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SCP-3303 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-3303
Expected annual
$3.8M
One-time setup
$6.8M
Annual recurring
$3.6M
Personnel
16
First-year capital costs are approximately $6.76M driven mainly by purchase of an initial bottle reserve and facility retrofits; recurring annual operations are roughly $3.64M driven by personnel wages, recurring bottle procurement for experiments, and contingency/legal/responses.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $6.8M
Initial Stock Procurement $3.0M
[#2] Purchase of an operational reserve (example: 300bottles × $10,000/bottle = $3,000,000).
Facilities $1.4M
[#5, #7, #27] Site-48 wine-cellar retrofit, recessed double-door/materials-transfer airlock, and optional off-site backup containment setup (retrofit/construction costs aggregated).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M
[#8, #15] High-precision time-dilation instrumentation (atomic clocks, spectrometers, cameras, DAQ) plus initial inventory management software/integration.
Equipment $660K
[#6, #9] Robotic bottle handling/automated dispensing system and initial secure IT/server hardware (initial servers/air-gapped hardware counted here).
Purchase Escrow And Premium $300K
[#3] Escrow/secure-payment/black-ops premium and associated legal/diplomatic fees (estimated reserve / retainer).
Legal And Diplomatic Retainer $150K
[#22] Initial legal/diplomatic retainer to manage Würzburg Summit compliance and MCD negotiations.
Initial Training And Clearance $100K
[#13] Initial Level-4/3303 clearance training, psych evals and course development for initial personnel group.
Emergency Response Equipment Initial $100K
[#20] Initial purchase of specialized tactical/non-lethal/rescue equipment adapted for anomalous environment.
Reference Per Bottle Price $10K
[#1] Working average per-bottle purchase price used for budgeting (MCD/collector premium variability noted).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.6M/yr
Staff Wages $1.6M/yr
[#10, #11, #12, #20] Salaries & benefits for security staff (guards + manager), research personnel (chronobiologists/physicists/chemists/technicians), medical staff (onsite medic and support), and emergency-response tactical personnel.
Experimental Procurement $1.0M/yr
[#19] Annual budget for bottles consumed during authorized experiments and replacement (e.g., ~100 bottles/year × $10k/bottle = $1,000,000).
Cover Story And Legal $250K/yr
[#21, #22] Containment-failure contingency reserve (amnestics/PR/legal/compensation) plus ongoing legal/diplomatic counsel retainer.
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#4] Armored/climate-controlled transport and armed escort for purchase and periodic shipments (multiple shipments/year averaged).
Facilities Maintenance $125K/yr
[#18] Scheduled maintenance contracts, HVAC/robotics/security calibrations and replacement parts.
Psychological Care And Rehab $125K/yr
[#23] Long-term therapy, addiction management and monitoring for personnel exposed to repeated subjective-time intoxication.
Offsite Backup Operations $100K/yr
[#27] Operating costs for optional secondary containment/off-site backup storage and periodic readiness checks.
Research And Monitoring $60K/yr
[#8, #9] Ongoing instrumentation maintenance/calibration, high-precision logging upkeep, and IT/data archival maintenance (annual costs for servers/backups).
Training And Drills $50K/yr
[#14] Annual re-certification, emergency drills, and new-hire training refreshers.
Policy And Governance $50K/yr
[#26] Governance, policy reviews and external audits to prevent misuse and weaponization of the anomaly.
Inventory Audits And Maintenance $35K/yr
[#15] Annual audits, timestamp/serial tracking, and software maintenance for inventory management.
Energy And Utilities $30K/yr
[#17] HVAC, humidification and power for robotics, cameras, servers and environmental controls.
Ethics And Oversight $25K/yr
[#24] Internal review boards, IRB-like committees and documentation for human-subject/time-dilation experiments.
Supplies And Consumables $15K/yr
[#16] Consumables, shatterproof glassware, PPE, filters, humidifier supplies, cleaning supplies.
Waste And Decontamination $15K/yr
[#25] Secure disposal, decontamination and handling of post-test waste and any neutralization events.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.6M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with regular experiments, routine maintenance, and no major incidents.
routine_operations scheduled_experiments
🚨 Minor Incident $4.1M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Small unauthorized consumption or localized containment lapse requiring medical response, investigation, and partial stock replacement.
unauthorized_consumption localized_breach medical_treatment
🚨 Major Breach $7.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$4.0M vs baseline
Large-scale exposure, loss/theft of significant stock, or public/legal fallout requiring mass amnestics, replacement of reserves, and diplomatic remediation.
large_scale_breach public_exposure loss_of_stock
👥 Personnel 16 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 4 Armed on-site guards for 24/7 coverage; part of security staffing estimate [#10].
Security Supervisor / Manager 1 Security manager coordinating shifts and high-clearance operations [#10].
Research Scientist 6 Chronobiologists/physicists/chemists/technicians conducting experiments and analysis [#11].
Medical Officer 1 Onsite medic for experiments and emergency response [#12].
Medical Technician / Counselor 1 Psychological monitoring and post-exposure care support [#12, #23].
Emergency Response / Tactical 3 Specialized tactical team on-call for unauthorized events and extractions from anomalous fields [#20].
📋 Confidence Notes
Many costs are well-scoped (facility retrofit, robotics, personnel), but purchase price per bottle, desired reserve size, and MCD negotiation/escrow premiums are highly variable; scenario probabilities are judgment calls based on Safe-class containment and demonstrated human consumption risks.
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