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SCP-2433 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-2433
Expected annual
$4.3M
One-time setup
$3.0M
Annual recurring
$4.2M
Personnel
29
Initial setup costs are approximately $3.0M driven by secure storage, development/integration, MTF equipment/vehicles, and a contingency pool. Annual operations are roughly $4.2M driven mainly by personnel (MTF and takedown/moderation teams), forensic processing, cloud/model operations, and legal/PR/insurance.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.0M
Equipment $1.6M
[#1, #2, #5, #10, #13, #23, #24, #26, #29] Secure safe+air-gapped workstation+storage, off-site backup hardware, web-crawler/model development capital (midpoint), MD5/blocklist integration, MTF equipment & vehicles (weapons/comms/armor + vehicles), PR/messaging setup, communications equipment, DLP tooling, honeypot/decoy creative setup (summed).
Emergency Contingency Pool $1.0M
[#22] Recommended one-time contingency pool for catastrophic spread / large emergency expenditures.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $210K
[#4, #15, #16, #17] Forensic imaging/licenses and lab software, secure Faraday-caged testing lab buildout, records software setup, and coin forensic-capital equipment.
Facilities $100K
[#20] Clandestine melting/disposal facility setup (midpoint estimate).
Legal Retainer $100K
[#7] One-time emergency legal retainer for rapid takedown/rapid-response.
Personnel Training Setup $20K
[#25] One-time SOP and training development costs.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.2M/yr
Staff Wages $2.3M/yr
[#7, #8, #13, #14, #16, #12] Ongoing salaries/benefits for takedown/legal staff, human moderation/triage analysts, MTF Lambda-84 operatives, embedded security liaison costs, RAISA/records managers, and regional translators.
Cover Story And Legal $600K/yr
[#20, #23, #27] Ongoing legal compliance/mitigation, PR/covert cover operations budget, and insurance/political/legal liability coverage.
Forensic Analysis $486K/yr
[#18] Per-coin forensic handling/analysis (low-collection scenario: ~3,650 coins/yr, 10% full forensic samples; summed handling + DNA/fingerprint + trace-metal analysis midpoint).
Research And Monitoring $356K/yr
[#4, #6, #9, #10, #11, #29] Recurring costs for forensic-software maintenance, web-crawler/model hosting & inference (cloud/GPU), platform API/data access fees, MD5/hash distribution maintenance, ephemeral-boards monitoring tooling, and honeypot program operations.
Emergency Fund $200K/yr
[#22] Annual rapid-response reserve for high-BRI or viral events (recommended operating reserve).
Facilities Maintenance $90K/yr
[#13, #15] Vehicle upkeep/maintenance and secure testing lab maintenance/calibration.
Logistics And Transport $76K/yr
[#2, #3, #19, #28] Backup-rotation courier/logistics, monthly audit rotations, coin pickup transport per-collection (low-collection estimate), and travel/lodging for field collection/hearings.
Supplies And Consumables $50K/yr
[#21, #30, #20] Medical/biocontainment consumables & PPE, miscellaneous consumables/overhead, and per-coin disposal handling consumables (low-collection estimate).
It Security $40K/yr
[#26] Recurring monitoring, audits and insider-risk mitigation for endpoint/DLP systems.
Personnel Training $30K/yr
[#25] Recurring training, exercises, SOP maintenance, and red-team simulations.
Communications Services $5K/yr
[#24] Recurring SIM/data and service contracts for operational communications (burner phones, service).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.2M/yr
87.5% probability / year
Normal uneventful year with no major viral incidents; ongoing monitoring, takedown, forensic processing at modest collection rates.
no_large_viral_spike steady_low-rate_coin_collection
🚨 Minor Incident $4.8M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$600K vs baseline
Localized or short-lived viral uptick requiring emergency fund draw, surge takedown/PR and modest additional MTF deployments.
small_viral_resurgence BRI_spike_localized
🚨 Major Resurgence $6.2M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Widespread viral resurgence requiring extended MTF operations, large-scale forensic processing, major takedown/PR campaign and elevated legal action.
widespread_sharing high_BRI_content_trending
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $9.2M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Massive, sustained viral event causing national attention and requiring full emergency mobilization, large contingency drawdowns, and multi-agency responses.
platform-wide_trending political_exposure_and_media_coverage
👥 Personnel 29 total
Role Count Notes
MTF Lambda-84 Operatives 12 [#13] Twelve operatives (personnel cost basis: 12× $90k fully loaded).
Content Takedown Specialists 4 [#7] In-house takedown specialists (part of the takedown/legal team).
Attorney / Legal Liaison 1 [#7] Dedicated attorney for takedown/legal coordination.
Triaging / Human Moderation Analysts 6 [#8] Six analysts for manual review and BRI assignment (24/7 coverage via shifts).
Records Manager (RAISA) 2 [#16] Two records/RAISA staff to maintain inventory, BRI calculations, and incident logs.
Embedded Security Liaison (Senate/Burlington) 2 [#14] Covert-secondment / liaison personnel and administrative overhead for host agencies.
Translators / Regional Analysts 2 [#12] Regional analysts/translators for non-English monitoring and international mirrors.
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items are explicitly estimated in the analyst notes (staffing, cloud, forensics), so totals are reasonably grounded, but several large variables (coin manifestation rate, viral frequency/severity, MTF surge scale) remain uncertain, producing moderate confidence.
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