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Title: SCP-3800-JP - Inescapable Karma
Author: stengan774 stengan774
Year: 2023
Illustration of the "Six Paths of Reincarnation" in Tibetan Buddhism.
Special Containment Procedures: Knowledge and technologies related to SCP-3800-JP are to be reserved only for the personnel working on its operational projects. Eligible candidates for SCP-3800-JP are to be selected by the O5 Council; one D-class personnel with a rating of B+ or higher on a regular medical examination is to be constantly assigned for each eligible Foundation personnel. Following the application of SCP-3800-JP, a Foundation internal cover story is to be circulated that their altered appearance is the result of accidental exposure to an anomaly.
Dr. Sigiswald Roland Nohl, the lead researcher on the SCP-3800-JP project, is guaranteed his position indefinitely for as long as the project is directed to continue.
Description: SCP-3800-JP is a paranormal process for reemploying the psyche of deceased Foundation personnel back to the Foundation, established through a combination of thaumaturgy and Erikeshan conceptual engineering based on the idea of samsara.
In the Buddhist and Hindu beliefs of samsara — the cycle of life, death, and rebirth — it is believed that all creatures, including human beings, repeat to be reborn as a new form of life after death, and that the details of a new lifetime experienced by an immortal spirit are influenced by the results of karma, the various actions accumulated in their previous lifetime.
Grounded in this system of reincarnation, the basic theory of SCP-3800-JP is to define the duties assigned to Foundation personnel as karma, thereby creating a correspondence between the two. By preconstructing a conceptual bridge between the psyche of an individual personnel and a particular Foundation task, it becomes possible to transfer the consciousness of the deceased subject into the body of a new personnel assigned to such task when the subject dies due to unforeseen factors.
Specifically, over a period of approximately two weeks, the newly assigned personnel gradually develop psychological characteristics that closely resemble those of the deceased personnel. This begins with involuntary recollections of memories they never experienced, similar to déjà vu, while at the same time the targeted personnel's memories and personality are progressively forgotten through frequent amnesia, eventually replacing their psyche with a complete iteration of the deceased personnel.
The subject of the SCP-3800-JP process retains nearly complete memories, abilities, and personality up to the moment of death, and is aware of the fact that their consciousness was transferred to their current physical body after death. Although the subject's memory of the period between death and resurrection is vague, all accounts are consistent in that they were pulled by what seems to be a cord to reach their new bodies.
The SCP-3800-JP process can be considered an effective resuscitation of deceased personnel. Given its usefulness in reducing the loss of staff due to sudden containment breaches and assaults on Foundation facilities, as well as in preventing information leakage through interference with the postmortem consciousness and hostile reanimation through necromancy, it has been designated as a Thaumiel class.
The application of the SCP-3800-JP process is currently prioritized for personnel working on classified operations with limited resources and those in critical positions that are deemed difficult to replace due to their unique skills and abilities significantly contributing to ongoing projects.
Addendum
I. History: Origin
The Foundation expects its employees to be highly competent researchers and to have in-depth knowledge of their fields of expertise. All those who work here have been selected and recognized as the most qualified to handle anomalous phenomena and to unravel their principles. Excellent personnel who cannot be easily disposed of… And yet, these irreplaceable human resources are in constant danger of death at the side of SCiPs which could get out of control at any moment.
This dilemma must be addressed.
- Sigiswald R. Nohl, from a research journal entry; May 8, 1968
Dr. Nohl, in 1965.
The initial concept of SCP-3800-JP was first drafted by Dr. Sigiswald Roland Nohl in 1965. Long involved in a project to apply and develop an aetheric wave based memory transfer technology through reverse engineering of several objects, including SCP-1716, Dr. Nohl had suggested several times to the Foundation Command that these technologies be adapted as a solution to the then already problematic high rate of in-service fatalities among Foundation personnel. However, these proposals were rejected on the grounds that additional personnel could be hired without the use of unreliable anomalies.
The turning point was the Silent Night Incident of 1976. Intermittent and localized containment breaches of several SCP objects in the Foundation North American Operational Region resulted in the deaths of numerous high clearance holders at Site-36 and the former Site-62, which halted two in-progress projects and severely delayed seven others.
At the time, the Foundation was suffering from a severe shortage of manpower for individual projects as the scale of organizational activities increased, which resulted in an unusual rise in the importance of the specific personnel leading these projects. In particular, the gaps in security clearance levels among personnel associated with confidential projects led by the O5 Council made it more difficult to replace these key figures.
In response to this situation, the O5 Council reconsidered Dr. Nohl's proposal and ordered him to initiate a project aimed at developing a method to prevent the loss of specific personnel due to their deaths.
II. History: Early Introduction
Damn, running this way was a mistake!
- Sigiswald R. Nohl, from an audio log shortly before his death due to a containment breach; July 12, 1981.
Dr. Nohl, in 1981.
Most traditional postmortem resurrection techniques require access to cadavers. Considering the circumstances in which cadavers cannot be retrieved due to fail-safe site destruction procedures or consumption by hostile entities, it was determined that these body-dependent methods were not in line with the project's objectives. Accordingly, Dr. Nohl incorporated Buddhist and Hindu ideas of spiritual reincarnation, which were already widely recognized at the time, into the development of SCP-3800-JP.
In 1981, after the application of conceptual engineering techniques salvaged from the ruins of the ancient Erikesh civilization had moved into the practical phase and the earliest model of SCP-3800-JP had been established, Dr. Nohl was killed at Site-19 when he was involved in an SCP-682 containment breach. All personnel deceased in this incident were recovered with nearly total body damage as a result of immersion in a puddle of highly acidic digestive juices discharged by SCP-682.
Upon receiving the report, the O5 Council became concerned about project delays and ordered the transfer of Dr. Nohl's consciousness via a conceptual bridge constructed between him and the SCP-3800-JP development project. Following the successful experiments with D-class personnel, this conceptual bridge had been established in advance, without Dr. Nohl's consent, in expectation of such an emergency situation.
Following the transfer of his consciousness, Dr. Nohl reported a physical sensory dissonance similar to phantom limb pain, but succeeded in inheriting the complete set of memories and abilities that he had just prior to his death, immediately instructing his staff to improve the SCP-3800-JP application model based on his own feedback. This case became the first SCP-3800-JP application for the Foundation personnel, and the improved application models have since been introduced in various sections of the Foundation.
III. History: Later Stage of Development
A cord is tied around my neck. Death has long been a means of escape, but it is no longer considered so in this place. The end of the cord is held tightly in O5's grasp. Death is just a passing point, and I continue to be dragged with suffocating force to the next corporeal form.
This cord must be severed.
- Sigiswald R. Nohl, from a note left on his desk; December 14, 2002.
In 2002, Dr. Nohl was confirmed dead for the 18th time. He committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope, presumably motivated by the fact that his request for retirement due to old age was not accepted by the O5 Council for two reasons: 1. Dr. Nohl's current physical age is 32 years and therefore he should have no problem performing his duties, and 2. the initial model of SCP-3800-JP has difficulty in disconnecting the conceptual bridge and therefore his dismissal would potentially have a negative impact on the underlying concept of the project.
Dr. Nohl, in 2002.
In response to Dr. Nohl's death, the project component personnel arranged for the normal implementation of the consciousness transfer procedure. However, there was no apparent sign of the SCP-3800-JP process emerging in the assigned D-class personnel. Investigation of this unusual situation revealed that a psycho-aetheric resonance consistent with that of Dr. Nohl was emanating from a house mouse (Mus musculus) kept for experimental purposes on his work site.
When security personnel captured and interrogated this mouse, which was attempting to escape from the site, it admitted to being Dr. Nohl via text communication. He confessed that he attempted to evade "illegal" employment imposed on him by the O5 Council, through a covertly devised ritualistic technique to interfere with the SCP-3800-JP process.
The discovery of this technique, devised by Dr. Nohl, has led to major breakthroughs in SCP-3800-JP related projects. This method is now considered as an extension of SCP-3800-JP consciousness transfer destination to non-human beings, allowing it to be applied to unique missions that are difficult to perform with human anatomy or to augment body structures; experiments are underway for further development.
In recognition of his discovery, Dr. Nohl was honored with a third Foundation Star. Based on the 12th Amendment to Section 38 of the Foundation's Internal Regulations, which Dr. Nohl accepted when he joined the Foundation, it is expected that this will allow the contractual employment relationship between the Foundation and Dr. Nohl to be legally and indefinitely extended, even in the event that he does not agree to renew his ten-yearly employment contract.