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SCP-1878 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-1878
Expected annual
$1.2M
One-time setup
$1.0M
Annual recurring
$1.2M
Personnel
6
One-time startup costs are roughly $1.02M (vehicle, lab setup, equipment, and an emergency reserve); recurring annual operations are approximately $1.19M/year driven primarily by daily incineration/logistics and staff wages.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.0M
Catastrophe Reserve Establishment $688K
[#23] Establishment of a low-probability catastrophe reserve (capital held for large-scale failures or mass-exposure events).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $131K
[#10] One-time lab modifications and equipment for BSL-capable sample processing and cold storage.
Replacement Upgrade Capital $78K
[#19] Capital reserve / periodic major maintenance fund for incineration/site processing capacity (one-time allocation).
Equipment $71K
[#1, #2, #7, #8, #9, #22] Includes LGV purchase and covert modifications (#1,#2), heavy tools/PPE purchase (#7 one-time), mobile loading equipment (#8), CCTV installation (#9 one-time), and public-facing cover setup (uniforms/branding) (#22 one-time).
Field Investigations Initial $44K
[#20] Initial investigative tranche for origin research, surveys and local fieldwork.
Training Setup $6K
[#16] One-time initial training, drills and procedure B-04 documentation setup.
Facilities $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.2M/yr
Logistics And Transport $494K/yr
[#3, #5, #6] Vehicle running costs (fuel, servicing, depreciation) (#3), daily incineration/processing per-burn costs at Site-52 (#5), and overtime/shift premiums for early-morning transfer runs (#6).
Staff Wages $350K/yr
[#4, #11] Crew salaries for 3 FTE operatives/driver (#4) and research staff (chemists/microbiologists) (#11).
Research And Monitoring $122K/yr
[#10, #13, #17, #20] Recurring lab running costs and reagents/consumables (#10 recurring), evidence handling overlap (#13), environmental compliance and emissions monitoring (#17), and ongoing field investigations (#20 recurring).
Administrative Overhead $100K/yr
[#21] Allocated Site-52 overhead share (security staff, utilities, IT, management) apportioned to the SCP-1878 program.
Cover Story And Legal $42K/yr
[#14, #15, #22] Covert municipal liaison/permits and legal/cover coordination (#14), witness control and amnestic operations reserve baseline (#15), and recurring public-facing cover maintenance (#22 recurring).
Contingency For Claims $38K/yr
[#18] Annual contingency reserve for collisions, damaged civilian property and legal claims from daily road blocking operations.
Replacement Upgrade Amortisation $24K/yr
[#19] Annual amortised allocation toward periodic incinerator/site processing upgrades and capacity maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $12K/yr
[#7, #13, #16, #22] Consumable PPE and tool replacements (#7 recurring), evidence handling and chain-of-custody consumables (#13), recurring training/drills refreshers (#16), and small recurring public-facing costs (#22 recurring).
Medical Monitoring $8K/yr
[#12] Occupational health, baseline and periodic medicals, and rapid-response medical fund for operatives.
Facilities Maintenance $1K/yr
[#9] Ongoing CCTV/data storage and minor site maintenance.
Catastrophe Reserve Allocation $0/yr
[#23] No recurring annual contribution assumed in this baseline; reserve established one-time above.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.2M/yr
89.5% probability / year
Normal year with daily execution of procedure B-04, no major incidents beyond routine operations.
daily_neutralisation routine_lab_analysis regular_admin_and_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $1.2M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$50K vs baseline
Occasional failure or deviation (localized delivery to some households) requiring targeted witness control, medical responses and limited investigations.
procedure_failure partial_payload_delivery limited_witness_exposure
🚨 Major Breach $1.4M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
Significant failure leading to multiple household deliveries, hospitalizations and protracted local response (larger amnestic administration, legal claims, repairs).
widespread_delivery multiple_hospitalizations extended_field_operations
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $2.4M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline
Rare large-scale containment failure or mass-exposure event requiring emergency national-level response, major amnestic use, long-term remediation and potential public-relations/legal costs.
mass_exposure widespread_media_exposure large_scale_health_emergency
👥 Personnel 6 total
Role Count Notes
LGV Driver / Security Driver 1 [#4] HGV/LGV-qualified driver assigned to daily 05: 0operation.
Security Operative / Handler 2 [#4] Two operatives/handlers for battery-disconnect, loading and transfer duties.
Research Scientist 3 [#11] Chemists/microbiologists for compositional analysis, toxicology and ongoing monitoring (team size midpoint used).
📋 Confidence Notes
Line items and daily operational profile are well-documented and provide quantitative anchors (vehicle, crew, incineration). Significant uncertainty remains around per-burn incineration variability, witness/amnestic rates, and low-probability catastrophic reserves, so figures are order-of-magnitude budget estimates.
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