SCP-9099 — SCP-9099 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-9099 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-9099

Expected annual

$5.5M

One-time setup

$23.9M

Annual recurring

$5.2M

Personnel

Initial capital and contingency reserves dominate upfront costs (~$23.9M), driven primarily by site construction, CO2 mitigation/tank farm and equipment purchases. Annual operations are substantial (~$5.23M/yr), driven by staff wages (security, medical, research), D-class program logistics, and legal/cover-up expenditures.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $23.9M

International Fallout Contingency $10.0M

[#30] Upper-tier international/legal fallout mitigation reserve (PR campaigns, diplomatic payments, large-scale cover operations) held as a separate contingency.

Contingency Reserve $5.0M

[#25] Dedicated contingency/catastrophic-response reserve for large-scale emergency mobilization and rapid-response assets.

Equipment $4.9M

[#6, #7, #10, #12, #13, #16, #18, #20, #24, #27] One-time equipment and systems: contraband/search gear (#6), climbing/fall-protection gear (#7), CO2 mitigation tank farm & piping engineering (#10), large industrial blowers/ducting (#12), external gas-monitoring equipment (#13), PPE initial purchase (#16), satellite/drone detectors/jammer (#18), spare inventory (#20), initial materials-analysis equipment (#24), secure communications hardware (#27).

Facilities $3.4M

[#1, #2] Site construction: secure perimeter, access road, helipad, and on-site operations compound buildout (heated living/work quarters, insulation and heavy-duty heating, server room).

Legal Cover Infrastructure $500K

[#17] One-time setup costs for redaction/legal infrastructure, initial contracts with mapping/satellite providers and setup of cover-story mechanisms.

Platform Spare Parts $50K

[#4] Spare parts for platform/rail components (one-time baseline stock to seed inventory).

Paper Record System $10K

[#14] One-time secure paper-record system and tamper-evident forms setup for non-electronic observation protocols.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.2M/yr

Staff Wages $2.0M/yr

[#3, #6, #8, #9, #15, #23] Wages and benefits for on-site personnel: security staff (8–12 guards), contraband/search staffing, paramedic/rescue team, medical & psychiatric staff, research salaries (portion of research team salaries), and transcription/data entry staff.

Research And Monitoring $520K/yr

[#15, #24, #13] Ongoing research non-salary budget (contracted analyses, consumables, travel, offsite instrumentation), plus recurring materials-analysis tests and calibration/consumables for gas/environmental monitoring.

D Class Program $500K/yr

[#5] Recurring costs for recruitment, housing, rotation logistics, stipends and transport for D-class pool (30–50 D-class).

Facilities Maintenance $350K/yr

[#2, #4, #12, #20] Utilities, fuel & generator maintenance, contracted rope-access inspections, ventilation maintenance, and spare-part replenishment for structural/mechanical systems.

Logistics And Transport $340K/yr

[#8, #19] Medevac/helicopter on-call contracts and road/ground logistics (snow-clearing, heavy-lift rentals, seasonal road maintenance).

Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr

[#17] Ongoing cover-story maintenance, legal takedown/expungement requests, government liaison and routine takedown operations.

Insurance Accounting Admin $300K/yr

[#26] Insurance-like premiums, accounting, payroll, foreign-contractor fees and administrative overhead.

Mortuary And Investigation $225K/yr

[#21] Recurring investigation, documentation alteration, controlled disposals/cover operations and associated costs relating to irretrievable personnel and missing-person cover-ups.

Co2 Operations $175K/yr

[#11] Operational CO2 costs: per-event fill/delivery/logistics and ongoing storage/tank maintenance if cryotank strategy used (delivery & re-oxygenation support averaged annually).

Satellite Surveillance Operations $150K/yr

[#18] Ongoing aerial/satellite surveillance missions by Foundation assets to detect unauthorized imagery and maintain airspace control.

Training And Sop $85K/yr

[#7, #22] Annual training, mandatory climb/rescue drills, psychological resilience programs, SOP development and periodic drills.

Communications Security And Memetic Training $75K/yr

[#27] Recurring memetic-risk and communications security training, secure comms procedures discipline reinforcement.

Gas Monitoring Calibration $60K/yr

[#13] Annual calibration, consumables and scheduled air-sampling trips for external gas-monitoring equipment and sample pumps.

Supplies And Consumables $45K/yr

[#16, #29] Recurring consumables: PPE replacements, batteries for outside equipment, spare clothing, first aid, climbing consumables, paper logs and similar field supplies.

Visitor Audits $45K/yr

[#28] Periodic external audits, visitor/inspection restriction enforcement and random checks to validate authorized personnel only.

Non Electronic Ops $12K/yr

[#14] Recurring costs to operate paper-based observation protocols, secure couriers and secure physical records handling.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.2M/yr

82.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with routine maintenance, regular observation cycles, and no major incidents.

routine_operations no_breach scheduled_testing

🚨 Minor Incident $5.7M/yr

12.0% probability / year +$475K vs baseline

Localized incident (e.g., unexpected ground-level rest leading to irretrievable D-Class) requiring an emergency CO2 fill, medevac activations, and investigation/cover-up activity.

ground-level_rest single_co2_deployment local_investigation

🚨 Major Breach $8.2M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline

Larger containment failure requiring multiple CO2 deployments, extensive asset mobilization, infrastructure repairs and extensive legal/cover operations.

compounded_unobserved_cycles multiple_co2_deployments large_scale_response

🚨 Political Exposure $15.2M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Public exposure or international scrutiny requiring major PR, diplomatic payments, broad relocation or extreme mitigation/cover-up measures.

public_leak satellite_imagery_exposure international_scrutiny

👥 Personnel 21 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	10	[#3, #6] 24/7 armed security rotation to cover perimeter, entry control and contraband searches (8–12 guards estimated; 10 used for planning).
Research Scientist	4	[#15] Principal investigator plus 2–4 researchers (salaried research component reflected in staff_wages).
Medical Officer / Psychiatric Staff	3	[#9] On-site med/psych staff for 24/7 coverage, psychological monitoring and post-shift evaluations.
Paramedic / Emergency Responder	2	[#8] On-site paramedic/rescue capability to support medevac and immediate response.
Transcription / Data Clerk	2	[#14, #23] Dedicated personnel (2–3 FTEs) for paper-based transcription and memetic-risk review; 2 used for headcount alignment with staff_wages.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are based on analyst ranges and operational assumptions for a highly anomalous, poorly-understood object in a remote environment; many costs (CO2 logistics, contingency reserves, breach probabilities) are uncertain and scenario-dependent, producing low confidence.

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