SCP-5730 — SCP-5730 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5730 Keter ? low confidence

SCP-5730

Expected annual

$171.0M

One-time setup

$753.2M

Annual recurring

$162.0M

Personnel

143

Initial capital costs are large (~$753M) driven by ship procurement/refit, reactor defueling/disposal, and a seeded catastrophic-response fund; recurring annual costs are high (~$162M/yr) dominated by fleet operations, logistics, and ongoing R&D/containment staffing.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $753.2M

Naval Surface Combatants $200.0M

[#1] Purchase/refit of destroyer-equivalents and trawler/patrol boats hardened for anomalous contact.

Catastrophic Response Fund Seed $200.0M

[#25] Seeded fund reserved for catastrophic escalation (scuttling, area denial, allied strikes) — held liquid for emergency use.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $120.0M

[#5, #10, #22] R&D and prototype work for thaumaturgic barriers, laboratory infrastructure (wet/dry labs, EM chambers), and reverse-engineering program seed capital.

Reactor Defueling And Disposal $75.0M

[#7] Safe defueling/removal/disposal of modified reactors (estimated for multiple captured reactors).

Facilities $60.0M

[#6] Construction/refit of Site-095 pier, moorings, dry-dock upgrades and reinforced containment pier.

Salvage And Towing Operations $20.0M

[#8] Retrievals, long-haul towing and heavy-lift operations to bring anomalous submarines to Site-095.

Thaumaturgic Barrier Deployment $15.0M

[#5] Per-deployment equipment and installation for kilometer-scale barrier lines.

Underwater Vehicles And Diving $15.0M

[#9] Purchase of ROV systems, manned submersibles and saturation diving equipment.

Sonar And Towed Arrays $12.0M

[#2] Fleet-wide initial procurement and installation of deep-water towed-array and hull-mounted sonar systems.

Cover Operation Staging $8.0M

[#19] Initial staging, PR/legal contracts and cover-story setup for blackout under military guise.

Humanoid Containment Suites $6.0M

[#15] Secure containment suites setup for SCP-5730-1 entities (capacity planned for multiple units).

Air Recon Modifications $4.0M

[#3] One-time sensor/modification work for maritime patrol aircraft/helicopters.

Secure Comms And Shielding $4.0M

[#18] Hardened communications, Faraday enclosures and EM shielding installations.

Security Equipment And Training $3.0M

[#12] Initial weapons, equipment and training for site security and boarding teams.

Ocean Mapping Campaign $3.0M

[#23] Charter survey vessel(s) and campaign costs to map unknown oceanic regions.

Environmental Monitoring Setup $2.0M

[#16] Network installation for continuous water/air/radiation/thaumic monitoring.

Pepsico Penetration Setup $2.0M

[#20] Initial covert insertion and operations to enhance PepsiCo liaison and access.

Ppe And Decon Setup $1.5M

[#17] Initial PPE purchases, decontamination stations and medical readiness facilities.

Personnel Onboarding $1.0M

[#11] Recruitment, security clearances and initial onboarding costs for specialized scientific personnel.

Embedded Agents Onboarding $1.0M

[#13] Initial cover creation, placement and setup costs for port-level embedded agents.

Evidence Digitization Setup $500K

[#14] Forensic video restoration and analog-to-digital lab setup.

Psych Care Program Setup $250K

[#24] Setup of psychological care, debriefing and counterintelligence programs for exposed staff.

Equipment $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $162.0M/yr

Logistics And Transport $71.5M/yr

[#1, #3, #9] Fleet O&M (fuel, maintenance, pier fees and contracted support), air reconnaissance flight ops, and ROV/submersible operational costs.

Staff Wages $23.0M/yr

[#11, #12, #13] Salaries/loaded costs for specialized scientific staff, on-site security/guards and embedded port agents.

Research And Monitoring $20.5M/yr

[#4, #5, #10, #14, #22, #23, #24] Satellite/SIGINT tasking, thaumaturgic reagent replacement and ritual teams, lab experiment budgets, archival operations, reverse-engineering operations, mapping analysts and psychological/counterintelligence support (non-wage program budgets).

Catastrophic Response Reserve Allocation $20.0M/yr

[#25] Annual allocation to maintain a liquid reserve for large-scale escalation and emergency kinetic response.

Cover Story And Legal $16.5M/yr

[#19, #20, #21] Ongoing cover operations/PR, covert payments/PepsiCo contracting and legal/diplomatic retainer/indemnity budgeting.

Facilities Maintenance $7.5M/yr

[#2, #6, #7, #16, #18] Maintenance/calibration of sonar arrays, dry-dock and pier upkeep, spent-fuel security, monitoring network maintenance and comms upkeep.

Supplies And Consumables $3.0M/yr

[#15, #17] Ongoing care/research consumables for humanoid containment and PPE/medical consumables.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $162.0M/yr

80.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with no major incidents; routine containment, monitoring, and program spending.

no significant breaches regular patrol/contact operations routine research activity

🚨 Minor Incident $172.0M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Localized encounter or recovery requiring additional salvage, remediation and legal handling (e.g., surface attack causing damage to ship or a single reactor issue).

localized surface engagement single-instance salvage/remediation limited diplomatic incident

🚨 Major Breach $312.0M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$150.0M vs baseline

Significant escalation (multiple damaged instances, reactor emergency or exposure) requiring reactor defueling, large-scale recovery, diplomatic payouts and use of catastrophic response funds.

reactor compromise/exposure multiple-instance engagement/capture loss international exposure requiring indemnities

👥 Personnel 143 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist	40	Scientific staff, marine/nuclear engineers, thaumaturgists and analysts; portion of #11 accounted in staff_wages.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	83	On-site security, boarding teams and guards; corresponds to recurring security wage allocation from #12.
Embedded Agents / Field Operative	20	Port-level embedded agents and liaisons paid under #13 recurring payments.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are based on wide analyst ranges and high uncertainty around anomalous-specific items (ship hardening, thaumaturgic R&D, reactor remediation and frequency/severity of incidents). Large discretionary reserves dominate totals; real costs could be materially higher or lower.

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