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SCP-4179 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-4179
Expected annual
$7.7M
One-time setup
$4.4M
Annual recurring
$7.6M
Personnel
60
Initial capital of $4,435,000 is dominated by Black Box construction, secure communications/IT hardware, and research/trial setup; annual recurring costs are estimated at $7,600,000/yr, driven primarily by staff wages (MTF Alpha-1, memetic response team, researchers and compliance), secure communications/IT maintenance, and contingency/reserve top-ups.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.4M
Facilities $1.6M
[#2, #3, #10, #25] Construction and structural work: two Black Box rooms ($1,000,000), secure lockers/vault upgrades ($250,000), beach signage/fencing/initial cover infrastructure ($100,000), pilot site retrofit allowance ($200,000).
Equipment $1.3M
[#1, #13, #16, #19, #23] Hardware and device installs: secure voice servers/endpoints & crypto modules ($600,000), one retrofitted transport van ($200,000), secure/tamper-evident logging hardware ($250,000), IT leak-prevention hardware ($150,000), human-only testing consoles/observer equipment ($125,000).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $650K
[#8, #9] Archive Sector lab and trial setups: Archive research equipment/setup ($150,000) and initial clinical-trial phase setup ($500,000).
Contingency Reserve $500K
[#18] One-time reserved contingency / emergency fund seed for large-scale amnestic campaigns or misinformation operations.
Training Program Setup $200K
[#14] One-time creation of personnel training, courseware, and initial records management systems.
Cover Story Initial $150K
[#11, #22] One-time costs for maritime chart modifications, initial covert actions, legal fees and PR roll-out for site closure messaging.
Amnestic Initial Stockpile $60K
[#6] Initial stockpile of clinical-grade amnestics and related QA supplies.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $7.6M/yr
Staff Wages $6.2M/yr
[#4, #7, #8, #10, #12, #15, #17, #5] Salaries and on-call pay for MTF Alpha-1, on-call memetic response specialists, Archive researchers, coastal guards, part-time caretaker, audit/compliance staff, clinical/psychological staff, and Class-D payroll overhead.
Research And Monitoring $400K/yr
[#8, #9, #24] Non-salary research costs: subject compensation, human-subject oversight, long-term studies, inter-site QA audits, and coordination budgets.
Personnel Training $200K/yr
[#14] Annual refresher courses, compliance audits, testing, and records management for authorized personnel.
Logistics And Transport $160K/yr
[#10, #13] Vehicle maintenance, driver salaries/benefits (non-staff-wage portion covered here), boat patrol operational costs, sensors/remote monitoring upkeep.
Facilities Maintenance $150K/yr
[#2, #3, #16, #25] Utilities, HVAC, Faraday cage certification/recertification, vault environmental control and periodic site/pilot maintenance.
Amnestic Program $150K/yr
[#6] Recurring costs for amnestic procurement, clinical administration, monitoring and QA assuming dozens–hundreds of administrations per year.
Cover Story And Legal $125K/yr
[#11, #20, #22] Ongoing legal support, FOIA/records management, PR/community management and occasional covert payments or chart maintenance costs.
It Security $125K/yr
[#1, #19, #16, #23] Recurring licenses, device management (MDM), periodic penetration testing, and maintenance of no-recording/jamming systems and tamper-evident logging operations.
Contingency Topup $50K/yr
[#18] Annual top-up for the emergency reserve and catastrophic response fund.
Supplies And Consumables $40K/yr
[#21, #23, #5] Clinical-grade PPE and consumables, disposable supplies for Black Box sessions and human-in-the-loop testing consumables; minor per-case consumables.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $7.6M/yr
82.5% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year operating under mature containment posture with no major incidents.
routine containment operations scheduled research and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $7.8M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Isolated retrieval or handling requiring one MTF deployment, limited D-Class processing and amnestic administrations.
ripe SCP-4179-2 retrieval single MTF Alpha-1 deployment localized exposure requiring amnestics
🚨 Major Breach $9.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Multi-site exposure requiring several deployments, large amnestic campaigns and major logistics support.
multi-subject exposure public-facing leak or multiple site involvement
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $22.6M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$15.0M vs baseline
Wide cultural dissemination requiring mass amnestic operations, national-level PR/psyops, and large contingency fund mobilization.
large-scale public exposure failure of secure communications and logging rapid memetic propagation
👥 Personnel 60 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 16 MTF Alpha-1 Coherence Unit (Level-5/Class-B personnel); primary response unit. [#4]
On-call Memetic Response Specialist / Team Member 9 Rapid-response team specialists for memetic/info-hazard containment. [#7]
Research Scientist 6 Archive Sector researchers and memeticists assigned to SCP-4179 research. [#8]
Security Guard (Coastal site) 6 On-site coastal guards for beach Location of Interest. [#10]
Compliance / Audit Officer 6 Human auditors and communication-monitoring officers for manual review and enforcement. [#15]
Administrative Staff 2 Approvals, record-keeping and executive-level coordination costs. [#20]
Medical Officer / Clinician (amnestic providers) 3 Clinical staff to administer amnestics and supervise human-subject testing. [#6]
Psychological / Counselor 2 Staff providing ongoing counseling and occupational health monitoring. [#17]
Engineer / Maintenance 2 Facility and equipment maintenance (Black Box, HVAC, Faraday cages). [#2, #16]
Caretaker 1 Part-time caretaker for SCP-4179-1 welfare provisioning. [#12]
Driver / Logistics 2 Drivers for secure transport vehicles and boat patrols. [#13, #10]
Class-D Personnel 5 D-Class on payroll/overhead for handling 'ripe' cases and Black Box processing. [#5]
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates derived from analyst-provided ranges and reasonable mid-point assumptions. Memetic hazards introduce uncertainty in incident frequency and scale; personnel/headcount assumptions and vehicle/room counts are approximate.
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