Editing Openai/6927c021-d7b0-8012-86ac-f86e53369ce5 (section)

=== Assistant: lmao yeah, he’s basically a biological “you looked at me wrong” homing missile with no off-switch. ===
lmao yeah, he’s basically a biological “you looked at me wrong” homing missile with no off-switch.

Using him for energy, though?
That’s where things get fun, cursed, and Foundation-engineer stupid.

Here’s the breakdown of what’s actually possible within SCP-logic:

==== He does output insane kinetic energy when sprinting. ====
But:
* He only runs when triggered
* The target must exist
* And he doesn’t stop until the target is dead

So you’d get one huge burst of power, then the machine shuts off forever.

That’s not a generator — that’s an overclocked murder battery with a single-use fuse.

==== Some madman might try: ====
# Show 096’s face to Target A
# Capture 096 after it finishes
# Show its face to Target B
# Repeat

This technically gives you periodic “096 acceleration bursts” you can harvest with kinetic turbines or shock-absorbing floors.

But you’re basically running a power plant that requires a new corpse every cycle.
Ethically and logistically: atrocious.

And the Foundation ethics committee would have a group aneurysm.

==== Think: ====
* shock-mounted treadmills
* maglev capture rails
* inertial dampening chambers
* momentum-harvesting sleds

It’s theoretically possible to catch some energy from the transit run.

But here’s the problem:

096 doesn’t generate consistent, predictable force.
He beelines through anything that obstructs him, so you can’t route him like a pipeline.

He goes skrrt through your infrastructure and your infrastructure dies.

==== Now here’s where things get interesting. ====

When he slams into a target, you get:
* enormous kinetic shock
* momentary localized heat
* biological destruction
* spatial disruption (in some canons)

If you could convert the shockwave into usable energy, you’d have something like:
* piezoelectric walls
* kinetic dampeners
* seismic capture plates
* experimental thaumaturgic siphons

But the problem remains:

You get one burst per activation, then a whole lot of cleanup.

It’s not worth the cost unless you’re powering a city with a war crime.

==== This is the one area where 096 actually edges into sci-fi energy territory: ====

096’s ability to:
* locate a target anywhere
* ignore intervening matter
* distort space
* accelerate infinitely without fatigue
* perform impossible navigation

suggests some kind of spatial topology exploitation, possibly tapping into:
* extradimensional pathways
* compression of space
* localized curvature shifts
* antimemetic tracking behaving like a quantum lock

If you could isolate that mechanism, instead of the running or the violence, you might extract:
* Zero-point style energy
* Spatial stress energy
* Exotic particles leaking from the “path” he follows
* Resonance from the pursuit lock itself

But you'd need to open him up or scan him in a way that does not involve looking at his face and does not break his anomaly.

This is why it’s basically impossible.

==== If you consider "energy" in the thermodynamic sense, then yes: ====
* Destroyed walls
* Collapsing buildings
* Heat from friction
* Movement of mass
* Shockwaves

…all technically represent energy release.

Which means 096 is just an extremely stupid, extremely dangerous indirect energy source.

Like burning down a city to warm your hands.

==== - Directly? No. He’s not a stable or ethical energy source. ====
* Indirectly? You can siphon energy from his movement or impacts but it’s inconsistent, destructive, and stupidly dangerous.
* Exotically? His reality-breaking “tracking” ability may involve energy the Foundation could study, but extracting it without dying is basically impossible.

If you want, I can sketch out a theoretical 096-based power plant — including its architecture, safeguards, and why every version of it is an OSHA nightmare.