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SCP-8904 Gevurah ~ medium confidence
SCP-8904
Expected annual
$90.9M
One-time setup
$72.9M
Annual recurring
$88.5M
Personnel
137
One-time establishment and R&D costs are approximately $72.94M, driven primarily by Disciplinary Site-5000 construction and intense-thought detection R&D/device purchases; recurring annual costs are approximately $88.47M/yr, driven by surgical (cranial stapling) consumables, staff wages (board + clinical), and Site-5000 operations, with a contingency reserve for surge capacity.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $72.9M
Facilities $50.1M
[#5, #11] Disciplinary Site-5000 capital construction/retrofit ($50,000,000) and corporal punishment room/fitout ($87,500).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $11.0M
[#3, #18] Intense-thought detection R&D (lab & program R&D ~$10,000,000) and anomalous-vector specialized lab setup (~$1,000,000).
Equipment $9.6M
[#2, #4, #9, #13, #3] Endpoint/site sensor hardware and per-site rollout (~$2,500,000), central data center hardware (~$200,000), cranial stapling major equipment (~$350,000), transport vehicle fleet (~$500,000), wearable device purchases for pilot (~$6,000,000).
Shibboleth Development $1.2M
[#1] Shibboleth Identification Network development (2,000 keyphrase DB, NLP integration, ontology/meme-engineering) one-time development cost.
Training Rollout $600K
[#21] Initial training program rollout for all sites (one-time).
Legal Initial Review $500K
[#16] Initial legal review and policy drafting (one-time).
Planning Envelope $0
[#24] Aggregated planning envelope / summary referenced in analyst notes; no additional one-time cost allocated here.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $88.5M/yr
Staff Wages $23.3M/yr
[#7, #8, #22] Salaries and overhead for Board of 50 psychiatrists (~$10M), clinical staff including neurosurgeons/anesthesiologists/nurses/therapists (~$11.8M), and administrative/case management staff (~$1.2M).
Supplies And Consumables $22.6M/yr
[#9, #10, #12, #20] Cranial stapling per-procedure consumables & OR costs (500 procedures/yr = ~$16,250,000), CBT direct delivery costs (~$6,000,000), diet program procurement for baseline inpatient load (~$225,000), biohazard/surgical waste disposal (~$150,000).
Contingency And Surge $14.7M/yr
[#23] Contingency and surge-capacity reserve (20% of baseline operational budget to allow emergency scaling of beds/OR time/staff overtime).
Facilities Maintenance $10.6M/yr
[#6, #2, #4] Disciplinary Site-5000 recurring operations/utilities/maintenance (~$10,000,000), endpoint/site sensor maintenance and per-site upkeep (~$350,000), central data center operations/SOC/backups (~$275,000).
Research And Monitoring $7.9M/yr
[#1, #3, #14, #18, #19, #21] Ongoing Shibboleth/model updates & licensing (~$225,000), intense-thought model retraining (~$500,000), screening & surveillance program (~$1,750,000), ongoing anomalous-vector research program (~$4,000,000), psychological aftercare/reintegration (~$1,000,000), recurring training refreshers (~$400,000).
Cover Story And Legal $7.2M/yr
[#11, #16, #17] Legal/cover-up/employment-law reserves and payouts (~$3,500,000), legal reserve specific to corporal-punishment liabilities (~$2,000,000), memetic/misinformation containment & PR (~$1,750,000).
Logistics And Transport $1.4M/yr
[#13] Patient transport teams, vehicle operations, fuel, maintenance, and staffing (~$1,400,000/yr).
It Security And Insider Threat $650K/yr
[#15] IT security, insider-threat tooling, access control, audits, and staff time (~$650,000/yr).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $88.5M/yr
86.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents: routine detection, treatment, and maintenance at planned capacity.
routine_detection_and_treatment no_surge_or_public_exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $100.5M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$12.0M vs baseline
Localized surge in detected cases or a small containment incident requiring emergency OR time, temporary bed expansion, overtime, and increased legal/PR spend.
localized_prevalence_spike small_breach_or_public_incident
🚨 Major Breach $138.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Significant public exposure or mass-infection wave requiring major expansion of facilities, large legal settlements, intense PR/memetic mitigation, and emergency capital expenditures.
widespread_memetic_exposure large_scale_breach_or_mass_casualty_event
👥 Personnel 137 total
Role Count Notes
Board Psychiatrist 50 [#7] Board of 50 military psychiatrists; counts match analyst note.
Neurosurgeon 6 [#8, #9] Neurosurgeons to staff OR throughput (4–8 suggested); midpoint used.
Anesthesiologist 6 [#8, #9] Anesthesiology coverage for OR schedule and on-call needs.
Nurse 40 [#8, #9] Inpatient and OR nursing staff to support wards and surgical volume.
Therapist / CBT Practitioner 20 [#8, #10] Therapists to deliver CBT program and follow-ups (staffing incorporated in clinical cost estimates).
Administrative Staff / Case Manager 15 [#22] HR, intake, scheduling, records, and case management (headcount scaled to caseload).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges, enabling mid-range estimates; however major uncertainties remain around aggressive policy choices (extent of cranial stapling, pursuing intense-thought monitoring R&D and wearable rollout) and prevalence trajectories, so estimates carry moderate uncertainty.
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