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SCP-6039 Uncontained ~ medium confidence
SCP-6039
Expected annual
$7.8M
One-time setup
$2.9M
Annual recurring
$7.6M
Personnel
11
Initial one-time setup ~ $2.9M (facility buildout, lab kit, puppet room, servers, AI dev and a seed contingency); baseline recurring operations ~ $7.6M/year driven primarily by rapid-response operations, legal/PR/media suppression, contingency replenishment, and transport/logistics.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.9M
Facilities $1.0M
[#1] Secure containment / observation suite buildout (EM/optical shielding, secure doors, HVAC, CCTV, decon).
Contingency Initial Fund $1.0M
[#20] Initial contingency / crisis fund seed (recommended minimum reserve).
Equipment $398K
[#3, #4, #16, #22] Multi-spectral sensor array, secure on-site archival server hardware (itemized here as installed hardware), prototype capture gear and transport crate.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $200K
[#15] Laboratory instruments and assay equipment (microscopes, sequencers, spectrometers) for initial research setup.
Ai Dev $200K
[#21] One-time development/integration cost for AI-based social-media detection and analytics.
Puppet Room $105K
[#2] 'Puppet Room' / controlled-bait installation (animatronic/mannequin, scent generators, environmental simulation).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $7.6M/yr
Logistics And Transport $2.4M/yr
[#7, #18] Field rapid-response teams (salaries + vehicle leases/maintenance/fuel) and international retrieval/travel budget.
Cover Story And Legal $1.4M/yr
[#11, #12, #13] Media suppression/takedown unit (staff + retainer + per-takedown costs), legal counsel reteners and buyouts, and PR/cover-story generation campaigns.
Contingency Replenishment $1.0M/yr
[#20] Annual replenishment allocation for the contingency / legal-PR crisis fund to ensure immediate availability in a major leak or public crisis.
Staff Wages $990K/yr
[#6, #17, #24, #25] Research staffing and affiliated specialists (senior researchers, child psychologist, technicians), child-safety liaison officers, forensic analysts, and small administrative staff (portion of misc overhead).
Research And Monitoring $668K/yr
[#5, #14, #19, #21, #24] Continuous data storage/bandwidth, memetic countermeasure research, long-term monitoring of exposed individuals, AI maintenance/compute, and part of forensic compute/analysis.
Supplies And Consumables $600K/yr
[#8, #10, #15] Amnestic drug stockpile and field medical consumables, evidence/scene-cleanup consumables and replacement items per incident, and laboratory consumables service contracts.
Civilian Compensation $400K/yr
[#9] Compensation, medical follow-up, counseling and relocation costs for affected civilians (per-incident payouts and multi-year follow-up).
Training Exercises $75K/yr
[#23] Regular drills and cross-training for operations, medical/amnestic teams, and hospital/school liaisons.
Misc Overhead $75K/yr
[#25] Remaining miscellaneous overhead (secure communications, admin, small office costs) after split into facilities/staff components.
Facilities Maintenance $50K/yr
[#1, #25] Ongoing maintenance, HVAC/security upkeep, and utilities for containment/observation suites (split of miscellaneous facility costs).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $7.6M/yr
73.0% probability / year
Normal year with 50 incidents, regular operations, and no major public leaks or escalations.
~50 reported manifestations routine takedowns and field deployments
🚨 Minor Incident $7.9M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
Localized amplification or several concurrent incidents requiring extra takedowns, overtime, and small additional legal fees.
viral regional clip multiple simultaneous incidents in one region
🚨 Major Breach $10.6M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
A widely-circulated viral leak or coordinated media exposure requiring large-scale legal battles, buyouts, mass PR, and emergency operations.
widely-shared viral video media investigation or whistleblower campaign
🚨 Research Scale Up $9.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Management approves aggressive capture-and-study program, increasing operations/R&D spending for the year.
decision to attempt physical capture scale-up of prototype deployment and R&D hiring
👥 Personnel 11 total
Role Count Notes
Senior Researcher 2 [#6] Senior researchers dedicated to SCP-6039 investigations.
Cognitive/Child Psychologist 1 [#6] Specialist for child-facing behavioral assessment and study design.
Lab Technician 2 [#6] Technical staff for instruments, assays, and sample handling.
Forensic Analyst / Data Scientist 2 [#24] Analysts for continuous profiling, footage analysis, and predictive modeling.
Child-safety Liaison / Hospital Liaison 2 [#17] Covert liaisons to hospitals, schools, and pediatric facilities for reporting and civilian interference mitigation.
Administrative Staff 2 [#25] Small office/admin support included in miscellaneous overhead.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on analyst-provided ranges and a stated incident baseline (50/year); many operational costs (legal buyouts, contingency use, incident frequency) are highly variable and scenario-dependent, yielding moderate confidence rather than high.
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