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SCP-5584 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5584
Expected annual
$5.2M
One-time setup
$3.8M
Annual recurring
$5.0M
Personnel
39
One-time capital and containment buildouts are moderate but contingency/reserve funds dominate the upfront bill; annual costs are driven primarily by staff wages (operations, security, and research) plus legal/cover-story expenditures and ongoing monitoring infrastructure. Baseline one-time costs are approximately $3.82M and baseline recurring costs ≈ $5.03M/yr, with occasional incidents that can add hundreds of thousands to several million in a given year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.8M
Contingency Reserve $2.0M
[#22] Contingency/emergency reserve for escalations, mass incidents, large amnestic campaigns or media buyouts.
Equipment $965K
[#3, #5, #7, #16, #17, #18, #19, #27] One-time development and hardware purchases: OSINT dev, RAT dev, SIGINT/network-forensics kit, secure server setup, secure comms tooling, transport purchase, non-lethal capture gear, and 3 mitigation kits.
Facilities $450K
[#8, #9] One-time construction/retrofit: secure containment room and site/interview-room retrofits.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $400K
[#14] Initial research lab buildout and scientific equipment to study anomalous properties.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.0M/yr
Staff Wages $2.9M/yr
[#1, #4, #10, #11, #14] Salaries and associated costs for digital takedown liaisons, 24/7 monitoring analysts, MTF/security staffing, medical staff, and research personnel.
Cover Story And Legal $1.3M/yr
[#2, #12, #13, #21, #23, #24, #25, #29] Legal counsel and takedown work, victim reimbursements and local cover-story operations, PR/narrative management, trusted-individual stipends, ethical oversight/auditing, insurance/legal reserves, platform bribes/risk allowance, and reputation/hush payments.
Research And Monitoring $362K/yr
[#3, #5, #28, #16, #4] Ongoing OSINT/cloud hosting, RAT/C2 hardened hosting, software/cloud licenses, secure archival storage maintenance, and tooling for continuous monitoring (separate from analyst wages).
Logistics And Transport $310K/yr
[#6, #20, #18] Annual costs for covert deployment ops, international travel, and driver/staffing/operational vehicle costs.
Facilities Maintenance $77K/yr
[#7, #26] Maintenance, license renewals and operational costs for SIGINT hardware and power/data-center operations (electricity, UPS, HVAC).
Annual Training $50K/yr
[#30] Annual drills, tabletop exercises, and specialized capture/suppression training.
Supplies And Consumables $30K/yr
[#11, #15, #19] Amnestic dose manufacturing and administration consumables, experimental device replacements, and non‑lethal gear resupplies.
Secure Comms And Opsec $10K/yr
[#17] Recurring costs for end-to-end communications, burn-phone budgets and OPSEC tooling.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.0M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing monitoring, containment, and routine ops; no large public incidents or mass exposure events.
routine_account_replacements regular_monitoring_and_takedowns
🚨 Minor Incident $5.3M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Localized exposure or contested takedowns requiring extra legal action, rapid amnestic/PR response, and additional covert ops.
contested_takedown localized_media_exposure cluster_of_device_disappearances
🚨 Major Breach $8.5M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$3.5M vs baseline
Significant public incident or many simultaneous disappearances requiring large emergency amnestic campaigns, international ops, and contingency fund deployment.
mass_public_exposure widespread_device_teleportations large_international_legal_actions
👥 Personnel 39 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 15 [#10] Armed response and round-the-clock guards plus supervisors for physical containment and capture.
Digital Liaison / Platform Analyst 5 [#1] Platform liaison team (4 liaisons + 1 manager) for takedowns and platform relationships.
Monitoring Analyst / Watchfloor Operator 6 [#4] 24/7 watchfloor analysts handling alerts, triage and takedown requests.
Research Scientist / Lab Tech 5 [#14] Scientists and technicians for the research program (4–6 personnel assumed).
Medical Officer 3 [#11] Medical staff to administer amnestics, post‑amnestic monitoring and adverse-event care.
Engineer / Maintenance (DevOps/Cyber) 2 [#3, #5, #7] Engineers and operators to maintain OSINT infrastructure, RAT/C2 hosting and forensic hardware.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [] Site-level leadership and executive oversight.
Administrative Staff 2 [] Admin and coordination support for ops, travel, and logistics.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges and operational context, allowing a reasonable estimate, but many values are wide ranges (e.g., legal actions, contingency use, frequency of covert ops) and rely on judgment for midpoints and staffing assumptions; hence medium confidence.
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