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SCP-2900 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-2900
Expected annual
$591K
One-time setup
$5.5M
Annual recurring
$506K
Personnel
3.5
Initial one-time setup dominated by contingency reserve and equipment (manipulators, IT, integration); recurring costs driven by staff wages, recipient monitoring, R&D, and deployment/response budgets.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.5M
Contingency Reserve $5.0M
[#21] Contingency reserve for large-scale/exponential spread response (mass retrieval, mass amnestic/cover operations, national logistics).
Equipment $255K
[#2, #3, #4, #9, #11, #16, #18] Manipulation arms, containment display cases, initial inventory hardware/software setup, CCTV/sensor integration, transport carts/trays, initial analytics/database hardware, and local destruction equipment stand-up.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $150K
[#14] Initial R&D budget for mechanism study, mitigation experiments, and prototype countermeasures.
Facilities $50K
[#1, #19] Locker modification and office retrofitting (plinth/shelving, 1 m clearance decals, tamper-proof mounts).
Training Initial $6K
[#8] Initial staff training, posters, and briefings.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $506K/yr
Staff Wages $170K/yr
[#5, #6] Research oversight (0.25–0.5 FTE PI) and security/guarding staff for storage and transfers.
Research And Monitoring $127K/yr
[#7, #14, #16, #22] Recipient weekly testing/monitoring (per-issuance monitoring budget), ongoing R&D follow-up, analytics/database maintenance, and archival/record retention.
Insurance And Overhead $66K/yr
[#23] Administrative overhead / internal cost allocation (estimated at 15% of recurring program budget).
Logistics And Transport $54K/yr
[#12] Containment response team deployment costs (transport, overtime, quarantine, evidence processing) budgeted per year.
Cover Story And Legal $30K/yr
[#13, #15, #24] Amnestic/cover-up operations, legal/ethics reviews, liaison with local authorities, and PR/remediation for public incidents.
Medical Support $25K/yr
[#17] On-call medical staffing allocations, on-site testing supplies, and incident healthcare support.
Facilities Maintenance $15K/yr
[#9, #25] Maintenance and integration support for CCTV/presence sensors and scheduled maintenance/patching of monitoring systems.
Destruction Events $5K/yr
[#18] Per-year budget for secure destruction events (per-event disposal costs averaged).
Energy And Utilities $5K/yr
[#20] Electricity for sensor grids, CCTV, climate control in cases, and motorized manipulators.
Inventory Management $4K/yr
[#4] License/maintenance fees and tag/scanner replacement for inventory/tagging system.
Supplies And Consumables $3K/yr
[#10] Durable tags, signage, chain-of-custody forms, gloves and consumable supplies.
Training Refreshers $2K/yr
[#8] Annual refresher training and informational campaigns.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $506K/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal year with standard monitoring, deployments, training, and R&D activity; no major external incidents.
no major breaches routine monitoring and R&D
🚨 Minor Incident $556K/yr
10.0% probability / year +$50K vs baseline
Limited external incident or small offsite appearance requiring additional deployments and modest cover operations.
small offsite exposure one or two extra containment deployments localized amnestic/PR actions
🚨 Major Breach $4.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$4.0M vs baseline
Large-scale breach with rapid multi-recipient spread requiring mass retrieval, wide amnestic/cover operations, and emergency national-scale logistics.
extended offsite transport of an instance exponential instance creation public discovery
👥 Personnel 3.5 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 0.5 [#5] PI-level oversight and research time allocated (0.25–0.5 FTE; budgeted as ~0.5 FTE equivalent).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 3 [#6] On-site security/guarding for storage and escorted transfers (2–4 guards estimated; budgeted as 3).
📋 Confidence Notes
Many costs have clear ranges and defined operational mappings (equipment, monitoring, staff), but per-recipient scaling and low-probability catastrophic outcomes introduce uncertainty.
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