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SCP-2795 Safe ✓ high confidence
SCP-2795
Expected annual
$411K
One-time setup
$553K
Annual recurring
$404K
Personnel
2.2
First-year outlays (one-time setup + one year of operations) are dominated by the replica-home build-out and initial lab/equipment purchases (~$553k one-time) plus ongoing personnel and operations costs (~$404.5k/yr). Main drivers are facilities/setup, equipment, and fully-burdened staff wages.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $553K
Facilities $209K
[#1, #2, #3, #6] Replica suburban home build-out, structural reinforcement/furniture hardening, environmental controls setup, and soundproofing/install.
Equipment $96K
[#4, #5, #7, #8, #14, #16, #18, #24] Permanent monitoring hardware, audio/command hardware, force/motion instrumentation, secure safe/cabinet, servers/storage hardware (one-time), initial medical supplies, UPS/hardware, and IT security hardware/setup.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $66K
[#9, #10, #11] Specialized tooling and spare-parts initial stock, outsourced anomalous-material analyses, reverse-engineering/prototyping budget.
Insurance Replacement Reserve $62K
[#22] Insurance/replacement reserve to write off or replace replica environment or equipment.
Contingency One Time $50K
[#28] One-time portion of miscellaneous contingency (10–20% of baseline projection).
Legal And Cover Setup $28K
[#20] Initial creation of cover documents, shell paperwork, and legal/setup costs.
Recovery Reserve $25K
[#21] Reserve for future covert recovery/transport operations (per-operation highly variable).
Initial Contingency Fund $10K
[#17] Initial contingency/repair fund for incidental property damage.
Sop And Initial Training $6K
[#19] Initial SOP creation and staff training development.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $404K/yr
Staff Wages $215K/yr
[#12] Fully-burdened salaries and benefits: 1x lead researcher, 1x technician, 0.2 FTE safety officer, plus overhead (~30%).
Facilities Maintenance $46K/yr
[#3, #4, #15, #18] Environmental system energy, monitoring hardware maintenance, allocated site security overhead, and UPS/generator maintenance.
Research And Monitoring $42K/yr
[#5, #13, #14, #27] Audio/software updates, annual testing/experimental budget, recurring storage/backup costs, and long-term archiving/publication control.
Contingency Recurring $30K/yr
[#28] Ongoing contingency (10–20% style reserve) for unforeseen specialized tests, tooling, or legal contingencies.
Liability Reserve Recurring $15K/yr
[#17] Annual liability/repair fund to cover property or infrastructure repairs from incidents.
Psychological Testing $12K/yr
[#23] Psychological/human-factors testing budget, participant compensation, and ethics oversight (internal).
Pr And Media Monitoring $12K/yr
[#25] Ongoing PR/media monitoring and rapid-response counter-intel for leaks.
Cover Story And Legal $10K/yr
[#20] Annual legal/cover-story maintenance and leak response budget.
Medical And Incident Response $10K/yr
[#16] Annual medical readiness, incident response fund, and agreements with onsite medics/hospitals.
It Security And Audit $6K/yr
[#24] Recurring IT security, audits, telemetry integrity checks, and network segmentation maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $3K/yr
[#9, #26] Consumables, spare parts replenishment, housekeeping supplies, batteries, lightbulbs.
Training And Compliance $2K/yr
[#19] Periodic refresher training, SOP sign-offs, and compliance tracking.
Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $404K/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal uneventful year with routine research, maintenance, and no major incidents.
routine_testing no_incidents
🚨 Minor Incident $424K/yr
12.0% probability / year +$20K vs baseline
Small accidental damage or minor personnel injury requiring repairs, overtime, and incident investigation.
localized_equipment_damage minor_medical_incident
🚨 Major Breach $554K/yr
2.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Significant damage to the replica home or equipment requiring major repairs/replacement and extended downtime.
catastrophic_equipment_failure structure_repair
🚨 Recovery Operation $434K/yr
3.0% probability / year +$30K vs baseline
Covert recovery/transport operation after discovery of additional specimen or need for emergency extraction.
new_specimen_discovery emergency_extraction
👥 Personnel 2.2 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Lead Researcher 1 [#12] Full-time lead researcher (salary included in staff_wages).
Research Technician 1 [#12] Full-time technician (salary included in staff_wages).
Safety Officer 0.2 [#12] Part-time safety officer at ~0.2 FTE (costs included in staff_wages).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item estimates and plausible midpoints; mapping to core categories is straightforward for a Safe-class, low-complexity object. Residual uncertainty remains due to high-variance items (recovery operations, contingency), but overall cost drivers are well defined.
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