SCP 7,002, The Hungry Season.

It's sometimes said that no society is more than three missed meals away from chaos.

And while the veracity of such a statement is hard to say, there's no doubt that food is

obviously an extremely vital part of human existence.

Many wars have been fought throughout history for the purposes of food and farmland, and

food scarcity continues to be an extremely unfortunate problem in many parts of the world.

SCP 7,002 isn't a food SCP per se, but it is about food and farming, as well as scarcity and exploitation.

Most people go through their whole lives without giving much thought to actually growing food themselves, but what would happen if the entire world was forced to do so?

Let's take a look.

Upon accessing the document, we're first given a warning that this article describes an ongoing

EK-class scorched earth event, and because we've accessed it, a cognito mole will embed within our subconscious

to track our biosignature for up to 72 hours.

With that, we're given the SCP itself, which possesses the Tiamat containment class,

meaning that it poses an immediate threat to humanity, but it could be contained

with actions that would break the veil of secrecy.

SCP-7,002 designates an interstellar rogue comet that is believed to have entered our

solar system on January 3, 2022.

It will reach its closest point to the sun on November 29th, and will approach within

2.1 lunar distance of Earth on December 9th, the closest approach by a near-Earth object

in recorded history.

Project Rikoshae was set up to prevent this approach from occurring. Alongside this, through an

unknown mechanism, an increasing portion of Earth has become subject to desertification as

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