SCP-5114 — SCP-5114 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5114 Safe ? low confidence

SCP-5114

Expected annual

$5.3M

One-time setup

$1.1M

Annual recurring

$5.0M

Personnel

One-time setup and retrofit costs are modest (~$1.1M total) for a standard secure chamber and IT/forensics tooling; recurring costs are dominated by legal remediation, covert document operations, amnestic supply/admin and contingency reserves, producing multi-million-dollar annual operating costs.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.1M

Equipment $510K

[#9, #14, #18, #19, #21] One-time hardware and infrastructure: cybersecurity/servers/air-gapped hardware setup (#9), secure transport vehicle/van purchase (#14), secure printers/vault/tamper-evident storage hardware (#18), data-storage infrastructure and initial archival hardware (#19), covert cyber/offline tooling development (#21).

Facilities $200K

[#1] Build/retrofit of a standard secure containment chamber including security door, CCTV, environmental control, tamper‑proof communications port and Faraday shielding; installation, testing and certification.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $200K

[#12] Amnestic production setup / secure pharmaceutical storage and initial production capability for Foundation-use amnestics (in-house production facility setup, regulatory/compliance overhead where applicable).

Front Company Setup $150K

[#10] Initial portfolio/setup costs for multiple front companies across jurisdictions (incorporation fees, initial legal compliance, bank accounts, minimal office setup).

Training Development $15K

[#17] One-time curriculum development for non-contact procedures & legal-chain protocols.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.0M/yr

Emergency Reserve $1.0M/yr

[#24] Annual provisioning to build/maintain a reserve for large-scale exposure, mass amnestics, relocation, legal wars and mass remediation events.

Staff Wages $720K/yr

[#3, #4] Salaries and benefits for assigned research staff (1–2 FTE) and security personnel (24/7 coverage: multiple guards/shifts).

Civilian Legal Settlements $500K/yr

[#11] Annual contingency budget for retained counsel, filing fees, settlements and buyouts for affected civilians (varies sharply by case severity).

Insurance And Reserve $500K/yr

[#16] Auditing, legal-risk insurance and contingency reserves to cover fines, liabilities and large-scale remediation if covert edits discovered.

Legal Team $400K/yr

[#6] In-house legal staff, paralegals and investigators embedded to advise on restorations, covert editing risks and coordinate front companies.

Covert Document Remediation $300K/yr

[#8] Budget reserve for covert document editing / forgery / cyber ops / local counsel / payoffs per affected legal document and for multiple incidents across jurisdictions.

Front Company Maintenance $200K/yr

[#10] Recurring maintenance/upkeep of front companies: bank accounts, office rental, compliance risk management and staff for multiple jurisdictions.

Amnestic Supply $200K/yr

[#12] Ongoing purchase/production, secure storage and administration staff costs for amnestic agents and dosing (maintaining stock, replacements, administration labor and monitoring).

Public Relations $200K/yr

[#15] PR retainers, crisis communications, takedown operations and per-incident response budgeting to suppress leaks and manage media exposure.

Interjurisdictional Counsel $150K/yr

[#20] Contracts/retainers with local counsel and contacts in multiple jurisdictions to enable rapid legal remediation and filings.

Level5 Overhead $125K/yr

[#5] Administrative overhead attributable to Level‑5 authorization requirements: scheduling, travel, time-cost accounting and executive review burdens.

Cybersecurity Ops And Subscriptions $125K/yr

[#9] Ongoing staffing, subscriptions, monitoring of registries and maintenance of air‑gapped archival systems (operational portion of cybersecurity and court-records monitoring).

Cyber Ops And Redteam $125K/yr

[#21] Operations budget for maintaining covert cyber/offline alteration tools and periodic red-team penetration testing to validate forgery stealth.

Forensic Investigation $100K/yr

[#7] Field teams, private investigators, FOIA requests, travel, transcription and notary costs for tracing non-binding documents and gathering witness statements; budget varies with incident frequency.

Medical Followup $100K/yr

[#13] Medical and psychological follow-up, counseling, relocation/identity support for affected civilians after amnesticization or Isidore events.

Transport Operations $100K/yr

[#14] Recurring secure transport ops: vehicle maintenance, secure transfers, occasional charter flights and custody logistics per incident.

Compliance And Review $50K/yr

[#23] Internal legal/ethical review board costs and compliance documentation to justify interventions to oversight bodies.

Research And Monitoring $20K/yr

[#19] Ongoing data storage, backup costs, computational linguistics tooling subscriptions and analyst time for message analysis (operational portion).

Data Storage Ops $20K/yr

[#19] Ongoing cloud/archival storage costs, offline backups and analysis compute costs (operational portion distinct from initial setup).

Facilities Maintenance $15K/yr

[#2] Chamber utilities, HVAC, environmental monitoring, scheduled maintenance and replacement consumables (filters, batteries, CCTV storage media replacement amortization).

Record Destruction $15K/yr

[#25] Recurring budget for secure destruction/purge operations and chain-of-custody management for risky legacy materials.

Supplies And Consumables $8K/yr

[#22] Consumables and PPE for containment staff: gloves, lab coats, evidence bags, batteries, recording film, cleaning supplies.

Record Keeping Ops $7K/yr

[#18] Operations for maintaining air‑gapped unofficial non-legal files: paper stock, secure printers, seals and vault storage operations.

Training Annual $5K/yr

[#17] Annual recurrent training for non-contact procedures, evidence handling and legal-chain protocols.

Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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Cover Story And Legal $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.0M/yr

65.0% probability / year

Normal year with routine operations and no major public incidents.

no major Isidore publicity routine monitoring and occasional casework

🚨 Minor Incident $5.3M/yr

30.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline

Single or small number of Isidore events requiring concentrated legal remediation, amnestic doses, forensic work and PR response.

1–5 civilian Isidore events localized legal disputes and small-scale media attention

🚨 Major Breach $10.0M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

High-profile exposure or multiple simultaneous Isidore events requiring mass remediation, large settlements, extended PR campaigns and emergency relocation.

public leak or litigation multiple simultaneous Isidore events

👥 Personnel 11 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist	1	[#3] Senior research lead handling experiments, communications monitoring and coordination.
Research Technician	1	[#3] Technical support for experiments, record-keeping and sample handling.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	8	[#4] Armed/unarmed guards providing 24/7 coverage and rapid response, staffing multiple shifts.
Medical Officer	1	[#12, #13] Medical staff trained to administer amnestics and provide follow-up care.

📋 Confidence Notes

Cost drivers (legal remediation, covert editing, amnestic administration and contingency reserves) are highly uncertain and jurisdiction-dependent; many items are scenario-driven with wide ranges in the analyst notes, so estimates are coarse and carry low confidence.

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