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SCP-3600 Thaumiel ~ medium confidence
SCP-3600
Expected annual
$11.9M
One-time setup
$513.8M
Annual recurring
$10.6M
Personnel
66
Initial capital costs are dominated by secure facility construction and a large contingency reserve; ongoing annual costs are driven by specialized staff wages, global intelligence/field operations, and cover/legal operations. Baseline annual operating cost is approximately $10.58M, with episodic incidents able to spike expenditures substantially.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $513.8M
Contingency Reserve $500.0M
[#28] Catastrophic contingency / recovery reserve recommended fund (~$500,000,000 one-time standby reserve) to fund large-scale mitigation of containment failure (#28).
Facilities $8.0M
[#1, #19] Subterranean hardened containment vault construction ($3,000,000, #1) plus Project Theia controlled-testing facility build-out/isolation chambers ($5,000,000, #19).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.0M
[#6] AOCRS development & integration (secure ML model development, GPUs, hardened servers, dataset creation) estimated at $2,000,000 (#6).
Equipment $1.8M
[#2, #4, #5, #8, #9, #10] Custom-fitted welded steel case ($185,000 midpoint of $120k–$250k, #2), robotic remote-handling system ($1,000,000, #4), high-resolution non-visual imaging suite ($300,000, #5), inerting/environmental hardware ($75,000, #8), initial secure digital storage hardware ($200,000, #9), dedicated viewing/analysis workstations & UX ($75,000, #10).
Destruction Equipment $750K
[#15] Containment/destruction capability equipment (furnaces, incinerators, vacuum chambers, neutralization gear, temporary lockers) one-time equipment cost $750,000 (#15).
Amnestic Program Setup $500K
[#16] Emergency amnestic program initial setup (protocol development, drug stockpile, sterile suites, training) $500,000 one-time (#16).
Legal Cover Setup $500K
[#22] Legal/cover-up and front company initial setup (shell entities, false provenance, initial infrastructure) $500,000 one-time (#22).
Recovery Transport $250K
[#3] Heavy-lift recovery & transport (clandestine/hazardous recovery op: crane, flatbed/helicopter, route prep/permits) estimated $250,000 (#3).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $10.6M/yr
Staff Wages $5.2M/yr
[#11, #12, #13, #20] Ongoing staffing costs including 24/7 security guards and supervisors ($700,000/yr, #11), scientific staff & specialists ($1,500,000/yr, #12), rapid-response team readiness staffing/vehicles/training ($1,000,000/yr, #13), and Project Theia operational staffing ($2,000,000/yr, #20) — aggregated as total staff wages.
Logistics And Transport $2.0M/yr
[#14] Field operations & intelligence budget for covert detection/surveillance/interdiction (HUMINT, SIGINT buys, local assets, liaison) $2,000,000/yr (#14).
Cover Story And Legal $1.5M/yr
[#23, #30] Ongoing legal/cover renewals, media control, PR/disinformation and global monitoring for knowledge dissemination ($1,000,000/yr for cover/legal #23 plus $500,000/yr for global monitoring/takedowns #30).
D Class Program $500K/yr
[#18] D-Class program & testing infrastructure recurring costs (procurement/maintenance, housing, medical checks, legal/cover arrangements) $500,000/yr (#18).
Supplies And Consumables $475K/yr
[#15, #17, #26, #27] Consumables and disposals for destruction/neutralization ($200,000/yr, #15), amnestic consumables & procedures ($200,000/yr, #17), routine PPE/welding/maintenance supplies ($25,000/yr, #26), and periodic access operation budgets ($50,000/yr, #27).
Research And Monitoring $400K/yr
[#7, #9, #21] AOCRS ongoing compute & maintenance ($200,000/yr, #7), secure data storage maintenance & redundancy ($50,000/yr, #9), and psychological/medical monitoring & long-term care ($150,000/yr, #21).
Audit Compliance $200K/yr
[#29] Independent memetic-safety audits, classified peer review, red-team penetration testing and compliance reviews $200,000/yr (#29).
Facilities Maintenance $155K/yr
[#8, #25] Ongoing vault/environment maintenance: inerting gases & calibration ($5,000/yr, #8) and utilities/power redundancy (generators/UPS/HVAC increased load) $150,000/yr (#25).
Training And Security Audits $150K/yr
[#24] Annual training, breach simulations, memetic-safety training, AOCRS operator recertification and security audits $150,000/yr (#24).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $10.6M/yr
88.9% probability / year
Normal year with routine operations, monitoring, and no major recovery/deployment beyond expected maintenance and program activity.
no_incidents routine_operations
🚨 Minor Incident $11.6M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline
Single localized SCP-3600-2 recovery or exposure requiring rapid-response deployment, targeted amnestics and legal/cover actions.
single_SCP-3600-2_detection localized_recovery
🚨 Major Breach $85.6M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$75.0M vs baseline
Multiple coordinated SCP-3600-2 constructions or a wider leak requiring large international recoveries, mass amnestic operations and extended intelligence actions.
multiple_device_deployments significant_public_exposure
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $510.6M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$500.0M vs baseline
Large-scale dissemination of SCP-3600 knowledge or activation of SCP-3600-2 devices on an order that threatens civilization-level outcomes, requiring full contingency activation.
widespread_knowledge_dissemination simultaneous_multi-region_activation
👥 Personnel 66 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#11] 24/7 armed guards and supervisors to staff onsite security rotations and response teams (approx. 8–12 guards + supervisors, mapped to security staffing costs).
Research Scientist 8 [#12, #20] Cognitohazard researchers and linguists supporting Project Theia and ongoing research (part of scientific staff costs and Project Theia operations).
Research Engineer / ML Engineer 3 [#6, #7, #12] AOCRS developers, ML engineers and secure systems engineers required for model development and maintenance.
Rapid Response Team / EOD 6 [#13] Rapid-recovery and EOD/anomalous-device specialists on-call for SCP-3600-2 recovery and neutralization operations.
Project Theia Operational Staff 10 [#19, #20] Staff specific to Project Theia operations: program managers, test coordinators, ethical board liaisons, and additional security/medical staff for controlled exposures.
Medical Officer 2 [#16, #21] Medical staff for amnestic administration, monitoring and long-term care programs.
Engineer / Maintenance 3 [#1, #4, #10] Facility and equipment engineers for vault maintenance, remote-handling hardware, welding and workstation upkeep.
Administrative Staff 2 [#22, #23] Administrative and legal/cover support staff to manage front companies, procurement and liaison work.
Class-D Personnel 20 [#18] D-Class population maintained for testing under Project Theia protocols (headcount reflects operational pool supported by D-Class program recurring costs).
📋 Confidence Notes
Most line items are concrete engineering, staffing and recurring-program costs (medium confidence). Uncertainty arises from the large, intentionally order-of-magnitude contingency reserve and the unpredictable frequency/severity of SCP-3600-2 incidents, which drive wide variance in scenario costs.
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