SCP-2360 — SCP-2360 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-2360 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-2360

Expected annual

$2.0M

One-time setup

$1.8M

Annual recurring

$1.9M

Personnel

13.5

Initial one-time setup is approximately $1.81M driven by containment cells, medical/electronics equipment, fabrication startup, and a contingency reserve; ongoing annual operations are about $1.95M/yr driven by staff wages, security, research, feed production, insurance, and administrative overhead.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.8M

Contingency Reserve $600K

[#27] Recommended reserve for catastrophic implant failures, mass surgeries, or relocation (one-time reserve).

Equipment $485K

[#2, #5, #9, #10, #15, #18] EM generator and integration, medical monitoring & imaging amortization, servers/software, game hardware inventory, refrigeration hardware, initial recording/monitoring deployment.

Facilities $240K

[#1] Three shielded human-occupancy Faraday-cage cells including structural modification, ports, certification.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $175K

[#11, #14] Prototype/custom-spare fabrication and certification; liquid-feed formula development and validation.

Secure Transport Vehicle $105K

[#19] Purchase/modification of secure transfer vehicle (stretcher-equipped containment van).

Initial Vetting $81K

[#20] Initial personnel vetting/background checks (~$2k–$10k per staff) for initial headcount.

Replacement Decommissioning $55K

[#29] Estimated safe decommissioning / disposition costs when required (per-event reserve included as one-time estimate).

Environmental Controls $28K

[#4] HVAC/liquid-cooling plumbing and medical-grade environmental controls installation.

Site Cybersecurity Setup $25K

[#22] Initial development and hardening of secure network segmentation, hardware kill switches, and take-down protocols.

Power And Ups $18K

[#3] Redundant power/UPS/surge protection installation per cell (structural/electrical work).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.9M/yr

Staff Wages $1.1M/yr

[#6, #7, #8, #16] Biomedical technician and surgeon retainer, lead researcher and part-time behavioral scientist, 24/7 security staffing and supervisor, part-time/paid play-testers (salaries and benefits).

Administrative Overhead $324K/yr

[#28] Facility-level administrative overhead and amortization (calculated at ~20% of direct recurring costs).

Research And Monitoring $125K/yr

[#26] Long-term research and reverse-engineering budget for implant study, electronics/biocompatibility research and publications.

Insurance And Malpractice $90K/yr

[#21] Liability and medical malpractice insurance premiums to cover surgeries, containment incidents and staff claims.

Cover Story And Legal $48K/yr

[#20] Legal retainer, cover-story maintenance, and ongoing personnel vetting overhead (retainer/overhead portion).

Feed Production $42K/yr

[#14] Recurring small-batch production, sterile bottling, QC and ingredient costs for 2360 liquid feed (annualized midpoint).

Custom Spare Procurement $30K/yr

[#11] Annual procurement of low-volume sterilizable/biocompatible replacement PCBs/assemblies (spare units).

Surgical Repairs $30K/yr

[#12] Expected annualized cost of occasional major spinal implant surgeries/repairs (per-event averaged over time).

Logistics And Transport $20K/yr

[#19] Staffing, maintenance, and operational costs for secure transport and escorts.

Transport Staffing $20K/yr

[#19] Recurring staffing and maintenance costs for secure transport (drivers/escort overtime, vehicle upkeep).

Supplies And Consumables $18K/yr

[#13, #15, #23, #24] Sterile disposables, coolant fluids, feed dispensing supplies, routine peripheral replacement parts, and biohazard/waste handling.

Cybersecurity Audits $15K/yr

[#22] Regular penetration testing and security audits for the hardened LAN and emergency isolation systems.

It Support $12K/yr

[#9] Ongoing server/software maintenance, secure LAN support and access-control updates.

Training $12K/yr

[#17] Periodic training and metrics tracking to maintain mandated in-game performance for staff.

Drills And Incident Response $12K/yr

[#25] Regular full-system emergency drills including overtime, consumables and medical extraction practice.

Environmental Utilities $10K/yr

[#4] Utility and cooling costs for three cells (temperature control, coolant exchanges, HEPA filters).

Facilities Maintenance $10K/yr

[#1] Certification and maintenance of Faraday shielding, structural recertifications and periodic inspections.

Data Storage Maintenance $6K/yr

[#18] Storage, backups, and maintenance for high-fidelity audiovisual and telemetry archives.

Power Maintenance $3K/yr

[#3] UPS/battery replacement and surge-protection maintenance.

Game Replacements $3K/yr

[#10] Annual replacement parts and media for game hardware/emulation compatibility testing.

Em Interference Testing $2K/yr

[#2] Recurring testing/calibration of EM jamming system.

Equipment Calibration $2K/yr

[#5] Recurring calibration and maintenance for medical monitoring and implant telemetry readers.

Contingency Top Up $0/yr

[#27] Optional recurring top-ups to the contingency reserve (assumed zero for baseline annual budgeting).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.9M/yr

82.0% probability / year

Normal year with scheduled operations, no major incidents; routine maintenance, salaries, research, and feed production only.

normal operations no major implant failures

🚨 Minor Incident $2.0M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline

Localized electronics failure or single-subject major implant repair requiring emergency surgery and spare procurement.

single implant failure emergency surgical repair urgent spare parts procurement

🚨 Major Breach $2.6M/yr

3.0% probability / year +$700K vs baseline

Network-mediated breach or Nibbanic event requiring multiple emergency surgeries, subject relocation, heavy legal response and use of contingency reserve.

external online breach synchronized Nibbanic event full containment remediation and relocation

👥 Personnel 13.5 total

Role	Count	Notes
Biomedical Engineer / Technician	1	[#6] Full-time biomedical tech for implant servicing and maintenance (salary included in staff_wages).
Contract Surgeon (on-call / retainer)	1	[#6] Contracted implant surgeon retainer for complex spinal operations (costs included in staff_wages).
Research Scientist	1	[#7] Full-time lead researcher overseeing experiments and scheduling (salary included in staff_wages).
Behavioral Scientist (part-time)	0.5	[#7] Part-time behavioral scientist for assessments and compliance monitoring (cost included in staff_wages).
Security Officer / MTF Agent	8	[#8] 24/7 coverage with multiple guards per shift plus supervisory staff (salaries included in staff_wages).
Paid Play-Testers / Opponents (part-time)	2	[#16] Part-time paid players or trained staff to maintain mandated in-game performance ratios (cost included in staff_wages).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are order-of-magnitude with many ranges provided in analyst notes; staffing and recurring consumables are relatively well-constrained, but frequencies of surgeries, fabrication run sizes, and severity of breach scenarios drive significant uncertainty.

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