SCP-2745 — SCP-2745 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-2745 Safe ~ medium confidence

SCP-2745

Expected annual

$840K

One-time setup

$722K

Annual recurring

$822K

Personnel

Initial setup requires moderate one-time expenditures (~$722,000) for equipment, front-company setup, and contingency reserves; main recurring costs (~$821,600/yr) are staff wages, rent/facilities, and ongoing research/monitoring. Major incidents or expansion can raise costs into the mid-six-figures to millions in a single year.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $722K

Expansion Budget $200K

[#24] Optional long-term observation expansion / upgraded instrumentation budget if experiments scale up.

Contingency Risk Premium $200K

[#25] Contingency fund for unforeseen anomalous behavior, relocation, or extensive containment engineering.

Equipment $127K

[#7, #8, #9, #11, #12, #13] CCTV/NVR and wiring, encrypted comms/server hardware, UPS, remote interaction tools (poles/robotics), precision measurement instruments, AED/medical kit.

Management Incentives Retainer $50K

[#3] Initial discrete retainer/payments to building management/security to secure cooperation.

Insurance Reserve Initial $50K

[#18] Initial legal/indemnity reserve for lawsuits, fines, or civilian compensation.

Facilities $20K

[#1, #10, #20] Lease/access deposit and initial facility-level modifications (discreet partition/door), initial permit/filing fees.

Cover Incident Pr $20K

[#19] One-time retainer/prepared fake reporting materials for rapid PR/cover incident response.

Cover Company Setup $15K

[#2] Legal registration and initial front-company setup costs (website, signage, banking, filings).

Human Subjects Program $15K

[#14] Establishing human-subjects testing program, consent protocols, and initial oversight setup.

Sop And Training $10K

[#15] Creation of SOPs, initial translated training materials, and initial staff training sessions.

Extraction Kit $10K

[#17] Portable emergency extraction/containment kit and deployable barriers/signage.

Documentation Archival Initial $5K

[#22] Initial translation, secure printing, locked cabinets and off-site encrypted backups setup.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $822K/yr

Staff Wages $500K/yr

[#4, #5] On-site contracted guards (6 FTE) and rotating Foundation researchers/technicians (approx. 3 FTE) plus a local site liaison/admin.

Research And Monitoring $120K/yr

[#14, #16, #15] Ongoing data analysis, central lab costs, human-subject campaign costs and routine monitoring/analysis labor; includes refresher SOP work.

Facilities Maintenance $66K/yr

[#1, #9] Annual lease/rent for the suite/observation post and optional generator standby contract for power reliability.

Supplies And Consumables $34K/yr

[#7, #23] Camera/cloud monitoring fees, batteries, replacement cameras/cabling, janitorial costs to maintain front-company appearance.

Cover Story And Legal $32K/yr

[#6, #18, #20] Local legal/translation retainer, insurance/policy renewals, and annual permit/filing renewals related to the front company.

Management Incentives $24K/yr

[#3] Ongoing discrete payments/incentives to building staff/security to ensure cooperation and silence.

Logistics And Transport $20K/yr

[#21] Travel, per diem, and periodic specialist visits (airfare, hotels, visas) by central Foundation staff.

Emergency Surge Oncall $10K/yr

[#17] On-call rapid deployment team standby costs when extraction/containment surge is required.

Communications And It $6K/yr

[#8] Bandwidth, secure cloud storage, VPN/backhaul and IT maintenance.

Medical Contracts $5K/yr

[#13] On-call physician/ambulance contract, occupational health monitoring and psychiatric follow-up budget.

Cover Company Operations $3K/yr

[#2] Ongoing front-company operational costs (basic accounting, filings, website hosting, minor marketing).

Training $2K/yr

[#15] Annual refresher training and drills for local staff and Foundation liaisons.

Record Storage $500/yr

[#22] Annual secure archival and off-site encrypted backup storage costs.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $822K/yr

94.0% probability / year

Routine year with no major incidents: normal rent, staffed operation, routine research and monitoring.

normal_operations scheduled_research no_public_exposure

🚨 Minor Incident $897K/yr

5.0% probability / year +$75K vs baseline

Minor public sighting or medical incident requiring PR response, extra legal work, and limited surge security.

civilian_observation minor_medical_event limited_PR_response

🚨 Major Breach $2.3M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline

Significant public exposure or anomaly escalation requiring relocation, large legal settlements, expanded containment, and major PR campaign.

major_public_exposure property_damage_or_litigation containment_expansion_or_relocation

👥 Personnel 10 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	6	[#4] Contracted local guards (two per shift across three shifts).
Research Scientist	3	[#5, #16] Rotating anomalous-object researchers/technicians assigned to monitoring and experiments.
Site Liaison / Administrative Staff	1	[#1, #6, #2] Local foundation liaison/front-company administrator for building interactions and translation/legal coordination.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges, enabling a reasoned estimate; however many items are range-based, contingent (bribes, insurance, expansion) or optional, so uncertainty remains regarding frequency and scale of adverse scenarios.

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