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SCP-5902 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5902
Expected annual
$13.5M
One-time setup
$603.0M
Annual recurring
$9.9M
Personnel
25
One-time capital is dominated by large contingency/buyout reserves; baseline annual costs (~$9.9M/yr) are driven by staff wages (intelligence + task force), legal/PR/cover operations, and covert payments/operational logistics.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $603.0M
Containment Escalation Reserve $500.0M
[#20] Strategic reserve for mass-infection escalation (program-level allocation).
Corporate Buyout Fund $100.0M
[#7] Initial discretionary buyout fund to handle small-to-mid transactions (recommended program-level allocation).
Equipment $1.2M
[#3, #1, #17, #13, #19] Tactical kit-out, initial workstations, fleet purchase, surveillance installs, forgery/toolchain hardware.
Facilities $550K
[#10, #23] Facility/structural work: shaft construction and minor infrastructure installs.
Central Analytics Development $500K
[#13] Central analytics/platform development for anomaly detection and NLP.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $350K
[#5] Specialized software/secure lab and research setup costs.
Training Development $200K
[#4] Development and rollout of training, LMS and psychological screening.
Front Company Setup $100K
[#6] Initial front-company legal/accounting setup (representative single-company budget).
Legal Regulatory Initiative One Time $100K
[#9] One-time covert legal/regulatory insertion per-jurisdiction (representative allocation).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $9.9M/yr
Staff Wages $4.2M/yr
[#1, #2, #22] Intelligence analysts/field agents, Distributed Task Force operators (retainers/salaries), compliance officers.
Legal Defense Retainer $1.0M/yr
[#15] Retainer/contingency fund for legal defense and expert witnesses.
Covert Payments Slush Fund $1.0M/yr
[#16] Discretionary covert payments/bribery/neutralization budget for global operations.
Research And Monitoring $800K/yr
[#5, #13] Ongoing social-science/epidemiology research, compute resources, monitoring program operations.
Admin Overhead $400K/yr
[#24] Program manager, procurement, accounting and administrative support costs.
Hazardous Disposal And Forensics $360K/yr
[#12] Termination/disposal incidents and forensics processing (scales with monthly shaft terminations).
Surveillance Monitoring And Cloud $300K/yr
[#13] Ongoing per-site monitoring/cloud compute, storage and alerting for NLP analytics.
Supplies And Consumables $250K/yr
[#3, #11, #12] PPE, ammunition resupply, monthly shaft tools and consumables.
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#2] Per-deployment travel/logistics and task-force deployment readiness (baseline cadence).
M And A Team And Hr Costs $200K/yr
[#8] Per-acquisition advisory/legal/HR integration averages (baseline expected annual spend).
Covert Pr And Settlements $200K/yr
[#14] Media control, reputation management, minor settlements and NDAs (baseline annual allocation).
Containment Loss Mitigation $200K/yr
[#21] Indemnities/compensation for disrupted clients/markets (baseline annual allocation).
Psychological Care $150K/yr
[#18] Counseling, debriefs, resilience training for operators.
Facilities Maintenance $100K/yr
[#10, #23] Structural inspections, covert site maintenance, minor facility upkeep.
Tactical Maintenance And Ammo $100K/yr
[#3] Annual maintenance, re-supply of tactical equipment and armory upkeep.
Fleet Operation $100K/yr
[#17] Fuel, maintenance and operation of secure transport/logistics fleet.
Shaft Maintenance $96K/yr
[#11] Monthly inspection/termination technician visits and basic maintenance (program-level for representative 20 shafts).
Forgery Maintenance $60K/yr
[#19] Annual maintenance of forgery toolchains, secure servers, and per-case documentation budgets.
Training Refreshers $55K/yr
[#4] Annual refresher courses, psych testing and scenario exercises.
Covert Legal Campaigns $50K/yr
[#9] Ongoing covert legal/regulatory influence budgets and low-level jurisdictional work.
Front Company Maintenance $30K/yr
[#6] Annual maintenance for established front companies (payroll, filings, accounting).
Compliance Audit Travel $30K/yr
[#22] Audit travel and field verification costs for compliance officers.
Minor Infrastructure Utilities $25K/yr
[#23] Utilities/UPS/backup power and site minor maintenance.
Cover Story And Legal $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $9.9M/yr
64.5% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major escalations; routine inspections, monitoring, and occasional small deployments.
no major outbreaks regular monthly shaft maintenance routine intel/TF deployments
🚨 Minor Incident $10.4M/yr
30.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized infection or exposure requiring extra deployments, PR/settlement costs, and small buyouts or advisory fees.
local 5902-A cluster media leak requiring PR and settlements one or two additional deployments
🚨 Major Breach $29.9M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$20.0M vs baseline
Significant infection of a mid-sized organization requiring major acquisition or extended containment operations.
institutional takeover by 5902-A large-scale legal exposure multi-week containment/acquisition
🚨 Containment Escalation $509.9M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$500.0M vs baseline
Widespread or strategic infection requiring deployment of the containment escalation reserve and large-scale interventions.
multi-site simultaneous infections failure of normal buyout/mitigation options need to expend strategic reserve
👥 Personnel 25 total
Role Count Notes
Investigative Analyst / Field Agent 10 [#1] Continuous monitoring, analysts and field investigators (program midpoint estimate).
Distributed Task Force Operator / MTF Agent 12 [#2] Covert tactical/corporate-infiltration team operators (retainer/contractor model).
Compliance Officer 3 [#22] Containment compliance officers performing audits and inspections.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates derive from analyst-provided ranges and reasonable program-level assumptions; recurring personnel and covert-operation costs are relatively well-bounded but buyout and escalation reserves are highly uncertain, lowering overall confidence.
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