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SCP-892 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-892
Expected annual
$75.8M
One-time setup
$10.3M
Annual recurring
$74.9M
Personnel
53
One-time capital to establish secure vault, power, and compute is roughly $10.3M; annual operations are dominated by personnel, MTF/readiness and cover-up/legal costs, yielding a recurring run-rate of roughly $75M (excluding catastrophic reserve). Main cost drivers are staff wages, field/MTF readiness, legal/cover operations, and a large contingency reserve.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $10.3M
Facilities $5.0M
[#1] Vault construction (deep reinforced vault, excavation, structural reinforcement, blast/ballistic doors and access airlock).
Equipment $2.8M
[#2, #4, #6, #18, #19, #20, #22, #27] HVAC/environmental control hardware, generator/UPS and power hardware, access-control hardware (HSMs, tamper-proof lockboxes), forensic instrumentation, sealing/Faraday/conduit hardware, legacy hardware procurement, emergency decommission hardware, secure communications hardware.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.5M
[#13, #14] Secure compute/big-data hardware and initial petabyte-class encrypted storage/archival capacity (on-premise cluster, encrypted storage, secure workstations).
Psychological Care Setup $20K
[#24] One-time setup for psychological care & vetting infrastructure (initial counseling program setup, polygraph program setup).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $74.9M/yr
Catastrophic Reserve $50.0M/yr
[#30] Recommended annualized contingency/reserve for global-scale response if SCP-892-2 is discovered and systemic threat emerges (conservative lower-bound reserve; actual exposure may be orders of magnitude larger).
Logistics And Transport $9.0M/yr
[#16, #17, #29] Field investigations readiness and standing MTF readiness costs, MTF sustainment (training, aircraft availability), and international operations contingency leasing/liaison funds.
Cover Story And Legal $6.7M/yr
[#9, #21, #25] O5 access custody overhead, secure transport/audit protocols; legal/cover-up budgets including amnestics, false records, witness management; media monitoring and counterintelligence/crisis PR.
Staff Wages $6.3M/yr
[#7, #8, #10, #11, #12] Ongoing salaries + benefits for 24 guards, 4 supervisors, 6 IT staff, 9 monitoring analysts, and 10 researchers (salaries + ~30% benefits).
Procurement Overhead $1.2M/yr
[#26] Black-budget procurement overhead / front-company and phantom invoice padding estimated as 10–30% of procurement budgets.
Research And Monitoring $1.1M/yr
[#13, #14, #15, #18, #28] Secure compute/cloud maintenance, data-storage expansion/maintenance, commercial data/OSINT subscriptions, forensic/electromagnetic calibration consumables, software licenses/controlled-environment emulation costs.
Incident Response And Drills $300K/yr
[#23] Regular evacuation exercises, tabletop drills, red-team breach simulations and related contracted services.
Fuel And Generator Operations $80K/yr
[#5] Diesel fuel deliveries, generator maintenance, load testing and fuel rotation for onsite generator autonomy.
Facilities Maintenance $65K/yr
[#3] HVAC/life-support annual service contracts, filter replacement, fire-suppression recharge/testing and regulatory testing.
Psychological Care $50K/yr
[#24] Ongoing counseling, polygraphs and clearance reinvestigations for staff and O5 interactions.
Secure Communications Support $30K/yr
[#27] Annual support and maintenance for encrypted comms, tamper-proof logs and SIEM.
Sealing Testing Maintenance $15K/yr
[#19] Testing and maintenance of Faraday-mode / controlled-link hardware and related isolation tests.
Access Control Maintenance $10K/yr
[#6] Annual audits, maintenance and tamper-logging support for high-security access-control hardware.
Legacy Hardware Parts $2K/yr
[#20] Spare parts and bench time for legacy Amstrad/obsolescent hardware.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $74.9M/yr
94.5% probability / year
Normal year with steady-state operations, ongoing research, monitoring, MTF readiness, and standard cover/legal activity; no major incidents or discoveries.
no breach no major field discovery standard operations
🚨 Minor Incident $76.9M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Small containment incident or localized leak requiring targeted MTF deployment, supplemental legal/PR response, and additional forensic work.
localized breach targeted field deployment legal/PR payouts
🚨 Major Breach $174.9M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$100.0M vs baseline
Site breach or capture attempt that requires extensive remediation, prolonged MTF operations, large legal liabilities, and possible partial decommissioning actions.
site overrun wide-scale data compromise large-scale remediation
🚨 Catastrophic Discovery $574.9M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$500.0M vs baseline
Discovery/activation of SCP-892-2 or other systemic outcome that triggers national/international response and large-scale operations.
SCP-892-2 located and is systemic national security escalation global containment operations
👥 Personnel 53 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / Guard 24 [#7] 24 guards (3 shifts × 8) responsible for perimeter, escort, and rapid reaction.
Security Supervisor / Sergeant 4 [#8] 4 supervisory staff for scheduling, training and incident management.
IT / Sysadmin 6 [#10] 6 secure IT operations staff for sysadmin, SOC and network isolation.
Research Analyst / Monitoring 9 [#11] 9 analysts covering 24/7 monitoring and midnight refresh observation.
Research Scientist 10 [#12] 10 researchers (data scientists, linguists, social scientists) doing identity resolution and investigative follow-up.
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items are explicitly estimated in the analyst notes (personnel, vault, compute), supporting a moderate-confidence baseline. Significant uncertainty remains around field costs, legal/cover-up exposure, and the scale of a catastrophic discovery (which could dwarf the estimates), so catastrophic items are conservatively included but add substantial uncertainty.
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