SCP-2000 — SCP-2000 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-2000 Thaumiel ~ medium confidence

SCP-2000

Expected annual

$625.5M

One-time setup

$12.8B

Annual recurring

$573.0M

Personnel

1000

Estimated upfront capital to establish SCP-2000 infrastructure and anomalous hardware is roughly $12.8B, driven primarily by deep excavation, reactor and decommissioning reserves, replicator fabrication and large contingency reserves. Ongoing steady-state O&M, staffing, security, energy and R&D run on the order of $573M/yr, with rare activation years costing multiple billions more.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $12.8B

Reactor Capital $3.0B

[#4] Capital cost to design, license, fabricate and install a 1 GW LFTR including initial fuel and engineered safety systems.

Decommissioning Reserve General $3.0B

[#29] General end-of-life replacement and long-term sinking fund (e.g., reactor life-cycle and major system replacements).

Reactor Decommissioning Reserve $2.0B

[#5] Sinking fund / reserve set aside for eventual decommissioning and waste handling for the LFTR (separate from periodic contributions).

Replicator Pool Capital $2.0B

[#10] Capital to build/replicate an on-site pool of 500,000 Bright/Zartion Hominid Replicators (manufacturing lines, QA, installation).

Facilities $1.4B

[#2, #3] Deep excavation (subterranean caverns) and structural internal build-out including bulkheads, rooms, sublevels, seismic reinforcement, waterproofing and surface restoration.

Sra Capital $200.0M

[#7] Initial R&D/manufacture and placement of SRAs around the facility perimeter (hexagonal spacing ~20 m).

Inventory Stockpile Capital $200.0M

[#23] Initial stockpile procurement of multi-year food, medicine, seeds, tools, fuel and raw materials.

Initial Contingency Reserve $200.0M

[#25] Initial legal/insurance/contingency reserve for cover-ups, litigation and classified incident responses.

Waste Handling Capital $200.0M

[#27] Capital for long-term nuclear waste handling, secure storage and transport planning.

Life Support Capital $150.0M

[#12] Water treatment, air purification, redundant life‑support plants sized for up to 10,000 personnel.

Environmental Contingency Reserve $100.0M

[#24] One-time contingency reserve for Yellowstone-specific geologic mitigation and site contingencies.

Intake Pipe Capital $80.0M

[#11] Installation capital for Riemannian transit intake pipe and primary processing/separation equipment.

Hydroponics Capital $80.0M

[#13] Capital for hydroponic greenhouses, seed banks and agritech to support long-term food production.

Geothermal Capital $50.0M

[#6] Capital for a geothermal standby generator system, wells and connection in volcanic terrain.

Spare Parts Capital $50.0M

[#20] Machine shops, additive fabrication equipment and initial exotic-material inventories.

Manifold Capital $30.0M

[#9] Control/automation and initial failsafe hardware to manage the Pseudo-Riemannian manifold.

Xacts Capital $20.0M

[#8] Purchase/R&D cost for five XACTS temporal-sink units and associated specialized hardware.

Data Center Capital $20.0M

[#18] High-security, air-gapped genome/memory bank infrastructure and initial dataset acquisition.

Medical Capital $15.0M

[#22] Baseline neonatal/medical facility setup and equipment for standby care capacity.

Neural Scan Capital $7.0M

[#16] Acquisition and installation of neural archetype scan hardware, air-gapped storage and initial infrastructure.

Cover Story Establishment $2.5M

[#1] Upfront legal/covert easement, initial hush payments and PR setup to establish a Park Ranger station cover.

Equipment $0

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Initial Research And Lab Setup $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $573.0M/yr

Staff Wages $120.0M/yr

[#14] Salaries, benefits and retention premiums for on-site technical staff (baseline crew estimate ~1,000 personnel at Foundation pay rates).

Decommissioning Refurbishment Contribution $100.0M/yr

[#29] Annual contribution toward mid-life refurbishments and long-term replacement reserve (sinking-fund style contribution).

Reactor Operations And Maintenance $60.0M/yr

[#5] LFTR O&M staffing, inspections, spares, regulatory/compliance and routine operations.

Research And Monitoring $50.0M/yr

[#9, #19, #24] Ongoing R&D and specialized engineering for anomalous tech, manifold simulations, and environmental/geologic monitoring.

Replicator Maintenance $50.0M/yr

[#10] Spare/repair provisioning, QA and servicing for Bright/Zartion Hominid Replicators (highly variable depending on MTBF).

Facilities Maintenance $30.0M/yr

[#2, #3, #12, #20, #27] Ongoing structural upkeep, HVAC, waterproofing, periodic civil repairs and mid-life system maintenance.

Supplies And Consumables $20.0M/yr

[#12, #23] Consumables for life-support, water treatment media, filters, chemicals and stockpile rotation costs.

Legal And Contingency Reserve Yearly $20.0M/yr

[#25] Annual reserve set aside for legal suits, PR events, classified incident response budgets and settlements.

Security Ops $20.0M/yr

[#15] Armed security teams, sensor networks, drone patrols and covert field agents (training, equipment and rotations).

Life Support Opex $10.0M/yr

[#12] Ongoing operations of water, air purification, waste recycling and life-support consumables.

Hydroponics Opex $10.0M/yr

[#13] Labor, electricity and nutrients for hydroponic food production systems.

Spare Parts Opex $10.0M/yr

[#20] Stock rotation, consumables and replacement parts for onsite fabrication workshops.

Medical Ops $10.0M/yr

[#22] Retained pediatric, obstetric and long-term child-rearing staffing, vaccines and medical consumables in standby.

Inventory Rotation $10.0M/yr

[#23] Annual refresh, expiry rotation and management of large consumable caches.

Logistics And Transport $5.0M/yr

[#21] Helicopter sorties, ground transport, discrete supply chain and routine discreet resupply flights.

Raw Material Processing Opex $5.0M/yr

[#11] Operations and consumables for raw-material intake pipe systems and processing plants.

Amnestics Administration $5.0M/yr

[#17] Per-administration pharmaceuticals, neurologists and administration costs for Class A amnestics (estimate annual usage range applied).

Environmental Monitoring $5.0M/yr

[#24] Continuous geologic/hydrothermal monitoring and routine mitigation planning in Yellowstone.

Energy Ops $5.0M/yr

[#26] Incremental electrical distribution maintenance, batteries replacement, cooling and heat-rejection O&M.

Waste Monitoring $5.0M/yr

[#27] Long-term monitoring and minor maintenance for nuclear waste containment and transport oversight.

Training Drills $5.0M/yr

[#28] Regular scenario drills, cross-site exercises and protocol maintenance (Lazarus/Ganymede/CYA related training).

Manifold Monitoring $3.0M/yr

[#9] Monitoring, automated failover tests, simulations and immediate-response drills for pseudo-Riemannian manifold.

Amnestics R&D Training $3.0M/yr

[#17] Training, R&D and admin overhead for memory-implantation programs and quality control.

Data Center Ops $3.0M/yr

[#18] Storage refreshes, integrity checks, off-site duplication and compute for genome/memory bank.

Geothermal Maintenance $2.0M/yr

[#6] Well maintenance and operations for geothermal standby generator.

Neural Scan Ops $2.0M/yr

[#16] Technicians, storage expansion, monthly/weekly scans and integrity audits for neural archetype data.

Cover Story And Legal $1.5M/yr

[#1] Annual legal retainers, hush payments, PR maintenance and administrative costs to maintain the Park Ranger cover.

Sra Maintenance $1.5M/yr

[#7] Semi-annual checks, replacements, environmental housings and technician visits for SRAs.

Xacts Maintenance $1.0M/yr

[#8] Monthly maintenance, calibration and spares for XACTS temporal-sink units.

Public Incident Response $1.0M/yr

[#30] Annualized budget for public incident responses, witness remediation, PR mitigation and restitution.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $573.0M/yr

94.0% probability / year

Normal uneventful year with steady-state maintenance, staffing, security, R&D and stockpile rotation.

steady_state_operations routine_repairs

🚨 Minor Incident $623.0M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Localized failures (SRA/XACTS or manifold degradation) requiring repairs, replacement SRAs/XACTS and short production interruptions.

SRA_failure XACTS_failure localized_equipment_damage

🚨 Major Activation $5.6B/yr

1.0% probability / year +$5.0B vs baseline

Activation under Procedure Lazarus/CYA requiring mass replicator production, surge logistics, medical/neonatal surge and major energy/fuel draw.

K-Class_event Procedure_Lazarus_activation mass_replication_surge

👥 Personnel 1000 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist	150	#14 Core R&D staff for anomalous tech, biology and systems engineering included in staff_wages.
Engineer / Maintenance	250	#14 Nuclear, civil, mechanical and electrical engineers to maintain reactor, geothermal and facility systems.
Technician	300	#14 On-site technicians for daily operations, SRA/XACTS maintenance, machine shops and fabrication support.
Biotech / Replicator Engineer	119	#14 Specialists for BZHR operations, QA, developmental hypnotherapy and genomic synthesis tasks.
Medical Officer	50	#14 Medical staff including neonatal and pediatric personnel for standby readiness.
Custodial / Support Staff	100	#14 Facilities support, logistics handlers and on-site support functions.
Administrative Staff	30	#14 Administrative, secure-records and clearance/HR functions.
Site Director / Executive Staff	1	#14 HMCL / site executive oversight included in staff_wages.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes are detailed and cover most capital and O&M categories, but ranges are very wide for several anomalous technologies (replicators, LFTR, SRA/XACTS) and Yellowstone-specific geology introduces major uncertainty; hence medium confidence.

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