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SCP-9120 Archon ? low confidence
SCP-9120
Expected annual
$74.3M
One-time setup
$641.5M
Annual recurring
$70.7M
Personnel
67
One-time establishment costs are dominated by anomalous hardware procurement and a large contingency reserve; annual costs are driven by personnel (ATF and research), contingency allocations, and logistics/maintenance.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $641.5M
Protocol Contingency Reserve $500.0M
[#21] Large reserve / one-time capital allocation for Protocol Long Night of Solace / catastrophic K/XK mitigation (maintainable reserve; actual deployment costs far higher).
Equipment $95.3M
[#3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #9, #15, #19, #20, #27, #28] One-time procurement and installation of SRAs/Lonsdale units, high-security storage hardware, UAS fleet, ATF equipment, secure comms, sensors, spare inventory, anomalous weapons procurement, and artifact curation/display/storage setup.
Facilities $24.0M
[#1, #2, #16] Land purchase/legal and Area-400 construction plus power infrastructure upgrades (land & structural work). Does not include specialized containment suites or decommissioning reserves listed separately.
Dragon Containment Suite $10.0M
[#14] One-time hardened contingency holding/containment suite design and build for SCP-9120-D (heat/fire resistant, craning capability, reinforced structure).
Decommissioning Fund $5.0M
[#31] One-time fund reserved for long-term decommissioning/demolition and hazardous/thaumic waste remediation if Area-400 is abandoned or sealed.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $4.0M
[#13, #17, #18, #23] Ritual/ritual-infrastructure setup, BSL‑3/4 lab equipment and sample-analysis infrastructure, specimen curation build-out, and initial memetic/amnestic program stockpile/setup.
Interagency Retainer $2.0M
[#22] One-time retainer/settlement for GoI/GoI-equivalent agreements and classified MOUs.
Transport Contracts Retainer $1.0M
[#26] One-time retainers/contracts for heavy-lift/rapid-deployment airlift & specialized transport on standby.
Legal Shell Setup $200K
[#24] One-time establishment costs for cover corporations and clandestine procurement/legal entities.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $70.7M/yr
Contingency Allocation $50.0M/yr
[#21] Annual allocation to maintain a ready contingency pool for Protocol Long Night of Solace / large-scale mitigation; funds reserved for rapid procurement/deployment (keeps a maintainable liquid pool).
Staff Wages $5.8M/yr
[#8, #9, #11] Salaries and benefits for on-site security (guards), assigned ATF Theta-99 personnel, and lead research/scientific staff + administrative support.
Logistics And Transport $4.0M/yr
[#7, #9, #12, #26] UAS/aircraft operations and maintenance, ATF vehicle/weapon upkeep and training travel, expedition logistics/field missions into SCP-9120-B/C, and transport contingency allocations.
Cover Story And Legal $2.9M/yr
[#22, #23, #24, #29, #30] Inter-agency/government liaison payments, routine information control and memetic program budgets, legal/compliance retainer work, public mitigation/community compensation, and oversight/reporting costs.
Research And Monitoring $2.8M/yr
[#4, #13, #19, #27, #17] Ongoing maintenance/training for Gen-3 SRA(s), thaumaturgical maintenance personnel, sensor R&D/calibration, anomalous-weapons upkeep/research, and laboratory monitoring/calibration.
Supplies And Consumables $2.0M/yr
[#13, #17, #20, #23, #28] Consumables for thaumaturgical repairs, BSL consumables/waste disposal/calibration, spare-inventory refresh, memetic/amnestic supplies, and artifact curation consumables.
Lonsdale Maintenance $1.2M/yr
[#5] Recurring maintenance, testing, storage-power cycles, and readiness costs for multiple Lonsdale thaumaturgic inhibition field generators.
Facilities Maintenance $980K/yr
[#3, #6, #16, #18, #15] Maintenance for high-security storage systems, perimeter sensors and barriers, power/fuel/test cycles, specimen-holding infrastructure upkeep, and secure-communications maintenance.
Training And Drills $400K/yr
[#10] Regular ATF/MTF/ETRD drills, Long Night of Solace exercises, memetic safety and evacuation simulations.
Dragon Upkeep $300K/yr
[#14] Veterinary contingencies, sedation inventories, drilling for SCP-9120-D emergency handling, and associated small transport/maintenance.
Personnel Health And Insurance $300K/yr
[#25] Hazard pay, increased healthcare, life-insurance premiums, trauma counseling, and family-relocation/reserve liabilities.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $70.7M/yr
93.9% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, maintenance, regular expeditions, and no major incidents.
no breach routine expeditions standard ATF readiness
🚨 Minor Incident $72.7M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Localized incident (small breach or memetic exposure, limited hardware deployment) requiring repairs, amnestics, and local containment operations.
small breach localized memetic exposure repair/decontamination
🚨 Major Breach $320.7M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$250.0M vs baseline
Significant containment failure requiring deployment of SRAs/Lonsdale units, large-scale ATF mobilization, international liaison, and heavy logistics.
deployment of Gen-3 SRA(s) multiple Lonsdale activations national-level emergency coordination
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $1.1B/yr
0.1% probability / year +$1.0B vs baseline
Near-XK or declared K/XK-class event requiring full Protocol Long Night of Solace activation and global emergency response.
EoI-001 breaching baseline reality full Protocol Long Night activation global emergency mobilization
👥 Personnel 67 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 16 [#8] On-site round-the-clock guards (3-shift coverage).
Applied Task Force Theta-99 Operator 24 [#9] Full-time ATF operators assigned to Area-400 (rapid deployment team).
Research Scientist 9 [#11] Lead researcher + scientific team (parahistorical, thaumaturgy, ecology, exobiology).
Lab Technician / Tech Support 6 [#17, #18] Laboratory technicians, BSL support, specimen curation staff.
Administrative Staff 4 [#2, #30] Site administration, reporting, and oversight coordination.
Medical Officer / Veterinarian 2 [#14] Veterinary specialists and medics for field and on-site casualty support.
Engineer / Maintenance 3 [#16, #6] Power, generators, facility, and perimeter maintenance engineers.
Memetic Specialist / Memeticist 2 [#23] Memetic countermeasure personnel and amnestic program specialists.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [] Site director and executive oversight (Director of Area-400).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are low-confidence due to high uncertainty around costs for anomalous hardware (SRAs, Lonsdale devices), contingency usage during K/XK events, and variable inter-agency/diplomatic arrangements; many ranges in analyst notes are broad and scale nonlinearly with operational choices.
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