SCP-3241 │ The SS Sommerfeld by The Volgun - Reaction

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[@Prophetofthe8thLegion]

I have a distinct feeling this SCP is part of the Broken Masquerade continuity.

[@nicksfish3038]

I think your right.

[@Gfish17]

I'm curious how you come to that conclusion?

[@nicksfish3038]

@@Gfish17 a private company was making foundation equipment, an intern at said company knew about the foundation. The MTF agent talking about the ‘old days’ of D-class, and the fact that the omitted part of this scp has the CEO killed in secret while the publicly available bit has him ‘escape foundation custody’

[@Alzir-n9m]

Well...that's because it actually is.

[@Gfish17]

@@nicksfish3038 There are private companies who deal in anomalies products. Anderson Robotics, MC&D, are two examples I'm aware of. But that's hardly a Broken Masquerade.

[@redexe600]

The creation and development behind the manufacturing of Scranton Reality Anchors are always shrouded in mystery and secrecy. Some SCPs do talk about it but one belief that I love about them is in SCP 4231. Its a cruel necessary evil but in a way, it makes complete sense on how the anchors work and why some of them fail… You got a tiger sure but just because you hold the chain doesn’t mean it won’t try to bite you too…

[@Lawsonomy1]

15:57 "I love that jaws reference" One thing the SCP Foundation definitely gets right is the mobile taskforce names. They are all brilliant.

[@anthraxcrab2222]

Man ain’t seen this one before and I really like the idea of SRA is being balanced out by the fact that if you build more they all get less effective. Cool

[@faintduch6630]

Honestly I'd be terrified of a reality bending tool having a malfunction and bending reality in a way that gives it a will or the ability to act on its own and now you have a problem that's incomprehensibly worse

[@TheSonicBlurr]

In one SCP I read (I want to say it was SCP-1730, “What happened to Site-13”) the Scranton Reality Anchors were described as dangerous because for every one that failed you needed two more to patch up the damage the failure caused, or something like that. The SRA’s are powerful, but they are not permanent solutions to reality bending problems.

[@theconductor2969]

I think I remember hearing them say in SCP-3812 "A Voice Behind Me" the same thing but that they largely fixed the that problem when they discovered "Hume Levels" to measure reality. Before hume levels The Foundation didn't even know that they SRAs could be tuned to contain different reality benders more effectively or even how the SRAs worked.

[@avsbes98]

That's actually in this SCP, shortly before the 35 minute mark in this video

[@cropathfinder]

Yeah but again there is no hard canon in SCP. ITs all choose your own canon

[@TheGallantDrake]

This article has always given me vibes of the development history of the Mk. 14 Torpedo in the US Navy. It was a design that was notorious for running too deep and having a faulty magnetic detonator, yet the Bureau of Ordnance would consistently blame all faults on the sailors using them (failure to follow procedure, one might say) and refuse to admit that they had done little to no testing. In the middle of WW2. You can't make this stuff up.

[@howardhavardramberg333]

This one is fucking legendary. Still, imo, my all time favourite Volgun video where he flexes his voice acting capabilities is in his Tufto proposal for the Scarlet King.

[@deloreanrc]

Old Man, while this is an amazing video, you need to go look up the original article. Volgun missed the final entry. The one were it explains one of the 0-5 Council members took the SRA Director from Foundation Custody, put him in a D class Jumpsuit in a room with his latest model of SRA.....and SCP-106.

[@rykazasan]

Talk about just desserts!

[@theoneguyoverthere]

It’s an easy post-script to miss, I didn’t notice it my first time through the article. I get the feeling that that DeVorn never really “escaped.” They just staged it so that they could deal with him outside of the public view. Clearly, the Foundation hasn’t completely reformed its ways, even in the Broken Masquerade setting.

[@deloreanrc]

@@theoneguyoverthere They really haven't changed much. They eased up on certain Humanoid Anomalies to be sure but not much past that. Other organizations have fared better in the Broken Masquerade thats for sure. The GOC, the one who ironically broke the Masquerade, and the Chaos Insurgency I think are the ones hurting the most due to it however.

[@cyborgcatrj6794]

The Serpent’s Hand has gotten everything they ever wanted, and now a bunch of their members are working with the Foundation because the anomalous is mostly being treated more humanely. Mechanites, and even certain Sarkites, are capable of operating and recruiting in the open, though likely also spawning innumerable different sects in the process. I hope the protosarkites get the love they deserve in those timelines, gross as they are they deserve it.

[@toxicwindow]

SRA's for a long time (in lore) were funky af because they didn't know how to calibrate them to change reality to their benefit. This all changed when they began to use a unit of measurement called "Humes". It measures the level of reality and unreality in the area. Once they started using Humes, SRA's became extremely viable. To the point that Dr. Clef himself is a human SRA, he is unaffected by timelines resetting and indirect reality warping attacks.

[@scoutstrike4576]

All Guardsmen Party is one of the best Only War stories on YT.

[@chrisroberts7000]

One too many SRAs had a runtime error? Oops! Looks like red blood cells are carnivorous now and ionic bonding sometimes just isn't a thing. Good luck!

[@nicholaswalker757]

This is unrelated to the video, but I'm a coffee drinker and one thing I've started doing with my coffee that I really like is adding a teaspoon of butter to me coffee. Adds a nice little extra bit of flavor and texture to the coffee, especially since I (mostly) drink my coffee black or with a tiny bit of milk in it to sweeten it up if needed.

[@jbark678]

If the anomalous zone is 12 km and expanding 4 m per day, then it'll reach the 75km exclusion zone in ~43 years.

[@requiemlul3140]

Ah, the Incident Fringe.

[@marcelostalker]

I'm pretty sure there is a story that isn't about the SRAs, nor how they work (I mean, they are fictional after all), BUT it does tells you what their power source is, or at least a key component, I might be remembering a detail wrong. If you take in that SCP as canon then the good news is that your hypothesis here ain't the case, the bad news is [SPOILER REDACTED]. I'm sure someone else with a better memory can pinpoint you to what I'm talking about, I'm sure The Exploring Series did one or more videos on the subject, and they are great.

[@defies4626]

The SS Sommerfeld is (by most's interpretation) meant to be in the Broken Masquerade canon. And also astoundingly fucked up in multiple ways. There is also a postscript to this SCP. The Old Man gets a fren

[@cropathfinder]

not really, like most in SCP you can fit it in nearly any canon. ITs safe to say that any fan has their own

[@silvion90]

One of the great things about this one is that this entire thing is the Foundation’s fault. They created this problem when they put too much faith into the SRAs, and for whatever reason decided not to take all precautions necessary

[@TheGallantDrake]

Dunno if it's *all* the Foundation's fault. Yes, they are primarily at fault for relying on them so heavily, but DuVorne tried to hide the flaws in the design from the Foundation, so they weren't exactly armed with all the information.

[@Prophetofthe8thLegion]

I smell old mans Navy PTSD

[@gamrr_NERD]

Oto Island is also where Godzilla is from! 😃.

[@Gloop_Anderson]

The one thing this one is missing is what happens to davorne

[@liammurphy2036]

And now you know why I don't like reality anchors.

[@thesarcasticliberal]

Sure, the SRAs are completely safe--just ask Scranton himself...who you can find in the Red Reality, constantly melting but never dying.

[@Bob-lr2xp]

Having been an Operator Qualifications Evaluator for over 3 years, I can tell you in real life the likelihood of Foundation personnel improperly utilizing the SRAs was just as high, if not higher. Scranton's request to have his technicians train Foundation employees was an extremely reasonable request. Having third parties train and qualify employees to operate select equipment, and requalifying them after a certain number of years, is how things are done in the real world.

[@Icyangel10]

For some reason I thought this was another SCP(SCP-455 cargo ship) before watching this cause I forgot what the SCP was called.(If you ever get the chance watch Eastside Show SCP's video, I don't think Volgun made a video yet) Nothing like a bunch of people not following directions leading to people pulling their hair over issues

[@mtfalpha-1overseerfarmer]

they do all draw from one alternat reality in canon

[@mimkanal2137]

So much added value

[@convolutedclarity]

This action is not supported by the codex asta- necronomic- i mean SRA manual.

[@travisjz05]

A refurbished bit about a refurbished ship 😂

[@cyborgcatrj6794]

This really all just sounds like if automotive manufacturers were in charge of nuclear power plants. Just from the stories about Mechanic work one of my professors told, it’s all just engineers with no experience in the practical application of their technology in an echo chamber with stupid business executives.

[@Inqusitor_VDM]

I JUST NOTICED, IT HAD 6 SRAs!!! DAMMIT NUBBY!!!

[@TheSimmr001]

So, are the SRAs failing because of them being less effective the more they are active? or is it the more banal horror of cost saving measures and rushed development of the SRA company?

[@aidanmcarthur8495]

As I understand it, they slowly weaken reality as they are used, and weaken each other when they are built? The banal horror is probably that the company hid this discovery, and then the reason they had to learn to make them better and cheaper was to hide that fact of how they work.

[@minhducnguyen9276]

Because the SRA themselves are also reality benders. They just bend reality back to it's previous state. Which means if you don't shut down the reality benders and rely on the SRA, you are practically having two reality benders fighting for the control of the same region of space. I guess too much reality bending in one place with distort space time in that place.

[@Birb_of_Judge]

I'd say "The Areals" is even better than this one

[@mwcjr83]

the exploring series has more detailed version

[@josephschultz3301]

Nobody asked, Timmy.

[@Matutemorales123]

This one is a great lore video