SCP-4799 — SCP-4799 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-4799 Humanoid/Parauniversal ~ medium confidence

SCP-4799

Expected annual

$17.4M

One-time setup

$41.7M

Annual recurring

$16.7M

Personnel

Estimated one-time setup for a single dedicated site is approximately $41.7M driven by dampener R&D, lab buildout, prototyping and contingency reserves; recurring annual costs are about $16.7M driven by wages (MTF, research, and security), surveillance, and maintenance.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $41.7M

Initial Research And Lab Setup $23.0M

[#2, #11, #13] Dampener R&D + first deployment, secure xenotech lab suite and initial reverse-engineering/prototyping program budget.

Contingency Reserve $10.0M

[#19] Containment-loss contingency reserve fund / emergency mobilization reserve (one-time set-aside).

Equipment $4.5M

[#4, #5, #6, #9, #14] Procurement of EMP/anti-electronics fleet, initial sedative stock and delivery systems, crowd-control hardware, armored vehicles/retrofits and initial high-assurance data/hardware.

Facilities $4.2M

[#1, #10, #15, #16, #17] Includes reinforced humanoid cell construction, shielded vaults, generators/UPS install, medical suite buildout, and decontamination/hazard setup.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $16.7M/yr

Staff Wages $6.6M/yr

[#7, #8, #12] Wages for specialized MTF operators (2 teams), permanent guards, and research specialists (combined fully-burdened salaries).

Supplies And Consumables $1.6M/yr

[#5, #6, #12, #4] Recurring resupply of sedatives/cold-chain, crowd-control consumables, lab consumables/prototyping parts, and replacement/upgrades for EMP/net units.

Cover Story And Legal $1.1M/yr

[#20] Front companies, legal defense, PR, settlements and other cover operations budget.

Surveillance Network $1.0M/yr

[#22] HUMINT, sensor networks and analysts for detection of incursions and multiversal tradecraft.

Program Management $750K/yr

[#30] Program director, administrative staff, accounting, procurement and site overhead.

Research And Monitoring $650K/yr

[#12, #13, #18] Ongoing research projects, prototyping budget replenishment, lab testing, and monitoring (excludes researcher wages listed separately).

Facilities Maintenance $600K/yr

[#3] Dampener/containment maintenance, periodic recalibration, firmware patches and general site upkeep.

Logistics And Transport $600K/yr

[#9, #7] Annual maintenance/fuel/airlift contracts for armored transport and operational transport support for MTF deployments.

Mtf Training And Equipment Refresh $550K/yr

[#7] Annual specialized training, equipment refresh and hazard-pay supplements for dedicated MTF teams.

Energy Costs $550K/yr

[#15] Fuel and continuous power costs for running dampening fields, generators and lab equipment.

Detainment Costs $425K/yr

[#27] Costs for indefinite detainment and specialized housing for captured members (per-detained-individual, annualized; baseline assumes one retained individual).

Liability Insurance $400K/yr

[#28] Liability/insurance-like instruments and financial buffers for international incidents and contractor defaults.

Training Drills $350K/yr

[#18] Regular full-scale drills, red-team testing and contractor audits.

Medical Ops $300K/yr

[#16] On-site medical staff, disposables, xenopathogen screening and quarantine support.

International Liaison $300K/yr

[#21] Discrete coordination, travel and secure-comm costs for allied anomalous agencies.

Translation Experts $250K/yr

[#25] Cryptolinguists, xenocultural specialists and contractor liaison for multiversal subjects.

It Operations $150K/yr

[#14] Operations, audits and maintenance for high-assurance/air-gapped computing.

Psychological Care $150K/yr

[#24] Ongoing counseling, memetic protection and aftercare for exposed staff.

Security Ops $100K/yr

[#8] Security equipment, training and guard-specific operational costs beyond salaries.

Decontamination And Disposal $100K/yr

[#17] Hazardous-material disposal contracts and environmental monitoring (assumes multiple small disposals/year).

Personnel Vetting $100K/yr

[#23] Background investigations, polygraphs and continuous vetting for access-controlled staff.

Secure Housing $100K/yr

[#26] Temporary relocation and witness-protection style housing/resettlement costs (baseline annualized).

Public Site Remediation $100K/yr

[#29] Remediation, property repairs and reimbursements following public-space captures (annualized per-incident expectation).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $16.7M/yr

88.0% probability / year

Normal, uneventful year with routine operations and no major incidents.

no_major_incidents routine_maintenance standard_research_activity

🚨 Minor Incident $17.9M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline

Localized capture or small public exposure requiring emergency response, remediation and limited legal/cover action.

small_public_capture limited_breach targeted_remediation

🚨 Major Breach $41.7M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline

Significant containment failure or coordinated incursion requiring nationwide mobilization, contingency fund drawdown and major recovery operations.

site_breach multiple_members_escape extended_public_exposure

👥 Personnel 86 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	40	[#7] Two dedicated mobile task force teams of ~20 operators each (fully-burdened staffing).
Security Officer / Guard	12	[#8] Permanent on-site guards for 24/7 perimeter and internal security.
Research Scientist / Specialist	16	[#12] Physicists, engineers, xenobiologists, memetic specialists, cryptolinguists and project managers.
Engineer / Maintenance	4	[#3, #15] Field engineers for dampener maintenance, HVAC, generators and equipment upkeep.
Medical Officer	2	[#16] On-site medical staff for sedation complications, screening and quarantine support.
Site Director / Administrative Staff	4	[#30] Program director and administrative/overhead staff.
Logistics / Transport	2	[#9] Drivers/airlift coordinators for armored transport and secure transfers.
IT / Cybersecurity	2	[#14] High-assurance data and air-gapped computing operations/security.
Decontamination / Hazmat Technician	2	[#17] Personnel for hazardous disposal, incineration/vitrification operations and environmental monitoring.
Legal / PR / Cover Ops	2	[#20] Legal counsel and cover-operation managers for front companies and incident response.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges but contain large uncertainty around dampener R&D costs, frequency of incidents, and scale assumptions (single-site baseline assumed). Midpoint estimates and annualized assumptions drive the 'medium' confidence rating.

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