SCP-2698 — SCP-2698 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-2698 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-2698

Expected annual

$1.8M

One-time setup

$1.2M

Annual recurring

$1.7M

Personnel

Estimated one-time containment and relocation capital is approximately $1,189,000 driven by facility hardening, legal/cover costs and transport; steady-state annual operating costs are approximately $1,745,700/yr driven primarily by specialized staff wages, ongoing research/monitoring, contingency and replacement reserves.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.2M

Cover Story Legal One Time $300K

[#19] Upfront legal/diplomatic/cover story payments and contractor fees for foreign seizure/containment; mid-range selection from analyst range.

Facilities $215K

[#1, #8, #9, #10] Faraday cage chamber lining, reinforced/secure door and penetrations, HVAC modification and inert-gas suppression, and Secure E-Class Items Storage Sector upgrades. Estimates are mid-range selections from analyst ranges for structural/construction work.

Contingency Reserve One Time $200K

[#28] Initial contingency/emergency reserve (one-time top-up) to cover immediate unexpected breach/relocation expenses per analyst note; selected moderate-sized reserve.

Mtf Initial Deployment $150K

[#17] Initial Mobile Task Force seizure/deployment costs (transport, lodging, equipment) — one-time initial mobilization estimate from analyst notes.

Equipment $149K

[#2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #11, #13] Shielded RF/EM feedthroughs; isolated primary generator; solar array/battery hardware; UPS units; hardened air-gapped monitoring hardware; RF/EM detection instruments; offline archival hardware; one-way data diode hardware. Each line-item uses mid-range procurement estimates from analyst notes.

Covert Transport $100K

[#18] Secure international transport/charter and customs/escort for relocation from Japan to Site-15; mid-range of analyst estimate.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $75K

[#12, #21] Forensic lab buildout (ESD benches, fume hoods, tools) and initial compute procurement for research (GPU/compute purchase). Mid-range of provided estimates used.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.7M/yr

Staff Wages $1.0M/yr

[#14, #15, #16, #23] Specialist IT/network staff (senior systems engineer + 2 IT techs + on-call premiums), project researchers/linguists (2 FTEs), dedicated security guards (6 guards + benefits), and archival/analyst labor (2 FTE archivists). Salaries and benefits summed from analyst estimates.

Research And Monitoring $200K/yr

[#21] Core research budget for SCP-2698-A behavior, experiments, compute time and consultant fees (recurring annual research program); mid-range of analyst range.

Contingency Fund $150K/yr

[#28] Annual contingency/emergency incident fund set-aside for unplanned breaches, technical failures, or escalation responses.

Long Term Replacement $60K/yr

[#29] Annual depreciation/replacement reserve for major capital items (generators, solar, batteries, Faraday components) over 10–15 year cycles.

Cover Story And Legal $50K/yr

[#19] Ongoing PR/legal/diplomatic maintenance and contractor fees to maintain cover stories and agreements.

Witness Handling $50K/yr

[#20] Annual amnestic budget, temporary housing and counselling contingency pool for external witnesses and affected personnel.

Logistics And Transport $40K/yr

[#17] Annual high-readiness drills and periodic containment response exercises (annual drills estimate).

Continuous Web Monitoring $40K/yr

[#22] Foundation web crawlers, server and bandwidth costs plus 1–2 analysts to detect edits attributable to SCP-2698-A.

Red Team Testing $25K/yr

[#27] Annual penetration testing, audits and compliance exercises (physical and operational).

Psychological Support $20K/yr

[#24] Ongoing counselling and medical monitoring for staff exposed to manipulative communications or stress from containment protocols.

Secure Destruction $20K/yr

[#26] Annual budget for secure destruction, degaussing, incineration and offsite long-term archives for contaminated media.

Facilities Maintenance $12K/yr

[#3, #8, #9] Annual maintenance for physical containment systems including generator maintenance, reinforced door/locks maintenance and HVAC/fire-suppression inspections (mid-range annual estimates).

Document Archiving Upkeep $10K/yr

[#11] Offline archival media upkeep, cold-storage costs, indexing and controlled-access maintenance for Document 2698-Ka.

Supplies And Consumables $6K/yr

[#25] Consumables and spare parts (cables, drives, soldering supplies, batteries, fuses) — mid-range annual estimate.

Rf Detection Calibration And Staffing $6K/yr

[#7] Calibration, certification and staffing costs for RF/EM detection equipment monitoring Faraday effectiveness (annual estimate).

Forensic Consumables $5K/yr

[#12] Consumables for forensic disassembly and analysis (ESD supplies, imaging media, soldering consumables).

Primary Generator Maintenance $3K/yr

[#3] Maintenance and fuel for isolated primary generator (annual estimate).

Solar Battery Replacement $3K/yr

[#4] Amortized annual allowance for battery replacements for the solar/battery array (annualized from multi-year replacement cycles).

Data Diode Maintenance $3K/yr

[#13] Maintenance and occasional replacement/support for one-way transfer hardware.

Monitoring Hardware Maintenance $2K/yr

[#6] Maintenance for hardened, air-gapped CCTV/DVR equipment (annual service and tamper checks).

Ups Battery Replacement $700/yr

[#5] Amortized annual allowance for UPS battery replacements.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.7M/yr

88.0% probability / year

Normal year with no major incidents; containment operates as designed with routine maintenance, staffing, monitoring and research.

no breach routine maintenance ongoing research

🚨 Minor Incident $1.9M/yr

9.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline

Localized incident (unauthorized device brought near chamber, limited contamination/edit cascade) requiring extra forensics, amnestics, repairs and overtime.

unauthorized device introduction localized data contamination forensic recovery and amnestics

🚨 Major Breach $4.2M/yr

3.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline

SCP-2698 bypasses hardwired isolation or a sustained external influence causes significant outward edits/containment failure, requiring emergency mobilization, major hardware replacement, facility upgrades and diplomatic/legal remediation.

isolation bypass sustained unauthorized external editing international exposure

👥 Personnel 13 total

Role	Count	Notes
Specialist IT / Systems Engineer	1	[#14] Senior systems engineer responsible for isolation hardware, forensics and sweeps.
IT Technician	2	[#14] Two IT technicians dedicated to on-call coverage and hardware maintenance.
Research Scientist / Linguist (Japanese specialist)	2	[#15] Project researchers and Japanese-fluent analysts for direct communication and translation of SCP-2698-A outputs.
Security Officer / Guard	6	[#16] Dedicated physical access control guards (24/7 coverage across shifts).
Analyst / Archivist	2	[#23] Personnel to identify, verify, translate and archive altered media for Document 2698-Ka.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provided detailed line-item ranges; however many items (legal/diplomatic costs, contingency reserves, and breach remediation) have wide ranges and require judgment calls. Mid-range selections were used for estimates, producing medium confidence.

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