SCP-1883 — SCP-1883 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-1883 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-1883

Expected annual

$4.1M

One-time setup

$7.2M

Annual recurring

$4.0M

Personnel

First-year capital/setup costs are dominated by secure telecom/core and a recommended reputation contingency reserve; ongoing annual costs are driven by personnel (reverse-engineering, security, field teams) and D-class upkeep and response. Baseline annual recurrence is roughly $4.0M with significant upside for incidents.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.2M

Reputation Contingency Reserve $5.0M

[#24] Contingency reserve for mass-casualty compensation, long-term care, settlements and large clandestine remediation.

Equipment $650K

[#2, #5, #18] Dedicated private LTE/core and base-station hardware; initial forensic/hardware tools and initial comms-detection appliances (initial purchases and radio-engineering configuration).

Legal Pr Initial $500K

[#13] Initial payments, hush agreements, corporate contracts, and cover-business establishment costs (Sigma Computing & Programmatics support).

Exploit Procurement $350K

[#7] Initial contingency budget for acquiring or commissioning low-level exploits / red-team contractors.

Corporate Liaison $200K

[#14] One-time payments/contracts for carriers/manufacturers to cooperate, report copies, or provide emergency removal channels.

International Investigation $200K

[#19] Initial international travel, undercover hires, foreign legal counsel and investigative ops startup costs.

It Security Hardening Initial $100K

[#23] Initial air-gap/hardening purchases, privileged-access systems, monitoring tooling and insider-threat mitigation hardware/software.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $75K

[#5] Bench buildout, sandbox infrastructure, test rigs and lab shelving specific to mobile malware/reverse-engineering initial setup.

Training And Sop Initial $60K

[#22] One-time development of SOPs, Ludd Directive training materials, instructor fees and initial staff training sessions.

Facilities $50K

[#1] Shielded cabinet / Faraday/fireproof storage, environmental controls, smoke suppression and tamper detection build/mod costs.

Devices Procurement $25K

[#4] Locked-down test pool of ~30 phones and ruggedized spares / evidence tags.

Chain Of Custody Storage $20K

[#16] Secure digital vaulting, physical evidence boxes, encryption KM initial setup and archival hardware purchases.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.0M/yr

Staff Wages $900K/yr

[#6, #10] Salaries and benefits for reverse-engineering/malware research team and additional site security guards included in baseline wage pool.

D Class Upkeep $800K/yr

[#9] Housing, food, medical care and guard overhead for 10–20 D-class regularly used in tests (conservative mid-range).

Eradication Program $500K/yr

[#25] Ongoing budget for multi-year global detection, vendor collaboration and blacklisting campaigns to locate and remove extant copies.

Medical Response Contingency $300K/yr

[#11] Annual reserve for emergency medevac, surgeries and rehabilitation for severe self-harm incidents.

Field Recovery And Containment $300K/yr

[#15] Recurring costs for field teams (agents salaries portion, vehicle leases, fuel, comms, per-diem and equipment operations).

Secure Destruction $300K/yr

[#17] Costs for secure physical destruction, hazardous e-waste disposal and documented chain-of-destruction for devices (per-device recurring disposal costs aggregated).

Research And Monitoring $200K/yr

[#20] Behavioral research team, sociological modeling, data costs and ongoing study of social propagation dynamics.

Amnestic And Coverup Medical $200K/yr

[#12] Ongoing costs for medical amnestic administration, nursing and recovery ward upkeep when treating/correcting exposed civilians.

Supplies And Consumables $100K/yr

[#8] D-class test consumables, per-test replacement phones/batteries, PPE, medical disposables and procedural consumables.

Cover Story And Legal $100K/yr

[#13] Ongoing retainer for legal defense, PR messaging and small-scale cover operations.

Communications Monitoring $100K/yr

[#18] Ongoing tuning, alerts, carrier-side signature scanning and operations for network/detection tooling.

Network Operation $60K/yr

[#3] Recurring carrier/backhaul/IP transit, private core operations, SIM management and VLAN/IP transit fees.

Staff Medical Monitoring $40K/yr

[#21] Annual screening, counseling and medical oversight costs for staff exposed during tests or recoveries.

It Security Ops $30K/yr

[#23] Ongoing operations costs for insider-threat monitoring, backups and security admin.

Software Licenses $25K/yr

[#5] Annual licenses and maintenance fees for mobile forensic tooling and specialized analysis software (Cellebrite-level license band).

Training And Sop Refresh $15K/yr

[#22] Recurring refresher training, drills and SOP updates.

Facilities Maintenance $10K/yr

[#1] Recurring maintenance of Faraday/secure cabinets, environmental controls and physical site upkeep.

Chain Of Custody Maintenance $5K/yr

[#16] Ongoing storage maintenance, secure logging and archival upkeep.

Logistics And Transport $0/yr

Testing Supplies $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.0M/yr

89.0% probability / year

Normal year with containment and monitoring operating without major incidents.

no_major_outbreak routine_testing steady_field_recovery

🚨 Minor Incident $4.5M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$490K vs baseline

Localized cluster of civilian infections or a small breach requiring medical response and increased field operations.

localized_spread small_cluster_injuries increased_field_recovery

🚨 Major Breach $12.0M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$8.0M vs baseline

Widespread public spread or mass-injury event requiring large-scale medical, legal and eradication responses.

mass_exposure high_profile_media_exposure large_scale_medical_treatment

👥 Personnel 11 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist / Reverse Engineer	4	[#6] Full-time malware/reverse-engineering team (4 FTE) covered by staff_wages.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	6	[#10] Additional site guards/specialized security staff included in staff_wages estimate.
Site Director / Executive Staff	1	General site/executive oversight included in staff_wages pool.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges but many values depend on uncertain epidemiology, scale of public spread and classified contingency choices (reputation reserve). Estimates are mid-range aggregates rather than empirically measured costs.

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