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SCP-8284 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-8284
Expected annual
$3.5M
One-time setup
$4.1M
Annual recurring
$3.5M
Personnel
25
Initial capital/setup costs are approximately $4.07M driven primarily by facility acquisition, structural hardening, and demolition/denial contingency; ongoing annual operations are roughly $3.461M driven by staffing (security + research) and insurance/contingency reserves.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.1M
Facilities $1.8M
[#1, #2, #3, #15, #28] Facility purchase/lease, reinforced door/frame and access control, window/roof hardening one-time installations, occasional major repairs, and quarantine/holding cell construction.
Demolition Contingency $1.0M
[#30] Demolition/denial capability and environmental remediation contingency (one-time reserve).
Equipment $900K
[#5, #8, #12, #17, #22, #23, #33, #34, #26, #27, #24, #18] QRF equipment, exclusionary servers and air-gap hardware, CCTV & sensors hardware, secure comms equipment, fleet purchase, incident-response gear, temporal sensors, archival media hardware, off-site redundancy hardware, initial vetting costs, initial training program creation, and medical/clinic setup hardware (aggregated).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $180K
[#9, #14] Custom archival/compare software development and initial IT/security audit / lab setup.
Redundant Power $150K
[#11] UPS, on-site generator and redundant HVAC/installation one-time capital.
Cover Story Initial $25K
[#20] One-time cover-story/legal contingency payments for initial cover adjustments.
Testing Campaign Provisioning $0
[#29] Per-campaign provisioning (period PPE, props, etc.) — testing is suspended so set to 0 for baseline capital.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.5M/yr
Staff Wages $2.2M/yr
[#4, #5, #6, #7, #10, #13, #21, #27, #18] Salaries/benefits for 24/7 guards, QRF specialists, senior scientific staff (Research Director & Temporal Anomaly Supervisor), research/technical team, forensic/archival specialists, daily archival sign-off labor, covert interior staff, secrecy/hazard pay, and on-site medical staffing.
Insurance Reserve $300K/yr
[#32] Annual reserve / insurance-like fund for third-party suits, exposures and legal contingencies.
Contingency Fund $250K/yr
[#35] Operational contingency for unforeseeable temporal costs (10–25% buffer; set here at ~15%).
Research And Monitoring $161K/yr
[#8, #9, #14, #25, #26, #12, #33, #34] Server maintenance & redundancy, software support/licensing, ongoing IT/security audits & refresh, historical-document monitoring subscriptions, off-site archival redundancy operations, CCTV storage/retention, sensor calibration/service, and archival media preservation operations.
Cover Story And Legal $150K/yr
[#20] Legal retainer, cover-story maintenance, licenses, PR/legal response preparedness and occasional discreet handling costs.
Facilities Maintenance $145K/yr
[#3, #11, #15, #31] Window/roof replacements and breach sensors maintenance, generator/HVAC fuel & service, routine building maintenance and property taxes/municipal fees.
Utilities $60K/yr
[#16] Power, water, sewage, leased secure circuits and general utilities for 24/7 operations.
Psychological Support $50K/yr
[#19] Counseling, occupational health and mental-health services for staff.
Supplies And Consumables $45K/yr
[#18, #23, #34] Medical supplies/PPE/vaccines, incident-response replenishment (sealants/boarding materials), and archival media consumables.
Training And Exercises $30K/yr
[#24] Regular breach drills, data-integrity exercises and temporal-response training.
Logistics And Transport $25K/yr
[#22] Fleet fuel, maintenance and discrete vehicle operations.
Quarantine Operations $10K/yr
[#28] Quarantine room operations, consumables and monitoring for returned/isolated subjects.
Secure Communications Service $5K/yr
[#17] Satellite failover / encrypted comms service fees and carrier costs.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.5M/yr
87.5% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine operations and monitoring only.
No breaches Routine maintenance and monitoring
🚨 Minor Incident $3.6M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline
Small anomaly-related incident requiring overtime, limited repairs, and short-term investigative contracting.
Localized breach or egress Overtime and contractor for forensics Minor repairs to window/door hardware
🚨 Major Breach $5.0M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Significant CK-class restructuring or multi-room compromise requiring restoration, extensive forensics, legal action, and partial site denial/remediation.
CK-class restructuring Loss of local records Large-scale investigative & legal response
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $6.5M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Severe timeline corruption or public exposure requiring demolition/denial, large-scale remediation, major litigation, and extended relocation.
Full CK-class site compromise Public/legal exposure Extensive environmental remediation
👥 Personnel 25 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 [#4] 24/7 on-post guards at secure door and interior entrances.
Quick Reaction Force (Armed Response Specialist) 3 [#5] On-call response team trained for anomalous extraction and temporal incidents.
Research Scientist / Technical Staff 8 [#7, #13] Researchers, historians, archivists and IT staff performing daily archival comparison and monitoring.
Research Director / Temporal Anomaly Supervisor 2 [#6] Senior dual-authority positions (separate people per updated procedures).
Forensic Specialist / Archivist 2 [#10, #26] Digital forensics and archival redundancy specialists for incident investigation and off-site copies.
Medical Officer 1 [#18] On-site medical capability for quarantine and exposure response.
Administrative Staff / Logistics 1 [#20, #22] Administrative/logistics support for cover-story operations, transport scheduling and site administration.
📋 Confidence Notes
Detailed analyst notes provide ranges and many line items, so estimates are informed but several high-impact items (demolition/denial, legal exposure, insurance availability) are highly uncertain; mid-level confidence reflects well-described recurring needs but wide one-time contingencies.
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