SCP-474 — SCP-474 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-474 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-474

Expected annual

$2.9M

One-time setup

$377K

Annual recurring

$2.9M

Personnel

One-time setup costs are moderate (~$377k) driven by secure storage, playback booths, servers, and vehicles; annual operating costs are substantial (~$2.86M/yr) dominated by personnel, embedded field operations, research, and contingency/reserve funds.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $377K

Facilities $135K

[#1, #7] Vault fit-out and secure playback/analysis booth build-out (fail-secure doors, environmental control, soundproof booth).

Vehicles And Field Equipment Initial $100K

[#22] Purchase of small operational fleet (unmarked vehicles), secure cases, comms gear.

Decommissioning And Long Term Disposal Planning $50K

[#30] One-time contingency planning and funds for program decommissioning/large-scale disposal.

Equipment $42K

[#3, #4, #6] Locked medicine cabinet/shelving (#3), secure server hardware for cognitohazardous audio (#4), air-gapped backup/cold storage (#6).

Cognitohazard Sop Development Initial $25K

[#16] Initial development of memetic-safe SOPs and training course materials.

Evidence Management System Initial $10K

[#15] Initial purchase/customization of LIMS/evidence management system.

Secure Storage Software Initial $10K

[#5] Initial licenses/HSM/IAM setup for secure storage and logging.

Foundation Made Pill Bottles Initial $5K

[#2] Initial stock of Foundation pill bottles, seals, desiccants, labels.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.9M/yr

Staff Wages $1.4M/yr

[#10, #11, #12] Core containment/research team salaries (#10), on-site security staff (#11), embedded field agents/influence operators (#12).

Logistics And Transport $300K/yr

[#13, #14] Undercover seizure operations per-cache costs (#13) and secure transport / international logistics (#14).

Research And Monitoring $275K/yr

[#8, #9] Forensic analytical testing (GC-MS/HPLC sample runs, reagents) (#8) and sleep lab / EEG/fMRI studies (#9).

Cover Story And Legal $200K/yr

[#19] PR, legal retainers, cover-story campaigns, lobbying and public messaging efforts.

Contingency Rapid Response Fund $200K/yr

[#27] Reserve for emergency deployments, charter flights, surge personnel, and urgent multi-site recoveries.

Collaboration And Infiltration $150K/yr

[#28] Budget for intelligence operations, informants, undercover monitoring of Alexylva University signals.

It Sysadmin And Cybersecurity $80K/yr

[#24] Dedicated sysadmin/cybersecurity operations, patching, pen-testing, disaster recovery planning.

Psychological Care And Amnestics $60K/yr

[#17] Counseling, psychiatric care, and amnestic administration budget for staff/civilian exposures.

Participant Compensation $50K/yr

[#21] Payments/stipends for study participants, field interviews, dream reports.

Annual Audits And Red Team $30K/yr

[#23] Third-party/internal audits, red-team testing, security reviews.

Interpreter And Linguists $20K/yr

[#20] Sign-language staff, linguists for multi-language transcription and DHH accommodations.

Vehicles And Field Maintenance $20K/yr

[#22] Annual maintenance, insurance, and recurring equipment replacement for field vehicles.

Replacement And Depreciation $15K/yr

[#26] Amortized replacement budget for servers, lab gear, and playback equipment (3–5 year lifecycle).

Cognitohazard Training $10K/yr

[#16] Annual SOP refreshers, staff certification, simulation drills.

Energy And Utilities $7K/yr

[#25] Power for servers, vault environmental control, HVAC, and minimal site utilities.

Secure Storage Software Maintenance $5K/yr

[#5] Ongoing license/support for secure storage, HSM maintenance, SIEM integration.

Evidence Management System Support $5K/yr

[#15] Annual support/customization/hosting for LIMS/evidence tracking.

Destruction And Disposal $5K/yr

[#18] Secure destruction and hazardous disposal of unrecoverable caches.

Supplies And Consumables $4K/yr

[#2, #29] Annual replacement turnover for pill bottles/seals and small consumables (evidence bags, gloves, shipping materials).

Facilities Maintenance $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.9M/yr

88.0% probability / year

Normal year with routine seizures, research, and operations; no major incidents or public exposure.

standard cache recoveries routine research activities no major exposures

🚨 Minor Incident $3.0M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline

Localized incident requiring extra deployments, amnestics, overtime, PR/legal work and limited surge of resources.

cluster of caches at a single campus several staff/civilian exposures small media attention

🚨 Major Breach $5.9M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline

Widespread public distribution or major exposure event requiring large-scale containment, international operations, decontamination, and extended public-health campaigns.

mass production/public distribution international political exposure sustained media coverage

👥 Personnel 19 total

Role	Count	Notes
Project Lead / Research Lead	1	[#10] Oversees research and containment operations.
Research Scientist	2	[#10] Laboratory and neurophysiology studies.
Lab Technician	2	[#10] Sample prep, analytical runs, chain-of-custody handling.
Administrative Staff	1	[#10] Inventory, scheduling, records management.
Site Containment Specialist	1	[#10] Site-level anomaly containment and SOP compliance.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	6	[#11] Vault/site security, evidence protection, shift coverage.
Field Agent / Undercover Operative	6	[#12] Embedded agents in educational systems, undercover seizures and influence operations.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide many explicit line items and mid-range estimates, so budgeting is reasonably grounded; uncertainty remains around frequency/severity of large-scale distribution events and existing site infrastructure which could materially change one-time costs.

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