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SCP-069 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-069
Expected annual
$4.3M
One-time setup
$1.9M
Annual recurring
$4.3M
Personnel
16
One-time capital costs are dominated by containment suite construction and a liquid contingency seed; recurring costs are dominated by personnel, MTF retainer, monitoring/analysis, international logistics, and administrative overhead.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.9M
Contingency Reserve Seed $1.0M
[#22] Seed funding for a liquid catastrophic contingency reserve to be available for mass-response, large-scale recontainment, litigation payouts, or major cover operations.
Equipment $365K
[#2, #6, #7, #14, #15, #16] Multi-angle HD cameras and recording servers setup (one-time), non-lethal procurement (tasers/netguns/etc), armored transfer vehicle purchase (assume 1 vehicle), on-site dead-storage unit hardware included where applicable, decontamination equipment, and secure IT hardware/setup elements; sums represent one-time procurement/installation.
Facilities $350K
[#1] Construction/upgrade of a reinforced single-person containment suite (ballistic walls/door, double airlock, sealed observation, deadbolts, Faraday shielding, manual overrides).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $100K
[#13] Portable forensic/field testing equipment and secure on-site lab setup for controlled sampling and rapid tests (DNA/toxicology field kits).
Front Organization Setup $50K
[#12] One-time setup costs for plausible front companies / cover organizations to be used in future cover-ups and plausible deniability operations.
Legal Identity Setup $10K
[#11] One-time identity/account setup and initial legal records-control provisioning (escrowed accounts, initial controlled documents).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.3M/yr
Staff Wages $1.2M/yr
[#3, #4, #5, #10] On-site security personnel wages and benefits (guards), research & containment staff salaries (Level-3 personnel, lead researcher, admin support), mental-health staff (psychiatrist/therapist), and analyst wages (monitoring/triage staff).
Administrative Overhead $717K/yr
[#23] Program-level administrative overhead (20% applied to recurring line items) covering HR, accounting, procurement, and facility management.
Research And Monitoring $625K/yr
[#2, #10, #13, #14, #21] Data retention/storage and monitoring costs, analyst team salaries/feeds/liaisons, reagents & routine testing, coroners/liaison stipends & procedures, and the long-form research budget into SCP-069 mechanics.
Logistics And Transport $505K/yr
[#7, #9, #20] Vehicle maintenance/fuel for armored transfers, helicopter/airlift retainer costs, and an annual international/diplomatic contingency reserve for rapid overseas extraction support.
Mtf Retainer $500K/yr
[#8] Annual retainer for retained Mobile Task Force capability, regional partners, training and standing readiness for rapid deployment.
Cover Story And Legal $360K/yr
[#11, #12] Annual legal retainers/records-control operations and baseline cover-up/public-relations/fund allocation to manage incidents and maintain front-company operations.
Training And Exercises $100K/yr
[#19] Regular tabletop and field exercises, MTF participation, overtime and scenario design costs.
Contingency Reserve Topup $100K/yr
[#22] Annual top-ups to the contingency reserve fund to maintain liquidity after deployments or payouts.
Staff Protection And Insurance $75K/yr
[#18] Background checks, staff protection costs, extra insurance and mortality-mitigation programs.
Supplies And Consumables $42K/yr
[#6, #17] Consumables and replacements (non-lethal equipment replacement, sedatives, restraint supplies) and the petty/requests budget for reasonable approved items.
Facilities Maintenance $37K/yr
[#1, #16] Annual maintenance of the containment suite and physical systems plus secure IT/hosting maintenance components.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.3M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major reappearance incidents; all monitoring, staffing, maintenance, and retainers active.
no_reappearance_events routine_operations
🚨 Minor Incident $4.4M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$135K vs baseline
Local/single reappearance requiring rapid local MTF response, forensic testing, cleanup, and limited cover operations.
local_death_nearby short_distance_reappearance single_incident_recontainment
🚨 International Extraction $4.8M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
SCP reappears overseas requiring covert extraction, diplomatic cover, airlift/charter, and expanded MTF operations.
overseas_reappearance diplomatic_cover_required long-range_transport
👥 Personnel 16 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#3] Six on-site guards to provide 24/7 three-shift coverage (minimum two guards per shift) with training and certification requirements.
Research Scientist / Level-3 2 [#4] Two Level-3 personnel required for request review and approval.
Lead Researcher / Containment Officer 1 [#4] One assigned lead researcher/containment officer on-call.
Administrative Staff 1 [#4] Part-time legal liaison and admin support (hourly/part-time coverage included in recurring salaries).
Psychiatrist / Therapist 2 [#5] One FTE psychiatrist and one therapist for suicide-watch program and daily mental-health support.
Analyst / Monitoring Staff 3 [#10] Two-to-four monitoring analysts triaging death-event leads and maintaining data feeds; 3 used as midpoint.
Engineer / Maintenance 1 [#1, #16] Facility and systems maintenance support for containment suite, IT, and monitoring systems.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on detailed analyst notes with line-item ranges; per-incident costs and policy choices create substantial uncertainty, especially for international and catastrophic events, so confidence is medium.
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