SCP-5947 — SCP-5947 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5947 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-5947

Expected annual

$6.1M

One-time setup

$9.0M

Annual recurring

$6.0M

Personnel

One-time capital of approximately $9.0M driven by containment construction, scalable emergency bunkers and contingency reserves; annual operating costs ~ $6.05M/yr driven by personnel, MTF readiness, expansion reserve and legal/cover-up obligations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $9.0M

Facilities $3.8M

[#1, #5, #6, #14, #17, #23] Reinforced Chamber-02 upgrades, burial infrastructure capital, engineered burial-vault expansion, emergency scalable containment bunkers planning (partial construction/activation reserve not included here), sealing/site upgrades, and one-time land purchase estimate.

Contingency Reserve $2.8M

[#22] One-time contingency/reserve fund earmarked for emergency expansion, rapid bunker construction, or large-scale containment purchases.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.5M

[#7, #13, #21, #28] Project Irides laboratory equipment and BSL-capable instruments, SOP documentation/training materials, and neutralization/contingency research startup equipment.

Equipment $902K

[#2, #3, #7, #15, #18, #25] Secure vault construction hardware, surveillance hardware, foundry equipment and tooling, specialized handling robotics/manipulators, HVAC upgrade hardware, and secure IT/archive servers.

Bullion Reserve $42K

[#8] Contingency bullion purchase to ensure initial decoy and replacement reserves (market dependent).

Initial Decoy Silver Stock $29K

[#7] Initial 88-bowl replacement silver stock (if bullion or recovered silver unavailable) including materials and basic processing.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.0M/yr

Staff Wages $1.9M/yr

[#12, #13, #20] Annual payroll for site personnel (security 24/7 shifts, research staff, technicians, medical on-call team and benefits). Includes on-call surgical coverage and core program salaries.

Mtf Readiness $1.1M/yr

[#10] Dedicated rapid-response team readiness overhead (vehicles, on-call staffing, perishables, equipment) to recover cadavers and silverware near breach sites.

Inflation Buffer $1.0M/yr

[#29] Market volatility and inflation buffer (~20% of recurring operating subtotal before buffer) to cover precious metal and contractor rate fluctuations.

Expansion Reserve $600K/yr

[#14] Annual reserve funding to enable rapid capacity expansion for specimen proliferation scenarios.

Cover Story And Legal $375K/yr

[#19] Retainer and ongoing legal/PR/cover-up budget including liaison and pre-emptive work to manage civilian discoveries.

Neutralization Research Annual $200K/yr

[#28] Recurring budget for outreach, collaborative R&D and experiments to attempt neutralization or containment improvements.

Insurance And Oversight $175K/yr

[#24] Internal audits, classified oversight briefings and insurance/indemnity administrative costs.

Public Relations $135K/yr

[#23] Ongoing secret payments, witness compensation, community mitigation and PR operations.

Research And Monitoring $100K/yr

[#13] Project Irides recurring consumables, assay costs and controlled-study budgets (does not double-count researcher salaries in staff_wages).

Drills And Redteam $85K/yr

[#22] Annual red team/containment failure simulation exercises and associated operational costs.

Surgical Extraction Costs $65K/yr

[#12] Per-extraction medical costs for surgical retrieval and post-op care aggregated to expected annual load (in addition to surgical team salaries included in staff_wages).

Vault Maintenance $50K/yr

[#2] Annual maintenance and upkeep for high-density specimen vaults / indestructible-object lockers.

Training $35K/yr

[#21] Ongoing training, SOP refreshers and drills for forced ingestion, foundry safety and emergency responses.

Robotics Maintenance $30K/yr

[#15] Maintenance and service contracts for specialized handling robotics and remote manipulators.

Hazard Waste Contracts $30K/yr

[#16] Hazardous waste contracts, autoclave/incineration capability and disposal logistics.

Replacement Reimbursements $28K/yr

[#27] Annual reserve for reimbursing owners of civilian silverware or purchasing replacements after melt-downs.

Logistics And Transport $18K/yr

[#4] Monthly D‑Class operations: transport, guards, medical pre-checks, sedatives and escorts.

Burial Operations $17K/yr

[#5] Annual recurring termination and interment costs for failed D‑Class (12/mo baseline terminations estimated).

Metalworking Labor $15K/yr

[#9] Overtime and emergency technician labor to process recovered silverware after MTF recoveries (per-recovery labor budget).

Forensic Recovery $15K/yr

[#11] Field forensic evidence processing, decontamination and safe transport costs (per-recovery budget aggregated annually).

Energy And Hvac $15K/yr

[#18] Increased power/HVAC/filtration costs to maintain negative pressure and climate control for Chamber-02 and vaults.

Surveillance Monitoring $14K/yr

[#3] Monitoring, storage and maintenance for redundant CCTV, tamper sensors and environmental sensors in Chamber 02.

Burial Monitoring $12K/yr

[#6] Geotechnical and groundwater monitoring, methane/odor control and ventilation for subterranean interment area.

Records Maintenance $12K/yr

[#25] IT maintenance and classified archival upkeep for ingestion logs, decoy inventories and chain-of-custody records.

Supplies And Consumables $9K/yr

[#26] Consumables including sugar for decoys, restraints, disposables, flux and PPE.

Pest Control $6K/yr

[#17] Pest control contracts and sealed storage maintenance for decoys and food products.

Facilities Maintenance $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.0M/yr

91.0% probability / year

Normal year with scheduled monthly operations, maintenance, research activity and readiness posture; no major public discovery or large-scale containment failures.

monthly D-Class operations routine maintenance regular MTF readiness

🚨 Minor Incident $6.1M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$72K vs baseline

Localized discovery or small breach requiring a single MTF deployment, forensic recovery, foundry processing and limited legal/PR response.

single cadaver discovery near Site-90 one MTF deployment + forensic recovery small legal/PR response

🚨 Major Breach $9.0M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline

Significant uncontrolled exposure or multiple cadavers discovered, requiring multiple deployments, emergency containment expansion, large-scale forensics and major legal/PR/compensation costs.

multiple public discoveries replication escape requiring bunker activation major multi-agency recovery operations

👥 Personnel 25 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	12	[#20] 24/7 multi-shift security coverage for Chamber-02 and vaults; personnel costs included in staff_wages.
Research Scientist	4	[#13, #20] Project Irides core research staff; salaries counted in staff_wages.
Technician / Metalsmith	4	[#7, #9, #20] Foundry and metalworking technicians for decoy production and emergency recasting; overtime captured in metalworking_labor.
Medical Officer	2	[#12, #20] Medical/surgical staff for monitoring and extraction; on-call staffing included in staff_wages, procedures in surgical_extraction_costs.
Administrative Staff	2	[#19, #25] Administrative and records staff for cover stories, documentation and chain-of-custody management.
Site Director / Executive Staff	1	[#13, #20] Program oversight and executive liaison; included in staff_wages.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide extensive line-item ranges, allowing mid-range estimates, but large uncertainty remains due to market volatility, frequency of recovery events, and the anomalous replication risk; hence medium confidence.

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