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SCP-2668 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-2668
Expected annual
$77.8M
One-time setup
$123.4M
Annual recurring
$76.9M
Personnel
332
Estimated one-time capital and R&D costs are approximately $123,400,000, driven by facility retrofits, large R&D programs and equipment procurement. Baseline recurring annual costs are approximately $76,890,000, dominated by staff wages, central site operations, rapid-response teams, contingency reserves and cover-story/legal budgets.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $123.4M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $78.0M
[#8, #11, #20] Amnestic R&D & production facility build-out, counter-memetics R&D/hardware development, and discretionary extradimensional research program (multi-year R&D).
Facilities $25.4M
[#3, #22] Site retrofits and small per-site safe-rooms/power backups (Site-54 / Site-080-B build-out and per-site infrastructure).
Equipment $19.5M
[#5, #6, #16, #18] Surveillance camera/installations, fleet procurement (helicopters/vans/ATVs), secure servers, and initial protective equipment/armory purchases.
Initial Legal Setup $500K
[#15] Initial legal/diplomatic setup, permits and covert lease establishment (one-time legal setup).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $76.9M/yr
Staff Wages $39.3M/yr
[#1, #2, #4, #10, #16] Salaries, benefits and allowances for 100 on-site operatives, 96 rapid-response personnel, ~120 central-site FTEs, amnestic administration/medic staffing, and data/analyst ops.
Extreme Event Reserve $10.0M/yr
[#25] Flexible reserve for unusual, high-cost outcomes (long-duration temporal events, multi-site outbreaks, indefinite care).
Cover Story And Legal $6.0M/yr
[#13, #15] Annual PR/cover-story retainer, legal suppression teams and diplomatic liaison operational costs.
Logistics And Transport $5.5M/yr
[#7, #23] Fleet operations & maintenance (air/ground vehicles) and travel/secure-communications/logistics costs.
Administrative Overhead $5.0M/yr
[#24] Procurement, HR, audits and program management overhead (10–15% of recurring budget contingency).
Capital Replacement Reserve $3.0M/yr
[#21] Annual replacement/insurance reserve to replace high-value capital assets (helicopters, labs, etc.).
Mass Amnestic Contingency $3.0M/yr
[#12] Annual contingency for large-scale amnesticisation events / surge manufacturing and temporary facilities.
Facilities Maintenance $1.6M/yr
[#4, #5, #22] Ongoing central-site utilities/maintenance, surveillance maintenance, and site-level upkeep.
Supplies And Consumables $1.2M/yr
[#9, #19] Amnestic manufacturing consumables and archive/artifact fabrication costs.
Research And Monitoring $1.0M/yr
[#11, #17] Ongoing counter-memetics testing/updates and training/drills (Protocol ROMA).
Witness Care $1.0M/yr
[#14] Psychiatric care, compensation, relocation and inpatient services for affected civilians and staff.
Protective Equipment Replacement $200K/yr
[#18] Annual replacement/upgrade of personal protective equipment and specialist containment tools.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $76.9M/yr
93.5% probability / year
Normal year with routine operations, scheduled training, and normal contingency reserves; no major incidents.
routine operations scheduled training no major 2668-SALUTANT outbreaks
🚨 Minor Incident $81.4M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$4.5M vs baseline
Single-site 2668-SALUTANT event requiring mass amnesticisation, surge medic/MTF deployment and additional PR/legal buys.
single-site mass broadcast surge amnestic demand localized PR/legal buyouts
🚨 Major Breach $106.9M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$30.0M vs baseline
Multi-site or large-scale broadcast/exposure causing thousands of exposures and asset losses requiring heavy emergency response and capital replacement.
multi-site mass exposure asset loss (aircraft/site damage) international media spotlight
🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $126.9M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Decision/year in which Foundation initiates a large extradimensional/portal R&D program (major one-time investment) to attempt neutralization or direct access.
initiation of portal/extradimensional R&D major multi-year program startup
👥 Personnel 332 total
Role Count Notes
On-site Foundation Operative 100 [#1] One operative stationed at each prominent historical site (100-site conservative budget).
Rapid-response MTF Agent / Security 96 [#2] Eight regional teams of 12 personnel (responders, medics, memetics specialists).
Research Scientist 40 [#4] Portion of central-site research staff (xeno/ecto/temporal/memetics researchers).
Lab Technician 40 [#4] Lab techs supporting research and production (amnestic production, QA).
Site Security / Security Officers 20 [#4] Security personnel assigned to central sites (Site-54 / Site-080-B).
Administrative Staff 20 [#4] Administrative and program management staff for central operations.
Medical Officer / Field Medic 14 [#10] Amnestic administration personnel and emergency med teams (field amnesticisation, monitoring).
Data Analyst / IT Staff 2 [#16] Secure data storage, memetic-safe archival systems and analysis compute support.
📋 Confidence Notes
Line-item estimates are derived from analyst-provided figures and conservative assumptions; major uncertainties include site count, amnestic demand per event, and discretionary R&D scope (item #20). Probabilities are qualitative estimates based on object behavior (Safe/Euclid history) and contain inherent uncertainty.
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