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SCP-3176 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-3176
Expected annual
$68.7M
One-time setup
$438.4M
Annual recurring
$64.2M
Personnel
100
Estimated first-year one-time capital outlay is approximately $438,350,000, dominated by prototype fabrication, lab/power infrastructure and a dedicated contingency reserve; recurring annual costs are approximately $64,220,000, driven primarily by prototype test campaigns, specialized personnel, covert logistics/black-ops, and ongoing software/compute maintenance.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $438.4M
Equipment $262.0M
[#4, #5, #9, #19, #23] Power infrastructure capital, prototype fabrication, MTF kit fleet, sensor network deployment, and specialist vehicles/equipment.
Contingency Fund $100.0M
[#17] Dedicated reserve for timeline emergencies, split-timeline response and catastrophic interventions.
Facilities $53.5M
[#1, #3, #18] ChronoLock storage suite and lab/hardening construction plus specialized vault/safekeeping facility capital.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $21.0M
[#12, #13, #22] Cross-temporal software development, compute farm initial capital, and long-term archival / inter-era compatibility engineering.
Training Development $800K
[#8, #11] One-time development of MTF timeline-ops training curriculum and resilience training course.
Preservation Collection $500K
[#14] Collection, authentication and long-term preservation preparation for barter items (literature, fuels, biota).
Insurance Setup $500K
[#27] Setup costs for covert financial instruments, offshore accounts, and slush-fund establishment.
Public Science Production $50K
[#26] One-time production of curated archival-grade literature and barter sets.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $64.2M/yr
Prototype Test Campaigns $20.0M/yr
[#6] Per-test consumables, high-power shots, target destruction, emergency response and post-test analysis; major recurring cost driver.
Staff Wages $17.0M/yr
[#7, #8, #25, #20] Salaries/hazard pay for temporal physicists/chronoengineers, MTF specialist pay, documentation/continuity staff, and oversight/ethical board staffing.
Black Ops Procurement $10.0M/yr
[#15] Covert procurement, clandestine transport, falsified provenance, and covert logistics to effect trades and cover-ups.
Cross Temporal Software Maintenance $4.0M/yr
[#12] Ongoing development, maintenance and HPC/cloud costs for cross-temporal detection and monitoring software.
Power Infrastructure Maintenance $2.0M/yr
[#4] Fuel, service contracts and maintenance for on-site generators/battery banks/reactor and grid upgrades.
Compute Farm Operations $2.0M/yr
[#13] Power, operations and licensing for massive simulation/causality-model compute farm.
Personnel Replacement Budget $1.5M/yr
[#21] Medical care, pensions, dependent compensation and cover-up/resettlement for casualties and terminations.
Mental Health Program $1.0M/yr
[#11] Long-term counseling, psychiatric care, and stress-mitigation services.
Legal Coverup Disinformation $1.0M/yr
[#16] Media sanitization, legal teams, staged accidents and disinformation campaigns.
Environmental Mitigation $1.0M/yr
[#24] Hazardous waste handling, chronal contamination cleanup and small-incident reserves.
Public Research Cover Programs $1.0M/yr
[#29] Front companies, academic partnerships and cover grants to mask temporal R&D activity.
Chrono Lock Operations $500K/yr
[#2] Operational rotation, cryptographic seal refresh, air-gap and off-site time-locked backup program costs.
Amnesticization Program $500K/yr
[#10] Drugs, facilities, staff and post-care for amnestic events arising from operations.
Sensor Network Monitoring $500K/yr
[#19] Monitoring, maintenance and data retrieval for distributed cross-temporal sensors and beacons.
Training Simulations $500K/yr
[#28] Regular tabletop and live exercises simulating split-timeline and replacement operations.
Audit Debrief $500K/yr
[#30] After-action reviews, forensic timeline analysis and reconstitution efforts post-intervention.
Mtf Kits Replacement $250K/yr
[#9] Recurring replacement and small consumables for temporal-ops kits and PPE.
Preservation Conservation $250K/yr
[#14] Ongoing conservation and maintenance of preserved barter items (cryopreservation, seedbank upkeep).
Chrono Lock Maintenance $200K/yr
[#1] Ongoing maintenance, media refresh, and environmental controls for ChronoLock storage suite.
Insurance Maintenance $200K/yr
[#27] Ongoing maintenance costs for covert accounts, hedging and financial instruments.
Redundant Storage Maintenance $200K/yr
[#18] Annual storage and chain-of-custody maintenance for vaulted prototype iterations.
Archival Updates $100K/yr
[#22] Ongoing updates to multi-era translators, encodings and compatibility work for long-term archives.
Public Science Cataloging $20K/yr
[#26] Cataloging, replacement and small upkeep for barter/public-science materials.
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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Research And Monitoring $0/yr
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Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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Cover Story And Legal $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $64.2M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine testing and operations; no major timeline incidents.
routine_testing scheduled_deployments software_and_compute_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $69.2M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Localized split-timeline event or prototype misfire requiring targeted remediation, additional amnesticization and legal cover-up.
small_split_timeline prototype_misfire localized_containment_failure
🚨 Major Breach $264.2M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$200.0M vs baseline
DT-Class Split Timeline or catastrophic prototype failure requiring large-scale redeployments, payout from contingency fund and broad amnestics/cleanup.
DT-Class_split_timeline widespread_paradox mass_casualties_or_infrastructure_loss
👥 Personnel 100 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Chronoengineer 30 [#7] Core temporal R&D team and specialist engineering staff included in staff_wages.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 50 [#8] Timeline operations cadre (MTF-η-⊃) and retention/hazard pay accounted in staff_wages.
Software Developer / Systems Engineer 10 [#12, #13] Developers and systems staff supporting cross-temporal detection, logging and compute operations; costs rolled into staff_wages and software maintenance.
Documentation / Continuity Personnel 5 [#25] Record-handlers and continuity staff to maintain cross-iteration access chains; included in staff_wages.
Ethical Review / Administrative Staff 5 [#20] Oversight, legal liaison and administrative staff for ethical review and program governance; included in staff_wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on wide ranges in analyst notes and high uncertainty around prototype scale, frequency of time-operations, and whether existing Foundation assets are reusable; major cost drivers are well-identified but magnitudes vary by orders of magnitude.
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