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SCP-8910 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-8910
Expected annual
$77.0M
One-time setup
$82.3M
Annual recurring
$74.8M
Personnel
188
Initial capital outlays (~$82.4M) are driven by securing SCP-8910-1, physical sealing/containment construction, and contingency reserves; recurring annual operations (~$74.8M/yr) are dominated by staffing, large-scale disinformation/mythicization and legal/cover operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $82.3M
Facilities $31.0M
[#15, #16, #17] One-time structural work: Site-01 basement retrofit / secure-upgrade ($15M), prioritized site sealing for 500 locations (~$6M), and one major permanent containment lab / reinforced enclosures (~$10M).
Contingency Reserve One Time $30.0M
[#28, #31] One-time emergency/contingency reserve established for catastrophic responses, large payouts, and rapid payments.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $10.5M
[#19, #30, #32] Research buildout and study setup: specialized probes & instruments $6.0M, longitudinal cognitive study setup $3.0M, initial archaeology/investigation funding $1.5M.
Equipment $7.5M
[#3, #7, #8, #20, #21, #22] Capital procurement: field kits for teams $250k, AIC development capital $3.0M, forensic/data storage hardware $650k, initial robotics fleet $1.25M, HPC cluster procurement $1.75M, archival setup $600k.
Family Initial Settlements $2.0M
[#13] Initial settlement/hush-payment fund for families (one-time component of family management estimates).
Mythicization Initial Campaign $1.2M
[#29] Initial setup costs for mythicization/disinformation infrastructure (seed content, initial paid assets).
Evidence Sanitization Initial $100K
[#23] Initial provisioning for evidence sanitization/disposal capability (specialized equipment and certification).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $74.8M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $25.7M/yr
[#10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #29, #33, #28] Disinformation/mythicization campaign spend (~$7.2M/yr), platform/legal access costs (~$1.25M/yr), public-records alteration (~$5.25M/yr estimated), family stipends (~$2.4M/yr), legal defense & payoffs retainer (~$5.5M/yr), ongoing PR/historians (~$0.6M/yr), community liaisons (~$1.0M/yr), recurring contingency allocation (~$2.5M/yr).
Staff Wages $21.5M/yr
[#1, #2, #6, #9, #18] Salaries: rapid-response teams (40 personnel; $3.6M), on-call/security guards (60; $3.0M), clinicians (8; $1.32M), Disinformation Bureau staff (30; $3.6M), long-term SCP-8910-1 staffing (50; $10.0M).
Research And Monitoring $6.5M/yr
[#7, #8, #19, #20, #21, #22, #30, #32, #24] Ongoing AIC/cloud ops and model inference (~$2.4M/yr), hosting/forensics storage (~$150k/yr), equipment calibration/consumables (~$600k), robotic repairs (~$250k), HPC ops (~$300k), archival climate/staff (~$250k), longitudinal study running costs (~$1.25M/yr), investigation follow-on work (~$300k/yr), leak counter-forensics retainer (~$1.0M/yr).
Medical And Behavioral Care $5.5M/yr
[#5] Ongoing medical and psychiatric care for returned subjects (range $1M–$10M/yr; midpoint used).
Facilities Maintenance $5.0M/yr
[#15, #16, #17, #26] Ongoing maintenance, utilities and surveillance upkeep for sealed sites, containment suites, and SCP-8910-1 annex (includes HVAC, power, minor repairs).
Contingency Annual Allocation $5.0M/yr
[#28, #31] Annual allocation toward replenishing contingency/emergency reserves and rapid-response liquidity.
Logistics And Transport $2.6M/yr
[#1, #27] Vehicle ops/comms/PPE/training for rapid-response teams (~$1.4M/yr) and transportation/logistics missions (airlift/armored transport; ~$1.25M/yr).
Supplies And Consumables $2.0M/yr
[#3, #4, #23, #34] Field consumables and replacements: kit consumables $75k/yr, amnestics & per-subject medical supplies ($200–$2k per subject; baseline ~$220k), evidence disposal operations budget (~$1.1M/yr), misc consumables/admin ~$625k/yr.
Training And Simulations $600K/yr
[#25] Ongoing field, medical, legal, and cover-story training and simulations for teams.
Security Gear And Insurance $300K/yr
[#2] Weapons/riot gear, background checks, and liability insurance for on-call guards.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $74.8M/yr
84.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; ongoing monitoring, staffing, and disinformation operations continue as budgeted.
routine_manifestations steady staffing and monitoring no large-scale media exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $77.8M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Localized multi-person entrapment(s) requiring extra extractions, amnestic operations, and modest PR/legal activity.
single large instance multiple entrapments localized independent reporting
🚨 Major Breach $104.8M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$30.0M vs baseline
Significant containment/coverage failure: multiple simultaneous manifestations requiring mass-response, retention/use of contingency funds, large PR and legal actions.
mass-manifestation major media exposure multi-jurisdictional legal actions
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $174.8M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$100.0M vs baseline
Severe, facility-level breach (e.g., SCP-8910-1 compromise) requiring large-scale evacuation, prolonged emergency operations, and major settlements.
SCP-8910-1 compromise nationwide media/political exposure major civil litigation
👥 Personnel 188 total
Role Count Notes
Rapid Response Team (field medics/techs/security/coordinators) 40 [#1] 5 teams × ~8 personnel; salaries included in staff_wages.
Security Officer / On-call Guards 60 [#2] 60 guards for site/entrance security; salaries included in staff_wages.
Amnestic Administration Personnel (doctors/nurses) 8 [#6] 8 clinicians responsible for amnestic administration and short-term observation; salaries included in staff_wages.
Disinformation Bureau Staff (content creators/linguists/psychologists) 30 [#9] 30 staff for review and narrative generation; salaries included in staff_wages.
SCP-8910-1 Long-term Staff (researchers, engineers, security, maintenance) 50 [#18] 50 personnel for the discovered subfacility; staffing costs included in staff_wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates use midpoints of wide ranges and many unilateral assumptions (incident rates, jurisdictional legal costs, reserve sizing). SCP anomalies, unknown instance counts, and policy-dependent costs (forgery/coercion) create high uncertainty, hence low confidence.
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