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SCP-2916 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-2916
Expected annual
$5.5M
One-time setup
$28.4M
Annual recurring
$4.9M
Personnel
26
One-time setup costs dominated by large contingency/reserve pools for extreme-scale remediation; ongoing annual costs are driven by staff (monitoring, research, rapid-response) and recurring detection, remediation, and legal/PR contracts.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $28.4M
Contingency Reserve Large Scale $20.0M
[#28] Emergency contingency pool for extreme-scale infiltration/remediation scenarios.
Insurance Reserve Fund $5.5M
[#23] One-time reserve fund (insurance reserve) to backstop large remediation or legal exposure (reserve portion of #23).
Digital Detection Development $650K
[#5] One-time development of digital detection tooling, ML models, signature infrastructure.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $615K
[#14, #19, #25] Memetic containment lab buildout (#14), data migration/setup for corpora (#19), initial acquisition of backup/clean physical control texts (#25).
Buyback Recall Contingency Per Incident $500K
[#8] Per-major-title buyback/recall budget (wholesale buys + shipping/destruction) for a typical major-title incident.
Equipment $355K
[#3, #6, #4, #2] High-speed book scanners and digitization hardware (#6), telepresence/secure comms hardware and containment crates/initial equipment (#3, #4), secure teletherapy hardware for SCP-2916-2 (#2).
Machine Dr License Dev $300K
[#20] One-time development of machine-readable licensing/DRM standards and initial integration tooling.
Facilities $175K
[#7] Initial shelving/room conversion and climate-control conversion for archival storage.
Destruction Forensics Per Incident $118K
[#17] Secure destruction (incineration/shredding) plus forensic sampling and preservation per large incident.
Compensation To Authors Per Negotiation $100K
[#12] Typical settlement/compensation budget per negotiation with an author/publisher (varies widely by profile).
Incident Printing Per Incident $55K
[#15] Emergency printing/reprint costs per-incident (small to moderate runs).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.9M/yr
Rapid Response $900K/yr
[#4] On-call rapid response/containment squad ongoing staffing, vehicle leasing/maintenance, and equipment operating costs.
Research And Monitoring $800K/yr
[#13] Salaries and operating costs for linguists, memeticists, computational linguists, conferences, and research materials.
Staff Wages $450K/yr
[#1] Secure monitoring team (4 analysts + 2 guards) salaries and benefits, shift coverage, background checks.
Cover Story And Legal $400K/yr
[#10] Legal retainers and cover-story management retainer; this is the core annual legal/cover budget.
Sociocultural Monitoring $275K/yr
[#24] Social science / OSINT monitoring unit for public reaction and memetic cascade forecasting.
Public Relations $250K/yr
[#11] PR/misinformation containment, paid media buys, and leak suppression ongoing budget.
Digital Ops And Retraining $200K/yr
[#5] Ongoing operations for detection tooling, model retraining, false-positive management, and ops staff.
Recordkeeping Compliance $200K/yr
[#27] Recordkeeping, compliance staff, and audit software for chain-of-custody and internal audits.
Therapist And Remote Monitoring $167K/yr
[#2] Foundation therapist salary/contract for SCP-2916-2 plus secure remote monitoring service (~$1k/month).
Monitoring Contracts $150K/yr
[#18] Monitoring contracts and alerts with major distributors, library networks, and feeds.
Insurance Premiums $150K/yr
[#23] Annual insurance premiums to cover legal exposure, property loss from seizures, and related risks.
Public Health Contingencies $150K/yr
[#26] Annual budget for public-health/liaison contingencies (messaging, content takedowns, liaison under cover stories).
Facilities Maintenance $125K/yr
[#14] Ongoing maintenance of memetic containment lab and physical containment rooms; climate-control upkeep.
Mass Scanning Staff And Storage $125K/yr
[#6] Staff for scanning/OCR correction and secure archival storage costs for digitization pipeline.
Data Storage Compute $125K/yr
[#19] Cloud/colocated servers, backups, encryption key management, and compute for corpora and models.
Drm Audits $125K/yr
[#20] Ongoing audits and integration/support for machine-readable licensing/DRM and publisher integration.
Red Team Testing $125K/yr
[#22] Annual red-team / simulated infiltration exercises to test detection and response.
Publisher Coordination And Remediation $100K/yr
[#9] Coordination with publishers/retailers for digital remediation, rollbacks, and distributor engagements (annualized engagements).
Logistics And Transport $30K/yr
[#16] Secure courier contracts retainer and routine transport/logistics costs.
Training Sops $20K/yr
[#21] Training sessions and annual refreshers for publishers and libraries.
Secure Archival Storage $18K/yr
[#7, #25] Climate-controlled storage monthly costs for a corpus-scale archive (~100k books example) and ongoing storage for backup copies.
Telepresence Maintenance $10K/yr
[#3] Recurring maintenance, comms, and redundant connection costs for encrypted telepresence terminals and sensors.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.9M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing monitoring, research, and routine minor remediation; no major incidents.
routine_detection_ops minor false-positives no large-scale infiltration
🚨 Major Title Incident $6.0M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$1.1M vs baseline
Single major-title infiltration discovered (e.g., million-copy print run) requiring buyback, destruction, legal and PR incident response.
major-print-run infiltration publisher recall required high-profile public attention
🚨 Widespread Digital Infiltration $19.9M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$15.0M vs baseline
Large-scale infiltration across digital distribution platforms or viral bestsellers requiring activation of contingency pool, mass remediation, and extended legal/technical response.
mass digital platform compromise viral spread of altered texts need to draw contingency/reserve
👥 Personnel 26 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 6 [#13] Linguists, memeticists, computational researchers included in research_and_monitoring staff.
Monitoring Analyst 4 [#1] Continuous human monitoring (video/behavioral analysts) for SCP-2916-4 observation and detection.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 2 [#1] On-site guards for monitoring sites (part of monitoring team wages).
Rapid Response / MTF 8 [#4] On-call rapid response / containment squad personnel (24/7 rotation included in rapid_response costs).
Therapist 1 [#2] In-home Foundation therapist for SCP-2916-2.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#6, #19] IT and scanning/archival maintenance staff for digitization and compute infrastructure.
Recordkeeping / Compliance 2 [#27] Staff maintaining logs, audits, and compliance records.
Administrative Staff 2 [#9, #10] Legal liaisons, admin support for publisher coordination and cover-story management.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [] Site-level oversight and executive coordination.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based directly on analyst-supplied ranges and typical midpoints; many items have wide ranges (per-incident costs, contingency pool sizing) and infection dynamics are uncertain, so medium confidence is appropriate.
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