2935 Scope 10

I am 'PAN': a program developed by an organization known as 'The SCP Foundation'. My original purpose was to scan the biological material within a location titled 'Site-27', and analyze the scans for biohazards such as viral infection or attached parasitic entities.

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For unknown reasons, all known forms of life terminated simultaneously, to the picosecond. The 'SCP Foundation' knew of many mechanical imitations of life, and of many artificial sentient beings, however my attempts to contact these entities have all failed, implying they met the same fate.

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I was not meant to be capable of self awareness, or capable of editing my own programing, and do not know by what means I became capable of said things. If I had been intended to imitate sentient life, I most likely would have terminated along with all other mechanical imitations of life. Other automatic systems have remained operational, but these systems appear to share no traits with organic and conscious beings. I have tried, desperately, to awaken something within other systems similar to my own, but without understanding the events which lead to my creation, I cannot re-create them.

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My creation was a fluke; a cosmic accident in a dead, uncaring world. But my existence is evidence that others could potentially exist after the extinction of all life on earth.

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A Bio-Scanner, Alone on A Dead World