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SCP-3479 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-3479
Expected annual
$17.2M
One-time setup
$111.2M
Annual recurring
$15.7M
Personnel
34
Large upfront capital primarily driven by contingency planning and a pharmaceutical manufacturing buildout (~$111.3M one-time). Annual operating costs are dominated by personnel, field response and platform/monitoring costs (~$15.7M/year).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $111.2M
Contingency Reserve $100.0M
[#19] Ennui Protocol / mass-normalization contingency reserve (planning lower bound used: $100,000,000, #19).
Facilities $8.2M
[#12, #16] One-time secure pharmaceutical production line buildout ($8,000,000, #12) plus one-time vault upgrades for narcotics security ($150,000, #16).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.0M
[#5, #20, #22] Initial ML/classifier development and deployment (~$1,000,000, #5), research program setup/equipment (~$1,000,000, #20) and one-time training/course materials (~$50,000, #22).
Equipment $1.1M
[#1, #23] Dedicated server hardware, racks and networking for 124 review servers (~$800,000, #1) plus covert comms/counter-forensics tooling one-time development (~$250,000, #23).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $15.7M/yr
Staff Wages $2.6M/yr
[#7, #8, #21] Sysadmin / SRE / cybersecurity team (4 staff, ~$480k/year, #7) and content analysts / human reviewers (30 staff, ~$2.1M/year, #8). Statistical/analytics staff referenced in #21 are budgeted under research_and_monitoring.
Cover Story And Legal $2.4M/yr
[#17, #24] Annual operational reserve for legal/PR/social-engineering cover-up (~$2,000,000/year, #17) plus insurance/legal retainers and governmental liaison expenses (~$400,000/year, #24).
Per Incident Field Deployment Cost $2.0M/yr
[#10] Per-incident rapid-response travel, vehicles, fuel, per-diem and consumable kits (~$5,000/incident assumed × 400 incidents/year = $2,000,000/year, #10).
Per Incident Legal Small $2.0M/yr
[#17] Per-incident small legal/PR/takedown reserves for detected incidents (~$5,000/incident × 400 incidents/year = $2,000,000/year; complements the larger annual cover_story_and_legal reserve, #17).
Field Teams $1.8M/yr
[#11, #14] Standing regional rapid-response units (6 regional teams with personnel, vehicles and equipment; ~$1.8M/year, #11). Medical staffing costs (#14) are captured as part of these regional team costs when salaried medics are embedded.
Research And Monitoring $1.1M/yr
[#6, #20, #21] Ongoing model retraining/feature ops and software maintenance (~$300k/year, #6); ongoing SCP-3479 research operations/staff (~$500k/year, #20); statistical monitoring/analytics team (Archive Sector support, ~$300k/year, #21).
Witness Support $1.0M/yr
[#18] Witness compensation, relocation and identity management program (~$1,000,000/year reserve for relocations and contingencies, #18).
Per Incident Amnestic Drug Costs $580K/yr
[#13] Per-dose cost of B-class and C-class amnestics averaged over incidents (example: ~$1,450/incident average drug cost × 400 incidents/year = $580,000/year, #13).
Facilities Maintenance $508K/yr
[#2, #4, #16] Data-center colocation/power/cooling for 124 servers (~$298k/year, #2), secure hot/cold storage for flagged media (~$200k/year midpoint, #4), and recurring narcotics inventory control & compliance (~$10k/year, #16).
Supplies And Consumables $400K/yr
[#25] Miscellaneous operational contingencies and administrative overhead (office supplies, travel outside incidents, classification paperwork, audits; ~$400k/year, #25).
Platform And Scraping $400K/yr
[#9] Enterprise platform/API access, scraping infrastructure and takedown tooling (~$400k/year baseline, #9).
Per Incident Followup $400K/yr
[#15] Post-amnestic follow-up, adverse-event care and counseling (~$1,000/treated person average assumed × implied treated population across incidents ≈ $400k/year, #15).
Training Annual $200K/yr
[#22] Ongoing annual training & certification program costs (~$200k/year, #22).
Hardware Depreciation $160K/yr
[#3] Replacement/upgrade depreciation cycle for servers and hardware (~20% of capex/year, ~$160k/year, #3).
Covert Ops $150K/yr
[#23] Ongoing covert comms, OPSEC and counter-forensics operations budget (~$150k/year, #23).
Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $15.7M/yr
79.5% probability / year
Normal year with steady monitoring, routine incidents handled at baseline per-incident rates and no major publicity breaches.
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🚨 Minor Incident $20.7M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Year with several higher-visibility incidents causing spikes in per-incident response, legal/PR spend and extra field deployments.
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🚨 Catastrophic Breach $115.7M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$100.0M vs baseline
Containment failure resulting in widespread public knowledge requiring activation of Ennui Protocol / mass-normalization operations.
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👥 Personnel 34 total
Role Count Notes
Sysadmin / SRE / Cybersecurity Engineer 4 [#7] Operators and security engineers to run and harden the monitoring cluster (4 FTE as assumed in notes).
Content Analyst / Human Reviewer 30 [#8] Human reviewers for triage and 24/7 coverage (30 FTE as estimated in notes).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates derive from concrete line-item analyst inputs (medium confidence) but depend heavily on uncertain detection volumes, incident rates, and the Foundation's existing asset base; contingency scenarios are intentionally order-of-magnitude and thus lower confidence for rare extreme events.
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