SCP-8590 — SCP-8590 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-8590 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-8590

Expected annual

$14.7M

One-time setup

$37.2M

Annual recurring

$14.1M

Personnel

Initial capital expense dominated by a purpose-built containment cell and bespoke suppression hardware (~$28.6M one-time); ongoing annual operations are driven by staffed rapid-response, nationwide monitoring, R&D, and logistics (~$14.14M/yr). Major breach responses could add tens of millions in a single year.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $37.2M

Facilities $15.0M

[#10] One-time construction of a high-security prototype subterranean containment cell and associated structural resiliency.

Equipment $7.0M

[#3, #4, #11, #12] One-time procurement of advanced compute clusters, nationwide covert surveillance hardware (fixed & mobile), bespoke containment/suppression prototypes and initial secure-communications hardware.

Insurance Seed Fund $5.0M

[#15] Seed for an insurance/liability/catastrophic contingency fund to cover large lawsuits, deaths, or emergency payouts.

Containment Hardware And Suppression Devices $4.0M

[#11] One-time R&D/capex for engineered suppression devices and bespoke experimental containment hardware.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.6M

[#8, #9, #18] Evidence/forensic lab buildout, initial R&D equipment and initial archives/secure-data physical infrastructure.

Surveillance Hardware $1.5M

[#4] One-time procurement and installation costs for covert bodycams, license-plate readers, drones and leased CCTV endpoints.

Advanced Compute Infrastructure $1.0M

[#3] One-time hardware purchase for facial/identity analytics (GPU clusters/on-prem hardware). (Also some recurring cloud/data fees.)

Rnd Initial Setup $1.0M

[#9] Initial equipment and lab space for physics/memetics R&D and countermeasure prototyping.

Secure Comms $500K

[#12] One-time hardened communications hardware, air-gap solutions and counter-surveillance tooling.

Evidence Lab Setup $300K

[#8] One-time setup for secure evidence vaults, hazardous-material handling infrastructure and forensic lab outfitting.

Archives One Time $300K

[#18] One-time physical archive and high-assurance backup initialization and redundancy setup.

Travel Asset Purchase $0

[#17] One-time purchase of dedicated aircraft/fleet not assumed in baseline (0 = not purchased).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $14.1M/yr

Research And Monitoring $3.7M/yr

[#3, #8, #9] Ongoing R&D program costs, compute/cloud maintenance and database access fees, and recurring evidence analysis/storage budgets.

Staff Wages $3.5M/yr

[#1, #2] Fully-burdened standing MTF salaries and nationwide sightings/intelligence unit salaries, benefits and training.

Logistics And Transport $2.3M/yr

[#5, #17] Per-operation rapid-deployment logistics (travel, vehicle rental, short-term lockdowns) plus travel/lodging pool for nationwide response.

Cover Story And Legal $700K/yr

[#13] Annual budget for cover stories, PR mitigation buys, legal defense fund, and payments to third parties for cover operations.

Facilities Maintenance $500K/yr

[#10] Ongoing maintenance, independent power, environmental controls and physical site upkeep for any containment/secure facilities.

Containment Failure Preparedness $500K/yr

[#19] Standing contracts and planning for evacuation, mass-amnestic logistics and cleanup activation (standing cost; activation is additional).

Containment Hardware Maintenance $400K/yr

[#11] Maintenance and iterative build costs for suppression devices and experimental containment hardware.

Personnel Attrition And Psych Care $400K/yr

[#22] Recruitment reserve, counterintelligence re-hiring budgets and long-term counseling for exposed staff.

Surveillance Ops $400K/yr

[#4] Ongoing ops, maintenance and replacement for the deployed surveillance hardware and drone fleet.

Insurance Top Up $250K/yr

[#15] Annual top-ups/interest/management costs for the liability/contingency reserve.

Supplies And Consumables $200K/yr

[#6] Consumables including per-administration amnestic supply costs (variable administrations) and medical consumables.

Secure Comms Maintenance $200K/yr

[#12] Ongoing audits, upgrades and counter-surveillance sweeps for hardened communications.

Informant Program $200K/yr

[#21] Paid informants, employment-record seeding and bait-job funds for monitoring entry-level workplaces.

Medical And Psychiatric Reserve $175K/yr

[#7] Specialized medical/psychiatric care reserves and acute-treatment fund for staff and affected civilians.

Witness Management Program $150K/yr

[#6] Legal/medical administration, clinic administration and oversight for amnestic program (separate from per-administration consumables).

Ethics And Oversight $150K/yr

[#20] Independent ethical review board and internal audit costs.

Law Enforcement Liaison $120K/yr

[#14] MOUs, retainers and cooperative agreements with local jurisdictions for emergency lockdowns and temporary custody.

Training And Memetic Resistance $120K/yr

[#16] Regular MTF and researcher memetic-resistance training, simulated drills and vetting.

Archives Maintenance $100K/yr

[#18] Offsite backup rotation, physical archive climate control and continuity planning costs.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $14.1M/yr

90.0% probability / year

Normal year with ongoing tracking, R&D, MTF readiness and routine operations; no major exposure or containment activation.

steady surveillance and ops no public exposure routine R&D progress

🚨 Minor Incident $15.1M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline

Localized public exposure or arrest requiring extra PR/legal action, limited emergency amnestic deployments and a spike in operations.

small-scale exposure limited mass-amnestic deployment legal action/municipal costs

🚨 Major Breach $39.1M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline

Large-scale containment failure or mass-manifestation event requiring emergency evacuation, mass amnestics, large-scale medical response and major public mitigation.

widespread manifestation mass public memory manipulation large emergency activations

👥 Personnel 30 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	16	[#1] Field operators, medics and handlers forming the standing rapid-response team.
Research Scientist / Analyst	8	[#2, #9] Analysts, OSINT specialists and R&D staff involved in tracking and study (portion of R&D staffing budget is in research_and_monitoring).
Medical Officer	2	[#1, #7] Medical staff attached to MTF and for administering amnestics/acute care.
Administrative Staff	4	[#2, #13] Operations coordinators, liaison administrators and legal/PR support included in staff wages.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates rely heavily on analyst-provided wide ranges and speculative engineering (anti-teleport/sensory suppression) and on uncertain subject behaviour (omniscience, teleportation). Many line items (facility complexity, R&D scale, catastrophic activation costs) are highly uncertain, so confidence in point estimates is low.

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