SCP-8336 — SCP-8336 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-8336 Neutralized ~ medium confidence

SCP-8336

Expected annual

$305K

One-time setup

$401K

Annual recurring

$292K

Personnel

Initial (one-time) setup and investigation costs are moderate (~$401k) driven by research funding, archival/equipment purchases and contingency reserves; ongoing annual operating costs are modest (~$292k/year) driven by staffing, IT/security and site overhead.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $401K

Initial Research And Lab Setup $150K

[#14] Research project funding for controlled experiments, specialist hires and consumables (multi-month program).

Equipment $60K

[#5, #8, #9, #22] Equipment includes initial digital archival appliance/SAN and hardened servers (#5), IT/HSM/security setup hardware (#8), physical evidence locker hardware (#9), and a periodic hardware refresh capital allocation (#22).

Incident Response Reserve $50K

[#24] Liquid contingency fund for urgent acquisition, travel, emergency research or legal action.

Forensic Autopsy Services $30K

[#3] Forensic autopsy/pathology addenda, specialized histology and outside consultants/toxicology.

Investigation And Search $25K

[#13] Ground searches, drones, K-9, travel and investigative follow-up to locate missing vehicle/scene follow-up.

Compensation And Funeral $20K

[#18] Compensation/funeral assistance and family liaison payments to next of kin.

Forensic Video Analysis $15K

[#4] Frame-by-frame enhancement, timestamp verification, forensic extraction, and external consultants.

Evidence And Law Enforcement Liaison $10K

[#1] Secure retrieval, travel, specialist evidence custody teams, coordination/legal fees to obtain custody.

Witness Management And Amnestics $10K

[#15] Amnestic treatments, monitoring and follow-ups for civilians/personnel exposed to footage or corpse.

Legal And Cover Story One Time $10K

[#17] Initial legal fees, drafting NDAs and cover-story preparation for immediate post-incident needs.

Offsite Archival Initial $8K

[#6] Initial purchase of LTO/tape copies and secure offsite vaulting for air-gapped archival copies.

Psychological Care Initial $6K

[#16] Initial trauma counseling program and EAP sessions for staff post-incident.

Containment Documentation $4K

[#20] Redaction, secure indexing and creation of containment memos for Site-243 databank.

Secure Transport $3K

[#2] Armored/secured courier, chain-of-custody packaging and transport to Site-243.

Facilities $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $292K/yr

Staff Wages $200K/yr

[#10, #11] Archival/records custodian salary and benefits (#10) and security guards/contract security staffing (#11).

Cover Story And Legal $30K/yr

[#17, #19] Ongoing legal/cover story/FOIA management and media monitoring/rapid response contingency funds.

Facilities Maintenance $26K/yr

[#9, #12] Annual facility allocation for evidence locker climate control/tamper detection (#9) and site overhead/utilities allocation (electricity, HVAC for server room) (#12).

Research And Monitoring $12K/yr

[#7, #21, #16] Ongoing digital storage/backup/integrity checking (#7), annual training/tabletop exercises (#21), and continuing psychological support for staff (#16).

It Security Monitoring $10K/yr

[#8] Ongoing IT security monitoring, HSM key management, SIEM logging, periodic pentesting and audits.

Insurance And Shell Entity Maintenance $10K/yr

[#23] Insurance, indemnity costs and maintenance of shell entities used for plausible deniability/compensation.

Supplies And Consumables $2K/yr

[#25] Data center consumables (tape cartridges, replacement HDDs), PPE, chain-of-custody forms and office supplies.

Logistics And Transport $2K/yr

[#6] Annual rotation/transport costs for offsite archival copies.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $292K/yr

85.0% probability / year

Normal uneventful year with routine operations, storage maintenance, staffing and minor consumables.

no leaks no major research escalations standard operations

🚨 Minor Incident $342K/yr

10.0% probability / year +$50K vs baseline

Small public leak or isolated unauthorized access requiring amnestics, targeted PR response and incident expenditures.

unauthorized footage leak local media attention limited civilian exposure

🚨 Legal Exposure $442K/yr

3.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline

FOIA requests, public legal dispute or high-profile media scrutiny requiring extended legal defense, payouts and intensive PR.

FOIA litigation family/media lawsuits high-profile disclosure

🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $492K/yr

2.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline

Discovery or decision to scale experimental investigation into the anomalous hemorrhaging requiring major additional funding.

promising experimental result decision to fund expanded study need for specialist hires and long-term experiments

👥 Personnel 4 total

Role	Count	Notes
Archival/Records Custodian	1	[#10] Full-time records manager/archivist responsible for classified media, cross-clearances and cataloging.
Security Officer / Contract Security	3	[#11] Onsite guards or contracted security coverage (rotating shifts) allocated to Site-243 archive security.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide explicit line-item ranges for all costs allowing a reasonable midrange estimate, but many items (legal exposure, research scale-up, contingency reserves) have wide ranges and stochastic occurrence, so overall confidence is medium.

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