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SCP-1080 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-1080
Expected annual
$5.4M
One-time setup
$2.6M
Annual recurring
$5.3M
Personnel
34
One-time containment and laboratory capital costs are modest (~$2.57M total) while recurring personnel, legal/cover and medical care dominate annual costs (~$5.30M/yr). Major cost drivers are staff wages/benefits, long-term care & medical support, and legal/cover operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.6M
Containment Reserve Fund $1.0M
[#22] One-time allocation to a rapid-response/reserve fund for containment breach contingencies and emergency relocation readiness.
Forensic Legal Reserve $500K
[#27] One-time forensic/legal contingency reserve for potential criminal exposure, litigation hold, or initial settlement costs.
Equipment $385K
[#2, #3, #8, #17, #18, #19, #28] Chamber sensors & magnet control hardware, backup power UPS/generator equipment, specialized restraint devices, custody/ID system setup, armored vehicle(s) purchase, CCTV cameras, and data-security/encryption hardware.
Facilities $315K
[#1, #7, #9] Containment chamber construction, long-term care facility retrofit, and secure vehicle workshop/garage buildout (site-level retrofit and integration).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $300K
[#13, #14, #30] Lab buildout and capital imaging/instrument access (MRI/CT/histology), cryostorage/sample archive setup and initial pathology infrastructure.
Prosthetics Initial $50K
[#21] Initial procurement of prosthetics/mobility-adaptive equipment for SCP-1080-1 specimens (program-level initial purchases).
Security Training Initial $20K
[#5] Initial security vetting and training for personnel handling SCP-1080 and SCP-1080-1 protocols.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.3M/yr
Staff Wages $2.4M/yr
[#4, #6, #12, #13, #7] Base payroll for security staff, medical staff, field investigation agents, research team salaries, and long-term care operating staff (base payroll, benefits accounted separately).
Personnel Benefits $716K/yr
[#23] Benefit/pension/retention premiums estimated as ~30% of base payroll to reflect hazard pay, pensions and psychological support.
Cover Story And Legal $500K/yr
[#10, #15, #27] Ongoing legal fees, cover-story operations, institutional compliance/ethical oversight administration and retainer-level legal planning.
Research And Monitoring $300K/yr
[#13, #14, #30] Ongoing research consumables, sequencing/pathology reagents, imaging session fees, and sample handling related to SCP-1080 research.
Long Term Care Operating $300K/yr
[#7] Operating staff, supplies and caregiving costs for secure long-term housing and supervision of SCP-1080-1 specimens.
Amnestic Operations $200K/yr
[#11] Annual pool for amnestic procurement, administration, and associated psychiatric aftercare for treated witnesses/families.
Prosthetics Maintenance $200K/yr
[#21] Ongoing replacement, repair and customization budgets for prosthetics, mobility aids and adaptive equipment for SCP-1080-1 individuals.
Psychological Care $200K/yr
[#16, #29] Behavioral management, occupational therapy, family follow-up programs and psychiatric services for SCP-1080-1 and nearby communities.
Logistics And Transport $125K/yr
[#18, #12] Operating costs for secure transport pool, armored transfers, per-transfer operating costs and travel for field investigation teams.
Public Relations $100K/yr
[#24] PR, misinformation campaigns, and local narrative maintenance to explain disappearances and prevent public/pattern detection.
Supplies And Consumables $60K/yr
[#20, #8] Environmental cleaning, PPE, biomedical waste disposal, and consumables; replacement consumables for restraints/management equipment.
Custody And Identification Maintenance $60K/yr
[#17] Annual maintenance for secure databases, ID cards, barcode/tattoo documentation and digital security for specimen tracking.
Garage Tooling Consumables $50K/yr
[#9] Tooling, diagnostic consumables and materials for secure vehicle workshop operations where SCP-1080-1 perform repairs.
Emergency Drills $50K/yr
[#22] Recurring funding for emergency drills, rapid-deployment readiness and contingency exercises.
Data Security Maintenance $50K/yr
[#28] Ongoing secure-redaction, encryption maintenance and archival integrity costs.
Facilities Maintenance $25K/yr
[#1, #7, #9] Annual maintenance and upkeep of containment chamber, care quarters, and secure workshop/garage.
Security Training Recurrent $20K/yr
[#5] Recurrent training, drills, background reinvestigations and memetic safety refreshers for staff.
Monitoring Storage $20K/yr
[#19] Video archival storage, encrypted retention and ongoing storage hardware replacement for CCTV and recording retention.
Sample Archive Maintenance $20K/yr
[#30] Cryostorage fees, cataloguing, and ongoing specimen/sample archive maintenance.
Chamber Hardware Spares $6K/yr
[#2] Spare parts inventory and maintenance for chamber sensors, magnet control, PLCs and door systems.
Backup Power Fuel Testing $6K/yr
[#3] Fuel, testing, and routine maintenance for UPS/generator systems supporting containment.
Restraint Replacement $3K/yr
[#8] Ongoing replacement and small repairs for non-harmful restraint/management devices.
Subject Acquisition Program $0/yr
[#25] Program-level costs for recruiting/replacing test subjects; set to 0 for baseline (inactive) operations; accounted for in alternate scenarios if experimentation proceeds.
Operational Offset $-100000/yr
[#26] Estimated net operational offset from employing SCP-1080-1 for controlled maintenance labor (savings applied as negative recurring cost).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.3M/yr
90.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine operations, containment, research and cover work proceed at planned levels.
no public exposure routine emergences only no large-scale investigations
🚨 Minor Incident $6.0M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$750K vs baseline
Small-scale public sighting, an unplanned emergence requiring localized response, additional amnestic use and increased legal/PR activity.
unexpected witness reports single emergent SCP-1080-1 public contact localized law-enforcement involvement
🚨 Major Breach $8.3M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Significant exposure or legal/criminal discovery requiring mass amnestic deployment, litigation/settlements, major PR campaigns and potential relocation of assets.
political exposure pattern of missing-children linked publicly to site criminal investigation or civil litigation
👥 Personnel 34 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#4] Front-line guards posted outside containment (6 FTE).
Security Supervisor 1 [#4] Supervisor for shift management and overtime contingency.
Research Scientist 3 [#13] Scientists studying mechanism, disabilities and reversibility (2-4 recommended; midpoint used).
Research Technician 2 [#13] Lab technicians supporting imaging, sequencing and sample prep.
Medical Officer 2 [#6] Physicians (pediatrics/trauma) on staff/on-call.
Nurse / Medical Staff 4 [#6] Nurses and med techs for acute care and ongoing monitoring.
Field Agent 5 [#12] Agents for report response and investigations (4-6 in notes; midpoint used).
Care Worker / Long-term Care Staff 6 [#7] Staff for daily supervision and care of SCP-1080-1 specimens.
Administrative Staff 2 [#15, #10] Administrative/compliance staff for ethical oversight, recordkeeping and cover operations liaison.
Engineer / Maintenance 1 [#9, #2] Workshop/containment systems maintenance and PLC/equipment support.
Driver / Transport Operator 2 [#18] Drivers/operators for secure transport and armored transfers.
📋 Confidence Notes
Notes provide detailed line items and ranges but many values (legal exposure, specimen counts, decision to experiment) are highly uncertain; estimates use mid-range assumptions and explicit offsets where noted.
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