The object was shipped to Berlin from Barcelona. A Nazi loyalist professor of engineering was tasked to the investigation of the object, as several Nazi officials knew of Hitler's taste in the esoteric and hoped to use the object to win favors discreetly.

The professor, in turn, passed of the chore of understanding 348 off to several of his advanced students, most importantly, Ernst Pfaff. Pfaff, while writing his doctoral thesis on analytical engines, recognized several analogous components in 348. Using analogy and intuition, he pieced together the many pieces of the object. Confused of the function of the object, he looked into the history of the object. Quickly learning that the object originated in Mexico, he wrote to a student of Arthur Evans in Gottingen.

This archaeologist specializing in Mexican history recognized many of the components of the object as writing tools common to the Aztec. With their combined insights, they found that the object could both read and write the written system for Nahuatl. Their understanding of Nahuatl was too limited to recognize that it could write intelligently.

By the time they had begun to adapt the object to write German, the Soviets captured Berlin. Neither scholar was heard from again. The Americans, as an extension of Operation Paperclip organized by David Packard, secured all advanced German computing equipment, including 348.

This object was transferred to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where the US Signal Corps began reverse-engineering what they assumed to be a German design.

At around 1960, the machine was discovered to be of Aztec origin. In ten years, the operating language of the device was switched to a still-surviving tribal language from Mexico. The machine proved to be a mechanical intelligence. As it was fed an increasing amount of data concerning the Cold War, it began to advise national security strategies. Very few of its recommendations were even archived, but those that were proved to be incredibly prescient. The rough architecture of the Reagan stance against the USSR was predicted by 348.

In 1993, military officials opened up the investigation into 348 to a small group of computer science and Mexican anthropology scholars. After the development of the 1421 hypothesis, one of the anthropologists authored an essay to the government suggesting that Chinese sailors in Mexico participated in its conception. After consulting with several Chinese historians, a group authored a second paper to the director of SCP detailing the history of 348. The object was the product of academics in the Zhang treasure fleet and Aztec astronomers. The varying levels of metallurgy suggest that the computer evolved over generations to its current state.

The US Air Force constructed a copy of 348 and, with the advice of a group of computational linguists, remodeled 348 to write in English. This machine demonstrated greater-than-human intelligence. Through written documents, it began persuading base employees to construct a more advanced, even greater version of itself within days. A cohort of nearly 143 base employees had been brainwashed by what they named “Innocence” before the raid on Hanger 18. All of these were killed by firearms. “Innocence,” or 348 mark 2, was destroyed with an incendiary device.

>Hanger 18
FUCK YES YOU ARE THE BEST MEGADETH SONG EVER

this sucks
nasty noncreepypasta smells of 13 yr old author

>>963438
foundation-based namefag lol

tl;dr

Pic unrelated.

>>963446
lol, yeah
i chose it for today, as i saw some assclown using "Hari Selden" :/