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SCP-6557 Archon1/Neutralized2 ? low confidence
SCP-6557
Expected annual
$55.4M
One-time setup
$1.2B
Annual recurring
$54.1M
Personnel
148
Estimated one-time capital and setup costs are approximately $1.24B driven primarily by T4 R&D, device production/site work and a large K-Class response reserve; recurring annual costs are about $54.08M/yr driven by staff wages, simulation operations, agent support, and recurring contingency/reserve replenishment.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.2B
Initial Research And Lab Setup $740.0M
[#1, #3] Time-travel R&D, T4 device core engineering and provenance-safe testing plus simulation capital (exascale cluster) capital costs.
Equipment $180.0M
[#2] Per-T4 device production, certification and site commissioning (4–10 devices assumed aggregated).
Program Management Overhead $161.8M
[#20] Program management, audit, insurance & overhead (15% applied to pre-overhead one-time budget).
K Class Response Reserve $100.0M
[#18] One-time large K-Class response reserve (mobilization, mass jumps, emergency response insurance bucket).
Legal Corporate Containment One Time $25.0M
[#12] One-time legal/diplomatic/corporate containment (contracts, buyouts, settlements to halt Time Tourism agencies).
Deployment Kits And Caches $12.0M
[#6] Long-term deployment kits and period caches for baseline 34 pairs.
Medical Program One Time $8.0M
[#9] Lump-sum provisioning for mass-retrieval medical/rehabilitation waves.
Facilities $5.0M
[#5] Training facility build/refit and props for two-year MTF-Omega-6 recruitment and training.
Secure Comms One Time $4.0M
[#19] Hardened secure communications setup and temporal beaconing infrastructure (initial setup).
Historical Contingency One Time $2.0M
[#10] One-off historical influence / contingency operations budget (liaison, covert ops, repairs).
Observation Arrays One Time $1.5M
[#16] Initial deployment/provisioning of redundant observation/sensor arrays or pre-positioning of operatives in late-1700s.
Archival One Time $1.0M
[#11] Physical archival duplication and hardened temporal vault provisioning across eras.
Reconstruction Replacement Fund $250K
[#17] Reconstruction/replacement fund per rebuild contingency to recreate Market Cross in-period if destroyed too early.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $54.1M/yr
Staff Wages $22.0M/yr
[#4, #5, #8, #14] Simulation staff & QA, training payroll during two-year cycles, ongoing salaries/benefits for deployed/reserve agents, and historical/cultural advisors.
K Class Replenishment $10.0M/yr
[#18] Recurring replenishment allocation for the Global K-Class Response Reserve.
Program Management Overhead $7.1M/yr
[#20] Program management, audit, insurance & overhead (15% applied to pre-overhead recurring budget).
Research And Monitoring $3.6M/yr
[#3, #11] Simulation operations (power/cooling/ops) and archival monitoring/upkeep.
Logistics And Transport $3.0M/yr
[#7] In-field resupply, emergency extraction & jump operations reserve (T4 activations consumables/maintenance).
Black Ops Red Teaming $3.0M/yr
[#15] Black-ops red teaming and temporal forensics operations and exercises.
Cover Story And Legal $2.8M/yr
[#10, #12, #13] Ongoing historical influence/contingency standing fund, legal enforcement and local cover / civic payments in Trier/region.
Medical Program $2.0M/yr
[#9] Ongoing medical, psychiatric and rehabilitation program costs for returnees.
Secure Comms Operations $500K/yr
[#19] Ongoing secure communications operations, key management and continuity-of-command.
Facilities Maintenance $150K/yr
[#16] Maintenance and upkeep for redundant observation arrays / in-period infrastructure.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $54.1M/yr
92.9% probability / year
Normal uneventful year with standard operations, scheduled training cycles, simulation runs and routine maintenance.
scheduled_training_and_rotations routine_simulation_and_ops
🚨 Minor Incident $59.1M/yr
6.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Localized timeline drift or an unplanned T4 activation requiring extra extraction/resupply and limited remediation.
unexpected_timeline_drift unplanned_t4_activation
🚨 Major Breach $129.1M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$75.0M vs baseline
Significant containment failure or destructive interference with SCP-6557 resulting in major remediation operations, legal/diplomatic emergency work and larger-scale recoveries.
failed_mission_damaging_cross widespread_timeline_divergence
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $304.1M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$250.0M vs baseline
Near- or actual K-Class escalation requiring full activation of K-Class response reserve, mass mobilization and extraordinary expenditures.
K-Class_imminent global_timeline_failure
👥 Personnel 148 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 68 [#8] Active deployed agents observing SCP-6557 in-period; included in recurring salaries/benefits.
Reserve / Retired Agent 40 [#8] Retirees and reserves with ongoing pension/benefit liabilities included in staff wage estimates.
Research Scientist / Simulation Engineer 12 [#3, #4] Simulation staff & QA team operating Earth-Sim/ver876.exe and validating runs.
Historian / Cultural Advisor 9 [#14] Historical research and cultural advisors supporting agent preparation and timeline monitoring.
Training Instructor / Support Staff 8 [#5] Instructors and support personnel for the two-year MTF-Omega-6 training program.
Engineer / Maintenance 6 [#1, #2, #19] T4 device engineers, maintenance techs and secure-comms technicians.
Administrative Staff / Legal & Compliance 5 [#12, #20] Legal, diplomatic enforcement, program management, audit and administrative support.
📋 Confidence Notes
Wide ranges in source estimates, heavy dependence on whether Foundation already possesses time-travel infrastructure, and many contingent/rare high-cost events produce large uncertainty; numbers are analyst-driven midpoints and should be treated as order-of-magnitude estimates.
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