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SCP-5910 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-5910
Expected annual
$3.9M
One-time setup
$5.9M
Annual recurring
$3.8M
Personnel
20
Estimated one-time startup costs are approximately $5.89M driven primarily by land acquisition, countermemetic R&D, and initial site buildout; ongoing annual costs are about $3.85M driven by MTF payroll, research, web operations, and legal/cover operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.9M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.5M
[#8] Countermemetic inoculation R&D, clinical staging, and production pipeline setup (lab buildout and research instrumentation).
Facilities $2.2M
[#1, #2, #3, #11] Land purchase (200 acres), initial site hardening, security compound construction, and evidence vault buildout one-time costs.
Equipment $650K
[#4, #5] Surveillance/detection systems setup and patrol/off-road vehicle purchases (SUVs, snow/ATV vehicles).
Web Crawler Development $350K
[#13] One-time development, red-team testing, and deployment of F1N.K web-crawling/remediation tooling.
Transportation Initial Campaign $125K
[#19] Initial travel/campaign to archives, studios, and collectors to locate physical media (one-time campaign).
Archives Acquisition One Time $85K
[#20] One-time purchases/restoration of rare production materials and media acquisitions.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.8M/yr
Staff Wages $1.7M/yr
[#6, #10, #14, #27, #30, #26] Salaries and benefits: MTF Epsilon-6 (12 agents), on-site medical staff, web-crawler operators, OSINT analysts, research scientist salaries, and an on-site/admin salary component.
Cover Story And Legal $625K/yr
[#16, #17, #23, #29] Legal retainers, public-record manipulation, covert asset seizure operations, insurance/taxes and small-claims/civil defense reserves.
Research And Monitoring $240K/yr
[#30] Non-salary long-term research program costs (lab supplies, experiments, monitoring), excluding researcher salaries included in staff_wages.
Crisis Response Reserve $200K/yr
[#25] Liquid contingency fund for emergency evacuations, payoffs, rapid legal/actionable costs following incidents.
Forensic And Investigative $150K/yr
[#12] Forensic response budget: field pathology, scene response, travel for investigators, and incident-level investigations.
Web Crawler Operation $150K/yr
[#14] Hosting, bandwidth, mirror sites, and non-operator opsec tooling costs for F1N.K (operator salaries moved to staff_wages).
Digital Disinformation $125K/yr
[#15] SEO/content seeding, paid ads, social media ops, and content generation to obscure filming location.
Surveillance Of Persons $125K/yr
[#18] OPSEC tails, phone/cyber monitoring, safehouse and travel costs for person-of-interest surveillance.
Administrative Overhead $120K/yr
[#26] HQ coordination, procurement/accounting chargebacks and non-salary administrative overhead apportioned to this project.
Facilities Maintenance $87K/yr
[#21, #22, #11] Snow/land maintenance, energy/utilities and small evidence-storage maintenance/catalogue upkeep.
Supplies And Consumables $87K/yr
[#5, #9, #10] Vehicle fuel/maintenance, countermemetic administration consumables and medical supplies/PPE.
Training And Exercises $55K/yr
[#7] Ongoing MTF training, countermemetic inoculation training refreshers, and simulated exercises.
Archives Acquisition Recurring $40K/yr
[#20] Recurring budget for acquiring/duplicating additional archival media and restoration work when ongoing searches require purchases.
Logistics And Transport $35K/yr
[#19] Ongoing transportation and travel for follow-up searches and archive visits.
Public Relations $30K/yr
[#24] Local community relations, small grants, informant payments, and sponsorships to manage local sentiment.
Surveillance Maintenance $20K/yr
[#4] Annual maintenance, calibration, and replacement for cameras/thermal units/mesh comms (recurring portion of surveillance systems).
Psychological Support $20K/yr
[#28] Counseling, debriefing, and rotation-related mental health support for exposed personnel.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.8M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine operations, scheduled research, and no major incidents beyond budgeted incident response.
no major incidents routine web takedowns scheduled research activity
🚨 Minor Incident $4.0M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Localized incident (e.g., single civillian visitation resulting in policing and forensic response) requiring extra investigative, legal, and PR expenditures.
civilian trespass with injury viral social media attention spike one or two incident-level forensic responses
🚨 Major Breach $5.0M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline
Significant public exposure or civilian casualty that forces large-scale emergency response, settlements, asset seizures, and accelerated R&D.
high-profile media exposure civilian death or large-scale breach legal/political investigation
👥 Personnel 20 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [@#6] 12 full-time agents to provide 24/7 coverage; salaries included in staff_wages.
Medical Officer 1 [@#10] On-site medic/nurse practitioner; salary included in staff_wages; supplies in supplies_and_consumables.
Research Scientist 3 [@#30] Research staff for long-term studies and countermemetic work; salaries included in staff_wages.
Media/OSINT Analyst 3 [@#27] Web and social monitoring analysts; salaries included in staff_wages (original note estimated 2–4 analysts).
Administrative Staff 1 [@#26] On-site admin/coordinator; salary included in staff_wages; additional HQ overhead in administrative_overhead.
📋 Confidence Notes
Detailed analyst notes provide good line-item ranges for infrastructure and operations, but large uncertainty remains around countermemetic R&D costs, caseload-driven legal/seizure spending, and the frequency/severity of public incidents.
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