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SCP-4565 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-4565
Expected annual
$1.9M
One-time setup
$4.5M
Annual recurring
$1.9M
Personnel
8
Initial setup and acquisition are dominated by manuscript purchases, archival retrofit, lab setup, and contingency/reserve funding (~$4.53M one-time). Annual operations are driven by staff wages, research/editing/influence operations, field deployments, and logistics (~$1.88M/year).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.5M
Anomalous Containment Construction $1.5M
[#13] Contingency for construction of special anomalous containment vaults/chambers (lead-lining, custom restraints, environmental controls) if SCP-4565-1 is recovered.
Contingency Reserve $1.0M
[#22] General contingency reserve for unexpected anomalies, escalation, or urgent operations; periodically replenished.
Acquisition Of Manuscripts $800K
[#1] Purchase or long-term loan fees for medieval chronicles, illuminated manuscripts, Vatican codices, and rare treatises.
Archaeological Excavation Project $400K
[#12] Per-project full archaeological excavation contingency (equipment, specialist teams, site security, post-excavation conservation).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $290K
[#2, #11] Initial provenance/accession work (cataloguing/legal diligence) and conservation/materials-analysis lab setup (radiocarbon, XRF, microscopy).
Legal Reserve $200K
[#16] One-time legal reserve to establish defenses and rapid-response legal fund for cross-border/export incidents and exposure risk.
Facilities $195K
[#3, #4] Warehouse 14-3 archival retrofit (climate control, shelving, fire suppression) and one-time security installation costs.
Equipment $125K
[#5, #21] High-resolution scanners/software and initial IT/air-gap/network hardware and setup.
Deaccessioning Per Action $20K
[#24] Per-action secure destruction/deaccessioning costs (secure destruction services, legal processing) if required.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.9M/yr
Staff Wages $450K/yr
[#4, #6, #7, #9, #15] Salaries for security personnel, translation/philology specialists, Foundation historians/researchers, conservator technicians, and rotating field staff salaries (core staffing).
Cover Story And Legal $405K/yr
[#8, #14, #16, #18, #23] Influence/cover operations, local liaison and stakeholder management, legal fees/top-ups, online censorship/publication manipulation, and public-facing outreach/cover publications.
Research And Monitoring $300K/yr
[#5, #7] Ongoing historical research, editorial operations, translation project management, digitization workflows, and classified analysis.
Logistics And Transport $285K/yr
[#9, #10, #17] Field deployment budgets (6–12 deployments), transport/transfer budgets (climate-controlled transfer, crates, paperwork), and travel/lodging for HQ-to-field rotations.
Anomalous Containment Maintenance $150K/yr
[#13] Maintenance, monitoring, and specialized staff costs for anomalous containment (contingency—applies if SCP-4565-1 recovered).
Intelligence Operations $120K/yr
[#15] Monitoring academic markets, HUMINT, subscriptions, surveillance, and informant payments to intercept leads on manuscripts and collectors.
Supplies And Consumables $85K/yr
[#11, #20] Conservation consumables and archival supplies (acid-free boxes, gloves, solvents, sampling kits) and laboratory consumables.
It Security And Network Maintenance $30K/yr
[#21] Intrusion detection, encrypted backups, and maintenance of air-gapped research network.
Training And Preparedness $25K/yr
[#19] Periodic training, tabletop exercises, and containment protocol preparedness derived from historical techniques.
Facilities Maintenance $15K/yr
[#3] Energy, climate-control maintenance, pest control, and periodic archival environment servicing for Warehouse 14-3.
Secure Data Storage $12K/yr
[#5] Ongoing secure backups, air-gapped archive maintenance, and storage redundancy for digitized materials.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.9M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major excavations or anomalous recoveries; routine acquisitions, research, field deployments, and influence operations proceed as planned.
no major excavations no discovery of SCP-4565-1 routine field deployments and research
🚨 Minor Incident $2.0M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Small exposure, targeted theft, legal challenge, or emergency retrieval requiring short-term surge spending (legal fees, emergency transport, expedited conservation).
localized exposure legal dispute targeted theft or leak
🚨 Archaeological Excavation $2.3M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$400K vs baseline
Major archaeological dig is launched after a lead—full excavation costs applied for that year (equipment, specialists, site security, post-excavation conservation).
credible lead to buried artifact authorized excavation permit multi-week field campaign
🚨 Anomalous Recovery Requires Containment $3.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.6M vs baseline
Recovery of SCP-4565-1 or similarly significant anomalous artifact requiring custom anomalous containment construction and new monitoring regimes.
discovery of SCP-4565-1 evidence of anomalous properties requiring custom vault
👥 Personnel 8 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 3 [#4] Onsite guards and security staffing for Warehouse 14-3 (foundation-grade monitoring and inspections).
Translation Specialist / Philologist 2 [#6, #5] Full-time specialists in Latin, Middle English, Old French, and paleography to produce translations and annotated editions.
Research Scientist / Historian 1 [#7] Foundation historians analyzing public/historical accounts and coordinating editorial/adjustment operations.
Conservator / Lab Technician 1 [#11] Conservation and materials-analysis technician for manuscript stabilization and analytical workflows.
Administrative Staff 1 [#2, #14] Administrative liaison for provenance/legal coordination, stakeholder management, and logistics coordination.
📋 Confidence Notes
Many cost ranges are provided in analyst notes allowing reasonable estimates for core items, but significant uncertainty remains around acquisition prices, excavation frequency, and the likelihood/scale of anomalous recovery—hence medium confidence.
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