SCP-5736 — SCP-5736 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5736 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-5736

Expected annual

$12.6M

One-time setup

$39.9M

Annual recurring

$11.5M

Personnel

Estimated one-time setup costs approximately $39,900,000 driven by site retrofit, equipment purchases (aircraft, vehicles, mobile containment) and a contingency seed; recurring annual costs roughly $11,475,000 driven by MTF staff wages, research/monitoring, logistics (air/ground transport), and contingency/replenishment reserves.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $39.9M

Contingency Reserve Seed $20.0M

[#18] Seed reserve for mass-casualty / catastrophic incident response (recommended contingency fund).

Equipment $10.6M

[#2, #5, #6, #12] Purchase of mobile containment units (#2), purchase of one helicopter (#5), purchase of armored ground vehicles (#6), and procurement of specialized restraint/PPE tooling (#12).

Facilities $6.8M

[#1, #7, #19, #30] Site retrofit/secure wing (#1) assumed mid-scale; includes medical quarantine initial setup (#7), hardened evidence-storage vault initial cost (#19), and initial monitoring/perimeter hardware installation (#30).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M

[#10] Initial genomics/proteomics/pathology instrumentation and first-year laboratory setup for high-depth multi-omic specimen work.

Intelligence Initial $500K

[#14] Initial archival retrieval and targeted intelligence program startup costs to locate/reconstruct Nile Valley records.

Archival Reconstruction $500K

[#25] One-time archival reconstruction and replacement of lost branch infrastructure and databases.

Legal Diplomatic Initial $250K

[#16] Initial legal/diplomatic/cover-story setup and one-off payments to establish local agreements or immediate PR/legal measures.

Cybersecurity Initial $150K

[#20] Initial investment in secure communications, encrypted storage and red-team testing setup.

Training Development $100K

[#21] One-time development of SOPs, curriculum and simulation materials specific to SCP-5736 contingencies.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $11.5M/yr

Staff Wages $2.7M/yr

[#3] Tactical extraction / MTF-equivalent team salaries (12-person team @ mid-range fully-loaded cost).

Research And Monitoring $1.2M/yr

[#9, #10, #11] Forensic/anthropological program (#9), ongoing genomics/proteomics follow-up research (#10), and long-term behavioral/clinical research housing/studies (#11).

Humanitarian Compensation Reserve $1.0M/yr

[#17] Annual reserve for evacuation, temporary housing, medical care and compensation for affected civilians in incident years.

Contingency Replenishment $1.0M/yr

[#18] Annual replenishment target for contingency/catastrophic-response fund when used.

Insurance And Legal Reserve $1.0M/yr

[#24] Annual insurance premiums and legal defense reserves for exposure, wrongful-death claims and high-risk operations.

Logistics And Transport $820K/yr

[#2, #5, #6] Recurring air-charter budget and rotorcraft mission costs (#5), ground vehicle operating costs/convoy ops (#6), and mobile containment unit maintenance/lease (#2).

Decon Operations $500K/yr

[#8] Recurring budget for field decontamination teams, hazardous cleanups and small-scale remediation operations.

Local Grants $500K/yr

[#29] Small-grant reserve for local cooperation, buy-in payments and negotiated one-off payments to local actors.

Supplies And Consumables $350K/yr

[#7, #12, #26] Medical consumables and ICU supplies (#7), replacement PPE/restraint consumables (#12), and general equipment consumables/field resupply allowance (#26).

Cover Story And Legal $350K/yr

[#16] Ongoing legal, diplomatic, PR and cover-story operations (payments, local agreements, legal fees).

Local Security And Liaisons $300K/yr

[#4] Program cost for hiring local guards, translators, fixers and cultural liaisons.

Amnestic Program $300K/yr

[#13] Program cost for procurement/administration of amnestic analogues and follow-up (training/records/legal).

Facilities Maintenance $200K/yr

[#1] Ongoing maintenance and utilities for hardened wing and life-support infrastructure.

Intelligence Ops $200K/yr

[#14] Ongoing targeted intelligence operations, satellite imagery, and HUMINT to locate instances/records.

Witness Protection $200K/yr

[#15] Travel, secure housing and support for interviewed/apprehended witnesses and relocation/amnesty programs.

Translation And Linguistics $200K/yr

[#23] Recurring translator and cultural-research team costs (Arabic, Nubian, Dinka, Nuer, Amharic).

Psychological Care $150K/yr

[#27] Trauma counseling and long-term mental health program for exposed personnel.

Cybersecurity And Opsec $100K/yr

[#20] Ongoing cybersecurity, secure comms and OPSEC monitoring and red-team testing.

Community Outreach $100K/yr

[#22] Community engagement and anthropological liaison programs to reduce mythos interference.

Equipment Replacement Allowance $100K/yr

[#26] Replacement allowance for lost/damaged field equipment, batteries, generators, spare parts, drugs and PPE.

Ethics Oversight $75K/yr

[#28] Internal review board and external consultant compliance costs.

Training Programs $50K/yr

[#21] Recurrent costs to run SOP training, simulations, cultural/language refresher courses.

Monitoring Maintenance $50K/yr

[#30] Ongoing upkeep and data costs for remote sensors, UAV monitoring and perimeter camera towers.

Evidence Storage Maintenance $30K/yr

[#19] Maintenance and archival digitization budget for long-term evidence storage and backups.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $11.5M/yr

81.5% probability / year

Normal year with steady containment operations, research and routine logistics; no major incidents.

no major breaches routine field activity scheduled research and maintenance

🚨 Minor Incident $12.5M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline

Localized event requiring an extraction, targeted decontamination, extra forensic/research deployments and additional medical support.

field encounter/partial breach small-area contamination limited casualty treatment

🚨 Major Breach $26.5M/yr

3.0% probability / year +$15.0M vs baseline

Significant breach or exposure event requiring large-scale extraction, extended medical/quarantine response, remediation and legal/PR costs.

multiple-instance activation regional contamination mass casualties requiring evacuation

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $111.5M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$100.0M vs baseline

Worst-case mass-casualty or environmental catastrophe requiring full contingency drawdown, multinational remediation, and long-term reconstruction.

wide-area ontological/biological event regional infrastructure collapse mass evacuation and long-term remediation

👥 Personnel 12 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	12	[#3] Twelve-person rapid-response tactical extraction team; headcount derived from staff_wages budget (12 operators at mid-range fully-loaded cost).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are low-confidence due to sparse, historical and highly variable incident data, wide cost ranges in analyst notes, unknown instance counts, and instability of operating regions which greatly affect logistics and contingency needs.

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