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SCP-6335 Tiamat ~ medium confidence
SCP-6335
Expected annual
$18.7B
One-time setup
$350.1B
Annual recurring
$18.1B
Personnel
1145
Corrected estimate: Foundation one-time capital modernization and redundancy buildout ~$350.1 billion (main driver: orbital complex modernization, spare platforms, and major equipment launches); recurring Foundation operational cost ≈ $18.10 billion/year (main drivers: orbital maintenance, surveillance & R&D, reserves). This re-evaluation reduces some prior rounding and explicitly itemizes large costs; systemic economic impact in a catastrophic global event is orders of magnitude larger and tracked separately.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $350.1B
Facilities $280.0B
Detailed build/modernization breakdown (sum = $280,000,000,000): central orbital modernization (reactors, radiation shielding, hardened habitats, structure reinforcement, security/weapon integration) = $220,000,000,000; ground mission control & global hardened comms buildout = $2,000,000,000; spare/backup orbital complexes and lunar/solar-orbit relays (partial spare complex + integration) = $50,000,000,000; integration, testing, and program management overhead = $8,000,000,000. These are itemized because the total exceeds $1B; all components are physically feasible upgrades given the Foundation already maintains SCP-6335-A in orbit.
Equipment $64.8B
One-time equipment & deployment capital (sum = $64,800,000,000): emergency/high-output space reactor procurement & installation = $12,000,000,000; large photovoltaic array expansions = $3,000,000,000; major launch/upgrade campaign capital (launch vehicles, integration) = $20,000,000,000; galactic surveillance telescopes & sensor fleet (space + ground) = $20,000,000,000; deep-space sentinel probe initial deployment = $5,000,000,000; repair robotics & on-orbit drone fleet = $2,000,000,000; HPC hardware & archival initial build = $500,000,000; teleportation/phenomena detection instrumentation development hardware = $300,000,000; specialized materials procurement for ontic-compatible hardware = $1,000,000,000; secure-communications hardware & air-gapped archive build = $1,000,000,000.
Decommissioning And Safe Shutdown $5.0B
Contingency reserve for safe decommissioning or emergency reactor removal and debris mitigation if SCP-6335-A must be retired (breakdown: reactor/core removal & safe transfer = $3,000,000,000; debris mitigation & controlled deorbit = $2,000,000,000).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $250.0M
Specialized containment and biosafety lab buildout for recovered biomaterials, cryogenic storage and first-phase anomalous analysis instrumentation. The Foundation already has high-end labs; this funds an incremental BSL-4+/anomalous lab fit-out for SCP-6335 tissue and ontokinetic experiments.
Cover Infrastructure Setup $75.0M
One-time setup for cover companies, covert procurement scaffolding, initial legal/black-budget structuring. Included as a feasible Foundation action and itemized separately.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $18.1B/yr
Facilities Maintenance $7.5B/yr
On-orbit and ground facility operations & maintenance (automated repair drone operations, scheduled module maintenance, radiation-hardened hardware replacement cycles, thermal control, life-support at SCP-6335-A and backup complexes). Itemized planning and past ISS/defense-array analogs indicate multi-billion annual spend.
Reserves Maintenance $5.0B/yr
Annual contribution to contingency reserves and insurance buffer (targeting 5–10% of program value over time). Tracked as an operational recurring fund to ensure rapid access to capital during emergency activations.
Research And Monitoring $3.2B/yr
Continuous galactic surveillance ops (data acquisition, instrument ops), HPC/datacenter operations, modelling and detection pipelines, and core R&D into thaumaturgy/ontokinetics and experimental countermeasures. Includes personnel, instrument ops, and upgrades distributed over the year.
Logistics And Transport $1.2B/yr
Regular launch cadence for crew rotation, resupply, spare part delivery, probe communications & occasional recovery missions. Annual figure incorporates a plausible steady-state cadence of flights and deep-space relay maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $600.0M/yr
Propellant/station-keeping consumables, small-parts replacement, rad-hardened component refresh, thaumaturgic reagent replenishment, and routine consumables for orbital crews and repair fleets.
Staff Wages $452.8M/yr
Payroll and personnel overhead for an estimated 1,145 FTE (salaries + benefits + hazard/rotation premiums). Salary model (base payroll before overhead = $181,100,000; multiplier 2.5 to account for hazard pay, rotations, transport and benefits) yields $452,750,000/yr. See Personnel section for headcount breakdown and role assumptions.
Cover Story And Legal $150.0M/yr
Ongoing cover budgets, limited diplomatic liaison payments, and legal overhead to maintain covert operations in peacetime. Note: this line represents routine, plausible concealment activities; if a scenario produces globally visible, impossible-to-conceal effects, concealment spending would be reduced to $0 in that scenario (see scenario notes and Rule 3).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $18.1B/yr
94.5% probability / year
Steady-state operations: SCP-6335-A maintained, routine modernization and surveillance, no major incidents or emergency activations.
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🚨 Minor Incident $18.8B/yr
5.0% probability / year +$700.0M vs baseline
Localized subsystem failure, false-positive detection, or limited damage to transmitters requiring urgent repairs, extra launches, and incident investigation.
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🚨 Catastrophic Activation $126.1B/yr
0.5% probability / year +$108.0B vs baseline
Confirmed SCP-6335 instance enters the Solar System (or SCP-6335-A malfunctions at scale), triggering emergency activation/acceleration of SCP-6335-A, massive repair/launch campaigns, emergency R&D and global civil-defense support funded directly by the Foundation.
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👥 Personnel 1145 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 250 Orbital and ground security, rapid-reaction teams, counterintelligence support; includes hazard premiums budgeted in staff_wages.
Research Scientist 250 Thaumaturgy, ontokinetics, biology, materials science, and countermeasure research staff.
Engineer / Maintenance 200 Orbital systems, propulsion, power, robotics maintenance, and hardware replacement teams.
Mission Control / Operators 150 24/7 mission control staffing for SCP-6335-A operations, surveillance tasking, and communications.
Data Scientist 150 HPC operators, ML detection pipeline engineers, modeling and archival analysts.
Pilot / Astronaut 30 Crew for launches, EVA/maintenance missions, and specialized piloting tasks.
Medical Officer 20 Crew medical support, biomedical sample handling, and psychosocial care.
Administrative Staff 50 Program administration, procurement, legal liaison, and cover infrastructure support.
Thaumaturgy / Ontokinetics Specialist 45 Specialists for metaphysical maintenance of SCP-6335-A subcomponents, ritual teams, and anomalous sensor development.
📋 Confidence Notes
This re-evaluation tightened large-line-item estimates by explicitly itemizing any multi‑billion/trillion figures (Rule 1) and ensured separation between Foundation spend and systemic economic damage (Rule 4). Estimates rely on analogs (ISS, strategic space programs) and the original analyst notes; remaining uncertainty arises from anomalous/metaphysical factors, geopolitical cooperation variance, and the very low-frequency but high-impact nature of catastrophic scenarios. Compared to the original stage‑2 report, large roundings were replaced with itemized sub-components; the expected annual Foundation spend changed materially (lower recurring baseline but with fully itemized catastrophic increments).
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