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SCP-4805 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-4805
Expected annual
$10.4M
One-time setup
$18.4M
Annual recurring
$10.2M
Personnel
36
Initial capital expenditure to purchase and convert a defunct mall into Provisional Site-71 is the main one-time driver (~$18.4M). Ongoing annual costs are dominated by personnel (security + research + operations), per-instance processing and disposal, utilities/HVAC, and strategic research totaling roughly $10.18M/yr.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $18.4M
Facilities $8.9M
[#1, #2, #3, #4] Purchase of mall, environmental remediation, structural renovations, and internal containment construction including perimeter/site upgrades.
Insurance And Risk Reserve $2.8M
[#23] Initial internal reserve fund for legal/accident/containment-risk contingencies.
Containment Contingency Reserve $2.8M
[#28] Rapid-capital contingency fund for emergency expansion, temporary housing, or fast construction if anomaly behavior changes.
Equipment $2.5M
[#5, #6, #8, #13, #14, #25, #26] Generators & power hardware, HVAC hardware, external monitoring systems, tactical vehicles & response equipment, initial medical/morgue hardware (incinerator option), and fleet/vehicle purchases.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $800K
[#9, #19] Initial temporal/physics instrumentation and forensic/databasing lab setup and scientific instruments.
Legal And Cover Initial $300K
[#20] Initial escrow/settlement and legal/cover-up startup payments.
Community Compensation One Time $175K
[#21] One-time compensation/buyouts for former employees/property owners.
Data Archive Hardware $175K
[#22] Initial cold/cycle archive hardware for long-duration recordings and backups.
Training Initial $62K
[#24] Initial SOP/protocol development and one-time training materials.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $10.2M/yr
Staff Wages $3.0M/yr
[#10, #11, #12, #14] Salaries for research personnel, site operations/administration, 24/7 security staffing, and medical/psychiatric staff.
Strategic Research Program $1.5M/yr
[#29] Multi-year strategic research & eradication program funding for focused efforts to neutralize the anomaly or discover mitigation strategies.
Misc Overhead $1.3M/yr
[#30] Standard overhead (accounting, HR, procurement admin, site insurance, property taxes) estimated at ~15% of operating budget.
Morgue And Disposal $1.1M/yr
[#18] Recurring disposal/cremation costs (example: ~ $1,000 per disposition × ~1,095 annual disposals if termination/incineration is performed).
Supplies And Consumables $675K/yr
[#14, #17, #25] Medical supplies/pharmaceuticals, food/bedding/PPE for staff and housed instances, and recurring waste-management/disposal contracts.
Facilities Maintenance $500K/yr
[#5, #6, #7] Generator fuel & maintenance, HVAC energy & maintenance, and general site utilities/electrical consumption.
Long Term Housing $500K/yr
[#16] Communal/barracks-style housing for retained instances (assumes a modest retained population rather than full retention of all materializations).
Research And Monitoring $492K/yr
[#8, #9, #19, #22] Continuous high-resolution monitoring storage & maintenance, ongoing temporal experiment budgets, forensic databasing operations, and archival media/storage costs.
Cover Story And Legal $475K/yr
[#20, #21, #27] Ongoing legal/cover-up funds, local engagement/PR, hush/compensation contingency, and psychological/ethical oversight costs.
Per Instance Processing $328K/yr
[#15] Annual cost for intake/processing (ID, biometrics, medical exam, tox/pathology, paperwork) at ~ $300 per instance × ~1,095 annual materializations.
Logistics And Transport $225K/yr
[#13, #26] Vehicle maintenance, fuel, tactical training recurring costs, and transport logistics for instance transfer.
Training And Protocols $112K/yr
[#24] Recurring training, drills, SOP refreshes and protocol updates.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $10.2M/yr
93.5% probability / year
Normal year: containment stable, scheduled research and processing of materializations proceeds as planned with no major incidents.
steady_materialization_rate no_breach_or_public_exposure routine maintenance and research
🚨 Minor Incident $10.7M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized containment breach or equipment failure requiring overtime, repairs, and limited external coordination.
localized_breach generator_or_HVAC_failure small_medical_surge
🚨 Major Breach $17.2M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$7.0M vs baseline
Significant containment failure, mass materializations or a major breach requiring extended response, temporary expansion, and public cover-up operations.
sustained_containment_failure mass_materialization extended_medical_response
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $30.2M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$20.0M vs baseline
Widespread, prolonged failure (e.g., uncontrolled production, public exposure) forcing large-scale evacuation, long-term expansion, and substantial international legal costs.
region_wide_overflow public_exposure requirement_for_national_response
👥 Personnel 36 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 20 [#12] 24/7 armed security staff to cover perimeter and internal shifts; count reflects a mall-sized site roster.
Research Scientist 4 [#10, #9] Principal investigators and senior researchers focused on temporal anomaly research and experiment design.
Technician / Lab Tech 4 [#10, #9, #19] Lab technicians and instrumentation specialists for temporal experiments, monitoring equipment, and forensic processing.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#11] Site leadership and executive coordination for Provisional Site-71 operations.
Administrative Staff 3 [#11, #20] Administrative, procurement, and clerical staff to manage logistics, records, and cover-story coordination.
Medical Officer 2 [#14] Medical/psychiatric staff for intake exams, emergency care, and ongoing mental-health monitoring.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#5, #6, #26] Site engineers and maintenance personnel for generators, HVAC, and facility systems upkeep.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are derived from wide ranges in analyst notes and depend heavily on policy choices (retain vs. terminate instances), uncertain production rates, and contingency assumptions; the anomalous/temporal nature of SCP-4805 increases uncertainty.
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