SCP-7368 — SCP-7368 | Cost Breakdown

Read on SCP Wiki ↗

SCP-7368 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-7368

Expected annual

$509.6M

One-time setup

$211.6M

Annual recurring

$508.5M

Personnel

Estimated one-time setup and contingencies total approximately $211.6M driven primarily by worst-case response planning and lab/facility buildout; recurring annual costs are about $508.5M/year driven by ongoing containment reserves, monitoring/countermeasures, personnel, and potential prolonged containment expenditures.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $211.6M

Worst Case Initial Response $200.0M

[#25] Initial planning/rapid-response for worst-case global containment / suppression (global coordination, military/physics resources) — planning & initial mobilization.

Reconstruction Startup $5.0M

[#12] Experimental reconstruction / reverse-engineering program startup (R&D staff, prototyping, workshop setup) — conservative initial startup.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.5M

[#10] Dedicated high-security research lab and anomaly assessment suite (EM shielding, clean-room, remote manipulators).

Facilities $2.0M

[#6, #11] Structural work for high-security access control upgrades and physical containment cradle/conservative overbuild.

Field Recovery Expedition $1.0M

[#1] Covert archaeological/forensic field recovery deployment (vehicles, local fixers, helicopter/airlift options); per-expedition estimate.

Covert Diplomatic Cover $300K

[#2] Permits, false-NGO cover, payments to local officials/fixers and foreign legal work per operation.

Specialty Materials $250K

[#13] Procurement of specialty materials, precision components, custom fabrication for prototype work.

Cover Projects $200K

[#23] Public archaeology / plausible scientific cover project seed funding per project.

Secure It Setup $150K

[#14] Encrypted air-gapped servers, secure backups and compute cluster setup.

Secure Transport $100K

[#4] Armored courier/air freight, sealed evidence crates, secure convoys and emergency airlift per seizure/transfer.

Imaging And 3D Scanning $50K

[#15] High-resolution multispectral imaging and 3D scanning projects (one-time digitization efforts).

Forensic Analysis Per Specimen $30K

[#7] Forensic autopsy, DNA sequencing, radiocarbon dating, toxicology, histology per full specimen analysis.

Biohazard Disposal $10K

[#8] Cadaver incineration / hazardous biological disposal per incident.

Equipment $0

[]

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $508.5M/yr

Worst Case Prolonged Containment $500.0M/yr

[#25] Potential multi-site prolonged containment/suppression operating costs if AO-7368-01 proves functional and requires sustained global response.

Reconstruction Development $2.0M/yr

[#12] Recurring R&D/development costs if experimental reconstruction/reverse-engineering program proceeds (staff, iterations, materials).

Staff Wages $1.2M/yr

[#16] Salaries and benefits for core researchers, historians, archaeologists, lab techs and project managers (6–12 person core team).

Incident Response Fund $1.0M/yr

[#20] Contingency fund for emergency mobilization, medical evacuations and rapid response replenishment annually.

Monitoring And Countermeasures $1.0M/yr

[#22] Monitoring rival organizations, procurement channel intrusion detection and active counter-ops watch.

Insurance And Reserves $1.0M/yr

[#24] Insurance, liability reserves, diplomatic mitigation and reserve replenishment.

Covert Ops Support $800K/yr

[#3] HUMINT/SIGINT tasking, safehouses, contractor surrogates, and ongoing clandestine monitoring/retrieval support.

Facilities Maintenance $300K/yr

[#5] Archival Area-09 operating costs: climate control, fire suppression, vault maintenance, cataloging and restricted-access administration.

Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr

[#21] Legal retainers, FOIA mitigation, PR/media management and public-facing deniability operations.

Security Staff And Guards $300K/yr

[#17] Armed/unarmed security roster, rapid response, K-9/explosive detection, training and overtime for on-site security.

Translation And Historical Research $200K/yr

[#9] Contracts for translation, philology, paleography and travel to archives; dedicated small team support.

Vetting And Counterintelligence $100K/yr

[#18] Personnel vetting, clearance processing, continuous monitoring and counter-intel / insider-threat mitigation program costs.

Cover Project Funding $100K/yr

[#23] Ongoing funding for sponsored academic projects/exhibitions used as cover.

Psychological Services $60K/yr

[#19] Counseling, trauma debriefs and long-term staff cognitive monitoring.

Secure It Maintenance $50K/yr

[#14] Ongoing maintenance, patching and support for air-gapped secure compute and encrypted backups.

Long Term Remains Storage $25K/yr

[#8] Secure long-term storage and monitoring costs for incinerated remains/archival remnants.

Digital Preservation $20K/yr

[#15] Ongoing storage, access and repository maintenance for digitized materials and imaging outputs.

Supplies And Consumables $0/yr

[]

Research And Monitoring $0/yr

[]

Logistics And Transport $0/yr

[]

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $508.5M/yr

93.9% probability / year

Normal operational year with no major incidents; routine research, archival operations, monitoring and contingency fund replenishment.

routine_archival_and_research regular_covert_monitoring no_seizures_or_breaches

🚨 Minor Incident $510.5M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Localized incident such as an emergency recovery, single-site breach attempt, or expedited field recovery requiring extra logistics and legal support.

targeted_recovery_deployment small_scale_breach diplomatic_pushback

🚨 Major Breach $558.5M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Significant containment compromise or international incident requiring large-scale mobilization, legal/diplomatic action, and major remediation.

multi-site_breach high_profile_leak large_recovery_operation

🚨 Worst Case Global Containment $1.0B/yr

0.1% probability / year +$500.0M vs baseline

AO-7368-01 confirmed operable or large-scale temporal/causal threat discovered, triggering immediate global suppression and multi-agency containment efforts.

device_operable global_temporal_threat multi-jurisdiction_suppression

👥 Personnel 20 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist	3	Senior/mid-level researchers working on historical, theoretical and anomaly analysis (covered under staff_wages).
Research Technician / Lab Tech	4	Lab technicians supporting analyses, sample prep and instrumentation (covered under staff_wages).
Senior PI / Level-5	1	Program lead / principal investigator overseeing project and ethical/legal review (covered under staff_wages).
Engineer / Maintenance	2	Engineers for prototyping, containment systems and facility maintenance (partly in staff_wages / facilities_maintenance).
Archivist / Cataloger	2	Archival staff for Area-09 cataloging, imaging and secure records maintenance (covered under facilities_maintenance / staff_wages).
Security Officer / MTF Agent	6	On-site guards and rapid-response security roster (covered under security_staff_and_guards recurring costs).
Administrative Staff	1	Administrative and procurement support for operations (covered under staff_wages).
Medical Officer	1	Medical support for autopsies, medevac coordination and staff care (embedded in recurring personnel costs).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are low-confidence because core uncertainties remain (AO-7368-01 existence/functionality unknown), broad ranges in analyst notes, and extremely heavy tail risk (worst-case costs span orders of magnitude). Many line items are contingent on future discoveries.

← SCP-7367 ↑ All SCPs SCP-7369 →