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SCP-5182 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-5182
Expected annual
$4.7M
One-time setup
$3.8M
Annual recurring
$4.5M
Personnel
21
Initial one-time setup is approximately $3.75M driven by secure vault, amnestic R&D and emergency reserve; annual operating costs are approximately $4.46M/year driven by personnel (research, security, moderation), long-term research, legal/liaison, and insurance, with incident response costs added in adverse-year scenarios.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.8M
Emergency Breach Initial Reserve $1.5M
[#16] Initial rapid-response / contingency reserve to cover 6–12 months of emergency operations.
Amnestic Rnd And Stockpile Setup $1.0M
[#11] R&D/production setup and initial stockpile for memory-alteration agents.
Facilities $750K
[#1] Hardened, soundproof, climate-controlled vault with Faraday shielding, fire suppression and biometric access.
It Monitoring Development $300K
[#6] Development of ML web crawlers, OCR/handwriting detection, false-positive handling and takedown automation.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $100K
[#18] Experimental human-subject protocol & IRB/legal setup, protocol drafting and indemnification frameworks.
Equipment $90K
[#2, #3] Air-gapped archival LTO backups, analog-to-digital capture, Faraday-lined transport containers, sound-attenuated playback booths, remote-triggered kill-switches and PPE.
Family Cover One Time Documents $12K
[#13] One-time costs for falsified documents and initial cover-story paperwork for families.
Recommended Initial Budget Snapshot $0
[#25] Summary snapshot (no separate line-item; summary of combined one-time items).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.5M/yr
Staff Wages $1.7M/yr
[#4, #5, #8] Research staff (3 senior scientists, 1 psychiatrist, 2 lab techs) and security staffing plus content-moderation analysts/platform counsel salaries.
Research And Monitoring $1.1M/yr
[#21, #15] Long-term research & countermeasure program plus psychology/medical monitoring for staff.
Cover Story And Legal $350K/yr
[#9, #14] Takedown legal/operational budget and legal/cover-up contingencies / liaison to law enforcement.
Insurance And Hush Funds $300K/yr
[#20] Insurance, liability reserves and hush fund allocations for settlements or payouts.
Emergency Breach Fund Replenishment $200K/yr
[#16] Ongoing replenishment allocation for emergency rapid-response reserve.
Supplies And Consumables $150K/yr
[#23] Vehicles, uniforms, office rent, utilities, secure comms, printing/forgery and petty operational consumables.
Experimental Trials $150K/yr
[#18] Per-trial operational costs (aggregated baseline assumption for a small number of controlled exposures).
Amnestic Production And Stockpile Maintenance $100K/yr
[#11] Ongoing production, stockpile maintenance and regulatory/logistics costs for amnestic agents.
Seo And Content Suppression $100K/yr
[#12] Covert influence, SEO suppression, alternate content seeding and dilution of search signals.
Family Maintenance And Cover $96K/yr
[#13] Ongoing stipends and covert counseling to sustain cover story for four families.
It Monitoring And Hosting $60K/yr
[#7] Cloud costs for continuous crawling/indexing, model updates, and secure logging.
Staff Training And Opsec $60K/yr
[#22] Counterintelligence training, polygraphs/clearance renewals and OPSEC/media-handling training.
Facilities Maintenance $50K/yr
[#1] Ongoing maintenance of vault HVAC, Faraday shielding, fire suppression and access systems.
Logistics And Transport $25K/yr
[#17] Secure transport and courier baseline for physical media movement.
Data Destruction And Logging $20K/yr
[#19] Audited destruction of seized copies, chain-of-custody records, secure logging and off-site encrypted backups.
Field Investigation Per Case $0/yr
[#10] Per-case field-investigation costs (per-subject costs handled in incident scenarios rather than baseline recurring).
Incident Modeling And Planning $0/yr
[#24] Per-incident scale modeling and planning (modeling/documentation only; incident handling costs modeled in scenarios).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.5M/yr
70.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no large-scale leak; routine monitoring, research, legal actions and small administrative operations as budgeted.
no_large_leak routine_monitoring minor_takedowns_handled_by_covered_staff
🚨 Minor Incident $5.0M/yr
25.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Low-activity year with ~20 online poster locations requiring field ops and 20 amnestic administrations.
localized_leak multiple_posts_detected targeted_field_ops
🚨 Major Breach $7.0M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Medium-activity year with ~100 cases requiring broad field operations, many amnestic administrations and expanded legal/PR response.
widespread_online_spread multiple_public_exposures international_jurisdictional_cases
👥 Personnel 21 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 3 [#4] Senior memetics/military neuroscientists (3), salary assumptions per analyst notes.
Clinical Psychiatrist 1 [#4] One clinical psychiatrist for research and monitoring.
Lab Technician 2 [#4] Two lab technicians for experimental support and media handling.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 10 [#5] 8–12 rotating guards and overhead; consolidated here as 10 FTE-equivalents to match assumed security budget.
Control-Room Operator 1 [#5] Dedicated control-room operator (counted within overall security budget).
Content Moderator / Platform Liaison 3 [#8] Human reviewers for content moderation and escalation.
Platform Counsel / Legal Liaison 1 [#8, #9, #14] Legal/liaison officer for takedowns, subpoenas and jurisdictional coordination.
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items have analyst-provided ranges and explicit assumptions; core personnel and equipment costs are well-specified but incident rates, amnestic program scale, and legal/covert expenses are uncertain, producing medium overall confidence.
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