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SCP-8028 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-8028
Expected annual
$152.1M
One-time setup
$240.5M
Annual recurring
$140.9M
Personnel
100
Estimated initial program capital is approximately $235.5M driven primarily by R&D startup, hub hardware purchases, and one-time remediation/stockpile purchases; ongoing annual operations are about $141M/year driven by surveillance, Protocol Sondheim operations, MTF hub staffing/operations, and cover/black-ops expenditures.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $240.5M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $107.0M
[#7, #10] One-time R&D program startup and specialized lab/cold-storage buildout (Protocol Sondheim R&D capex and advanced lab instruments, mid-range estimate).
Rtf Hub Capital $100.0M
[#6] Initial purchase-style capital for 5 regional hubs (vehicles, helicopters, comms, armament) using purchase-heavy estimate (~$20M/hub).
Emergency Reserve Stockpile $15.0M
[#20] One-time stockpile of emergency gear, mobile barriers, temporary shelters and prepaid charters (mid-range).
Per Site Remediation $5.0M
[#3] One-time remediation/demolition per waygate; assumed 20 initial remediations at median $250k each.
Data Center Setup $5.0M
[#22] Hardened secure servers and redundant ops center initial setup (one-time).
Medical Isolation Facility $5.0M
[#18] One-time buildout of isolation/quarantine wards for anomalous subjects (mid-range).
Field Robotics Fleet $3.5M
[#11] One-time purchase of rugged ground and aerial drone fleet sized for multiple teams (mid-range).
Facilities $0
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Equipment $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $140.9M/yr
Research And Monitoring $42.0M/yr
[#1, #8, #9, #15] Global waygate surveillance ($12M), ongoing Protocol Sondheim testing/ops ($25M), botanical/genomics program ($3.5M), forensic/psych profiling ($1.5M).
Cover Story And Legal $31.0M/yr
[#16, #24, #25, #26] Covert property/permit acquisition and front organizations ($10M), legal/diplomatic black-ops funding ($15M), environmental restoration per-op program ($2M), and publications/PR obfuscation ($4M).
Program Contingency $23.5M/yr
[#27] Program management / contingency buffer (20% of recurring subtotal excluding contingency; note guidance requested 15–30%).
Facilities Maintenance $22.4M/yr
[#4, #5, #23] Recurring MTF hub operating costs, per-site sensor/maintenance and data center hosting/IT ops (hub ops $20M, per-site security/maintenance $1.5M, data center ops $0.9M).
Staff Wages $12.0M/yr
[#13] Salaries and benefits for core program staff (conservative 100 FTE at ~$120k loaded).
Logistics And Transport $4.0M/yr
[#2, #14] Targeted field recon & mapping deployments (annualized ~$3M) and specialized arboriculture / per-operation heavy-removal reserve (~$1M/year).
Supplies And Consumables $3.0M/yr
[#12, #19, #21] Drone and sensor attrition/spares ($1.0M), medical consumables/ongoing care ($1.5M), and recurring exercise/drill consumables ($0.5M).
Amnestic And Witness Relocation $3.0M/yr
[#17] Amnestic treatments, therapy and witness relocation/resettlement program (program-level annual estimate).
Strategic Unbounded Costs $0/yr
[#28] Non-financial alert: acknowledges unbounded/long-term scaling risks; no discrete annual figure assigned here.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $140.9M/yr
70.0% probability / year
Normal year with steady monitoring, scheduled R&D activity, hub operations, and no major breaches.
no major breaches routine surveillance and testing scheduled remediation and exercises
🚨 Minor Incident $145.9M/yr
25.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Localized breach or discovery requiring several emergency deployments, limited remediation, additional amnestics and legal actions.
single-site breach resistant SCP-8028-2 requiring Protocol Sondheim increased amnestic and local remediation needs
🚨 Major Breach $340.9M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$200.0M vs baseline
Significant multi-site breach or high-profile incident requiring large-scale emergency response, mobilization of reserves, international covert operations and heavy remediation.
multi-site ingress resistant SCP-8028-2 entering populated area Veil/ETTRA-level exposure requiring large-scale ops
👥 Personnel 100 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 25 [#9, #15] Botanists/geneticists and scientific researchers for ongoing study and predictive models; covered by staff_wages.
Remote-sensing Analyst 12 [#1] Analysts and data scientists maintaining global imagery analytics and change-detection pipelines.
Botanist / Arborist 18 [#9, #14] Field botanists and arboriculture specialists for sampling, tree work and advising remediation.
Engineer / Maintenance 10 [#11, #12] Engineers and technicians for robotics, sensors, and facility maintenance.
Administrative Staff 10 [#13] Program admins, logistics coordinators, and finance support.
Legal / Cover Operations 5 [#16, #24, #26] Legal teams and cover-story/PR operators coordinating permits, front organizations and suppression.
Program Management / Executive 5 [#27] Senior leadership, program managers, and oversight.
Logistics / Field Ops 15 [#2, #4] Field logisticians, deployment coordinators, and covert site operators supporting expeditions and per-site security.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges allowing reasoned aggregation, but major uncertainties remain (number of active waygates, R&D technical risk, choice between leased vs purchased assets, and Archon-class long-term scaling). Estimates use mid-range assumptions and a program-sized initial remediation and 5-hub posture.
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