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SCP-3448 Thaumiel ~ medium confidence
SCP-3448
Expected annual
$8.4M
One-time setup
$7.8M
Annual recurring
$8.3M
Personnel
34
Initial setup is capital-intensive (major shielding, high-stability power, data & spares, and hot-spare redundancy), with significant recurring costs driven primarily by specialized staffing, secure data operations, and maintenance of superconducting/cryogen systems.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.8M
Contingency Reserve Fund $2.6M
[#21] Contingency / catastrophic reserve fund (one-time capitalization based on assessed risk profile).
Hot Spare Build $1.8M
[#17] Hot-spare machine build and commissioning for redundancy / off-site replica capability.
Equipment $850K
[#10, #11, #23] Initial purchase of monitoring sensors/EM-safe cameras, secure data acquisition hardware (FPGAs/ASICs, high-performance nodes), and heavy-transport purchase for installation.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $698K
[#12, #25, #26] Initial signal-interpretation R&D tooling and software development, training/SOP authoring and simulation tooling, and archival/vault setup for originals.
Decommissioning Plan $550K
[#22] Decommissioning and special disposal planning, equipment and anomalous-component destruction or long-term storage preparations.
Facilities $450K
[#1] Dedicated containment chamber modifications: RF/EM shielding, magnetic conversion, structural reinforcement, HVAC segregation, quench venting.
Spares Initial Stock $375K
[#4] Initial engineered spare-part program: custom PCBs, gradient/amplifier spares, cryo components and tooling.
Ups And Generator $190K
[#3] Dedicated UPS and backup generator purchase and installation for clean site power and failover.
Mortuary Setup $175K
[#8] Mortuary refrigerator and prep space plus initial cryopreservation capacity for high-value subject(s).
Radiation Shielding And Survey $150K
[#18] Initial radiation / accelerator site surveys and shielding upgrades testing.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.3M/yr
Staff Wages $4.9M/yr
[#5, #6, #7, #9, #18, #13] Salaries for dedicated engineering/tech staff, scientific research team, security rotations and tactical readiness, medical/pathology staff, Radiation Safety Officer (salary portion), and memetics practitioners.
Research And Monitoring $600K/yr
[#6, #12] Non-salary research program expenses and ongoing R&D costs (external contracts, labeled training data, experiment budgets).
Cover Story And Legal $435K/yr
[#14, #24] Legal/cover-up operations, record alteration, public liaison and interagency coordination budgets.
Insurance And Premiums $275K/yr
[#21] Annual insurance-like premium and risk-reserve replenishment contributions.
External Contractors $275K/yr
[#27] NDA'd external contracts (cryonics vendors, MRI/accelerator OEMs, memetic consultants) retained annually.
Logistics And Transport $217K/yr
[#16, #23] Subject provisioning program costs and recurring transport/heavy-move/installation logistics.
Data Infrastructure Ops $175K/yr
[#11] Operations, storage, archival rotation and secure air-gapped backup maintenance for high-speed acquisition hardware.
Memetic Protection Ops $175K/yr
[#13] Ongoing memetic-countermeasure supplies, training, and practitioner salaries (operational component).
Subject Provisioning $175K/yr
[#16] Program-level costs for D-class provisioning, screening, processing and lifecycle management.
Ethical Review $150K/yr
[#28] Operations of ethical oversight committee, independent audits and red-team assessments.
Device Spares Maintenance $125K/yr
[#4] Consumables, rebuilds and on-call engineering support for anomalous/custom components.
Emergency Drills And Redundancy $125K/yr
[#17] Annual drills, readiness, hot-spare maintenance and redundancy planning exercises.
Power Operations $105K/yr
[#3] Fuel, generator maintenance, and electricity costs for continuous ~30–60 kW draw and backup generation operation.
Superconducting Maintenance $85K/yr
[#2] Liquid helium refills, warm-up/ramp maintenance and vendor service contracts for superconducting magnet infrastructure.
Amnestic And Aftercare $85K/yr
[#15] Counseling programs, debriefs, and per-incident amnestic treatments averaged annually.
Supplies And Consumables $80K/yr
[#9, #20] Medical disposables, autopsy supplies, PPE, small tools and daily consumables.
Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr
[#1, #3] Ongoing HVAC, structural, RF shield inspection and building maintenance related to containment chamber and power systems.
Hazardous Waste Management $55K/yr
[#19] Regulated disposal of biological tissues, contaminated gear, quench liquids and periodic decontamination.
Monitoring Ops $30K/yr
[#10] Maintenance, calibration, and data-retention costs for specialized monitoring/sensor systems and EM-safe cameras.
Radiation Testing And Monitoring $30K/yr
[#18] Ongoing testing, calibration, badge program and monitoring (RSO operational costs beyond salary).
Training And Sop Updates $30K/yr
[#25] SOP updates, memetic-safe manual revisions and simulation tooling maintenance.
Mortuary Operations $20K/yr
[#8] Ongoing preservation, storage and periodic maintenance costs for mortuary/cryostorage systems.
Archival Maintenance $12K/yr
[#26] Climate control, vault maintenance and physical archival preservation.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.3M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal operating year with no major incidents; regular maintenance, research, staffing, and routine supplies.
routine maintenance scheduled research no containment incidents
🚨 Minor Incident $8.4M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$135K vs baseline
Localized equipment failure, cryogen quench, or small memetic exposure requiring repairs, emergency helium fills, and legal/amnestic response.
helium quench / magnet warm-up small component failure minor memetic contamination
🚨 Major Breach $11.1M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.8M vs baseline
Containment compromise or significant damage to SCP-3448 requiring large-scale emergency response, hardware replacement or relocation and major legal operations.
containment breach catastrophic equipment failure public exposure
🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $10.6M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$2.3M vs baseline
Unexpectedly successful research outcome that necessitates rapid scale-up: extra compute, expanded lab modules, and accelerated redundancy deployment.
major interpretative breakthrough requirement to scale operations rapid procurement of compute/hardware
👥 Personnel 34 total
Role Count Notes
Engineer / Maintenance 6 [#5] MRI/accelerator physicist/engineer and on-call technicians for device upkeep and cryo systems.
Research Scientist 9 [#6] Project lead, neurologists, cognitive scientists, neuroengineers, data scientists and ML specialists (salaries included in staff_wages).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 9 [#7] Multi-shift dedicated guards for daily containment operations.
Rapid Response / Tactical Team 4 [#7] On-call tactical response specialists and training rotations (costed within staff_wages/operational training).
Medical Officer 1 [#9] Medical/pathology support for pre/post-procedure care, autopsies and biohazard handling.
Radiation Safety Officer 1 [#18] RSO responsible for radiation badge program and shielding oversight (salary included in staff_wages).
Memetics Specialist / Cognitive Scientist 2 [#13] Practitioners involved in memetic protection, filters and countermeasure development.
Administrative Staff 2 [#14, #24] Administrative and liaison staff handling legal/cover-up coordination, records and interagency outreach.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates use midpoints of analyst ranges and explicit note items; staffing and redundancy choices drive most uncertainty. Anomalous behaviors (memetic effects, containment incidents) introduce additional tail risk not precisely quantifiable from notes.
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