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SCP-8728 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-8728
Expected annual
$8.4M
One-time setup
$28.3M
Annual recurring
$7.9M
Personnel
29
One-time capital (servers, labs, large contingency reserves) ~ $28.3M, with recurring operating costs driven by multi-team staffing, field operations, legal/PR, and treatment/contingency funds totaling ~$7.93M/year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $28.3M
Personnel Loss Contingency Reserve $10.0M
[#18] Replacement/hiring & program-delay contingency reserve for mission-critical personnel losses ($10M one-time reserve).
Ecological Public Safety Reserve $10.0M
[#25] Worst-case ecological / public-safety containment reserve ($10M one-time reserve).
Secure Animal Quarantine Facility Reserve $5.0M
[#14] Reserve for building/expanding secure animal quarantine facility (conservative planning figure $5M one-time, contingent).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.0M
[#5, #24] Memetics/cognitive hazard lab buildout ($500k) [#5]; initial memetic vaccine R&D program funding ($1.5M) [#24].
Equipment $545K
[#1, #4, #7, #9, #20, #21] Monitoring platform dev ($100k) [#1]; offline backup hardware ($20k) [#4]; algorithm/filter dev ($150k) [#7]; field vehicles & equipment ($100k) [#9]; transaction monitoring deployment ($100k) [#20]; forensic tooling ($75k) [#21].
Partner Facility Upgrades $250K
[#16] Zoo/partner facility security upgrade one-time deployment ($250k).
Facilities $200K
[#23] Site-81 physical security upgrades, CCTV/generator/etc. ($200k one-time)
Deepwell And Vault $200K
[#3] Deepwell air-gapped server hardware & secure vault upgrades (Faraday room, safes, climate control) estimated $200k one-time.
Legal Retainer $100K
[#8] Global platform engagement & legal retainer initial retainer ($100k one-time).
Audit Tooling $50K
[#12] Audit tooling for partner compliance audits and covert liaison ($50k one-time).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $7.9M/yr
Staff Wages $3.6M/yr
[#2, #6, #9, #21, #17] Dedicated moderation/analyst team (4 analysts + 1 manager = $520k incl benefits) [#2]; memetics research team (4 FTE ~$560k) [#6]; field operatives payroll (~$1.2M) [#9]; forensic staffing (~$125k/yr) [#21]; aerospace/intel liaison staffing (~$1.2M/yr) [#17].
Psychological Treatment Program $1.0M/yr
[#10] Emergency psychological decontamination & treatment (50 serious cases/yr * ~$20k/case = ~$1.0M/yr).
Animal Husbandry $1.0M/yr
[#15] Annual lion husbandry contingency for rescued/relocated lions (50 lions * ~$20k/yr = ~$1.0M/yr).
Research And Monitoring $937K/yr
[#1, #7, #12, #16, #20, #24, #4] Monitoring platform cloud/hosting ($60k/yr) [#1]; filter/algorithm maintenance ($50k/yr) [#7]; liaison/monitoring with conservation orgs ($150k/yr) [#12]; partner training/audits ($100k/yr) [#16]; transaction monitoring analysts ($75k/yr) [#20]; vaccine follow-up trials & deployment ($500k/yr) [#24]; off-site backup storage/maintenance ($2k/yr) [#4].
Contingency Fund $500K/yr
[#11] Containment incident contingency fund for ad-hoc rapid-response expenditures ($500k/yr discretionary).
Cover Story And Legal $400K/yr
[#8, #19] Ongoing legal operations & platform coordination ($200k/yr) [#8]; public relations / counter-meme campaigns ($200k/yr) [#19].
Reimbursement And Compensation $300K/yr
[#13] Reimbursement/compensation program for intercepted donations and legal settlements (~$300k/yr working capital).
Logistics And Transport $150K/yr
[#22] Travel, logistics & transport budget for field ops and animal transfers ($150k/yr).
Facilities Maintenance $40K/yr
[#23] Site-81 maintenance, backup-generator/network redundancy and security overtime ($40k/yr).
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $7.9M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year: ongoing monitoring, staffing, maintenance, and routine takedowns with no major incidents.
isolated uploads quickly removed no major public spread standard staffing and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $8.4M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized virality or several coordinated uploads requiring expanded takedown operations, additional treatment cases, and extra field activity.
temporary spike in image circulation ~25–50 serious treatment cases increased field interventions
🚨 Major Breach $13.9M/yr
4.0% probability / year +$6.0M vs baseline
Significant spread or variant emergence forcing construction/activation of a quarantine facility and large-scale field operations.
viral variants evade filters large-scale breeding events detected need to construct specialized quarantine capacity
🚨 Catastrophic Ecological Event $27.9M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$20.0M vs baseline
Worst-case: widescale ecological release or cascading incidents (including aerospace incidents) requiring large contingency/reserve expenditures and national/international responses.
uncontrolled breeding/release across regions major aerospace or public-safety incident activation of large-scale ecological remediation
👥 Personnel 29 total
Role Count Notes
Online Moderation Analyst 4 [#2] Four analysts for 24/7 moderation and takedown triage (part of the $520k team estimate).
Analyst Manager 1 [#2] One manager for moderation team (included in $520k estimate).
Research Scientist (Memeticists/Neurotech/Cog Psych) 4 [#6] 2–3 memeticists, 1 cognitive psychologist, 1 neurotech engineer (counted as 4 FTE per notes, included in $560k).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 10 [#9] Ten field operatives for intervention teams (payroll included in ~$1.2M/yr).
Forensic Investigator / Digital Analyst 2 [#21] Forensic investigation & provenance tracking staffing (~$125k/yr total).
Intelligence Liaison / Covert Ops 8 [#17] Aerospace program monitoring and covert influence liaison staff (part of ~$1.2M/yr estimate).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on detailed analyst notes with line-item figures but depend heavily on uncertain epidemiology/virality and jurisdictional cost variation; large contingency reserves drive one-time totals and introduce uncertainty.
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