SCP-001 refers to a collection of powerful anomalies contained by the SCP Foundation, with one instance being "The Gate Guardian." This gigantic, humanoid entity stands over 1,000 feet tall, with wings and a flaming sword that can emit temperatures rivaling the sun's core. It guards a dimensional gateway believed to be the entrance to the Garden of Eden, surrounded by enormous fruit trees and other beings similar to itself.
The Gate Guardian is nearly invulnerable to attacks, can move at incredible speeds, and will vaporize anyone who breaches a 1-kilometer radius. It communicates with approaching individuals through telepathy, instructing them to "Leave" or "Forget." If obeyed, the person can depart unharmed, but ignoring the warning results in elimination from reality.
Despite its immense power, the Foundation has attempted to use the Gate Guardian to eliminate other SCPs, including the infamous SCP-682. However, these experiments have had varying results, and the O5 Council has since banned further tests.
A transmission from the future suggests that the Gate Guardian may play a role in an impending apocalypse, where it will open the gate to allow angelic armies to cleanse the Earth. The entity remains inactive for now, waiting at the threshold to Eden.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. SCP-001 is a collection of anomalies contained by the SCP Foundation.
2. One of the anomalies categorized as SCP-001 is the Scarlet King, a powerful eldritch being.
3. The Scarlet King is thought to be one of the most dangerous beings in the universe.
4. Another anomaly categorized as SCP-001 is the Gate Guardian, a humanoid entity standing over 1,000 feet tall.
5. The Gate Guardian has wings that protrude from its back, with a varying number of wings between 2 and 108.
6. The Gate Guardian carries a weapon referred to as SCP-001-2, an enormous knife or sword that can emit plumes of flame.
7. The temperature of the flames produced by SCP-001-2 rivals that of the sun.
8. The Gate Guardian is impossible to be fully contained by any means that the Foundation possesses.
9. The Gate Guardian stands at the threshold of a dimensional gateway, behind which is a lush grove thought to be the Garden of Eden.
10. The grove contains fruit trees of an astronomical size and other beings that share a similar appearance to the Gate Guardian.
11. Two immense trees in the grove are believed to be the biblical Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life.
12. The Gate Guardian attacks anything that breaches a 1-kilometer radius around it, instantly vaporizing it.
13. The Gate Guardian can move with imperceptible speed and can annihilate anything that strays too close.
14. Ranged attacks against the Gate Guardian are ineffective, with all projectiles reduced to atoms before they can do any harm.
15. The Gate Guardian can vaporize both the projectile and the person who sent it, regardless of distance.
16. On December 26, 2004, an SCP Foundation nuclear submarine launched a series of multi-warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles at the Gate Guardian.
17. The retaliation from the Gate Guardian resulted in the deaths of approximately 35,000 innocent civilians and may have inadvertently caused the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
18. The SCP Foundation administered amnestics on a worldwide scale to erase any trace of the victims' families, friends, and related individuals.
19. The O5 council banned any further tests on SCP-001 that involved nuclear weapons.
20. The Gate Guardian has been known to communicate with humans through telepathic messages, instructing them to "Leave" or "Forget".
21. If a human complies with the instructions, they will be able to leave the area and forget every detail of the Gate Guardian's existence.
22. The Gate Guardian is thought to be the same as the archangel Uriel, who stands at the Gate of Eden with a fiery sword.
23. SCP-682, also known as the Hard-to-Destroy Reptile, is a creature that the Foundation has tried to use the Gate Guardian to eliminate.
24. SCP-682 is one of the few creatures the Foundation actively wants to terminate, due to its malicious contempt for human beings and all other forms of life.
25. SCP-682 can regenerate its entire form from as little as a single cell.
26. When SCP-682 was brought before the Gate Guardian, the Guardian attacked the vehicle carrying 682, seriously wounding but not killing it.
27. SCP-682 mentioned that the Gate Guardian is "not Uriel" but a "pretender".
28. The Gate Guardian's encounter with SCP-682 left the reptile wounded and the nearby research personnel permanently blinded.
29. The O5 Council demanded that no further experiments of any kind be conducted on SCP-001.
30. An erratic transmission was received from Site 0, detailing an XK-class end of the world scenario in which the Gate Guardian finally leaves its post.
31. The transmission was received from within the SCP Foundation but was not acknowledged by O5-14, and was dated several years in the future.