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SCP-5735 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5735
Expected annual
$4.2B
One-time setup
$27.8B
Annual recurring
$4.0B
Personnel
11000
Estimated upfront capital and one-time allocations are approximately $27.81 billion, driven by site/barge construction, transport outfitting, large contingency and insurance reserves. Recurring annual costs are approximately $3.97 billion/year, driven primarily by staffing, logistics/transport, remediation and global cover operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $27.8B
Long Term Standby Fund $15.0B
[#22] Contingency allocation for extreme world-scale remediation or execution of protocols like SCP-2000/Ganymede (reserve contingency fund).
Insurance And Asset Writeoffs $5.0B
[#23] Insurance payouts, asset write-offs, compensation for presumed-lost Foundation assets and personnel, classified accounting losses.
Facilities $2.2B
[#1] Provisional Sites & sea barge construction/conversion for 550 distributed sites (modular lab/hab construction, hull conversion, mooring, lifesystems, basic thaumatic shielding).
Equipment $1.8B
[#5, #6, #9, #11, #19, #29] Procurement/outfitting: specialized drone fleet procurement, heavy aerial/maritime transport outfitting, Hume/reality sensors, data-integrity hardware (air-gapped vaults, Faraday cages), remote sensing arrays, communications hardware.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.6B
[#12, #14, #15, #27] Project MONEDA initial program and lab buildout, containment/approach R&D for SCP-5735-2, ocean remediation R&D & prototypes, scientific instrumentation and lab infrastructure upgrades.
Expeditionary Coalition Mission $1.1B
[#24] One-time launch and first-year costs for UK/Spain/Portugal shielded expedition to the Americas (ships, airlift, logistics, security).
Contingency Reserve Fund $1.0B
[#30] Liquid rapid-response reserve fund for emergency escalations (evacuations, accelerated interdiction, emergency procurement).
Thaumaturgic Protection Installation $85.0M
[#7] One-time installation & training costs for Class-A/B thaumaturgic protection equipment, reagents and certification.
Ennui Protocol Planning $35.0M
[#13] Ennui / Veil protocol contingency planning, Council reviews, simulations and high-level classified approvals.
Initial Stockpiles $35.0M
[#25] Initial stockpile of field consumables, PPE, medical supplies, thaum-reagent stocks and replacement sensors.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.0B/yr
Staff Wages $1.3B/yr
[#3, #4, #8] Core personnel salaries: researchers, engineers, medics, security/field guards, thaumaturges/occultists and technical support (11,000 personnel staffing assumption).
Research And Monitoring $858.0M/yr
[#9, #10, #11, #12, #14, #15, #19, #26, #27] Ongoing Hume/ reality sensor maintenance and analysis, satellite imagery tasking and imagery analysis, data-archival upkeep, Project MONEDA ongoing R&D, containment standby operations for SCP-5735-2, ocean remediation operations, remote sensing maintenance, population monitoring of SCP-5735-1, and instrumentation calibration/upgrades.
Logistics And Transport $760.0M/yr
[#5, #6, #16, #18] Maintenance and operations for specialized drone fleet, heavy aerial & maritime transport operations and crews, mass-casualty/relief mobilizations, salvage/forensics team deployments and hazardous debris processing.
Cover Story And Legal $487.0M/yr
[#17, #21, #28] Information operations, covert PR and legal counsel, diplomatic liaison teams and ongoing ethics oversight operations.
Facilities Maintenance $379.0M/yr
[#2, #29] Operational costs for 550 provisional sites and barges (power/fuel, drydock cycles, mooring/port fees) plus communications system maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $122.0M/yr
[#7, #20, #25] Recurring consumables: thaumaturgic reagents & ritual materials, psychological care and long-term trauma support services, replenishment of field consumables and medical supplies.
Contingency Reserve Replenishment $50.0M/yr
[#30] Annual replenishment/standing cost to maintain a liquid contingency reserve for rapid escalations if used.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.0B/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal uneventful year with steady monitoring, maintenance, research and routine operations.
no major coalescence events stable Hume levels routine operations only
🚨 Minor Incident $4.5B/yr
15.0% probability / year +$500.0M vs baseline
Localized coalescence or infrastructure losses requiring surge deployments, extra salvage and cover operations.
localized SCP-5735 activity temporary site outages targeted salvage/relief response
🚨 Major Breach $9.5B/yr
2.0% probability / year +$5.5B vs baseline
Formation/activation of SCP-5735-2 or broad Hume spike requiring mass mobilization, large remediation and heavy contingency drawdown.
SCP-5735-2 coalescence global Hume spike / ocean blackouts large-scale humanitarian & remediation response
👥 Personnel 11000 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 2000 [#3] Researchers and scientific staff for Project MONEDA and ongoing analysis.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 5000 [#3, #4] Security and field guard personnel staffing provisional sites and escorts.
Engineer / Maintenance 2000 [#3] Site, vessel and equipment engineers and maintenance technicians.
Thaumaturge / Occultist 750 [#8] Specialized practitioners, retention and hazard-paid consultants.
Administrative Staff 500 [#3, #21] Administrative, logistics and liaison personnel including legal/diplomatic coordinators.
Medical Officer 250 [#3, #20] Medics and psychological care staff for personnel and survivors.
Field Technician / Salvage Crew 500 [#18, #5] Technicians operating drones, salvage/forensics and field sensor crews.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges but include several high-uncertainty contingency items (SCP-2000/Ganymede-scale funds, insurance/write-offs) and policy-dependent choices; recurring operational costs are better constrained than extreme one-time contingencies.
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