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SCP-5657 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5657
Expected annual
$19.0M
One-time setup
$141.4M
Annual recurring
$18.0M
Personnel
89
Estimated one-time capital of $141,400,000 largely driven by hardened Section-ØN construction, contingency and existential reserves, and specialized equipment; recurring annual costs are approximately $18,000,000 driven by staff wages, EVAS operations, security, and ongoing research/containment support.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $141.4M
Existential Risk Fund $50.0M
[#30] Large-scale strategic response / existential risk fund (reserved capital for SK-class or Dominance Shift contingencies).
Facilities $49.5M
[#1, #2, #15, #9] Reinforced containment wing, land acquisition & cover infrastructure, backup power / DR infrastructure, and initial medical bay buildout (aggregated).
Contingency Reserve $20.0M
[#29] Catastrophic-event legal/settlement and emergency-response reserve (one-time setup of a durable reserve).
Equipment $15.1M
[#3, #5, #6, #14, #16, #17, #19] EVAS hardware & integration, test chamber hardware, automated restraint systems and weapons integration, specialized GOI-115 transport/restraint hardware, hardened communications hardware, surveillance array and encrypted storage, and initial rapid-response gear.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $6.8M
[#10, #11, #12] High-containment laboratory build/certification, initial amnestic production/setup, and amnestic administration/recordkeeping rooms and systems.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $18.0M/yr
Staff Wages $8.0M/yr
[#7, #8, #9] 24/7 cleared security teams, specialized containment/technical staff (memeticists, neuroscientists, cryptographers, AI operators), and on-site medical staff salaries/benefits.
Research And Monitoring $2.0M/yr
[#10, #17, #21] High-containment lab maintenance/consumables, long-term logging/storage ingest costs, and annual research/experiment budgets.
Facilities Maintenance $1.2M/yr
[#1, #15, #27] Routine structural/hardening maintenance, generator/fuel maintenance and testing, HVAC and climate-control for containment and server farms.
Evas Ops $1.2M/yr
[#4] EVAS ongoing maintenance, on-site data ops/SOC, compute power, patching, retraining and hardware replacement contracts.
Logistics And Transport $1.1M/yr
[#13, #14] Annual live-capture / covert ops budget allocation and in-transit life-support/transport consumables/support.
Cover Story And Legal $900K/yr
[#24, #25] Ongoing legal/policy oversight and cover-story / PR / misinformation budget to preserve plausible deniability.
Cybersecurity Soc $800K/yr
[#18] SOC operations, endpoint security, periodic red-team/testing and insider-threat mitigation.
Personnel Retention $800K/yr
[#23] Relocation incentives, hazard pay and retention bonuses, on-site housing/transport subsidies.
Supplies And Consumables $600K/yr
[#5, #9, #14, #26] Calibration and QA consumables for test hardware, medical consumables/PPE, per-transport consumables, ammunition and replacement sensors/small consumables.
Breach Response Readiness $500K/yr
[#19] Rapid response unit readiness, training, UAV and mobile quarantine trailer maintenance and readiness exercises.
Training And Clearance $400K/yr
[#22] Ongoing clearance maintenance, psychological screening, periodic tests and Knows Test calibration exercises.
Archival Retention $150K/yr
[#28] Long-term archival storage, off-site vaulting, format migration and media refresh costs.
Communications Maintenance $150K/yr
[#16] Accreditation, maintenance and trusted-courier costs for hardened comms, radios and cryptographic hardware.
Termination Disposal $100K/yr
[#20] Hazardous material disposal contracts / incineration and compliant waste processing for destroyed personnel/GOIs.
Amnestic Doses $100K/yr
[#11] Consumable amnestic doses, delivery materials and inventory resupply (annual dosing dependent).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $18.0M/yr
89.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major containment incidents; routine research and maintenance continue.
no breaches regular testing standard hiring/retention cycles
🚨 Minor Incident $20.5M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Localized breach attempt or single capture operation requiring emergency response, targeted amnestic deployment and limited repairs.
single containment breach attempt one GOI-115 live-capture operation targeted infrastructure repairs
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $93.0M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$75.0M vs baseline
Major SK-class containment failure or wide disclosure requiring full mobilization of contingency reserves, large-scale capture/neutralization efforts and emergency relocations.
major containment breach widespread disclosure multi-site coordinated attack
👥 Personnel 89 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 40 [#7] 24/7 armed cleared security teams and supervisors to staff Section-ØN and rapid response shifts (30–50 suggested; midpoint used).
Research Scientist / Specialist 25 [#8] Memeticists, cognitive hazard specialists, neuroscientists, cryptographers and senior researchers (15–40 suggested; midpoint used).
Research Support / EVAS Operators 4 [#3, #4] On-site AI/data operations team, model retraining and compute ops to maintain EVAS.
Medical Officer / Medic 4 [#9] Trauma medics, psychiatric support and quarantine/decon staff to cover shifts and on-call rotations.
Administrative Staff / Records & Legal Liaison 6 [#12, #24] Medical records, amnestic administration oversight, legal/policy coordination and clerical support.
Engineer / Maintenance 10 [#15, #17, #19] Facilities, generator and HVAC technicians, surveillance and automated restraint maintenance staff for continuous operations.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are derived from analyst ranges and consolidated into conservative mid/high selections. Many costs (contingency, existential fund size, frequency of GOI-115 actions) are scenario-dependent, producing moderate confidence rather than high.
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