.
『愚行』の後半部分はタイタン号の沈没後を描いており、その中では事故の生存者の1人に降り掛かる災難が語られます。『驕慢』もやはりジャイアント号の沈没以降も話が続きますが、その理由は全く異なります。船に搭乗している乗員や兵士は、以下の抜粋に見られるように、船が沈むかもしれないと考えることを拒みます。
Sergeant Blythe and Captain Hollander were apoplectic with rage. "Do you mean to tell me," Blythe roared, in fine bulldoggish form, "that a ship of Her Majesty's Royal Navy can be unmade by something so insignificant as a common scrap of coral? P'shaw!"
"Never heard such rot," Hollander bellowed. "Madness through and through. Is it said that the waves rule Britannia? Have I misheard, all my long years? I rather thought not."
"Ships don't sink in the Royal Navy," Blythe agreed. "It simply isn't done."
"But we are sinking," seaman Grove protested. He pointed to the water splashing up against their knees. "There is the water. It is inside the ship."
"Then it had better listen here," cried Hollander, and he affected a stern pose. "I am captain of this vessel, and every drip and drop falls by my beck and call. If I say that the Giant must float, by Jove, I'll brook no dissent from some… some… well, some bloody brook!"
"It is not some bloody brook," Grove muttered. "It is the English Channel, and there is rather a lot of it."
"So help me I'll lash you, if you quote facts again," Hollander growled. He looked to mean it.
ブライス軍曹とホランダー大佐は怒りに顔を赤く染めていた。「つまりお前はこう言いたいわけか」ブライスが暴れ回るブルドッグのような剣幕でがなり立てた。「この名誉ある英国海軍の船がただのサンゴごときに沈められるだと?バカ言ってんじゃねえや!」
「そんな馬鹿げた話は聞いたこともないな」ホランダーも怒鳴った。「何から何まで正気の沙汰じゃない。あの曲の歌詞は「大海原がブリタニアを統べる(the waves rule Britannia)」だったか.イギリスの愛国歌『ルール・ブリタニア』の歌詞「ブリタニアよ、大海原を統治せよ##grey|(Britannia, rule the waves)」を下敷きにした表現。イギリスの象徴である女神ブリタニアが海を支配することに言及したこの箇所は、20世紀前半にはイギリス海軍の世界進出を象徴するフレーズとして知られていた。?今まで私がずっと聞き間違えていたとでも言うつもりなのか?私にはそうは思えんがね。」
「英国海軍の船は沈まねえ」ブライスが頷く。「そんなこたぁありえねえんだよ。」
「ですが、実際沈んでるんです」グローブ船員が反論した。彼は自分たちの膝に跳ねかかる水を指差して言った。「水が飛んでるでしょう。船の中まで入ってきてるんですよ。」
「ならば、私がこれから言うことをよく聞きたまえ」ホランダーが叫び、威厳たっぷりにポーズを取った。「私はこの船の船長であり、滴る水のすべては私の指揮の下にある。ジャイアント号は沈まないと私が言えば、神に誓って、誰の反対も許さないbrook no dissent — 相手が、そう...ううむ...そう、どんな血みどろの小川brookであろうとも!」
「相手は血みどろの小川なんて可愛いものじゃないんですよ」グローブが呟いた。「ここはイギリス海峡です。小川をいくらかき集めたところで敵わないようなところなんですから。」
「それなら、もう何も言わないでくれるかね。もしも君がまた事実を引き合いに出したら、私は君を殴ってしまいそうだ」ホランダーが怒りを込めた声で告げた。冗談を言っているようには見えなかった。
The dogged determination of the ship's occupants, save for seaman Grove, is undiminished while the ship slips beneath the waves. Each crewman and soldier stands their post or goes about their business, remaining stoic, unconcerned, and even disinterested in the progress of the rising waters. In the end Grove panics and attempts to untie the lifeboats on the completely swamped boat deck, and Hollander shoots him for a mutineer. This act of ultimate confidence in the majesty of the British Empire and its marine superiority so shames "the very face of Almighty God" that the Giant only briefly passes beneath the surface of the English Channel before rising again, suffering only the loss of a single funnel.
グローブ船員を除いた乗員の頑迷な意志は、船が波間に沈みつつある間も衰えません。各乗員・兵士は、不安を抱いていない様子で、平然と、上昇する水位に関心を持つことすらなく、自身の持ち場に着くかあるいは普段通りの業務を継続します。最終的にグローブはパニックに陥り完全に水没したボートデッキから救命ボートを取り外そうとしますが、ホランダーはこれを反逆行為であるとして彼を射殺します。イギリス帝国の威光と海洋での覇権に対する全幅の信頼を反映したこの行為は、「全能の神」にすら自身を恥じさせることとなりました — ジャイアント号はほんの一瞬イギリス海峡の海中に沈んだ直後に再浮上し、生じた損害は煙突を1本失ったのみでした。
The remaining chapters describe the laborious process of removing thousands of tons of water from the ship's interior, the desultory burial at sea of seaman Grove, and arrival at the port of London. In the final chapter, shortly after mooring, the Giant disappears with all hands. This occasions much consternation on shore, but in the general chaos of the continental war it is almost immediately forgotten. The novel's opening lines reappear as its final lines, ending with an ellipsis, seeming to suggest that its events are doomed to repeat.
以降の章では、船内に溜まった数千トンの水を汲み出す作業に掛けられる労力、これといった理由のないグローブ船員の水葬、そしてロンドン港への入港が描写されます。最終章にて、港への係留の直後、ジャイアント号は全乗員と共に消失します。岸辺の人々はこれを受けてひどく驚愕しますが、大陸での戦争に伴い広がった混乱により事件は間もなく忘れ去られます。物語の末尾には冒頭と同一の文が使用されており、その最後は省略符号(...)で終わっています。これは作中の出来事は繰り返すことが運命づけられているということを示唆するものであると思われます。
When Gigantic sank in 1916, much the same series of events unfolded. Telegraph messages received from the ship suggested a state of mania on board, with references to a war against the French (then England's allies in the First World War) and one junior officer suffering from particularly low morale. The ship's sinking, and subsequent resurfacing, was also laconically reported by its telegraph officer. It arrived at London precisely on schedule, sans funnel, then disappeared with all hands.
1916年にジャイガンティック号が沈没した際、これらの描写と概ね一致する事象群が発生しました。船から発信された無線通信は船内が熱狂状態に陥っていることを示すものであり、その中には(第一次世界大戦中の当時イギリスと同盟関係にあった)フランスとの戦争、およびとりわけ士気の低い尉官1名に対する言及が含まれていました。また、船の沈没及びその後の再浮上についても通信士は簡潔ながら報告していました。船は煙突1本を喪失した状態で正確に予定通りにロンドンに到着し、その後全乗員と共に消失しました。
This event did not result in the widespread panic which might have been expected, nor did the events of the following year when Gigantic again appeared in the English Channel and steamed for London. A precursor entity to the SCP Foundation hurriedly closed Gigantic's designated dock and effected a city-wide blackout to prevent the public from recognizing the lost ship.
この事象は予想されていた大規模な混乱を引き起こしませんでした。これは翌年にジャイガンティック号がイギリス海峡に再出現し、再びロンドンに向かった際も同様でした。当時のSCP財団前身団体は急遽ジャイガンティック号に指定されたドックを閉鎖し、民間人が沈没したはずの船を認識することを防ぐため都市全域に停電を発生させました。
Over the course of the next eight years, various attempts were made to access Gigantic and interact with its crew. These included:
これ以降の8年間にわたり、ジャイガンティック号に乗船し乗員と接触するために様々な試みが行われました。これらは以下を含みます。
- Four attempts to board Gigantic using covert Foundation watercraft in 1919, which in each case ended with the ship's captain screaming "You damn sordid Frenchmen!" and a naval lieutenant ordering the soldiers on deck to open fire;
- Three attempts between 1923 and 1925 to contact Gigantic's telegraph operator, resulting in the following response: "Our captain regrets to inform you that you are damn sordid Frenchmen and he does not converse with said, out of habit";
- One attempt to waylay Gigantic with a Foundation corvette in 1935; Gigantic effortlessly evaded pursuit, and the corvette received the following taunt via telegraph: "The pride of the White Star Line, winner of the Blue Riband, is not to be outdone by some sordid Frenchman in so sorry a tub as that!".The Blue Riband was an award given to the ship achieving the fastest time crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
- One attempt to sink Gigantic before it reached port in 1971, which resulted in the inexplicable translocation of a Foundation submarine to the Arctic Ocean.
- 1919年に4度行われた、隠密行動中の財団船舶からジャイガンティック号に乗り込もうとする試み。いずれもジャイガンティック号の船長が「汚いフラ公どもめ!」と叫び、1人の海尉が甲板の兵士に射撃命令を下したことで終了した。
- 1923年から1925年にかけて3度行われた、ジャイガンティック号の通信士と通信する試み。次のような応答が行われた。「モウシワケゴザイマセンガ センチョウハ キタナイ フラコウト ハナス シュミナド ナイ ト モウシテオリマス」
- 1935年に1度行われた、財団のコルベットでジャイガンティック号を待ち伏せする試み。ジャイガンティック号は難なく追跡を撒き、コルベットは電信で次の罵言を受け取った。「ソンナ ミジメナ タライブネノ キタナイ フラコウニ ブルーリボンショウ ジュショウシャ ホワイト・スター・ラインノ ホコリハ ケガサレマセヌ」.ブルーリボン賞は大西洋を最速で横断した船舶に授与される賞です。
- 1971年に1度行われた、ジャイガンティック号が港に到着するまでに船を撃沈しようとする試み。結果として、財団の潜水艦は不可解にも北極海に転送された。
The only successful attempt to board Gigantic occurred in 1982. Agent Jeremy Farrow, dressed in period attire as a British airman, was dropped onto the ship by parachute from a high-flying stealth aircraft. He claimed to have been shot down over the English Channel; in spite of the absence of any wreckage, this story was accepted by the crew. The following series of excerpts from his mission recordings take place in the hours after the ship began to sink.
ジャイガンティック号に乗り込む試みの中で唯一成功したのは、1982年に行われたものです。第一次大戦当時の英国空軍兵の服装を纏ったエージェント ジェレミー・ファローが、高高度を飛行するステルス機からパラシュートによる降下を行いました。彼は船員に対し、自身の機がイギリス海峡上空で撃墜されたのだと述べました。戦闘機の残骸が存在しないにもかかわらず、この主張は船員に受け入れられました。以下の抜粋は、船が沈み始めて以降の数時間の彼の任務記録から取得されたものです。
Stephen Hall, captain of RMS Gigantic, photographed in early 1915./RMS ジャイガンティック船長、スティーヴン・ホール。1915年初頭に撮影。
Agent Farrow is engaged in conversation with Captain Stephen Hall, on Gigantic's bridge. They are ankle-deep in water.
Captain Hall: How goes the battle, son?
Agent Farrow: Oh, you know. You win some, you lose some.
Captain Hall: You talk more like a stoker than a flier.
Agent Farrow: Well, uh, I worked in a munitions plant before I joined the service. Say, speaking of battles… where did all this water come from?
Captain Hall: Where does it usually come from? Below, just as surely as you came from above.
Agent Farrow: Yes, well, but how is the ship still afloat? The entire boat deck is swamped.
Captain Hall: Good old British wish-how, my boy.
Agent Farrow: …wish-how?
Captain Hall: That's right.
Agent Farrow: Any relation to know-how?
Captain Hall: Of course! Wish-how is know-how you need to believe in. On this ship we wish that the sordid French will fall, that God will save our gracious King, and that the pumps will keep a-pumping until even the Irish regiment in steerage can lay on their bunks without a-drowning.."Steerage" denotes the third-class staterooms, located near the ship's steering mechanisms.
エージェント・ファローはジャイガンティック号の船橋で船長のスティーヴン・ホール大佐と会話している。水位は両者の足首の高さまで上昇している。
ホール大佐: そちらの戦況はどうかね、飛行士君。
エージェント・ファロー: ご存知でしょう、大佐。勝つこともあれば、負けることもあります。
ホール大佐: それにしても、君の話し方は飛行士というより火夫のようだな。
エージェント・ファロー: はっ、その、入隊前は弾薬工場で働いておりまして。ところで、現況といえば...この水は一体どこから来ているのですか?
ホール大佐: 水は普通どこから来ると思う?下だよ、君が降りてきたのが上からなのと同じくらい当たり前のことじゃないか。
エージェント・ファロー: それはそうですが、しかし、なぜまだこの船は浮かんでいるのですか?端艇甲板まで完全に水に吞み込まれているというのに。
ホール大佐: 古き良きイギリスのウィッシュ・ハウ(wish-how)だよ、操縦士君。
エージェント・ファロー: ...ウィッシュ・ハウ、ですか?
ホール大佐: その通り。
エージェント・ファロー: それは、ノウ・ハウと何か関係があるものですか?
ホール大佐: 勿論!ウィッシュ・ハウは君が強く信じる必要のあるノウ・ハウだ。この船の上で我々は、いつか汚いフラ公どもが敗れるように、神が我らの慈悲深き国王陛下を救い給うように、舵部屋のアイルランド連隊の連中も溺れずに寝台で寝られるようになるまでポンプが汲み取りを続けてくれるようにと、願い続けているのだよ。.「舵部屋(steerage)」はこの場合、船の操舵装置付近に設けられていた三等船室を指します。
Agent Farrow is conversing with the ship's chief engineer, Wilbur Boyd. The water is up to their necks, and moving very quickly; the ship's massive reciprocating engines are churning in the background. It is unclear how the boilers are continuing to burn while completely submerged.
Agent Farrow: Are you sure this is safe?
Boyd: Safe?
Boyd laughs for two minutes and seventeen seconds, pausing only to take deep breaths and stick his head underwater to check the engines.
エージェント・ファローは船の機関長であるウィルバー・ボイドと会話している。水面は2人の首の高さにあり、非常に速く動いている。背後では船の巨大なレシプロエンジン群が揺動している。ボイラーが完全に水没しているにもかかわらず燃焼が継続している原理は不明である。
エージェント・ファロー: これ、本当に大丈夫なんですよね?
ボイド: 大丈夫か、だってぇ?
ボイドは2分17秒間笑い続ける。彼が笑うのを止めるのは、深呼吸をしてエンジンを調べるために水中に顔を沈めるときのみである。
Agent Farrow is standing in the mess hall, formerly the second-class dining room. A regiment of soldiers in Great War uniforms are eating at the tables; the water is up to their chests. The ship is listing to starboard, and several empty tables are partially submerged.
Agent Farrow: This isn't alarming anyone else?
First Soldier: Well, look who misses mummy.
Agent Farrow: The room is filling with water literally as we speak.
Second Soldier: Gonna claim trenchfoot?
First Soldier: That's the ticket, home on blighty.."Blighty" is a period slang term referring to a wound serious enough to end a soldier's active duty.
Second Soldier: Damned coward.
Agent Farrow: You're going to be underwater by dessert!
First Soldier: Then we'll eat our pudding with our mouths closed and chins up, like men!
エージェント・ファローは元は二等船室の客の食堂であった兵士食堂に立っている。第一次大戦期の軍服を着用した兵士の連隊がテーブルに着いて食事を取っている。水面は彼らの胸の高さにある。船は右舷に傾いており、複数の無人のテーブルが部分的に水没している。
Agent Farrow dove overboard just before Gigantic sank completely. He reported witnessing Captain Hall strangling a junior officer (who was waving his arms in protest) shortly before the ship vanished. Three minutes later it rose again from the bed of the Channel, minus one funnel. Agent Farrow was recovered without incident.
Addendum 5238-2, Containment: In 1995, Site-43 recovered the only existing copy of the heretofore-unsuspected sequel to Futility, Hubris. The parallels between the fates of the Giant and Gigantic were quickly identified, and Dr. Harold Blank began researching Robertson's career in occult literature. This produced a tome written under a pseudonym, Mason Freeman's The Book of the Turning Falcon, excerpted below.
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Dr. Blank concluded that Robertson's novels may have actuated the construction of Titanic and Gigantic by tapping into the human collective unconscious, spurring the Ismays and the crews of each ship to play their specific parts. Both vessels were effectively thoughtforms, real-world manifestations of the public imaginary, in a pair of curated effects designed to bring about epochal change by undermining the optimism of the Edwardian era.
Robertson's prose suggested that these thoughtforms might remain malleable after their creation. To this end Dr. Blank proposed Operation TURNBACK on 26 October 1996; management of the SCP-5238-E effect was by now so difficult with modern shipping and surveillance conditions that the anomaly was in serious danger of raising the Veil.
Operation TURNBACK unfolded in four phases:
1) The creation of an alternate history for the third Olympic-class steamer by the Archives and Revision Section of Site-43, to separate its narrative component from its physical anchor. The ship was to be renamed HMHS Britannic, made a hospital ship rather than a troop carrier, be sunk after striking a German mine rather than a reef, come to rest at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea rather than the English Channel, and result in the deaths of thirty men rather than over five hundred;
2) The amendment of encyclopaedia and other knowledge bases to reflect this alternate history, with the selective amnesticization and re-education of topical experts to support it;
3) The removal of the ship's company from Gigantic;
4) The relocation and scuttling of the ship itself.
The revised identity of RMS Gigantic, His Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic.
Thirty individuals had been cut to pieces in mid-November 1915 when a lifeboat was sucked into the rotating screws of a smaller passenger liner during a drill. These deaths, as yet unreported due to wartime delays, were co-opted for the new tragedy of Britannic.
The third phase was more difficult to arrange; a partial record of the complex pantomime which successfully depopulated Gigantic follows.
Foundation agents in period attire from the French and English navies are arrayed on the deck of a replica French battleship sitting directly in the path of Gigantic. The agents in English attire are outnumbered by the agents in French attire, but are nevertheless holding the latter at bayonet-point. The ocean liner gradually slows, and comes alongside the battleship with some difficulty. Captain Hall is visible on the wing of Gigantic's bridge; he waves his hat.
Captain Hall: What ho!
Agent Farrow: Ahoy! Captain Jeremy Farrow, pleased as punch to meet you. Thank god you're here!
Captain Hall: Watch your mouth, son, he's always watching.
Agent Farrow: Ah… yes. Anyway! These poxy Frenchmen sent our ship to the bottom of the Channel, but we got them, by Jove!
Captain Hall scans the waters.
Captain Hall: Don't see any wreckage, son, but then I suppose the damn thing did swallow up a plane not long ago.
Agent Farrow: Wait, you remember that?
Captain Hall: Pardon?
Agent Farrow: Nothing! Nothing.
Lieutenant Nathan Foxworthy, commander of the soldiers on board Gigantic, appears at the railing. Agent Farrow salutes.
Agent Farrow: Lieutenant! My men and I are outnumbered down here. These scurvy dogs didn't put up—
Lieutenant Foxworthy: These scurvy what?
Agent Farrow: —didn't put up much of a fight, of course, you know how it is, ah… Frenchmen…
Captain Hall: Of course.
Lieutenant Foxworthy: Of course.
Both men nod.
Agent Farrow: …but we still need help manning the ship.
Lieutenant Foxworthy: King and country, son, I'll send a few of our boys down.
Agent Farrow: I'm afraid that won't quite do it. You see, this old tub's in rather a bad way. French mechanics, you understand.
Lieutenant Foxworthy: Of course.
Captain Hall: Of course.
Agent Farrow: My men and I need to get to London, posthaste. We're on an important mission, and we're going to need your ship.
Silence on recording.
Agent Farrow: The whole thing.
Silence on recording.
Captain Hall: Do you have papers?
Agent Farrow: Of course I have papers.
Silence on recording.
Agent Farrow: It's for the King?
Captain Hall: Well, then, I hope you know how to steer fifty thousand tons of Liverpool steel!
Gigantic's crew and troop complement, five hundred and thirty-seven individuals in total, debarked onto the battleship and were taken to Site-91 for processing and cryogenic freezing. The ship was towed to the Mediterranean Sea, under the cover of a film dramatization of the sinking of Titanic, and treated to simulate eight decades of immersion in salt water. After the application of period explosives to confirm the mine damage cover story, Gigantic was carefully positioned by divers and sunk..Though Gigantic's water displacement had not changed, it now appeared to weigh roughly as much as a small sailboat after the neutralization of its crew and passengers.
Robertson's version of the ship's history, the true course of events, quickly faded from popular knowledge. Without the sustaining influence of the ship's company's belief in the events of the time loop, the loop itself weakened and finally collapsed. Gigantic's wreck briefly translocated to the mouth of the English Channel in 1997, and an incorporeal phantom appeared there instead in 1998; neither ship moved. In 1999, and every year since, no apparition event occurred at all.
The spiritus mundi component of SCP-5238-E, the persistence of Robertson's original narrative in the collective unconscious, was permanently co-opted by the Foundation following the creation of Wikipedia in 2001. Dr. Blank personally wrote the entry for HMHS Britannic, and the "EVENT" caused by Hubris completely vanished from the noosphere within the space of one year. Britannic remains on the bottom of the Mediterranean, never to complete its voyage, and its passengers and crew will never again reach London.
Addendum 5238-3, Update: A piece of fragmentary correspondence matching Morgan Robertson's handwriting was found during a raid on an occult gathering in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States of America. It is reproduced in its entirety below.
Futility was for the cause. The wheel had to turn, and I turned it.
Hubris was for me. A monument to Pox Britannia.
When you hold their strings, it's so hard not to make the little idiots dance.
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