SCP-3936 — SCP-3936 | Cost Breakdown

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $157.4M

Facilities $75.0M

[#1] Hardened Exclusionary Site shell and civil works: excavation, reinforced concrete, blast doors, NBC/radiation hardening, EMC shielding, Faraday cage and structural integration of Scranton-Box macro-geometry.

Anomalous Integration $55.0M

[#2] Installation and integration of Scranton-Box macro components, exotic materials, alignment/calibration, anomaly-safe installation procedures and specialized anomalous engineering labor (capital/R&D).

Equipment $11.3M

[#3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #10, #11, #12, #14, #15] On-site systems and hardware: life-support/HVAC, generators/UPS/tankage, air-gapped data center hardware, secure communications hardware, tooling/machine-shop setup, physical security systems, armored fleet vehicles, medical suite setup, archival materials, and HSMs/key escrow devices.

Contingency Reserve $10.0M

[#21] Seed of secret contingency/emergency reserve for catastrophic procurement, rapid expansion or offsite relocation (size varies by risk appetite).

Backup Mirrors $2.0M

[#22] One or more off-site mirror site buildouts or hardened mirror installations to ensure off-site redundancy for at-risk records.

Special Financial Escrow $2.0M

[#30] One-time legal/financial engineering (isolated escrow accounts, sovereign holdings, tangible non-alterable stores) to mitigate retroactive financial alteration risk.

Decommissioning Reactivation $1.1M

[#25] Per-event cost to recommission or reactivate SCP-3936 after inactivity (ramp staffing, validation, recommission archival and communications).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $600K

[#17] On-site engineering R&D initial lab preparation, test beds and safe-test infrastructure for anomalous maintenance/R&D.

Legal Setup $200K

[#18] One-time legal/cover setup costs: land acquisition legal work, shell company formation, initial secrecy/indemnity arrangements.

Initial Supplies Stockpile $175K

[#13] One-time emergency bulk procurement of food/water/supplies to cover extended isolation (approx. 1 year emergency stockpile).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $22.8M/yr

Staff Wages $12.0M/yr

[#8] Permanent staffing payroll and benefits for baseline 100-person active site (security, engineers, IT/archivists, medical, administrative, cooks, janitorial, research liaisons).

Facilities Maintenance $3.0M/yr

[#16] Routine maintenance and facilities operations (~3–7% of capital per year; includes HVAC servicing, generator servicing, elevator, groundskeeping).

Supplies And Consumables $1.1M/yr

[#3, #7, #12, #13, #14] Recurring consumables: life-support maintenance/filters, tooling consumables and spares, medical supplies, food/water recurring supplies, archival preservation consumables.

Contingency Replenishment $1.0M/yr

[#21] Annual replenishment target for contingency/emergency funds to maintain a secret reserve for catastrophic events.

Research And Monitoring $800K/yr

[#17] Ongoing on-site engineering R&D and anomaly-maintenance budget for Scranton-Box systems and safe testing.

Cover Story And Legal $600K/yr

[#18] Ongoing legal, cover operations, public affairs and shell-company maintenance costs to preserve secrecy and obtain local cooperation.

Security Operations $600K/yr

[#10] Recurring security training, certifications, ammunition, equipment maintenance and security system upkeep.

It Security And Forensics $500K/yr

[#15] Ongoing IT security staff, forensics, intrusion detection, audits, tamper-evidence and integrity assurance operations.

Logistics And Transport $400K/yr

[#9, #11, #20] Rotational staffing travel, armored fleet operating costs and ongoing secure transfer/escort budgets for ingesting at-risk documents.

Fuel And Generator Maintenance $400K/yr

[#4] Fuel consumption, testing, and periodic major maintenance for redundant generators and UPS systems (30–90 day fuel stores).

Communications And Subscriptions $300K/yr

[#6] Bandwidth, satellite feeds, licensed data subscriptions, and secure communications service contracts.

Monitoring And Media Logging $300K/yr

[#19] Automated scraping, news aggregation, transcription software and analyst labor to log public activity outside the site.

Monitoring And Attestation $300K/yr

[#24] Personnel and process costs to identify high-risk records, create attestations/notarizations and tamper-evident seals.

Energy Costs $300K/yr

[#26] Grid electricity and continuous power costs for servers, climate control and habitability (excludes fuel for generators which is separate).

Reputation And Coordination $300K/yr

[#28] Inter-agency coordination, liaison costs, reimbursements and formal agreements required to maintain classified relationships.

Backup Mirror Maintenance $200K/yr

[#22] Off-site mirror maintenance, synchronization, and periodic validation operations.

Special Financial Escrow $200K/yr

[#30] Ongoing legal/financial maintenance costs for isolated escrow/sovereign holding accounts and non-alterable custody arrangements.

Specialized Training And Psych Support $150K/yr

[#23] Ongoing anomalous-specific training, emergency drills, and mental-health/psychological support for isolated personnel.

Miscellaneous And Admin $150K/yr

[#27] Office supplies, background checks, clearances renewals, subscriptions and administrative overhead.

Physical Archival Refresh $150K/yr

[#29] Regular periodic archival format migrations, media conversion and refresh program (smaller annual costs with larger spikes every 3–7 years).

It Maintenance And Migrations $125K/yr

[#5, #29] Media refresh/migration, tape/library upkeep and periodic format migrations for digital archives.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $22.8M/yr

83.0% probability / year

Normal uneventful year with full active staffing and routine operations, no major incidents.

no incidents routine operations

🚨 Minor Incident $23.3M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline

Minor containment/technical incident requiring emergency archive restoration, limited overtime, and short-term legal/forensics response.

localized data corruption small system failure targeted retroactive alteration attempt

🚨 Major Breach $32.8M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Significant breach or CK-class effect requiring MTF response, large-scale reconstruction, archive rebuild and contingency fund draw.

major breach CK-class restructuring impact site compromise

🚨 Reactivation Event $23.9M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$1.1M vs baseline

Event year in which the site is reactivated from warm-standby, incurring per-event recommissioning costs.

reactivation ramp-up from warm-standby

👥 Personnel 100 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	30	Primary security staff and rapid-response teams; salaries included in staff_wages [#8, #10].
Research Scientist	15	Analysts and researchers responsible for identifying at-risk records and R&D; included in staff_wages [#8, #17].
Engineer / Maintenance	12	On-site engineers for anomalous system maintenance, generators and facility upkeep; included in staff_wages [#8, #4, #16].
IT / Archivist	10	Data center operators, archivists, media migration specialists; included in staff_wages [#8, #5, #29].
Medical Officer	4	Infirmary staff and emergency medical capability; salaries in staff_wages [#8, #12].
Cooks	4	Food preparation and meal services for on-site personnel; salaries in staff_wages [#8, #13].
Janitorial	4	Facility cleaning and sanitation; salaries in staff_wages [#8, #16].
Administrative Staff	6	Site administration, HR, procurement and clerical support; salaries in staff_wages [#8].
Logistics / Transport	5	Drivers, convoy escorts and logistics coordinators for transfers; salaries in staff_wages [#8, #9, #11, #20].
Site Director / Executive Staff	1	Site leadership and executive decision-making; included in staff_wages [#8].
Research Liaisons	4	Liaisons coordinating with external Foundation research and legal teams; included in staff_wages [#8, #18].
Psychological Support / Counselors	2	Mental-health personnel for isolation mitigation; included in staff_wages and specialized training budget [#8, #23].
R&D / Anomalous Technicians	3	Specialist anomalous-technology technicians supporting Scranton-Box integration and maintenance; included in staff_wages and R&D budget [#8, #2, #17].

📋 Confidence Notes

Costs have low confidence due to large ranges driven by anomalous-technology integration uncertainty, site geology/local construction variability, unknown incident frequencies, and policy choices about steady-state staffing vs warm-standby. Many items are high-uncertainty anomalous engineering estimates and contingency assumptions.