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SCP-342 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-342
Expected annual
$3.6M
One-time setup
$3.5M
Annual recurring
$3.5M
Personnel
6
Initial one-time containment and R&D setup is approximately $3.47M driven by legal/cover contingency, liaison arrangements and catastrophic-neutralization contingencies; recurring yearly operations are approximately $3.52M driven by legal/cover reserves, incident response readiness, research staff, and standby recovery teams.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.5M
Legal Cover Contingency Initial $1.0M
[#13] Initial contingency fund for legal/cover-up measures and initial PR/legal retainer.
Catastrophic Neutralization Contingency $1.0M
[#26] One-time reserve for destructive/extraordinary neutralization attempts or containment migration.
Public Transit Liaison Agreements $500K
[#23] One-time budget for formal liaison/black-op agreements and staged vehicle rental preparations.
Equipment $391K
[#2, #4, #5, #6, #15, #17, #18, #22, #24] Museum-grade folder & Faraday pouch, enterprise CCTV, robotic manipulators, vehicle retrofit, chain-of-custody hardware/software, PPE purchase, validation hardware, secure comms devices, and archival replica purchases.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $350K
[#10, #11] Lab adaptation for memetics/anomalous research and one-time memetic countermeasure R&D.
Amnestic Stockpile Initial $100K
[#12] Initial stockpile of 200 amnestic doses at upper-range per-dose estimate.
Facilities $85K
[#1, #16] Vault/HVIS cabinet upgrade and redundant UPS/HVAC/backup circuits for storage room.
Training Sop Development $40K
[#7] One-time development of SOPs, training materials, qualification tests and manuals.
Psychological Screening Initial $3K
[#8] Initial psychological screening setup / per-hire initial screening (upper-end per-hire cost reserved).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.5M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $1.5M/yr
[#13, #20, #21] Recurring legal/cover-up budget, insurance/liability reserve, and forensic/cover-forensic contingency reserves.
Incident Response And Investigation $1.0M/yr
[#14] Ongoing reserve for incident response, internal investigations, overtime, replacement hiring and emergency security increases.
Staff Wages $555K/yr
[#3, #9, #10] Observation technician(s), on-call field-recovery team retainer, and dedicated research staff salaries + benefits.
Research And Monitoring $210K/yr
[#11, #19, #25] Ongoing memetic filter maintenance, data analysis/archival research personnel and contracted experts, and ethics/oversight review costs.
Logistics And Transport $105K/yr
[#6, #23] Armored courier vehicle readiness/retainer and occasional transit rental/staging costs.
Administrative Overhead $60K/yr
[#27] Pro-rated site administrative, utilities and compliance overhead attributable to containing a Euclid HVIS item.
Psychological Monitoring $30K/yr
[#8] Ongoing counseling and mental-health monitoring for handlers and exposed personnel.
Supplies And Consumables $24K/yr
[#4, #12, #17, #18, #24] Video/archive storage fees, amnestic replenishment, PPE replacement, testing consumables, and archival storage fees.
Chain Of Custody Support $10K/yr
[#15] Support/licenses and archival software upkeep for chain-of-custody/logging systems.
Secure Comm Services $10K/yr
[#22] Secure device services, encryption subscriptions and comms blackout infrastructure maintenance.
Training And Certification $10K/yr
[#7] Recurring training delivery, refreshers and qualification testing costs.
Facilities Maintenance $3K/yr
[#16] Energy, UPS/HVAC maintenance and minor facility upkeep for storage room.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.5M/yr
89.5% probability / year
Normal operational year with no significant incidents; routine monitoring, maintenance, training, and reserves expended at planned levels.
routine_operations scheduled_research no_major_incident
🚨 Minor Incident $3.7M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Single limited civilian exposure or a single staff disappearance requiring amnestics, limited forensic work, overtime and PR response.
civilian_exposure single_disappearance amnestic_administration
🚨 Major Breach $4.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline
Containment failure or multi-person incident with significant civilian involvement requiring large-scale investigation, replacements, forensic falsification and heavy legal/PR expenditure.
multi_person_disappearance public_exposure large_investigation
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $7.0M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$3.5M vs baseline
Extreme event such as destructive neutralization attempt, multiple-site incidents, or a high-profile breach requiring very large spending on neutralization, long-term monitoring and major cover operations.
neutralization_attempt mass_exposure multi-agency_response
👥 Personnel 6 total
Role Count Notes
Level 2/3 Technician (observer) 1 [#3] Daytime/shift observer responsible for visual checks and HVIS custody; salary included in staff_wages.
On-call Field Recovery Team (agents/technicians) 3 [#9] Small standby team retained for recovery deployments; retainer/salary included in staff_wages.
Research Scientist 2 [#10] Dedicated memetics/anomalous-objects researchers funded in staff_wages to run experiments and analysis.
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items are provided as ranges and contingency reserves that depend on risk tolerance; the article gives qualitative operational requirements but not firm staffing counts or exact incident frequencies, so estimates are order-of-magnitude (conservative upper-end chosen).
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