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SCP-3084 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-3084
Expected annual
$26.1M
One-time setup
$1.2B
Annual recurring
$18.8M
Personnel
50
Initial one-time capital and contingency reserves dominate costs (construction, vaults, research R&D, and large contingency funds). Recurring costs are driven by specialized staff wages, market-monitoring trading operations, legal/cover operations, and ongoing research/medical support.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.2B
Containment Impossible Planning Reserve $1.0B
[#30] Upper-bound contingency planning reserve for catastrophic, metastability-failure scenarios (planning-level acknowledgement; extreme upper bound).
Emergency Cascade Reserve $100.0M
[#17] Reserve fund to respond to localized imprecation cascade scenarios (evacuation, medical response, mitigation).
Strategic Risk Reserve $50.0M
[#28] Emergency market-intervention fund for targeted buyouts/freezes to prevent contagion.
Facilities $7.0M
[#1, #16] $4.5M estimate for a scrantonite-lined isolation cell plus $2.5M for a small network of dedicated vaults/archives (construction and structural work).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.7M
[#3, #8, #25] Development R&D for thaumic/memetic filter tech (~$750k), conceptual-volatility lab & instrumentation (~$460k), and initial R&D program for mass-neutralization exploration (~$2.5M).
Retrieval Operations Initial $2.5M
[#11] Initial prioritized sweep provisioning to recover prioritized SCP-3084-B instances (covert seizures, forensic accounting, on-site teams).
Equipment $1.6M
[#3, #7, #15, #20, #21] Includes initial suit fleet capital (~$200k), A/V memetic-sanitizing hardware (~$200k), data-sanitation/storage hardware & software (~$550k), environmental/monitoring hardware (~$550k), and curated/sanitized media curation (~$55k).
Amnestic Campaign Reserve $1.0M
[#14] One-time reserve for discrete amnestic/memetic suppression campaigns required during major containment events.
Public Incident Response Reserve $1.0M
[#29] One-time fund for major incident PR/cover-story purchases and rapid external interventions.
Consecration Initial $150K
[#2] One initial full consecration/unblessing cycle for containment materials (travel, honoraria, security, legal vetting).
Training Setup $80K
[#5] Initial specialized security & memetic-safety training program setup and certification costs.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $18.8M/yr
Staff Wages $7.8M/yr
[#5, #6, #12, #23, #24] Salaries & benefits for specialized security (esoteric-hazard guards / rapid-response), dedicated research team (thaumaturgists/memeticists), market-monitoring traders/quant thaumaturgists, forensic/accounting outreach staff, and site administrative oversight.
Research And Monitoring $4.0M/yr
[#8, #12, #15, #25] Ongoing conceptual-volatility lab operations, continuous market-monitoring / thaumic trading operations infrastructure, data-sanitization & monitoring, and continuation of neutralization R&D programs.
Cover Story And Legal $2.7M/yr
[#13, #14, #26, #29] Legal/diplomatic retainers and emergency counsel, ongoing amnestic/monitoring programs, audits/compliance, and recurring PR/cover-story budgets for low-level incidents.
Logistics And Transport $1.6M/yr
[#10, #11] Annual contingency for secure transports/convoys and recurring costs for ongoing recovery sweeps and covert retrieval operations.
Medical And Care $1.0M/yr
[#9, #19] Long-term specialized medical care for SCP-3084-A (procedures, prosthetics, regenerative treatments) plus psychological screening, staff rotations and long-term mental-health care resources.
Facilities Maintenance $620K/yr
[#16, #20, #7] Per-vault operating costs, HVAC/energy/UPS maintenance and redundant power, and A/V/system maintenance & licensing for memetic-sanitized observation systems.
Insurance And Indemnities $500K/yr
[#18] Specialized insurance, indemnities, and liability management for site, personnel and third-party damages (subject to anomalous exclusions).
Supplies And Consumables $324K/yr
[#3, #4, #21, #27] Suit maintenance and consumables (filter cartridges, batteries), entertainment licensing/updates, and miscellaneous operational consumables and decon/ disposal supplies.
Occult Consultant Retainer $240K/yr
[#22] Retainers and prioritized access to senior clergy, antipriests and occult specialists for situational interventions and emergency rites.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $18.8M/yr
80.5% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents: standard containment, research, market monitoring, and routine recovery sweeps.
no_breach routine_operations minor_research_activity
🚨 Minor Incident $19.3M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized memetic leak, suit breach, or small public exposure requiring targeted repairs, amnestics, legal action and limited market interventions.
suit_failure small_exposure targeted_amnestic_campaign
🚨 Major Breach $68.8M/yr
4.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Significant containment breach or coordinated propagation into sub-Veil financial systems requiring large legal/diplomatic actions, market interventions and extended recovery operations.
containment_breach market_embedding large_scale_retrievals
🚨 Catastrophic Cascade $1.1B/yr
0.5% probability / year +$1.1B vs baseline
Metastability failure producing an imprecation cascade with mass casualties and systemic financial contagion; requires large-scale emergency response and global stabilization funding.
metastability_failure imprecation_cascade systemic_financial_contagion
👥 Personnel 50 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 18 [#5] 24/7 posted guards and rapid-response operators (staffing covered in staff_wages estimate).
Research Scientist (Thaumaturgist / Memeticist) 8 [#6] Dedicated multi-disciplinary research team (senior-level researchers included in staffing costs).
Financial Trader / Thaumaturgic Quant 10 [#12] Market-monitoring and thaumic trading operations team responsible for sub-Veil stabilization (salaries included in staff_wages).
Forensic Accountant / Outreach Liaison 8 [#11, #23] Teams for recovery, forensic financial analysis, and discreet client outreach (salaries included in staff_wages).
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#24] Director-level approval and oversight capacity (included in administrative staffing costs).
Administrative Staff 3 [#24] Administrative support for approvals, audits, and liaison activities (covered by staff_wages).
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#20] Technical staff for HVAC, power redundancy, and environmental control systems (salaries partially within facilities / staff cost estimates).
📋 Confidence Notes
Wide value ranges, fictional/novel materials (scrantonite, spellophane), and high uncertainty around scope of recoverable instances produce low confidence. Many large contingency items are policy-level estimates rather than defensible engineering quotes.
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