SCP-4935 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-4935
Expected annual
$27.0M
One-time setup
$83.8M
Annual recurring
$26.3M
Personnel
115
Initial capital outlay estimated at roughly $83.8M driven primarily by construction of a hardened compound, major equipment (vehicles, sensors, seals) and contingency reserves; recurring operations are ~ $26.31M/yr driven mainly by personnel wages, long-term R&D, security, and logistics/fuel.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $83.8M
Facilities $25.0M
[#1] Remote secure compound: heavy containment hub, living quarters, labs, reinforced containment chamber, roads, water/sewage, perimeter hardening and secure vaults; Western secure-lab standard construction and environmental hardening.
Equipment $23.7M
[#2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #9, #11, #12, #13, #16, #19, #20, #21, #31] Perimeter/access control purchase, custom hermetic seal hardware, remote sensor suite, drone/robot fleet, PPE/life-support, medical/quarantine equipment, security gear/vehicles, transport fleet purchases, power-generation capital, secure comms hardware, weaponry/neutralization procurement, larval mitigation hardware, decontamination installations, specialized fire-suppression capital.
Emergency Contingency Reserve $20.0M
[#18] Pre-funded emergency contingency/reserve fund for catastrophic response (liquid reserve to be deployed for major breaches or large-scale neutralization).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $7.8M
[#7, #8, #28, #30] BSL-4+ lab build-out and hardening, cryopreservation/specimen storage hardware, one-time sequencing/instrument purchases, initial environmental monitoring equipment and seed-bank installs.
Unknown Technology Reserve $5.5M
[#34] Miscellaneous/unknown-technology R&D buffer for unexpected required technologies and rapid prototype fabrication.
Community Relations Initial $1.1M
[#14] Initial buy-in/compensation, land access agreements, easements and community compensation to secure de facto control.
Cover Infrastructure Initial $550K
[#15] Initial setup of front organizations, shell NGOs and legal/PR infrastructure for deniability and cover.
Translation Program Initial $175K
[#22] One-time development costs for linguistics/cultural program tools, initial exchange deployments and interface prototypes.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $26.3M/yr
Staff Wages $10.5M/yr
[#10, #11, #33] Annual salaries/benefits for scientific staff (temporal physicists, xenobiologists, etc.), security staffing (local & international guards, QRF), and core administrative/payroll/operations personnel; includes hazard pay and rotation incentives.
Research And Monitoring $7.2M/yr
[#4, #17, #28, #30, #22] Sensor calibration & specialized equipment servicing, core funded temporal physics & containment R&D program, sequencing/omics operations, long-term ecological monitoring programs, and ongoing translation/anthropological fieldwork.
Cover Story And Legal $2.1M/yr
[#15, #25, #29] Ongoing cover operations, PR/legal teams, on-call international lawyers, media contingency budgets and public deniability programs.
Logistics And Transport $1.9M/yr
[#12, #13, #26] Vehicle/helicopter/boat maintenance & fuel, generator fuel logistics & transport costs, and personnel rotation/charter transport expenses.
Asset Replacement Reserve $1.1M/yr
[#27] Annual reserve for replacement of high-attrition assets (drones, vehicles, sensors) to avoid operational pauses.
Facilities Maintenance $860K/yr
[#2, #7, #21, #31] Recurring maintenance and certification for perimeter sensors/access-control, lab operations & certification costs for BSL-4+ suite, waste treatment and decontamination running costs, and fire-suppression maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $725K/yr
[#6, #8, #19, #20] PPE consumables and replacement, LN2 and cryostorage upkeep, weaponry/training resupply and consumables, and larval-swarm sterilant/operation consumables.
Medical And Mevac $600K/yr
[#9] Medical staffing, on-call MEDEVAC readiness contracts, and clinical readiness for biological/temporal injuries (does not include per-mission evacuation charge).
Drone And Robot Ops $300K/yr
[#5] Annual operations, repairs, sterilization and mission support for aerial drones and ground rovers used as first-line exploration assets.
Community Relations $300K/yr
[#14] Ongoing payments, employment programs, disruption mitigation and local community maintenance to reduce leak/hostility risk.
Secure Comms $200K/yr
[#16] Recurring satellite bandwidth, hardened comms operations, telemetry processing and offsite backup connectivity costs.
Training And Drills $175K/yr
[#24] Regular containment drills, emergency response exercises, and re-certifications (weapons and biosafety).
Psychological Support $150K/yr
[#23] Trauma counseling, post-deployment care, specialized debriefing and long-term monitoring for personnel exposed to temporal/2D effects.
Ethical Oversight $125K/yr
[#32] Annual funding for internal oversight, ethics committee operations and external audit capacity.
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $26.3M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Uneventful year with standard operations: regular research, maintenance, security patrols, and ongoing community/cover operations.
no breaches routine research ops stable community relations
🚨 Minor Incident $28.3M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Localized breach or larval-swarm event requiring QRF deployment, medical evacuations, equipment replacement and short-term spike in operations.
small breach at access point larval swarm incursion localized equipment loss/damage
🚨 Major Breach $51.3M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Significant containment failure or wide-area exposure (e.g., mass larval release, partial loss of seal) requiring large-scale emergency deployment, use of contingency funds, major repairs and international legal/diplomatic response.
seal failure / large breach mass larval swarm or Corpse-Father engagement political exposure requiring evacuation/legal settlements
👥 Personnel 115 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 20 [#10] Senior temporal/quantum physicists, astrophysicists, xenobiologists and principal investigators.
Technician / Lab Support 30 [#10] Lab technicians, drone/robot operators, sequencing techs and field support staff.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 40 [#11] 24/7 armed security, quick reaction force, K-9 units and elite responders for site protection.
Medical Officer 6 [#9] Field hospital staff, ICU-capable med techs and medevac coordinators.
Engineer / Maintenance 8 [#12, #13] Power, vehicle and facility maintenance technicians and electricians.
Administrative Staff 6 [#33] HR, accounting, procurement, IT and local operations managers.
Field Anthropologist / Linguist 4 [#22] Translation, cultural liaison and Akot relations specialists.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#1, #10] Site-level leadership and executive oversight.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges enabling medium confidence in order-of-magnitude estimates; significant uncertainty remains due to anomalous/temporal effects, unknown escalation dynamics (SCP-4935-β interactions), and contingency usage frequency which prevents high confidence.
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