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SCP-5079 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-5079
Expected annual
$619.0M
One-time setup
$163.2M
Annual recurring
$605.0M
Personnel
1300
Estimated one-time capital of approximately $163.25M with annual recurring costs of about $605M; dominant drivers are long-term life‑support for affected patients, staff wages for medical and caregiving personnel, and covert/contingency procurement funds.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $163.2M
Facilities $143.0M
[#4, #13, #29, #31] Acquisition/retrofit of medical centers in York, conversion of negative-pressure isolation rooms, and mortuary/structural fit-outs per analyst estimates.
Equipment $10.0M
[#14] Imaging and diagnostic equipment purchase (MRI/CT/pathology suites) and associated installation.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $8.0M
[#16, #17] Pharmacy/R&D setup and secure thaumaturgical ritual lab buildouts (sequencing platforms and specialized lab fixtures beyond base imaging).
Digital Infrastructure $1.2M
[#1] METATRON webcrawler development, ML training, secure ops consoles and hardening (one-time development/build cost).
Training Setup $1.0M
[#21] Initial training program and simulation setup (simulation facilities, curriculum development, initial exercises).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $605.0M/yr
Long Term Life Support $250.0M/yr
[#8] Ongoing ICU-level life-support, medically induced coma care, continuous IV feeding and monitoring for ~1,000 long-term SCP-5079-1 patients (primary cost driver).
Staff Wages $110.0M/yr
[#5, #6, #7, #20, #27, #25] Salaries/benefits for administrative staff, medical doctors/ICU specialists/surgeons, nursing and caregiving staff, security staffing, data/human-intel analysts, and international/operational support personnel.
Supplies And Consumables $67.0M/yr
[#18, #19, #10, #11] PPE program, IV/TPN ingredients and disposables, biohazard waste handling/disposal, and recurring decontamination/remediation costs.
Covert Procurement And Contingency $45.0M/yr
[#30] Black-budget/covert procurement reserve and rapid cash for field operations (10–25% style contingency applied to program scale).
Surgical Extraction $40.0M/yr
[#9] Initial surgical excision and complex extraction operations aggregated for new-case workload.
Research And Monitoring $29.5M/yr
[#15, #16, #17, #26, #27] Sequencing/pathology consumables & per-sample costs, ongoing pharmaceutical R&D budgets, thaumaturgical research, animal-model costs, and monitoring/analysis staff operations.
Logistics And Transport $15.0M/yr
[#12, #25] Secure patient transport (domestic/international), cross-border logistics, and baseline international investigation/operational overhead.
Cover Story And Legal $12.0M/yr
[#2, #22, #23] Per-takedown/legal escalation budgets, police record sanitization/cover-story production, and amnestic administration/legal liaison overhead.
Energy And Utilities $12.0M/yr
[#28] Power/utility surcharge for continuous life-support, HVAC, generators and increased hospital energy consumption.
Facilities Maintenance $8.0M/yr
[#13, #14, #4] Ongoing maintenance/calibration for negative-pressure HVAC, imaging equipment maintenance contracts, and building upkeep for converted hospitals.
Mtf Mobilization $8.0M/yr
[#3] Rapid-response MTF mobilization costs (air/ground transport, mission equipment, short-term billets) aggregated annually.
Security Equipment And Ops $3.0M/yr
[#20] CCTV, intrusion detection, perimeter systems, secure IT for records and equipment maintenance for security operations.
Structural Contingency $2.0M/yr
[#29] Mortuary services, refrigerated storage, cremation/incineration capacity and contingency facility redundancy.
Emergency Response Reserve $2.0M/yr
[#24] Public-health liaison and outbreak suppression reserve funds held for sudden clusters and coordination with national agencies.
Training And Simulation $1.5M/yr
[#21] Recurring training, drills, MTF/medical/thaumaturgical simulation exercises and refreshers.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $605.0M/yr
87.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with routine case discovery, containment, and ongoing care without large-scale breaches or program expansions.
standard case load routine takedowns and medical care no major breaches or exposures
🚨 Major Breach $905.0M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$300.0M vs baseline
Significant containment failure or clustered outbreak resulting in a large number of new extractions, emergency response, and public/legal exposure.
multiple simultaneous postings causing clusters large-scale emergency extractions increased mortuary/disposal and legal fallout
🚨 Research Scaleup $655.0M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Program decision to aggressively scale pharmaceutical/thaumaturgical research, trials and capacity building requiring expanded recurring R&D and contracting.
promising treatment candidate discovered decision to run multi-year clinical/thaumaturgical trials need for expanded GMP production and hiring
👥 Personnel 1300 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 200 [#3, #20] Armed guard rotations, MTF teams for extractions and perimeter security; staffing approximated from recurring security/MTF cost lines.
Research Scientist 150 [#16, #17, #26] Pharmaceutical and thaumaturgical researchers, geneticists and lab leads supporting R&D and sequencing programs.
Medical Officer 120 [#6, #9, #8] Critical-care physicians, surgeons, anesthesiologists and specialists for excisions, ICU oversight and acute care.
Nurse / Caregiving Staff 600 [#7, #19, #8] Nursing, critical-care techs, TPN/nutrition pharmacists and round-the-clock caregivers required for large long-term inpatient census.
Engineer / Maintenance 50 [#13, #14, #28] Facility engineers for negative-pressure HVAC, imaging calibration support, generator/fuel and utility maintenance.
Administrative Staff 100 [#5, #22, #30] Admin, HR, logistics, legal liaisons, and covert procurement/contracting support for program operations.
Data Analyst / Human-Intelligence Analyst 30 [#1, #27] METATRON operators, human-review analysts, and community monitors for online detection and takedown coordination.
Site Director / Executive Staff 5 [#5] Senior site leadership and program management to oversee multi-center operations.
Medical Technician / Imaging & Pathology Tech 30 [#14, #15] Radiology techs, pathology technicians and sequencing lab staff supporting diagnostics.
Animal Care / Veterinary Staff 15 [#26] Staff for animal-model maintenance and in vivo experiments.
📋 Confidence Notes
Significant uncertainty in active patient census, rate of new-case discovery, thaumaturgical research needs, and jurisdictional/legal cooperation; many analyst estimates are broad ranges and many costs scale non-linearly with census, producing low confidence.
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