SCP-8505 — SCP-8505 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-8505 Vault1 ~ medium confidence

SCP-8505

Expected annual

$4.6M

One-time setup

$5.2M

Annual recurring

$4.5M

Personnel

Initial setup costs are sizable (~$5.2M one-time) driven by specialized equipment, thaumaturgic sensor procurement, cybersecurity/hardenings and large contingency reserves; recurring annual costs are dominated by personnel, legal/PR and ongoing monitoring/subscriptions (~$4.48M/year).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.2M

Contingent Insurance Reserve $2.0M

[#30] Contingent reserve for third-party claims, settlements or extraordinary expenditures tied to MC&D exposure.

Equipment $1.6M

[#3, #5, #6, #11, #15, #16, #19, #20, #21] Procurement and integration of thaumaturgic arrays (#3), RFID/readers (#5), secure comms deployment (#6), optional armored vehicle purchase (#11), secure/air-gapped storage setup (#15), one-time cybersecurity hardening (#16), biomedical/autoclave equipment (#19), specialized autopsy/containment work surfaces (#20) and monitoring/power redundancy hardware (UPS/generator) (#21).

Contingency Legal Fund $500K

[#23] One-time contingency reserve for litigation/PR contingency fund.

Containment Breach Reserve $500K

[#24] Reserve for major containment-breach remediation or emergency response deployment.

Facilities $335K

[#1, #2, #10] Includes dorm retrofit (#1), HVAC/preservation system setup (#2) and safehouse lease/setup staging costs (#10).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $125K

[#14] One-off forensic/extraction project startup costs, data-license/travel pilot work associated with the forensic extraction program.

Front Company Startup $125K

[#28] Front-company/shell startup and formation legal/setup fees.

Replacement Procurement One Time $25K

[#26] Per-incident procurement cost for legally-sourced preserved tissue or engineered analogues (one-off procurement allowance).

Administrative Software Setup $18K

[#7] Document-management/forms (C-118/C-231) software setup and training.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.5M/yr

Staff Wages $2.3M/yr

[#4, #8, #12, #13, #14, #27] Salaries for specialist thaumaturgic technicians (#4), MC&D monitoring team (#8), containment supervisor and on-site custodial/medical staff (#12), security uplift (#13), forensic/research staff allocations (#14, #27).

Research And Monitoring $565K/yr

[#3, #8, #14, #15, #22, #27] Thaum-tech spare parts/updates (#3), MC&D monitoring tools/subscriptions (#8), forensic investigation travel/tools (#14), offsite archival rotation fees (#15), informant/asset payments (#22), and recurring R&D project allocations (#27).

Cover Story And Legal $500K/yr

[#9, #23] Ongoing legal retainer/counsel collaboration (Goldbaker-Reinz) (#9) and PR/cover-story retainers for leak management (#23).

Administrative Overhead $400K/yr

[#7, #29] Accounting, HR, payroll allocations, internal audit, IT/janitorial marginal increases and general site allocation for the program.

Logistics And Transport $300K/yr

[#10, #11] Safehouse annual lease/maintenance and staging costs if leasing (#10), secure transport retainer/escort availability and occasional deployment costs (#11).

Cybersecurity Monitoring $100K/yr

[#16] SOC monitoring, intrusion detection and incident-response retainer for preventing exfiltration of SCP-derived intelligence.

Front Company Ongoing $100K/yr

[#28] Ongoing maintenance, banking fees and minimal staffing for shell companies and asset obfuscation.

Supplies And Consumables $96K/yr

[#18, #19, #26] Consumables for SCP self-repair and containment maintenance (#18), recurring biomedical disposal/PPE/supplies (#19), and annual replacement contingency for irrecoverable components (#26).

Facilities Maintenance $36K/yr

[#2, #21] Energy and climate-control incremental cost for preservation HVAC/dehumidifiers (#2) and generator/UPS fuel & routine maintenance (#21).

Communications Support $25K/yr

[#6] Support, auditing and logging costs for hardened, auditable remote-communications endpoints.

Psychological Care And Amenities $20K/yr

[#17] Therapy sessions, permitted recreation and modest amenities to satisfy "safety and peace of mind" requirements.

Ethical And Compliance $20K/yr

[#25] External audits, ethical/compliance approvals and occasional audit fees for bioethics/legal oversight.

Rfid Maintenance $6K/yr

[#5] Maintenance/licenses for updated tamper-resistant RFID IDs and site-wide reader integration.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.5M/yr

88.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with no major incidents; routine monitoring, research, legal retainers and staffing costs only.

no external threats routine operations no relocations

🚨 Minor Incident $4.9M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$400K vs baseline

Localized threat or short-duration operational incident requiring temporary communications blackout, safehouse relocation and limited legal/forensic response.

actionable MC&D threat intelligence temporary relocation to safehouse targeted legal/forensic response

🚨 Major Breach $7.8M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$3.3M vs baseline

Serious containment breach, sustained legal/political exposure, or high-intensity attack requiring major remediation, litigation, and public-relations operations.

coordinated MC&D offensive public exposure/leak multi-day containment remediation

👥 Personnel 25 total

Role	Count	Notes
Specialist thaumaturgic technician	2	[#4] Technicians for sensor calibration, maintenance and emergency response.
MC&D Monitoring Analyst / Intelligence	5	[#8] Four analysts + one lead for OSINT/financial-intel monitoring of Marshall, Carter & Dark.
Forensic / Financial Research Staff	4	[#14] Economists/forensic accountants/cryptographers working on extraction and analysis of SCP-derived financial intelligence.
Research Program Staff	3	[#27] Staff for long-term controlled research and exploitation program.
Containment Supervisor / On-site Lead	1	[#12] Supervisor authorized to approve communications and oversee containment.
Custodial / Medical Technician (specialized)	3	[#12] On-site specialized custodial/medical staff for 24/7 coverage and preservation-aware handling.
Security Officer / Guards	6	[#13] Additional guards for site uplift and safehouse protection (4-8 guards, modeled as 6).
Administrative Analyst / Records	1	[#7, #29] Administrative position to process C-118/C-231 forms, recordkeeping and access control logs.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges and reasonable ranges for staffing and equipment, but many items (thaum-tech procurement, contingency reserves, MC&D threat intensity) are uncertain and scenario-dependent, so mid-level confidence is appropriate.

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