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SCP-2205 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-2205
Expected annual
$330K
One-time setup
$5.4M
Annual recurring
$313K
Personnel
1
One-time archival/digitization and contingency capital dominate upfront costs (~$5.4M one-time); baseline dormant annual operations are modest (~$313k/yr) driven by archivist salary, digital integrity, legal/cover budgets and monitoring. Reactivation scenarios can add multi-million annual costs.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.4M
Facilities $3.9M
[#3, #13] Climate-controlled archive retrofit and (conditional) hardened containment/cell buildout structural costs.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $875K
[#15] Specialist research lab/lab equipment setup for anomalous temporal study (conditional setup cost).
Contingency Capital Fund $500K
[#12] One-time establishment of a rapid-response/containment capital fund (recommended ready-fund).
Equipment $139K
[#4, #5, #10, #16] High-resolution scanning and integrity hardware (#4), digital system setup (#5 one-time), portable field kit (#10), and emergency medical equipment (#16).
Legal Setup $12K
[#11] One-time legal/OPSEC setup and retainers for cover/legal readiness.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $313K/yr
Cover Story And Legal $143K/yr
[#7, #11, #20, #22, #24] Background checks/renewals (~$10k/yr), ongoing cover/OPSEC/legal maintenance (~$60k/yr), reputation/cover interventions (~$27.5k/yr), forensic notarization (~$3k/yr), and compliance/legal oversight (~$42.5k/yr).
Staff Wages $60K/yr
[#2] Part-time archivist/records-manager salary + benefits (can be shared FTE).
Black Budget Overhead $41K/yr
[#19] Black-budget/clandestine overhead (estimated 15% of baseline direct recurring costs).
Training And Drills $35K/yr
[#18] Annual training, drills and tabletop exercises for reactivation/response (~$35k/yr midpoint).
Research And Monitoring $16K/yr
[#1, #8, #21] Triannual historiography review averaged annually (~$4k/yr), automated public-records subscription (~$6k/yr), and media/social monitoring (~$5.5k/yr).
Digital Storage And It $14K/yr
[#5, #6] Offsite encrypted backups/cloud storage (~$1.75k/yr) plus IT security/logging/SIEM/privileged access management (~$12.5k/yr).
Facilities Maintenance $2K/yr
[#3] Annual maintenance for climate control, fire suppression and vault upkeep.
Logistics And Transport $1K/yr
[#9] Periodic retrieval trips to external archives (expected average ~1/3 trip/yr at ~$4k/trip => ~$1,333/yr).
Supplies And Consumables $1K/yr
[#10, #23] Field kit consumables replenishment (~$200/yr) and amortized archival media refresh (~$1,100/yr).
Secure Transport Deployments $0/yr
[#17] Per-extraction secure transport cost (per-deployment $8k–$40k). Baseline assumes 0 deployments/yr; costs incurred only if deployment occurs.
Active Containment Staffing $0/yr
[#14] Recurring staffing costs if SCP reactivates (12 security, 4 techs, 2 researchers/clinicians). Conditional; not included in baseline.
Contingency Research Operations $0/yr
[#15] Ongoing specialist research staffing/consumables if anomaly is active (conditional; excluded from baseline).
Contingency Medical Staffing $0/yr
[#16] Emergency/ICU staffing costs when anomalous human is active (conditional; excluded from baseline).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $313K/yr
96.5% probability / year
Normal dormant year with monitoring, archival maintenance, digitization integrity checks and legal/cover upkeep; no anomalous reactivation or deployments.
no_anomalous_activity_detected regular_triannual_review_only
🚨 Minor Incident $347K/yr
3.0% probability / year +$34K vs baseline
Localized brief reactivation or record divergence requiring a single targeted response (retrieval/verification, one secure transport, increased legal/PR work).
localized_record_divergence single_extraction targeted_archival_tampering
🚨 Major Reactivation $3.4M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$3.1M vs baseline
Full anomalous reactivation requiring sustained active containment, expanded staffing, research operations and medical support.
full_anomalous_reactivation multiple_record_corruptions active_human_instance
👥 Personnel 1 total
Role Count Notes
Archivist / Records Manager 1 [#2] Part-time archivist responsible for file integrity, access control and scheduling triannual reviews (salary included in staff_wages).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide explicit line-item ranges and clear mappings for dormant operations, giving reasonable precision for baseline costs. However the frequency of reactivation and scale of contingency expenditures are highly uncertain, so confidence is medium.
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