SCP-752 — SCP-752 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-752 Keter ? low confidence

SCP-752

Expected annual

$98.5M

One-time setup

$3.0B

Annual recurring

$87.5M

Personnel

300

Initial one-time capital and contingency funding dominate costs (~$3.0B), driven primarily by a multi-hundred-million Shangdu contingency reserve and construction/robotics setup; recurring annual operations are ~ $87.6M driven by personnel, R&D and logistics.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.0B

Shangdu Reserve $2.8B

[#25] Protocol Shangdu-47 contingency reserve (planning bucket for catastrophic options).

Facilities $56.5M

[#1, #2, #3, #29] Land acquisition, perimeter compound construction, reinforced seals/blast installations, and road/runway upgrades.

Contingency Reserve Misc $50.0M

[#33] Flexible misc contingency/reserve for unforeseen first-year capital and expedited purchases.

Aircraft Purchase Capex $40.0M

[#12] Option to purchase aircraft/helicopters (capital purchase scenario).

Robotics Program Capital $35.0M

[#5] Initial unmanned infiltration R&D, prototyping, secure R&D facility and reverse-engineering program capital.

Public Resettlement Reserve $30.0M

[#24] Reserve fund for civilian evacuation, resettlement and emergency housing.

Reverse Engineering Factory Capex $17.5M

[#32] Small-scale factory capital to reproduce/field-test tech derived from SCP-752.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $12.0M

[#4, #21] On-site, air-gapped materials lab buildout and behavioral research instrumentation/setup (SEM/XRD/etc. + behavioral study setup).

Site17 Upgrade $10.0M

[#7] Site-17 quarantine/isolation cells and related buildout for captured SCP-752-1.

Legal Cover Reserve $6.5M

[#23] Initial legal/cover-story contingency and funds for land seizures/compensation.

Armed Response Capex $6.0M

[#10] Armored vehicles, weapons, ballistic protection and one-time outfitting/training suites.

Geotechnical Survey Capex $5.5M

[#15] Initial core drilling, borehole cameras and subsurface survey/coring at sites.

Monitoring Installation Capex $4.0M

[#14] Wired CCTV, fiber/tethered seismic sensors, pressure pads, mechanical alarms and subterranean gauges installs across sites.

Energy Redundancy Capex $3.0M

[#16] Backup generators, UPS, fuel storage and local microgrid capital for compounds and labs.

Transport Decon Capex $2.0M

[#13] Armored transfer capsules, mobile decon trailers and biocontainment vehicle mods (capital).

Vault Construction $1.5M

[#17] Hardened, climate-controlled sample vault and mechanical handling for recovered materials.

Biohazard Capex $1.5M

[#20] On-site decon infrastructure, autoclaves and hazardous waste handling capital.

Initial Consumables And Ppe $750K

[#18] Initial stockpile of PPE, specialized suits and consumables.

Nonlethal Capture Capex $750K

[#19] Large-capacity traps, specialized anesthetic systems and containment cages (capital).

It Physical Storage Capex $750K

[#27] Secure air-gapped physical media storage, safes and manual logging infrastructure (one-time).

Counterintel Setup Capex $375K

[#22] One-time setup for internal monitoring, psych screening and OPSEC infrastructure.

Equipment $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $87.5M/yr

Staff Wages $45.0M/yr

[#9] Salaries/loaded labor for scientists, engineers, containment staff, security, medical, admin (planning figure).

Research And Monitoring $8.8M/yr

[#15, #21, #28] Ongoing geotechnical/subsurface monitoring, behavioral research programs and long-term sample analysis/testing campaigns.

Logistics And Transport $7.8M/yr

[#12, #13] Contracted airlift/air assault and recurring transport/decon operations (contracting option midpoint).

Unmanned Infiltration Ops $5.0M/yr

[#6] Annual O&M for robot fleet, consumables, field ops, iterative R&D and remote operators.

Reverse Engineering Ops $3.5M/yr

[#32] Ongoing operations costs for small-scale replication factory and field-testing of recovered tech.

Facilities Maintenance $3.1M/yr

[#2, #3, #14, #16, #29] Annual maintenance for compounds, blast-door/airlock upkeep, monitoring maintenance, energy systems and road/logistics infrastructure.

Site17 Custody Ops $3.0M/yr

[#8] Annual custody, medical care, interrogation and operational costs for captured SCP-752-1 at Site-17.

Cover Story And Legal $2.0M/yr

[#23] Ongoing legal, PR, political liaison and cover-story budgets.

Armed Response Training And Maintenance $2.0M/yr

[#11] Recurring tactical training, live-fire exercises, equipment maintenance and ammunition budgets.

Counter Intel Ops $2.0M/yr

[#22] Ongoing counter-intelligence, OPSEC monitoring and internal-audit operations.

Insurance And Claims Reserve $2.0M/yr

[#26] Annual self-insurance budget/retainer for legal defense and extraordinary claims.

Psych Support And Rotation $1.5M/yr

[#30] Psychological support, rotation costs, hazard compensation and counseling for staff.

Supplies And Consumables $950K/yr

[#18, #19, #20] Annual replenishment of PPE, consumables, traps, anesthetics and biohazard disposables.

Crisis Drills $550K/yr

[#31] Annual full-scale containment simulations, interagency coordination and training exercises.

Vault Ops $200K/yr

[#17] Climate-control, handling and records maintenance for sample vault (annual).

It Physical Storage Ops $150K/yr

[#27] Operations/maintenance of physical recordkeeping, duplication and safe storage.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $87.5M/yr

88.0% probability / year

Normal uneventful year with routine operations and no major incidents.

routine_operations scheduled_research no_breaches

🚨 Minor Incident $97.5M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Localized containment incident requiring emergency response, repairs and temporary evacuations.

localized_breach emergency_medical temporary_evacuations

🚨 Major Breach $587.5M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$500.0M vs baseline

Significant multi-site breach or mass release requiring large-scale recapture, activation of contingency protocols including Shangdu measures.

multi-site_breach mass_release activation_of_shangdu_protocol

👥 Personnel 300 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist	60	[#9, #28, #21] Materials scientists, geophysicists and behavioral researchers running analysis and sample testing.
Robotics Engineer	40	[#5, #6, #32, #9] Designers and operators for unmanned infiltration and R&D teams.
Containment Specialist	40	[#2, #3, #7, #9] Containment engineers, airlock/door specialists and quarantine managers.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	80	[#10, #11, #9] Armed response and 24/7 site security personnel including rapid-response teams.
Site Director / Executive Staff	6	[#9] Executive oversight and command staff for multi-site coordination.
Medical Officer	10	[#8, #9] Medical staff for custody, decontamination and emergency response.
Engineer / Maintenance	24	[#16, #2, #29, #9] Facilities, power and transport maintenance crews.
Administrative Staff	20	[#23, #9] Administrative, legal liaison and cover-story coordination support.
Behavioral / Anthropology Researchers	10	[#21, #9] Long-term observation and behavioral study teams.
Logistics / Transport Personnel	10	[#12, #13, #9] Drivers, airlift coordinators and transport crew for site resupply and transfers.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates include large ranges and a multibillion-dollar contingency (Shangdu) whose use is highly uncertain; SCP nature (Keter, unknown shield, subterranean scale) creates significant unknowns in frequency and cost of breach events.

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