SCP-6951 — SCP-6951 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6951 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-6951

Expected annual

$18.4M

One-time setup

$22.1M

Annual recurring

$17.9M

Personnel

126

One-time setup costs are substantial (approx. $22.1M) driven primarily by secure facility acquisition/renovation, BSL-3 lab build-out, and research/clinical equipment. Recurring annual costs are high (approx. $17.94M/year) driven by personnel payroll, ongoing surveillance/research, legal/PR operations, and covert liaison/operational expenses.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $22.1M

Facilities $12.2M

[#1, #15] Facility purchase/renovation near Miami and morgue/forensic refrigerated storage expansion.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $5.5M

[#2, #3] BSL-3 laboratory build-out and infrastructure (#2) and clinical/diagnostic/research instruments (MRI/CT access, sequencers, flow cytometer, ancillaries) (#3).

Equipment $2.0M

[#4, #10, #24, #28, #29] Secure onsite servers/IT (#4), drone/armored vehicle fleet purchase (#10), initial transport/evidence kits (#24), initial archival hardware (#28), and initial medical countermeasure procurement (#29).

Legal Retainer $1.0M

[#16] One-time retainer / setup funds for legal suppression, indemnity and counsel.

Emergency Fund Initial $1.0M

[#22] Initial seed/reserve for emergency incident-response contingency fund.

Initial Staffing Hiring $300K

[#5] Recruitment, background checks, and relocation costs for initial hires.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $17.9M/yr

Staff Wages $9.5M/yr

[#6, #7, #8, #20] Annual payroll for field operations teams (#6), onsite medical staff (#7), security personnel (#8), and core research program salaries (#20).

Research And Monitoring $1.5M/yr

[#20] Research program operational expenses, experiments, external grants and non-salary research budgets.

Cover Story And Legal $1.5M/yr

[#16, #17] Annual legal expenses, covert legal suppression, indemnities (#16) and public-relations / disinformation campaigns (#17).

Covert Surveillance Operations $750K/yr

[#19] Ongoing corporate intelligence, infiltration and covert surveillance aimed at Greazeburger entities.

Surveillance Network Acquisition And Monitoring $600K/yr

[#9] Municipal/private CCTV feeds, social-media scraping, license-plate readers, data subscriptions and analyst staffing (recurring subscription/monitoring costs).

Liaison Payments $500K/yr

[#18] Covert payments, grants and cooperative funding to local authorities and institutions.

Emergency Fund Maintenance $500K/yr

[#22] Ongoing replenishment/maintenance of contingency reserve for large incidents.

Community Mitigation $500K/yr

[#30] Compensation, relocation assistance and local mitigation measures to preserve plausible deniability and concealment.

Logistics And Transport $400K/yr

[#10, #24] Drone/vehicle maintenance and operations (#10) and secure transport/cold-chain evidence logistics (#24).

Supplies And Consumables $350K/yr

[#12] Forensic pathology and laboratory consumables, reagents, disposables, sequencing per-sample costs.

Facilities Maintenance $300K/yr

[#25] Energy, utilities, HVAC (including BSL areas), generator fuel and general facilities upkeep.

Air Support $300K/yr

[#11] Helicopter lease/flight-hour support for rapid extraction and emergency response (recurring lease/ops cost).

Anomalous Care Per Subject $300K/yr

[#14] Annual medical care, rehabilitation and long-term secure housing costs for active SCP-6951-1 subjects (assumes modest on-average census of subjects in care).

Insurance And Escrow $300K/yr

[#26] Retainers, escrow, and financial buffers for corporate fronts, vendors and covert contractors.

Psychosocial Support And Witness Protection $150K/yr

[#21] Long-term therapy, reintegration support and protection programs for rehabilitated witnesses/subjects.

Training And Exercises $150K/yr

[#23] Regular drills, medical/containment training and cross-agency tabletop exercises.

Biohazard Waste Disposal $120K/yr

[#13] Regular removal/incineration of contaminated materials and decontamination after incidents.

Medical Countermeasures Replenishment $100K/yr

[#29] Replenishment of pharmaceuticals, antimicrobials, antitoxins and ICU supplies.

Translation And Transcription $70K/yr

[#27] Linguists, audio specialists and transcription for interviews and anomalous speech analysis.

Long Term Archival Maintenance $50K/yr

[#28] Digital and physical archive maintenance, climate control and redundancy.

Transport Logistics And Chain Of Custody $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $17.9M/yr

78.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with no major incidents; routine containment, research, surveillance, and covert operations continue.

no major breaches steady case volume normal research cadence

🚨 Minor Incident $19.4M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline

Localized incident or small cluster of SCP-6951 recoveries requiring elevated medical response, additional forensic throughput, and targeted PR/legal actions.

single mass-casualty event high-visibility discovery small outbreak

🚨 Major Breach $22.9M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

Large, multi-site incident or public breach causing mass casualties, major investigations, extensive legal exposure and large multi-agency responses.

widespread incidents public political exposure multiple simultaneous recoveries

🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $20.9M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline

Research yields actionable results requiring rapid scale-up of lab facilities, additional specialized staff, and expanded rehabilitation programs.

successful causality/transmission discovery clinical protocol established need for expanded capacity

👥 Personnel 126 total

Role	Count	Notes
Field Operations Team / MTF Agents	40	[#6] Multi-disciplinary response teams for 24/7 collection and evidence operations (estimate per notes).
Research Scientist	10	[#20] Lead scientists and research staff supporting program goals.
Onsite Medical Staff	15	[#7] Physicians, infectious-disease specialists, nurses, psychiatrists for rehabilitation and diagnostics.
Security Officer / Armed Guard	45	[#8] 24/7 security staffing and contracted specialized containment guards.
Administrative Staff	8	[#5] Administrative, HR and covert program management support included in staffing estimates.
Engineer / Maintenance	4	[#25] Facility and BSL systems maintenance and generator/utility oversight.
IT / Data Analysts	4	[#4, #9] Secure IT, data center operations and surveillance/data analysis staffing.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provided detailed line-item ranges enabling a bounded estimate, but substantial uncertainty remains around subject census, incident frequency, and decisions (e.g., purchase vs lease, scale of covert operations). This yields medium confidence.

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