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SCP-2206 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-2206
Expected annual
$9.8M
One-time setup
$6.6M
Annual recurring
$9.2M
Personnel
49
One-time capital costs (~$6.59M) for monitoring infrastructure, vehicles, and initial inventory; recurring annual costs (~$9.24M/yr) driven primarily by staff wages, sustained media/disinformation campaigns, monitoring/DF operations, and legal/PR/insurance overhead.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $6.6M
Equipment $2.3M
[#2, #10, #11, #18, #24] Radio/antenna racks and hardware, studio broadcast equipment racks, direction-finding hardware not counted in dedicated kit line-items, and other installed hardware.
Monitoring Stations Buildout $1.2M
[#11] Fixed spectrum monitoring station hardware and antenna farms (4 regional sites at mid-range per-site cost).
Mobile Command Vehicles $600K
[#18] Outfitted mobile command vehicles / vans (fleet of 2–6, mid-range outfitting chosen).
Research Experimental Equipment $500K
[#17] High-end experimental instruments (mid-range one-off cost for beginning inter-universal transmission experiments).
Df Kits $400K
[#10] Portable direction-finding (DF) kits (4–8 kits at mid-range pricing).
Drone Program Setup $300K
[#12] Drone program setup (high-end ISR drones option) and related ground control equipment.
Facilities $275K
[#1] Secure project/containment headquarters leasehold improvements and physical security upgrades (SCIF-grade locks, badging, cameras).
Exit Strategy Reserve $200K
[#25] Decommissioning and exit strategy reserve (removing content, selling inventories, legal wind-down costs).
Studio Build $175K
[#24] Media production studio build-out / small soundstage and basic fixed install (mixing console, acoustic treatment).
Merchandise Initial Inventory $150K
[#3] Initial inventory run for e-commerce (shirts, caps, novelty items), sample production and packaging setup.
Legal One Offs $150K
[#7, #15] One-off takedown/defense events and crisis-response legal fees / ad-hoc payouts during large incidents.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $100K
[#5] Initial memetic engineering/research tools, psychometric panels and lab access costs (memetic testing setup).
Mtf Initial Equipment $100K
[#8] Initial equipment/costume/setup for Mobile Task Force Lambda-30 (costumes, mics, mixers, rehearsal space build-out).
Archive Build Out $60K
[#14] Forensic archiving and evidence storage build-out (climate control, cataloging systems, secure storage cabinets).
Server Infrastructure $50K
[#2] Dedicated server infrastructure and content-delivery (website build, developer/designer costs, initial CDN/DDoS protections).
Production Initial Set $25K
[#21] Initial production set(s) for staged media episodes / audio libraries.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $9.2M/yr
Staff Wages $5.8M/yr
[#5, #8, #10, #24, #22] Salaries and benefits for memetic research team, Lambda-30 performers/MTF personnel, RF/DF specialists, studio/audio engineers, monitoring analysts and CI/vetting staff.
Marketing Ad Buys $500K/yr
[#4] Paid ad slots, timed campaign buys across radio/local markets to seed the fiction narrative.
Social Media Ops $350K/yr
[#6] Covert social media operations, influencer payments, bot-management tools and content creation.
Research And Monitoring $300K/yr
[#10, #11, #17] Ongoing contracts for spectrum analysis, small-scale research funding, and continuous monitoring tooling & subscriptions.
Covert Payments Budget $300K/yr
[#13] Contingency funds for payments to local radio staff, licensing or silence/cooperation budgets.
Insurance Reserve $300K/yr
[#20] Annual insurance and contingency reserves for litigation and large-scale remedial actions.
Cover Story And Legal $270K/yr
[#7, #15, #16] Legal retainers, DMCA/takedown workflows, cover-story legal work, and baseline crisis PR retainers.
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#8, #9, #18, #23] Travel, lodging, per-diems for field teams and performers, and logistics for touring and DF missions.
Facilities Maintenance $180K/yr
[#1] Lease, utilities, security maintenance and facility overhead for HQ/ops room.
Monitoring Station Maintenance $160K/yr
[#11] Maintenance, power and comms for 4 regional monitoring stations (per-site ongoing costs aggregated).
Supplies And Consumables $150K/yr
[#3] Fulfillment variable costs, packaging, small consumables for live events and routine operations.
Red Team $150K/yr
[#19] Adversarial testing / penetration testing of disinformation campaigns.
Fulfillment Overhead $120K/yr
[#3] Warehouse/fulfillment center overhead, returns handling and fulfillment contracts.
Vetting Program $100K/yr
[#22] Ongoing personnel vetting, background checks, polygraphs and CI program costs.
Travel Budget $100K/yr
[#23] Travel, lodging and per-diems for performers, DF teams, and liaison activities.
Hosting And Cdn $72K/yr
[#2] Cloud hosting, CDN, streaming bandwidth and backup services for the SCP-2206 website and streaming.
Content Production Recurring $60K/yr
[#21] Ongoing production of staged media, audio libraries and episodic content for planting and reruns.
Vehicle Maintenance $60K/yr
[#18] Maintenance, insurance and operating costs for mobile command vehicles.
Aerial Operational Budget $50K/yr
[#12] Occasional chartered sorties, helicopter/ISR mission budgets and mission-specific aerial costs.
Archive Storage Recurring $36K/yr
[#14] Climate control, cataloging operations and archival staff costs for evidence storage.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $9.2M/yr
65.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with steady monitoring, disinformation, touring and maintenance at planned budgets.
steady operations no major public leak no emergency research decision
🚨 Minor Incident $9.7M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized viral leak or sudden spike in public attention requiring emergency legal/PR response and ad buys.
viral leak localized media attention small coordinated backlash
🚨 Major Breach $12.7M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$3.5M vs baseline
High-profile exposure or litigation event forcing large-scale legal defense, nationwide PR pushes, and rapid escalation of containment/monitoring.
national news exposure class-action/sustained litigation campaign backfire requiring emergency buys
🚨 Research Scale Up $11.7M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Decision to pursue high-end experimental research into inter-universal transmission with expanded facility/equipment and multi-year contracts.
scientific breakthrough proposal executive decision to fund high-end experiments
👥 Personnel 49 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Memeticist 8 [#5] Memetic engineering and behavioral research team (psychologists, memeticists, sociologists).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 16 [#8] Mobile Task Force Lambda-30 performers and operators used for staged live shows and public-facing events.
RF Engineer / Field Specialist 10 [#10] Field signal-analysis teams and DF specialists tasked with tracing broadcasts.
Audio Engineer / Producer 3 [#24] Studio audio engineers and production staff for staged broadcasts.
Monitoring Technician / Analyst 4 [#11] Monitoring station analysts and telemetry operators.
Administrative Staff 4 [#1, #2] Administrative, web/store management and logistics coordination.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#18, #11] Vehicle, RF and facilities maintenance staff.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#1] Executive oversight and coordination of campaign and containment strategy.
Legal Liaison 1 [#7, #15, #16] Legal/PR liaison handling takedowns, retainers and crisis coordination.
📋 Confidence Notes
Ranges in analyst notes are broad and many recurring costs (ad buys, covert payments, research scale) have high variance; line items are documented but per-item ranges require judgmental midpoint choices, so confidence is medium.
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