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SCP-301 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-301
Expected annual
$12.3M
One-time setup
$18.5M
Annual recurring
$12.2M
Personnel
43
Estimated initial capital expenditures of approximately $18.53M to construct and outfit a buried, electromagnetically sealed bunker and supporting systems; recurring annual operations are approximately $12.16M/yr driven by staff wages, global monitoring/retrieval budgets (marine and deep-water), and covert/international response capacity.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $18.5M
Facilities $7.0M
[#1, #3, #4, #5] Bunker excavation and reinforced concrete chamber, armored automated doors and mechanical seals, site concealment/landscaping and trail reroute, perimeter fence installation (includes engineering, permits, heavy machinery, and concealment landscaping).
Deep Water Capability Purchase $3.0M
[#18] Purchase/establishment of owned deep-water recovery capability (ROVs/submersible assets) to reduce per-incident salvage dependence on high-cost contracts.
Marine Monitoring Setup $2.5M
[#17] Initial marine monitoring network establishment (buoys, acoustic sensors, GPS floaters) and associated integration.
Equipment $2.2M
[#2, #7, #8, #9, #10, #13, #26, #27, #33, #34] EM Faraday sealing and RF filtering hardware, security weapons/armor/comms, surveillance and intrusion detection systems, generators/UPS, HVAC units, remote beacon units stock, secure communications/hardened servers setup, initial spares, ground vehicle fleet (off-road/ATVs), and forensic/sample transport hardware.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.8M
[#11, #12, #15, #31] On-site lab buildout (3 m safe testing area, remote manipulators), shielded/EM-hardened instrumentation, initial geodesic-grid mapping campaign, and hazard/prioritization modeling setup.
Incident Response Seed $1.0M
[#30] Initial contingency/reserve fund seed for catastrophic incidents, diplomatic settlements, or rapid equipment replacement.
Class D Holding Setup $500K
[#22] Class-D holding unit setup (holding cells, basic care facilities) for experimentation.
Legal Cover Initial $200K
[#29] Initial payments, easements, legal fees, and agreements to reroute trails and establish cover with local authorities.
Amnestics Stockpile Initial $200K
[#21] Initial production/stockpile of Class-A amnestics and secure pharmacy setup.
Medical Setup $150K
[#20] On-site triage and medical facility setup, isolation room and trauma kits for returned subjects.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $12.2M/yr
Staff Wages $3.3M/yr
[#6, #23] Security staffing (covering 4 Level-3 guards on-site continuously with shift rotation and backups) plus supervisors, research scientists, engineers, technicians, medics, and administrative staff; includes estimated payroll, benefits and oversight.
International Retrieval Capacity $2.0M/yr
[#19] Sustaining clandestine rapid-response capability for foreign retrievals, MEDEVAC, local fixers, and repatriation/amnestics administration.
Global Monitoring Budget $1.0M/yr
[#16] Prioritized global remote monitoring and deployment budget to maintain coverage on high-risk terrestrial egress nodes.
Marine Monitoring Ops $1.0M/yr
[#17] Contracts and operations for buoy networks, acoustic monitoring and vessel patrols for prioritized oceanic egress points.
Deep Water Ops $1.0M/yr
[#18] Annual operations and readiness costs for deep-water retrieval (ROV ops, deployment crews, contracted salvage when owned assets are insufficient).
Incident Response Reserve $500K/yr
[#30] Ongoing contingency reserve funding to handle breaches, diplomatic crises and multi-site responses (maintained fund replenishment).
Logistics And Transport $400K/yr
[#33, #34] Baseline vehicle fleet operations, fuel, routine maintenance, and sample/forensic transport operational costs.
Covert Field Retainers $400K/yr
[#32] Retainers for local operatives, safehouses, translation and fixer services in foreign jurisdictions.
Research And Monitoring $360K/yr
[#11, #12, #15, #31] Ongoing calibration/consumables for lab and sensors, instrument maintenance, mapping analytics updates and model/priority analysis updates.
Transportation Ops $300K/yr
[#33] Helicopter charters, air support charters, additional vehicle ops and fuel for rapid extractions beyond baseline fleet.
Long Term Capital Reserve $250K/yr
[#36] Amortized capital reserve for multi-decade lifecycle planning, refurbishments and major rebuilds.
Class D Operational Costs $200K/yr
[#22] Housing, care, turnover and per-D-class costs for experimental program (holds scaled to program needs).
Supplies And Consumables $150K/yr
[#25] Fuel for generators (partial), HVAC filters, PPE, lab reagents, surgical supplies, and beacon replacements.
Satellite Leasing $150K/yr
[#14] Leasing communications/telemetry bandwidth and imagery services to ingest remote beacon telemetry (leasing approach chosen over dedicated smallsat capex in baseline).
Publication Suppression $150K/yr
[#35] Data analysis resources plus costs to suppress external publications, manage rogue researchers and maintain secrecy.
Power Fuel And Testing $120K/yr
[#9] Generator fuel, testing, and maintenance costs for long-outage operation support.
Cover Story And Legal $100K/yr
[#29] Ongoing legal agreements, local liaison, small cover-story expenditures and public relations to maintain concealment.
Medical Ops $100K/yr
[#20] Consumables, medevac readiness, vaccinations and on-call medical staffing for returned subjects.
Amnestic Resupply $100K/yr
[#21] Annual resupply, training and secure disposal related to Class-A amnestic stockpile.
Spares Reserve $100K/yr
[#27] Annual replenishment and reserve for replacement parts for critical sealed systems and actuators.
Facilities Maintenance $80K/yr
[#3, #4, #5] Inspections and preventative maintenance for automated doors/seals, site concealment upkeep, perimeter fence repairs and small structural maintenance.
Secure Comms Ops $75K/yr
[#26] Encrypted communications operations, hardened backups, satellite uplinks and archival backups.
Hazard Modeling Updates $75K/yr
[#31] Annual HPC, data science and remote sensing purchases to update prioritization models for egress nodes.
Hvac Operations $50K/yr
[#10] Energy and maintenance for environmental control, filtered ventilation and dehumidification systems.
Emergency Training $50K/yr
[#24] Regular drills, breach exercises, and psychological services/counseling for exposed staff.
Environmental Monitoring $50K/yr
[#28] Ongoing soil/groundwater testing and wildlife/environmental monitoring at the buried site.
Surveillance Monitoring $40K/yr
[#8] Off-site monitoring, video storage, thermal camera maintenance and intrusion sensor service contracts.
Security Equipment Replacement $25K/yr
[#7] Yearly replacement and replenishment of weapons, armor components, radios and badge management consumables.
Forensic Ops $20K/yr
[#34] Chain-of-custody operations, quarantine logistics and specialized sample transport/containment.
Em Sealing Maintenance $15K/yr
[#2] Annual maintenance and testing of Faraday enclosure, filtered feedthroughs, and grounding systems.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $12.2M/yr
87.5% probability / year
Normal operational year with prioritized monitoring, routine ops, and no major breaches or international incidents.
routine_operations scheduled_replenishment minor_local_retrievals absent
🚨 Minor Incident $12.4M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Localized retrievals or small foreign incidents requiring modest international coordination and additional legal/cover actions.
single foreign retrieval small public exposure localized salvage contract
🚨 Major Breach $14.2M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
A significant breach or multi-site retrieval requiring international deployments, deep-water salvage, expanded MEDEVAC and diplomatic mitigation.
multi-jurisdiction retrieval deep-water salvage multiple casualties
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $22.2M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
Major public exposure or catastrophic multi-site event requiring full emergency fund drawdown, significant diplomatic settlements, and major rebuild/replenishment.
widespread media exposure diplomatic crisis infrastructure replacement
👥 Personnel 43 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 14 [#6] Level-3 guards to meet requirement of four on-site at all times with shift rotations and backups.
Security Supervisor 2 [#6] Supervisory oversight and shift management for on-site security.
Research Scientist 6 [#23] Senior researchers and postdocs to run experiments and analysis.
Engineer / Maintenance 4 [#9, #10, #27] Facility and systems engineers for generators, HVAC, seals and long-term maintenance.
Technician 4 [#11, #12] Lab and instrumentation technicians for calibration, consumables and experiment support.
Medical Officer 2 [#20] On-call medics for triage, infectious disease control and returned subject care.
Deep-water / Marine Specialist 4 [#17, #18] Operators and dive/ROV specialists for marine monitoring and recovery.
Covert Field Operative / Fixer 4 [#19, #32] Local operatives and fixers retained for international retrieval and cover operations (partial-time/retainer basis).
Administrative Staff 2 [#23] Administrative and logistics support for record-keeping, procurement and liaison.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#6, #23] Overall site/program leadership and O5-level coordination liaisons as required.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are assembled from analyst-provided ranges for each line item; many items (global monitoring, marine/deep-water capability, international operations) have wide ranges and contingent/variable usage, so totals are best-effort mid-range choices rather than precise quotes.
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