SCP-613
Euclid
~
medium confidence
SCP-613
Expected annual
$2.6M
One-time setup
$612K
Annual recurring
$2.5M
Personnel
18
Initial one-time setup is approximately $612,500 driven by containment suite buildouts, transport vehicles, and specialized equipment; annual recurring costs are approximately $2,529,250 driven primarily by staff salaries, security/containment operations, legal/cover efforts, and logistics/transport.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $612K
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $2.5M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$2.5M/yr
Normal year with routine operations, periodic recoveries, scheduled experiments, and no major exposures.
routine experiments
scheduled field recoveries
no major public exposure
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Minor Incident
$2.7M/yr
Local public appearance or small exposure requiring several urgent field deployments and increased legal/PR activity.
sporadic public discovery
small-scale retrievals
heightened legal/PR response
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Major Breach
$3.3M/yr
Significant public exposure or multiple simultaneous appearances requiring emergency nationwide/international operations, large legal action, and expanded containment.
widespread media exposure
multiple international recoveries
large-scale emergency operations
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Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up
$2.9M/yr
Discovery that requires rapid expansion of research capacity and additional containment suites/teams to study increased production or novel behaviors.
new reproducible property found
decision to scale experimental program
funding for rapid lab expansion
Personnel
18 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Principal Investigator | 1 | [#6] Lead research oversight (included in staff_wages). |
| Research Scientist | 2 | [#6] Scientific staff studying cognition, behavior, microbiology (included in staff_wages). |
| Lab Technician | 2 | [#6] Technical staff for experiments and sample handling (included in staff_wages). |
| Security Officer / Guard | 6 | [#7] Frontline containment/security personnel for 24/7 coverage (included in staff_wages). |
| Senior Containment Technician | 2 | [#7] Senior containment staff for supervising handling of animate anomalous objects (included in staff_wages). |
| Medical Officer | 2 | [#8] Medical staff for administering amnestics and monitoring exposures (included in staff_wages). |
| Ethics / Interviewer / Linguist / Psychologist | 3 | [#9] Personnel for interviews, counseling, and cognitive assessments (included in staff_wages). |
Confidence Notes
Many cost ranges were provided in analyst notes allowing median estimates, but uncertainty remains in the number of suites/vehicles deployed and frequency/severity of international incidents, producing moderate confidence.