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SCP-3059 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-3059
Expected annual
$10.0M
One-time setup
$7.1M
Annual recurring
$9.5M
Personnel
36
Estimated up-front establishment costs are approximately $7.14M, with recurring annual operations of about $9.47M driven primarily by security staffing, global monitoring/remediation and research operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.1M
Contingency Reserve Initial $3.0M
[#23] Initial contingency/escalation reserve (midpoint of $1M–$5M range used here); funds for large-scale remediation or emergency purchases.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.7M
[#5, #14, #24, #12] Lab buildout and scientific instruments: initial research lab ($650k), forensics/microscopy ($400k), research therapeutic proof-of-concept equipment ($375k), literature/tooling for global crawlers ($250k).
Facilities $1.2M
[#1, #2] Containment-suite construction ($900,000) plus one-time data-exclusion workspace reconfiguration ($275,000).
Equipment $1.0M
[#8, #9, #15, #10] Hardware and field equipment: sensors ($225k), robotic/text-sweep equipment ($200k), emergency/response vehicles and gear ($500k), secure off-site hardware ($100k).
Documentation Redesign $138K
[#21] One-time redesign of documentation workflows, audio-first SOP tooling and off-site transcription controls (midpoint ~$137.5k).
It Development $75K
[#11] One-time development of sanitized/audited IT tools and secure non-textual recording systems ($75k).
Training Program Development $50K
[#17] One-time development of staff training and compliance program ($50k).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $9.5M/yr
Staff Wages $3.4M/yr
[#3, #4, #5, #22] Salaries and benefits: security staff (~$1.0M), containment technicians (~$350k), research team salaries (~$900k), long-term archival/remediation team (~$700k), plus smaller analyst/technical salaries.
Cover Story And Legal $2.6M/yr
[#13, #19] Information remediation, legal and covert cover operations (~$2.0M/yr) plus insurance/legal contingency (~$625k/yr).
Research And Monitoring $2.0M/yr
[#8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #14, #24, #25] Recurring sensor/software maintenance and ops (~$55k), robotic maintenance (~$40k), secure hosting and off-site operations (~$150k), IT operations (~$80k), global literature monitoring operations (~$450k), forensics operating costs (~$150k), therapeutic research operations (~$650k), and downstream mitigation analysts (~$400k).
Contingency Replenishment $500K/yr
[#23] Recurring replenishment for contingency/reserve to address escalation or multi-year remediation needs.
Logistics And Transport $385K/yr
[#15, #16] Emergency response readiness and training (~$185k/yr) plus an annual transport budget allocation to cover occasional specially-configured transfers (budgeted here at ~$200k/yr; per-transfer cost is $200k–$1M).
Medical Care $200K/yr
[#6] Ongoing clinical monitoring, specialist consultations, pain management and related medical costs.
Psychological Services $140K/yr
[#18] Counseling and mental-health services for staff and SCP-3059 (~$80k–$200k/yr; midpoint used).
Prosthetics And Rehabilitation $125K/yr
[#7] Ongoing prosthetics, rehabilitation services and long-term subject care.
Facilities Maintenance $100K/yr
[#1, #2] Ongoing maintenance, utilities, and off-site workspace rental/logistics (includes ~$40k/yr for off-site documentation workspace).
Training And Compliance $55K/yr
[#17] Recurring staff training, compliance audits and refresher programs (~$30k–$80k/yr; midpoint used).
Supplies And Consumables $12K/yr
[#20] Consumables and PPE (iconography-only supplies, cleaning supplies, replacement clothing).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $9.5M/yr
90.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major breaches or large-scale public propagation events.
steady containment operations routine monitoring and remediation no major public exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $10.0M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized breach or media exposure requiring emergency response, additional remediation and legal action.
small containment breach localized leak into public media one-off emergency remediation/takedown
🚨 Major Propagation $34.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Widespread propagation of altered texts requiring global remediation, large-scale legal action and reserve drawdowns.
high-volume or high-impact publication affected historical/nonfiction alterations propagate broadly large public/legal fallout requiring global operations
👥 Personnel 36 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 14 24/7 armed security to enforce 20m/50m rules and respond to incidents; maps to staff wages [#3].
Research Scientist 6 Multi-disciplinary research team and project lead to study mechanism and mitigation; maps to staff wages [#5].
Containment Technician 4 Daily checks, text sweeps, robotic operation and non-textual logging; maps to staff wages [#4].
Long-term Archival / Remediation Analyst 6 Historians/librarians for archival remediation and fabrication of cover records; maps to staff wages [#22].
Global Monitoring Analyst 3 Operators for publication crawlers and alerting; maps to staff wages/monitoring [#12].
IT / Engineer / Maintenance 2 Maintain sensors, robots, sanitized IT and secure hosting; maps to staff wages and research ops [#8, #9, #11].
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 Project oversight and liaison for containment and remediation coordination; executive overhead included in staff wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Line-item estimates are based on analyst midpoints and the SCP notes; major uncertainty remains around propagation frequency and scale (which can drive costs orders of magnitude higher), so medium confidence is appropriate.
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