SCP-6288
Unknown
~
medium confidence
SCP-6288
Expected annual
$11.3M
One-time setup
$172.5M
Annual recurring
$11.1M
Personnel
61
Initial capital expenditures are dominated by lab build-out and Bio Site enclosure construction; annual operating costs are driven by staff wages, research operations, and emergency/fire-prevention retainers.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $172.5M
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $11.1M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$11.1M/yr
Normal uneventful year: steady operations, routine monitoring, and standard maintenance/ops.
no major incidents
regular research cadence
routine visitor traffic
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Minor Incident
$11.3M/yr
Localized exposure or small public incident requiring targeted amnestics, overtime, short closures and PR response.
single public exposure
viral social-media attention
small containment breach
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Major Breach
$17.4M/yr
Large-scale breach/wildfire or mass-exposure requiring contracted firefighting, mass amnestic operations, emergency relocations and legal response.
wildfire impacting Area-6288
mass civilian exposure
structural damage to enclosures
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Political Exposure
$12.1M/yr
Sustained legal/media exposure demanding extended legal defense, settlements, and enhanced cover-story spending.
leak or investigative reporting
local political/legal action
evidence of cover-story fabrication
Personnel
61 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Security Officer / MTF Agent | 27 | Includes Outposts Central/South continuous staffing and undercover Task Force embedded agents (mapped to [#1, #3]). |
| Research Scientist | 10 | Botanists, ecologists, memeticists and lab scientists (mapped to [#18]). |
| Visitor Center Staff | 6 | Public-facing decoy staff and maintenance (mapped to [#4]). |
| Engineer / Maintenance | 3 | Facilities, HVAC, power and enclosure maintenance personnel (mapped to [#5, #7, #10, #11]). |
| Administrative Staff | 3 | HR, covert payroll, compliance and program admin (mapped to [#28]). |
| Medical Officer | 2 | On-call medical support for exposures and amnestic administrations (mapped to [#16]). |
| Analyst / Data Review | 4 | CCTV/video/audio transcription and long-term data curation (mapped to [#8, #21]). |
| Animal Care / Husbandry | 2 | Fauna husbandry for Bio Site enclosures (mapped to [#20]). |
| Reserve / On-call staff | 3 | Seasonal/on-call staff for Outpost North activations and incident response (mapped to [#2]). |
| Site Director / Executive Staff | 1 | Program/site leadership and liaison responsibilities. |
Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges enabling a reasoned mid-range estimate, but memetic hazard uncertainty, wildfire risk, and strategic policy choices (relocation vs containment) produce substantial variance; hence medium confidence.