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SCP-6372 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-6372
Expected annual
$1.2B
One-time setup
$7.0B
Annual recurring
$1.2B
Personnel
200
One-time capital and deployment costs are dominated by spacecraft/satellite procurement, probe development, and a large contingency fund (~$7.0B). Recurring annual costs are dominated by resupply/space operations and long-term R&D, totaling roughly $1.18B/yr.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.0B
Equipment $4.7B
[#1, #2, #7, #8, #9, #14, #15] Deep-space surveillance constellation + patrol/interceptor craft, EW satellites & tooling, remote sensing suites, probe fleet (R&D + production), communications backbone, data nodes, and defensive systems.
Contingency Fund $1.2B
[#18] Reserve fund for emergency rapid-response launches, evacuation, or large-scale mitigation.
Facilities $850.0M
[#4, #10] Provisional Site-6372 modular habitat/assembly and on-site power generation (SMR) deployment.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $166.0M
[#6, #11, #12, #13, #17, #19] Recruiting/training & relocation, translation/AI tooling, protective facilities for psi work, medical build-out, amnestic production line seed, and R&D seed funding.
Mid Life Replacement Cycle $60.0M
[#21] Major mid-life replacements for suits, EVA gear and major components (5–10 year cycles).
Detention Module Fitout $20.0M
[#3] Initial detention module fitout for short-term detainee handling and secure processing.
Legal And Shell Setup $15.0M
[#16] Setup of shell entities, legal structures, and initial cover-corporation procurement.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.2B/yr
Logistics And Transport $680.0M/yr
[#1, #5, #8] Resupply flights, stationkeeping and patrol/interdiction operations (crew, fuel, mission ops), and logistics support for probes and probes' motherships.
Long Term R&D $125.0M/yr
[#19] Sustained R&D program into exotic-physics methods to interface with or penetrate the monolith (personnel, testing, off-world trials).
Facilities Maintenance $90.0M/yr
[#4, #9, #10, #15] Ongoing maintenance, power fuel & refueling logistics, comms maintenance, and defensive system upkeep.
Administrative Overhead $87.7M/yr
[#22] Internal program management, hidden accounting and secure logistics overhead (approx. 8% of non-overhead recurring costs).
Probe Attrition And Replacement $60.0M/yr
[#8] Annual attrition, expendables and replacement production for interior probes and relay nodes.
Staff Wages $34.0M/yr
[#6, #11, #12, #13] Salaries and hazard pay for core on-site staff (security, scientists, engineers, medics) and specialist teams; reflects loaded costs for ~200 personnel.
Cover Story And Legal $30.0M/yr
[#16] Ongoing hush-money, PR/disinformation, diplomacy, and legal operations to maintain cover narratives.
Electronic Warfare Ops $30.0M/yr
[#2] Continuous EW/jamming operations, navigation spoofing, and monitoring of civilian comms.
Research And Monitoring $20.0M/yr
[#7, #11, #14, #20] Calibration, sensor/data processing, translation/linguistics program operations, compute and planetary/environmental monitoring.
Supplies And Consumables $11.0M/yr
[#21, #5] Consumables, PPE, EVA suit cycles, spare parts, on-site consumables and logistics ops.
Detainee Processing And Detention $5.0M/yr
[#3, #17] Per-incident processing, secure transport, amnestic administration (per-use costs), and short-term detention staffing (estimate assumes ~100 incidents/yr baseline).
Cultural Outreach $5.0M/yr
[#23] Controlled academic-style releases, faux studies and cultural mitigation grants to preserve plausible deniability.
Medical Staffing And Supplies $4.0M/yr
[#13] On-site medical staffing, ICU readiness, med evac readiness and supplies.
Psi Staff Support $2.5M/yr
[#12] Salaries, screening, medical/debriefing and protective support for telepath/psi personnel.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.2B/yr
88.0% probability / year
Routine year with no major incidents; regular ops, resupply, maintenance, and planned R&D.
normal_operations scheduled_resupply planned_R&D_and_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $1.2B/yr
10.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Localized breach or probe loss requiring emergency response, limited evacuations, additional amnestics and recovery launches.
localized_breach probe_loss limited_evacuations
🚨 Major Breach $3.2B/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.0B vs baseline
Catastrophic breach or site loss requiring large-scale evacuation, planetary mitigation efforts, mass amnestic operations and major contingency deployments.
site_destruction mass_casualties planetary_hazard
👥 Personnel 200 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 40 Space-rated security and boarding teams for interdiction and on-site protection. [#6, #3]
Research Scientist 35 Planetary scientists, physicists, materials researchers and specialist researchers. [#6, #11, #19]
Engineer / Maintenance 30 Habitat, reactor, comms, probe and vehicle engineers for upkeep and repairs. [#4, #9, #8, #10]
Pilots / Flight Crew 20 Patrol/interceptor crews and resupply mission crews. [#1, #5]
Probe Operators / Technicians 20 Probe development, deployment and telemetry/relay operations. [#8, #9, #14]
Linguist / Cryptographer / ML Specialist 10 Translation team and ML/annotation specialists for rune analysis. [#11]
Medical Officer 10 Medical care, quarantine, amnestic administration oversight. [#13, #17]
Data / IT Specialist 10 Secure archives, compute cluster operations and offline replication. [#14]
Administrative Staff 10 Program admin, accounting, cover coordination and logistics. [#22, #16]
Psi / Telepath Specialist 6 Empaths/telepaths used for rune validation and cognitive research; includes specialized screening and support. [#12, #11]
Site Director / Executive Staff 2 Overall site leadership and liaison to higher Foundation command. [#4, #22]
Support Technician / Logistics 7 General support, cargo handling, EVA support, and spare-parts management. [#5, #21]
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed ranges and primary cost drivers, enabling a midpoint-based estimate; significant uncertainty remains around distance-dependent launch costs, breach frequency, and the scale of long-term R&D should penetration prove possible.
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