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SCP-7786 Unknown ~ medium confidence
Die Hexennacht (SCP-7786)
Expected annual
$8.2M
One-time setup
$19.5M
Annual recurring
$7.5M
Personnel
77
One-time setup for a secure Area-122 installation is estimated at roughly $19.5M, driven by facility construction, secure lab buildout, and sensor/aviation/equipment procurement. Recurring annual operations are estimated at ≈$7.5M/year, dominated by security staffing, legal/compensation obligations, logistics (aviation/retrieval), and a dedicated contingency reserve.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $19.5M
Facilities $11.2M
[#3, #4, #5, #13, #21, #26] Construction/renovation of Area-122 HQ and summit access, perimeter physical works (fence/checkpoints), power installation, waste-disposal infrastructure, and archival system initial capital.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $4.6M
[#15, #16, #17, #18, #27] Thaumaturgical research cell establishment, secure biological/forensic laboratory buildout and instrumentation, initial amnestic stockpile, and specialist consultation startup.
Equipment $2.0M
[#8, #10, #14, #12, #11, #22] Procurement of weapons/tactical kit, UAS/drones, surveillance sensors, communications hardware, ground vehicle fleet, and initial retrieval kits.
Legal And Admin Setup $1.4M
[#1] Initial legal coordination, land-use agreements, MOUs with German authorities, signage and administrative cover setup.
Training Initial $250K
[#7] Initial tactical/thaumaturgical training package and SOP development (live-fire, helicopter insertion drills, altitude operations).
Psyops Seed $60K
[#23] One-time seeding of folklore/literary cover materials and initial media seeding.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $7.5M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $1.8M/yr
[#1, #2, #25, #23, #24] Annual legal/administrative renewals and government liaison, compensation for lost local economic activity, legal/diplomatic retainer, ongoing folklore/cover maintenance, and vetting/HR overhead.
Staff Wages $1.6M/yr
[#6, #17] Annual wages, deployment allowances and overtime for MTF/security staff and on-site medics supporting April operations and limited year-round presence.
Logistics And Transport $1.3M/yr
[#9, #11, #20, #22] Seasonal aviation rental/operations for April, ground vehicle fuel/ops, personnel lodging/rations for deployments, and recurring expedition/retrieval operation budgets.
Containment Breach Contingency $1.0M/yr
[#19] Dedicated annual reserve for emergency large-scale incident response (evacuation, mass amnesticization, national coordination).
Research And Monitoring $770K/yr
[#14, #15, #18, #26] Ongoing thaumaturgical research staffing/experiments, surveillance data analysis/calibration, forensic/sample processing recurring costs, and archival storage/analysis.
Facilities Maintenance $300K/yr
[#3, #4, #11, #12, #13, #26, #21] Annual maintenance for base structures, perimeter sensors/cameras, vehicle upkeep, comms/server upkeep, generator servicing/fuel contingencies, archival maintenance, and disposal infrastructure upkeep.
Supplies And Consumables $235K/yr
[#8, #17, #21] Ammunition/consumables and amnestic administration costs, plus recurring hazardous/occult waste disposal per season.
Miscellaneous Replacement $150K/yr
[#28] Reserve budget for equipment losses and unexpected replacement from extradimensional operations.
Detention Custodial $135K/yr
[#16] Annual custodial costs for detained SCP-7786-B subjects (estimate for small-number long-term holds).
Specialists Contractors $125K/yr
[#27] Annual contracted expert fees (occultists, Sarkic specialists, anthropologists, translators) and travel/hazard premiums.
Training Refresh $100K/yr
[#7] Annual refresher tactical/thaumaturgical training and drills.
Uav Operations $60K/yr
[#10] Recurring operations, spare parts and mission hours for drone/UAS fleet and long-range sensor platforms.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $7.5M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal operational year: April deployments, routine research and maintenance, no major incidents.
scheduled_April_deployment routine_research_and_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $9.5M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Localized containment incident or increased ritual activity requiring larger on-site response, limited evacuations and expanded retrievals.
localized_breach mass_civilian_exposure ritual_activity_spike
🚨 Major Breach $32.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Large-scale breach or activation of SCP-7786-Ω requiring national-level response, SRA activation, mass evacuations and extended containment operations.
SCP-7786-Ω_activation mass_egress SRA_deployment
👥 Personnel 77 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 60 [#6] Rotational MTF and armed security cadre to provide 24/7 April coverage, rapid response teams and patrols.
Research Scientist 6 [#15] Thaumaturgists, parapsychologists, ethnographers and linguistic specialists staffing the thaumaturgical research cell.
Medical Officer 3 [#17] On-site medics to support trauma care, sedation and amnestic administration during deployments.
Engineer / Maintenance 4 [#12, #13] Technical staff for comms/servers, power systems, SRAs maintenance (routine tests) and sensor upkeep.
Administrative Staff 3 [#1, #24] Legal/liaison, HR/vetting, and cover-story administration staffing for government coordination and local compensation programs.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [general] Single on-site director or executive responsible for Area-122 oversight and coordination with Foundation HQ.
📋 Confidence Notes
Article and analyst notes provide many discrete line items and plausible ranges, allowing reasonable aggregation; however wide price ranges and choice of operational posture (rental vs purchase, barebones vs full facility) produce moderate uncertainty.
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