SCP-3856 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-3856
Expected annual
$59.4M
One-time setup
$1.3B
Annual recurring
$56.5M
Personnel
77
First-year capital costs are dominated by hardened facility construction, inter-universal ejection hardware and long-term reserve funds (totaling ~ $1.3B one-time); annual operations are driven by high-clearance staff, research, insurance liquidity and maintenance (~$56.45M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.3B
Equipment $725.3M
[#2, #3, #4, #8, #9, #10, #11, #22, #23, #24] Life-support installation, microgrid & power hardware, containment restraints & neuromonitoring hardware, probability-monitoring cluster hardware, primary and backup ejection rigs (hardware), secure communications hardware, one-time data/forensic storage tooling, transport assets, and cross-universe monitoring tooling.
Long Term Archival Reserve $300.0M
[#25] Present-value reserve / inflation buffer to guarantee multi-decade custodial operations (30–50 year PV).
Facilities $172.5M
[#1, #13] Construction of a hardened, self-sufficient maximum-security bunker and a quarantine/handling facility (site acquisition, hardening, blast doors, decon airlocks, evidence-proofing).
Insurance Recovery Reserve Capital $75.0M
[#19] One-time capital reserve allocation for catastrophic response (insurance/recovery 'war chest').
Initial Research And Lab Setup $25.0M
[#15] Initial research program setup costs (lab buildout, initial grants, instrumentation and program initiation for mitigation research).
Training Program Setup $500K
[#21] Initial comprehensive training/drill program setup for ejection ops, containment simulations and insider-threat exercises.
Staff Vetting Setup $350K
[#7] One-time costs for high-clearance psychological screening infrastructure and initial vetting/background checks.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $56.5M/yr
Staff Wages $25.1M/yr
[#5, #6, #8, #11, #15, #24, #23] Salaries and benefits for on-site critical-care medical team, full-time security/rapid-response personnel, probability-modeling staff, inter-universal liaisons/communications staff, research personnel, engineers/maintenance and essential transport staff (high-clearance pay and on-call premiums).
Insurance Recovery Liquidity $10.0M/yr
[#19] Ongoing liquidity allocation to maintain response capability and immediate catastrophic remediation funds.
Research And Monitoring $7.0M/yr
[#8, #15, #22, #24] Non-salary research program operating costs, model and telemetry compute costs, data acquisition/analysis, cross-universe observational analytics and secure forensic archive replication.
Facilities Maintenance $4.8M/yr
[#3, #10, #13, #20] Ongoing maintenance for power systems/microgrid, backup ejection rig maintenance, quarantine facility operations, and general site lifecycle replacement/spare parts.
Cross Universe Settlements $2.0M/yr
[#12] Recurring funds reserved for reimbursements, hosting fees and negotiated transfers with other universes per transfer cadence.
Black Ops Contingency $2.0M/yr
[#18] Annual reserve for clandestine neutralization, emergency removals, covert extraction and related contingency actions.
Cover Story And Legal $1.3M/yr
[#16, #17] Legal/ethics convening costs and PR/memetic/amnestic operations for cover-up and public containment actions.
Supplies And Consumables $1.2M/yr
[#2, #4, #14] Life-support consumables (O2 scrubbing, water reclamation), restraints/medical consumables and long-term provisioning of pharmaceuticals/food/steriles.
Communications Operations $1.0M/yr
[#11] Ongoing operations cost for secure inter-universal communications, cryptographic maintenance and liaison office operations.
Per Ejection Operational $500K/yr
[#9] Annual reserved budget for per-ejection operational costs (energy, certified operators, consumables) averaged as an expectation over likely event frequency.
Logistics And Transport $400K/yr
[#23] Operations for secure vehicles/aircraft and movement logistics to/from site.
Training And Drills $400K/yr
[#21] Recurring cost for regular multidisciplinary drills, simulations and ejection procedure testing.
Staff Vetting And Monitoring $400K/yr
[#7] Recurring continuous integrity monitoring, psych evaluations, random inspections and counter-intel vetting to reduce insider-threat risk.
Mental Health Programs $300K/yr
[#26] Ongoing counseling, burnout mitigation and ethical/mental-health support for staff and contained individual.
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $56.5M/yr
75.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; routine ejections performed under policy cadence and expected maintenance/research activity.
no major containment breach scheduled maintenance and routine transfers normal research cadence
🚨 Minor Incident $58.5M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$2.1M vs baseline
Localized incident requiring one emergency ejection, limited amnestic cleanup and deployment of contingency teams.
imminent-death threshold exceeded for an instance small-scale breach or insider incident single inter-universe transfer dispute
🚨 Major Breach $106.5M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Significant containment failure or politically escalated cross-universe incident requiring large-scale remediation, rapid R&D surge and major operational spending.
multi-site breach or failed ejection mass exposure requiring wide amnestic campaign need for large emergency reserve deployment
👥 Personnel 77 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Program Lead 10 [#15] Scientific staff working on mitigation, probability theory, metaphysics and experiments; included in staff_wages.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 24 [#6] Armed security and rapid-reaction personnel (rotating shifts, supervisors); included in staff_wages.
Critical Care Physician 4 [#5] On-site physicians for 24/7 critical care; included in staff_wages.
Nurse / Medical Technician 10 [#5] Nursing and respiratory/med tech staff for prolonged care; included in staff_wages.
Inter-universal Liaison / Communications Operator 12 [#11] Liaison and communications staff for inter-universal coordination; included in staff_wages.
Engineer / Maintenance 6 [#3, #20] Power, life-support and ejection rig maintenance staff; included in staff_wages.
Mathematician / Modeler / Data Analyst 4 [#8, #24] Probability-monitoring and analytics staff; included in staff_wages.
Administrative / Legal / Ethics Staff 3 [#16] Admin and counsel staff supporting O5 convenings and documentation; included in staff_wages and cover_story_and_legal.
Transport / Logistics Operator 2 [#23] Secure transport drivers/operators; included in staff_wages.
Mental Health / Counseling Staff 2 [#26] Counseling and ethics support for staff and contained individual; included in staff_wages and mental_health_programs.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates use midpoints and analyst guidance but hinge on critical unknowns: whether inter-universal transfer tech exists (retrofit vs full R&D), ejection frequency, and political/ethical constraints; large ranges in original notes drive low confidence.
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