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SCP-7420 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-7420
Expected annual
$887.2M
One-time setup
$1.7B
Annual recurring
$819.0M
Personnel
1000
One-time establishment costs are dominated by large contingency reserves, infrastructure stabilization, and heavy-capital purchases (~$1.7B). Recurring annual operations (security, personnel, logistics, and stabilization) are sizable at roughly $654M/yr, driven by personnel, fuel/logistics, and society-scale stabilization programs.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.7B
Catastrophic Reserve One Time $1.0B
[#30] Conceptual catastrophic/failure reserve to cover extreme recontainment or planetary-scale engineering; intentional, large placeholder reflecting unbounded worst-case potential.
Facilities $243.0M
[#13, #17, #21, #27] Forward operating hub construction, initial containment facility buildouts, major city infrastructure stabilization projects, and archive preservation/RAISA reconstruction.
Emergency Reserve One Time $200.0M
[#24] Contingency reserve for immediate emergency extraction, replacement teams, and escalation resources.
Equipment $55.0M
[#5, #8] Capital purchases for heavy-lift assets and initial robotics/automation development prototypes and large equipment acquisition.
Reparations Initial $50.0M
[#28] One-time compensation/resettlement fund seed for affected populations if the Foundation assumes reparations.
Environmental Remediation Initial $50.0M
[#26] Initial hazardous-waste handling and large-scale remediation budgets for heavily contaminated urban sites.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $30.0M
[#7] Controlled-trial research facilities, lab instrumentation, and initial R&D infrastructure for ritual validation and failure-mode testing.
Legal Frameworks Initial $25.0M
[#18] One-time diplomatic payments, procurement channels, and legal frameworks to enable global operations and intergovernmental cooperation.
Media Management Initial $20.0M
[#19] Initial public-relief funding, messaging campaigns, and counter-disinformation setup following veil lift.
Surveys And Mapping $15.0M
[#1] One-time satellite tasking, high-resolution drone fleets, lidar mapping contracts, and initial ground-recon mapping contracts to catalog sinkholes.
Automation Dev Initial $10.0M
[#8] Initial engineering and prototyping budgets for robotic arms, AR guidance systems, and drone payloads used in rituals.
Rapid Response Training Program $6.0M
[#2] Curriculum development, instructors, simulators and baseline training to produce initial cohort of ritual/RAISA-capable teams.
Golden Plates Stockpile $3.0M
[#6] Initial stockpile of symbolic/ceremonial plates and smaller ritual artifacts; avoids infeasible full-scale gold plates.
Communications Hardening $2.5M
[#12] Hardened encrypted servers, secure data-centers, initial deployment of satellite phones and secure comms.
Field Medical Initial $2.0M
[#9] Setup costs for deployable field hospitals, quarantine/triage units and initial medical stock to support field deployments.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $819.0M/yr
Staff Wages $160.0M/yr
[#23] Fully loaded personnel salaries, hazard pay and retention for specialists (security, ritualists, medics, engineers, researchers) reflecting ~1,000 full-time staff.
Societal Stabilization Programs $100.0M/yr
[#29] Long-term monitoring of population hotspots, stabilization and anti-looting/governance aid efforts.
Security Operations $80.0M/yr
[#4] Armed containment/perimeter security, munitions, vehicle ops and operational training distributed annually.
Fuel Food Consumables $80.0M/yr
[#14] Ongoing fuel, food, and consumable logistics for field teams and heavy equipment.
Logistics And Transport $60.0M/yr
[#3, #5, #11] Routine transport, vehicle/heavy-equipment hire, consumable vehicle parts, and per-operation logistics baseline costs.
Supplies And Consumables $50.0M/yr
[#9, #14, #22] Medical consumables, PPE, food/fuel provisioning, and recurring ritual consumables not capitalized.
Armaments And Ammo $50.0M/yr
[#11] Weapons, ammunition, trap consumables and specialized anti-7420-A equipment replenishment.
Emergency Reserve Replenish $50.0M/yr
[#24] Annual replenishment/rotation of contingency reserve to ensure readiness for unforeseen failures.
Per Operation Deployment $30.0M/yr
[#3] Recurring annual costs to transport and billet field teams per sinkhole operation (baseline assumed operations/year aggregated here).
Research And Monitoring $25.0M/yr
[#7, #15, #16] Ongoing R&D, satellite tasking/subscriptions, remote sensing, and validation testing budgets.
Environmental Remediation Ops $20.0M/yr
[#26] Recurring cleanup costs for contaminated urban sites until remediation complete.
Facilities Maintenance $15.0M/yr
[#13, #16] Maintenance and utilities for forward operating hubs and periodic geotechnical inspections of sealed sinkholes.
Cover Story And Legal $15.0M/yr
[#18, #19] Ongoing diplomatic liaison, legal/cover operations, media management, and public-relief funding operations.
Heavy Lift Maintenance $10.0M/yr
[#5] Maintenance, fuel, and chartering costs for heavy-lift helicopters, cranes and large rigging equipment.
Automation Maintenance $10.0M/yr
[#8] Maintenance and support for robotic/AR systems and field units used to minimize human exposure.
Field Medical Ops $10.0M/yr
[#9] Operational costs for deployed field hospitals, medical supplies, and casualty stabilization.
Forward Base Maintenance $10.0M/yr
[#13] Annual upkeep for regional hubs, depots, and workshops.
Site Monitoring Maintenance $10.0M/yr
[#16] Long-term geotechnical sensors, drone inspections, and maintenance of seals/ritual marks at sites.
Media Management Ops $10.0M/yr
[#19] Ongoing counter-disinformation, public messaging and humanitarian coordination.
Satellite Uav Subscriptions $5.0M/yr
[#15] Monthly satellite tasking, radar feeds, and persistent UAV patrol subscriptions aggregated yearly.
Legal Diplomatic Ops $5.0M/yr
[#18] Ongoing inter-agency liaison, procurement cover, and diplomatic maintenance costs.
Reparations Support $5.0M/yr
[#28] Ongoing support and compensation programs for affected communities.
Containment Facility Ops $2.0M/yr
[#17] Operations and security for specimen containment/research facilities.
Psychological Services $2.0M/yr
[#20] Mental-health, survivor support and responder PTSD programs.
Morgue Forensics $1.5M/yr
[#10] Recurring costs per-body for morgue, DNA/ID work, and hazardous waste handling scaled to baseline casualty throughput.
Ritual Training Refresher $1.0M/yr
[#2] Annual refresher training and simulation programs for ritual teams.
Ritual Consumables Stock $1.0M/yr
[#22] Recurring procurement of incense, textiles, inks and small ceremonial tools per deployment.
Cultural Liaison $1.0M/yr
[#25] Ongoing payments to local liaisons, interpreters and cultural consultants per deployment/region.
Comms Ops $500K/yr
[#12] Secure hosting, encrypted comms, and routine secure data-replication operations.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $819.0M/yr
48.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with routine deployments, monitoring, and no major containment failures.
routine_operations no_major_failures steady-state staffing
🚨 Minor Incident $664.0M/yr
40.0% probability / year +$-155000000 vs baseline
Localized ritual failure or repeat deployment at a site requiring additional deployments and replacements.
repeat_deployment localized_spike_in_casualties
🚨 Major Breach $1.2B/yr
10.0% probability / year +$335.0M vs baseline
Significant containment failure at a major urban sinkhole requiring large-scale security, remediation, and reparations.
failed_sealing large_infrastructure_damage mass_casualties
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $5.7B/yr
2.0% probability / year +$4.8B vs baseline
Widespread failure or escalation requiring existential-containment measures and deployment of catastrophic reserves.
systemic_failure widespread_structural_collapse need_for_planetary-scale_response
👥 Personnel 1000 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 400 [#3, #4, #23] Front-line perimeter security and armed containment teams required for field operations.
Ritual Specialist / Ritualists 200 [#2, #6, #22, #23] Trained ritual performers, linguists and practitioners performing tapestry rituals in the field.
Research Scientist 150 [#7, #8, #17, #23] Mythology/folkloristics, anthropologists, engineers and lab staff performing validation and automation R&D.
Medical Officer 50 [#9, #23] Field medics and hospital staff supporting deployed teams and survivors.
Engineer / Maintenance 50 [#5, #8, #13, #23] Heavy-equipment operators, helicopter/crane crews, robotics technicians and FOB maintenance staff.
Administrative Staff 50 [#12, #18, #23] Logistics, procurement, and administrative support including secure-database edits and inter-agency liaison.
Archive / Archivist 10 [#27, #2, #23] RAISA reconstruction, archive preservation and training-material curation.
Logistics / Field Support 40 [#3, #14, #23] Field logistics, supply chain, and convoy coordination for deployments.
Media / Legal Liaison 25 [#18, #19, #23] Diplomatic and public-relations staff managing cover stories and government interactions.
Psychologist / Mental Health 25 [#20, #23] Survivor support and responder mental-health services.
📋 Confidence Notes
Costs are driven by many unknowns in the SCP file (object uncontained, unknown sinkhole count/size, ritual scalability). Estimates use broad ranges and many judgment calls; therefore confidence is low.
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