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SCP-6100 Euclid ✓ high confidence
SCP-6100
Expected annual
$2.8M
One-time setup
$11.5M
Annual recurring
$2.8M
Personnel
5
Initial preservation and redundancy require modest capital for transmitters, archival media, and specialized receivers; recurring costs are dominated by personnel, covert influence/observatory liaison, and ongoing communications/spectrum costs. Total first-year outlay is driven by an optional long-term research endowment if funded.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $11.5M
Long Term Research Endowment $10.0M
[#18] Optional endowment to fund centuries-spanning research and capability development (midline $10M).
Equipment $1.0M
[#6, #4, #10, #1] Capital hardware: radio transmitters purchase (#6), secure servers/HSM setup (#4), dedicated receiver & antenna setup (#10), and archival media write/package (#1).
Emergency Contingency Fund Initial $200K
[#16] Initial liquid reserve for emergency migrations, transports, or unexpected payments.
Legal Structures One Time $100K
[#24] Formation/securitization of shell entities, trusts, and related legal setup for survivability.
Multi Jurisdictional Physical Escrow $75K
[#15] One-time cost for secure notarized physical packages and placement in multiple vaults/safe deposit boxes.
Public Cover Seeding $50K
[#14] One-time PR/literature seeding to create plausible alternative explanations.
Db Refactor Dev $40K
[#17] One-time engineering effort to add preservation hooks and tests for database refactors.
Sealed Instruction Sets $20K
[#19] Durable manuals, training curricula, and keyholder packages printing and packaging.
Documentation Creation One Time $20K
[#22] One-time creation of training documentation and succession planning materials.
Facilities $0
[] No dedicated construction or structural work identified in analyst notes.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
[] No laboratory buildout required per analyst notes.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.8M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $810K/yr
[#12, #13, #14, #24] Active takedown/legal DM capability (#12), covert influence/observatory liaison (#13), ongoing PR/cover campaigns (#14), and legal maintenance of shell entities (#24).
Staff Wages $780K/yr
[#5] 5 FTEs (analysts, supervisor, sysadmin) at $120k + 30% benefits, covering 24/7 monitoring, maintenance, and administration.
Organizational Overhead And Contingency $459K/yr
[#25] 20% contingency/administrative overhead applied to direct recurring costs as a budgeting margin.
Research And Monitoring $225K/yr
[#3, #10, #11, #17, #19, #21, #22] Digital redundancy & migration (#3), receiver maintenance (#10), automated web/social monitoring tooling (#11), DB refactor maintenance (#17), refresher training (#19), third-party audits (#21), and training/upkeep (#22).
Spectrum And Relay $200K/yr
[#8] Spectrum leases and satellite relay/uplink masking costs for coverage and deniability.
Facilities Maintenance $110K/yr
[#2, #4, #9, #23] Incremental archive hosting (Site-19 long-era racks/vault share) (#2), secure server ops/patching (#4), utilities for servers/transmitters (#9), and pro-rata site security allocation (#23).
Radio Scrambling Maintenance $100K/yr
[#7] O&M of scrambling transmitters, engineering visits, parts replacement, and frequency coordination.
Emergency Contingency Replenishment $50K/yr
[#16] Ongoing replenishment for the emergency contingency reserve.
Logistics And Transport $10K/yr
[#20] Physical courier/armored transfer costs for archive moves and audits.
Escrow Maintenance $10K/yr
[#15] Annual box fees and legal maintenance for multi-jurisdictional physical escrow.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
[] No discrete recurring consumables budget itemized separate from maintenance/operations.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.8M/yr
94.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine monitoring, maintenance, and covert activity continue as budgeted.
routine_operations no_public_exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $3.4M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$600K vs baseline
Localized operational failures or limited public reports requiring moderate emergency response, hardware replacements, and PR/legal surges.
transmitter_failure localized_public_reports archive_integrity_issue
🚨 Major Breach $6.3M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$3.5M vs baseline
Widespread public exposure or a high-profile observatory publication leading to major legal, PR, covert payments, and emergency migrations.
widespread_public_exposure observatory_publication litigation_or_policy_action
👥 Personnel 5 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Analyst 3 [#5] Primary monitoring of SCP-6100-A stream, keyword monitoring, and analysis; part of 24/7 coverage.
Supervisor / Lead Analyst 1 [#5] Oversees team, incident response coordination, and liaison to operations/legal.
Engineer / Maintenance (Systems Admin) 1 [#5, #17] Maintains servers, HSMs, receivers, handles migrations and refactor survival engineering.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide line-item estimates and midline values for each numbered item, enabling a high-confidence aggregation of one-time and recurring costs.
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