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SCP-6678 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-6678
Expected annual
$5.9M
One-time setup
$5.5M
Annual recurring
$5.2M
Personnel
7
One-time startup costs (construction, equipment, lab upgrades, and legal/insurance reserves) are approximately $5.45M; recurring annual costs for operations, staffing, monitoring, logistics, and a contingency buffer are approximately $5.25M, driven primarily by research, helicopter logistics, staffing, and a 20% unknowns contingency.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.5M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.2M
[#10, #11, #13, #20, #28] Initial probe R&D/prototypes (lower-bound tranche), Site-14 sample-containment/lab upgrades, medical/quarantine initial upgrades, archival/vault setup, HPC/compute initial purchase.
Legal Reserve $1.0M
[#21] One-time legal/diplomatic reserve for disputes and liability.
Special Insurance Reserve $1.0M
[#25] Specialized insurance/escrow reserve for potential international fallout.
Equipment $780K
[#2, #6, #8, #9, #17, #19] Solar array/batteries/generator initial hardware, remote surveillance hardware, comms initial equipment, initial drone fleet, mobile containment kit purchase, wood preservation/conservation.
Cooperation Fund $500K
[#15] Initial goodwill/negotiation payments to OROA/local custodians.
Contingency Expansion Setup $500K
[#27] Initial planning/setup for contingency rapid-expansion/evacuation staging and caches.
Facilities $350K
[#1, #18] Summit outpost construction and weatherproof canopy/environmental enclosure.
Helicopter Lift $100K
[#3] Initial helicopter/heavy-lift package for construction and initial deployments.
Contingency Retrieval Operation $0
[#16] Major forced retrieval/contingency operation costs are per-operation (estimated $2M–$10M) and are treated as episodic scenario costs, not baseline one-time budget.
Dimensional Containment Rnd $0
[#26] High-risk, multi-year dimensional containment R&D (estimated $50M–$200M) treated as optional major program; not budgeted in baseline startup.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.2M/yr
Contingency Buffer Allowance $1.8M/yr
[#30] 20% contingency buffer applied to total planned budget to cover unknown extradimensional/third-party risks.
Research And Monitoring $1.3M/yr
[#7, #10, #11, #12, #28] Satellite imagery subscription/analytics, probe operations & telemetry ops, lab processing operations, scientific research program salaries/experiments, cloud/HPC maintenance.
Cover Story And Legal $850K/yr
[#14, #15, #21, #22] Local liaisons/cultural experts, ongoing cooperation payments to custodians, recurring legal/diplomatic counsel costs, public-relations/cover-story budgets.
Staff Wages $530K/yr
[#4, #5] On-site rotating technical team (2 on-site at a time; 4-person rotation) and small dedicated security cadre salaries and rotation/travel costs.
Logistics And Transport $350K/yr
[#3, #27] Annual resupply/helicopter lift costs for summit operations and contingency rapid-response readiness costs.
Supplies And Consumables $235K/yr
[#9, #13, #17, #24, #29] Drone consumables/repairs/operators, medical monitoring consumables/quarantine supplies, mobile kit refresh, training exercises, baseline waste handling/disposal.
Facilities Maintenance $100K/yr
[#2, #6, #8, #18, #20] Solar/backup generator maintenance and fuel, surveillance maintenance/bandwidth, comms/security updates, canopy maintenance, archival facility upkeep.
Environmental Reserve $100K/yr
[#23] Baseline annual monitoring/remediation reserve for environmental impact; larger incidents budgeted as scenarios.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.2M/yr
87.0% probability / year
Routine year with no major incidents: ongoing monitoring, staffing, resupply, research ops and contingency reserve spending only as planned.
normal monitoring scheduled research and resupply no breaches or major incidents
🚨 Minor Incident $5.5M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Localized contamination, small unauthorized access attempt, or limited environmental impact requiring remediation, additional medevac/resupply sorties and legal/liaison actions.
localized contamination small breach or unauthorized digging emergency medevac/resupply
🚨 Major Retrieval Operation $10.2M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
A forcible retrieval or major kinetic operation by Foundation or third parties (OROA/state actors) requiring special forces, major medevac, large-scale logistics and diplomatic fallout containment.
large-scale armed retrieval open confrontation with OROA or state forces major contamination or casualties
🚨 Dimensional Containment Scaleup $55.2M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Decision to pursue full-scale dimensional containment R&D and deployment (multi-year high-risk program) to build seals/dampeners and attempt active extraction/control.
policy decision to invest in containment R&D major strategic value assigned to beryllium bronze reserves significant escalation with custodians
👥 Personnel 7 total
Role Count Notes
Technical Technician / Observer 2 [#4] Two on-site technicians/observers present at any given time (part of a four-person rotation).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 4 [#5] Small dedicated security cadre providing 24/7 guarded perimeter and response.
Site Foreman / Field Supervisor 1 [#4] Field supervisor included in rotation / on-site leadership.
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items involve large ranges, political uncertainty with OROA/Iran, and speculative R&D/operations; several assumptions (choice of lower-bound capital tranches, satellite subscription level, probability estimates) were required, so confidence is low.
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