SCP-5816
Unknown
~
medium confidence
SCP-5816
Expected annual
$2.4M
One-time setup
$1.9M
Annual recurring
$2.4M
Personnel
10
One-time capital and fit-out (~$1.92M) driven by site modification, specialized equipment, and a seeded liability reserve; ongoing annual costs (~$2.38M/yr) driven primarily by staff wages, sustained forensic/memetic research, legal/PR/liability allocations, and medical/incident readiness.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $1.9M
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $2.4M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$2.4M/yr
Normal year with no major containment incidents; ongoing operations, research, and readiness maintained.
no breach
routine maintenance
ongoing research
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Minor Incident
$2.6M/yr
Localized exposure or discovery of an unauthorized copy requiring medical treatment, evidence seizure, and localized PR/legal response.
single unauthorized copy leak
limited staff/public exposures
small-scale legal/medical response
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Major Breach
$3.4M/yr
Large-scale public exposure or containment breach triggering widespread medical response, major legal action, and extensive remediation (possible incineration/large-scale destruction and large payouts).
public leak of multiple copies
mass exposures leading to hospitalizations/suicides
major litigation and PR crisis
Personnel
10 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Security Officer / MTF Agent | 4 | [#5] Level-2 guards for 24/7 supervision (rotating shifts). |
| Security Supervisor / On-call Level-3 | 1 | [#5] Senior on-call supervision for incidents. |
| Research Scientist (Memetics) | 3 | [#6, #21] Full-time memetics research staff (mechanism studies, experiment oversight). |
| Conservator / Archivist | 1 | [#3, #6] Professional conservator for paper preservation and safe handling. |
| Medical Officer (Psychiatrist/Psychologist) | 1 | [#6, #11, #12] Medical/psychiatric support for experiments and incident response (part-time but counted as 1 FTE equivalence). |
Confidence Notes
Estimates use midpoints of analyst-provided ranges where ranges were given; many costs (liability reserves, research program scale, and legal contingencies) are uncertain and scenario frequencies are expert judgment rather than empirical rates.