SCP-1390 — SCP-1390 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-1390 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-1390

Expected annual

$24.2M

One-time setup

$15.6M

Annual recurring

$23.7M

Personnel

One-time setup/capital estimated at $15.63M driven by vessels, power, lab and contingency reserve; ongoing annual costs roughly $23.725M driven mainly by staff wages, MTF readiness, monitoring/intel, and patrol operations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $15.6M

Equipment $3.7M

[#3, #6, #8, #19] Patrol vessel/helicopter purchase, memetic-specific containment hardware, fixed+mobile incineration systems, termination equipment.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.2M

[#7, #20] Autopsy/pathology lab fit-out with memetic safeguards and onsite medical imaging (MRI/CT) procurement.

Facilities $2.5M

[#2, #4, #5, #18, #23] Physical security perimeter installation, island power infrastructure, secure archive vault construction, containment/quarantine cell fit-out, waste management setup.

Contingency Reserve $2.0M

[#24] Creation of redundancy and disaster recovery reserve for large-scale emergency responses.

Memetic Research Program Setup $1.0M

[#28] Initial R&D program for non-contact study methods and memetic countermeasures.

Mtf Readiness Setup $700K

[#11] One-time training and equipment procurement for MTF Epsilon-13 readiness and specialized memetic kits.

Sovereign Cover And Legal Setup $600K

[#1] Initial legal/cover story setup, covert lease/bribes, registration records and counsel establishment.

Secure Comms Setup $500K

[#14] Classified communications and cybersecurity initial setup, air-gap systems and redundancy.

Class B Stockpile Initial $300K

[#12] Initial Class-B amnestic production/procurement and secure stockpile creation.

Monitoring Data System $275K

[#15] Initial data/OSINT system for monitoring academia and automated syntactic detection.

Records Management Setup $250K

[#29] Setup of audited paper-chain-of-custody archives and classified catalog infrastructure.

Hiring Pipeline Setup $250K

[#25] Initial recruitment/training pipeline setup for specialized linguists and staff onboarding.

Artifact Acquisition One Time $200K

[#16] Reserved one-off discretionary budget for large emergency artifact buyouts (per-event variable).

Memetic Training Setup $150K

[#13] Design and initial run of memetic-safety training courses and specialized PPE acquisition.

D Class Translator Setup $80K

[#9] Initial screening and setup for specialty D-Class translators (psych/linguistic testing, initial housing setup).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $23.7M/yr

Staff Wages $11.0M/yr

[#10] Salaries, benefits, hazard pay for estimated on-site staff and specialists (remote-site premium pay).

Mtf Readiness Ops $2.0M/yr

[#11] Annual readiness, training, deployments, consumable kits and surge logistics for two rapid-response MTF squads.

Monitoring And Intel Ops $1.5M/yr

[#15] Annual analyst salaries, OSINT tooling, crawling infrastructure and modest payoff budget for leads.

Patrol Vessel Ops $1.0M/yr

[#3] Annual operations, crews, fuel, insurance and maintenance for owned patrol vessels/helicopter access (alternative to airlift contracts).

Facilities Maintenance $800K/yr

[#2, #4, #23] Annual upkeep for security perimeter, power infrastructure fuel/maintenance, and environmental monitoring/remediation.

Cover Story And Legal $800K/yr

[#1, #27] Ongoing covert payments/bribes/leases, legal counsel, diplomatic mitigation and PR-related legal support.

D Class Translator Program Ops $800K/yr

[#9] Annual operating costs for D-Class translator pool (housing, guards, medical monitoring, amnestics administration).

Logistics And Transport $600K/yr

[#17] Annual budget for secure transport (air ambulance, restraining transports) and routine hazardous-material logistics.

Hiring And Training Ops $600K/yr

[#25] Annual recruiting, relocation packages, apprenticeships and specialized hiring pipeline costs.

Public Relations Ops $600K/yr

[#27] Ongoing PR/deniability budget, media management and rapid-response cover teams.

Memetic Research Ops $600K/yr

[#28] Ongoing R&D costs for automated parsers, robotic reading systems and memetic countermeasure development.

Insurance And Overhead $500K/yr

[#30] Covert accounting overhead, off-books fund management, insurance where applicable and administrative overhead.

Secure Comms Ops $400K/yr

[#14] Annual maintenance, satellite costs, renewals, intrusion monitoring for classified communications.

Autopsy Lab Ops $300K/yr

[#7] Annual running costs for autopsy/pathology lab (consumables, staffing, hazardous waste disposal) with memetic safeguards.

Psych Care Ops $300K/yr

[#26] Annual psychological care, monitoring programs and suicide-prevention services for exposed staff and D-Class.

Detention Ops $250K/yr

[#18] Recurring operation costs for civilian detainee and infected-person short-term detention (staff, food, medical).

Medical Imaging Ops $250K/yr

[#20] Ongoing technical support, service contracts, and per-scan costs for CT/MRI usage under filtered protocols.

Archival Redaction $250K/yr

[#22] Annual budget for expunging public records, paying archives/publishers, creating cover metadata and forgeries.

Artifact Acquisition Fund $200K/yr

[#16] Annual discretionary fund for proactive artifact buyouts and small emergency acquisitions.

Contingency Topup $200K/yr

[#24] Annual top-up contributions to the contingency/disaster recovery reserve.

Class B Replenishment $175K/yr

[#12] Annual replenishment, storage and administration costs for Class-B amnestics (excludes per-use costs).

Incineration Ops $150K/yr

[#8] Annual fuel, filter replacement, emissions scrubbing and ash handling/vitrification.

Ethical Oversight Ops $125K/yr

[#21] Recurring administrative costs for protocol review boards, experiment oversight and legal sign-off.

Records Management Ops $125K/yr

[#29] Annual operations for high-security paper chain-of-custody archives and classified catalog maintenance.

Training And Ppe Ops $120K/yr

[#13] Annual retraining, PPE replacement, and memetic-safety refresher courses.

Termination Ops $50K/yr

[#19] Annual projected costs for humane termination operations and related medical/legal processing.

Memetic Hardware Maintenance $30K/yr

[#6] Annual maintenance and replacement for memetic-specific containment devices.

Supplies And Consumables $0/yr

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Research And Monitoring $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $23.7M/yr

91.0% probability / year

Normal uneventful year with routine operations, monitoring and occasional small recoveries; no major breaches or international incidents.

routine monitoring standard deployments no major exposures

🚨 Minor Incident $25.7M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Localized exposure or small breach (single archaeological discovery or limited infection) requiring extra deployments, payoffs, limited amnestic campaigns and legal/PR response.

archaeological discovery limited SCP-1390-2 emergence small PR/legal containment

🚨 Major Breach $58.7M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$35.0M vs baseline

Significant outbreak or exposure (site director-level infection, multi-site spread) requiring large international response, mass amnestic campaigns, replacement of assets and use of contingency reserves.

internal leadership infection multi-person SCP-1390-2 cascade international legal fallout

👥 Personnel 92 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	30	On-site security teams and rotation of assigned MTF personnel; included in staff wages [#10, #11].
Research Scientist	18	Linguists and analysts with restricted clearance responsible for analysis and oversight; included in staff wages [#10, #15].
Specialist Linguist	6	High-skill linguists for analysis and advising D-Class translators; included in staff wages [#10, #25].
Engineer / Maintenance	8	Power, facility, incinerator and equipment maintenance staff; included in staff wages and facilities maintenance [#4, #8].
Medical Officer	6	Medics for D-Class care, autopsy support and imaging operations; included in staff wages [#7, #20].
Containment Technician	6	Technicians handling memetic containment hardware, transfers and secure handling of artifacts; included in staff wages [#6, #5].
Administrative Staff	4	Logistics, HR, covert accounting and records support; included in staff wages and insurance/overhead [#29, #30].
Site Director / Executive Staff	2	Site leadership and executive oversight; included in staff wages [#10].
Class-D Personnel	12	Steady pool of specialty D-Class translators (8-16 expected); not salaried in the same way but counted in on-site headcount estimates [#9].

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges; however large variance arises from policy choices (owned vessels vs contract, D-Class pool size, contingency usage) and low-frequency catastrophic events, so medium confidence is appropriate.

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