SCP-7009 : All Roads Lead To Rome

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All Roads Lead To Rome

SCP-7009-018 as discovered by the Curiosity Mars rover

Name: All Roads Lead To Rome
Author: MontagueETC
Rating: 191/237
Created at: Wed Jul 27 2022

The Foundation discovers a fundamental law of reality. Rome is involved.

SCP-7009

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Item №: SCP-7009

Object Class: ~~Euclid~~ N/A

Special Containment Procedures: I/O MINERVA is to monitor internet and news media for keywords relating to newly discovered SCP-7009 instances, which are to be concealed or discredited as necessary.
UPDATE: Following the dissolution of the Veil, containment of SCP-7009 has ceased. Research will continue in collaboration with the Beijing Institute of Anomalous Science.

Description: SCP-7009 is a universal probabilistic phenomenon associated with Ancient Rome.

SCP-7009 appears to be a form of "convergent probability." In the way that convergent evolution is the developmental phenomenon of unrelated species reaching analogous results, convergent probability is the causal phenomenon of unlike causes having the same effects.

Ever since I was a child, I've been obsessed with trying to make sense of the universe. Having entered my adolescence shortly after the Veil was dropped, I grew up entrenched in the ensuing cultural craze over anomalies. It was inevitable, in hindsight— to be an eleven-year-old girl and learn that magic was real? It captured my every waking moment. How could it not?

To my young mind, it was at once captivating and terrifying to peer behind the Foundation's shroud, to discover that the world was so full of things that couldn't be explained or even described. It was a waking dream and an inescapable nightmare. I couldn't tear myself away. The more I learned, the more I understood how little I would ever know.

When I started my tenure at the Beijing Institute of Anomalous Science, I began to find some relief from this existential horror in chaos theory. The world is unpredictable and unfathomably strange, yes, but it all still operates on a complex system of fundamental laws. Consider the second law of thermodynamics; despite everything, one can at least trust that the universe will always progress towards a state of lower energy. Entropy provides a sort of bleak comfort in its absolute certainty.

These philosophical concerns weren't far from my mind when I began studying SCP-7009. Once again, I faced a universe that made no sense. SCP-7009 shouldn't be possible without some degree of reality alteration— but wherever we found it, Hume levels remained stable. No trace of thaumaturgic or ontokinetic activity was ever found.

SCP-7009 is merely the child of random chance— but "random" doesn't really exist. Chaos is the result of immeasurably complex laws. And so, as I stare into this abyss of utter improbability, I find myself revising my old mantra:

The universe will always progress towards a state of lower energy. Roads will always lead to Rome.

—Dr. Xiu Huang

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