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SCP-8484 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-8484
Expected annual
$15.4M
One-time setup
$60.2M
Annual recurring
$14.7M
Personnel
32
Initial capital expenditures are dominated by contingency and one-off operational assets (sensors, vehicles, data infrastructure, lab build, and held contingency funds), totaling tens of millions; ongoing annual costs are driven by personnel (SIGINT and interdiction teams), research, global monitoring, liaison/cooperation, and covert operations, producing a baseline recurring budget of roughly $14.7M per year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $60.2M
Full Scale Seizure Operation $50.0M
[#23] One-time cost estimate for major kinetic/seizure operation if political/diplomatic avenues fail (low-bound contingency).
Crisis Response Reserve $5.0M
[#19] Held contingency reserve fund for large-scale incidents / rapid global mobilization (held as one-time reserve).
Equipment $3.0M
[#1, #5, #6, #7, #8, #16] Initial procurement and outfitting: fixed ground sensor array install, vehicle fleet outfitting, UAV procurement, hardened servers/data hardware, SIGINT analyst workstations, and suppression devices.
Facilities $1.2M
[#15] One-time construction/buildout of secure mortuary/necrosafe holding and containment rooms; physical facility work.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M
[#9] Counter-thaumaturgy lab buildout, instrumentation, and initial experimental setup.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $14.7M/yr
Research And Monitoring $4.6M/yr
[#9, #11, #20, #24, #25, #26, #17] Counter-thaumaturgy R&D operations (salaries and consumables), global necromancer watch network operations, intelligence/red-team analysis, diplomatic HUMINT monitoring, archive/legal-hold operations, archaeological liaison consulting, and training/exercise program funding.
Staff Wages $4.1M/yr
[#1, #2, #3] Salaries for SIGINT analysts/operators and senior SIGINT officer, MTF Psi-8 agents' baseline salaries, and liaison officers' salaries (base wages portion).
Covert Operations Fund $1.0M/yr
[#14] Annual flexible funds for back-channel payments, contingency covert ops, and emergency reimbursements.
Logistics And Transport $750K/yr
[#6, #7, #27] Vehicle maintenance/fuel/insurance, UAV flight ops/maintenance, and local security/perimeter support and transport.
Specialist Personnel Premiums $700K/yr
[#10] Recruiting/retention premiums for thaumaturgists, occult linguists, epigraphists, and senior diplomats.
Cover Story And Legal $600K/yr
[#13] Diplomatic/legal strategy team costs, counsel, and HQ-level negotiation budgets.
Liaison Office And Raisa Fund $600K/yr
[#3] Lease, local liaison stipends, cooperation reimbursements and local legal/translation support near Athens/Mesopotamos.
Satellite Imagery Subscriptions $500K/yr
[#4] Commercial satellite tasking, SAR/optical subscriptions, thermal and change-detection feeds.
Public Relations And Misinformation $400K/yr
[#21] PR, misinformation containment, legal takedowns, and social media ops to manage leaks.
Facilities Maintenance $325K/yr
[#5, #15] Maintenance and communications for sensor array; operation/maintenance of secure holding/morgue facilities.
Psych Med Support $250K/yr
[#12] Long-term psychological and medical care, counseling, medevac insurance for deployed personnel.
Cover Infrastructure Maintenance $250K/yr
[#18] Maintenance of public-cover infrastructure, plausible exercises, local contractors and upkeep of false assets.
Secure Data Ops $200K/yr
[#8] Hosting, licenses, SIEM and secure-cloud operations for SIGINT/analysis infrastructure.
Insurance And Indemnity $150K/yr
[#22] Overseas asset insurance, indemnities, and legal defense funds for contractors/liaison partners.
Supplies And Consumables $125K/yr
[#16] Consumables and resupply for suppression equipment and field devices.
Audit And Oversight $125K/yr
[#28] Internal audits, compliance tracking for covert funds and documentation for diplomatic disclosures.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $14.7M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal monitoring/interdiction posture with no major incidents; ongoing cooperation with RAISA and limited interdictions.
routine_monitoring periodic_interdiction_operations
🚨 Minor Incident $16.2M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Localized necromantic incident or interdiction that requires rapid deployment, increased covert payments, and short-term replacement/repair of equipment.
localized_necromantic_incident small_breach interdiction_deployment
🚨 Major Breach $39.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Significant breach or political failure requiring large-scale mobilization, activation/spending of contingency funds, and possible kinetic operations.
major_breach_or_attack political_breakdown_with_GOC large_scale_containment_response
👥 Personnel 32 total
Role Count Notes
SIGINT Analysts/Operators 12 [#1] Analysts/operators continuously monitoring communications and feeds.
Senior SIGINT Officer 1 [#1] Senior officer overseeing SIGINT team and liaison with RAISA.
Translation / Linguists 2 [#1] Greek and regional language support for intercepted communications.
MTF Psi-8 Agents 12 [#2] Rapid-response psi-interdiction unit personnel (on-call rotation).
Liaison Officers 5 [#3] On-the-ground RAISA/Foundation liaisons near Athens/Mesopotamos and cooperation officers.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates derive from analyst-provided ranges and canonical operational assumptions; many line items (contingency funds, political actions, and covert operations) have high uncertainty and wide ranges, but recurring personnel and infrastructure costs are reasonably estimable.
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