SCP-4755 — SCP-4755 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-4755 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-4755

Expected annual

$24.9M

One-time setup

$15.1M

Annual recurring

$23.9M

Personnel

One-time setup and capital for a secure, shielded containment/interview suite and associated IT/archive purchases are roughly $15.1M; ongoing annual operations (security, multidisciplinary research, influence/grant budgets, monitoring, and pensions/overhead) are roughly $23.9M/yr, driven mainly by research staffing, grants/influence operations, and continuity/pension obligations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $15.1M

Facilities $7.5M

[#1] Single-person, highest-security suite construction including shielding, antechambers, biometric locks, CCTV, restraint systems, and interview/psych spaces.

Crisis Fund Seed $2.8M

[#19] One-time seed for the rapid-response discretionary contingency fund.

Equipment $1.6M

[#4, #22] High-resolution monitoring hardware and memetic-resistant IT / classified network infrastructure (one-time procurement/development).

Archive Acquisition $1.0M

[#21] Initial purchases / control of targeted physical and digital archives.

Secure Transport Vehicles $850K

[#13] Armored/low-profile transport vehicles / airlift contracts initial procurement.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $500K

[#15] Bench-scale high-end experimental apparatus / cognitive-environment instrumentation for limited origin/manufacture studies.

Data Storage Setup $325K

[#5] One-time multi-tier encrypted storage and air-gapped cold-storage setup.

Covert Ops Episodic $250K

[#9] Episodic larger covert operations / clandestine funding actions (initial episodic op reserve).

Embedded Asset Buyouts $200K

[#11] Initial one-time buyouts/payoffs for embedded academic assets and contacts.

Rare Acquisitions $100K

[#18] Episodic rare book/archive purchases or translations (one-time buys).

Security Training And Kit $50K

[#2] One-time training and kit for dedicated guards and rapid-response team.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $23.9M/yr

Staff Wages $5.2M/yr

[#2, #3, #6] Salaries/benefits for 12–16 guards (security), 3–6 medical/psych staff, and 12–25 core research team (research scientists).

Program Overhead $3.1M/yr

[#25] Program overhead and opportunity-cost allocation (15% applied to above recurring totals).

Grants Influence Fund $2.5M/yr

[#7] Ongoing endowments, fellowships, journal/conference sponsorships, and influence budgets in education/literature/philosophy sectors.

Temporal Research $2.0M/yr

[#16] Ongoing theoretical chronics teams and safeguards; modest baseline for continuity and low-risk simulation work.

Embedded Assets Continuity $1.8M/yr

[#11] Pensions, stipends, housing, and long-term continuity funds for planted academics, editors, and contacts.

Covert Operations $1.5M/yr

[#9] Annual operational budget for clandestine HUMINT, seeded research, and subtle obstruction/delay efforts.

Facilities Maintenance $1.2M/yr

[#1, #17] Ongoing operations for the secure suite: security maintenance, utilities, UPS/generators, climate control, and shielding power premium.

Retiree Pensions $1.1M/yr

[#24] Actuarial contributions / life-care funds for exposed personnel, containment veterans, and retirees.

Crisis Fund Replenishment $1.0M/yr

[#19] Annual replenishment for the contingency rapid-response fund used to mitigate public revelations.

Cover Story And Legal $750K/yr

[#10] In-house legal counsel, PR, liaison officers, litigation contingency, and cover-story apparatus.

Scholarly Indexing $625K/yr

[#23] Long-term monitoring/database engineering and licensing for global scholarly output indexing.

Public Awareness Monitoring $500K/yr

[#8] Social-media scraping, corpus analysis, automated NLP monitoring, compute and analyst FTEs for early-warning of conceptual patterns.

Info Security Operations $500K/yr

[#22] Ongoing development, audits, and operations for memetic-resistant IT systems and classified network maintenance.

Research And Monitoring $425K/yr

[#4, #5, #15] Storage/bandwidth/maintenance for continuous telemetry, data pipelines, and bench-scale facility ops for limited experiments.

Recruitment Vetting $375K/yr

[#20] Deep-background vetting, polygraphs, and counterintelligence services for recruits and embedded assets.

Oversight Panel $325K/yr

[#14] Red-team, ethics, and independent oversight panel stipends and investigations.

Tau5 Training $250K/yr

[#12] Regular retraining, simulations, and psychological inoculation for Tau-5 (Samsara) personnel and specialists.

Archive Custodial $250K/yr

[#21] Custodial and legal maintenance costs for controlled archives and purchased materials.

Supplies And Consumables $225K/yr

[#3, #18] Pharmaceuticals/medical consumables and expendables/props for experiments and controlled acquisitions.

Logistics And Transport $125K/yr

[#13] Contracts and maintenance for transport/airlift and armored vehicle upkeep.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $23.9M/yr

90.0% probability / year

Normal, uneventful year with routine operations and scheduled research/monitoring activity only.

routine_operations scheduled_monitoring

🚨 Minor Incident $25.9M/yr

7.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Localized leak, targeted investigation, or limited public exposure requiring emergency legal action, rapid-response extraction planning, and increased covert activity.

unauthorized_public_exposure targeted_investigation minor_breach_or_leak

🚨 Major Temporal Experiment $53.9M/yr

3.0% probability / year +$30.0M vs baseline

Aggressive pursuit of origin/manufacture or large-scale temporal/chronics experiments triggering heavy capital and operational spending.

pursuit_of_manufacture major_temporal_experiments operation_scale_up

👥 Personnel 33 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	14	Dedicated 24/7 armed guard corps with rotation and rapid-response team; count consistent with analyst 12–16 FTEs and included in staff_wages.
Research Scientist	15	Core multidisciplinary research team (cognitive scientists, philosophers, theorists, data scientists, postdocs); count chosen within analyst 12–25 and salaries included in staff_wages.
Medical Officer	4	In-house psychiatrist(s), medics, trauma counselors for continuous monitoring and emergency care; count within analyst 3–6 and included in staff_wages.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are built from wide-ranging analyst ranges and highly speculative program elements (influence operations, temporal research, and potential large-capital experiments); the anomaly's conceptual nature and optional large-scale experiments make precise costing uncertain.

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