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SCP-232 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-232
Expected annual
$1.9M
One-time setup
$5.4M
Annual recurring
$1.9M
Personnel
5
One-time startup costs are dominated by amnestic R&D and intellectual-property acquisition (total ~$5.38M); steady-state annual operations are roughly $1.91M/yr driven by staffing, legal/IP maintenance, monitoring/acquisition, and contingency reserves.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.4M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.1M
[#10, #16, #17, #19, #20, #27] Amnestic R&D/manufacturing infrastructure, initial cataloguing/conservation setup, initial full forensic battery/testing equipment use or contracted services, staff-screening system build, initial cognitive-hazard training program, initial digitization/stabilization work.
Ip Acquisition $2.0M
[#11] One-time purchase/acquisition of copyrights/publication/merchandising rights for Jack Proton holdings (territory-by-territory buys, estate negotiations).
Archive Master Acquisition $200K
[#27] Acquisition of original novels/radio/TV/film masters and physical artifacts for secure research archive.
Facilities $26K
[#1] Purchase and installation of a locked safe within Cognitohazard wing, tamper sensors integration and installation labor.
Equipment $19K
[#1, #3, #5] CCTV/audio/recording hardware (one-time), initial PPE/handling kit, battery tester and small handling equipment.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.9M/yr
Staff Wages $400K/yr
[#6, #7] Security officers (2–4 FTE) and research staff (1–2 FTE) salary & benefits.
Cover Story And Legal $370K/yr
[#11, #12, #13, #25] Front company overhead (Springfield Crown Publishing), legal counsel/copyright enforcement, PR/cover costs and small settlement/containment PR actions; includes recurring IP maintenance/renewals.
D Class Management $300K/yr
[#8] Recruiting/maintaining D-Class pool: housing, medical checks, supervision, transport, and custodial costs.
Cyber Ops Reserve $150K/yr
[#22] Baseline capability for takedowns/DDoS and related cyber-contractor work for digital suppression when needed.
Medical And Psychiatric $120K/yr
[#9] Contracted on-call medical team, psychiatric follow-up, emergency inpatient care budget.
Incident Response Reserve $100K/yr
[#21] Maintain rapid-response reserve for law-enforcement liaison, travel, and small incident reimbursements.
Large Scale Public Remediation Reserve $100K/yr
[#23] Ongoing contingency reserve to begin scaling mass remediation (mass amnestic production/logistics/PR) if large exposure risk increases.
Logistics And Transport $80K/yr
[#15, #26] Chain-of-custody transport, covert acquisition travel, insured shipping, and miscellaneous travel/foreign retrieval.
Monitoring Team And Tooling $60K/yr
[#14] Continuous monitoring service (analysts + automated scrapers) for auctions, dealers, and tooling upkeep.
Research And Monitoring $55K/yr
[#5, #17, #24] Ongoing data retention and storage for surveillance recordings, recurring lab testing budget, and secure recordkeeping/IT maintenance.
Monitoring Acquisitions Budget $50K/yr
[#14] Annual acquisition budget to buy suspect copies on secondary markets and insure/shipment costs to prevent public activation.
Amnestic Program Operational $50K/yr
[#10] Per-dose targeted amnestic administration budget and operational administration (not including large-scale deployment contingency).
Archive Maintenance $30K/yr
[#16, #27] Ongoing conservation, monitoring and secure archive maintenance for analog masters and digitized assets.
Training And Drills $15K/yr
[#20] Recurring refreshers for cognitive-hazard training and drills for personnel interacting with SCP-232.
Facilities Maintenance $14K/yr
[#1, #2] Annual safe/tamper-sensor maintenance and pro-rated site utilities/climate control and overhead allocation.
Staff Screening System Maintenance $10K/yr
[#19] HR/exposure database upkeep, training module hosting, and periodic re-certification administration.
Disposal And Destruction $5K/yr
[#18] Controlled destruction/disposal events of discovered copies (facility time, hazmat precautions) amortized per year.
Supplies And Consumables $800/yr
[#3, #4] Replacement PPE consumables, anti-static mats, and batteries/battery disposables for routine testing.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.9M/yr
94.4% probability / year
Normal year with steady-state containment, monitoring, and routine testing; no major public exposures or large incidents.
routine_testing regular_acquisitions no_public_exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $2.0M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$60K vs baseline
Localized public occurrence or discovery requiring targeted recovery, small amnestic use, and incident response.
isolated_public_discovery single-location recovery targeted amnestic administration
🚨 Major Breach $2.9M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline
Significant breach or public spread requiring mass targeted amnestics, litigation, and extended remediation measures.
widespread leak multiple public activations litigation and large-scale recovery ops
🚨 Large Scale Public Remediation $6.9M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Catastrophic public-domain exposure or national-scale leak requiring mass Class-E deployment, emergency R&D scale-up, and large PR/legal operations.
public-domain lapse nationwide viral distribution mass remediation required
👥 Personnel 5 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 3 [#6] Guard force for safe guarding and test supervision (2–4 FTE represented in staff wages).
Research Scientist 2 [#7] Research staff to run cognitive testing, analysis, and protocol maintenance (1–2 FTE represented in staff wages).
📋 Confidence Notes
Line-item recurring costs and routine containment actions are well-defined; extreme items (IP acquisition, amnestic R&D, large-scale remediation) have high variance, so overall confidence is medium.
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