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SCP-3413 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-3413
Expected annual
$6.3M
One-time setup
$4.6M
Annual recurring
$6.2M
Personnel
45
First-year one-time capital of approximately $4.56M for facility buildouts, vehicles/equipment, and software development; recurring annual operations approx. $6.22M driven primarily by staff wages, research/monitoring, legal/cover operations, and emergency response reserves.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.6M
Facilities $1.3M
[#7, #8, #24] One-time secure viewing suites ($120,000), detainment/secure wing fit-out ($1,000,000), and physical-security/server-room hardening ($150,000).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.2M
[#11, #14] Amnestic production lab & validation setup ($250,000) and research program lab startup ($1,000,000).
Public Coverup Major Leak Action $1.0M
[#22] One-time per-major-leak contingency fund for large-scale PR/amnestic/mass-action operations (per-incident allocation).
Equipment $635K
[#3, #9, #10, #20] SAN/NAS and storage hardware ($75,000), initial tactical equipment ($100,000), vehicle purchases ($450,000), and one-time forensic tooling ($10,000).
Io Kiwi Development $400K
[#1] One-time development, secure-hardware procurement, QA, memetic-safety reviews, and integration for I/O Kiwi webcrawler.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.2M/yr
Staff Wages $4.3M/yr
[#2, #5, #6, #9, #13, #14, #15, #16, #19] Ongoing personnel costs: I/O Kiwi engineering/ops, rapid-review analysts, senior containment researchers, security staffing, medical/counseling staff, research program staffing, veterinary standing team, sequencing/forensics staff, and social-media/counter-disinfo analysts.
Cover Story And Legal $1.1M/yr
[#17, #18, #22, #26] Legal/platform-relations retainer and takedown reserve ($200,000 + $50,000), global blocking/ISP cooperation program ($500,000), public-coverup reserve ($200,000), and legal-liability/insurance reserve ($100,000).
Research And Monitoring $250K/yr
[#23, #27] Training, drills, SOP development ($50,000) and long-term ecological monitoring program ($200,000). (Research operating staff costs are included in staff_wages above.)
Logistics And Transport $230K/yr
[#10, #15] Vehicle maintenance/fuel ($30,000) and veterinary/field incident reserve/rapid-response transport contingencies ($200,000).
Facilities Maintenance $146K/yr
[#3, #4, #8, #24] Co-location & SAN maintenance ($30,000), bandwidth/network redundancy costs ($36,000), detainment facility operating costs ($50,000), and building utilities/maintenance ($30,000).
Crisis Response Reserve $100K/yr
[#21] Annual reserve for overtime, travel, per-diems, and emergency communications during incident activations.
Supplies And Consumables $70K/yr
[#12, #25] Per-administration amnestic consumables and disposables (budgeted $50,000) plus other recurring consumables/PPE ($20,000).
Forensic Logging And Preservation $20K/yr
[#20] Ongoing notarization, cryptographic evidence preservation, and write-once storage fees.
Catastrophic Risk Oversight $0/yr
[#28] Non-quantifiable systemic/catastrophic risk (qualitative oversight noted; economic impact unbounded).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.2M/yr
87.9% probability / year
Normal year with monitoring, routine ingestion/review, and no major public leaks or ecological incidents.
no_incident routine_operations
🚨 Minor Incident $6.4M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
A missed/malfunctioning automated removal or small breach results in limited public exposure and a handful of detentions/amnestics.
single_upload_missed limited_public_exposure few_detentions_and_amnestics
🚨 Major Leak $8.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Platform-level exposure or rapid wide mirroring triggers extensive takedowns, mass amnestic operations, large PR/coverups, and significant field response.
platform_public_exposure widespread_sharing mass_media_attention
🚨 Catastrophic Ecological Shift $56.2M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
A large SCP-3413 episode produces widespread, rapid retroactive ecological changes requiring national/international response and long-term remediation.
widespread_ecosystem_alteration mass_species_trait_change cross-jurisdictional_crisis
👥 Personnel 45 total
Role Count Notes
Containment Analyst / Rapid Reviewer 6 [#5] 24/7 rapid human review team (6 FTE).
Senior Researcher / Decision-maker 3 [#6] Senior containment researchers and decision-makers (3 FTE).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#9] Security staffing and rapid response unit (12 guards/shifts).
Medical Officer / Counselor 3 [#13] Medical staff and psychological counseling (3 FTE).
Research Scientist 5 [#14] Research program staff (part of research operating budget).
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#2] I/O Kiwi maintenance, on-call engineering.
Veterinary / Field Biologist 8 [#15] Veterinary & ecological emergency response standing team (headcount implied by standing-team budget).
Social Media Analyst / Counter-Disinfo 4 [#19] Social-media monitoring & counter-disinformation team (4 analysts).
Lab Technician / Forensics 2 [#16] Sequencing & forensic analysis staff.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item estimates for most categories, but many costs are scenario-dependent (per-incident funds, legal/platform actions, and systemic ecological risks) and the true tail risk is not economically bounded, so uncertainty remains.
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