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SCP-6172 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-6172
Expected annual
$486.6M
One-time setup
$2.7B
Annual recurring
$445.0M
Personnel
590
Estimated capital expenditures are approximately $2.68 billion up front, driven by secure facility construction, contingency reserves, and specialized hardware; ongoing annual operations average roughly $445 million per year driven by staff wages, energy, contracts and opportunity costs.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.7B
Contingency Reserve $1.0B
[#17] Containment breach insurance & catastrophe reserve for worst-case responses, cleanup and international incidents.
Facilities $600.0M
[#1] Dedicated secure Site construction (underground, blast-/EMP-hardened, multi-ring containment, custom foundation and lockdown capability).
Backup Sites $300.0M
[#16] Backup site(s)/geographic dispersal (cold spares, mirrored facilities).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $210.0M
[#4, #5, #6, #14, #24, #30] Initial HPC and computational hardware, experimental apparatus (superconducting magnets, cryogenics, vacuum systems), in‑house fabrication tooling/cleanrooms, initial monitoring instrumentation, initial data archival vaults and initial artifact repository setup.
Pr Transition And Declassification $200.0M
[#25] PR, transition & declassification program (public rollout planning, liability management, international coordination).
Power Infrastructure $150.0M
[#2] Primary power generation and distribution build-out (on-site generation, UPS, 3× N+1 redundancy, switchgear).
Decommissioning Reserve $100.0M
[#26] Decommissioning, remediation and site closure budget for neutralizing residual ontic hazards.
Fail Safe Systems $50.0M
[#15] Redundant fail-safe & interdiction systems (ontic dampeners, scram triggers, local reality stabilizers).
Exotic Materials $20.0M
[#7] Acquisition/procurement of rare isotopes, stabilized thaumic reagents, artifact recovery/black-market procurement.
Medical Quarantine Build $20.0M
[#13] On-site medical/quarantine facilities build (isolation suites, BSL-4/psych containment) - primary build cost.
Security Procurement $10.0M
[#11] Initial armored vehicle and security equipment procurement.
Rapid Response Procurement $10.0M
[#18] One-time procurement for rapid response & field acquisition teams (vehicles, helicopters, portable dampeners).
Secure Transport Procurement $10.0M
[#19] Initial procurement for secure transport & logistics (armored convoys, shielded containers, secure airlift).
Legal Cover Initial Setup $2.0M
[#20] Initial legal/cover story setup costs (shell corporations, FOIA teams, disinformation infrastructure).
Equipment $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $445.0M/yr
Staff Wages $140.0M/yr
[#9, #10, #11] Core scientific staffing (ontokineticists, physicists, thaumaturgists) plus technical/maintenance and security wages; fully burdened salaries and hazard pay included.
Opportunity Costs $100.0M/yr
[#31] Estimated diversion of Foundation resources from other sites/programs (opportunity cost of prioritized allocation).
Energy Consumption $50.0M/yr
[#3] Ongoing electricity, fuel and cooling for continuous power and cryo/thermal management.
External Contracts $50.0M/yr
[#21] External contracts & sub-awards to universities, national labs and black-budget vendors.
Logistics And Transport $28.0M/yr
[#18, #19] Recurring rapid response operations and secure transport logistics (vehicle ops, airlift contracts, consumables and shield maintenance).
Long Term R&D $20.0M/yr
[#29] Long-lead contingency research into neutralization, reality stabilization and hazard mitigation.
Cover Story And Legal $10.0M/yr
[#20] Ongoing legal, cover story, and information operations (FOIA teams, disinformation budgets, embedded assets).
Morale And Retention $10.0M/yr
[#27] Psychological operations, hazard pay, bonuses and family support to retain critical personnel.
Diplomatic Operations $10.0M/yr
[#28] Contingent diplomatic & covert operations budget to manage cross-border incidents and international fallout.
Supplies And Consumables $5.0M/yr
[#8] Consumables: chemical reagents, superconducting wire replacements, cryogens, vacuum parts and ritual consumables.
Recovery And Longterm Care $5.0M/yr
[#22] Recovery, rehabilitation and long-term care for returned or exposed subjects.
Medical Operations $5.0M/yr
[#13] Ongoing on-site medical, psychological and quarantine operations (staffing, consumables, patient care).
Research And Monitoring $4.0M/yr
[#4, #14] Ongoing compute/HPC maintenance, monitoring instrumentation upkeep and routine experiment monitoring.
Artifact Repository Operations $3.0M/yr
[#30] Ongoing containment, cataloguing and operations for alternate-universe artifacts/contraband.
Counterintelligence $2.0M/yr
[#12] Ongoing background investigations, vetting and counterespionage to prevent leaks and infiltration.
Training Exercises $2.0M/yr
[#23] Training, drills, contingency exercises and red-team operations.
Data Archival Maintenance $1.0M/yr
[#24] Ongoing maintenance and media rotation for air-gapped archival storage.
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $445.0M/yr
90.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; all capital is in place and recurring costs cover steady-state operations.
no_breach planned_operations_only
🚨 Minor Incident $465.0M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$20.0M vs baseline
Localized containment incident or recoverable multiversal contamination requiring rapid response, short-term remediation and legal/PR activity.
localized_breach field_recovery_ops limited_remediation
🚨 Major Breach $1.4B/yr
1.5% probability / year +$1.0B vs baseline
Significant containment breach damaging infrastructure or causing cross-jurisdictional incidents requiring major remediation, temporary relocation and heavy legal/diplomatic costs.
site_breach infrastructure_damage international_exposure
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $5.4B/yr
0.5% probability / year +$5.0B vs baseline
Program-level catastrophe (cascade ontic failure, widespread contamination or loss of site) requiring major use of contingency reserves, decommissioning, international crisis management and potential program restart.
catastrophic_failure widespread_contamination international_crisis
👥 Personnel 590 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Ontokineticist / Theoretical Scientist 250 Primary scientific staff (ontokineticists, physicists, alchemists, computational scientists). Assumed fully-burdened cost ~ $350k/FTE/year; maps to [#9].
Engineer / Maintenance / Fabricator 100 Technical staff for cryogenics, vacuum systems, fabrication, IT and facility operations. Assumed fully-burdened cost ~ $150k/FTE/year; maps to [#10].
Security Officer / MTF Agent 200 Site security, perimeter and tactical response teams. Assumed fully-burdened cost ~ $150k/FTE/year (includes hazard pay); maps to [#11].
Administrative Staff 25 Administrative, legal liaison and cover-story support staff. Assumed fully-burdened cost ~ $100k/FTE/year; maps to [#20].
Medical Officer / Psychologist 10 On-site medical and psychological care staff for quarantine and long-term care. Assumed fully-burdened cost ~ $150k/FTE/year; maps to [#13, #22].
Site Director / Executive Staff 5 Program leadership and executive oversight. Assumed fully-burdened cost ~ $300k/FTE/year; maps to overall program oversight notes.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are low confidence due to extreme technical uncertainty, wide cost ranges in analyst notes, dependence on chosen technical path (low-energy computational vs high-energy experimental), and potential for unquantified anomalous effects; scenario probabilities are judgmental.
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