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SCP-6718 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-6718
Expected annual
$169.4M
One-time setup
$1.1B
Annual recurring
$158.7M
Personnel
80
Initial capital requirements are approximately $1.06 billion driven primarily by new high-security facilities, cross-reality capital, and large contingency/insurance reserves; recurring annual costs are approximately $158.65M/yr driven by staff wages, sustained R&D, and a long-term research fund.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.1B
Cross Reality Capital $500.0M
[#22] Capital expenditure for speculative cross-reality/metaphysical infrastructure (megascale computation, pocket-realm apparatus) if pursued at scale.
Facilities $150.0M
[#3, #5] Construction/retrofit of a high-security facility (Site-666 replacement) including heavy power infrastructure and resilience upgrades.
Compensation Payouts $100.0M
[#12] One-time compensation and family assistance payouts for lost personnel and legal settlements.
Insurance Reserve $100.0M
[#18] Self-insurance / financial reserve to cover catastrophic legal/judgment/risk exposure.
Contingency Reserve $100.0M
[#27] Contingency reserve for unknown catastrophic escalation and rapid-commitment authority.
Equipment $46.0M
[#4, #6, #7] Specialized experimental apparatus (BOLTZMANN-POSSI devices), supercomputing acquisition, and secure communications hardware.
Field Operations Equipment $20.0M
[#9] Covert/rapid-response field equipment purchases: aircraft, armoured transport, containment vehicles, satellite recon gear.
Secondary Containment One Time $10.0M
[#23] One-time containment/recontainment actions for secondary anomalous failures caused by SCP-6718's effects.
Coverup Initial Surge $10.0M
[#13] Initial surge for public cover-up and strategic communications to suppress or redirect leaks.
Opportunity Cost Fund $10.0M
[#25] One-time establishment of secure trust funds and financial vehicles to ensure program continuity / secrecy.
Legislative Campaigns $5.0M
[#14] One-time legislative/diplomatic campaign costs to craft secrecy orders and negotiate international incidents.
Archival Data Recovery $3.0M
[#17] Forensic recovery of destroyed/corrupted records from Site-666 and other nodes.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.5M
[#8] Initial specialized materials and laboratory consumables / setup specifically for research (exotic superconductors, cryogens, etc.).
Program Startup $1.2M
[#1] Emergency research program launch: project office setup, PI hires, governance, procurement and initial administrative infrastructure.
Liaison Initial Outreach $500K
[#10] Initial inter-organization liaison/outreach costs (safehouses, outreach payments).
Memorialization $500K
[#16] Site-666 tombstone, memorials, hazardous remediation and archive preservation one-time costs.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $158.7M/yr
Cross Reality Rnd $50.0M/yr
[#22] Ongoing speculative R&D into cross-reality/metaphysical contingency programs (if pursued).
Long Term Research Fund $20.0M/yr
[#15] Sustained funding for fundamental high-risk research (grants, PhD funding, conferences, long-term projects).
Facilities Maintenance $16.0M/yr
[#3, #5] Facility operations, redundant power maintenance, HVAC/chilled water, cryogenic plant upkeep and energy costs.
Staff Wages $15.0M/yr
[#2] Salaries for dedicated multidisciplinary research team (physicists, metaphysics researchers, temporal theorists, computational scientists, philosophers/ethicists, technicians).
Cover Story And Legal $15.0M/yr
[#10, #13, #14] Ongoing liaison/diplomacy payments, public cover-up campaigns, legal retainers and active legal actions.
Research And Monitoring $13.0M/yr
[#4, #6] Ongoing R&D burn-rate for experimental apparatus and hosting/maintenance for high-performance simulation infrastructure.
Public Health $10.0M/yr
[#24] Public mental-health programs and societal impact mitigation in case of leaks or measurable societal effects.
Logistics And Transport $9.0M/yr
[#9, #26] Field deployments, readiness, secure transport of samples, travel, quarantined housing and customs handling.
Recruiting And Retention $2.0M/yr
[#21] Hazard pay, secrecy premiums, relocation allowances and retention buyouts.
Secondary Containment Recurring $2.0M/yr
[#23] Recurring costs for monitoring and safe termination/recontainment of secondary anomalous failures.
Supplies And Consumables $1.0M/yr
[#8] Consumables restocking (liquid helium, isotopes, vacuum consumables, shielding materials, bespoke sensors, PPE).
Psychological Support $1.0M/yr
[#11] Counseling, inpatient programs, crisis hotlines and long-term therapy for affected staff.
Ethical Oversight $1.0M/yr
[#19] Independent review panels, safety committees and compliance monitoring.
Training $1.0M/yr
[#20] Tabletop and live simulations, responder training, psychological first-aid drills.
Opportunity Fund Maintenance $1.0M/yr
[#25] Maintenance costs for secure endowments and financial vehicles to preserve program continuity.
Program Admin $800K/yr
[#1] Ongoing program administration, cleared admin staff, procurement and governance overhead.
Secure Comms Maintenance $800K/yr
[#7] Ongoing maintenance, lease and secure-channel costs for hardened/alternate communications.
Memorial Maintenance $50K/yr
[#16] Ongoing upkeep for memorials and site remediation monitoring.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $158.7M/yr
87.5% probability / year
Normal year of operations with no major incidents; program continues standard R&D and upkeep.
no breaches standard research cadence routine procurement and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $166.7M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$8.0M vs baseline
Localized equipment failure, small breach or limited secondary-anomaly requiring targeted response and repairs.
localized containment failure equipment loss or corruption small legal/PR costs
🚨 Major Breach $408.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$250.0M vs baseline
Significant containment breach or loss of major assets (facility damage, loss of critical apparatus) requiring rebuild and major payouts.
major facility damage significant equipment destruction large compensation/legal settlements
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $1.2B/yr
0.5% probability / year +$1.0B vs baseline
Existential-scale escalation (wide memetic cascade, reality instability, or political exposure) triggering full contingency and large-scale reconstruction/compensation.
reality instability escalation widespread public exposure multi-site cascade failures
👥 Personnel 80 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 30 [#2] Senior researchers conducting core experiments and theory.
Metaphysics / Occult Researcher 10 [#2] Specialists in occult, religious, and metaphysical study relevant to afterlife research.
Physicist / Temporal Theorist 8 [#2] Experimental and theoretical physicists focusing on retrocausal and temporal aspects.
Computational Scientist 8 [#2] High-performance simulation, petascale modeling and data analysis staff.
Technician / Engineer 12 [#2] Lab technicians, cryogenics engineers, maintenance staff, and systems engineers.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#2] Security and rapid-response personnel for facility protection and field operations.
Administrative Staff 4 [#1, #2] Program administrators, procurement and cleared admin support.
Ethicists / Philosophers 2 [#2] Ethical oversight, policy and experiment review specialists.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are highly uncertain due to the anomalous, existential nature of SCP-6718 and open-ended program options (from minimal exploratory efforts to multi-decade megaprojects); many line items (cross-reality infrastructure, compensation exposure, contingency reserves) have wide ranges and depend on political/legal choices.
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