SCP-5808 — SCP-5808 | Cost Breakdown

Read on SCP Wiki ↗

SCP-5808 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-5808

Expected annual

$25.5M

One-time setup

$1.1B

Annual recurring

$13.0M

Personnel

One-time startup and contingency costs are dominated by potential space-mission and planetary-defense exposures, producing a high one-time estimate (~$1.124B); recurring annual operations are modest by comparison (~$13M/yr), driven primarily by staff wages, agency coordination, and emergency-retainer costs.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.1B

Planetary Defense Escalation Reserve $1.0B

[#25] One-time catastrophic/reserve planning for planetary-defense scale responses (1B+); speculative but included as worst-case financial exposure.

Space Mission Lander $75.0M

[#7] One-time contingency for a small lander/rover mission if surface interaction becomes necessary; mid-range commercial lander estimate.

Space Mission Orbiter $25.0M

[#6] One-time cost to fund a small piggyback/minimal lunar orbiter or task existing national assets; selected mid-range piggyback estimate.

Emergency Response Capital $10.0M

[#13] One-time portion of emergency response capability (pay-on-call retainer or minimal standby contracting); lower-end capital/retainer to enable rapid response contracting.

Contingency Reserve $10.0M

[#22] Contingency reserve (10–50% suggested); one-time reserve allocation for unpredictable escalation.

Equipment $1.6M

[#5, #10, #12] One-time procurement of ground remote-sensing hardware, communications/ground-station hardware, and specialized sensors/instrumentation (telescopes/spectrometers, comms, magnetometers/radiation detectors).

Facilities $1.0M

[#1] Hardened, medically equipped secure containment suite with EM shielding, life-support, CCTV and isolation/experiment room; estimated mid-range retrofit/bespoke build-out.

One Time Legal And Pr Initial $500K

[#9] Initial heavy legal/PR expenditures to craft/establish cover narratives and legal retainer during setup.

Decommissioning $500K

[#21] Planned end-of-life facility closure, secure data destruction/archival and hazardous disposal.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $400K

[#11] Initial secure compute/storage/HPC and lab infrastructure setup for high-resolution lunar imagery and physiological data handling.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $13.0M/yr

Coordination And Partnerships $3.0M/yr

[#8] Retainers and classified contracting for cooperation with space agencies and federal partners; secondments and diplomatic/contract costs.

Staff Wages $2.8M/yr

[#2, #3, #4, #17] Salaries and benefits for 24/7 security, on-site medical staff (physician/nurses/psych), research team salaries and administrative/support staff.

Emergency Response Retainer $2.0M/yr

[#13] Annual retainer/pay-on-call fees for rapid-deploy launch providers, intercept capabilities, or contracted emergency mission readiness.

Cover Story And Legal $1.2M/yr

[#9] Ongoing legal counsel, PR/cover-story maintenance, leak monitoring and liability management.

Contingency Reserve Drawdown $1.0M/yr

[#22] Annual drawdown/usage of contingency reserve for unplanned escalations or rapid-response spending.

Research And Monitoring $600K/yr

[#5, #11, #24] Ongoing ground-observatory operations, baseline modeling/simulation effort, data analysis projects and minor campaign activity.

Insurance And Liability $500K/yr

[#16] Commercial insurance or allocated liability funding; may be partially absorbed as classified contingency if commercial coverage unavailable.

Communications And Groundstation Ops $400K/yr

[#10] Bandwidth, leased ground-station/telemetry time, SATCOM and redundancy for classified data transfer.

Logistics And Transport $200K/yr

[#14] Personnel travel to observatories/missions, secure courier/sample shipping, vehicle fleet and fuel for site support.

Data Storage And Compute Ops $200K/yr

[#11] Cloud/HPC operations, secure petabyte-grade storage operations, backups and classified handling costs.

Modeling Campaign Reserve $200K/yr

[#24] Budgeted per-campaign reserve averaged annualized for large-scale HPC modeling/simulation campaigns.

Facilities Maintenance $150K/yr

[#1, #20] Ongoing site maintenance, HVAC/filtration upkeep, generator/backup maintenance and routine facility repairs.

Sensors Maintenance $150K/yr

[#12] Calibration, maintenance, and spare parts for specialized sensors (magnetometers, photometers, radiation detectors).

Dependents Monitoring And Cover $150K/yr

[#18] Long-term support, relocation, identity management and psychological support for subject's dependents to maintain cover.

Training And Drills $150K/yr

[#15] Regular containment drills, OPSEC training, vetting and clearance renewals.

Supplies And Consumables $100K/yr

[#20] Power, water, medical consumables, PPE, batteries, routine consumables for containment site.

Public Safety Notifications $100K/yr

[#23] Baseline program funding for coordination with civil authorities and international notification planning (event-driven costs handled separately).

Ethics And Compliance $75K/yr

[#19] Internal/external ethics oversight, review board fees, compliance monitoring.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $13.0M/yr

87.9% probability / year

Normal operational year with no major incidents; ongoing monitoring, staff costs and routine operations only.

routine_monitoring no_incidents normal_staff_operations

🚨 Minor Incident $18.0M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

Localized incident (injury to subject, instrument damage, or a civilian sighting) requiring emergency medical care, PR/legal response and short-term additional observation.

localized_injury_to_subject instrument_damage civilian_observation_leak

🚨 Major Breach $113.0M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$100.0M vs baseline

Significant containment breach or need to intervene on SCP-5808-2 requiring space mission tasking or urgent mitigation and major medical response.

major_containment_breach requirement_for_orbiter_or_lander severe_medical_harm_to_subject

🚨 Planetary Defense Escalation $10.0B/yr

0.1% probability / year +$10.0B vs baseline

Catastrophic escalation where SCP-5808-2 presents existential or planetary risk, triggering national/global defense-level response.

direct_impact_threat global_infrastructure_risk apocalyptic_manifestation

👥 Personnel 28 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	8	[#2] Two shifts of armed/cleared guards plus on-site response team; count includes response capability.
Research Scientist	8	[#4] Astrophysics/planetary science/neurobiology team (postdocs, analysts) involved in ongoing study.
Medical Officer	4	[#3] Onsite physician(s), nurses and psychiatric support for monitoring and emergency care.
Administrative Staff	4	[#17] HR, payroll, procurement, facility management and clearance processing support staff.
Engineer / Maintenance	2	[#1, #11] Facility and equipment maintenance, HVAC and systems upkeep for containment and compute infrastructure.
Data / IT Specialist	2	[#11] Secure storage, HPC operations, telemetry and classified data handling specialists.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are low-confidence due to large uncertainties in the SCP's behavior, the potential need for space missions, and highly variable emergency/defense costs; many items are speculative and range across orders of magnitude.

← SCP-5807 ↑ All SCPs SCP-5809 →