SCP-5573 — SCP-5573 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5573 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-5573

Expected annual

$141.2M

One-time setup

$556.1M

Annual recurring

$135.7M

Personnel

235

First-year capital and setup costs are dominated by SRA procurement/installation, land acquisition and contingency reserves (≈$556M one-time). Ongoing annual operations are driven by an intensive R&D program, SRA maintenance, energy and staffing (~$136M/year).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $556.1M

Facilities $239.0M

[#3, #4, #10, #22, #27] Includes SRA purchase/installation and hard-mounting, power/shielding site integration, perimeter barriers/camera tower installation, hardened onsite command facility, and archive/vault buildout.

Incident Contingency Reserve $100.0M

[#26] Large-scale contingency fund reserved for escalation/neutralization measures (denial strikes, cross-site measures).

Equipment $62.5M

[#7, #11, #12, #19, #23, #24] Station-keeping/interdiction drone procurement, large-area detectors and monitoring hardware, remote probes/robotics, thaumaturgical scanning devices, transport airframes/armored vehicles, and communications hardware.

Land Acquisition $50.0M

[#16] Purchase/easements/compensation to secure critical properties and land-use rights around the exclusion zone.

Decommissioning Reserve $25.0M

[#30] Reserve for teardown, remediation and long-term resettlement if portal neutralized or facility closed.

Insurance Reserve $20.0M

[#28] Insurance / actuarial loss allowance reserve for lawsuits, large liabilities, and unexpected losses.

Evacuation Resettlement $15.0M

[#15] Evacuation, temporary housing, compensation and administrative resettlement costs for affected households (baseline estimate).

Medical Contingency Reserve $15.0M

[#20] Contingency reserve for a major medical/mortuary incident (per note).

Covert Ops Reserve $10.0M

[#25] One-time covert/operative reserve earmarked for sensitive payments, neutralizations or legal costs.

Cover Story Setup $6.0M

[#17] Initial investment to establish and seed the Finlay-Bravo cover story (media contracts, county payments, staged assets).

Local Impact Initial Payment $6.0M

[#21] Initial payments/mitigation to county for immediate economic impact and infrastructure support.

Medical Setup $4.0M

[#20] Field hospital / quarantine ward setup and mortuary handling infrastructure.

Qrf Initial Training And Gear $2.0M

[#2] One-time higher-tier training courses, weapons/armor/gear and initial certification for special response teams.

Airspace Rerouting $600K

[#9] One-time administrative/coordination costs, initial carrier compensation and regulatory filings to re-route commercial air traffic.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $500K

[#13] Initial onboarding, lab access provisioning and minimal lab setup for the research team.

Memetic Infrastructure $500K

[#18] Initial secure infrastructure for memetic containment, takedown capability and hardened servers.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $135.7M/yr

Research And Monitoring $51.8M/yr

[#11, #12, #14, #27] Ongoing monitoring/ calibration ops, remote probe replacement/ops, and intensive R&D program (~$50M/year recommended for initial multi-year campaign) plus archive/sample curation ops.

Staff Wages $23.2M/yr

[#1, #2, #13, #29] Salaries and loaded costs for perimeter security staffing (~100 personnel), QRF/special teams (~30 operators) and core research/on-site administrative staff (site admin overhead included).

Facilities Maintenance $20.2M/yr

[#4, #5, #10, #22] Annual maintenance and specialist upkeep for SRA power/shielding, specialist SRA engineers & spares, perimeter fencing/camera tower maintenance and hardened C2 facility operations.

Logistics And Transport $10.5M/yr

[#8, #23] Drone operational maintenance, pilots/maintainers, spare airframes/weapons and helicopter/vehicle operations and fuel/logistics.

Energy $10.0M/yr

[#6] Industrial electricity, backup turbine/diesel fuel and costs to continuously power SRAs, drones and comms.

Cover Story And Legal $8.0M/yr

[#17, #21, #25] Ongoing public affairs, county payments, legal counsel, FOIA resistance and ongoing covert/liaison operational budgets.

Supplies And Consumables $6.0M/yr

[#19, #29] Consumables, thaumaturgical materials, routine lab supplies, food/fuel and site operational consumables included in annual overhead.

Medical And Mortuary $3.0M/yr

[#20] Field hospital/quarantine operations costs, isolation ward staffing, mortuary processing and consumables.

Memetic Containment $2.0M/yr

[#18] Ongoing network monitoring, memetic countermeasures, red-team testing and takedown operations.

Communications $750K/yr

[#24] Satellite bandwidth, encrypted uplinks and anti-jam communications maintenance.

Airspace Coordination $200K/yr

[#9] Ongoing FAA/airline coordination, NOTAM maintenance and monitoring liaison costs.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $135.7M/yr

90.0% probability / year

Normal operational year: ongoing maintenance, research, staffing and routine operations with no major containment incidents.

normal_operations scheduled_maintenance ongoing_R&D

🚨 Minor Incident $145.7M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Localized breach or SRA glitch requiring targeted response, repairs, additional medical treatment and PR/legal action.

localized_SRA_failure unauthorized_intrusion small_scale_medical_event

🚨 Major Breach $285.6M/yr

1.5% probability / year +$150.0M vs baseline

Sustained or multi-node SRA failure, widespread containment breach requiring large-scale repairs, partial SRA replacement and heavier use of contingency funds.

SRA_catastrophic_failure widespread_reality_instability major_infrastructure_damage

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $635.6M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$500.0M vs baseline

Full-scale containment collapse or accelerated reality rupture requiring denial strike/major escalation, full evacuation, and multi-site emergency measures.

large_scale_reality_rupture denial_strike_required mass_evacuations_and_remediation

👥 Personnel 235 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	100	[#1] Perimeter and access-control staffing (24/7 manned checkpoints).
Armed Quick-Reaction / Special Response Team	30	[#2] Highly trained lethal enforcement teams (three teams, operators).
Research Scientist	30	[#13, #14] Onsite physicists/thaumaturgists/mathematicians (20–40 FTE range; used mid-point).
Engineer / Maintenance (SRA specialists)	20	[#5, #4] Specialist SRA technicians, power/shielding engineers and spare-module support contractors.
Drone Pilot / Remote Operator & Maintainer	20	[#7, #8] Operators and maintainers for interdiction drone fleet and C2.
Medical Officer	10	[#20] Field hospital, quarantine and mortuary staff.
Administrative Staff	15	[#29, #21, #17] Site administration, procurement, local liaisons and cover-story management support.
Legal / Intelligence Liaison	5	[#25] Ongoing legal counsel, FOIA resistance and federal agency liaisons.
Archive Curator / Sample Technician	5	[#27] Long-term research archive and sample curation personnel.

📋 Confidence Notes

Large uncertainties in core drivers: true per-unit cost and availability of Class-2 SRAs, continuous energy draw of SRAs, scale of population buyouts, and the chosen R&D pace/scale. Many items are order-of-magnitude estimates from analyst ranges.

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