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SCP-3079 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-3079
Expected annual
$2.6M
One-time setup
$2.5M
Annual recurring
$2.5M
Personnel
14
Estimated one-time setup and reserve costs are approximately $2,532,000, driven primarily by a contingency reserve, secure lab/vault construction, and software/technical development. Recurring annual costs are estimated at $2,490,000/yr, dominated by staff wages (security, researchers, analysts) and ongoing monitoring, legal/PR, and operational response budgets.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.5M
Contingency Reserve One Time $1.0M
[#23] One-time emergency contingency/reserve fund sized for large-scale containment/breach response.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $720K
[#6, #11, #10] I/O-NEWT initial development and research tooling, construction/setup of secure test lab/observation chamber, and initial medical/amnestic stock for research/testing.
Legal Reserve One Time $200K
[#17] One-time reserve for legal settlements/large liability events (separate from annual retainer).
Political Cover One Time $200K
[#25] Discretionary/off-books payments and initial cover arrangement costs.
Capture Response Equipment Vehicle $150K
[#9] Field rapid-response equipment and vehicle purchase (mobile med support, tactical vehicles, restraints, etc.).
Equipment $112K
[#2, #3, #13, #14, #15, #16, #21] Archival housing and climate-control hardware, biometric access hardware and logging, PPE and decon equipment, air-gapped reading hardware, secure-digitization hardware, forensic destruction equipment, and initial inventory/tracking systems.
Facilities $100K
[#1] Vault/locker upgrade and structural work for secure on-site storage.
Digital Takedown One Time $50K
[#8] One-time small-run recall / takedown & buyback campaign initial cost.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.5M/yr
Staff Wages $1.2M/yr
[#4, #5, #7, #10, #12] Dedicated vault/security guards, assigned Level-4 researchers/senior personnel, I/O-NEWT/analyst salaries (part included here), medical staff for amnestic administration, and protective/test supervision staffing (D-class management overhead captured as part of wages where applicable).
Research And Monitoring $400K/yr
[#6, #7, #24] I/O-NEWT hosting, feeds and continuous crawling, platform maintenance, and ongoing long-term research/mitigation program funding.
Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr
[#8, #17, #18, #25] Annual legal retainer and case management, ongoing digital takedown/legal campaigns, PR/misinformation spending and community influence operations, and recurring discretionary cover payments.
Supplies And Consumables $250K/yr
[#9, #10, #12, #13, #16] Per-operation capture costs (travel, lodging, drugs), amnestic drug resupply and medical consumables, per-test D-class costs, PPE replacements and decon supplies, and annual/disposal contracts for forensic destruction.
Digital Takedown Reserve $100K/yr
[#8] Annual reserve/baseline budget for buybacks, takedowns, and purchase of discovered copies.
Contingency Fund Annual Topup $100K/yr
[#23] Annual top-up to maintain emergency liquidity for medium-sized breach responses.
Community Monitoring Human Intel $50K/yr
[#19] Payments to infiltrators/informants, upkeep of clandestine online personas, and human-intel overhead in stage-magic communities.
Facilities Maintenance $30K/yr
[#1, #2, #3, #11, #14] Maintenance, utilities, and inspections for vault, archival climate control, biometric systems, secure test lab upkeep, and secure-reading terminals.
Logistics And Transport $30K/yr
[#9, #20] Armored courier/secure-transport per-move budgets and travel/escort costs for transfers and capture ops.
Psychological Support $25K/yr
[#22] Counseling, monitoring, and staff risk management for personnel exposed to anomalous material or involved in amnestic operations.
Inventory Audit And Software $5K/yr
[#15, #21] Recurring secure-storage integrity checks, audit software maintenance, and periodic inventory audits.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.5M/yr
87.5% probability / year
Uneventful year with ongoing monitoring, maintenance, and routine operations only.
no public discovery routine monitoring alerts standard research activity
🚨 Minor Incident $2.7M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Isolated discovery of an SCP-3079-A instance requiring a handful of capture/amnestic operations and targeted takedown/legal actions.
single-region leak small online post few public copies located
🚨 Major Breach $4.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Wider distribution requiring mass takedown/buybacks, numerous mass amnesticization operations, and emergency research response.
regional virality multiple public copies sold coordinated social spread
🚨 Public Exposure $12.5M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
Full public viral exposure requiring multi-million-dollar national/international containment, legal battles, and sustained PR/countermeasures.
global virality mainstream media coverage unauthorized mass distribution
👥 Personnel 14 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 Dedicated vault/transfer guards (3 shifts × 2). Mapped to security staffing estimates [#4].
Research Scientist 3 Level-4 researchers assigned for access, study, and mitigation work [#5, #24].
I/O-NEWT Analyst 2 Analysts to operate monitoring bot and triage alerts [#6, #7].
Medical Officer 1 Certified personnel to administer amnestics and oversee medical safety [#10].
Engineer / Maintenance 1 Maintain secure lab, Faraday shielding, and biometric systems [#11, #3].
Administrative Staff 1 Inventory control, chain-of-custody, and coordination for legal/PR actions [#21, #8].
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges, allowing a reasoned estimate, but many items (reserve sizing, breach frequency, scale of public spread) are highly uncertain, so overall confidence is medium.
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