Imperceivable Attacks

Giygas' attacks cannot be grasped

Background

Imperceivable Attacks are a class of offensive techniques that defy standard modes of perception. These attacks cannot be detected, sensed, or fully understood by conventional sensory input, and in more advanced forms, even bypass powerful perception-based abilities such as Enhanced Senses, Extrasensory Perception, Clairvoyance, and Cosmic Awareness. The concept behind these attacks is not just one of invisibility or stealth, but of a deeper abstraction—where the attack either exists on a higher conceptual level or does not conform to the natural rules of observable phenomena.

Due to their inability to be perceived, these attacks are almost impossible to guard against, providing an inherent form of Durability Negation by circumventing all conventional and unconventional forms of defense. In some cases, these attacks are only visible to beings who have transcended baseline understanding, with more extreme cases manifesting as anti-logical phenomena that technically "do not exist" from the perspective of a structured reality.

Also Called

• Unknowable Offense
• Incomprehensible Strike
• Nonexistent Assault
• Transcendental Attack

Possible Applications

• Bypass any physical or conceptual defense through sheer imperceivability
• Render detection abilities useless, allowing surprise strikes or traps
• Overwhelm even omniscient or cosmic entities through anti-comprehension
• Deliver damage across conceptual, metaphysical, or informational layers
• Ignore cause-and-effect based counters due to lack of perceived action

Practical Uses

• Launch attacks that cannot be seen, sensed, or countered in battle
• Penetrate barriers and armor that depend on reactive or predictive defense
• Disrupt highly perceptive enemies who rely on sensing danger
• Act as a counter to all forms of Precognition or defensive omniscience
• Eliminate enemies protected by conceptual or cognitive filters

Variations

• Sensory Imperception: The attack is simply beyond the range of natural senses.
• Extrasensory Evasion: The attack evades even enhanced detection abilities.
• Conceptual Absence: The attack does not register as an event within logic or causality.
• Existenceless Strike: The attack operates from a level of unreality, fundamentally lacking presence.

Possible Limitations

• Users with high levels of Enhanced Senses, Extrasensory Perception, Clairvoyance, or Cosmic Awareness may perceive or partially interpret lesser forms of imperceivable attacks.
• Users with Instinctive Reaction may be capable of evading the attack without being aware of it, depending on the relative potency of both the attack and the reaction.
• May require a higher dimensional, abstract, or divine level of power to initiate or maintain.
• Not useful against abstract or non-corporeal entities that cannot be struck directly, even if perception is bypassed.

Users

• Giygas (Mother 2): Giygas' attacks cannot be grasped or comprehended.
• SCP-3160 (SCP Foundation): SCP-3160 instances hide in conceptual frameworks when threatened and attacked from this plane, being unable to be noticed.