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SCP-3322 Safe ✓ high confidence
SCP-3322
Expected annual
$4.9M
One-time setup
$2.3M
Annual recurring
$4.8M
Personnel
30
One-time setup costs are approximately $2,333,000 driven by construction, vehicles, communications and shipping; recurring annual costs are about $4,848,950 driven primarily by personnel, contingency/rapid-response funds, medical/medevac contracts, and replacement/depreciation.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.3M
Equipment $958K
[#8, #9, #11, #13, #17, #24] OP hardware & surveillance, vehicle purchases and outfitting, secure communications hardware, data-storage/backups, one-time med kits/training, and census tablets/software.
Facilities $590K
[#6, #7] Purchase of two residences and OP construction/site prep in Patagonia and Khentii; includes housing purchase, siting and hardened outpost construction.
Public Information Campaign $275K
[#20] Initial public-information/satellite/map alteration campaign and technical work to implement cover edits.
Shipping And Imports $150K
[#25] International freight/import/customs handling, installation and associated smoothing fees for heavy equipment and vehicles.
Legal And Diplomatic Setup $140K
[#19] Initial legal/diplomatic cover setup and liaison arrangements.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $100K
[#16] Buenos Aires lab/office fit-out, IT and small lab equipment for SCP-3322 research.
Recruitment And Vetting $80K
[#4] One-time hiring, profile-matching, background fabrication and headhunter fees for embedded operatives.
Generator Purchase $40K
[#23] Purchase of diesel generators for OPs and residences (one-time capital).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.8M/yr
Staff Wages $2.3M/yr
[#1, #2, #3, #14, #15] Fully loaded salaries for embedded operatives (A/B), 12 OP staff, leave/rotation reserve payroll overhead, data maintenance/IT staff salaries, and Buenos Aires research-team personnel.
Contingency Fund $500K/yr
[#27] Liquid contingency reserve for Protocol 3322-Omega emergency responses and unanticipated anomaly-driven costs.
Insurance And Administrative Overhead $412K/yr
[#30] Employer insurance, pension contributions, HR overhead, institutional accounting and compliance applied to payroll and operations.
Research And Monitoring $361K/yr
[#5, #15, #18, #28, #14] Ongoing training and cultural refreshers, non-personnel operational costs for Buenos Aires research team, psychological monitoring/resilience programs, community research costs, and software licenses for data analysis.
Replacement And Depreciation $350K/yr
[#29] Annual capital replacement set-aside (~15% of one-time capital) for vehicles, servers, comms, generators and surveillance gear lifecycle.
Cover Story And Legal $265K/yr
[#19, #20, #21] Ongoing legal counsel/contingency, public-information monitoring/maintenance, and local cooperation/cover payments/stipends.
Logistics And Transport $250K/yr
[#10, #12] Vehicle operations (fuel, maintenance, insurance) and communications service/bandwidth (satellite airtime, leased links) recurring costs.
Medical And Medevac $235K/yr
[#17] Medevac standby contract and routine medical supplies/healthcare for remote postings.
Facilities Maintenance $146K/yr
[#22, #23] Land lease/property taxes/permits for OP sites/residences plus utilities/generator fuel and maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $40K/yr
[#24, #26] Annual census execution costs (incentives, field consumables) and routine consumables/food/PPE/office supplies for OPs.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.8M/yr
87.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; regular staff rotations, research, monitoring, and routine contingency replenishment.
no incidents planned operations only
🚨 Minor Incident $5.1M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Localized incident (injury to operative, small OP equipment damage, limited extraction/replacement) requiring MTF/medical deployment and short-term contracting.
operative injury or localized accident small-scale equipment loss
🚨 Major Breach $6.3M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Significant hostile intervention or large-scale operational failure (e.g., GOC strike, large breach) requiring extraction, reconstruction, MTF deployment and extended legal/diplomatic action.
hostile third-party operation major equipment/OP destruction extended extraction/replacement
🚨 Political Exposure $5.3M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Diplomatic or legal exposure in-country requiring large-scale legal/diplomatic remediation, extended public-information work, and increased cover payments.
local exposure legal/diplomatic incident
👥 Personnel 30 total
Role Count Notes
Embedded Operative (Operative A / Operative B) 2 [#1] Two full-time, in-place operatives (Argentina and Mongolia).
Observation Post / Security Officers 12 [#2] Four OPs with 3 staff each, continuously manned under cover identities.
Data Analysts / IT Administrators 5 [#14] Parastatistics team and IT staff for log processing, anomaly detection and backups.
Buenos Aires Research Team 6 [#15] PI, postdocs, technicians and admin staff running SCP-3322 experiments and analysis.
Medical Officer / Medevac Coordinator 1 [#17] Medical support coordination for remote postings and medevac contracts.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#9, #23] Vehicle and generator maintenance, site infrastructure upkeep.
Administrative Staff 2 [#30, #15] HR, finance and admin support for payroll, cover documentation and accounting.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed itemized ranges for each cost line; most major cost drivers are well-described. Uncertainty remains around incident frequency/severity and local market variation, but base estimates are well-founded.
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