SCP-5359 — SCP-5359 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5359 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-5359

Expected annual

$6.6M

One-time setup

$8.1M

Annual recurring

$6.0M

Personnel

One-time startup capital of approximately $8,060,000 driven primarily by a $5,000,000 containment seed reserve and research/facility buildouts; recurring annual costs are about $6,025,000/yr driven by MTF staffing, contingency top‑ups, research operations, takedowns, and incident response.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $8.1M

Containment Breach Seed Reserve $5.0M

[#28] One‑time emergency reserve for large‑scale dissemination, global takedowns, and surge operations.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.5M

[#18] Dedicated memetics/physics research lab setup, instrumentation, and lab modifications.

Equipment $750K

[#3, #11, #12] Air‑gapped server/HSM and hardware enclave, field vehicle purchases (4 vans), and PPE/radiation detection equipment.

Facilities $550K

[#1, #2, #15] Secure locker and climate vault installation plus amnestic production facility buildout.

Webcrawler Development $200K

[#5] Development, testing, and safety review for ALPHA-04/TOM crawler and containment tooling.

Mtf Recruitment Initial Training $60K

[#9] Background vetting and initial memetic safety/onboarding for MTF Chi-9 teams.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.0M/yr

Staff Wages $2.5M/yr

[#8] Salaries, benefits, hazard pay for MTF Chi-9 and direct support staff (agents + small support cadre).

Contingency Topup Emergency Operations $1.0M/yr

[#29] Annual replenishment to maintain readiness for unexpected large outlays.

Research And Monitoring $800K/yr

[#18] Ongoing memetics/physics research staff, experiments, and consumables.

Emergency Response Incident Cleanup $500K/yr

[#13] Average cleanup, forensics, decontamination and scene work for ~10 incidents/yr (avg $50k/incident).

Cover Story And Legal $200K/yr

[#21] Legal, PR, and cover story production and coordination with local authorities.

Forensic Autopsy And Disposal $150K/yr

[#14] Specialized autopsies and contained disposal/cremation costs (~$15k/case at 10 cases/yr).

Logistics And Transport $110K/yr

[#11, #24] Vehicle fuel/maintenance for seizure vans and chain‑of‑custody travel for operations.

Cyber Takedown Remediation $100K/yr

[#7] Active takedowns, legal fees, coordinated host interactions, and emergency removals online.

Records Alteration Sanitization $100K/yr

[#22] Tools and personnel to alter records and produce matching cover story documentation.

Cybersecurity Siem $100K/yr

[#23] IDS/IPS, SIEM, patching, and monitoring to protect the stored electronic copy and crawler.

Webcrawler Operations Hosting $75K/yr

[#6] Hosting, bandwidth, updates, threat intelligence feeds, and ops staff for ALPHA-04/TOM.

Administrative Overhead Audit Compliance $75K/yr

[#30] Program management, accounting, audits, and internal reviews.

Amnestic Treatment Administration $50K/yr

[#16] Amnestic doses, medical administration, and observation (~50 treatments/yr at $1k each).

Acquisition Budget Historical Materials $50K/yr

[#19] Purchase of rare copies, payments to collectors, and legal acquisition efforts.

Public Misinformation Archival Buyouts $50K/yr

[#27] Purchasing problematic publications/websites or removing reprints from circulation.

Device Forensics Wiping $40K/yr

[#25] Forensic imaging and secure erasure of seized electronics (~20 devices/yr).

Recertification Training $30K/yr

[#10] Ongoing memetic recertification, psychological resilience training, and audits.

Medical Care Monitoring $25K/yr

[#17] Post‑exposure checks, mental health care, and worker's comp equivalents (baseline).

Supplies And Consumables $20K/yr

[#12, #26] Consumable PPE, replacement dosimeters, tamper‑evident envelopes, Faraday bags, and packaging supplies.

Misc Small Incident Scale $20K/yr

[#32] Miscellaneous small consumables, replacements, and minor repairs.

Digital Archive Maintenance $10K/yr

[#4] Air‑gapped archive integrity checks, offline backup rotation, media replacement and re‑encoding.

Incentive Whistleblower $10K/yr

[#20] Tipline rewards and incentives for civilian cooperation.

Opportunity Cost Training $10K/yr

[#31] Lost operational hours for memorization drills and safety briefings.

Facilities Maintenance $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.0M/yr

75.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with the program running at expected capacity and the assumed incident frequency baked into recurring budgets.

routine_operations expected_incident_rate

🚨 Minor Incident $6.8M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$800K vs baseline

Year with an incident surge (e.g., an extra ~10 incidents) increasing cleanup, autopsy, and takedown costs.

incident_surge multiple_local_seizures

🚨 Major Breach $13.5M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$7.5M vs baseline

High‑impact media leak or multi‑site dissemination requiring activation of the containment seed reserve, global takedowns, and MTF surge.

mass_media_leak simultaneous_multi_site_incidents

🚨 Research Scaleup $7.2M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline

Decision to rapidly expand research efforts (additional staff, experiments, and consumables) in response to new findings or threat intelligence.

breakthrough_requirements increased_research_funding

👥 Personnel 28 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	24	[#8] MTF Chi-9 operators (4 regional teams × 6 operators) whose compensation is included in staff_wages.
Administrative Staff	4	[#8] Small admin/support cadre included in staff_wages to support MTF operations and logistics.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges, enabling an order‑of‑magnitude estimate; however several items depend on assumed incident frequency and contain wide ranges (takedown, contingency usage, and training), so some uncertainty remains.

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