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SCP-1085 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-1085
Expected annual
$3.8M
One-time setup
$2.5M
Annual recurring
$3.6M
Personnel
12
Initial one-time buildout and research equipment ~ $2.49M, with ongoing annual operations driven by staff wages, research/monitoring, and recovery campaigns totaling ~ $3.63M/yr; emergency scenarios can add millions in a single year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.5M
Emergency Seed Fund $1.0M
[#16] One-time seed for emergency response reserve to be drawn on in large-scale containment failures.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $710K
[#7, #10, #21] Buildout of safe viewing suites, purchase of major laboratory/imaging kit, and secure digitization hardware (one-time).
Facilities $700K
[#1] Dedicated blackout, blast-proof video archive vault construction with climate control, fire suppression, segregated access.
Equipment $80K
[#3, #4] Specialized access-control/video-proofing installation and inventory management software development/integration (one-time components).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.6M/yr
Staff Wages $1.4M/yr
[#5, #9] Salaries for one 6-person containment/retrieval field team and the core research staff (memetics/neurology/psychology/technicians).
Research And Monitoring $480K/yr
[#7, #8, #10, #22] Ongoing monitoring/medical/forensic program costs, outsourced imaging sessions, and environmental swab testing budgets.
Public Buyback Program $400K/yr
[#6] Incentive payments, logistics and collection booths for civilian buyback/recall campaigns (campaign-based recurring budget).
Insurance And Indemnity $200K/yr
[#24] Annual reserve for settlements, indemnity payments and cover-up contingencies to avoid litigation/whistleblowing.
Opportunity Costs $200K/yr
[#26] Conservative annual allowance for lost research opportunities and restricted study pathways (program risk).
Cover Story And Legal $150K/yr
[#18] Ongoing PR and legal retainer costs to maintain cover stories, handle seizures and settlements.
Intelligence Monitoring $150K/yr
[#19] Social media scraping, dark-web monitoring and analyst time to detect uploads/resales.
Misc Overhead $120K/yr
[#27] Administrative, IT security, records classification and other site overhead related to SCP-1085 containment.
Psychological Support $100K/yr
[#14] Psychological screening, counselling and staff assistance for those exposed to anomalous effects.
Emergency Topups $100K/yr
[#16] Annual replenishment/top-ups for emergency contingency reserve after seed drawdowns.
Mortuary And Biohazard $75K/yr
[#15] Mortuary storage, autopsy suites and secure disposal capacity reserve for casualties and associated cover procedures.
D Class Program $60K/yr
[#13] Operational overhead for D-class selection, guarding, staging and single-operation costs for sanctioned destruction procedures.
International Interception $50K/yr
[#20] Coordination costs, covert intercept logistics and occasional repatriation/shipment efforts.
Logistics And Transport $40K/yr
[#5] Vehicle fleet amortization, fuel and maintenance for containment/retrieval teams.
Training And Drills $35K/yr
[#23] Annual memetic exposure training, tabletop exercises and live drills for containment teams and staff.
Mass Destruction Rental $20K/yr
[#17] Budgeted annual allowance for occasional rental of heavy machinery or demolition specialists (event-based cost averaged annually).
Archival Redundancy $20K/yr
[#25] Periodic media migration and secure transport averaged to an annual budget for redundancy and asset migration.
Facilities Maintenance $18K/yr
[#2] Continuous HVAC, dehumidification, backup power testing and routine maintenance for archive climate control.
Supplies And Consumables $15K/yr
[#11] PPE, decontamination supplies, disposable viewing boxes and routine consumables for safe handling.
Hazardous Media Destruction $15K/yr
[#12] Contract costs for secure incineration/shredding events and required hazardous-waste handling per-year.
Secure Hosting $12K/yr
[#21] Ongoing secure hosting, audits and write-once archive costs for digitized copies.
Access Control Maintenance $10K/yr
[#3] Annual maintenance and monitoring for access-control and video-proofing systems (memetic filters, interlocks).
Inventory Maintenance $6K/yr
[#4] Hosting, updates and maintenance for inventory management / chain-of-custody systems.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.6M/yr
87.5% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year: routine containment, monitoring, buyback campaigns and scheduled research without major incidents.
no_significant_spread routine_recoveries scheduled_research
🚨 Minor Incident $4.1M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized discovery or small-scale spread requiring extra field deployments, targeted buyback and increased PR/legal activity.
localized_spread public_discovery small_breach
🚨 Major Breach $6.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$3.1M vs baseline
Significant proliferation of anomalous copies requiring mass recovery/destruction, international coordination, emergency operations and large PR/legal response.
widespread_resale cross-border_spread major_public_incidents
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $7.6M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$4.0M vs baseline
National/international uncontrolled dissemination requiring full emergency mobilization, large emergency funds, and extended crisis management.
nationwide_spread mass_media_exposure failure_of_containment
👥 Personnel 12 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 Containment/retrieval field team operatives (6-person team; salaries included in staff_wages) [#5].
Research Scientist 4 Memetics, neurology, psychology and related senior researchers (salaries included in staff_wages) [#9].
Technician / Lab Assistant 2 Lab technicians and imaging/operators supporting research and safe-viewing suites (salaries included in staff_wages) [#9, #7].
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based directly on analyst ranges and the SCP text; many line items have wide ranges and scale non-linearly with number of copies and incident severity, producing moderate uncertainty.
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