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SCP-7332 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-7332
Expected annual
$10.4M
One-time setup
$7.1M
Annual recurring
$10.3M
Personnel
30
Estimated one-time setup costs are approximately $7.1M driven by forensic/lab setup, equipment, and a contingency eradication fund. Recurring annual costs are roughly $10.1M/year, driven mainly by MTF staffing wages, legal/coverup expenditures, insurance, and an attrition/replacement budget.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.1M
Eradication Contingency $3.0M
[#29] One-time contingency fund for a large eradication/capture campaign (surge assets, air support, expanded housing).
Equipment $1.8M
[#3, #5, #7, #8, #9, #13, #24] Weapons procurement, vehicles, drone program buildout, distributed camera purchase, decoy initial batch, acoustic development (one-time), and communications hardware.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.2M
[#10, #12] Forensic/autopsy facility buildout and initial scientific lab equipment/setup.
Witness Relocation Initial $625K
[#16] Initial one-time relocation/reidentification budget for an assumed initial cohort of families (5 families × mid-range cost).
Facilities $525K
[#11, #23] Secure evidence vault construction/purchase and initial safehouse lease/purchase costs (evidence vault $50k–$200k; safehouses $200k–$1M).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $10.3M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $3.3M/yr
[#2, #16, #17, #18, #20, #27, #30] Local liaison/retainer fees, ongoing witness protection payments, media monitoring & takedown operations, farmer compensation programs, legal risk insurance & contingency funds, community outreach/rumor management, and non‑salary administrative/legal program overhead.
Staff Wages $2.9M/yr
[#1, #12, #14, #15, #22, #30] MTF operator salaries and benefits, researcher salaries, medics/combat medic wages, psychological service clinician wages, intelligence analyst wages, and core administrative/program manager salaries.
Replacement Attrition $1.3M/yr
[#28] Replacement and attrition allowance (estimated 15% of annual operations to cover destroyed equipment, emergency procurements, and personnel turnover).
Research And Monitoring $1.2M/yr
[#10, #12, #13, #19, #22, #25, #15] Forensic lab running costs, non‑salary research consumables/equipment operation, acoustic model tuning, environmental testing/remediation monitoring, intelligence subscriptions/geospatial services (non‑salary), outsourced evidence analysis, and program costs for psychological follow‑ups.
Logistics And Transport $628K/yr
[#5, #6, #7, #24] Vehicle maintenance/fuel, aerial surveillance charters (helicopter hours), drone operations/pilots maintenance, and recurring communications/SIM/satellite uplink costs.
Supplies And Consumables $480K/yr
[#3, #8, #9, #14, #21, #26] Ammunition/incendiary resupply, camera batteries/parts, decoy replacements, medical consumables, training expendables, and disposals.
Facilities Maintenance $220K/yr
[#11, #23] Annual operations/maintenance for evidence vault and regional safehouse utilities, security, and upkeep.
Evidence Analysis Outsourcing $150K/yr
[#25] Recurring budgets for outsourced DNA sequencing, radiocarbon tests, acoustic forensics, and advanced lab analyses.
Emergency Suppression And Repairs $125K/yr
[#4] Retainer/insurance/rapid fire‑suppression callouts and repair budget for accidental fires and emergency remediation.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $10.3M/yr
82.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with routine surveillance, patrols, training, and small incidents handled within standing budgets.
routine_patrols sensor_maintenance no_major_incidents
🚨 Minor Incident $10.5M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
Isolated incendiary engagement or localized series of attacks requiring emergency suppression, repairs, extra aerial tasking, and modest legal/payoff expenses.
isolated_incendiary_engagement local_property_damage small_legal_claims
🚨 Major Breach $12.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.4M vs baseline
Multiple coordinated incidents or an engagement with casualties and significant public exposure requiring witness relocation, large legal settlements, replenishment of destroyed assets, and heavy PR suppression.
multiple_simultaneous_attacks civilian_casualties public_media_exposure
🚨 Large Eradication Campaign $14.1M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$3.9M vs baseline
Activation of the contingency eradication fund for coordinated large-scale assault/containment/eradication requiring heavy air support, expanded specialist manpower, and accelerated research/housing for rescued victims.
persistent_population_outbreak discovery_of_nests need_for_mass_capture_or_eradication
👥 Personnel 30 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#1] Full-time covert rapid-response operators (12) as specified.
Research Scientist 3 [#12] Two to four researchers (entomology/zoology/pathology/acoustics) — estimated 3 FTE researchers.
Medical Officer 2 [#14] Combat medics embedded with teams / medical support staff.
Analyst / Intelligence 2 [#22] GIS/intelligence analysts and data specialists for collection and analysis.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#5, #7] Vehicle and unmanned systems maintenance personnel.
Administrative Staff / Program Managers 3 [#30] Program management, accounting, clearance/administrative overhead.
Field Technician / UAV & Sensor Operator 4 [#7, #8, #9] Drone pilots, sensor installers/maintenance, decoy technicians.
Legal Specialist / Liaison (contractors/retainers) 2 [#2, #16] Local liaison, legal contractors and cover personnel (retainer basis reflected in costs).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges allowing a reasoned estimate, but large ranges for many items (legal/relocation, eradication contingency, aerial hours) and scenario dependence reduce precision to medium confidence.
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