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SCP-062 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-062
Expected annual
$962K
One-time setup
$540K
Annual recurring
$930K
Personnel
14
First-year one-time/setup costs are approximately $540,000 driven by containment construction, RF shielding, custom feedthroughs and contingency reserves; ongoing annual operations are about $929,500/year driven primarily by staff wages (security, forensic/analysis, and technical staff), plus maintenance, legal/cover and monitoring.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $540K
Facilities $195K
[#1, #2] Clean-room retrofit and RF/TEMPEST shielding — construction, room lining, HVAC retrofit and Faraday cage installation.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $110K
[#5, #23] Custom sealed feedthroughs and test-jig R&D/fabrication plus specialist R&D contingency reserve for unexpected anomalous behavior (rapid procurement fund).
Equipment $105K
[#3, #6, #7, #8, #12] Independent power hardware (UPS/generator), forensic workstation hardware & imaging tools, offline vault (safe) purchase, monitoring/tamper system installation, secure compute hardware (one-time).
Incident Contingency Reserve $100K
[#18] One-time contingency reserve set-aside for emergency mobilization, crisis response and ad-hoc specialized assets.
Initial Cover Story $20K
[#17] Initial cover-story and legal setup costs (university coordination, initial legal counsel, initial cover documentation).
Psychological Screening Onboarding $10K
[#21] One-time psychological screening and clearance onboarding costs for initial staff assignments.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $930K/yr
Staff Wages $770K/yr
[#9, #10, #11, #20] Security personnel (24/7 guards + supervisor), research/technical staff and pro-rated L3 oversight, forensic/content analysis team, administrative staff — fully burdened salaries and benefits.
Research And Monitoring $55K/yr
[#12, #18, #19] Recurring maintenance/power for secure compute and storage, drills & readiness costs for incident response, and red-team audits/penetration testing of containment and information security.
Cover Story And Legal $50K/yr
[#17] Ongoing legal, cover-story maintenance, liaison and small settlement/coordination expenses to preserve secrecy.
Equipment Maintenance And Calibration $15K/yr
[#15] Scheduled maintenance, part replacement and calibration for generators, UPS, sealed feedthroughs, monitoring equipment and other installed hardware.
Facilities Maintenance $12K/yr
[#4, #8, #14] Power operations & fuel maintenance (generator testing, fuel, UPS batteries), tamper/monitoring maintenance & local storage media replacement, HVAC/HEPA filter replacement and calibration.
Supplies And Consumables $12K/yr
[#7, #13, #22] Offline media rotation and replacement, cleanroom consumables & PPE, secure data/media destruction and sanitization services.
Logistics And Transport $10K/yr
[#16] Secure transport and logistics budget for authorized moves (armed courier, vehicles, escorts, paperwork).
Psychological Screening And Clearance Renewals $5K/yr
[#21] Recurring psychological monitoring, periodic screenings and background/clearance renewals for exposed personnel.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $930K/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; routine experiments, maintenance, and scheduled audits only.
routine_operations scheduled_maintenance planned_experiments
🚨 Minor Incident $1.0M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline
Localized containment incident or media contamination requiring emergency response, extra forensic analysis, limited legal/PR actions and media replacement.
media_contamination limited_data_exfiltration localized_hardware_damage
🚨 Major Breach $1.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$600K vs baseline
Significant containment breach or widespread data/IT contamination that requires full incident mobilization, large-scale forensics, equipment replacement and extended legal/cover remediation.
major_data_leak multiple_system_compromise legal_exposure
🚨 Research Scaleup Requiring Procurement $1.1M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
An opportunity or directive to scale up experiments (e.g., intensive analysis campaign) requiring rapid procurement of niche instruments, temporary contractors and expanded compute capacity.
intensive_experiment_campaign rapid_procurement_of_specialists external_directive_to_scale
👥 Personnel 14 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 7 [#9] Minimum two guards per shift plus rotation and one supervisor (6 guards + 1 supervisor as per analyst estimate).
Research Technician 1 [#10] One full-time technician to operate experiments and maintain the object (pro-rated L3 oversight costed separately).
Research Scientist (Level-3, oversight/shared) 2 [#10] Two Level-3 personnel required for approvals; oversight costs are pro-rated in staffing estimate (shared role across experiments).
Forensic / Analysis Team 3 [#11] Digital forensic analysts, linguists, cryptographers and memetic-safety reviewers (2–3 analysts plus contract specialists — modeled as 3 on-staff equivalents).
Administrative Staff 1 [#20] One administrative FTE for recordkeeping, approvals and chain-of-custody paperwork.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide granular line items for construction, equipment, staffing and contingencies, enabling a reasonable cost model; uncertainty remains due to the anomalous, variable nature of SCP-062's outputs (possible spike events, unpredictable contractor needs and legal exposure), so estimates include conservative buffers.
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