SCP-8343 — SCP-8343 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-8343 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-8343

Expected annual

$8.4M

One-time setup

$28.4M

Annual recurring

$8.3M

Personnel

One-time startup and contingency/reserve spending of roughly $28.4M (driven by vehicle/air assets, WATCHDOG sensors/compute, vault upgrades and a large contingency reserve); recurring annual costs of about $8.29M/yr driven primarily by staff wages (WATCHDOG + MTF + RISA + researchers) and ongoing readiness/monitoring.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $28.4M

Contingency Reserve $15.0M

[#24] Recommended rapid-response / scale-up reserve (held, not annual) for reclassification / re-activation scenarios.

Equipment $9.7M

[#1, #2, #8] WATCHDOG sensor array deployment (#1), server/compute/software one-time/dev/hardening (#2), MTF equipment & vehicles (armored transports/rotary asset or equivalent) (#8).

Facilities $1.4M

[#12, #16] Perimeter construction/fencing and high-priority vault upgrades (hardened vaults/climate control/EM shielding).

Risa Archival $450K

[#14] One-time secure archival storage setup, redaction & cryptographic archival tooling for RISA.

Decon And Memetic Mitigation One Time $350K

[#19] Portable decon rigs, memetic-filtering devices, isolation tents, evidence packaging hardware.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $300K

[#21] Seed grant / initial research program funding for long-term SCP-8343 theology/physics team.

Per Artifact Containment One Time $300K

[#15] Per-artifact transport & initial containment (conservative single-artifact baseline assumption; actuals scale with artifact count).

Cybersecurity One Time $250K

[#6] Network hardening, intrusion detection deployment and initial information-protection setup.

Cover Story Setup $250K

[#13] One-time legal/cover-story establishment, initial liaison agreements and PR setup.

Backup Power $175K

[#5] Generators, UPS arrays and initial fuel/fuel-storage provisioning equipment.

Medical Initial $100K

[#11] Initial medical/training equipment for responder psych/medical monitoring.

Archive Migration $100K

[#23] One-time costs for migration to long-term cold/air-gapped storage (tape, encryption, geographic distribution).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.3M/yr

Staff Wages $4.4M/yr

[#3, #7, #14, #21, #25] WATCHDOG operators/data scientists/sysadmin (~8 FTEs), MTF Alpha-1 operatives (~14 FTEs), RISA staffing, research team salaries, and administrative FTE salaries aggregated.

Logistics And Transport $650K/yr

[#10, #20] MTF operational consumables/logistics and vehicle maintenance (#10) plus armored transport/transfer budgets (#20).

Training And Exercises $500K/yr

[#9] Ongoing MTF and joint WATCHDOG/medical/memetic-hazard training and exercises.

Cover Story And Legal $375K/yr

[#13] Ongoing legal counsel, liaison, PR management and local-government relations.

Risa Recurring $375K/yr

[#14] Ongoing archival staffing, storage costs and classified access control for RISA.

Facilities Maintenance $350K/yr

[#4, #12, #16] Field repairs and sensor replacement (#4), perimeter maintenance (#12), and vault operations/maintenance (#16).

Research And Monitoring $350K/yr

[#2, #17, #21] Ongoing WATCHDOG analytics updates (non-staff cloud/dev ops excluded), annual multidisciplinary surveys (#17) and research program expenses (#21 non-salary).

Medical And Psych Care $250K/yr

[#11] Ongoing medical/psychological care, therapy and pharmacological countermeasures for responders.

Cloud And Software Licenses $225K/yr

[#2] Recurring cloud fees, satellite/aerial data licensing, AI model update/hosting costs.

Emergency Readiness $200K/yr

[#18] Annual readiness maintenance, evacuation planning, prepositioned supplies and civil-authority contracts.

Cybersecurity Monitoring $150K/yr

[#6] Ongoing intrusion monitoring, incident response retainer and insider-threat controls.

Per Artifact Recurring $150K/yr

[#15] Ongoing containment costs per reclassified artifact (baseline assumes one artifact; scales with count).

Red Team And Audits $138K/yr

[#22] Periodic offensive security testing and physical/insider leak audits.

Administrative Overhead $75K/yr

[#25] Travel, program management admin expenses (non-salary portion).

Backup Power Fuel Maintenance $60K/yr

[#5] Fuel contracts and generator/UPS maintenance to keep WATCHDOG and comms online.

Decon Consumables $50K/yr

[#19] Replacement consumables for decon rigs and memetic mitigation consumables.

Archive Migration $35K/yr

[#23] Ongoing costs for digital preservation, refresh cycles and geographically distributed copies.

Supplies And Consumables $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.3M/yr

87.5% probability / year

Normal, uneventful year with steady WATCHDOG monitoring, routine maintenance, training and scheduled surveys.

routine_surveys regular_deployments no_significant_metric_shift

🚨 Minor Incident $8.5M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline

Localized metric spike or suspicious activity requiring MTF dispatch, short-term surge ops and limited equipment replacement.

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🚨 Major Breach $10.3M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Significant containment event or breach requiring large-scale MTF response, asset replacement and emergency medical/psych support.

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🚨 Reactivation Scale Up $18.3M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Re-classification or partial re-activation of anomalous activity requiring rapid scale-up, major construction, and significant draw on contingency reserve.

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👥 Personnel 36 total

Role	Count	Notes
WATCHDOG Analyst / Operator	6	[#3] 24/7 monitoring analysts (approx. 6 analysts on roster).
WATCHDOG Sysadmin	1	[#3] On-prem / operations sysadmin for servers and networks.
Data Scientist / AI Engineer	1	[#3, #2] Maintains anomaly-detection models and analytics.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	14	[#7] Mobile Task Force Alpha-1 roster (assumed ~14 operatives).
Research Scientist / Academic Researchers	4	[#21] Long-term theology/physics research team (3–5; baseline=4).
RISA Personnel	3	[#14] Records & Information Security Administration staff for archival retention and access control.
Administrative Staff	3	[#25] Program manager, procurement/finance/compliance support (2–3 FTEs; baseline=3).
Medical Officer / Psychologist	2	[#11] Medical and psychological care providers for MTF and responders.
Engineer / Field Maintenance	2	[#4] Field repair and maintenance technicians for sensors, vehicles and generators.

📋 Confidence Notes

Many line items are well-scoped (salaries, cloud fees, vehicle costs), but artifact counts, choice between procured vs contracted airlift, and contingency sizing are uncertain — yields medium confidence.

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