SCP-2467 │ A Sum Greater Than Its Parts │ Keter │ Mind Affecting/Meteorological SCP

[@mathieuleader8601]

A sum greater than its parts is a Warship of Theseus

[@EliSkylander]

This is my kind of comment.

[@thunderdrone9606]

I like how they took the question on 'whether a boat is still the same boat if every part of it is replaced' and made it into a threatening SCP

[@Tasarran]

There's also a 'Ship of Theseus" parasite SCP... So, twice!

[@CodeguruX]

The part I really don't get is how do you "integrate" torpedoes into a ship? They run out. Unless you're just going full-on "because", they also integrate weapons into the ship without even mentioning ammo or resupply. I suppose they could get an anomalous infinite refill once they've acquired a type of weapon, but their whole thing is salvaging other ships for crew and parts, constantly.

[@Red_MOON187]

Ship of Theseus.

[@DolusVulpes]

​​​​it's pretty easy for it to get new ammo when it needs it because any ship it'd need to use a large amount of ammo against is likely to also have a large amount of ammo on it. that being said, I think it might be okay to handwave the weaponry as anomalous consider it can also Frankenstein itself together from other ships, brainwash and eat anyone who comes into contact with it, can both control the weather and ignore any problems that weather should pose to it's movement, and can somehow travel by sea to an inland lake.

[@woo0018]

Thank you for covering my first ever SCP! I'm thrilled to bits!

[@addisonpage1]

👌🏻👌🏻

[@spookhyskeleton]

I love Silent Hill 2 as much as the next guy, but you really could've used some subtlety about it.

[@PP237PP]

have you written any popular SCPs?@@spookhyskeleton

[@justyce_yt]

Frankenstein's Boat

[@woo0018]

@@spookhyskeleton you say that but no one picked up on it until now, and I wrote it in 2016 haha

[@sythersight]

D-03 is a goddamn hero for having the forethought and pressence of mind to rescue a civilian out of the kindness of her heart even in the midst of a hellish situation and deserves a posthumous commendation

[@PokeBattlerJaze]

Shouts out to the D class saving that one Grendel crewmate

[@firstghost6]

Maybe, the foundation could lie on some reports about sending people back to their families. You've got amnestics, why not take a free D class? I wouldn't take a report at face value with an org as shady as this.

[@PokeBattlerJaze]

@@firstghost6fair

[@johnjohnjohnson7720]

@@firstghost6 But there's no good in thinking that. Even if true that only causes harm. So unless you can prove that to be true and stop it, that information is worthless and therefore doesn't need to be thought about.

[@someoneelse4811]

​​​@@firstghost6They used to slaughter D-Class at the beginning of each month for no reason and had no trouble documenting that. I don't see why they'd need to lie about returning a civilian to the populace.

[@cheshirecat1169]

​@@someoneelse4811 Specialy since we're supposed to have access to most of O5's informations. So even if the report was lying (which often happens) we would still have a follow-up note about the truth for any "Need-to-Know" people. Beside that, for what i remember it states that there no such things as a "free D class". D-Classes are exclusively criminals, most likely thoses waiting on death row. Since the SCP Foundation has roots in nearly every country, it will never runs out of prison inmates to transfert to its facilities. In addition to being rather discreet, it is also easier to persuade a D-class to go on that "weird looking boat" by luring them with a supposed "conversion of prison sentence" or " parole" in exchange. Whereas the average kidnapped person who probably have a wife, kids and a whole society waiting for him outside tend to be a lot less predictable

[@daniell1483]

That sounds pretty hellish. Being abducted, slowly converted to mental slavery, and the last time you will have independent thought is when you realize the ship is eating the crew, and you've possibly been cannibalizing your fellow victims, only to be promptly dissolved yourself!

[@Evelyn-pl3we]

Yup!!! Horrific

[@thelaughingrouge]

Damn that is horrifying.

[@giggabiite4417]

ahh, see I was thinking they were using the bodies to keep someone/thing alive (replacing organs like replacing parts for the ship)

[@BobOsso67]

Sounds like capitalistic communism to me. I'm ok with that.

[@noodles8638]

This is the exact format for a film I watched on T.V. around 10 years ago.

[@NoMoreCrumbs]

As for what happens with the liquids produced during catabolism, I would guess that they are used either as lubricant or fuel. Marine diesel is notoriously poorly refined. You could probably burn French fry oil in those engines, albeit with a much lower energy density

[@HouseSol.CassandrasComplex]

My thoughts exactly. Especially since fuel and lubricants didn't seem to be part of the salvage when this ship attacked. Which is fucking grotesque. The smell alone...

[@reedwojo7858]

They mentioned that they stole fuel from one of the ships, so I'm not so sure

[@Younce_Davies]

​@@reedwojo7858fuel is fuel. They may be opportunistic

[@sadenar2719]

Wouldn't entirely discount some of the liquefaction being used as drinking water.

[@SecondhandChucklehead]

​@@sadenar2719 Large ships use desalinators. The enslaved crew likely catch rainwater. The bodies are likely mixed into the fuel, which is how the ship creates storms. It releases the victims' agony...

[@adamcummings20]

I was about to commend your pronunciation of 'Derbyshire', then I realised you're not actually American, and just have an amazing talent for voices. Thank you for the videos, I listen to them every night to sleep

[@dfwTxRen3Gade]

He’s the most American-sounding Brit I’ve ever heard 😂

[@kyetes.866]

It’s very cool to go through his older videos chronologically and hear the evolution of his American accent. He’s perfected it.

[@SirCheezersIII]

​@@dfwTxRen3GadeUp there with Andrew Lincoln, aka "Ricky Dicky Doo Dah Grimes," the only thing giving it away is how he holds his Colt Python lmao.

[@justinsmith5870]

It's the little details.

[@Phoenix8492]

@@dfwTxRen3Gade he is the most Brit-sounding _Irishman_ 😅

[@cjboyo]

SCPs having moments of humanity like the D class saving that kidnapped crew member despite knowing she was too far gone. I teared up a little

[@55ziomal55]

It always fascinated me why there's so many SCPs that are ships/naval vessels Is there something that makes authors want to write anomalous stories about them?

[@araguardian6954]

I see ships/naval vessels as a kind of self contained world, which allows you to consider what would happen if these vessels were to go lost, many space operas also love it because in the universe theirs a million things that can go wrong, but that’s just my take

[@Tasarran]

The ocean is mysterious... There's places on the Earth that we will almost certainly never be able to visit. That's weird.

[@The_Legend47]

​@@TasarranPRIME EXAMPLE of this: the Mariana's Trench

[@Washeek]

They are remote from all civilization. It is not strange for a pretty large ship to have a relatively small crew. They are full of claustrophobic and dark places. It's kinda the same as with old mansions. There are creaks and bangs and all manner of sounds which give the vessel an aura of a living entity.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

The sea is one of the great mysteries.

[@MisterJohnDoe]

So, a frankensteined naval ship that mind controls people to be its crew and salvages parts from other ships before said crew eventually gets sent to the bluish green glowing room where god knows what happens to them. Honestly I'd love to see this as a book or movie of someone getting captured by the ship and slowly becoming like the crew with their dirty and torn uniforms that varies of whatever vessel they're from.

[@bugjams]

There's a Magnus Archives episode that's kind of like this if you want more. No ship-of-thesseus thing going on, but still some "creepy mind-controlled crew that abducts others to become part of it." "Boatswain's Call" is the episode I think.

[@Razumen]

I'm betting they either get turned into food or fuel. Likely fuel if they're being turned into liquid.

[@KoiosDusklight]

It's very funny to me that Foundation researchers are so used to documents being redacted that they'll "redact for brevity" instead of excluding for brevity and referring to an external complete report.

[@JeepusChrystler]

*_Part of the ship... Part of the crew..._*

[@rohnthejonbon]

DO NOT

[@bready3437]

SILENCE

[@soviet_salsa2983]

Run

[@sublimedspacemarine173]

Silence

[@Soyfunnykids]

IFunny newbs be like "part of the ship part of the crew guys, don't talk about the forbidden app 🤓🤓🤓"

[@AnthonyThomas-mw9mw]

So that's the Italians, now all we need is one of the Yamatos and we'll have all the Axis powers super ships.

[@MrHathaway1337]

SCP-2467 is looking like a supernatural Lego set.

[@ImThylacine]

Nah, not a Lego set… more like the mega-build that your little brother keeps adding parts onto FROM the new Lego sets he gets

[@conlooka9356]

There were a series of star wars mini ship sets that included spare parts that assembled 2 other ships when you had all of them. I'd compare it more to that.

[@hangermg8653]

Thanks for making these videos TheVolgun. Your quality vocal performances never ceases to entertain.

[@nedsnow6566]

I was expecting a Theseus ship kind of scenario, but this one is awesome as well. I love this page. I first discovered it with 2 videos: The Aristocrats, and the Plague Doctor. This is awesome. Keep on the great work.

[@arcadiaberger9204]

I like the idea of a Ship-of-Theseus, complete with a Crew-of-Theseus, perhaps originally captained by Theseus himself - or by a patchwork Frankensteinian Theseus-of-Theseus . . . .

[@nedsnow6566]

@@arcadiaberger9204 that would be awesome

[@gravestone4840]

The Exploring Series and Volgun are the two best SCP KZbin channels on Earth.

[@void-creature]

I mean, it IS a Ship of Theseus kind of scenario, isn't it?

[@bugjams]

Is there a little bit of Bermuda Triangle in there as well? It talks about it having a specific "area of operation," and the Founsation discourages planes and other ships from entering that range (similar to how the Triangle makes ships and planes disappear).

[@TacticalHairballGaming]

This is literally a boat that acts like Rose red and builds onto itself indefinitely with anything that can be added to the ship while unfortunate souls of the ship get reduced to a fluid consistency and have a fate worse than death.

[@ReikoAyanamiCh]

If I had a nickel for every warship SCP that shows up in a storm and abducts people, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

[@stateofflorida5082]

I can think of a 3rd but I don't know about the storm part

[@darkninjacorporation]

Only one thing to do now… cross test anomalous naval battle!

[@Zer0Main43]

There are a surprising amount of SCP’s that are boats that abduct people, we probably have way more than 2 nickels

[@UnnamedGreenDemon]

Are you talking about the cradle one

[@Eisenwulf666]

it's a classic ghost tale sailor have been telling from the dawn of time. A ghost ship with abducted crew, the wandering ship, the ship of the damned, the cursed vessel. It reflects the fact the sea was (and is) freaking scary and abducting people from ships was a common practice(and arguably still is in certain parts of the world). Some time they were ransomed, sometimes sold in slavery, sometime they joined the crew for a time, because ships need a certain number of sailors to function. A couple of guys died during a storm, one has a fever and one lost a limb to an accident: either you go back to port(and that's seldom possible) or you force other people to join, that's it.

[@mr.sandman3619]

12:52 i love these parts where the narrator is completely serious and elequently spoken but the situation is comical, he basically said (when he saw how big the guns where he turned around and tried to run away)

[@mr.sandman3619]

i really like how you say the containment methods before we know what the thing is, because it gives us little hints but keeps us wondering

[@captaincygni2162]

That's how all SCP articles are written, not a choice made by him

[@MagickjellyMC]

*Vessel name: Titan* *Description: OceanGate Submarine* *Date reported missing/recovered: 18/06/2023* *Explanation of disappearance: Imploded while transporting tourists* *Parts integrated into SCP-2467: Xbox controller*

[@zekenkurolyon]

Beautifully written

[@ivansmirnov7342]

Wasn’t it a Logitech controller?

[@jonanderson5137]

​@@ivansmirnov7342yes. X box controller would have been better.

[@Center-For-I.E.D.Mismanagement]

"I take you where you want to go, I give you all you need to know, I drag you down I use you up, Mr. Self Destruct."

[@Rogue-Mike]

The Littorio class Battleship Roma & USS Eldridge were a suprise on the victim list in this scp Basically it's a flying Dutchman scp lol

[@brianknapp6215]

Including parts of the _Andrea Gail_ was a nice touch...

[@darkninjacorporation]

I’d bet that originally around the early 1800’s, this might’ve been a magnificent looking ship bristling with guns. Now it’s a haphazard mashup of junk. I feel like we need a cross test fight tale between Bismarck and 2467.

[@TTHBLOX_]

And at the end they team up to fight against the red spot on jupiter that bismarck is so afraid of haha

[@NicholasKonradsen]

depends on how long it was replacing itself. it could've been replacing itself since the viking age and we'd have no way of knowing! might have already been a complete mashup by then

[@Pudding404]

Guess you can say a captain always goes down with their ship...

[@bl1754]

Did I miss something or did they never acquire engines/power plants/propellers? Does that mean their propulsion is entirely anomalous? Surely a naval SCP wouldn't rely on wind

[@imperielgenecist1317]

It’s seems to have originally been a sail boat, and a few of the first ships it “intergrated” it did take the masts and sails I believe.

[@HeavyBirb]

Flying Dutchman's Crew: "Part of the crew, part of the ship."

[@jankarieben1071]

Still the best SCP channel, I love all the cartoon stuff, but the Volgun knows how to present everything with the proper level of mystery and gravitas. THE BEST. 🍻❤️☠️

[@Javapenguins]

I need a loop of you saying "good afternoon everyone my name is Dr Miller and the scp were going to be looking at today" to fall asleep to now I'm conditioned to it

[@thassalantekreskel5742]

I saw that pumpkin in the intro sequence! Happy spooky month everyone!

[@mathieuleader8601]

A Greater Sum of Its Parts is like that drawing that Oda drew of Straw-Hat Franky from the darkest timeline in an SBS whereby Franky reinvented himself as a warship instead of a cyborg.

[@Adam-ce3wc]

TFW THIS DROPS ON A LONG CAR TRIP

[@S0oo]

So many SCP Ships. I wonder how some matchups between them would look like

[@nangsanbhalangblah333]

Don't be giving dr Bright ideas man wth😂

[@Thomas-ul7dr]

I like to listen to these before bed. What I end up staying up and listening to him

[@Fuchswinter]

I just thought “Would be fun to use actual shipwrecks for this” and then you started listing the ships :,D I don’t recognise all of them but it was still fun to get my nerdy obsession validated

[@AROBASPARK]

So this anomaly is essentially for the lack of a better word an Ocean going Space Hulk of the SCP Universe - like the Space Hulks from WH40K?

[@daisyjoy242]

Basically, it’s a warship that gained sentience and started kidnapping people to rebuild itself

[@pogowitwiz]

Ship of Theseus, but an SCP

[@mads2357]

I don't think the ship gained sentience. I think it's implied that the ships captain is also getting parts replaced using salvaged parts from the crew. If I'd have to guess, that captain is probably the actual anomaly and the ship is rather mundane apart from him.

[@briantarigan7685]

And eats them

[@danielrowan4716]

It’s a more modern Flying Dutchman.

[@froggystyle642]

no U

[@brianknapp6215]

10:21 🎶 _"The Legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitchie Gummie/ The lake it is said never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy..."_ 🎶

[@cellowhite314]

"That's gotta be the scariest pirate I have ever seen.." "So it may seem.."

[@parkerharris3168]

Always psyched to see a new Volgun vid

[@briantarigan7685]

Why do i get a feeling that this ship is a living creature and consumes materials and humans and the waste the ships dump on the sea is basically it's poop?

[@MartilloB]

I have the same impression here. But I can't make sense of the Flying Bridge; it seems to torture crew members and in the case of D-2467-03 the torture stretched over months

[@mattylewin1684]

Could be it’s mouth and she’s in it’s stomach

[@amyclark997]

@@MartilloBI viewed it like a Venus flytrap. It’s digesting the crew member slowly, which obviously hurts like hell. It’s not strictly trying to torture them, but that’s how it eats.

[@d4s0n282]

@@MartilloBprob due to d-2467 saving someone

[@halofreak2themax]

Andrea gale... nice (a perfect storm) reference. Was a great movie

[@spectertvxl]

Toluca? Sunderland? Someone was a Silent Hill 2 fan. 🤭

[@ajzephyros7454]

Jack-o'-lantern on the desk like it

[@MrMementoMori]

Stop!! You had me at Keter!! I’m down.

[@SCP_1471_TTV]

Apart of the Ship, Apart of the Crew, Apart of the Ship, Apart of the Crew

[@badluckrabbit]

the ending reminds me of the structure gel from SOMA

[@Razumen]

Theseus called, he said, "WTF guys???"

[@oddforoddssake3751]

Gee, what a rough life for Roma, first sunk by a Fritz-X bomb and then absorbed by a ship-sized SCP! The Regia Marina just couldn’t catch a break 😂

[@word360]

This is basically the submarine SCP, but without the weird dimension.

[@MisterJohnDoe]

Barely anything alike aside from being watercrafts.

[@Younce_Davies]

​@@MisterJohnDoewatercraft, abducts people, possibly dissolves people, changes the weather, brainwashes people. There are quite a bit similarities

[@IniquitousZ]

It causes weather anomalies, and has parts from the Fitzgerald... I guess now we known why the gales of November came early.

[@sebastianstevens4619]

This sounds like a maritime Warhammer 40K Space Hulk in the 21st Century roaming the seven seas.

[@coyoteinawell8887]

This feels like a bad idea if the Old man ever wanted to get his sea legs, he may never touch land again 😅

[@tayloryork8185]

We are the Borg. Resistant is futile.

[@NecronPhobos]

Part of the crew, part of the ship, part of the crew, part of the ship!

[@InvokedAlbaz]

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN MUST HAVE A CAPTAIN

[@70zcowboy]

i KNEW they'd list the Andrea Gail. For those who don't know, read/watch The Perfect Storm. Interesting story and I've even talked to Linda Greenlaw, the then-captain of the Andrea Gail's sister ship the Hannah Boden.

[@NearlyH3adlessNick]

Watching a few of these now, I can not *_IMAGINE_* the amount of overlapping surveillance procedures that are constantly going on across the oceans. No wonder we have shipping _"lanes",_ everything else is just containment at this point!!!

[@shooiebooie7774]

That Edmund fitz Gerald bit is so cool

[@rask004]

Another great naval Article!

[@ravendelacour1917]

Sort of an analog terrestrial version of a DIY Borg cube.

[@jamert8820]

A cannibalistic warship that would make America regard it in both fear and awe, due to its arsenal.

[@crudknight]

A wise man once ironically said: "The sum of their parts isn't equal to the total result!"

[@kristjanpeil]

D-996: "24-67-03... yeah, I guess they're giving us middle names now."

[@wolvenfire3780]

I appreciate the addition of the kaz II, I liked that. Mystery ship

[@r3turnfyre426]

I was waiting to hear ship names that I knew, and was thrilled to hear Kaz 2 and Edmund Fitzgerald

[@chasefrost1401]

It's not a pirate ship, it's a ship that's a pirate.

[@crazygamecrafter8830]

can we give d-2467-3 a spot on the wall? damm good work for a d-class, getting a civilian out of danger

[@reyvenpl3525]

love these SCP videos :)

[@DolusVulpes]

this becomes infinitely more terrifying if you take into account what might happen if it ever encounters a nuclear submarine.

[@xjooker9691]

sum greater than its parts... so a gestalt?

[@SophiaWoessner]

This scp reminds me of the Ghost Ship from the transformers animated series from netflix a while back. Thoroughly enjoyed.

[@justinsmith5870]

How do you identify a ship or plane by the glass? Stickers?

[@void-creature]

If Theseus was the captain of the flying Dutchman

[@ela-811]

Predatory evolving battleship. Yeah, same old same old.

[@911meltdown2]

Great content as always

[@gametime8387]

is it just me or do alot of these scp's sound like they could just be ghosts or ghosts possesing objects?

[@Happy-to3tf]

Hello mr volgun it your biggest non-patreon supporter, just popping in again to give you more unending praise for your consistently amazing work. You make my sundays a treat every week. :D

[@ARandomNerd88]

This SCP looks like a Yugioh card creature. I like this SCP.

[@sulfitedragon]

Hey Volgun, great video as always. When you say Mk in a military context, you can just say Mark.

[@binsylive]

Wow, great and insightful video! Love from e2

[@sgt.eclair]

I like the insinuation that somebody sold a WW2 battleship to this thing lmao

[@stewy497]

I've heard of a Ship of Theseus, but this is ridiculous!

[@underplague6344]

Holy shit it's boat genestealers

[@billheathcock]

❤ thank you 😊

[@Camcolito]

Loved this one.

[@KintokiSan]

The thing that puzzles me the most about this one is why do they put the waste in nets before throwing it overboard?

[@Tapahtumahorisontti]

You best start believing in anomalies, you're in one!

[@MacSmithVideo]

this would work a lot better if the description didn't spoil the test recording.

[@thelordzeus3655]

Peter Lukas just was having a silly time

[@eddcentric4343]

Unknowingly started singing sea chanties while listening

[@alecsarcade555]

Why did I only get this notification today, not three days ago?

[@jwalster9412]

Its been 9 months? It feels like thos one came out last week.

[@chrismanuel9768]

You know, usually the D class are dehumanized enough that I don't care when the story kills them off. In this case though, I was actually sad when she died.

[@flairhayden]

ARRRR me and me crewmates be goin to battle with fully armed military ships with this one ☠️🏴‍☠️

[@daemon.running]

My Dr Miller impression is almost complete.

[@timv1109]

Sounds like me as a kid with origami, just keep adding to it until its a unrecognizable monster that does a bunch of stuff lol

[@funpolice4416]

The Roma? Well, those guns aren’t hitting anything anyway.

[@EliSkylander]

Oh, that's where my Lego set got off to. Huh.