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SCP-2115 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-2115
Expected annual
$8.4M
One-time setup
$3.5M
Annual recurring
$8.3M
Personnel
32
Estimated one-time setup costs ≈ $3,510,000 driven by containment chambers, initial research/dev, and an international contingency reserve; recurring baseline costs ≈ $6,975,800/year driven primarily by staff wages, legal/ISP coordination, web monitoring and rapid-response readiness.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.5M
Facilities $1.2M
[#6, #9] Secure meeting chambers and dedicated medical/containment suite buildout (2–4 chambers + adjacent medical isolation suite).
International Contingency Fund $1.0M
[#23] One-time reserve fund for large-scale international incident mobilization / accelerated legal actions.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $750K
[#2, #12] Development and initial deployment of persistent web monitoring/takedown system (development) and initial research program instrumentation/simulation suites.
Equipment $310K
[#1, #13, #18] Domain sinkhole hardware/IP registration/secure colo gear, CCTV/sensor hardware, physical restraint/non-lethal equipment suites (one-time purchases).
Legal Liaison Setup $120K
[#3] One-time legal/liaison setup costs for ISP/ international agreements, local legal agents and initial filings.
Training And Sop Dev $60K
[#17] One-time SOP development, training program creation, and clearance processing setup.
Amnestic Stockpile $20K
[#5] Initial Class-B/C amnestic stockpile and administration supplies purchase.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.3M/yr
Staff Wages $2.3M/yr
[#7, #10, #11, #9] Annual payroll for security guards, research analysts/transcribers, linguists/xenolinguists/behavioral researchers, and on-call medical staff.
Overhead $1.6M/yr
[#24] Opportunity cost / administrative overhead estimated at 30% of direct recurring costs.
Personnel Insurance And Counseling $466K/yr
[#19] Insurance premium increases / hazard pay (approx. 20% of payroll) plus counseling and psychiatric services.
Class D Management $450K/yr
[#8] Housing, feeding, medical monitoring, payroll and administrative overhead for dedicated Class-D assigned to testing.
Research And Monitoring $444K/yr
[#2, #12, #10, #13] Ongoing web monitoring/cloud compute, ML/NLP licensing, research program recurring costs, and data storage/transcription services.
Cover Story And Legal $440K/yr
[#3, #15, #16] Legal retainers/liaison monthly retainer and PR/cover-up / civilian compensation reserve and litigation retainer.
Logistics And Transport $350K/yr
[#4, #8] Rapid-response readiness and routine Class-D management logistics (travel, lodging, housing/overhead for dedicated Class-D pool).
Research Program Ongoing $300K/yr
[#12] Ongoing experimental program costs, grad funding, specialized sensors and controlled 'meet' experiments.
Cyber Ops $250K/yr
[#14] Offensive/forensic cyber team recurring costs and small per-operation budgets.
Legal Liaison Retainer $240K/yr
[#3] Monthly retainers and local counsel/agents in multiple jurisdictions for blocking and emergency filings.
Rapid Response Readiness $200K/yr
[#4] Standby budget for a small permanent rapid-response unit (readiness, training, reserve deployments).
Pr Cover Budget $200K/yr
[#15] Annual reserve for staged explanations, payouts and PR management.
Legal Defense Retainer $200K/yr
[#16] Ongoing legal defense / compliance and subpoena/warrant support budgets.
Web Monitoring Ops $144K/yr
[#2] Ongoing cloud compute, updates, ops and maintenance for persistent crawler/NLP takedown system.
Cctv Monitoring $144K/yr
[#13] Monitoring of honeypot profiles, OSINT, camera feeds and analyst time for public prevention.
Forensic Program $120K/yr
[#20] Forensic IT, device acquisition and per-case warrants/analysis program costs.
Public Mitigation Program Reserve $100K/yr
[#25] Small ongoing reserve for escalation readiness; major campaigns modeled in adverse scenarios.
Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr
[#6, #9] Maintenance, utilities, and upkeep for secure meeting chambers and medical/containment suites.
Domain Sinkhole Infra $60K/yr
[#1] Colocation, bandwidth, BGP announcements, ASN fees and monitoring for sinkhole/DNS blackholing.
Red Team Testing $50K/yr
[#21] Regular contingency drills and red-team testing budgets.
Training Recurring $40K/yr
[#17] Recurring training, drills, and clearance renewals.
Supplies And Consumables $32K/yr
[#5, #18] Amnestic replenishment, medical consumables, PPE, syringes, and routine restraint equipment consumables/maintenance.
Archival And Secrecy $30K/yr
[#22] Long-term encrypted archival, pay-to-seal and periodic re-redaction reviews.
Data Storage And Transcription $20K/yr
[#10] Secure long-term storage, off-site backups and contracted transcription / redaction tools (storage + services).
Restraint Maintenance $10K/yr
[#18] Maintenance for specialized restraint and non-lethal suppression equipment.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.3M/yr
75.0% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year with routine containment, monitoring, and training; no major public incidents or domain loss.
no major breaches legal/ISP blocking functioning regular operations only
🚨 Minor Incident $7.2M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$-1114000 vs baseline
One or more localized public manifestations or leaks requiring rapid-response deployment, amnestic administration, extra PR/legal work and limited overtime.
isolated public manifestation targeted takedown failure small-scale leak requiring payouts/amnestics
🚨 Domain Cannot Be Controlled $15.0M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$6.7M vs baseline
Sinkhole/BGP/legal options fail at scale; public meet requests continue and a large-scale mitigation campaign / permanent containment zones required.
mass proliferation of mirrors/clones ISP/legal blocking ineffective widespread public manifestations
👥 Personnel 32 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 Overnight/shift coverage and guard presence for experiments and chambers. Maps to security payroll estimates [#7].
Research Scientist 4 Senior researchers for behavioral and origin studies. Maps to research payroll [#11, #12].
Research Analyst / Transcription Staff 3 Document-2115 archive transcription, translation and analysis staff. Maps to [#10].
Medical Officer 3 On-call med staff for experiments and post-contact care. Maps to medical monitoring costs [#9].
Engineer / DevOps / Cybersecurity 3 Maintain sinkhole/DNS/BGP infrastructure and web monitoring systems; cyber ops support. Maps to [#1, #2, #14].
Rapid Response / Field Agents 4 Small permanent rapid-response unit for public manifestations; complementary to security staff. Maps to [#4].
Administrative Staff 2 Administrative and liaison support for legal/PR coordination. Maps to [#3, #15, #16].
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 Program oversight and liaison to higher Foundation command.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst-provided ranges are detailed but many items depend on operational choices (number of chambers, staffing levels, contingency sizing) and jurisdictional/legal variability; medium confidence in aggregated mid/high-range estimates.
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