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SCP-5723 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5723
Expected annual
$41.5M
One-time setup
$60.0M
Annual recurring
$39.9M
Personnel
60
Estimated one-time setup and contingency costs are approximately $60.05M, driven primarily by R&D/secure facilities and a recommended contingency reserve; recurring operational costs are roughly $39.9M/year driven by sustained field operations, personal protection, intelligence/cyber operations, and research/monitoring.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $60.0M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $25.0M
[#11, #13] Amnestic / memory-alteration R&D & facility buildout plus specialized laboratory forensics and instrumentation.
Contingency Reserve $20.0M
[#18] One-time recommended black-budget reserve for unforeseen exigencies, bribery, emergency acquisitions and rapid payouts.
Facilities $6.0M
[#6, #16] Structural hardening of O5 chambers/sites and setup of detainee/containment holding facilities.
Equipment $3.0M
[#5] Procurement and installation of hardened communications hardware, biometric locks, sensors and related security hardware.
Reputation Reserve One Time $2.0M
[#25] One-time reserve allocation to absorb reputational and containment accounting shocks.
Cyber Forensics Setup $1.0M
[#3] One-time secure compute, forensics hardware, and archive reconstruction tooling.
Emergency Task Force Deployment $750K
[#1] Rapid-response deployment costs: travel, per diem, rented equipment, short-term overtime.
Legal One Time $500K
[#9] Initial legal work, nondisclosure arrangements, shell-company creation and related setup costs.
Medical Reserve One Time $500K
[#27] One-time medical/rehabilitation reserve for incident-driven costs.
Replacement Hiring $400K
[#21] Recruitment, vetting, clearance and induction costs for a replacement O5-level individual.
Secure Offsite Storage Setup $300K
[#14] Setup of offsite vaults, cold-storage systems and initial data migration.
Internal Vetting Initial $300K
[#15] Initial deep vetting, background checks, polygraphs and behavioral analyses of O5/senior staff.
Administrative Restructuring $200K
[#20] One-time procedural rewrites, emergency bylaws and training to redistribute decision-making authority.
Evidence Preservation Setup $100K
[#23] Tamper-evident containers, chain-of-custody systems and initial audits.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $39.9M/yr
Logistics And Transport $8.0M/yr
[#2, #17] Recurring costs for sustained field operations (covert searches, stakeouts, raids) and transport activations.
Staff Wages $6.5M/yr
[#1, #2, #3, #7, #12, #24] Salaries for core research, cyber, forensic, security and administrative staff (regular payroll, excluding specialized protection details captured separately).
Research And Monitoring $6.0M/yr
[#3, #11, #12] Ongoing cyber/forensic analysis, experimental/paranormal research tasking, and active monitoring efforts.
Personal Protection $6.0M/yr
[#7] 24/7 protective details, armored transport readiness and rotation costs for remaining O5s/high-value staff.
Intelligence Ops $3.0M/yr
[#4] HUMINT recruitment, SIGINT support, foreign liaison and payments to sources.
Transport Standby $2.0M/yr
[#17] Retention/standby fees for leased armored aircraft, medevac and rotary assets.
Staff Overtime $2.0M/yr
[#24] Overtime, temporary backfills and productivity loss while staff are reassigned to investigation tasks.
Cover Story And Legal $1.3M/yr
[#9, #10] Ongoing legal counsel, nondisclosure maintenance, PR/media suppression and influence operations.
Amnestic Production $1.0M/yr
[#11] Per-dose production, safe administration logistics and small-scale production run costs (if used).
Interagency Liaison $1.0M/yr
[#19] Paid channels, discreet cooperation agreements and liaison expenses with foreign partners.
Facilities Maintenance $500K/yr
[#6, #14, #16, #22] Ongoing maintenance of hardened sites, offsite storage upkeep and related facility costs.
Reputation Budget $500K/yr
[#25] Annual budgeting allocation to amortize reputational risk and collateral expenses.
Supplies And Consumables $350K/yr
[#13, #28] Forensic supplies, testing consumables, secure office supplies and small recurring operational materials.
Psychological Services $300K/yr
[#8] Counseling, morale management, psychiatric care and loyalty/stress programs for affected personnel.
Detainee Operations $300K/yr
[#16] Recurring operations, staffing and oversight of detention/interrogation facilities.
Leak Monitoring $250K/yr
[#26] Continuous OSINT/darknet monitoring, takedown operations and whistleblower detection.
Energy Ops $200K/yr
[#22] Increased energy, generator fuel and climate-control costs for additional servers/surveillance arrays.
Medical Fund $200K/yr
[#27] Ongoing medical, rehabilitation and care budget for affected staff.
Misc Operational $150K/yr
[#28] Recurring petty cash, courier services, secure printing and miscellaneous admin expenses.
Secure Comms Maintenance $100K/yr
[#5] Annual maintenance and audit of hardened communications, cryptographic hardware and backups.
Internal Vetting Followup $100K/yr
[#15] Periodic follow-up vetting and monitoring of O5/senior staff for compromise.
Offsite Storage Maintenance $100K/yr
[#14] Recurring storage and archival maintenance costs for redundant records.
Evidence Chain Of Custody Maintenance $50K/yr
[#23] Ongoing secure evidence storage, audits and chain-of-custody documentation.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $39.9M/yr
82.0% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year with active investigation and recurring protective/operational posture but no major incidents.
ongoing investigation routine monitoring
🚨 Minor Incident $44.9M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Localized public leak or limited breach requiring emergency deployments, increased legal/PR action, and additional field operations.
public leak small-scale breach targeted forensic surge
🚨 Major Breach $69.9M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$30.0M vs baseline
Major containment or information breach (or anomalous escalation) requiring large-scale field operations, international intelligence ops, contingency reserve drawdown and possible amnestic deployment.
large-scale leak international escalation anomalous remediation required
👥 Personnel 60 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 8 [#11, #12] Lead experimental and anomalous research staff supporting remediation and testing.
Cyber Specialist 4 [#3] Digital forensics, network analysis and archive reconstruction specialists.
Forensic Analyst 3 [#13] Physical trace, toxicology and advanced imaging analysts for scene/sample work.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 30 [#2, #24] Operational security personnel for field missions, site security and asset protection (does not include specialized personal_protection detail budgeted separately).
Engineer / Maintenance 3 [#6, #22] Facility and systems engineers responsible for hardening, sensors and additional power/ops support.
Administrative Staff 3 [#20, #25] Administrative coordination, cover-story maintenance and budgetary support.
Legal/Compliance Specialist 2 [#9] Legal counsel for classified matters, NDAs and cover entities.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#20] Executive oversight to implement emergency procedural changes and liaise with Overseer Council.
Medical Officer 1 [#27] Medical oversight for casualties, long-term care and rehabilitation.
Intelligence Analyst 4 [#4, #19] HUMINT/SIGINT analysis and interagency liaison support.
Psychological Staff 1 [#8, #15] Counseling and behavioral assessment staff for vetting and morale management.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes enumerate plausible line-item ranges and operational modalities, allowing a reasoned estimate, but many items (anomalous remediation, contingency draws, frequency of major incidents) are uncertain so estimates remain approximate.
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