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SCP-7019 Thaumiel ~ medium confidence
SCP-7019
Expected annual
$6.3M
One-time setup
$5.3M
Annual recurring
$6.0M
Personnel
39
One-time capital builds and secure facility work are the largest upfront costs (~$5.3M). Annual recurring program costs for continuous surveillance, staff wages, covert research, security, OPSEC/legal and PR run roughly $6.02M/yr (partially offset by operational savings).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.3M
Facilities $4.3M
[#7, #9, #21] Includes construction of Faraday-shielded holding/enclosure and medically equipped room (#7), secure residence upgrades (#9), and dedicated Thaumiel operational wing/site construction for long-term use (#21).
Equipment $775K
[#1, #3, #4, #17] Dedicated 24/7 surveillance hardware and installation (#1); one-time portion of secure recording/storage servers and air-gapped backups (#3); initial field-surveillance kits and spare hardware (#4); one-time secure communications hardware and authentication systems (#17).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $250K
[#5] Initial comprehensive medical/neural baseline work-up and associated lab setup (fMRI/EEG, sequencing prep, specialized assays).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.0M/yr
Staff Wages $4.5M/yr
[#2, #6, #9, #10, #11, #12, #14, #15, #24] Covers 24/7 monitoring analysts/operators (#2), covert research team salaries (#6), protective security detail wages (#9), OPSEC/CI analysts (#10), records-redaction/cover-story labor (#11), legal counsel/admin liaison salaries (#12), psychological services staff (#14), vetting/investigator salaries (#15), and forensic/whistleblower investigators (#24).
Logistics And Transport $750K/yr
[#8, #25] Readiness pool/standing agreements for contingency extraction and per-activation transport/airlift charters (#8) and emergency relocation/secure transport retention agreements (#25). Per-activation transport/sedation costs handled in incident scenarios.
Incident Response Reserve $750K/yr
[#22] Annual reserve for legal settlements, classified settlements, liability funds and incident-response payouts.
Crisis Pr And Media Control $600K/yr
[#13] Retainer and rapid-response media control and PR contingency budget to respond to exposures.
Research And Monitoring $330K/yr
[#5, #6] Non-wage recurring costs for periodic biological follow-ups (#5) and non-personnel research costs (equipment maintenance, data analysis, consumables) for covert experimental program (#6).
Covert Payments $175K/yr
[#20] Informant stipends, contractors, hush funds and low-visibility payments to secure cooperation.
Supplies And Consumables $75K/yr
[#19] Ongoing lab reagents, camera replacements, batteries, PPE and other consumables for monitoring and research.
Training And Sop $75K/yr
[#16] SOP development, recurring training courses, tabletop exercises and evidence-handling refreshers.
Data Storage And Backup $70K/yr
[#3] Recurring maintenance, cloud encryption, storage growth and disaster-recovery for long-term high-fidelity audio/video retention.
Secure Comms Maintenance $60K/yr
[#17] Annual maintenance and licensing for custom secure communications and authentication systems.
Cover Story And Legal $50K/yr
[#11, #12] Non-wage recurring costs for document/record redaction tools, cover-story production expenses and supplemental legal fees beyond salaried counsel.
Field Surveillance Replacement $50K/yr
[#4] Lifecycle replacement for extra bodycams, batteries, mounts and spare comms used by field units.
Facilities Maintenance $25K/yr
[#18] Energy, HVAC and continuous utilities/maintenance for servers, monitoring suites, secure residence and containment upgrades.
Operational Offsets $-1500000/yr
[#23] Estimated annual operational savings (avoided casualties, reduced asset loss, training/replacement savings) modeled as a negative recurring cost/offset to containment. Range per notes: $500k–$5M; conservative mid-range offset used here.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.0M/yr
87.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents: ongoing surveillance, research, OPSEC, security and readiness maintained.
no major leaks no large-scale exposure routine operations only
🚨 Minor Incident $6.5M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized information leak, whistleblower complaint, or small operational lapse requiring investigation, overtime, limited PR response and a targeted extraction or legal action.
small unauthorized disclosure whistleblower report isolated operational security lapse
🚨 Major Breach $11.0M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Significant exposure, contested removal or large-scale breach requiring full MTF mobilization, emergency relocation, major legal settlement and extended PR/cover operations.
large-scale leak public exposure of anomalous status failed containment/removal operation
🚨 Political Exposure $8.0M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Governmental or interagency discovery leading to political/legal fights, expensive classified negotiations, and extended PR/legal operations without immediate physical breach.
interagency disclosure leaked classified documents targeted investigative journalism
👥 Personnel 39 total
Role Count Notes
Analyst / Surveillance Operator 12 12 FTEs supporting 24/7 monitoring and feed review; fully burdened ~$110,000 each (ref. #2).
Research Scientist 4 PI + 3 researchers for covert experimental program and follow-ups; fully burdened ~$200,000 each (ref. #6, #5).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 Protective detail for SCP-7019 and secure movements; fully burdened ~$100,000 each (ref. #9).
Legal Counsel / Administrative Staff 3 In-house counsel and liaison staff for approvals, interagency coordination and documentation; fully burdened ~$120,000 each (ref. #12, #11).
OPSEC / Counterintelligence Analyst 3 Monitoring subordinate communications, social-media scraping and leak detection; fully burdened ~$110,000 each (ref. #10).
Medical Officer 2 Medical personnel conducting imaging and follow-ups; fully burdened ~$120,000 each (ref. #5).
Engineer / Maintenance 1 Server, HVAC, Faraday and facility maintenance support; fully burdened ~$100,000 (ref. #7, #18).
Forensic Investigator 2 Forensic audit and whistleblower mitigation investigators; fully burdened ~$100,000 each (ref. #24).
Training / SOP Developer 2 SOP/training authors and exercise coordinators; combined fully burdened ~$57,250 each (ref. #16).
Vetting Investigator 2 Personnel investigations and reinvestigations; fully burdened ~$124,000 each (ref. #15).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates derive from analyst ranges; many items are intentionally covert and range widely. One-time construction/equipment and recurring personnel/PR/legal items have observable market rates, but operational offsets and incident probabilities are uncertain, yielding medium confidence.
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