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SCP-3928 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-3928
Expected annual
$27.4M
One-time setup
$15.8M
Annual recurring
$26.7M
Personnel
98
Initial capital costs for facilities, secure storage, and equipment are roughly $15.8M one-time; recurring annual operations (staff, legal/PR, amnestic resupply, monitoring, and contingency) are approximately $26.72M per year, driven primarily by rapid-response team salaries, legal/PR/forensics operations, and strategic contingency reserves.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $15.8M
Financial Reserve Pool $5.0M
[#25] Initial reserve pool to seed off-books accounts and reserves cited for insurance/financial cover.
Facilities $4.5M
[#6, #20] Vault construction and fit-out for regional secure evidence storage ($2.5M) plus central command/clinic build-out/lease fit-out ($2.0M).
Equipment $4.2M
[#2, #6, #10, #17, #28, #4] Mobile dispersion platforms and launch hardware ($1.75M), transport vans ($250k), webcrawler development/software deployment ($1.2M), archive/secure system hardware ($300k), specialized evidence tools per hub ($500k), initial PPE kits ($150k).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M
[#23] Initial research lab buildout and specialist instrumentation to support mechanistic studies and long-term experiments.
Litigation Reserve $1.0M
[#11] One-time reserve (initial litigation/legal contingency placement) to cover early suits and settlements.
Amnestic Initial Stockpile $150K
[#3] Initial production/sterile packaging/controlled storage stockpile for aerosolized amnestics.
Weapon Destruction One Time $10K
[#19] One-time allocation for secure destruction/disposal protocol equipment or contract for initial tranche of weapons.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $26.7M/yr
Staff Wages $11.7M/yr
[#1, #10, #15, #23, #11, #22] Salaries+benefits for RRT personnel across regional hubs (~$6.25M), research scientists, webcrawler/moderation staff, legal counsel, intelligence analysts, and support staff (total program salary pool).
Cover Story And Legal $2.3M/yr
[#9, #11, #21, #25, #30] PR retainers, legal retainers, diplomatic costs/liaison, and recurring costs to maintain cover narratives and cross-border legal posture.
Contingency Reserve $2.0M/yr
[#24] Annual contingency reserve for mass-casualty, viral/celebrity incidents, and severe multi-jurisdiction events.
Facilities Maintenance $1.0M/yr
[#6, #2, #20] Central facility operating costs, vault climate-control and secure storage operations, and maintenance of vehicle/launch infrastructure.
Webcrawler Operations $1.0M/yr
[#10, #26] Ongoing webcrawler/cloud costs, 24/7 moderation staff and accelerated takedown surge capacity.
Medical Liability $1.0M/yr
[#13] Annual reserve for emergency care, indemnities, and hush-money for adverse medical outcomes from amnestic deployment.
Research Program Core $1.0M/yr
[#23] Core annual budget for mechanistic research, specialist hires, and longitudinal studies (non-capital).
Digital Forensics $800K/yr
[#26] Deep-web remediation, dark-web takedowns, forensic archiving, and related specialist contracts.
Research And Monitoring $500K/yr
[#16, #23, #30] Ongoing non-salary research costs, cohort studies, environmental testing, and programmatic monitoring reflecting strategic constraints on total containment.
Logistics And Transport $500K/yr
[#18, #6] Annual transport budget for covert airlift/domestic movement of remains/evidence and routine transport operations.
Amnestic Resupply $500K/yr
[#3, #12] Annual resupply and production for amnestic agents, including per-raid replenishment and QC/regulatory mitigation.
Legal Emergency Fund $500K/yr
[#11] Annual emergency legal spend per-event budget for urgent cross-border work and emergency litigation responses.
Training Drills $500K/yr
[#14] Regular training, SOP development, simulation exercises across regional hubs.
Covert Payments $500K/yr
[#21] Recurring budget for discreet payments to officials, informants, and platform insiders as needed.
Psych Services $500K/yr
[#22] Ongoing trauma counseling and resiliency programs for teams and exposed personnel.
Public Health Coordination $500K/yr
[#27] Retainers/liaisons with local public health departments and forged authorization contingencies across jurisdictions.
Intelligence And Data Purchase $300K/yr
[#15] Data-mining, analyst salaries (non-salary portion captured here), and commercial dataset purchases.
Insurance And Accounting $300K/yr
[#25] Annual accounting, auditing, and specialized insurance/cover costs to hide operations.
Scene Containment Retainer $250K/yr
[#8] Annual retainers/off-the-books payments to local police in multiple cities for crowd control and overtime reimbursement.
Witness Processing $200K/yr
[#12] Follow-up interviews, targeted amnestic work, temporary relocation and monitoring of witnesses.
Decontamination Cleanup Reserve $200K/yr
[#29] Annual budget for biohazard cleanup crews, remediation, and disposal following incidents.
Forensic Autopsy Budget $200K/yr
[#5] Expected annual budget for autopsy/toxicology/histology on victims (per-victim costs aggregated to annual expected workload).
Epidemiology And Environmental $150K/yr
[#16] Immediate incident environmental testing budgets and shorter-term monitoring.
Supplies And Consumables $100K/yr
[#4, #28] PPE consumables for teams, disposable hazmat supplies, and evidence consumables.
Archive Operations $100K/yr
[#17] Secure database operations, encrypted backups, and access control operations.
Laboratory Testing Budget $50K/yr
[#7] Annual allocation for metallurgical/isotope/trace analyses for recovered swords and materials.
Specialized Equipment Consumables $25K/yr
[#28] Consumables for portable evidence equipment (bags, cutters, containment boxes).
Weapon Disposal Budget $10K/yr
[#19] Recurring marginal budget for secure destruction/disposition per recovered weapon (small annual average).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $26.7M/yr
63.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents beyond expected event responses; routine cataloging, resupply, training, and legal/PR maintenance.
routine incidents only no major legal or viral escalations
🚨 Minor Incident $27.2M/yr
30.0% probability / year +$502K vs baseline
Single moderate urban SCP-3928 event requiring rapid deployment, amnestic use, forensic work, local PR takedown, and victim processing.
moderate urban stabbing event local media attention
🚨 Major Breach $31.7M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Multiple simultaneous incidents or a large mass-casualty event requiring multinational response, large legal exposure, and extensive PR/containment operations.
mass-casualty event multi-jurisdiction deployment
🚨 High Profile Viral Event $41.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$15.0M vs baseline
Event involving a celebrity or viral media spread that forces large-scale international PR, legal response, accelerated deployments, and major contingency spending.
celebrity casualty global viral footage
👥 Personnel 98 total
Role Count Notes
Rapid-Response Team Member 50 Includes team leaders, medics, hazmat techs, containment/scene operators, drivers, legal liaisons and comms operators across ~5 regional hubs. [#1]
Research Scientist 8 Specialists for mechanistic studies and long-term projects. Salaries included in staff_wages and research_program_core. [#23]
Webcrawler / Moderation Staff 12 24/7 moderation, takedown staff and technical ops for content-removal infrastructure. [#10, #26]
Legal / Diplomatic Staff 6 In-house counsel and diplomatic liaison personnel handling takedowns, gag orders, and foreign legal coordination. [#11]
Medical Officer 5 Medical staff beyond RRT medics for clinic operations and emergency care coordination. [#13, #20]
Engineer / Maintenance 4 Maintain drones, vehicles, RRA systems, and facility infrastructure. [#2, #20]
Administrative Staff 5 Accounting, covert finance management, records management support. [#25, #17]
Site Director / Executive Staff 2 Executive oversight and liaison to Foundation command. [#20]
Intelligence Analyst 6 Data-mining, predictive targeting, and social-media analysis staff. [#15]
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges but event frequency, geographic scale, and legal exposure are highly uncertain; many estimates use midpoints and program-scale assumptions (5 regional hubs). This yields medium confidence.
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