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SCP-8655 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-8655
Expected annual
$8.5M
One-time setup
$15.6M
Annual recurring
$8.2M
Personnel
23
Initial capital outlays are dominated by an R&D buildout and one-time containment/evidence facility upgrades (~$15.6M). Annual operating costs (monitoring, MTF staffing, research, legal/cover operations, and logistics) are roughly $8.18M/year, with staff wages and recurring research as the primary drivers.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $15.6M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $11.0M
[#15] Laboratory R&D buildout for portal physics, particle detectors, chambers, and associated infrastructure (one-time capital).
Amnestic Initial Stockpile $1.8M
[#12] Initial stockpile purchase of amnestic doses (one-time acquisition and secure storage).
Facilities $1.1M
[#13, #19] Containment/holding-suite retrofit and secure evidence room buildout (one-time structural/fitout costs).
Equipment $1.1M
[#7, #8, #20, #21, #22, #26] Hardware procurement: portable lepton detectors, HazMat kit procurement, communications gear, vehicle/drone fleet, secure server setup, and generators.
Platform Retainer Initial Buyin $275K
[#4] One-time buy-in / initial covert access / bargaining funds for platform operators (buy-in/bribe/legal arrangement).
Software Development And Crawler Build $200K
[#1] One-time development of automated crawler, ML classifier, analyst UI and logging.
Training Program Initial $125K
[#25] Initial training program development and initial course delivery (one-time program setup).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.2M/yr
Staff Wages $3.1M/yr
[#2, #5] Salaries and fully loaded costs for monitoring analysts, sysadmin and MTF Mu-4 personnel (operational staffing).
Research And Monitoring $1.8M/yr
[#15] Ongoing laboratory R&D budget for portal physics and lepton-radiation research, including staff, equipment operation, and modeling.
Administrative Overhead $1.4M/yr
[#27] Administrative allocation (20% of recurring program costs as typical finance/HR/facilities support).
Cover Story And Legal $890K/yr
[#3, #4, #17, #18, #23, #24] Cyber takedown operations budget, ongoing platform retainer, covert witness management/relocation, legal/PR retainer and incident responses, translation/cultural support, and per-incident cover contingency.
Logistics And Transport $500K/yr
[#6, #9, #10, #16, #21, #26, #19, #20] Rapid-response deployments, site containment deployments (temporary fencing, generators), hazardous-waste disposal, forensics/transfers, vehicle/drone maintenance, fuel/power, evidence transfer couriers, and comms service for field teams.
Supplies And Consumables $298K/yr
[#1, #7, #8, #12, #25, #22] Cloud crawler hosting/maintenance, detector calibration, HazMat consumables, annual amnestic refresh, annual training refreshers, and hosting/backups.
Cross Universe Personnel Care $200K/yr
[#14] Ongoing housing, security, medical, translation and care costs for any contained cross-universe individuals (per-person aggregated baseline).
Medical Response And Monitoring $50K/yr
[#11] Emergency triage and multi-year post-exposure medical monitoring allocations (per-person averaged into annual budget).
Facilities Maintenance $25K/yr
[#13, #19] Annual maintenance and upkeep for containment retrofit and secure evidence room.
Scaling Contingency Reserve $0/yr
[#28] Contingency/reserve for viral-scale multipliers; not held as baseline here but referenced for scenario scaling (200–500% recommended when activated).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.2M/yr
63.0% probability / year
Normal year with standing monitoring, MTF readiness, periodic small responses, and steady R&D activity.
steady low-activation rate routine monitoring and occasional small incidents
🚨 Minor Incident $8.2M/yr
30.0% probability / year +$50K vs baseline
One or a few moderate activations requiring cyber takedowns, a short field deployment, limited decontamination and witness management.
moderate viral post single-site portal activation limited media attention
🚨 Viral Outbreak $13.2M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Widespread / cross-platform outbreak producing many activations, requiring mass takedowns, multiple field responses, extensive decontamination, large-scale R&D surge and contingency operations.
platform-wide viral spread multiple simultaneous portals major public attention
🚨 Research Breakthrough Scale Up $11.2M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Decision to aggressively scale R&D and containment capabilities (large multi-year research program and new facilities), raising annual operating spend materially.
strategic decision to control/prevent portals significant proven activation risk allocation of extra R&D staff and facilities
👥 Personnel 23 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 20 [#5] MTF Mu-4 tactical, investigative, and field personnel (operatives, investigators, commander).
Security Analyst / SOC Analyst 2 [#2] Monitoring analysts operating crawler, reviewing alerts and triaging takedowns.
Engineer / Sysadmin 1 [#2] Sysadmin to maintain crawler infrastructure and tooling.
📋 Confidence Notes
Large ranges in per-incident costs, unknown true activation frequency (usage-dependent), and wide one-time R&D/containment buildout uncertainty reduce confidence in point estimates; figures use midpoints and analyst guidance.
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