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SCP-3719 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-3719
Expected annual
$5.9M
One-time setup
$5.9M
Annual recurring
$5.7M
Personnel
33
Estimated one-time setup costs are approximately $5.92M driven by specialized cryogenic vat procurement, containment stall/build modifications, and field/coverup startup costs; recurring annual operations are about $5.69M/yr driven primarily by staff wages (security, rapid-response teams, research/analyst staff) and ongoing monitoring/consumables.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.9M
Equipment $3.8M
[#2, #3, #9, #12, #15, #19, #24] Containment monitoring package (#2), 10,000-L Class-6 Lovell–Huron vat purchase (#3), web crawler development (software/dev cost treated as one-time capital) (#9), vehicles and field equipment (#12), false-memory implantation hardware (#15), initial spare parts (#19), off-site archive setup (#24).
Facilities $700K
[#1, #3, #13] SAFE-Class stall construction/refurbishment (#1) plus vat installation/structural floor support portion of site modifications (#3) and biomass disposal facility setup (#13).
Emergency Reserve $500K
[#25] One-time capital reserve for catastrophic containment escalation.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $450K
[#8, #18] Laboratory infrastructure and instruments for anomalous grass research (#8) and initial forensic/autopsy work performed at discovery (#18).
Cover Story Startup $100K
[#21] One-time cover-up / PR startup contingency (fake contractor setup, initial hush payments).
Transportation Setup $100K
[#26] Setup costs for covert transport, temporary housing logistics, and witness handling infrastructure.
Genealogy Investigation $75K
[#16] Initial investigative effort to identify genetic relatives and social vectors.
Environmental Study $75K
[#27] Initial environmental impact studies and municipal remediation planning.
Amnestic Initial Stock $50K
[#14] Initial purchase/stock of Class-A amnestics and secure pharmacy setup.
Legal Retainer $50K
[#22] Initial legal retainer for rapid coordination and indemnity actions.
Protocol Development $40K
[#20] Initial red-team memetic-safety testing and containment protocol development.
Training Curriculum $20K
[#28] Initial training/certification curriculum development for staff interacting with SCP-3719.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.7M/yr
Staff Wages $3.8M/yr
[#5, #6, #7, #10, #11, #15] Ongoing salaries/benefits: security guards and supervisor coverage (#5), technical maintenance staff (#6), dedicated research team (#7), analysts/SOC triage team (#10), rapid response field teams (#11), false-memory implantation specialists (#15).
Research And Monitoring $625K/yr
[#9, #16, #17, #18, #20, #24, #30] Web crawler hosting/data/API subscriptions and monitoring (#9), follow-up monitoring of relatives (#16), medical/psychological aftercare monitoring (#17), ongoing lab analyses (#18), annual red-team drills/protocol validation (#20), off-site backup storage maintenance (#24), and long-term epidemiological surveillance of the region (#30).
Supplies And Consumables $400K/yr
[#4, #8, #13, #14, #29] Cryogenics/closed-cycle refrigeration consumables and servicing (#4), lab consumables for growth/testing (#8), biomass disposal per-year budget (#13), annual amnestic replenishment (#14), miscellaneous operational supplies/overhead (#29).
Cover Story And Legal $350K/yr
[#21, #22] Recurring cover-up/public-relations budget for local events (#21) and ongoing legal/liaison/settlement retainer and actions (#22).
Emergency Fund Replenishment $200K/yr
[#25] Annual replenishment allocation to maintain the emergency escalation reserve.
Logistics And Transport $160K/yr
[#12, #26, #27] Vehicles fuel/maintenance and field equipment operation (#12), recurring covert transport/temporary housing operations (#26), ongoing municipal remediation operations (#27).
Facilities Maintenance $110K/yr
[#19, #23] Routine facility maintenance and attributable utilities: spare-part maintenance allocations (#19) and energy/utilities for containment/vats/servers (#23).
Training And Certification $30K/yr
[#28] Annual recertification and ongoing staff training for memetic safety and anomalous handling.
Containment Monitoring Maintenance $8K/yr
[#2] Annual maintenance/calibration and monitoring support for containment sensors/CCTV/alarms.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.7M/yr
82.5% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; routine monitoring, maintenance, and periodic local responses only.
no major 3719-COBALT events routine maintenance and monitoring only
🚨 Minor Incident $5.9M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
Localized 3719-COBALT event requiring extra field deployments, disposal, and additional amnestic administration.
single community 3719-COBALT event dozens–low hundreds of doses administered localized biomass cleanup and short-term surge staffing
🚨 Major Event $7.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Widespread propagation or multi-neighborhood event causing mass mobilization, large-scale disposal, and many amnestic administrations.
multi-site 3719-COBALT spread suspended-animation/vat capacity stress or failure mass amnestic and infrastructure remediation
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $25.7M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$20.0M vs baseline
Autonomous propagation or memetic cascade requiring emergency evacuations, mass amnestics, national-level remediation and replacement of containment infrastructure.
memetic cascade or autonomous widespread propagation failure of containment/vat systems mass public exposure requiring national-level response
👥 Personnel 33 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#5] 24/7 guard coverage for stall and vat area (2 per shift × 3 shifts).
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#6] On-site technical maintenance staff for mechanical/electrical systems.
Research Scientist 6 [#7] Dedicated botany/memetics/mechanical research team (budgeted 4–6; using 6).
Analyst / SOC Team 4 [#9, #10] Analysts to triage crawler flags and vet memetic incidents.
Rapid Response Team / Field Operators 12 [#11] Two rapid-response teams (2×6 personnel) for field containment and medics.
Medical Officer / Psychologist 2 [#14, #17, #15] Medical staff to administer amnestics and provide monitoring/aftercare; includes false-memory specialists overlap.
False-memory Specialist / Neurotech 3 [#15] 2–3 specialists budgeted to perform false memory implantation and neurotech-assisted procedures.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based directly on analyst line-item figures; many items (specialized vat, memetic response, public coverup) have broad ranges and contingent scaling during incidents, so totals are order-of-magnitude with moderate uncertainty.
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