Item #: SCP+001
Object Class: Explained
Special Containment Procedures: Total containment failure. SCP+001 entered an active state on March 22:nd 2011, triggering a CK-Class "Restructuring" scenario and a subsequent LK-Class "Lifted Veil" scenario. Following these events, the Foundation's goal of preserving normality was considered to have failed, though not rendered obsolete. Present goal shifted to preserving normality of this iteration of reality until the next CK-Class scenario, expected to fire around 7000 CE.
MTF Nu-20 "Dog Catchers" was formed with the express purpose of securing natural habitats for humankind, by limiting the size and numbers of anomalous lifeform populations in those areas, and instilling fear and flight responses in emergent species of SCP+001-1 towards humans, thereby furthering human dominance.
Description: SCP+001 constitutes an as of yet poorly understood metaphysical phenomenon, wherein a celestial body possessing biological life acquires or loses a "gaiasphere", defined as a sphere in which a certain type of thaumaturgical energy can exist and be exploited. This process is gradual, progressing in a tidal pattern over the course of the body's existence. In the case of Earth, this process reaches a critical point approximately every 5000 years. This process has been used to explain the steadily increasing number of anomalies during the 20th century, and is expected to produce even more anomalous effects and possiblities over the course of the next 2500 years.
The gaiasphere does not alter the Hume levels of the celestial bodies themselves, nor that of their inhabitant species. It does, however, significantly increase the anomalous Potential of inhabitant individuals, with some of these gaining thaumaturgic capabilities at birth or in early childhood or youth. Notable is that unlike Type Blue entities, these capabilities are not idiosyncratic, but dependent on the individuals' abilitiy to exploit the thaumaturgical energy enabled by the gaiasphere. As a result, they cannot use their abilities beyond the Earth's gaiasphere, or one artificially generated on e.g. a space station. These thaumaturges are classified as Type Yellow.
SCP+001 has far reaching effects on native life. Over 100 new plant, animal and fungal species have been discovered since SCP+001 entered its active state, such as SCP+002, several new subspecies of Homo sapiens also have emerged due to processes linked to SCP+001, and previously safe outdoor areas have been rendered dangerous by the appearance of anomalous lifeforms predating on humans. These new species are collectively referred to as SCP+001-1.