SCP-6952 — SCP-6952 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6952 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-6952

Expected annual

$8.7M

One-time setup

$38.3M

Annual recurring

$8.0M

Personnel

One-time capital and contingency requirements are dominated by large contingency/reserve funds and escalation-capable infrastructure (totaling tens of millions). Baseline recurring operations are driven by personnel (MTF + researchers), maintenance, training, and legal/cover operations (~$8.0M/yr).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $38.3M

Escalation Contingency $25.0M

[#30] Large scalable contingency fund reserved for emergency scale-up (additional sites/global recovery ops).

Equipment $3.9M

[#1, #8, #11, #14, #15, #21, #10, #27] Adamantite case fabrication, PPE/tooling, inventory system deployment, transport fleet capital, scuttling/incineration hardware, classified storage hardware, fabrication/shop capital, and decommissioning setup.

Legal Insurance Reserve $3.0M

[#24] One-time legal/settlement reserve to cover rogue/unintended anomalous effects or large settlements.

Facilities $2.6M

[#2, #7, #13, #25] Site hardening, secure testing range construction, per-site recovery-site setup, and training facility setup (combined structural/build costs).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.5M

[#6] Laboratory capital equipment (SEM/TEM, XRD, mass specs, EMI/EMC chambers, test rigs) for materials research and weapons testing.

Contingency Reserve $1.5M

[#22] Reserve fund / redundancy for backup containment and duplicate critical equipment (one-time hold).

Clearance Vetting One Time $240K

[#3] Initial Level-4/Omega-45 vetting & polygraphs for cleared staff (estimated per-person scaled to program headcount).

Cover Up Incident Response $200K

[#19] One-time per-incident cover-up response budget (evidence fabrication, legal response for a single incident).

Remediation Reserve $200K

[#23] One-time remediation reserve for a moderate contamination/remediation event at a recovery site.

Pr Mitigation Reserve $200K

[#28] One-time PR / humanitarian mitigation fund for a major incident.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.0M/yr

Staff Wages $4.0M/yr

[#4, #5] Salaries and benefits for Omega-45 tactical unit (~24 operatives incl. benefits) and research staff (6 researchers/techs) plus supervisory/admin/security support.

Escalation Replenishment $1.0M/yr

[#30] Annual replenishment potential for escalation contingency fund if program grows or reserve used.

Medical Care $500K/yr

[#16] Trauma care, medevac, rehabilitation, insurance/disability costs for high-risk Omega-45 operations.

Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr

[#19] Ongoing legal/cover-story liaison, PR mitigation retainers and routine liaison with local authorities.

Testing Range Operations $300K/yr

[#7] Annual operations, instrumentation, waste disposal and run costs for secure testing ranges.

Training $300K/yr

[#25] Ongoing training, simulation, live-fire certifications, and recurrent curriculum for Omega-45 and researchers.

Weapon Maintenance $175K/yr

[#12] Routine maintenance, parts stocking and armorers' labor for anomalous/mundane weapon servicing.

Logistics Procurement Overhead $175K/yr

[#26] Secure procurement overhead, covert importation admin, and expedited procurement costs.

Fabrication Operational $150K/yr

[#10] Ongoing in-house/external fabrication costs, per-item machining, exotic metallurgy contracts (annual average).

Opportunity Cost Overhead $150K/yr

[#29] Administrative/coordination staff-time and cross-site meetings representing diverted effort from other programs.

Supplies And Consumables $130K/yr

[#8, #9] PPE/consumables replacement and raw-material consumables for producing non-anomalous components.

Research And Monitoring $125K/yr

[#6] Calibration, equipment maintenance, and recurring costs for research-grade instruments used to characterize SCP-6952-2 and SCP-6952-1 testing.

Classified Storage Ops $125K/yr

[#21] Ongoing ops for air-gapped archives, cyber-security, and intrusion monitoring.

Logistics And Transport $100K/yr

[#14] Operating costs for armored vehicles/helicopters/transport per-deployment averaged into annual transport operating budget.

Contingency Replenishment $100K/yr

[#22] Annual replenishment for redundancy/backups and contingency fund maintenance.

Environmental Monitoring $55K/yr

[#23] Environmental monitoring programs to detect contamination; remediation per-incident is one-time.

Recovery Site Operations $50K/yr

[#13] Ongoing cache upkeep and readiness for field excavation/temporary exclusion zones.

Psychological Services $50K/yr

[#17] Counseling, PTSD treatment and post-operation support for exposed personnel.

Ethics Admin $50K/yr

[#18] Ethics Committee administration and per-submission staff-time (annualized estimate).

Clearance Vetting Recurring $40K/yr

[#3] Periodic reinvestigations, polygraphs, and retraining per cleared staff (annualized).

Amnesticization $25K/yr

[#20] Annualized witness handling and amnestic drug administration costs (field average).

Inventory Support $20K/yr

[#11] Annual support/licensing and admin for secure inventory/chain-of-custody systems.

Scuttling Operations $20K/yr

[#15] Per-event consumables and protocols averaged annually for scuttling/destruction runs.

Long Term Storage $20K/yr

[#27] Annual per-weapon secure storage and lifecycle management averaged across inventory.

Facilities Maintenance $12K/yr

[#2] Maintenance for hardened site wing, FARADAY shielding, HVAC/security-tied systems (ongoing repairs and upkeep).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.0M/yr

70.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with no major incidents: routine research, maintenance, training, deployments within expected tempo.

routine_operations scheduled_training minor_research_projects

🚨 Minor Incident $8.6M/yr

25.0% probability / year +$575K vs baseline

Localized recovery or exposure requiring a single-site recovery, amnesticization, modest remediation and a cover-up.

field_discovery_by_civilians small_recovery_site_remediation single_cover-up_event

🚨 Major Breach $18.0M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Large-scale exposure or proliferation event requiring multi-site recovery, large remediation, legal settlements, replacement of capital equipment and emergency scale-up.

widespread_proliferation high-profile_leak_or_breach multiple_simultaneous_recovery_operations

👥 Personnel 38 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	24	[#4] Omega-45 tactical unit operators responsible for carrying, recovering, and scuttling SCP-6952-1.
Research Scientist / Technician	6	[#5, #6] Level-4+ researchers and materials scientists for R&D into SCP-6952-1 schematics and SCP-6952-2 characterization.
Engineer / Maintenance	2	[#6, #14] Facility and fabrication shop engineers maintaining testing rigs, fabrication equipment and transport.
Armorer / Maintenance Tech	2	[#12, #4] Weapon maintenance and armorer staff for servicing anomalous/mundane components.
Medical Officer	2	[#16] Advanced trauma care and medevac support for high-risk operations.
Administrative Staff	2	[#11, #18, #29] Inventory/logistics administration, Ethics Committee coordination, and cross-site administrative overhead.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are based on wide ranges in analyst notes and numerous contingent/incident-driven costs for an anomalous weapon-manufacturing/containment program; many line items (frequency of incidents, scale of remediation, reserve drawdowns) are highly uncertain.

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