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SCP-3590 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-3590
Expected annual
$276K
One-time setup
$380K
Annual recurring
$263K
Personnel
0.7
One-time setup and archival/research contingencies total approximately $380.5k; recurring annual operations, monitoring, legal retainer, and contingency set-asides run about $262.8k/yr, driven mainly by analyst labor, legal/PR retainer, incident reserve and digital security.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $380K
Initial Research And Lab Setup $300K
[#18] Contingency budget for an approved exploratory research project (PI + 2–3 researchers, equipment, oversight) — project-based one-time cost.
Equipment $30K
[#2, #4, #7, #17] Biometric/keycard hardware and integration, high-resolution scanner/encryption hardware, emergency amnestic response kit and initial digital-security/hardening hardware/software.
Historical Amnestics $30K
[#6] Historical amnestic treatments cost (recorded/historical expense captured as a one-time historical cost).
Facilities $18K
[#1, #14] Secure containment locker purchase/installation and in-house incinerator/shredding setup (locker SCL27/3590 and on-site disposal equipment).
Personnel Vetting Initial $3K
[#8] Initial background checks/clearance costs for ~5 authorized staff.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $263K/yr
Incident Response Reserve $100K/yr
[#13] Recurring contingency set-aside to fund emergency retrievals, amnestic campaigns, field teams, and local cover operations.
Gamma Contingency $50K/yr
[#19] Contingent downstream costs if SCP-3590's status affects SCP-GAMMA containment; highly scenario-dependent reserve.
Staff Wages $47K/yr
[#5, #11, #9, #15] Redaction/records maintenance labor (0.05–0.1 FTE), monitoring analyst wages (0.25–0.5 FTE), reading-time staff cost for required reading, and fractional security staffing increment.
Cover Story And Legal $30K/yr
[#12] Legal/PR retainer for external inquiries, FOIA/records handling and cover-story management.
Logistics And Transport $10K/yr
[#7] On-call medical/amnestic partial retainer and rapid-response logistics for emergency deployment.
Amnestic Contingency $10K/yr
[#6] Contingency budget for future small-scale amnestic treatments and psychiatric follow-up (annual set-aside).
Research And Monitoring $10K/yr
[#11, #4, #17] Analyst tooling/web feeds and off-site backup costs, plus recurring digital security maintenance (IDS, key management).
Record Monitoring Per Subject $2K/yr
[#20] Long-term medical monitoring and record-keeping for monitored SCP-3590-1 subject(s) (~$1k–$5k/yr per subject).
Audit And Compliance $2K/yr
[#16] Periodic internal audits and compliance inspections of archival/redaction/access logs.
Facilities Maintenance $600/yr
[#3] Incremental climate control / HVAC / power share for archival vault space.
Biometric Maintenance $500/yr
[#2] Recurring maintenance and audit logging subscriptions for biometric/keycard access control hardware/software.
Archival Disposal Contracts $500/yr
[#14] Contract shredding/incineration per-incident recurring cost (assumes low-frequency usage).
Vetting Recurring $500/yr
[#8] Periodic rechecks (polygraphs/medical) for authorized staff (~$50–$200/yr/person).
Supplies And Consumables $300/yr
[#10, #9] Consumables for handling (gloves, paper-handling supplies) and small admin overhead for required-reading tracking.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $263K/yr
92.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine maintenance, monitoring, legal retainer, and contingency set-asides; no major incidents or approved research projects.
no_incidents routine_operations
🚨 Minor Incident $343K/yr
5.0% probability / year +$80K vs baseline
Limited unauthorized disclosure or discovery of an unauthorized copy requiring local retrievals, limited amnestic treatments, contracted shredding/incineration, and PR/legal response.
unauthorized_copy_discovered limited_public_exposure small-scale_leak
🚨 Major Incident $563K/yr
1.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Significant breach or public exposure requiring large-scale amnestic campaign, extensive retrievals, heavy legal/PR action, and possible immediate SCP-GAMMA alternative containment costs.
mass_public_exposure large_scale_leak disruption_of_SCP-GAMMA_operations
🚨 Research Scaleup $563K/yr
2.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Approved exploratory research project into SCP-3590 (PI, 2–3 researchers, equipment, oversight) executed in-year.
approved_research_request project_funding_allocated
👥 Personnel 0.7 total
Role Count Notes
Research Analyst 0.4 [#11] Partial FTE for open-source monitoring, alerts, and analysis (0.25–0.5 FTE).
Administrative Staff 0.08 [#5, #9] Fractional admin time for redaction/records maintenance and required-reading tracking (~0.05–0.1 FTE).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 0.1 [#15] Fractional incremental guard/post allocation for safe-wing access control.
IT / Security Engineer 0.12 [#17, #2] Fractional engineering support for digital security hardening, IDS, and access-control integration.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are order-of-magnitude ranges derived from analyst notes. Core recurring costs (analysts, legal retainer, digital security) are reasonably well-bounded; contingency/incident and research-item costs are highly scenario-dependent, reducing overall confidence to medium.
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