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SCP-7196 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-7196
Expected annual
$19.3M
One-time setup
$70.8M
Annual recurring
$18.6M
Personnel
26
Estimated one-time setup costs are approximately $70.8M driven by R&D, secondary-site redundancy and a crisis/timeline-repair reserve; recurring annual costs are ~ $18.6M driven by staff wages, emergency response readiness, legal/cover operations and ongoing R&D/monitoring.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $70.8M
Timeline Repair Reserve $25.0M
[#22] Crisis reserve / 'timeline repair' contingency fund; conservative reserve sized above recommended minimum.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $20.5M
[#5, #18] Temporal-dampening R&D prototype and stand-up of simulation/modeling/HPC capability for timeline analysis; major research capital outlay included.
Secondary Site Mirror $20.0M
[#17] One secondary containment mirror site (secure vault + integration) capital cost; single-site midpoint chosen.
Incident Response Standup $2.0M
[#8] One-time stand-up cost for emergency temporal-incident response unit (command infrastructure, vehicles, equipment).
Transport Vehicles $1.2M
[#9] Armored vans/airlift and sealed container purchases for secure transport; midpoint of vehicle purchase range used.
Facilities $1.2M
[#1, #10] Secure-vault upgrade for Locker #196 (reinforced vault/door) and site UPS/generator/UPS integration; combined midpoint used.
Equipment $750K
[#2, #4, #11] Biometric/multi-factor access hardware, high-resolution monitoring/tamper-detection installation, and initial data-archival hardware; summed mid-range estimates.
Ppe And Tooling $110K
[#19] Specialized PPE, remote manipulators and hazard tooling initial purchases.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $18.6M/yr
Incident Response Unit Operations $6.0M/yr
[#8] Staffing, readiness, regular exercises and operational costs for rapid-deploy temporal incident unit; high readiness midpoint used.
Staff Wages $3.3M/yr
[#3, #6] 24/7 specialized security staff (12 positions) plus temporal research team specialists and junior researchers; salaries, benefits and training included.
Cover Story And Legal $2.0M/yr
[#12, #16] Redaction/historical-records management, public-relations, legal and covert liaison funds combined.
Secondary Site Operations $2.0M/yr
[#17] Ongoing operations for the secondary mirror site (staff, monitoring, utilities).
Opportunity Cost Allowance $1.5M/yr
[#23] Budgetary buffer for loss of operational capacity and reassignment/productivity impacts.
Research And Monitoring $1.1M/yr
[#5, #18] Ongoing temporal-dampening R&D operations and refreshes for simulation/modeling; includes prototype operations and modeling refresh budgets.
Controlled Testing Program $600K/yr
[#7] Expected annual budget for controlled tests (assumed several mid-range tests per year at $50k–$250k each).
Cross Site Audit Program $600K/yr
[#25] Monitoring for temporal echoes and regular cross-site historical audits (staff and tooling).
D Class Program Adjustment $300K/yr
[#14] Adaptations to the D-Class program: vetting, housing, amnestics and replacement pipeline adjustments.
Incident Response And Amnestics $250K/yr
[#24] Annual allowance for incident post-mortems, amnestic production and personnel turnover support (per-incident costs averaged over expected frequency).
Logistics And Transport $240K/yr
[#9] Per-move operating costs (estimated expected moves/year * per-move cost).
Public Safety Coordination $200K/yr
[#21] Drills and coordination reimbursements with local emergency services and authorities.
Personnel Vetting And Medical $125K/yr
[#15] Ongoing vetting, medical/psych screening and memetic countermeasure procurement for exposed staff.
Facilities Maintenance $100K/yr
[#10] UPS/generator fuel, maintenance and general facility upkeep for containment infrastructure.
Ethics Oversight $75K/yr
[#13] Ethics Committee meeting time, reviews and special investigations support.
Monitoring Storage And Analysis $50K/yr
[#4] Storage, integrity audits, and forensic analysis for high-resolution monitoring systems.
Data Archival And Integrity $30K/yr
[#11] Ongoing secure archival storage costs and integrity audits for immutable, offline backups.
Periodic Inspection $30K/yr
[#20] Regular inspections, lock replacements and verification audits for Locker #196.
Supplies And Consumables $15K/yr
[#19] Consumable replacements for PPE and safe-handling tooling.
Access System Maintenance $12K/yr
[#2] Annual maintenance, crypto key rotation and custody hardware upkeep for biometric multi-factor access.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $18.6M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major temporal incidents; routine research, containment, monitoring and readiness activities only.
routine_operations scheduled_tests no breaches
🚨 Minor Incident $19.6M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline
Limited temporal anomaly/echo or small containment lapse requiring targeted emergency response, amnestic deployment and additional testing/analysis.
localized temporal leak timeline echo detected
🚨 Major Breach $48.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$30.0M vs baseline
Significant timeline alteration or containment breach requiring large-scale timeline-repair operations, activation of reserves, and extended secondary-site operations.
site compromise cascading timeline alteration
👥 Personnel 26 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#3] Continuous 24/7 guarded coverage: 3shifts × 4 personnel as per analyst note.
Research Scientist 9 [#6] Senior temporal researchers/physicists/engineers (midpoint of 6–12 specialists).
Junior Researcher / Postdoc 5 [#6] Junior staff and postdocs to support experiments and analysis (budgeted as a pooled junior salary line).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates rely on wide ranges and speculative engineering (temporal-dampening R&D), uncertain incident frequencies for temporal events, and organizational contingency choices; large items (reserve, secondary site, response unit readiness) are order-of-magnitude and reduce confidence.
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