SCP-5049 — SCP-5049 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5049 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-5049

Expected annual

$21.5M

One-time setup

$101.3M

Annual recurring

$20.0M

Personnel

Total one-time capital is dominated by potential site construction and contingency reserves (~$101.4M); recurring annual costs are driven by facilities operations, staffing, and research/monitoring (~$20.0M/yr). Main drivers: permanent/provisional site costs, ongoing facilities & research, and cover-up/response budgets.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $101.3M

Facilities $76.5M

[#12, #13] Provisional site setup (~$1.5M) plus potential permanent containment site capital (~$75.0M). Includes perimeter, temporary facilities, and possible hardened/subterranean construction estimates.

Contingency Reserve $10.0M

[#24] One-time contingency fund / set-aside for rapid escalation, mass broadcast events, or emergency scaling.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $9.5M

[#6, #11, #16] TGIF-Device R&D & prototyping (~$6.0M), BSL-3/4 lab buildout & sample analysis capability (~$3.0M), and amnestic R&D/initial stockpile (~$0.5M).

Equipment $3.8M

[#1, #14, #15, #17, #20, #22, #32] Broadcast capture hardware, portal containment hardware, remote-sensing/drone inventory, secure containment units, communications hardware, vehicle fleet, and cover-story/declassification assets (capex).

Insurance Seed $1.0M

[#27] One-time seed for insurance/indemnity/emergency litigation reserve.

Monitoring Software And Pipeline $300K

[#2] One-time development/integration and licensing setup costs for automated detection pipeline and integration with WebCrawler 40Y40.

Energy Infrastructure $300K

[#21] Generators, UPS, cabling and initial generator/site power setup.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $20.0M/yr

Facilities Maintenance $7.4M/yr

[#12, #13] Ongoing provisional site operations (~$400k/yr) and potential permanent site ops (~$7.0M/yr) including utilities, security, and site overhead.

Research And Monitoring $3.2M/yr

[#3, #16, #26] WebCrawler 40Y40 maintenance & compute (~$250k/yr), BSL lab running/consumables (~$1.0M/yr), and multidisciplinary research program (~$2.0M/yr).

Staff Wages $2.7M/yr

[#4, #9] Television Analysis Department personnel (6–12 FTE) and MTF Kappa-11 staffing/recurring salaries & benefits (12–20 operatives).

Cover Story And Legal $1.3M/yr

[#7, #25] Legal/cover-up budgets and psychological/social-media suppression campaigns (media buys, PR, paid misinformation) combined.

Contingency Replenishment $1.0M/yr

[#24] Annual replenishment target for contingency reserves used in escalations.

Insurance And Litigation Renewal $500K/yr

[#27] Annual insurance premiums, indemnity renewals, and litigation fund replenishment.

Specialist Contractors $500K/yr

[#28] High-cost short-term contractors and consultants (broadcast engineers, physicists, PR specialists).

Replacement And Attrition Reserve $500K/yr

[#30] Reserve for equipment obsolescence and personnel turnover (replacement/training overhead).

Vehicle Operations And Maintenance $400K/yr

[#22] Maintenance, fuel and recurring costs for vehicles, helicopters and transport fleet.

Cyber Takedown And Remediation $300K/yr

[#8] Team costs for DMCA/host takedowns, platform negotiation, covert online remediation and incident takedown ops.

Medical Support And Emergency Care $300K/yr

[#18] Trauma kits, medevac readiness, and acute/rehab medical support for operators and civilians.

Equipment Maintenance $200K/yr

[#14, #15] Annual maintenance and replacement for specialized portal containment hardware and remote-sensing/drones.

Training And Exercises $200K/yr

[#23] Regular readiness exercises, TGIF-Device ops training and portal contingency drills.

Supplies And Consumables $150K/yr

[#29] PPE, ammo, batteries, reagents, expendables and everyday operational supplies.

Logistics And Transport $150K/yr

[#5] Investigator teams field follow-up, travel, surveillance per-case baseline (budgeted annual amount).

Mtf Per Deployment Ops $150K/yr

[#10] Average annual reserve for per-deployment MTF transport, airlift, and consumables (assumes a small number of deployments/year).

Decontamination And Hazard Remediation $150K/yr

[#19] Annual reserve and contracts for hazmat, waste disposal, and remediation per incidents.

Energy And Fuel $150K/yr

[#21] Fuel, generator operation and power costs for provisional site / TGIF-Device operation.

Public Health Coordination $150K/yr

[#31] Covert liaison with broadcasters, ISPs and public health agencies for footage access and coordination.

Monitoring License And Compute $125K/yr

[#2] Recurring licences, cloud compute and updates for the monitoring/detection pipeline.

Amnestic Replenishment And Administration $100K/yr

[#6] Ongoing amnestic production replenishment, storage, cold-chain and administration costs.

Tgif Device Maintenance $100K/yr

[#11] Ongoing support, maintenance, and small upgrades for TGIF-Device prototypes and field units.

Living Subjects Care $100K/yr

[#17] Care, feeding, and monitoring of living anomalous subjects and specialized enclosure upkeep.

Communications And Networks $100K/yr

[#20] Bandwidth, SATCOM, encrypted networks and redundancy for field ops and site control.

Declassification Maintenance $50K/yr

[#32] Ongoing maintenance of cover-corporation assets, props and ad profiles.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $20.0M/yr

70.0% probability / year

Normal year with monitoring, small/localized incidents, and routine operations; no major breaches or mass exposure.

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🚨 Minor Incident $21.0M/yr

25.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline

Localized broadcast interruption(s) producing one or a few portals, requiring several MTF deployments, targeted takedowns, amnestic administration, and modest cover-up spend.

localized_broadcast_interruptions single_portal_creation small_number_of_civilians_exposed

🚨 Major Breach $45.0M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline

Widespread or national-level propagation of SCP-5049-2, multiple simultaneous portals, mass exposures requiring large-scale deployments, emergency provisional site erecting, and large contingency drawdown.

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👥 Personnel 25 total

Role	Count	Notes
Television Analyst / Data Scientist	9	[#4] 24/7 monitoring, triage, and feed analysis (6–12 FTEs recommended; midpoint used).
Security Officer / MTF Agent	16	[#9] MTF Kappa-11 operatives and specialists (demolitions, engineers, medics) sized at ~12–20; midpoint used.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges allowing mid-range estimates, but uncertainty remains high for frequency of incidents, final TGIF-Device R&D cost, and whether permanent site construction will be required; ranges and contingency reserves reflect that uncertainty.

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