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SCP-8774 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-8774
Expected annual
$2.8M
One-time setup
$1.8M
Annual recurring
$2.7M
Personnel
17
Initial setup and research push require roughly $1.76M one-time, driven by safehouse fit-out, secure lab/equipment, prototype procurement and an initial contingency reserve; ongoing annual operations are ~ $2.69M/year, dominated by a dedicated psionic research program, rapid-response capability, staffing and legal/PR/contingency costs.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.8M
Contingency Reserve Initial $500K
[#18] Initial insurance/liability reserve to cover catastrophic outcomes and legal exposure.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $300K
[#6, #25] Secure lab fit-out for psionic/occult research and initial simulation/model development.
Prototype Procurement $250K
[#9] Early-stage prototype buys for countermeasure hardware and pharmacological trial stock.
Equipment $245K
[#7, #12, #22] Neuroimaging and portable EEG purchases, secure/classified servers and initial communications-security hardware.
Facilities $210K
[#3, #8] Safehouse renovation/furnishing and installation of Faraday/psi-shielded/testing rooms.
Response Vehicle Purchase $90K
[#11] Purchase of one armored/secure transport van (vehicle purchase portion of rapid-response capability).
Initial Case Investigation $80K
[#1] Typical one-off forensic/recovery mission, travel, translation and evidence collection per new case.
Archival Acquisition $50K
[#16] One-time purchases/digitization/acquisition of Van Helsing materials and rare archives.
Incident Containment Per Fatality $30K
[#19] Typical one-off fatality containment: recovery, forensic sanitization, covered burial/cremation and legal paperwork.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.7M/yr
Research And Monitoring $1.6M/yr
[#6, #7, #9, #16, #17, #25, #23, #15] Dedicated psionic/occult research program (salaries, consumables, animal/model costs), fMRI scan usage, ongoing countermeasure development budget, archival maintenance, biomarker testing, simulation/model updates, ethical oversight, and clergy/ritualist consults.
Rapid Response Team $350K/yr
[#11] On-call multidisciplinary rapid-response team salaries and shift premiums (operational personnel costs excluding vehicle purchase).
Staff Wages $265K/yr
[#2, #4, #24] Field agent(s), safehouse guards, nurse/caseworker and administrative/analyst salaries (operational staff wages).
Cover Story And Legal $150K/yr
[#13, #14, #20] Legal fees, identity/cover maintenance, PR retainer and liaison/bribe budgets for local authorities when needed.
Contingency Replenishment $100K/yr
[#18] Annual replenishment/reserve contributions for insurance/liability funds.
Recruitment And Vetting $75K/yr
[#24, #10] Ongoing vetting, background checks, training pipeline and periodic occult/psionic awareness training courses for staff.
Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr
[#3, #8, #12] Safehouse utilities/maintenance, shielded-room upkeep, and data-center/server maintenance.
Logistics And Transport $40K/yr
[#1, #11, #20] Vehicle maintenance, travel/per-diem for investigations and interagency/liaison travel budgets.
Communications Security Maintenance $25K/yr
[#22] Ongoing encrypted comms subscriptions, sweep services and counter-surveillance maintenance.
Psychiatric Care $20K/yr
[#5] Long-term psychotherapy, medications and resilience training for monitored subjects.
Supplies And Consumables $15K/yr
[#21] Ritual/lab disposables, PPE, small consumables for experiments.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.7M/yr
87.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing monitoring, research, safehouse ops and routine oversight; no major incidents or public exposure.
steady monitoring workload scheduled research activities routine safehouse operations
🚨 Minor Incident $3.0M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$330K vs baseline
Acute suicidal ideation or occult harassment requiring emergency intervention, investigation, short-term relocation and targeted PR/legal work.
acute subject crisis emergency safehouse relocation localized PR/legal intervention
🚨 Fatality Event $3.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline
Subject dies (suicide or anomalous death) requiring rapid body recovery, major legal/cover operations and significant contingency payouts.
subject fatality forensic recovery & sanitization large legal/compensation/cover operations
🚨 Major Breach $6.2M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$3.5M vs baseline
Public exposure or political/legal escalation requiring large-scale legal defense, PR campaign, emergency R&D acceleration and substantial contingency payouts.
media/public exposure civil litigation or political scrutiny accelerated emergency research
👥 Personnel 17 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#4, #11] Safehouse resident guards (2) plus rapid-response MTF/security (4).
Research Scientist 5 [#6] Psionic/occult research staff (neuroscience/parapsychology/occult specialists).
Lab Technician 2 [#6, #7] Lab technicians supporting neuroimaging, biomarker assays and experiments.
Field Agent 1 [#1, #2] Primary field agent for long-term monitoring and investigations.
Nurse / Medical Officer 1 [#4, #5] Medical checkups, psychiatric med management and on-site clinical support.
Administrative Staff 1 [#12, #13] Case administration, secure data management and cover logistics.
Data Analyst / Case Analyst 1 [#2, #23] Part-time analyst supporting monitoring, ethics documentation and incident logging.
📋 Confidence Notes
Item-level estimates are broad and the anomaly is spectral/uncontainable with a tiny confirmed caseload; many costs (R&D scale, frequency of incidents, legal outcomes) are highly uncertain, so totals are order-of-magnitude estimates.
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