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SCP-7142 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-7142
Expected annual
$40.7M
One-time setup
$21.5M
Annual recurring
$39.0M
Personnel
143
Estimated one-time capital expenditures are approximately $21.5M, with annual operating costs roughly $39.0M. Main recurring cost drivers are personnel, site operations/energy, medical/deafening procedures and legal/cover-up & settlements.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $21.5M
Facilities $6.6M
[#8, #23, #24] Site ██ buildout/retrofit and high-containment decon/mortuary infrastructure capex (includes morgue/secure evidence storage and decon setup).
Contingency Reserve Initial $5.0M
[#26] Initial contingency / rapid-escalation reserve (minimum seed liquidity for outbreaks or emergency scaling).
Transportation Fleet $3.0M
[#15] Fleet capital: vans, refrigerated trucks, occasional airlift contracts (capex for vehicles/airlift agreements).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.5M
[#5, #11, #12] R&D and clinical validation for the deafening procedure, forensic lab equipment & accreditation, and sleep-lab buildout.
Equipment $2.4M
[#9, #10, #18] Includes high-capacity incinerator capital, custom corpse-handling kits (harnesses, reinforced bags, cranes) and initial communications/IT hardware buildout.
Covert Access Setup $1.2M
[#2] Setup costs for covert access including front-company seeding, initial insider payments/bribes and procurement channels for private records.
Digital Monitoring Development $600K
[#1] Development and legal integration of web-crawlers, OCR/NER pipelines, secure connectors and initial covert MOUs / data-sanitisation layers.
Curriculum Development Training $125K
[#17] One‑time curriculum and procedure development for cognitohazard safety and anomalous remains handling.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $39.0M/yr
Staff Wages $12.0M/yr
[#4, #16] Salaries for agents/MTF, researchers, medical staff, lab techs, IT and administrative staff required to operate the programme.
Deafening Procedures $5.0M/yr
[#5, #29, #30] Recurring cost of administering permanent-deafening procedure at scale (assumes ~1,000 procedures/yr at ~$5k avg per procedure).
Facilities Maintenance $4.4M/yr
[#8, #23, #24] Site operations, maintenance, staffing and upkeep excluding energy line-item (maintenance, security staffing and facility repairs).
Research And Monitoring $2.5M/yr
[#11, #12, #13, #7] Programmatic research budgets: neuroimaging, sleep-lab studies, per-sample analysis budgets and ongoing monitoring instrumentation/analysis.
Cover Story And Legal $2.0M/yr
[#3, #21] Annual legal, PR and takedown budget for suppression orders, settlements and cover-story maintenance (base programme legal ops).
Settlements Reserve $2.0M/yr
[#21] Annual contingency pool for settlement payments and litigation to suppress investigations.
Amnestic Administration $1.5M/yr
[#6, #29, #30] Per-subject amnestic consumables and administration (assumes ~1,000 subjects/yr at ~$1.5k avg).
Logistics And Transport $1.4M/yr
[#14, #15] Fleet maintenance, fuel, regional travel and per-operation logistics including moderate international retrievals budget.
Long Term Monitoring $1.0M/yr
[#7, #29, #30] Indefinite light monitoring (calls, credential checks, telemetry where allowed) for released/rehomed subjects (assumes cohort ~1,000 active subjects).
Contingency Fund Annual Liquidity $1.0M/yr
[#26] Annual maintained liquidity for rapid escalation (top-ups to contingency reserve).
Relocation Packages And Housing $1.0M/yr
[#20] One-time relocation costs and initial housing support for rehomed/released subjects (programme-level annual estimate).
Incident Investigations $750K/yr
[#22] Rapid-response investigation teams (travel, on-site pathology, short-term security) for reported unusual corpses (assumes tens of investigations/yr).
Mortuary Storage $600K/yr
[#24] Extended refrigeration and anomaly-safe long-term storage costs for unusual remains prior to disposal (monthly per-case aggregated).
Energy Costs $600K/yr
[#25] Site power, incinerator, HVAC and imaging energy consumption.
Covert Access Stipends $500K/yr
[#2] Ongoing stipends/payments to custodians and covert contract fees to maintain access to private records.
Field Apprehension Ops $500K/yr
[#4] Vehicle fuel, per-incident consumables and marginal costs for distributed field teams (excludes salaries captured in staff_wages).
Forensic Testing $500K/yr
[#11] Per-sample testing budget for DNA/genetics and biochemical assays (assumes several hundred samples/yr).
Supplies And Consumables $300K/yr
[#19] PPE, disposables, syringes, routine medical consumables for procedures and field operations.
Training And Drills $300K/yr
[#17] Recurring training, safety refreshers and drills for cognitohazard procedures and anomalous remains handling.
Ethics And Redaction Team $300K/yr
[#27] Ongoing staff to redact documents, manage internal ethics reviews and secrecy protocols.
Public Health Liaison $300K/yr
[#28] Liaison unit to monitor public-health signals and coordinate covertly with health agencies.
Incineration And Disposal Ops $250K/yr
[#9, #10, #24] Operating costs for anomalous disposals (per-disposal handling, transport, special filtration and permit/workarounds; assumes moderate annual disposals).
Storage And Security Ops $175K/yr
[#18] Secure encrypted storage, backups and security ops for surveillance video and medical logs.
Digital Monitoring Hosting $125K/yr
[#1] Hosting, licensing and SOC monitoring costs for web-crawlers and automated detection systems.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $39.0M/yr
63.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with expected caseload and routine research/containment activity.
steady caseload no major public incidents normal research activity
🚨 Minor Incident $40.5M/yr
30.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Cluster of additional investigations and several domestic retrievals requiring modest extra legal/settlement and logistics spending.
multiple local final-stage events increased investigations several small settlements
🚨 Mass Final Stage Event $54.0M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$15.0M vs baseline
A rare year with multiple concurrent final-stage events or a localized outbreak requiring large-scale incineration, emergency retrievals and major contingency drawdowns.
clustered final-stage incidents mass anomalous remains urgent large-scale incineration
🚨 Political Exposure $64.0M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Public or governmental exposure requiring extensive legal defense, PR, large settlements, and program restructuring.
media leak legal action from families government scrutiny
👥 Personnel 143 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 79 [#4, #16] Field apprehension teams and site security; counts sized for distributed rapid response.
Research Scientist 12 [#5, #11, #12, #13, #16] Cognitive/neuroimaging/sleep research staff included in research budget.
Lab Technician 10 [#11, #12, #16] Forensic and pathology lab technicians supporting sample processing and testing.
Medical Officer / Pathologist 6 [#5, #11, #16] Clinical staff for deafening procedures, surgical support and autopsies.
Engineer / Maintenance 5 [#9, #15, #25] Site engineers to maintain incinerator, HVAC, cranes, fleet and high-energy systems.
IT Staff / Cybersecurity 5 [#1, #18, #16] Maintain web-crawlers, secure storage, SOC monitoring and encrypted backups.
Administrative Staff 15 [#8, #16, #20] Site administration, logistics coordination and cover support.
Legal / Cover / PR Staff 6 [#3, #21, #27] Legal and cover-story personnel handling suppression orders, settlements and redactions.
Training & Ethics Staff 5 [#17, #27] Training, safety oversight and internal ethics/review personnel.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide many specific line-item ranges enabling a reasoned midpoint budget, but caseload uncertainty (subjects progressing to final-stage), rare high-impact events, legal/ethical variables and international retrieval frequency introduce material uncertainty.
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