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SCP-5983 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5983
Expected annual
$5.6M
One-time setup
$5.6M
Annual recurring
$5.2M
Personnel
12
Initial setup requires approximately $5.56M one-time (land purchase, construction, sensors, vehicles, reserves) and recurring annual operations are roughly $5.19M/yr driven primarily by staff wages, covert field operations, intelligence monitoring, and contingency reserves.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.6M
Environmental Contingency Reserve $2.0M
[#11] One-time recommended environmental remediation/reserve fund.
Facilities $1.4M
[#1, #2, #3] Land acquisition, perimeter hardening, and site operations building (includes HVAC/physical hardening).
Insurance And Liability Reserve $1.0M
[#22] One-time reserve for insurance/legal contingency and public liability.
Equipment $770K
[#4, #6, #7, #9, #19, #21] Perimeter/sensor installation, patrol vehicles, drones/UAVs, compute hardware, archival vaults and artifact storage.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $100K
[#10] Forensics and yield-estimation equipment and initial lab setup.
Initial Legal And Permits $100K
[#13] Initial legal fees, permits, and negotiation costs for land/mineral rights.
Personnel Training And Clearance $100K
[#23] Initial background checks, training program setup, and clearance processing.
Energy Infrastructure $60K
[#24] Off-grid power installation (solar + batteries + generator).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.2M/yr
Staff Wages $1.4M/yr
[#5, #8, #15] Armed security staff, centralized monitoring/analysis team salaries, and NYC embedded liaison staff.
Contingency Escalation Fund $1.0M/yr
[#25] Annual audit and contingency escalation fund for unanticipated high-cost events and rapid scale-up.
Covert Field Ops $750K/yr
[#12] Covert interdiction, surveillance, travel, safehouses, informants, and coordination with authorities.
Intelligence Monitoring $600K/yr
[#17] SIGINT/HUMINT tasking, dark-web monitoring, subscriptions, and intelligence analysts/contractors.
Research And Monitoring $515K/yr
[#9, #10, #20] Secure data storage/licenses/imagery, forensics lab service fees, and containment research program grants.
Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr
[#13, #14] Ongoing government liaison/legal costs plus cover story/PR and deception budgets for Wyoming and NYC.
Incident Response And Medevac $200K/yr
[#18] Rapid-response team contracts, medevac standby, firefighting/support coordination.
Archive And Records Ops $115K/yr
[#19, #21] Secure archival operations, classified records storage, and artifact cataloging/preservation.
Oversight And Audits $100K/yr
[#16] Containment-level oversight, audits, and secure briefings.
Drone Operations $50K/yr
[#7] Drone pilot salaries, maintenance, and operations for aerial surveillance.
Training And Clearance $50K/yr
[#23] Ongoing training, clearance renewals, and specialized operational training upkeep.
Sensor Data And Comms $40K/yr
[#4] Ongoing data, communications, and telemetry fees for perimeter sensor array.
Logistics And Transport $30K/yr
[#6] Vehicle maintenance, fuel, and licensing for patrol vehicles/ATVs.
Environmental Monitoring $25K/yr
[#11] Baseline environmental sampling and monitoring (soil, water, wildlife).
Facilities Maintenance $10K/yr
[#24] Maintenance and fuel for energy infrastructure (solar/battery/generator) and minor site upkeep.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.2M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine monitoring, interdiction, and maintenance only.
no unauthorized detonations routine intelligence and operations
🚨 Minor Incident $6.7M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Small unauthorized detonation or localized accidental explosion requiring emergency response, limited remediation, increased covert operations, and legal handling.
unauthorized small-yield detonation localized environmental contamination increased media/legal attention
🚨 Major Breach $13.2M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$8.0M vs baseline
Large-yield detonation or public exposure that triggers extensive remediation, large settlements, national media/political scrutiny, and major operational scale-up.
large unauthorized detonation public exposure/political scrutiny multi-site or high-environmental-impact event
👥 Personnel 12 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#5] On-site armed security rotations to provide 24/7 coverage (assumed 4–8 guards; 6 used).
Research Scientist / Analyst 4 [#8] Centralized monitoring & analysis team ingesting sensor feeds and performing modeling (assumed 3–6 FTE; 4 used).
NYC Liaison / Embedded Staff 2 [#15] Embedded staff maintaining covert access to subway operational logs and liaison activities (assumed 1–3; 2 used).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes are detailed with itemized estimates, but several figures are mid-range assumptions and dependent on operational choices (level of covert activity, reserve sizing, and decision whether to permit testing). Uncertainty in probability of incidents and scale of potential legal/environmental liabilities lowers confidence.
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