← SCP Cost Explorer Read on SCP Wiki ↗
SCP-5634 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5634
Expected annual
$2.4M
One-time setup
$8.4M
Annual recurring
$2.4M
Personnel
16
One-time establishment and contingency reserve dominate upfront costs (~$8.36M); recurring staff wages, surveillance/subscription, insurance and liaison/cover operations are the main annual drivers (~$2.35M/year).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $8.4M
Contingency Reserve $5.5M
[#25] Reserve fund for large-scale incidents, rapid construction, emergency procurement and escalation responses.
Facilities $1.9M
[#1, #14, #17] Leasehold improvements/secure field station, hardened short-term containment cell, and property acquisition/long-term lease costs.
Equipment $800K
[#3, #7, #9, #10, #13, #16, #21, #23, #28] Surveillance hardware, vehicles & retrofits, restraints, chemical incapacitation hardware, cryogenic freezers, document stabilization equipment, PPE/decon equipment, backup generator/UPS, morgue/incinerator purchase.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $110K
[#12] Initial diagnostic research series (genetics, histology, EM) and lab setup for initial sample throughput.
Environmental Baseline Surveys $25K
[#24] One-time baseline environmental and wildlife surveys.
Legal Settlement Per Incident $0
[#18] Per-incident settlements (estimated $50k–$500k) are not allocated as a baseline one-time; handled in incident scenarios.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.4M/yr
Staff Wages $1.5M/yr
[#5, #6, #11, #27, #30, #16] Field response team salaries, local liaison/cover personnel, contracted pathology/forensic time, long-term research staff salaries, program management/audit, and archival staff (archivist/historian).
Cover Story And Legal $150K/yr
[#18] Funding for cover operations (museum/conservation cover), PR, legal fees and suppression activities as a baseline annual cost.
Insurance And Political Buffer $150K/yr
[#26] Insurance/indemnity funds and political goodwill buffering.
Sensor And Data Subscriptions $65K/yr
[#4] Satellite imagery refresh, cloud storage, drone maintenance subscriptions and replacement of weather-exposed sensors.
Informant And Tipline $60K/yr
[#19] Payments to informants, tipline staffing and reward payments.
Easement Payments $55K/yr
[#17] Annual easement/landowner payments and access-control fees to prevent civilian discovery.
Community Mitigation $55K/yr
[#29] Community grants, infrastructure repairs and public safety campaigns to limit civilian exploration.
Training And Drills $50K/yr
[#20] Annual training for operatives and medical/forensic teams in anomalous-specific procedures.
Archival And Digitization $50K/yr
[#16] Ongoing archival staff time and digitization projects for recovered documents and evidence.
Research And Monitoring $42K/yr
[#12, #24] Ongoing diagnostic tests (genetics/histology/etc.) and environmental/wildlife monitoring.
Facilities Maintenance $35K/yr
[#2] Power, internet/satellite backhaul, heating, routine facility maintenance and utilities for the regional monitoring station.
Logistics And Transport $30K/yr
[#8] Vehicle operations: fuel, maintenance, winterization and routine patrol logistics.
Secure It And Data Management $30K/yr
[#22] Encrypted databases, backups, access audits and secure communications between field and HQ.
Supplies And Consumables $15K/yr
[#21] Recurring PPE replacements, decon consumables and hazardous disposal baseline.
Chemical Resupply And Licensing $12K/yr
[#10] Resupply of sedatives/immobilizers, controlled-drug licensing/compliance and maintenance of tranquilizer systems.
Restraint Consumables $10K/yr
[#9] Consumable replacements for restraints, nets, chains, winches and similar capture consumables.
Backup Power Fuel Maintenance $6K/yr
[#23] Fuel and maintenance costs for generators/UPS during outages and extreme weather.
Medical Autopsy Consumables $3K/yr
[#11] Per-autopsy consumables averaged across expected caseload; larger incident costs handled in scenarios.
Per Incident Transportation $0/yr
[#15] Per-event secure transport (ground/airlift) costs are incident-driven and captured in incident scenarios rather than baseline recurring.
Per Cremation Costs $0/yr
[#28] Per-cremation/contracted disposal costs are incident-driven and modelled in scenarios.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.4M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, no major incidents.
no_large_incidents routine_patrols_only
🚨 Minor Incident $2.5M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$175K vs baseline
Localized encounter requiring capture/medical/forensic response and moderate legal/PR costs.
localized_encounter single_live_capture minor_civilian_exposure
🚨 Major Breach $3.9M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Multiple-sighting event or sustained anomalous activity requiring emergency mobilization and large settlements/containment purchases.
multiple_sightings widespread_anomalous_activity civilian_casualties
👥 Personnel 16 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 [#5] Field response team (6–10 FTE); trained operatives for captures and rural operations.
Research Scientist 3 [#27, #12] Long-term research staff (anthropology/epidemiology/genetics) and research leads for diagnostics.
Medical Officer / Forensic Pathologist 1 [#11] Contracted pathologist/forensic tech time for autopsies, necropsies and anomalous tissue processing.
Archivist / Historian 1 [#16] Archivist/historian for document recovery, conservation and digitization projects.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#30] Program manager and audit coordination for the regional monitoring operation.
Administrative Staff / Local Liaison 2 [#6, #18] Undercover liaison and cover personnel working with local authorities, PR/legal coordination and informant program management.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide many line-item ranges enabling middling certainty, but SCP behavior frequency, breach likelihood and per-incident severity remain uncertain; therefore medium confidence.
← SCP-5633 ↑ All SCPs SCP-5635 →