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SCP-8917 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-8917
Expected annual
$800K
One-time setup
$678K
Annual recurring
$783K
Personnel
11
One-time setup costs total $678,000 driven primarily by facility modifications and a large escalation contingency; recurring annual costs are $782,800/yr driven mainly by staff wages (research, animal care, security), insurance, and legal/PR/consultancy retainers.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $678K
Long Term Escalation Fund $500K
[#22] Contingency capital reserve for major upgrades, full automation/robotic feeders or remote-interaction vivarium if SCP escalates.
Equipment $64K
[#2, #9, #10, #11, #17, #21] Phone-lock lockers/Faraday cabinet/secure lockers, CCTV/behavioral-capture equipment, server hardware (one-time), content-filter install, emergency response kit procurement, secure transport crate.
Legal And Cover Setup $50K
[#15] One-time legal/cover operations setup, NDAs, local liaison and initial cover enterprise setup.
Facilities $47K
[#1, #3] Modification of safe-suite to cat-safe suite and suite-level HVAC/zoning (double-door airlock, tamper-proof fixtures, HEPA/independent HVAC).
Staff Training Program $12K
[#12] One-time development of psychological screening and staff-training program to discourage personification and manage assignment screening.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $5K
[#5] Baseline advanced diagnostics (blood work, imaging) and initial diagnostic setup for veterinary/neuroscience baseline.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $783K/yr
Staff Wages $575K/yr
[#7, #8, #13, #19] Salaries for dedicated animal-care personnel (supervisor + technicians), incremental security staffing, research personnel team, and part-time administrative allocation.
Insurance And Indemnity $75K/yr
[#16] Liability, indemnity coverage and regulatory contingency fund allocations for potential exposure incidents.
Cover Story And Legal $60K/yr
[#15, #23] Ongoing legal retainer, PR/incident mitigation reserve and local government liaison retainer costs.
Cultural Consultancy $20K/yr
[#14] Retainer/consulting fees for Sarkic/religious experts or anthropologists to vet materials and compile banned-content catalogs.
Research And Monitoring $10K/yr
[#6] Occasional veterinary imaging / neuroscience diagnostics budget (EEG/MRI/CT) used for investigating anomalous cognition.
Secure Data Storage $10K/yr
[#9, #10] Encrypted server/cloud maintenance and redundant recording storage/maintenance for high-resolution recordings.
Staff Training $8K/yr
[#12] Recurring refresher training, psychological counseling and screening refreshers for assigned staff.
Supplies And Consumables $7K/yr
[#4, #18, #24] Animal food/litter/bedding/enrichment, sanitation/PPE supplies, and miscellaneous recurring consumables.
Staff Turnover And Onboarding $6K/yr
[#20] Background checks, orientation/quarantine, and onboarding costs assuming modest turnover.
Veterinary Care $4K/yr
[#5] Routine veterinary care (vaccinations, annual physicals, dental cleaning) and medical supplies recurring.
Logistics And Transport $3K/yr
[#21] Secure inter-site transport costs (fuel/maintenance/secure transfer services) recurring.
Content Filtering Licensing $3K/yr
[#11] Licensing/updates for content-filtering and media-censorship systems that block forbidden imagery/texts.
Containment Kit Maintenance $2K/yr
[#17] Replacement/refresh of emergency response kits, tranquilizers, crates maintenance and periodic drills.
Facilities Maintenance $1K/yr
[#3] HVAC electricity/maintenance and minor ongoing suite environmental control costs.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $783K/yr
89.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine care, monitoring, and operations only.
no incidents routine operations
🚨 Minor Incident $843K/yr
8.0% probability / year +$60K vs baseline
Localized medical emergency or small leak/exposure requiring emergency veterinary care, extra temporary security and PR/legal response.
individual medical emergency small media leak
🚨 Major Breach $1.1M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Significant public exposure or containment breach of sensitive recordings requiring wide amnestic/PR/legal response and indemnity payouts.
large-scale information leak public footage dissemination
🚨 Escalation And Scale Up $1.4M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$600K vs baseline
Discovery of increasing anomalous capability or research decision leading to major capital upgrade / automation (use of long-term escalation fund).
anomaly intelligence escalation decision to fully automate/isolate
👥 Personnel 11 total
Role Count Notes
Animal Care Supervisor 1 [#7] Full-time supervisor for animal welfare and containment compliance.
Animal Care Technician 2 [#7] Rotating technicians to prevent over-bonding and provide shift coverage.
Research Scientist / PI 1 [#13] Principal investigator leading behavioral/cognitive research.
Postdoctoral Researcher / Analyst 1 [#13] Data analysis and experimental design for controlled tests.
Research Technician 1 [#13] Technical support for experiments and recording capture.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 4 [#8] Dedicated guards for the safe wing and enforcement of two-person entry and no-media policies.
Administrative Staff 1 [#19] Part-time admin allocation for logs, redaction, classified access audits and clerical support.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide line-item estimates for almost every cost, but several assumptions (staff composition, probabilities, contingency sizing and how one-time contingency is applied) required judgement; hence medium confidence.
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