SCP-5711 — SCP-5711 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5711 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-5711

Expected annual

$365.1M

One-time setup

$432.9M

Annual recurring

$356.1M

Personnel

185

Initial capital expenditures are dominated by R&D/timecraft and device construction (single-event one-time costs ~hundreds of millions), while recurring yearly operations (temporal missions, personnel, covert logistics, and archival suppression) drive annual costs into the mid-hundreds of millions.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $432.9M

Timecraft Rnd $200.0M

[#8] One-time R&D and construction costs for timecraft/temporal transport development and dedicated hangar/test infrastructure (amortized as capital spend here).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $104.0M

[#14, #16] Applied Sciences R&D, prototype production for SCP-5711-2 and high-spec laboratory/cleanroom buildout and test-beds.

Replacement Amortization Reserve Seed $50.0M

[#29] Seed replacement/amortization reserve to permit rapid rebuild/reacquisition after catastrophic asset loss.

Agent Training Initial $20.0M

[#10] Initial multi-hundred-thousand-dollar-per-operative training costs for core team credentialing, simulators and live mission preparation.

Contingency Emergency Seed $20.0M

[#23] Seed capital for an emergency rapid-response reserve for containment breaches and large chronal events.

Facilities $14.5M

[#1, #2, #27] Site acquisition/lease of a missile silo and 2 km exclusion zone, plus structural retrofit and environmental-monitoring setup: aggregated estimate including legal/cover paperwork, structural reinforcement, shielding and environmental setup.

Procurement Rare Materials $10.0M

[#15] Procurement of rare/controlled materials and associated clandestine procurement premiums for initial build events.

Equipment $8.8M

[#3, #4, #6, #12, #19, #21] One-time procurement/installation of power-generation hardware, perimeter sensors/cameras, chronal detection instrumentation, webcrawler systems, secure/air-gapped communications hardware, and initial drone fleet procurement.

Insurance And Hush Fund Seed $5.0M

[#24] Initial off-books buffer / insurance retainer and hush-payment seed fund.

Documentation Setup $300K

[#28] One-time secure records management hardware, removable-key infrastructure and L5/Δ audit systems.

Cover Story Initial $200K

[#13] One-time costs to establish RAD-5 cover-story infrastructure, legal templates and PR scaffolding.

Personnel Vetting Initial $200K

[#26] Initial vetting and background-inquiry costs for the program's personnel pool.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $356.1M/yr

Research And Monitoring $180.0M/yr

[#7, #8, #14, #22] Ongoing temporal mission budgets (RCT-Δt operations), timecraft maintenance/amortization, iterative Applied Sciences development on SCP-5711-2, and recurring costs for artifact acquisition/destruction research work.

Deep Cover Logistics $50.0M/yr

[#11] Program-level recurring budget for deep-cover insertion, maintenance of historical identities, bribery/asset pools and long-duration sustainment across centuries.

Staff Wages $35.0M/yr

[#5, #9, #12, #26, #30] Ongoing salaries/benefits for security personnel, temporal operators/scientists, archivists and core administrative staff.

Archive Cleansing $20.0M/yr

[#25] Long-term archive suppression and historical-records remediation across iterations; open-ended and scaling with mission tempo.

Program Management Overhead $20.0M/yr

[#30] Program directors, finance, procurement overhead and slush/administrative funds (estimated ~10–20% of program spend).

Artifact Operations $10.0M/yr

[#22] Recurring budgets for artifact acquisition, confiscation, forgery production and cross-institution operations.

Contingency Replenishment $10.0M/yr

[#23] Annual replenishment to maintain the contingency/emergency response fund at operational levels.

Replacement Amortization Replenish $10.0M/yr

[#29] Annual replenishment to the replacement/amortization contingency to cover partial losses of capital assets.

Logistics And Transport $6.3M/yr

[#5, #20, #21] Helicopter/UAV ops, heavy-lift/airlift/convoy logistics and drone fleet operations/maintenance.

Personnel Retention $5.0M/yr

[#10] Retention bonuses and incentive pools to retain experienced temporal operators and field agents.

Cover Story And Legal $2.5M/yr

[#12, #13] PR/legal retainer costs, ongoing FOIA/counter-litigation and cover-story management retained staff and contracts.

Facilities Maintenance $2.0M/yr

[#3, #4, #16, #19, #27, #28] Utilities, power plant fuel/maintenance, perimeter sensor maintenance, lab utilities and general site upkeep including environmental monitoring contracts and documentation administration.

Insurance And Hush Payments $2.0M/yr

[#24] Ongoing hush payments, off-books legal buffers, and insurance-like retainers for covert contractors.

Medical Monitoring $1.5M/yr

[#17] Ongoing medical, psychological and chronal-health monitoring, clinic operations and long-term care provisioning.

Secure Communications $500K/yr

[#19] Operation of air-gapped backups, encrypted comms, Faraday shielding and archival snapshot refreshes.

Personnel Vetting $500K/yr

[#26] Continuous vetting, counterintelligence and internal security team operations.

Supplies And Consumables $300K/yr

[#18] Containment consumables, PPE, decon agents, disposables and waste-handling.

Chronal Equipment Maintenance $300K/yr

[#6] Calibration, maintenance and small-scale R&D follow-up for specialized temporal detection equipment.

Records Management $150K/yr

[#28] Administration of classified records, key distribution, and audit trail maintenance.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $356.1M/yr

87.0% probability / year

Normal, uneventful operational year with no major containment incidents; ongoing temporal missions and routine operations continue.

routine_temporal_missions annual_R&D_and_maintenance

🚨 Minor Incident $381.1M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline

Limited containment breach or localized chronal anomaly requiring emergency response, short-term mission surge and heightened archival suppression.

localized_breach emergency_remediation

🚨 Major Breach $656.0M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$300.0M vs baseline

Significant breach or loss of a major asset (timecraft or prototype) with large-scale temporal disruption and major rebuild and remediation costs.

prototype_loss widespread_timeline_disruption

🚨 Political Exposure $406.1M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Major public/political exposure or FOIA/legal crisis forcing heavy legal, PR, and bribery/payoff spending and potential operational slowdowns.

media_exposure legal_action/FOIA

👥 Personnel 185 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	30	24/7 armed guard rotations and rapid-response teams; mapped to security wages and logistics.
Research Scientist / Temporal Scientist	60	Applied Sciences and temporal research staff supporting SCP-5711-2 design and diagnostics.
Temporal Operators / Field Agents	40	RCT-Δt mission crews and field operatives (senior and mid-level operators).
Engineer / Maintenance	15	Facility, power plant, timecraft and equipment maintenance staff.
Administrative Staff	10	Program administration, procurement and finance.
Medical Officer	5	Onsite clinic staff for chronal/medical monitoring and care.
Archivist / Webcrawlers Team	10	Digital suppression, archivists and researchers running crawlers and FOIA/legal support.
Program Management / Executive	5	Directors and senior managers for program oversight.
Internal Security / Counterintelligence	10	Vetting, counterintelligence and internal security personnel.

📋 Confidence Notes

Wide ranges in analyst estimates, speculative/immature temporal technologies, open-ended archival suppression costs and uncertain mission tempo produce low confidence in point estimates.

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