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SCP-3005 Uncontained ? low confidence
SCP-3005
Expected annual
$15.7M
One-time setup
$122.4M
Annual recurring
$14.7M
Personnel
50
One-time capital and contingency needs are very large (mostly contingency reserves and potential site construction), while recurring annual operations—MTF readiness, specialist staff, monitoring, and cover-up—are the primary ongoing cost drivers at roughly mid-single-digit to low-double-digit millions per year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $122.4M
Contingency Fund $52.5M
[#18] Reserved contingency fund for large-scale breaches, mass-dissolution events, wide-area remediation, or catastrophic response (held in reserve).
Facilities $50.5M
[#3, #8, #11, #17, #30] Site 17 containment suite construction, hardened storage, decontamination suite buildout, remediation/demolition of Unit ██ remnants, and (if required) long-term containment wing/site expansion.
Equipment $6.9M
[#2, #4, #9, #10, #13, #14, #15, #20, #22] Rapid-response equipment for 11-person teams, remote manipulators/robotics, chemical dissolution & incineration hardware, sensor deployment hardware, surveillance UAV fleet, comms hardware, PPE stockpile, and high-fidelity recording gear.
Long Term Research Program $6.0M
[#26] Multi-year program startup to reconstitute containment procedures, recover documentation, and run large simulations (program capital and multi-year project costs).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.8M
[#5, #6, #12, #28] Cognitohazard R&D and hardware, theological countermeasure R&D setup, forensic data-recovery/hardening contractors and hardware, and initial secure IT/backup infrastructure.
Cover Story Setup $2.8M
[#16] Initial legal/cover-up establishment costs, front companies, and major damage-control setup.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $14.7M/yr
Staff Wages $6.0M/yr
[#1, #2, #7] Salaries/benefits for MTF Mu-17 operators (~30 personnel), a permanent rapid-response 11-person squad if retained, and psychomemetic / cognitive research specialists (midpoint staffing assumptions).
Research And Monitoring $1.6M/yr
[#5, #6, #12, #13, #22, #26] Ongoing R&D/certification updates for cognitohazard/theological countermeasures, archival maintenance, regional sensor data fees/analytics, recording-system upkeep, and annual spend on the long-term research program.
Cover Story And Legal $1.6M/yr
[#16] Ongoing legal settlements, public-affairs operations, front-company overhead, and media management budgets to conceal incidents.
Logistics And Transport $1.4M/yr
[#1, #14] Vehicle/fuel/field equipment costs for MTF operations and UAV/drone operational costs.
Intel And Liaison $1.1M/yr
[#27] Ongoing liaison, coordination, and payments/approvals with local/federal/international authorities and law-enforcement partners.
Supplies And Consumables $850K/yr
[#11, #20, #21] Decontamination / medical supplies and training consumables, specialized PPE replenishment, and testing consumables for ongoing experiments.
Personnel Support $600K/yr
[#24] Psychological care, hazard pay, recruitment premiums, and turnover mitigation for cognitohazard-exposed staff.
Facilities Maintenance $500K/yr
[#4, #8, #9, #10] Annual maintenance for remote manipulators/robotics, hardened storage operations, chemical dissolution system maintenance, and incinerator maintenance.
Training Drills $300K/yr
[#19] Recurring multi-day drills, travel, simulated casualty materials, and instructor fees.
Specialist Contractors $250K/yr
[#23] Retainers/annual consulting for theologians, linguists, memetic engineers, and other subject-matter contractors.
Environmental Monitoring $225K/yr
[#25] Continuous air/water/soil monitoring and associated compliance/falsified-reporting budgets to avoid civilian/environmental detection.
Communications Security $125K/yr
[#15] Leases and maintenance for secure redundant comms (satcom leases, encrypted links, bandwidth).
Record And It Maintenance $125K/yr
[#28] Maintenance for hardened backups, air-gapped systems, and secure-IT upkeep to mitigate further record corruption.
Disposal Event Costs $66K/yr
[#9, #10] Consumable and per-event costs for chemical dissolution and incineration events (assumed small number of events per year for baseline planning).
Evacuations Responses $0/yr
[#29] Per-event evacuation and blackout costs are contingency-driven and are budgeted zero in baseline recurring (costs handled as scenario-driven expenditures).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $14.7M/yr
75.0% probability / year
Normal year with active monitoring, training, R&D, and MTF readiness but no large-scale incidents.
routine monitoring scheduled drills ongoing R&D
🚨 Minor Incident $15.9M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline
Localized engagement requiring deployment of MTF/rapid-response squad, limited disposal events, and moderate cover-up/legal action.
regional sighting requiring rapid-response small evacuation or disposal event media/legal containment
🚨 Major Breach $29.7M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$15.0M vs baseline
Significant containment failure or discovery leading to wide-area remediation, mass dissolution/incineration events, and large legal/cover-up operations.
large-scale breach mass-casualty dissolution events major remediation and public exposure
👥 Personnel 50 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 30 [#1] Mobile Task Force Mu-17 operational complement maintained on continuous standby.
Rapid-response Tactical Team 11 [#2] Dedicated 11-person engagement squad sized to meet 'no fewer than eleven personnel' requirement.
Research Scientist / Psychomemetic Specialist 9 [#7] Memeticists, cognitive scientists, and containment researchers (midpoint staffing estimate from analyst notes).
📋 Confidence Notes
Documentation is corrupted and SCP is uncontained; many estimates rely on wide ranges and judgment calls about event frequencies, contingency sizing, and program scale. Large-tail risks (remediation, contingency draws) drive uncertainty.
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