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SCP-1622 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-1622
Expected annual
$8.7M
One-time setup
$3.3M
Annual recurring
$8.7M
Personnel
34
Initial capital/setup costs are modest (a few million USD) driven by specialized containment rooms and lab fit-out; recurring annual costs are dominated by staff wages, maritime surveillance/research, and legal/cover operations totaling several million per year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.3M
Containment Breach Initial Reserve $2.5M
[#25] Initial contingency/cleanup reserve for containment breach, PR/legal, replacement of ruined stock and large-scale response (one-time seed).
Facilities $320K
[#1, #3] Construction and outfitting of the refrigerated 'sunlit wooden pantry' chamber and the high-end three-Michelin-star testing chamber (design, structural work, HVAC link, finishes).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $225K
[#21] Laboratory testing equipment and instrument capital (HPLC/Mass Spec access, initial lab setup for biochemical/microbiological analysis).
Equipment $116K
[#4, #5, #8, #9] Purchase/installation of furniture, tableware and chef equipment (#4); purchase of gilded silver platter (#5 purchase portion); installation of CCTV/access control/alarm systems (#8 install portion); UPS/generator installation (#9 install portion).
Sop Development $42K
[#28] One-time SOP development and initial training materials for safe, low-cost test protocols.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.7M/yr
Research And Monitoring $3.0M/yr
[#16, #17, #18, #22, #26] Global Balaenoptera musculus monitoring subscriptions/analysts (#16); active maritime surveillance and rapid-response capability (#17); whale-tagging and field research (#18); long-term preservation experiments/off-site redundancy (#22); dedicated R&D program to replicate production mechanism (#26).
Staff Wages $2.6M/yr
[#10, #11, #13] Salaries/benefits for security personnel (#10), scientific staff (#11), and medical staffing/on-call arrangements (#13).
Miscellaneous Overhead $1.1M/yr
[#27] Miscellaneous logistics and facility overhead (administration, janitorial, IT, procurement) estimated as ~15% of direct recurring budgets per note.
Cover Story And Legal $500K/yr
[#15] Legal, cover-up, misinformation operations, PR and covert payments for obfuscation and supplier management.
D Class Program $325K/yr
[#12] Costs related to D-Class recruitment, housing, medical checks, monitoring, turnover and secure transport to testing.
Logistics And Transport $280K/yr
[#19, #20] Interception operation costs averaged per-year (#19 per-intercept costs amortized); high-security transport of SCP material and escorted transfers (#20 estimated annual transfers).
Supplies And Consumables $152K/yr
[#6, #21] Specialty cheeses inventory and cold-chain replenishment (#6); lab consumables and service contracts (#21 recurring).
Amnestic Program $150K/yr
[#14] Procurement, storage and administration program budget for Class-B amnestics and medical oversight.
Theft And Cybersecurity $150K/yr
[#29] Cybersecurity, physical document control, background checks and theft-of-knowledge deterrence.
Ethics And Compliance $125K/yr
[#24] Psychological screening, ethics oversight boards, legal compliance and whistleblower handling.
Containment Breach Replenish $100K/yr
[#25] Annual replenishment/top-up of the containment breach contingency fund as used and required.
Insurance And Asset Protection $76K/yr
[#23, #5] Insurance, asset protection and theft prevention premiums for high-value items and liability coverage; includes small annual maintenance/insurance for the silver serving set (#5 recurring portion).
Import And Biosecurity $30K/yr
[#7] Import/customs, biosecurity inspections, permitting, quarantine and microbiological testing for international cheese shipments.
Facilities Maintenance $26K/yr
[#2, #8, #9] Climate control electricity/maintenance for cold storage (#2), security system monitoring/maintenance (#8 recurring), and generator fuel/maintenance (#9 recurring).
Training And Sop Recurring $15K/yr
[#28] Annual retraining, audits and SOP refresh for test protocols and low-cost handling procedures.
Program Budget Summary $0/yr
[#30] Summary/reference line from the analyst notes; aggregate costs are allocated to specific line items above.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.7M/yr
92.0% probability / year
Normal uneventful year with standard operations, monitoring, staff payroll and routine consumables.
no major incidents regular monitoring and research standard testing cadence
🚨 Minor Incident $8.9M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Localized containment incident or small-scale interception requiring enhanced response and short-term replacement of stock.
localized contamination single small breach/interception
🚨 Major Breach $10.7M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Significant containment breach or public exposure requiring site-wide decontamination, major PR/legal action, hospitalizations and large-scale replacements.
site breach with multiple exposures public revelation requiring legal/PR operations
🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $10.2M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Decision-year to aggressively scale R&D and surveillance (expanded maritime interception fleet and multi-year synthetic production effort).
successful research leads to scale-up decision policy decision to pursue synthetic reproduction
👥 Personnel 34 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 14 [#10, #8] 24/7 guard shifts and supervisors; also responsible for escorted transfers and site security systems.
Research Scientist 6 [#11, #21, #26] Food scientists, microbiologists and culinary specialists running tests, analyses and the R&D program.
Medical Officer 2 [#13] On-call physicians/nurses for testing support and emergency response.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#9, #2] Facilities and HVAC/UPS/generator maintenance staff.
Administrative Staff 3 [#27, #15] Procurement, site administration, and some cover/liaison functions.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#11, #15] Program leadership and legal/cover coordination.
Class-D Personnel 6 [#12, #20] Test subjects and personnel used for transfers/tests per containment procedures; managed separately from payroll (d-class program costs).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes are detailed and enumerate most cost drivers, but wide parameter ranges (especially for surveillance, R&D and contingency reserves) and policy choices (scope of maritime response, scale of R&D) leave material uncertainty.
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