Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-8605 - The Steel Soul - Part One

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

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https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8605Written by: HarryBlankSummary: An emotional and philosophical side-quel to SCP-7005, focusing on a Foundation Director trying to find where Lampeter manuals are coming from.Support the Patreon to see Exploring videos early and vote on new ones!: http://bit.ly/1U9QkPhJoin the Discord!: https://discord.gg/beRYZgbbgPSupport the Series with official Merch!: https://t.co/aH0HApXp7vFollow me on Twitter for updates!: https://twitter.com/TES_ManggListen on Podcasts: https://anchor.fm/theexploringseriesExploring SCP Foundation Playlist: https://bit.ly/2whu8NAExploring Dungeons and Dragons Playlist: https://bit.ly/348IZZuExploring Warhammer 40k Playlist: https://bit.ly/2DoFZguExploring Celtic Mythology Playlist: https://bit.ly/2rTuHLmExploring Norse Mythology Playlist: http://bit.ly/2EAHTdaExploring Elder Scrolls Playlist: http://bit.ly/2fgqQoYExploring Star Wars Playlist: http://bit.ly/2lNtlN0Exploring Middle-Earth Playlist: http://bit.ly/2cGNctyExploring the Cthulhu Mythos Playlist: http://bit.ly/25OI9jYExploring History Playlist: https://bit.ly/2w7XMqMVideo Game Stories Playlist: https://bit.ly/3hhgbqKMy Gaming Channel: youtube.com/user/ManggsLPsThumbnail by Andrew Averkin: https://www.artstation.com/andrewaverkinContent relating to the SCP Foundation, including the SCP Foundation logo, is licensed under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 and all concepts originate from http://www.scp-wiki.net and its authors. This video, being derived from this content, is hereby also released under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0.

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0:00.0	SCP 8605, The Steel Soul, Part 1. Existence is transient, and nothing lasts forever. This is
0:15.5	certainly not a lesson that anyone really needs to be taught by an SCP video, but while we might be perpetually
0:22.3	aware of this fact, humans have developed countless distractions to divert our attentions
0:28.6	away from the impermanence of our station. Every so often, of course, we're hit with the sudden
0:34.8	remembrance of this fact, until some other distraction can perhaps
0:38.8	pull us once again from pondering it. If this all seems barely philosophical, then it's a good
0:45.4	lead-in to SCP 8605, an article connected to SCP 7,05, and the Lampeter Network, focusing on the people still working for the failing
0:56.7	network in its dying days. As a reminder, Lampeter is a multi-dimensional network of trains
1:04.2	and other conveyances designed to move through different timelines, universes, and realities,
1:13.0	which has slowly been dying off due to the presence of the neon god, a deific force spreading endless cities to everything it touches.
1:20.8	I'll just note here that this is very much an article that's more akin to a tale, much like
1:26.8	SCP-750 itself. With that, let akin to a tale, much like SCP-7,05 itself.
1:29.7	With that, let's take a look.
1:33.2	We start with some text from Dr. Simon Kells, one of the primary characters from
1:38.9	SCP-705, and a project lead on studying Lampeter.
1:45.5	Can a Thing Die, which has never lived?
1:49.8	When I was very young, my parents built a metal jungle gym for me in our backyard.
1:55.6	Two swings, a teeter-totter, and a slide, all shiny and new.
2:04.5	Painted steel tubes slotted together, blue and white,
2:12.5	seats of white plastic and chains gleaming silver. There was a pattern on the tubes, but I don't remember what it was. I do remember what a vast, solid thing my swing set seemed to be, a pocket world with logic and motion and life all in itself.
2:25.5	A discreet but open system of which I could be one part.
2:31.1	Years later, when Rust had set in and the pattern was irrecoverable both in fact and in my memory
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