← SCP Cost Explorer Read on SCP Wiki ↗
SCP-2780 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-2780
Expected annual
$474K
One-time setup
$562K
Annual recurring
$456K
Personnel
4
First-year one-time capital and reserve requirements total $561,500 driven by contingency/reserve lines and capital upgrades; recurring annual costs are $456,000/yr dominated by on-site security wages, research/monitoring staff, and administrative overhead.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $562K
Contingency Reserve Temporal Incidents $250K
[#23] Working reserve for urgent temporal incidents, emergency interventions, travel, secure detention, temporary housing, and rapid response costs.
Equipment $54K
[#3, #4, #20, #27] Surveillance system installation, local SAN/NAS storage appliance, initial cybersecurity hardening (hardware/software hardening) and UPS/generator purchase.
Facilities $52K
[#2, #13, #17] Door/window upgrades, long-term major-repair reserve allocation, and secure evidence vault installation (structural/room work).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $50K
[#18] Evidence analysis equipment, laboratory capability setup (microscope, spectroscopy access, contamination control, basic in-house forensic hardware).
Arrest Operation Reserve $50K
[#24] Reserved funds for planning/execution of a discrete future arrest/removal operation (2091 operation planning, travel, rehearsal, equipment).
Unmarked Vehicle Purchase $35K
[#14] Purchase and modest covert outfitting of at least one unmarked vehicle for rotations and response.
Hazardous Disposal Reserve $25K
[#28] Initial reserve for hazardous transferred-item disposal/quarantine per-incident contingency.
Contingency Reserve Sale 2089 $20K
[#22] Reserve for long-range legal work, escrow arrangements, and ensuring sale to Sahrah Fulvia by 2089 as required.
Legal And Cover Identity Setup $15K
[#1] Deed/cover identity creation, closing fees, attorney setup, fake utility/bank/mail records setup.
Initial Training $10K
[#8] Initial Temporal Division training, acting-as-a-couple briefings, and baseline psychological/resilience training.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $456K/yr
Staff Wages $180K/yr
[#6] On-site Temporal Division security personnel (2 officers) salaries, benefits, housing stipend, payroll taxes, and rotations.
Research And Monitoring $170K/yr
[#7, #19, #21] Temporal specialist researchers/analysts monitoring feeds and timeline-coherence reviews, chain-of-custody/catalog administration, and regular audit/oversight costs.
Administrative Overhead $70K/yr
[#26] HR, procurement, accounting, internal auditing and program management allocation (~15–25% of recurring personnel/research costs).
Data Archival $10K/yr
[#5] Long-term data archival, off-site backups, tape/cloud archival and periodic migration (conservative operational estimate).
Facilities Maintenance $10K/yr
[#10, #11, #12, #27] Utilities/communications, property taxes & insurance, routine property maintenance/groundskeeping, and annual UPS/generator testing/fuel.
Logistics And Transport $6K/yr
[#9, #15] Personnel rotation logistics and staged move events, plus vehicle operations (fuel, maintenance, insurance).
Training And Psychological Support $5K/yr
[#8] Ongoing counseling and periodic training/refresher sessions for on-site officers.
Supplies And Consumables $3K/yr
[#16, #18] Surveillance consumables and hardware refresh averaged, plus lab consumables for evidence analysis.
Cybersecurity And Encryption Maintenance $2K/yr
[#20] Ongoing hardening, patching, monitoring, VPN access, and key management for recorded data.
Cover Story And Legal $1K/yr
[#25] Community/cover maintenance: neighborhood relations, small gifts, HOA fees, plausible social media/mail footprint upkeep.
Inflation Provision $0/yr
[#29] Planned escalation/inflation allowance; explicit dollar provision not allocated here (plan for 2–3% annual escalation).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $456K/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal uneventful year with standard monitoring, rotations, and no major timeline incidents.
no timeline incoherence detected routine rotations and maintenance only
🚨 Minor Incident $531K/yr
10.0% probability / year +$75K vs baseline
Localized timeline anomaly or limited awareness event requiring short-term emergency response and legal/operational actions.
localized incoherence detected temporary Sahrah Fulvia awareness requiring intervention
🚨 Major Temporal Incident $956K/yr
2.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Significant timeline disruption or public exposure requiring large-scale temporal intervention, arrests, relocation, and extensive legal/containment costs.
major paradox/timeline incoherence public exposure or failed sale conditions forced arrest/removal and broad containment operations
👥 Personnel 4 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 2 [#6] Two on-site Temporal Division officers residing in the house to portray a couple and perform guard duties.
Research Scientist (senior) 1 [#7] Senior temporal researcher overseeing monitoring, timeline-coherence analysis and decision-making.
Research Assistant / Analyst 1 [#7] Junior support analyst reviewing feeds, cataloging, and assisting senior researcher.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates follow analyst line-item figures and conservative 'use' values where provided; long-duration (decades) uncertainties, price inflation, equipment obsolescence, and scenario unpredictability reduce confidence to medium.
← SCP-2779 ↑ All SCPs SCP-2781 →