SCP-3800 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-3800
Expected annual
$29.4M
One-time setup
$726.0M
Annual recurring
$25.3M
Personnel
9.1
One-time capital costs are dominated by outpost construction, equipment purchases, and optional off-world/lunar readiness; annual operating costs are driven by personnel, outpost operations, transport readiness, lunar-readiness retainers, and contingency/reserve funds.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $726.0M
Offworld Solution Reserve $500.0M
[#30] One-time reserve for an off-world/permanent relocation program (placeholder for multi-hundred-million to billion-class projects).
Lunar Capability $100.0M
[#19] One-time costs to design/qualify a flight-worthy emergency containment capsule and secure guaranteed emergency lunar removal capability (capital & qualification).
Emergency Launch Fund Reserve $100.0M
[#21] One-time emergency reserve to pay for rapid commercial launch/mission costs if immediate removal is required.
Large Scale Suppression Contingency $10.0M
[#24] One-time reserve seed for a potential regional suppression/remediation campaign (deployable capital contingency).
Equipment $9.4M
[#7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #13, #20, #27] Initial remote cameras + installation; purchase of moderate landing craft(s); purchase of light helicopter (if chosen); initial tranquilization & capture equipment; secure transport cages/holding infrastructure; BSL-2 field kit; specialized containment crate; hardened communications equipment.
Legal Reserve $2.5M
[#29] One-time legal indemnity / reserve funds to cover civil claims and other liabilities related to field sites, ships, aircraft, or incidents.
Facilities $2.5M
[#1, #5] Locker hardware & installation (Site-93) plus Outpost-3800 physical establishment (moorings, landing bay, shelters, pier, sanitation, watermaker, etc.).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $625K
[#12] Initial veterinary/medical/pathology lab setup and diagnostics capability for Outpost/Site (imaging, necropsy, basic molecular tools).
Legal Contingency $500K
[#4] Single contingency legal fund for complex international/diplomatic incidents (one-time reserve).
Public Health Stockpile $300K
[#28] One-time stockpile of antivirals, PPE, and testing supplies for biosecurity preparedness.
Training Program Setup $150K
[#25] Initial training program setup costs for capture, sea survival, biosafety, and non-lethal escalation training.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $25.3M/yr
Lunar Readiness $10.0M/yr
[#19] Annual contract/retainer and maintenance to maintain emergency lunar removal readiness and qualified hardware support.
Incident Response Fund $3.0M/yr
[#23] Annual contingency reserve for immediate action: unexpected colony expansion, containment breaches, emergency relocation or suppression staging.
Coastal Interception $2.0M/yr
[#15] Baseline surveillance & coastal interdiction network for a moderate coastline sector (patrol boats, localized helicopters, detection sensors and local response teams).
Cover Story And Legal $1.9M/yr
[#4, #18, #29] Annual budget for domestic counsel, PR/cover-story maintenance, deception & cover operations contingency, and insurance premium allocations.
Logistics And Transport $1.6M/yr
[#8, #9] Recurring transport costs for boats (charter baseline) and air transport retainer (helicopter/plane retainer or hourly charter budget).
Outpost Operations $1.4M/yr
[#6] Ongoing operational costs for Outpost-3800: rotating personnel support, consumables (food/water/fuel), maintenance, waste handling, and small pier/boat support.
Staff Wages $1.3M/yr
[#3, #12, #14, #16] Salaries/benefits for core custody & scientific staff: custodians (2), on-call senior researcher (0.1 FTE equivalent), veterinary staff (1 vet + 1 technician), and baseline research FTE contribution.
Research And Monitoring $1.2M/yr
[#14, #16] Ongoing research, behavioral studies, modeling/GIS team and analysis infrastructure subscriptions (research FTEs, imagery/LiDAR, analyst time).
Equipment Depreciation $600K/yr
[#26] Amortized reserve for replacement of vessels, generators, cameras, PPE, and lab gear (10–25% of capital equipment per year estimate).
Public Health Biosecurity $550K/yr
[#28] Ongoing public-health readiness: PPE replenishment, rapid testing capability, antivirals, quarantine readiness and drills.
Intelligence Foreign Relations $500K/yr
[#22] Ongoing low-level intelligence, diplomatic handling, covert relations with local maritime authorities and fisheries monitoring.
Facilities Maintenance $340K/yr
[#1, #2] Site-93 pro rata utilities/HVAC/power/emergency power and ongoing security & environmental monitoring for containment locker and general facility overhead.
Satellite Uplink And Servers $300K/yr
[#7] Satellite uplink, secure data transmissions, server hosting and managed uplink costs for camera/sensor telemetry.
Supplies And Consumables $285K/yr
[#10, #11, #12, #13] Tranquilizer/sedative consumables and per-capture costs, secure housing consumables & maintenance, veterinary consumables/testing, and waste disposal contract costs.
Training Recurring $180K/yr
[#25] Annual recertification, sea survival, capture drills, biosafety refresher courses and exercises for small team.
Comms Security $150K/yr
[#27] Managed communications/cybersecurity services to protect sensor feeds, command links, encryption and incident response for cyber threats.
Data Storage $100K/yr
[#17] Secure long-term storage, backups and redundancy for continuous sensor/video/audio archives.
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $25.3M/yr
84.8% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; standard monitoring, outpost ops, personnel wages, and retained readiness contracts remain active.
no new coastline manifestations stable colony activity no major breaches or international incidents
🚨 Minor Incident $30.3M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Localized coastal manifestation or small unexpected colony expansion requiring targeted interdiction, additional captures, medical response and localized deception/PR.
new coastal manifestations within limited sector small-scale containment breach requiring regional response
🚨 Major Breach $75.3M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Regional containment failure requiring a coordinated suppression campaign, large-scale evacuation/containment and international diplomatic/legal operations.
rapid radius growth into populated coastline multiple simultaneous manifestations need for regional suppression campaign
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $1.0B/yr
0.2% probability / year +$1.0B vs baseline
Exponential uncontrolled manifestation (approaching RK/NK-class) requiring global remediation, possible off-world relocation and full mobilization of international resources.
radius exceeds critical threshold (~2645 km) leading to runaway manifestations failure of suppression & evacuation measures nation-scale detection & conflict
👥 Personnel 9.1 total
Role Count Notes
Custodian / Security Officer 2 [#3] Two custodians assigned to Site-93 containment locker and primary custody operations.
On-call Senior Researcher (FTE equiv.) 0.1 [#3] 0.1 FTE senior researcher retained for approvals, audits and oversight at Site-93.
Research Scientist 2 [#14] Behavioral/ethology researchers and analysis staff accounted for in research_and_monitoring recurring costs.
Modeling / GIS Analysts 3 [#16] Geospatial/modeling team (2–4 staff) represented as ~3 analysts for predictive modeling and imagery analysis.
Veterinarian 1 [#12] One veterinarian assigned to Outpost / pathology program.
Veterinary Technician 1 [#12] One veterinary technician supporting medical/pathology operations.
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items have wide ranges and escalation is highly non-linear (radius-growth dynamics). Core recurring costs (personnel, outpost ops, basic monitoring) are fairly well-specified, but contingency scenarios (suppression, lunar/off-world options) have high variance, so overall confidence is medium.
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