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SCP-5312 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-5312
Expected annual
$6.8M
One-time setup
$4.5M
Annual recurring
$6.7M
Personnel
7
One-time startup and containment hardware/array fabrication dominate upfront costs (approx. $4.51M), while ongoing personnel, research/monitoring, and a maintained emergency reserve drive recurring annual costs (approx. $6.69M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.5M
Long Term Program Commitment $2.5M
[#27] Multi-year project initial capital / commitment to develop technomantic dampening tools and prototypes (one-time multi-year commit).
Initial Field Investigation $700K
[#16] One-time full investigative operation (OSINT, field surveillance, safehouses, arrests) initial deployment cost.
Site Duplication $525K
[#7] Redundant containment arrays / duplication at two additional secure sites (per-site cost doubled for two sites).
Facilities $275K
[#4] Secure containment lab retrofit (Faraday/EMI, HVAC, CCTV, access control, anti-tamper, ritual-safe finishes).
Equipment $212K
[#5, #6] Tier-II technomantic array fabrication and installation plus hardened containment laptop / air-gapped analysis workstation kits.
Web Crawler Development $112K
[#1] Bespoke web-crawler/scraper development, initial dataset labeling and deployment (one-time development).
Honeypot Infra One Time $88K
[#14] One-time buildout of honeypot/sinkhole infrastructure (isolated hosting and consoles).
Decommissioning Per Event $30K
[#30] One-time per-decommission safe disposal equipment/procedures (budget for an initial decommissioning event).
Compute Migration Setup $20K
[#3] One-time migration/setup costs for cloud VMs, hardened storage and archival integration.
Forensic Integration $20K
[#11] One-time integration and deployment of forensic analysis tools and plugins.
Hsm Purchase $15K
[#12] One-time purchase of HSMs/hardware tokens for secure key management.
Archive Setup $12K
[#25] One-time setup for secure offline archiving and redaction pipeline.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.7M/yr
Emergency Breach Response Reserve $2.8M/yr
[#18] Maintained emergency breach response fund / contingency reserve (recommended range maintained as annual reserve).
Staff Wages $1.4M/yr
[#2, #9] Continuous monitoring operations (2 senior + 2 junior analysts, shift coverage) and research team staffing (3 researchers) salaries, benefits and loaded costs.
Research And Monitoring $675K/yr
[#1, #3, #11, #14, #17, #25, #27, #29] Ongoing web-crawler tuning, cloud compute/hosting, license renewals for forensic suites, honeypot operations, penetration testing, archive management, recurring research grants and media monitoring.
Cover Story And Legal $550K/yr
[#13, #15] Legal retainer and takedown costs plus covert PR/outreach suppression campaign budgets (annualized average).
Field Investigations Budget $275K/yr
[#16] Ongoing intel/field investigations budget for OSINT, undercover ops and travel.
Interagency And Goi Liaison $275K/yr
[#26] Inter-agency payments, confidential agreements and liaison operating budgets.
Personnel Screening $125K/yr
[#19] Secure personnel screening, ongoing background checks, monitoring and insider-threat mitigation.
Insurance And Liability $112K/yr
[#28] Specialized insurance and legal liability budgeting for covert takedowns and operational fallout.
Training Programs $88K/yr
[#22] Annual training, tabletop exercises, and red-team coordination.
Hardware Replacement $88K/yr
[#23] Replacement cycles and obsolescence budget for routers, FPGAs, shielding and forensic appliances.
Psychological Care $85K/yr
[#20] Counseling, amnestic supplies and debriefing costs for exposed staff.
Technomancer Retainer $62K/yr
[#8] Annual retainer to keep approved off-site techno-shaman contractors on-call.
Facilities Maintenance $50K/yr
[#4] Annual maintenance of containment lab systems (HVAC, EMI shielding, UPS maintenance, CCTV/access control).
Logistics And Transport $40K/yr
[#24] Secure courier, armored transport and logistics for routine operations.
Evidence Handling $35K/yr
[#21] Secure destruction, hazardous disposal and chain-of-custody handling costs.
Secure Communications $35K/yr
[#12] Ongoing secure communications, key rotation, and hardware token replacement/ops.
Supplies And Consumables $22K/yr
[#10] Laboratory consumables and ritual disposables for technomantic work.
Technomancer Engagements $20K/yr
[#8] Estimated average annual engagement fees for occasional contractor interventions.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.7M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, research and maintenance; no major incidents or large-scale takedowns.
routine_monitoring scheduled_research no_breach
🚨 Minor Incident $6.9M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Localized spread or limited exposure requiring targeted takedowns, a few field operations and contractor engagements.
localized_propagation single-site_activation limited_media_attention
🚨 Major Breach $11.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Widespread propagation across multiple platforms/sites, public exposure and cross-jurisdictional incidents requiring large-scale response and legal/PR action.
multi_site_activation viral_media_exposure GOI_involvement
👥 Personnel 7 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 3 [#9] IT security/crypto, memetics/psych, thaumaturgy specialists (multi-disciplinary research team).
Analyst 4 [#2] Continuous monitoring analysts (2 senior + 2 junior) covering triage, verification and escalation with shift rotation.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges, allowing a reasoned estimate; however many items have broad ranges, contingency behavior is scenario-dependent, and some costs (contractor engagement/event fees, real-world legal outcomes) are highly uncertain.
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