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SCP-6638 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-6638
Expected annual
$44.9M
One-time setup
$26.9M
Annual recurring
$41.8M
Personnel
32
Estimated one-time capital and setup costs are about $26,900,000 driven by server/hardware purchase, lab/R&D startup and an initial insurance/disaster reserve. Baseline annual operating costs are approximately $41,750,000 driven by staff wages, MTF operations and security, intelligence/HUMINT, continuous simulation/server maintenance, and standing contingency reserves.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $26.9M
Insurance Reserve One Time $10.0M
[#24] Initial insurance / legal contingency reserve (one-time seed fund to cover large, non-insurable exposures).
Equipment $6.8M
[#2, #4, #12, #20, #21, #9] Secure server bank and simulation hardware, UPS/generator install, initial MTF vehicles/helicopter contracting, communications install and air-gapped infra, and initial asset creation for the simulation.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $4.7M
[#6, #8, #26] One-time neurosurgical/implant procedures and sterile OR costs, wet-lab and memetics lab setup, and initial R&D program startup costs.
Facilities $4.0M
[#1, #11] One-time physical construction and hardening for the simulation chamber, ICU integration, server room and security hardening upgrades.
Emergency Event Fund Initial $1.0M
[#30] Initial standing emergency fund / rapid-response pot for catastrophic failure or immediate evacuation contingencies (starter allocation).
Legal Pr Structuring $500K
[#16] Initial legal/PR structuring, shell corporations, and cover-story creation (one-time setup).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $41.8M/yr
Disaster Mitigation Reserve $5.0M/yr
[#18] Annual allocation to build and maintain a large reserve for disaster response, infrastructure hardening and humanitarian aid following large anomalous events.
Insurance And Legal Reserve Recurring $5.0M/yr
[#24] Annual replenishment / contingency contributions for litigation, settlements and uninsurable political fallout.
Staff Wages $4.5M/yr
[#8, #9, #10] Salaries and on-call premiums for neuroscientists/memeticists, narrative/content team, neurotech operators, psychologists and administrative staff running the simulation and research program.
Mtf Eta29 Operations $4.0M/yr
[#12] MTF Eta-29 operational tempo costs, training, fuel, deployment readiness, consumables for rapid-response teams.
Covert Operations Fund $3.0M/yr
[#15] Standing covert operations and contingency intervention fund for clandestine disruptions, extractions, or emergency interventions.
Facilities Maintenance $2.5M/yr
[#1, #11] Site-85 utilities, HVAC/cooling for server racks, building maintenance, janitorial and ongoing facility overhead; includes ongoing physical security maintenance.
Cover Story And Legal $2.5M/yr
[#16, #17] Ongoing legal counsel, cover-story maintenance, PR/crisis management retainers and targeted disinformation/campaign readiness.
Security Personnel And Ops $2.5M/yr
[#11] Armed guards, CCTV contracts, access control, background checks and security contractor costs for Site-85.
R And D Recurring $2.0M/yr
[#26] Ongoing R&D into alternative host containment, synthetic substrates, and transfer-arrest technologies.
Public Safety Premiums $2.0M/yr
[#27] Annual premiums and indemnities to underwrite emergency responses for affected jurisdictions.
Contingency Reserve Standing $2.0M/yr
[#30] Standing reserve to support emergency euthanasia, relocation, or site relocation contingencies.
Humint Budget $1.5M/yr
[#13] Payments to informants, cultivation of contacts, safehouses, and continuous HUMINT operations to track potential hosts.
Supplies And Consumables $1.0M/yr
[#5, #7, #22, #29] ICU consumables, enteral/parenteral nutrition, sterile disposables, EEG/electrode replacements, spare parts rotation, and costs associated with targeted archival sanitization work.
Research And Monitoring $1.0M/yr
[#3, #8, #21] Ongoing lab operating costs, server/software patching contracts, cybersecurity engineering support, and regular research experiment budgets.
Osint And Monitoring $1.0M/yr
[#14] Commercial data feeds, transaction monitoring subscriptions, social-media scraping, facial recognition and analyst labor.
Training And Interagency $400K/yr
[#19] Regular tabletop and field exercises, interagency liaison travel and training costs.
Data Retention And Forensics $300K/yr
[#21] Ongoing secure archival retention, air-gapped backups, forensic analysis and controlled access management.
Cultural Research And Censorship Mitigation $300K/yr
[#25] Targeted cultural research, regional experts, fixers and limited takedowns to avoid broader destabilization.
Oversight And Audit $300K/yr
[#28] Periodic external reviews, memetic-safety audits and compliance oversight panels.
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#19, #20] Travel, per-diem for training/drills and basic transport budgets for staff and evidence transfer (excludes MTF operational vehicle costs).
Secure Comms And Travel $200K/yr
[#20] Encrypted communications maintenance, emergency charter budgets and secure transit lanes for sensitive movements.
Archive Sanitization $200K/yr
[#29] Targeted archive/records redaction and secure sanitization labor (not large-scale historical revisionism).
Replacement Components $150K/yr
[#22] Inventory rotation and spare parts for neural interfaces, server blades and specialized gear to avoid downtime.
Psychological Care $150K/yr
[#23] Counseling, memetic-safety screening, psychiatric care and staff rotation costs to manage burnout/exposure risk.
Neural Implant Replacement And Maintenance $50K/yr
[#6] Averaged annual cost to fund periodic replacement/upgrades of implant hardware (surgical replacement cycles amortized).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $41.8M/yr
80.0% probability / year
Normal year with continuous containment operations, no major transfer/breach events.
no transfer events standard operations routine research and monitoring
🚨 Minor Incident $44.5M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$2.7M vs baseline
Localized transfer attempt or targeted covert operation requiring MTF deployment, covert intervention, short simulation repairs and legal/PR response.
localized transfer attempt covert extraction or bribery small-scale simulation downtime
🚨 Major Disaster $161.8M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$120.0M vs baseline
Catastrophic transfer / revocation leading to large-scale natural disaster, major casualties and nationwide response requiring full disaster mitigation, large covert operations and major legal/PR payouts.
host revocation or death leading to transfer large-scale natural disaster political exposure and mass casualties
👥 Personnel 32 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 6 Neuroscience and memetics research staff included in staff_wages [#8].
Memeticist / Psychologist 3 Specialist memetic researchers and clinical psychologists included in staff_wages [#8, #23].
Narrative Designer / Content Creator 10 Programmers, writers and asset creators maintaining the simulated NYC included in staff_wages [#9].
Neurotech Operator / Technician 6 24/7 neurotech operators monitoring EEG and performing simulation adjustments included in staff_wages [#10].
Medical Officer / ICU Nurse 4 ICU-level care staff coverage partially accounted for in staff_wages and recurring medical costs [#5].
Administrative Staff 2 Site administrative and compliance staff included in staff_wages [#1, #28].
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 Single executive oversight included in staff_wages and oversight budgets [#28].
📋 Confidence Notes
Medium confidence: analyst notes provide clear line items and ranges, but many items are high-variance (reserves, covert ops, disaster mitigation) and depend on unpredictable transfer events; estimates use mid-range selections and amortizations where schedules were vague.
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