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SCP-005 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-005
Expected annual
$5.1M
One-time setup
$84.5M
Annual recurring
$4.8M
Personnel
15
Estimated one-time setup and reserve costs are large due to contingency and liability reserves, while recurring annual costs are dominated by staff wages, insurance premiums, and ongoing research/response readiness.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $84.5M
Catastrophic Liability Reserve $50.0M
[#27] Dedicated catastrophic-response / liability fund to cover worst-case legal and restitution scenarios (one-time reserve).
Contingency Reserve Breach Remediation $25.0M
[#14] Recommended contingency reserve for breach remediation, public fallout, and covert remediation operations (one-time pre-funding).
Insurance Initial Captive Reserve $5.0M
[#25] Initial captive reserve / insurance seed funding (one-time) to reduce recurring premium volatility.
Facilities $2.5M
[#1, #18, #19] Vault/room retrofit and hardened containment, destruction-facility access/testing, and one secondary-site setup (per-site setup).
Equipment $655K
[#2, #3, #4, #10, #17, #20] Custom welded containment capsule, retrieval/destruction toolset, surveillance/tamper hardware installation, chain-of-custody hardware setup, initial forensic equipment, and IT/air-gap hardware setup.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $600K
[#11] Initial research program and lab buildout to characterize SCP-005's capabilities (sacrificial samples, instrumentation).
Incident Response Outfitting $500K
[#13] Initial rapid-reaction team outfitting (vehicles, comms, helicopters/air support access, specialized gear).
Initial Background Vetting $150K
[#8] Initial deep background checks/psych evals/polygraphs for ~50 staff (one-time initial vetting costs).
Sop Development And Initial Training $125K
[#21] Initial SOP documentation, development, and first-round training/exercises creation costs.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.8M/yr
Insurance Premiums $2.0M/yr
[#25] Insurance/indemnity premiums and self-insurance funding to cover potential third-party losses and legal exposure.
Staff Wages $1.4M/yr
[#5, #6, #7, #13, #19] Salaries/benefits for surveillance operators, security guards, Level-4 oversight (on-call stipend), incident-response personnel sustainment, and staff to support any secondary site.
Cover Story And Legal $360K/yr
[#15, #16, #10] Legal retainers / liaison, PR/cover-story capability, and immutable logging/audit verification annual costs.
Incident Response Sustainment $300K/yr
[#13] Sustainment/readiness costs for rapid-reaction team (training, vehicle upkeep, helicopter availability contracts, exercises).
Research And Monitoring $290K/yr
[#12, #17, #24] Ongoing experimental budget, forensic consumables/maintenance, and sacrificial test inventory (excludes researcher salaries included in staff_wages).
Logistics And Transport $150K/yr
[#9, #13] Secure transport program (expected transfers/year) and routine rapid-deployment travel/air support readiness costs.
Red Team $100K/yr
[#26] Continuous contracted adversarial testing to probe containment and operational weaknesses.
Facilities Maintenance $75K/yr
[#1, #18, #19] Ongoing maintenance, power/redundancy, EMP/physical system upkeep and destruction-facility maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $55K/yr
[#23, #4, #5] Welding consumables, seals, camera replacements, sensor batteries, software licenses, and routine small repairs/parts.
Background Vetting $50K/yr
[#8] Annual continuous vetting, rechecks, and polygraph/psych monitoring for sensitive personnel.
Mental Health Program $50K/yr
[#22] Ongoing counseling, stress monitoring, and insider-threat mitigation programs.
Training And Exercises $50K/yr
[#21] Ongoing refresher training and regular exercises for containment/transport/response teams.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.8M/yr
94.5% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine operations, research, and readiness costs only.
no unauthorized removal routine testing and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $5.3M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Attempted unauthorized access or small theft attempt requiring forensic response, overtime, temporary transport, and PR/legal engagement.
tamper alarm / attempted breach localized theft or unauthorized access attempt
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $54.8M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Full removal/exposure of SCP-005 with public knowledge or use in large-scale crimes requiring major recovery, legal, and remediation operations.
removal from containment public exposure / large-scale criminal use
👥 Personnel 15 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#6] On-site guards covering 24/7 shifts with relief; salaries included in staff_wages.
Surveillance Operator 4 [#5] 24/7 monitoring operators for CCTV and tamper systems; salaries included in staff_wages.
Research Scientist 2 [#11, #12] Scientists running experiments and analyzing lock interactions; salaries included in staff_wages (research consumables in research_and_monitoring).
Level-4 Personnel / Executive Staff 1 [#7] High-clearance approver on-call for removal/decisions; salary/stipend included in staff_wages.
Engineer / Maintenance 1 [#1, #4] Technical staff for facility, EMP, and surveillance maintenance; salary included in staff_wages.
Administrative Staff 1 [#10, #15] Records, audit logging coordination, and liaison duties; salary included in staff_wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges and clear drivers (good basis), but large uncertainty remains in chosen reserve sizes, incident probabilities, and policy choices (study vs inertization vs secrecy), so aggregate confidence is medium.
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