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SCP-7688 Neutralized ✓ high confidence
SCP-7688
Expected annual
$348K
One-time setup
$430K
Annual recurring
$342K
Personnel
5
One-time setup and archival verification costs are moderate (~$430k total) driven by archival build-out, conservation, forensic testing and IT/security equipment; recurring annual costs are modest-to-moderate (~$341.5k/yr) driven primarily by staff wages (security + historians/archivists), monitoring, legal/cover work, and IT/maintenance.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $430K
Facilities $100K
[#3] Build-out or rental of a small museum-grade archival vault (temperature/humidity control, fire suppression, pest control).
Legal Litigation Reserve $50K
[#11] One-time reserve for litigation, settlements, or large legal actions related to provenance or seizures.
Public Relations Campaign $50K
[#14] One-time coordinated PR/cover campaign if required to sanitize public attention on recovered materials.
Neutralization Verification And Audit $45K
[#1] Independent investigation, field historian/paranormal investigator team travel, interviews, and archival audit.
Equipment $37K
[#6, #7, #10] One-time IT/server/CCTV and electronics installation, plus initial secure transport packing/courier costs.
Forensic Provenance Testing $30K
[#2] Radiocarbon dating, ink/paper analysis and other provenance/authentication testing on a small set of documents.
Manuscript Conservation And Restoration $25K
[#4] Skilled conservator labor for stabilization, deacidification, enclosures and minimal restoration for handling/scanning.
Opportunity Ip Acquisition Reserve $25K
[#17] Reserve for purchasing rights, settlements or acquisitions from descendants/publishers.
Appraisal And Emergency Reserve $23K
[#15] Appraisals and a one-time emergency conservation/response reserve for water/fire incidents during setup.
Decommissioning And Disposition Planning $20K
[#16] Legal work, transfer logistics and final reporting for long-term disposition if SCP-7688 is permanently neutralized.
Transportation And Transfer $10K
[#10] Initial insured museum-grade packing and courier/armored transport for recovered artifacts/documents.
Training Initial $10K
[#18] Initial training & certification costs for archivists and responders (paper conservation, handling, evidence preservation).
Digitization And Metadata $5K
[#5] Preservation-grade scanning, OCR where feasible, and metadata/catalog entry (one-time ingest/migration work).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $342K/yr
Staff Wages $250K/yr
[#7, #12] Salaries and benefits for on-site security (archive guards) and historical/research staff and archivist/admin support.
Cover Story And Legal $35K/yr
[#11, #14, #17] Ongoing legal counsel/records-management, routine redaction/FOIA work, cover-story publishing and small ongoing royalty/acquisition/settlement reserves.
Incident Response Reserve $20K/yr
[#9] Annual reserved fund for rapid-deployment travel, temporary lodging and field equipment activation in response to credible sightings.
Research And Monitoring $15K/yr
[#8] Continuous low-intensity monitoring: annual literature review, monitored reporting channels, sensor upkeep and small incident response travel pool.
Facilities Maintenance $8K/yr
[#3, #7] Climate control energy, routine vault maintenance, and small-site maintenance related to the archival storage.
Insurance Premiums $5K/yr
[#15] Annual insurance premiums for transit/storage and general artifact risk coverage.
Supplies And Consumables $4K/yr
[#13, #5] Archival boxes/folders, gloves, pH testing paper, replacement sensors, and digitization migration/access copies.
It Hosting And Backups $3K/yr
[#6] Hosting, off-site/cloud backups, monitoring and periodic integrity checks/format migrations.
Training And Certification $2K/yr
[#18] Annual refresher training and certification costs for staff.
Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $342K/yr
94.0% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year with no major incidents; routine maintenance, staffing, monitoring and archival operations only.
no new sightings routine monitoring and upkeep
🚨 Minor Incident $402K/yr
5.0% probability / year +$60K vs baseline
A credible new sighting or discovery of documents requiring a field response, limited forensic testing and temporary increased conservation effort.
credible sighting recovery of new documents localized public tip-off
🚨 Major Breach $642K/yr
1.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Significant public exposure or legal action (leak, high-profile lawsuit or major media attention) requiring large PR/legal response, settlements and expedited conservation.
public leak/exposure major litigation coordinated media attention
👥 Personnel 5 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / Archive Guard 2 On-site guards for the archive; salaries included in staff_wages estimate (~$55k each). [#7]
Research Scientist / Historian 1 Lead historical researcher/curator to maintain archive and conduct scholarship; salary included in staff_wages (~$60k). [#12]
Research Assistant / Consultant (part-time) 1 Part-time research assistant or consultant for provenance work and digitization support (~$30k equivalent). [#12]
Administrative Staff / Archivist 1 Archivist/records manager responsible for cataloging, FOIA/redaction coordination and day-to-day archive operations (~$50k). [#11, #5]
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes are detailed and itemized with specific ranges for each cost category and realistic assumptions for a neutralized/historically bounded anomalous object; uncertainties are modest and mostly driven by potential litigation or discovery of additional artifacts.
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