SCP-5879 — SCP-5879 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5879 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-5879

Expected annual

$1.9M

One-time setup

$4.6M

Annual recurring

$1.9M

Personnel

One-time capital and contingency (archives, sensors, vehicles, MTF and containment escalation) drive upfront costs (~$4.6M). Annual operating costs are dominated by staff, emergency reserves, legal/cover, and administrative overhead (~$1.83M/year).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.6M

Facilities $3.5M

[#2, #23, #26] Secure physical archive fit-out (#2), optional one-time land purchase (#23), and large-scale containment escalation capital/reserve (#26).

Equipment $862K

[#6, #7, #9, #11, #14, #20] MTF initial equipment (#6), MTF procurement including vehicles and containment hardware (#7), sensor network installation (#9), environmental monitoring equipment (#11), secure evidence containers (#14), and initial secure IT/crypto setup hardware (#20).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $150K

[#18] Laboratory research bench space/setup and basic analytical access at Site-37 or partner lab.

Archives Digitization $88K

[#1] Consolidation and digitization of historical records (scanning, OCR, metadata, secure ingestion).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.9M/yr

Emergency Fund Reserve $300K/yr

[#15] On-call emergency containment / incident response reserve kept available annually.

Compensation Medical Budget $275K/yr

[#17] Compensation, medical care, amnestic treatment and long-term care budget for affected civilians (plan budget midpoint).

Administrative Overhead $275K/yr

[#25] Procurement, accounting, security clearances, and general program overhead (10–25% of recurring budget; midpoint used).

Staff Wages $240K/yr

[#4] Full-time archival/research staff (2–4 FTE; midpoint used) including benefits.

Logistics And Transport $160K/yr

[#5, #13] Field operations team wages and support (techs and local agents) (#5) plus short-notice field deployment travel and per-diem (#13).

Mtf Training Recurring $100K/yr

[#6] Annual MTF training, readiness refresh and recurring equipment upkeep.

Mtf Recurring Maintenance $100K/yr

[#8] MTF recurring maintenance: ammo, spare parts, vehicle service, recurring training, medical supplies.

Supplies And Consumables $91K/yr

[#12, #18, #27] Environmental consumables/calibration (#12), laboratory consumables/contracted tests (#18 recurring), and miscellaneous small reserve (#27).

Facilities Maintenance $85K/yr

[#22] Insurance-like depreciation, asset replacement and facility upkeep (5–15% of capital stock; midpoint used).

Cover Story And Legal $60K/yr

[#16] Legal retainer, cover-story budgets, and local liaison baseline retainer costs.

Legal Incident Contingency $50K/yr

[#16] Per-incident legal/PR funds (incident-specific payouts averaged into annual contingency).

Public Relations $42K/yr

[#24] PR and misinformation mitigation, FOIA handling, and monitoring social networks.

Research And Monitoring $26K/yr

[#3, #10] Ongoing digital archival storage/backups (#3) and sensor/network operations/maintenance (#10).

Sensor Operations $18K/yr

[#10] Sensor network data service fees, periodic battery replacement, calibration and repairs (detailed under research_and_monitoring as well).

Secure It Recurring $15K/yr

[#19, #21] Ongoing secure communications, hosting, VPNs and IT security operations.

Land Access Leases $13K/yr

[#23] Ongoing land access costs (nominal lease/easement for parcels on the moor).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.9M/yr

82.5% probability / year

Normal year with passive archival posture and routine monitoring; no major incidents.

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🚨 Minor Incident $2.0M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$132K vs baseline

Localized reactivation or small incident requiring targeted response, medical care, limited amnestics and legal handling.

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🚨 Major Incident $2.8M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$982K vs baseline

Significant reactivation or wildfire requiring MTF deployment, temporary containment facilities, large legal settlements and asset replacement.

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🚨 Catastrophic Breach $5.3M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$3.5M vs baseline

Severe, sustained anomalous activity requiring full containment escalation and major capital expenditures plus long-term remediation.

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👥 Personnel 6 total

Role	Count	Notes
Archivist / Historian / Analyst	3	[#4] Core archival and research staff (2–4 FTE; midpoint used) covered by staff_wages.
Field Technician / Field Agent	3	[#5] Field ops technicians/agents (2–3 techs; midpoint used) covered by recurring field operations budget.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates combine a wide variety of ranges and incident-driven contingencies; many items are intentionally held as discretionary reserves or per-incident allocations, producing high volatility and limited precision.

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