SCP-5295 — SCP-5295 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5295 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-5295

Expected annual

$352K

One-time setup

$376K

Annual recurring

$349K

Personnel

Initial one-time setup (vault, shielding, benches, retainers and contingency reserves) is the main driver (~$376k); annual recurring costs are dominated by staffing, retainers and contingency funds (~$349k/yr).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $376K

Legal Cover Reserve $100K

[#13] One-time cover-story / PR / legal contingency reserve (plausible-deniability, buyouts, NDAs).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $60K

[#7] Quarantined analysis bench / air-gapped lab equipment and offline imaging/write-blocking tooling.

Facilities $50K

[#1] Museum-grade climate-controlled artifact vault / archival case installation & commissioning.

Incident Response Retainer Setup $50K

[#14] One-time setup/allocation related to incident response & cyberforensics retainer onboarding/initial retainer deposit.

Equipment $40K

[#2, #3, #4, #10] Tamper-proof enclosures and fixtures; Faraday/EM isolation and supervised bench; CCTV/setup; initial logging system/database setup.

Decommissioning Contingency $25K

[#21] One-time budget for potential decommissioning / destructive disposal if ordered.

Backup Legacy Hardware $15K

[#15] Acquisition of controlled Foundation Macintosh LC III inventory (hardware pool).

Digital Honeypot $12K

[#16] Initial digital honeypot / limited telemetry & emulation setup.

Training And Procedural Development $10K

[#11] One-time development of SOPs and initial training course materials.

Rare Parts Kit $8K

[#19] Initial rare-parts procurement and conservation spares kit.

Rapid Separation Kit $6K

[#22] One-time purchase of containment escalation & emergency rapid-separation kit.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $349K/yr

Memetic Amnestics Contingency $100K/yr

[#12] Maintain memetic/amnestic contingency fund (reserve level allocated annually / top-up ~$100k).

Incident Response Retainer $100K/yr

[#14] Annual retainer for incident response & cyberforensics rapid-response teams (~$50k–$200k/yr; midpoint used).

Staff Wages $88K/yr

[#5, #6] Dedicated security detail incremental cost (~$60k/yr) and fractional I&T custodian/technocryptography oversight allocation (~$27.5k/yr).

Administrative Overhead $30K/yr

[#20] O5-mandated compliance reviews, internal audits and oversight (~$10k–$50k/yr).

Insurance And Accounting $8K/yr

[#17] Insurance premiums and asset-liability accounting (~$2k–$20k/yr).

Digital Honeypot Monitoring $6K/yr

[#16] Ongoing honeypot/telemetry monitoring (~$2k–$10k/yr).

Facilities Maintenance $5K/yr

[#4, #9] CCTV/motion sensor maintenance (~$600/yr) and annual physical inspections / preventive maintenance (~$4.5k/yr).

Training And Refresher $4K/yr

[#11] Annual refresher training, new-staff briefings, and record-keeping (~$2k–$5k/yr).

Research And Monitoring $3K/yr

[#10] Recurring logging, audits and secure records retention costs (~$1k–$5k/yr).

Supplies And Consumables $1K/yr

[#8] Archival consumables and preservation maintenance (~$0.5k–$2k/yr).

Energy And Utilities $1K/yr

[#18] Incremental energy/utilities for climate control, CCTV, sensors (~$500–$2k/yr).

Rare Parts Replacement $1K/yr

[#19] Annual replacement budget for rare parts (~$500–$2k/yr).

Backup Legacy Hardware Maintenance $1K/yr

[#15] Annual maintenance for controlled LC III hardware (~$1k/yr).

Rapid Separation Training Refresh $1K/yr

[#22] Recurring training refreshes for emergency rapid-separation team (~training refresh cost).

Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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Cover Story And Legal $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $349K/yr

93.5% probability / year

Normal, uneventful year with standard operations, inspections, retainers, and contingency funding top-ups.

no incidents scheduled inspections routine access only

🚨 Minor Incident $374K/yr

5.0% probability / year +$25K vs baseline

Small-scale external awareness or a single victim device corrupted requiring amnestic application, limited PR, and victim hardware replacements under cover.

external user notices corruption small leak to collector/museum single-device TAN activation

🚨 Major Breach $499K/yr

1.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline

Significant unauthorized re-enablement or wider TAN-style corruption requiring full cyberforensics response, large PR/legal action, and wider remediation.

unauthorized reconnection widespread data corruption rapid forensics mobilization

🚨 Decommissioning Order $474K/yr

0.5% probability / year +$125K vs baseline

O5-mandated permanent neutralization or destructive disposal requiring controlled destruction, forensic recording, multi-site disposal and additional legal/PR actions.

O5 order to neutralize sanctioned destruction high-level policy change

👥 Personnel 2 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	1	[#5] One full-time assigned guard (incremental staffing cost estimated ~$60k/yr).
Research Scientist / I&T Custodian	1	[#6] Senior I&T/technocryptography custodian oversight (fractional allocation of time; salary portion estimated ~$27.5k/yr).

📋 Confidence Notes

Line items are well-specified with ranges, but many large contingency/retainer choices require judgment; therefore medium confidence in aggregated figures.

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