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SCP-5382 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5382
Expected annual
$24.3M
One-time setup
$7.6M
Annual recurring
$23.3M
Personnel
69
Initial one-time capital and setup costs are roughly $7.59M, driven by compute/equipment purchases and legal/PoI settlement expenses; recurring annual costs are approximately $23.14M/yr, dominated by staff wages, lobbying/subsidies, emergency contingency reserves and medical partnership operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.6M
Equipment $3.1M
[#1, #10, #14, #21, #26] Dedicated compute cluster; MTF field equipment & vehicles; secure printing/packaging setup for SCP-5382-C; secure communications devices; off-site backup/tape vault setup.
Poi Settlement $2.0M
[#16] Initial settlement/retainer and goodwill payment to PoI-382 (Thilo Zwist) required for containment agreement.
Facilities $825K
[#12, #15] Quarantine/treatment retrofit (negative-pressure HVAC and secure rooms) and secure archival vaults/physical catalogue buildout.
Medical Data Integration Initial $500K
[#7] Initial contractization and per-institution integration costs to enable clinical EMR connectors and hospital partnerships.
Legal Setup $375K
[#18] One-time legal/compliance/ethics setup costs (international counsel, corporate fronts, NDAs).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $350K
[#23] Research grants/startup funding and initial clinical-trial setup to study SCP-5382-A mechanics and SCP-5382-B pathology.
Webcrawler Development Deployment $225K
[#3] One-time development and deployment costs for I/O-VENENA and I/O-HOKUM crawling infrastructure, GDPR/CCPA-safe tooling and connectors.
Front Entity Establishment $225K
[#20] One-time establishment costs for front entities/shell companies used to route subsidies and plausible-deniability operations.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $23.3M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $8.2M/yr
[#18, #19, #24, #29] Ongoing legal retainer/compliance counsel; large-scale lobbying/subsidies program to prop text-based media; public-facing cover/PR budget and small-scale covert takedown/reimbursement payments.
Staff Wages $7.5M/yr
[#5, #6, #9, #13, #20] Core research & engineering team salaries, linguistic annotators, Mobile Task Force Beta-43 personnel payroll, medical staff salaries, and lobbying staff salaries.
Emergency Contingency Fund $3.5M/yr
[#22] Reserved fund for rapid mass distribution of SCP-5382-C, emergency MTF mobilization, and medical surge response.
Medical Data Partnerships $1.2M/yr
[#7, #8] Ongoing reimbursements, incident response, data stewardship and per-hospital partnership maintenance costs for EMR connectors and clinical access.
Research And Monitoring $1.2M/yr
[#2, #3, #4, #23, #26, #30] Compute/hosting operational costs, webcrawler ops/maintenance, research grant funding (ongoing), off-site backup storage operations, and audit/monitoring of heuristic detection accuracy.
Poi Stipend And Security $350K/yr
[#16, #17] Recurring stipend/royalties and personal security for PoI-382 to ensure cooperation and safe production of SCP-5382-C.
Supplies And Consumables $300K/yr
[#14] Ongoing production, secure printing, tamper-proof packaging and circulation consumables for SCP-5382-C.
Logistics And Transport $295K/yr
[#11, #21] MTF deployment recurring costs (vehicle maintenance, fuel, consumables) and secure comms/travel for Chair–PoI coordination.
Cybersecurity And Replacement Reserve $200K/yr
[#25] Cybersecurity insurance, asset replacement reserve and depreciation for compute and archives.
Facilities Maintenance $175K/yr
[#15, #27] Archive operations/climate control and site energy/HVAC support for archives and treatment rooms.
Training And Continuing Education $138K/yr
[#28] Annual refreshers, certifications and continuing education for MTF and clinical staff.
Audit And Monitoring $100K/yr
[#30] Third-party red-team audits and annual operational reviews (listed separately for clarity; also referenced in research_and_monitoring).
Backup Offsite Storage $10K/yr
[#26] Ongoing off-site cold storage fees for tape vaults and geographically separated backups.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $23.3M/yr
84.5% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; recurring containment and partnership operations proceed as budgeted.
no breaches normal churn of patients routine research and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $24.1M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$890K vs baseline
Localized outbreak or small containment breach requiring MTF mobilization, emergency media distribution and limited legal/PR activity.
localized cluster of SCP-5382-B cases targeted online propagation requiring rapid response
🚨 Major Breach $28.1M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$4.9M vs baseline
Regional-scale outbreak or coordinated media leak causing sustained containment operations, large media distribution and international coordination.
coordinated exposure multiple-region hospital surges prolonged MTF deployments
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $38.1M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$14.9M vs baseline
Widespread uncontrolled propagation requiring major international emergency response, full use of contingency funds and large asset replacement and settlements.
mass media-level exposure failure of PoI agreement coordinated adversarial exploitation
👥 Personnel 69 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 4 [#5] Senior research staff working on grammatical/memetic analysis and model design.
Data Scientist / ML Engineer 3 [#1, #5] ML engineers for model training, corpus processing and evaluation.
Software Engineer / DevOps 3 [#3, #4] Engineers maintaining crawlers, ops and deployment infrastructure.
Linguist / Annotator 6 [#6] Human annotators and linguists for Germanic-language grammatical labeling and validation.
MTF Agent / Security Officer 40 [#9] Mobile Task Force Beta-43 field agents, medics and case officers (30–50 typical; midpoint used).
Medical Officer 4 [#12, #13] Clinical staff assigned to quarantine/treatment facilities and patient care.
Administrative Staff 3 [#18, #21] Admin and coordination staff for legal/POI liaison and logistics.
Public Affairs / Lobbyist 6 [#19, #20, #24] Lobbyists and front-organization staff executing subsidy and media programs.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on analyst ranges in the notes and typical Foundation costing for comparable Thaumiel containment efforts; multiple line items had wide ranges and overlapping descriptions so mid-point assumptions and conservative de-duplication were used, yielding medium confidence.
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