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SCP-6974 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6974
Expected annual
$448K
One-time setup
$444K
Annual recurring
$425K
Personnel
2.85
One-time startup costs are approximately $443,925, driven principally by research instrumentation, emergency response equipment and a contingency reserve. Recurring annual operations are approximately $425,425/yr, driven mainly by research personnel, readiness/standby budgets, security/supervision and infosec/cover operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $444K
Contingency Reserve $250K
[#22] One-time contingency reserve recommended for worst-case retrieval / containment failure scenarios.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $105K
[#3, #5, #14] Includes initial 116-roll film inventory (#3, $125), darkroom / film development setup (#5, $5,000), and specialized research instruments / trial hardware for programmatic study (#14, $100,000).
Equipment $56K
[#2, #12, #13, #15] Includes padded camera case (#2, $300), scanning hardware & secure server (#12, $5,000), initial spare parts/repair kit (#13, $500), and emergency/TF portable equipment kit (#15, $50,000).
Initial Infosec Response $20K
[#17] Initial incident handling / immediate cover-up response budget.
Sop Development And Initial Training $10K
[#16] One-time SOP creation and initial training budget.
Investigative Travel $3K
[#18] Travel to interview prior owners and conduct local field inquiries.
Facilities $0
[] No structural construction or major site buildouts required; SCP-6974 is stored in an unmodified locker.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $425K/yr
Staff Wages $197K/yr
[#7, #8, #14] Personnel salary allocations: Dr. Anselm film development time (0.1 FTE) and session supervision researcher (0.25 FTE) and security fraction included in #8, and research program personnel budget (#14) treated here as recurring personnel costs.
Research And Monitoring $122K/yr
[#9, #10, #15, #16] Medical/psych screening and post-session monitoring (#9, $10,000), amnestic administration program (#10, $10,000), readiness/training/standby budget for emergency response (#15, $100,000), recurring SOP refreshers and drills (#16, $2,000).
Cover Story And Legal $89K/yr
[#17, #21] Ongoing memetic/infosec/cover operations baseline (#17, $50,000/yr) and administrative / oversight overhead (~10% of recurring operational budget per #21, $38,675/yr).
Facilities Maintenance $10K/yr
[#1, #12, #13, #20] Locker space/utilities/monitoring (#1, $5,000), secure-server/backup maintenance (#12, $2,000), ongoing camera maintenance (#13, $2,000), and darkroom utilities/power increment (#20, $500).
Supplies And Consumables $4K/yr
[#4, #6, #19] Ongoing film purchase (#4, $1,600), film development consumables (#6, $650), PPE and decontamination supplies (#19, $2,000).
Logistics And Transport $4K/yr
[#11] D-class session logistics (transport, PPE, escort) estimated at ~$4,000/yr.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $425K/yr
95.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine operations, no major incidents or public exposures.
routine use by couples/D-class scheduled research activity no public leaks or retrieval missions
🚨 Minor Incident $500K/yr
4.0% probability / year +$75K vs baseline
Small public exposure or limited containment event requiring additional amnestics, TF activity and expanded infosec response.
discovered public post / localized leak several civilians require amnestics short TF dispatch or increased site operations
🚨 Major Breach $2.4M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Containment failure or event requiring extended multi-site retrieval/recovery or large-scale public cover-up.
missing persons requiring cross-dimensional retrieval large-scale public disclosure / media event extended multi-site TF deployment
👥 Personnel 2.85 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 1.35 [#7, #8, #14] Represents combined researcher FTEs: Dr. Anselm 0.1 FTE (development), 0.25 FTE supervising researcher, plus 1.0 FTE researcher from the recommended research program (#14).
Technician 1.0 [#14] One technician assigned to the research program and darkroom operations (included in #14 recurring budget).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 0.5 [#8] 0.5 FTE security presence for supervised sessions and escorts (costed as part of #8 recurring supervision/security).
📋 Confidence Notes
Many recurring and one-time items are explicitly estimated in analyst notes (film, darkroom, personnel, contingency), but supplier scarcity (116-format film), the split between wages/consumables in the research program, and the extreme uncertainty around breach/retrieval costs reduce confidence to medium.
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