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SCP-4083 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-4083
Expected annual
$2.2M
One-time setup
$17.2M
Annual recurring
$2.2M
Personnel
19
Initial capital outlay is dominated by purchase of six buildings (~$16.5M) and sensor/vehicle/IT setup; main recurring costs are security staffing, property maintenance/taxes, OSINT/analysis staff, and contingency reserves (~$2.16M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $17.2M
Facilities $16.5M
[#1] Acquisition of six buildings (midpoint estimate of $3M–$30M total).
Equipment $588K
[#4, #7, #8, #9, #10, #21, #22, #25, #26] Triple-deadbolt and key-control hardware (#4), surveillance & sensor kits (#7), hardened/off-site monitoring hardware (#8), data/storage servers/setup (#9), web-crawler dev included as deployed tooling (#10), initial PPE/evidence kits (#21), vehicle fleet purchase (#22), IT/crypto hardware (#25), evidence vault/safe (#26).
Geotechnical Surveys $60K
[#24] One-time geotechnical/seismological survey per site (midpoint estimate aggregated for six sites).
Front Company Formation $39K
[#2] Formation/registration of six front companies, escrow/legal setup, shell LLC costs.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $15K
[#15] Secure biofreezer and chain-of-custody setup for forensic evidence (one-time).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.2M/yr
Staff Wages $1.4M/yr
[#5, #9, #10, #27] Security staffing (two guards per site), central forensic/analysis staff, OSINT triage analyst, property/site management and administrative staff.
Facilities Maintenance $175K/yr
[#4, #17, #18] Key-control/system maintenance (#4), property taxes/insurance/utilities/maintenance (#17), HVAC/utility winterization (#18).
Cover Story And Legal $158K/yr
[#3, #19, #30] Ongoing front-company maintenance and filings (#3), legal retainers/PR/FOIA response budget (#19), records retention/redaction/FOIA labor (#30).
Research And Monitoring $124K/yr
[#7, #8, #9, #10, #15, #16, #24] Sensor maintenance and storage bandwidth (#7,#8,#9), web-hosting/OSINT monitoring (#10), forensic storage & per-event analysis annualized (#15), long-term person-of-interest monitoring baseline (#16), ongoing seismological monitoring (#24).
Acquisition Reserve Allocation $100K/yr
[#23] Annual contribution toward contingency pool for acquiring newly discovered instances (recommended $2M–$10M pool; this is the yearly allocation).
Logistics And Transport $98K/yr
[#11, #12, #13, #14, #22] Field surveillance/ stakeout contingency (#11), annualized evacuation staging/fumigation exercises (#12), amortized complex-evacuation planning reserve (#13), post-event structural inspection/repairs annualized (#14), vehicle operations/insurance/fuel (annual portion) (#22).
Emergency Remediation Reserve $50K/yr
[#29] Annual reserve funding for worst-case emergency remediation (demolition, mass rehousing, large settlements) amortized.
Special Response Annualized $30K/yr
[#6] Annualized cost for specialized on-call containment/response deployments (travel, overtime, staging) averaged across site cycles.
Psychological Support $15K/yr
[#20] Employee assistance, screening, and post-event counseling/training.
Supplies And Consumables $12K/yr
[#21] PPE resupply, evidence kit replenishment, consumables; average hazmat contracting annualized.
It Licenses $6K/yr
[#25] Recurring licenses, VPNs, crypto-hardware maintenance and renewals.
Training $6K/yr
[#28] Annual training, drills, and procedure updates per region amortized.
Evidence Storage $3K/yr
[#15, #26] Climate-controlled evidence/vault facility recurring costs and sample storage fees.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.2M/yr
78.0% probability / year
Normal year with scheduled monitoring, maintenance, staffing, and routine event-cycle activities but no major incidents beyond expected post-event repairs and operations.
scheduled 4083-Theta-R window operations routine maintenance and staffing cycles
🚨 Minor Incident $2.3M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline
An above-routine incident requiring extra field deployments, hazmat contracting, modest rehousing or repairs for one site in addition to baseline operations.
localized structural/soot damage hazmat contractor engagement temporary rehousing for a small number of tenants
🚨 Major Breach $3.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Significant escalation (stronger-than-historical event, structural collapse, large legal exposure) triggering emergency remediation, mass rehousing, large settlements and major clandestine operations.
higher Richter damage (>3.7) or structural collapse public exposure requiring large-scale remediation extensive legal settlements or rehousing obligations
👥 Personnel 19 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#5] Two full-time guards per site on rotation (2 guards × 6 sites).
Research Scientist / Forensic Analyst 2 [#9, #15] Central forensic/forensics analysts for evidence analysis and data review.
OSINT Analyst 1 [#10] Web-crawler triage and monitoring specialist.
Investigator / Field Agent 2 [#11, #27] Field surveillance, stakeouts, and investigative follow-ups.
Property Manager / Site Manager 1 [#17, #27] Day-to-day property management, maintenance coordination, and front-company compliance oversight.
Administrative Staff 1 [#2, #3, #27] Bookkeeping, front-company filings, legal/PR coordination and records retention support.
📋 Confidence Notes
Article and analyst notes specify many discrete cost drivers (purchase, security, taxes, scheduled events) allowing reasonable mid-point estimates, but geographic price variance for properties and low-frequency high-impact events create uncertainty.
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