SCP-9130 — SCP-9130 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-9130 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-9130

Expected annual

$16.5M

One-time setup

$37.1M

Annual recurring

$12.9M

Personnel

Initial one-time setup for a moderate containment program is approximately $34.45M, dominated by SRA procurement, site construction, and lab/setup costs. Recurring annual costs are about $12.88M driven primarily by staff wages, SRA maintenance, energy, reserves and ongoing research/monitoring.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $37.1M

Equipment $13.4M

[#3, #7, #9, #10, #11, #14, #20] SRA procurement (multiple nodes), security equipment & vehicles, robotic field rigs, Hume-sensor install, secure transport units, incinerator equipment, and IT/servers — hardware and installed systems.

Facilities $13.3M

[#1, #2, #12, #18] Land acquisition/lease, hardened compound, long-term vault buildings and access infrastructure (roads/helipad) — aggregated estimate for a moderate containment plot and facilities.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.0M

[#13] Containment-grade laboratory buildout, antechambers, instrumentation for Hume/reality studies and remote experiment automation.

Decommissioning Fund $2.0M

[#24] Up-front set-aside for future decommissioning, SRA removal, remediation and legal reclamation.

Power Infrastructure $1.5M

[#5] Grid upgrades, transformers, cabling, on-site generators/UPS and associated installation costs.

Hume Sensor Install $750K

[#10] One-time install of distributed Hume sensors, camera towers and telemetry hardware.

Incineration Facility $750K

[#14] On-site SRA-shielded incinerator and hazardous-waste handling installation (one-time).

Field Robotic Rigs And Tooling $500K

[#9] Robotic rigs and rugged tooling for Protocol BONSAI field operations (one-time procurement).

Emergency Demobilization Setup $500K

[#16] One-time purchase/setup of rapid-deployment staging equipment, scorched-earth tools and initial stockpiles.

9130 2 Program Setup $500K

[#22] Initial procurement of containment boxes, remote manipulators and antechamber modifications for SCP-9130-2 testing.

Secure Transport Containment $400K

[#11] Specialized containment vehicles/containers with SRA shielding or stabilizers (one-time procurement).

Security Equipment And Vehicles $300K

[#7] One-time purchase of patrol vehicles, armored containment vehicles and initial secure checkpoints / equipment.

Cover Story Setup $200K

[#17] Initial legal/PR/cover-story setup costs, NDAs and local agreements to establish cover operations.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $12.9M/yr

Staff Wages $3.3M/yr

[#7, #8, #9, #13] Salaries and benefits for security guards, research scientists, field crews/arborists and lab technicians (includes benefits/rotations).

Financial Reserve Contribution $2.0M/yr

[#21] Annual appropriation toward a larger internal reserve/insurance fund for catastrophic containment costs and legal exposures.

Sra Maintenance $1.5M/yr

[#4] Recurring maintenance, spare parts, SLA, recalibration and software/license fees for the deployed SRA network (~15% of procurement).

Research And Monitoring $1.2M/yr

[#13, #10, #22] Ongoing lab operations, experimental campaigns, telemetry analysis and specialized research projects.

Emergency Reserve Contribution $1.0M/yr

[#16] Annual contribution to maintain an immediately-available rapid-response/demobilization fund.

9130 2 Research $1.0M/yr

[#22] Ongoing experimental campaigns, sample acquisition and secure testing of SCP-9130-2 artifacts.

Utilities Energy $600K/yr

[#6] Continuous electricity costs for SRAs, climate control, sensors and IT (typical moderate site estimate).

It And Cyber Ops $360K/yr

[#20] Secure IT operations, backups, incident response retainers and encrypted telemetry handling.

Power Fuel Maintenance $240K/yr

[#5] Fuel, generator maintenance and UPS servicing for on-site backup generation.

Hume Sensor Ops $240K/yr

[#10] Telemetry, remote analysis, sensor maintenance and data handling for Hume/perceptual monitoring.

Logistics And Transport $200K/yr

[#11, #18] Vehicle operations, fuel, maintenance and routine transport logistics for site access and SCP-9130-A movement.

Psychological Program $200K/yr

[#15] Employee psychological screening, counseling, memetic countermeasures and rotation support (~$2k–$10k/employee/year).

Field Culling $200K/yr

[#19] Ongoing culling, ecological management, replacement plantings and remediation crews.

Facilities Maintenance $150K/yr

[#2, #18] Routine maintenance of buildings, roads, helipad and site infrastructure.

Cover Story And Legal $150K/yr

[#17] Ongoing legal fees, local payments, PR maintenance and cover-story expenditures.

Public Health Monitoring $150K/yr

[#23] Local outreach, cooperation with hospitals/law enforcement and anonymized monitoring of pareidolia incidents.

Storage Ops $144K/yr

[#12] Vault climate control, monitoring and storage operations for SCP-9130-A material.

Supplies And Consumables $100K/yr

[#9, #14, #13] PPE, consumables for field operations, lab consumables and incineration consumables.

Disposal Ops $100K/yr

[#14] Staffing, consumables and per-ton handling costs for controlled incineration/disposal.

Security Ops $50K/yr

[#7] Ongoing security consumables, training refreshers and small equipment replacement.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $12.9M/yr

70.0% probability / year

A normal operational year with routine maintenance, research, and no major incidents.

steady case load no major SRA failures routine research schedules

🚨 Minor Incident $13.9M/yr

18.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline

Localized incident (e.g., single-tree explosion or small SRA failure) requiring emergency response, repairs and short-term increased operations.

single SRA failure localized tree death medical/repair response

🚨 Major Breach $27.9M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$15.0M vs baseline

Major containment breach affecting multiple instances or several SRA nodes, requiring large-scale repairs, replacements, legal action and temporary relocation costs.

SRA network cascade failure multiple-tree deaths localized evacuation

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $112.9M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$100.0M vs baseline

Large-scale failure with mass conversion/tree death across forest tract requiring major reconstruction, large reserve drawdowns and multi-site relocation.

mass instance mortality regional reality destabilization full facility rebuilds

🚨 Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up $22.9M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Significant research breakthrough that necessitates immediate scale-up of SRA deployments and lab capacity to exploit or mitigate findings.

proof of method to communicate/control source universe need to expand SRA grid rapid procurement of additional labs

👥 Personnel 38 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	16	[#7] 24/7 perimeter and internal security staffing (armed guards, patrols).
Research Scientist	8	[#8, #13] Botanists, reality physicists, Hume specialists conducting lab and field research.
Engineer / Maintenance	4	[#5, #20] Electrical/IT/field engineers for SRA, power infrastructure and IT upkeep.
Field Technicians / Arborists	6	[#9, #19] Field culling, BONSAI crews, robotic operators and replanting teams.
Administrative Staff	3	[#17] Site admin, legal liaisons, and cover-story coordination.
Medical Officer	1	[#15] On-site medical and psychological screening support.

📋 Confidence Notes

Wide ranges in source estimates, heavy dependence on outbreak size (10s vs 100s of trees), uncertain SRA node counts and unquantifiable catastrophic risk make precise costing difficult; figures are moderate-site assumptions and should be re-estimated for different outbreak scales.

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