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SCP-1339 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-1339
Expected annual
$863K
One-time setup
$233K
Annual recurring
$838K
Personnel
7
Initial capital costs are modest (~$0.23M) for secure storage and one-time preparedness; dominant ongoing costs are personnel (security, supervising researcher, on-call psychiatric/medical team) and legal/cover-up retainers, producing recurring costs of roughly $0.84M/year under a conservative posture.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $233K
Containment Breach Contingency Seed $200K
[#19] One-time seed reserve for emergency lockdowns, overtime, and immediate response (recommended reserve fund).
Equipment $13K
[#2, #3, #12, #13] Biometric/keypad access and alarm hardware, initial NVR + cameras purchase, initial PPE/handling kit, and secure transport case (one-time purchases).
Facilities $10K
[#1] Heavy fireproof safe purchase and bolting/installation costs (tamper-evident seals and minor structural work).
Sop Development And Initial Training $6K
[#11] SOP creation and initial development costs (one-time).
Background Checks Initial $4K
[#14] Initial police/psychological background checks for small authorized set (one-time).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $838K/yr
Staff Wages $485K/yr
[#5, #6, #7] Dedicated security staffing for access events and checks, prorated supervising researcher/containment officer salary allocation, and on-call psychiatric/medical team retention and overhead.
Cover Story And Legal $200K/yr
[#16] Baseline legal/public affairs retainer and liaison/cover-up budget.
Facilities Maintenance $50K/yr
[#4] Pro-rated Site-56 utilities, HVAC, building maintenance, and administrative overhead allocated to storing SCP-1339.
Supplies And Consumables $43K/yr
[#15, #22, #23] Record-keeping/classified file maintenance and archival, IT/security maintenance/backups (firmware updates), and personnel turnover/replacement costs attributable to stress/risk.
Research And Monitoring $25K/yr
[#8, #9, #10, #24] Aggregate expected annual costs for psychiatric inpatient stabilization, amnestic production/administration and follow-up, long-term outpatient therapy per subject, and conditional small research-restart budgeting averaged annually.
Per Incident Coverup Expected Annual $10K/yr
[#17] Annualized expectation for per-incident cover-up/settlement payouts (suicide/exposed victims) averaged across years.
Training And Retraining $6K/yr
[#11] Annual retraining and drills per authorized staff (periodic re-training costs).
Incident Response Exercises $6K/yr
[#20] Tabletop and full-scale incident response exercises and drills conducted periodically (annualized).
Forensic Reopening Expected Annual $5K/yr
[#18] Annualized expectation for occasional forensic/reopening coordination with civil authorities (conditional).
Logistics And Transport $2K/yr
[#13] Armored courier/secure transport trip costs averaged (assumes occasional transfers/tests ~2/year).
Suicide Aftermath Expected Annual $2K/yr
[#21] Annualized estimate for suicide aftermath operational costs (mortuary, internal review, staff counseling) averaged over time.
Background Checks Annual $2K/yr
[#14] Ongoing annual psychological screening and background rechecks for authorized personnel.
Cctv Storage And Backup $1K/yr
[#3] Recurring storage/backup costs for CCTV/NVR footage.
Ppe Consumables $200/yr
[#12] Consumable PPE and replacement handling straps/consumables (annual replenishment).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $838K/yr
89.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents: containment intact, routine staffing, legal retainer and averaged medical/monitoring costs.
no subject-unfastening incidents no public exposure routine maintenance and admin
🚨 Minor Incident $938K/yr
10.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline
Single subject-unfastening event requiring inpatient stabilization, amnestic administration, outpatient therapy and localized cover-up/settlement actions.
subject removal with severe psychiatric injury hospitalization and amnestic administration local cover-up/settlement
🚨 High Profile Exposure $2.3M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Badge becomes public or widely used, triggering large-scale law-enforcement/containment operations, mass amnestic campaigns and major misinformation/PR operations.
public exposure widespread unauthorized use media/political escalation
👥 Personnel 7 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 2 [#5] Two on-call/scheduled security staff equivalents to staff access events and routine checks.
Research Scientist / Containment Officer 1 [#6] Senior researcher/containment officer (approval/oversight of access; prorated salary allocation).
Medical Officer (Psychiatric team) 3 [#7] On-call psychiatric/medical team (psychiatrist, nurse/clinician, therapist) retained for rapid response and follow-up.
Administrative Staff 1 [#15] Admin/records support for classified file maintenance, scheduling and chain-of-custody logging.
📋 Confidence Notes
Containment hardware and routine staffing costs are well-bounded (moderate confidence) but many large drivers (frequency of subject-unfastening, suicides, need for per-incident cover-ups or public exposure) are stochastic and behavior-dependent, producing medium overall confidence.
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