SCP-9158 — SCP-9158 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-9158 Euclid ~ medium confidence

SCP-9158

Expected annual

$3.2M

One-time setup

$2.1M

Annual recurring

$3.1M

Personnel

Initial capital outlay is approximately $2,120,000 driven by facility build-out, specialized tooling, and contingency reserves; ongoing annual costs are approximately $3,098,500 driven primarily by staff wages, legal/PR/monitoring, and research/monitoring operations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.1M

Facilities $750K

[#9] Build-out of autopsy/BSL-capable containment suite and related construction.

Tooling Cybersecurity $200K

[#3] One-time tooling/automation development for intrusion detection, webcrawlers, sinkholes.

Tooling Dev Webcrawler $200K

[#4] Development of webcrawler/content-suppression tooling (one-time dev cost).

Contingency Reserve Initial $200K

[#29] Initial contingency/escalation fund for major leak or large-scale operation.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $125K

[#22] Specialized equipment and initial research instrumentation for anomalous/neural testing.

Infohazard Development $125K

[#17] Initial development of information-hazard/memetic containment materials and training modules.

Legal Action One Time $100K

[#6] Possible one-off major legal actions (domain seizure, litigation) budgeted as one-time.

Field Operation Per Incident $100K

[#12] Single covert field retrieval operation (planning, logistics, transport).

Forensic Analysis $75K

[#8] Initial full forensic panel, specialist consultations, and advanced assays.

Screenshot Tooling $50K

[#18] Tamper-evident automated screenshot capture and evidentiary tool development.

Liaison One Time $50K

[#20] One-time costs for investigative liaison/cooperation with civil authorities.

Backup Power Hardware $50K

[#24] UPS/generator purchase and installation for servers and freezers.

Server Setup And Tor Integration $30K

[#1] One-time server setup, Tor hidden-service integration, redundant appliances.

Storage Acquisition $25K

[#2] Initial SAN/NAS/tape/cloud cold storage procurement and redundancy.

Cold Storage Equipment $20K

[#11] ULT freezers / cryo tanks and related purchase costs.

Evidence Chain Setup $20K

[#19] Secure evidence vault setup and chain-of-custody systems/accreditation setup.

Equipment $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.1M/yr

Staff Wages $1.9M/yr

[#3, #5, #16, #13, #30, #21] Salaries and benefits for cybersecurity, OSINT/moderators, research scientists, security guards, administration, and ethics stipends.

Cover Story And Legal $350K/yr

[#6, #7, #27] Legal/PR retainers, crisis response budget, and countermeasures for illicit distribution.

Research And Monitoring $241K/yr

[#1, #2, #4, #15, #17] Ongoing bandwidth/hosting, archive maintenance, webcrawler ops, toxicology program, and info-hazard updates.

Contingency Reserve Yearly $200K/yr

[#29] Annual escalation reserve for unanticipated large-scale leaks or operations.

Supplies And Consumables $130K/yr

[#16, #23, #11] Lab consumables, PPE, LN2 supplies, autoclave/waste disposal.

Hardware Amortization $80K/yr

[#25] Annual amortized replacement of servers, cameras, storage, and networking (3–5 year lifecycle).

Facilities Maintenance $48K/yr

[#10, #24] BSL facility operations, decontamination, HVAC/HEPA replacement and backup power maintenance.

Logistics And Transport $45K/yr

[#26, #20] Travel budget for field researchers and liaison budgets/transport.

Insurance And Permits $25K/yr

[#28] Institutional insurance, permits for human tissue and controlled substances, compliance costs.

Psychological Care $25K/yr

[#14] Ongoing counseling, trauma support, and decompression for exposed staff.

Specialized Equipment Maintenance $20K/yr

[#22] Calibration and maintenance for EEG rigs, detection hardware and custom rigs.

Evidence Audit $10K/yr

[#19] Annual audits/compliance costs for evidence handling and accreditation.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.1M/yr

83.0% probability / year

Uneventful year with no major incidents; normal operations, monitoring, and scheduled maintenance.

no_public_breach routine_operations_only

🚨 Minor Incident $3.2M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline

Localized leak or targeted public spread requiring rapid takedowns, limited legal action, and extra monitoring.

localized_leak viral_screenshot_cluster

🚨 Major Breach $4.3M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline

Large-scale public exposure requiring major PR campaign, extended litigation, multi-jurisdictional operations, and large contingency drawdown.

widespread_media_exposure legal_litigation international_attention

🚨 Field Retrieval Operation $3.4M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline

A physical retrieval of material from a site, followed by transport, autopsy, and surge research activity.

confirmed_physical_origin retrieval_required

👥 Personnel 25 total

Role	Count	Notes
Cybersecurity Engineer / Analyst	6	[#3] Senior engineers and ops/analysts (5–6 FTE equivalent) for monitoring and hardening.
OSINT Analyst / Online Operative	4	[#5] Infiltration moderators and linguistics analysts (3–6 range).
Research Scientist	5	[#16] Neuroscience, psychiatry, medicinal chemistry researchers (4–6 FTE).
Security Officer / MTF Agent	6	[#13] On-site security rotation staffing (2–4 guards per shift translates to multiple FTEs in payroll estimate).
Administrative Staff	2	[#30] Program manager(s), administrative assistants for program operations.
Medical Officer / Forensic Specialist	1	[#8] Forensic pathology liaison and specialist contracts as needed.
Ethics Board / Oversight	1	[#21] Oversight staffing and board stipends.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges for most categories allowing a mid-range aggregation, but several items (incidence rates, frequency of field operations, and whether physical tissue is retrieved) are uncertain so overall confidence is medium.

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