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
Contingency Relocation Or Eradication $150.0M
[#27] Contingent multi-million to multi-hundred-million relocation/eradication campaign; provided as a planning contingency (mid-range pick within $50M–$500M+).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $12.0M
[#12] High-containment biohazard / memetic-safe laboratory build-out and instrumentation (BSL‑3-equivalent memetic protections) including specialized PPE and facility modifications.
Facilities $8.2M
[#4, #5, #11, #15, #17, #19, #23, #24, #26, #29, #30] One-time build-out and structural work: visitor center build-out, three remote outposts construction, two large Bio Site enclosures, emergency cache/stash, initial legal/setup fees, ULT freezers, secure waste-processing equipment, climate/substrate engineering, seed-bank build-out, initial training site buildouts, and initial nonlethal procurement. Estimates are mid-range picks from provided ranges per line item.
Equipment $2.3M
[#6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #13, #16] Vehicles, remote power and communications install, CCTV/storage infrastructure, decontamination booths, HVAC/HEPA installs (non-lab portion), translocation/transport costs for specimens, and initial amnestic stockpile/equipment. Figures are mid-range consolidated estimates from the analyst notes.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $11.1M/yr
Staff Wages $5.0M/yr
[#1, #2, #3, #18] Permanent outpost/watchmen payroll, on-call/reserve staffing, undercover Task Force roster funding, and research scientist salaries (loaded figures; includes benefits and covert-pay premiums).
Research And Monitoring $2.0M/yr
[#8, #12, #18, #21] CCTV/data analysts and storage, laboratory operational budget (consumables, maintenance, ops for memetic-safe lab), research grants/consumables beyond salaries, and long-term ecological monitoring/data analysis staffing and storage.
Administrative Overhead $900K/yr
[#28] Central admin, HR, covert payroll processing, internal audit, and compliance (estimated at ~10–20% of operational payroll/program expenditures; mid-range estimate used).
Fire Prevention And Suppression $600K/yr
[#14] In-situ ecological management and fire-prevention crews, fuel-break maintenance, and partial-year retainers/contracted suppression readiness (helicopter/tanker retainers influence variability).
Facilities Maintenance $503K/yr
[#5, #7, #10, #11, #24, #19] Ongoing maintenance and utilities for outposts and enclosures, remote power upkeep (generators/solar maintenance), HVAC/HEPA filter replacement, Bio Site enclosure upkeep, climate-control operating costs, and ULT freezer electricity.
Emergency Response Reserve $500K/yr
[#15] Annual contingency fund for rapid response (stock replenishment, extra PPE, mass-amnestic logistics) in addition to on-call response contracts.
Supplies And Consumables $485K/yr
[#6, #9, #16, #19, #23, #29, #30, #20] Vehicle fuel/maintenance, PPE and decon consumables, per-administration amnestic costs (aggregate budget), routine lab consumables, hazardous-waste consumables/disposal fees, ongoing training consumables, nonlethal equipment replacement, and animal husbandry consumables.
Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr
[#4, #17] Ongoing visitor-center PR/marketing and legal retainers, MOUs, and costs to maintain the USFS/decoy cover story.
Visitor Center Operations $300K/yr
[#4] Operating costs specific to the Schulman Grove Visitor Center decoy (non-staff operations, interpretive displays maintenance, utilities, local PR).
Public Incident Management $200K/yr
[#25] Rapid-response public outreach, compensations, and misinformation follow-up budgets for occasional civilian-facing incidents.
Logistics And Transport $150K/yr
[#2, #6] Travel, permits, occasional heavy-lift logistics for field activations, and other transport-related recurring costs not captured in vehicle fuel/maintenance.
Psychological Support $120K/yr
[#22] Counseling, rotation coverage, screening, and rehabilitation for personnel working with memetic exposures.
Seed Bank Maintenance $60K/yr
[#26] Ongoing maintenance of ex-situ propagation program, cold-storage electricity, and sapling care.
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $11.1M/yr
80.0% probability / year
Normal uneventful year: steady operations, routine monitoring, and standard maintenance/ops.
no major incidents regular research cadence routine visitor traffic
🚨 Minor Incident $11.3M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
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
🚨 Major Breach $17.4M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$6.3M vs baseline
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
🚨 Political Exposure $12.1M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline
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.
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