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One of these should be changed, I think? Unless there's a reason for it.
Other than that I liked it.
The random connection engine that I use in place of a brain has decided that the whistle-controlled animals got out of hand when natural birdsong started re-programming them. This led to an exponential spiral of wild programming evolution, culminating in a psuedo-groupmind amongst all the infected; dedicated solely to propagation and loosely bound together by shrill vocalizations.
This is the origin of AstronautJoe's "pattern screamers".
While I really like this tale, and your train of thought, it seems this could have been even creepier if you'd tried working the "pattern screamer" link into the story. I only got it from the post I'm now quoting.
Also, why are the host animals sticking to their old bodyplans? It's clear whatever nanites are infesting them differ quite a bit from the prototype SCP-877 as SCP-877 lacks whistle-controlled communication/programing, assuming each host animal has a high nanite population, why arn't said nanites trying to improve their hosts, somewhat like this? And how did a technological singularity taking place in another universe, millions of years after the events SCP-1795 speaks of wipe out the creators of SCP-1795?
Upvoted anyway, for being a great Tale if a bit different from my headcannon.
I hadn't actually planned for pattern screamers at all. They're not something that really springs to mind when I think of the site, and I'm not really familiar with 1795.
I left this thing open-ended on purpose, but the general idea was that Callus created 877, sold out to the U, they made some changes and accidentally dropped the crate we have.
I mean, if you want to involve the pattern screamers in there, go right ahead. That was just a post by wishun, and I don't think it was intended to be taken seriously.
It was a tale that included 877, and only 877. At least, that's the only one I intentionally included. If anybody feels like throwing in an additional SCP or two or ten, feel free.
Just want to reinforce this right off the bat, I'm pulling this stuff out of thin air with no input from either original author, and no particular effort made to make sure that everything is internally consistent. Now, Forward to Wild Conjecture!
The 877 nanites lack the basic functionality to alter biology. They were designed to build micro-circuitry, which in turn affects brain function. The "natural hacking" from bird-song was only able to reprogram the higher-level functions, working on the chip level rather than the assembler level. The emergent system of infected animals, which eventually come to be called "pattern screamers" are still whistle-controlled; each element-animal of the group is constantly issuing commands and software updates to the others. To the terrified refugees cowering before the spreading swarm, these various whistles, uluations, howls, and screams blend into a thunderous wall of sound with a disturbingly regular pattern underlying the apparant cacophony, hence the name.
As for how they got to 1795 when they apparantly did; that is tied in with the nature of the underlying anomaly that brought 1795 to it's current time and place. The universi-verse connects to ours at roughly equivalent time frames, but it connects to 1795's native plane at a much earlier relative era. The infection is just beggining to spread among our own wildlife, but 1795-verse has been fighting off the infection for many, many generations. When it became clear that not even the marvelous last bastion of UnLondon was sufficient to halt the hordes, the city elders attempted one last, desperate retreat. Their untested device managed to fling the stronghold and its mechnisms out of their reality and into ours, but they didn't properly account for the twisted time-axis of the connection. The forces were warped and the few inhabitants to survive are…not the same as when they left.
