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SCP-5734 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-5734
Expected annual
$2.0M
One-time setup
$10.7M
Annual recurring
$1.8M
Personnel
6
One-time setup and liability costs are dominated by potential medical/legal payouts and R&D to develop safe digitization/redaction systems; ongoing annual costs (~$1.84M/yr) are driven largely by staff wages and an insurance/indemnity reserve.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $10.7M
Liability Payouts Lump Sum $6.2M
[#10] Large lifetime medical/compensation payouts for already-affected individuals (aggregate reserve/one-time liability estimate).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.1M
[#19] One-time R&D / lab setup for countermeasure research (memetics/linguistic R&D infrastructure and trials).
Collateral Compensation $1.1M
[#18] Reserve for settlements, counseling, and rehabilitation for collateral victims (one-time reserve).
Legal And Cover $525K
[#11] One-time legal & cover-up costs (seizure, NDAs, negotiations, litigation contingency).
Facilities $338K
[#1, #21] Hardened archival vault installation and specialized destruction/incineration chamber (vault bolting, fire suppression, structural work).
Incident Response Setup $325K
[#13] Initial training, equipment and readiness for memetic incident response team setup.
Nonhuman Logging System $325K
[#14] Development of non-human perception imaging/OCR/redaction workflows (development cost).
Software Redaction Dev $188K
[#16] Initial development of software redaction / AI filters to block/munge hazardous conjugations.
Pr Contingency $150K
[#17] Communications blackout / PR contingency fund (one-time reserve portion).
Field Retrieval $135K
[#12] Covert recovery operation: intel, transport, ops personnel, travel and contingency.
Equipment $134K
[#2, #3, #5, #15] Tamper-evident enclosure, access-control retrofit, CCTV/hard-wired alarms (one-time hardware), and secure digital storage hardware.
Records Redaction $105K
[#23] One-time review and redaction of related public/university records.
Training Sop Dev $15K
[#8] One-time cost to develop memetic-safe handling SOPs and initial curriculum.
Psych Screening Initial $4K
[#9] Initial psychological/language screening for staff (pre-placement testing batch).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.8M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $1.1M/yr
[#22] Annual insurance / indemnity reserve and ongoing legal/cover costs (recurring reserve allocation).
Staff Wages $398K/yr
[#4, #6, #7, #13] Ongoing wages: 2extra guards (site security), 1 archival custodian (FTE), memetics/linguistic consultant (part-time), and incident-response team retention/standby costs.
Research And Monitoring $390K/yr
[#5, #8, #9, #13, #14, #15, #16, #19, #24] Ongoing costs for surveillance maintenance, annual SOP refresher training, psychological monitoring, incident-response drills/retention (operational costs), maintenance of non-human logging system, secure storage operations, software filter updates, ongoing R&D work, and periodic audits.
Facilities Maintenance $6K/yr
[#20, #25] Long-term archival environmental controls, inspections, and incremental energy/overhead for climate control and monitoring equipment.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.8M/yr
90.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine operations, maintenance, and staffing only.
routine_operations no_breach no_large_legal_actions
🚨 Minor Incident $2.0M/yr
6.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Localized accidental exposure / small containment incident requiring incident-response activation, limited medical care and counseling, plus minor legal/PR work.
accidental_exposure localized_breach staff_misuse
🚨 Major Breach $3.9M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$2.1M vs baseline
Wider exposure or public leak resulting in multiple affected individuals, large settlements, field retrieval/safe destruction actions, and major PR/legal costs.
uncontrolled_public_exposure multiple_staff_confounds major_legal_action
🚨 Catastrophic Legal $9.0M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$7.1M vs baseline
Large-scale liability event requiring lifetime payouts and major legal/PR response (e.g., discovery of multiple severely affected individuals and large settlements).
large_litigation mass_health_claims irreversible_confounding_discoveries
👥 Personnel 6 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 2 [#4] Two additional guards allocated for 24/7 coverage (incremental to baseline site security).
Archival Custodian 1 [#6] One FTE cleared archival custodian trained in memetic/material handling.
Memetics / Linguistic Consultant 1 [#7] Part-time memetics/linguistics oversight consultant for protocol design and vetting.
Incident Response / Containment Team (on-call) 2 [#13] On-call responders retained for rapid memetic containment and drills (retainer/standby reflected in staff wages).
📋 Confidence Notes
Containment hardware and staffing costs are fairly well-defined; large variance comes from legal/medical liability and R&D outcomes, so totals have moderate uncertainty.
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