SCP-7473 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-7473
Expected annual
$6.5M
One-time setup
$19.1M
Annual recurring
$6.5M
Personnel
27
Initial capital expenditures are substantial (~$19.1M) driven by facility retrofit, redundant datacenter infrastructure, hardware procurement, and a contingency reserve; annual operating costs are dominated by staff wages, ongoing power/cooling, and recurring security, legal, and research expenditures (~$6.11M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $19.1M
Facilities $8.0M
[#1, #25] Site acquisition and reinforced facility buildout plus permitting and consultant fees.
Equipment $6.6M
[#2, #4, #5, #10, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #21, #23, #26, #29, #28] Electrical upgrades, backup generators/UPS, cooling chillers, primary server/hardware procurement, cybersecurity appliances, monitoring/tamper systems, thaumaturgic containment hardware, vessel cradles/transport gear, spare-parts inventory, shutdown tools, archival setup, heat-reuse retrofit, audit-logging hardware, and vendor-setup costs.
Contingency Reserve One Time $2.0M
[#20] Emergency/contingency reserve held against shutdown attempts, reclamation, or relocation.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.4M
[#7, #9, #11, #27] Initial training/kits, hiring/setup/training for PROJECT KLAWESYN, compute procurement for analysis, and specialized experimental instrumentation.
Legal And Cover Initial $500K
[#18] Initial legal/cover fund, NDAs and shell-company setup.
Insurance Reserve One Time $500K
[#22] Initial insurance/self-insurance reserve for exposures and liability.
Pr Campaign Setup $100K
[#19] Initial public-relations/disinformation campaign setup.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.5M/yr
Staff Wages $2.7M/yr
[#6, #7, #8, #9] 24/7 armed security rotations and supervisors, specialized anomalous-response team salaries & readiness, Dr. Vazschir Raschid salary/hazard pay and monthly counseling, and core PROJECT KLAWESYN R&D team wages.
Facilities Maintenance $1.6M/yr
[#3, #4, #5, #10, #12, #25, #26] Electricity and power-system maintenance (including backup fuel), cooling system maintenance, periodic hardware refresh budgeting, recurring cybersecurity operations, permitting/compliance inspections, and ongoing heat-reuse operations/maintenance.
Research And Monitoring $830K/yr
[#11, #13, #27, #29] Recurring compute/licenses/support, monitoring/logging storage and maintenance, experimental operations for specialized instrumentation, and archival/audit storage costs.
Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr
[#18, #19, #28] Ongoing legal retainer, PR/disinformation upkeep, and vendor-management/contract obfuscation costs.
Insurance And Reserves $200K/yr
[#22] Annual provisioning toward insurance/self-insurance and liability reserves.
Opportunity Costs $200K/yr
[#30] Shadow cost for lost revenue or diverted staff/productivity.
Supplies And Consumables $150K/yr
[#14, #17] Thaumaturgic/memetic consumables, reagents, ritual specialist fees, and spare parts replenishment (drives, fans, filters).
Logistics And Transport $100K/yr
[#16, #23] Annual secure transport budget for heavy equipment moves, off-site backups and archive rotation.
Contingency Replenishment $100K/yr
[#20] Yearly replenishment/augmentation of the contingency fund if deployed.
Shutdown And Decommission Training $100K/yr
[#21] Training, maintenance and readiness for attempted shutdown/decommission protocols and drills.
Staff Psychological Services $100K/yr
[#8, #24] Monthly psychological counseling for Dr. Raschid and ongoing staff psychological monitoring and replacement/turnover mitigation.
Vendor Management $50K/yr
[#28] Recurring covert contract management and payment-routing overhead.
Audit Archival $20K/yr
[#29] Ongoing immutable logging retention and compliance archival costs.
Heat Reuse Operations $20K/yr
[#26] Ongoing operations and maintenance for heat-reuse systems (saves on net electricity).
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.5M/yr
93.9% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; standard upkeep, energy, staffing, and R&D cadence.
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🚨 Minor Incident $6.3M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$-180000 vs baseline
Localized outage, partial hardware failure, or short containment event requiring repairs and modest emergency procurement.
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🚨 Major Breach $11.1M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$4.6M vs baseline
Significant containment breach or sabotage requiring emergency relocation, large-scale repairs, legal response and PR, and extended downtime.
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🚨 Catastrophic Breach $26.1M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$19.6M vs baseline
Site-wide catastrophic failure or high-profile exposure causing long-term remediation, massive liability, and replacement of infrastructure.
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👥 Personnel 27 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 10 [#6] 24/7 armed guard rotations and supervisors for site security.
Containment Specialist / Anomalous-response team 6 [#7] Tactical/thaumaturgic response and rapid intervention operators.
Research Scientist 10 [#9] Core PROJECT KLAWESYN systems engineers, AI/ML, roboticists, thaumaturgists and technicians.
Project Lead (Dr. Vazschir Raschid) 1 [#8] Lead researcher/maintainer with hazard pay and counseling.
📋 Confidence Notes
Large ranges in source estimates, uncertain anomalous power draw and behavior, and many contingent one-off choices (facility scale, necessity of preserving original vessel) create high uncertainty; values reflect a moderate/mid-scale containment assumption.
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