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SCP-8214 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-8214
Expected annual
$2.8M
One-time setup
$11.9M
Annual recurring
$2.7M
Personnel
14
Estimated one-time implementation and contingency reserves are approximately $11.94M, driven primarily by contingency/proliferation reserves and initial R&D/storage buildout; recurring annual costs are approximately $2.66M/yr, driven by staff wages, surveillance/casework and contingency task-force readiness.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $11.9M
Scale Proliferation Contingency $10.0M
[#23] Recommended one-time reserve for large-scale proliferation response (contingency for scaling containment after spread).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $505K
[#4, #20, #12, #19] Initial forensic-grade cybersecurity/hardening and tooling, destruction/neutralization R&D initial tranche, initial archive setup and SOP/training development.
Contingency Reserve Fund $500K
[#16] Initial reserve for rapid-reaction task force, vehicles and immediate mobilization purchases.
Liability Reserve Initial $500K
[#21] Initial liability/compensation reserve (recommended reserve for potential victim-family payments or settlements).
Facilities $260K
[#1, #6] Secure locker upgrades, site reinforcement and controlled test chamber buildout.
Equipment $175K
[#2, #3, #7] Air-gapped forensic workstation, initial cold-storage/backups hardware and robotic/remote handling tools.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.7M/yr
Staff Wages $1.1M/yr
[#5, #11, #9, #8, #16] Salaries: 3guards, research staff, DBA/engineer FTEs, caseworkers and partial rapid-response team staffing.
Contingency Task Force Maint $325K/yr
[#16] Ongoing readiness/maintaining rapid-reaction task force, vehicles, drills and quick-deploy gear.
Case Surveillance $200K/yr
[#9] Long-term monitoring, caseworkers, relocation/quarantine and surveillance for tracked individuals (moderate caseload).
Research And Monitoring $180K/yr
[#4, #20] Ongoing cybersecurity auditing/incident-response retainer and recurring R&D efforts on deletion/sandboxing and containment techniques.
Cover Story And Legal $175K/yr
[#14, #15, #21, #24] Legal retainers, ethics oversight, baseline cover-up/public-relations planning and limited liaison/insurance costs.
Forensic Autopsy And Pathology $100K/yr
[#10] Autopsies, histology, toxicology and biobanking costs (assumes multiple autopsies/samples per year).
Media Monitoring And Counterintelligence $100K/yr
[#22] Media/social monitoring and active counterintelligence to detect leaks or correlations with predictions.
Database And Software Maintenance $90K/yr
[#11] Server costs, hosting, indices and non-wage costs for the Prophetics database (wages for FTEs are included in staff_wages).
Miscellaneous Administrative Overhead $90K/yr
[#25] Accounting, procurement, incremental site fees and administrative overhead.
D Class Provisioning $60K/yr
[#8] Ongoing costs for D-Class housing, security, medical screening and management for any active test subjects.
Psychological Support $50K/yr
[#13] Counseling, EAP and dedicated clinicians for exposed personnel.
Facilities Maintenance $40K/yr
[#6, #18] Maintenance and climate control, power and environmental upkeep for test chamber, storage lockers and site infrastructure.
Long Term Storage Maintenance $30K/yr
[#12] Cryostorage energy and archival maintenance for biological and digital snapshots.
Logistics And Transport $25K/yr
[#25] Secure transport logistics, inter-site transfers and site-specific incremental transport fees.
Training And Sops $25K/yr
[#19] Refresher training and drills to enforce SOPs and prevent accidental listing/exposure.
Supplies And Consumables $15K/yr
[#17] PPE, evidence handling supplies, sterilization and consumables.
Backups And Vault Rental $2K/yr
[#3] Cold-storage vault rental and geographically separated safe rentals for redundant offline backups.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.7M/yr
91.0% probability / year
Normal year: containment operations, scheduled testing at low cadence, routine monitoring and maintenance with no major incidents.
no unauthorized execution limited routine testing no public incidents
🚨 Minor Incident $3.0M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Localized unauthorized execution or accidental exposure requiring emergency containment, short-term public-messaging and targeted cover-up.
unauthorized execution small breach one or two public-exposure risks
🚨 Proliferation Event $12.7M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
ATROPOS.EXE copies or spreads externally, producing many SCP-8214-B instances and large-scale public exposure requiring nationwide containment and long-term mitigation.
unauthorized propagation widespread copying high-profile public incidents
👥 Personnel 14 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#5] 24/7 guard contingent for locker/site security (4-8 recommended; mid-range used).
Research Scientist 2 [#4, #20] Researchers for forensic analysis, R&D on neutralization and running controlled tests.
Software Engineer / DBA 1 [#11] Maintain Prophetics database, server ops and secure indices (FTE wages included in staff_wages).
Caseworker / Field Agent 2 [#9] Monitoring and surveillance caseworkers for tracked SCP-8214-B instances.
Medical Officer 1 [#10] Manage autopsies, pathology liaison and medical study of SCP-8214-C instances.
Engineer / Maintenance 1 [#6, #18] Maintain test chamber, robotic systems, climate control and site infrastructure.
Administrative Staff 1 [#25] Procurement, accounting and administrative support for inter-site logistics and record-keeping.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are built from analyst ranges in the notes; many line-items are broad ranges (especially incident/cover-up and proliferation reserves) so totals are approximate. Core operational costs (storage, workstation, guards, database, surveillance) are well-specified; contingency/proliferation estimates are inherently uncertain.
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