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SCP-920 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-920
Expected annual
$93.5M
One-time setup
$18.9M
Annual recurring
$92.3M
Personnel
20
One-time capital of ~$19M for secure facilities, equipment, and initial R&D; recurring baseline operations are dominated by contingency reserves and high-cost continuous standoff surveillance, totaling ~ $92.3M/year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $18.9M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $10.0M
[#24] Initial capital for a neutralization/mitigation R&D program (lab buildout, specialized hardware and early-stage program costs).
Facilities $6.5M
[#7, #9] One-time build of hardened ops/command center (#7) and contingency capital/construction planning for a specialized containment cell (#9).
Equipment $2.3M
[#6, #16, #17, #20] Initial procurement of field equipment and ruggedized comms (#6), initial sensor kit inventory (#16), remote camera/buoy/shore-station network deployment (#17), and vehicle/transport fleet acquisition (#20).
Training And Sop Development $150K
[#19] One-time development of training curricula, SOPs and initial simulation/exercise setup.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $92.3M/yr
Damage Liability Reserve $50.0M/yr
[#14] Large contingency reserve set-aside against catastrophic damage and mass-casualty liabilities (minimum conservative reserve).
Catastrophic Insurance Reserve $20.0M/yr
[#25] Reserved funds/indemnity lines for large-scale transportation disasters and hush settlements.
Neutralization R And D Budget $5.0M/yr
[#24] Multi-year recurring R&D spending on neutralization/mitigation efforts (program operational costs).
Satellite Tasking $4.0M/yr
[#1] Dedicated optical/IR/SAR satellite tasking and priority scheduling for high-revisit near-real-time monitoring.
Staff Wages $2.0M/yr
[#5] Salaries, benefits and allowances for MTF Iota-1 and small specialist support team (10–20 personnel; fully loaded).
Cover Story And Legal $2.0M/yr
[#10, #11, #21] Legal retainers, diplomatic liaison, cover-story/PR budgets, record management and administrative costs to obscure public incidents and manage identities.
Emergency Response Fund $2.0M/yr
[#13] Rapid-response reserve for temporary quarantine, rented helicopters, shelters, cordon personnel and local emergency actions.
Clandestine Operations Budget $2.0M/yr
[#22] Ongoing clandestine operations, bribes, indirect payments and ad hoc covert actions.
Research And Monitoring $1.0M/yr
[#8] Multi-disciplinary research budget for anomaly studies, contracted analysis and lab simulations.
Victim Compensation $1.0M/yr
[#12] Baseline set-aside for victim/family hush payments, relocations, false records and compensation.
Intelligence Monitoring $800K/yr
[#15] OSINT/HUMINT subscriptions, informant networks and commercial partner monitoring for worldwide detection.
Isr Leases $500K/yr
[#3] Leased long-endurance ISR drones / aircraft day-rates for persistent standoff observation (scaled baseline).
Facilities Maintenance $400K/yr
[#7] Ongoing operations, redundancy and hardened ops center maintenance and communications costs.
Supplies And Consumables $300K/yr
[#23] Fuel, office supplies, spare parts, generator fuel, routine consumables and operational overhead.
Data Processing Storage $300K/yr
[#2] Data downlink, archival storage, compute for automated detection and indexing of continuous imagery and sensor streams.
Sensor Feed Subscriptions $300K/yr
[#4] Commercial radar/AIS/ADS-B feeds and air-traffic cooperation/liaison subscription costs.
Psychological Services $200K/yr
[#18] Counseling, rotations, psych evals and support for personnel exposed to compulsion/stress risk.
Vehicles Operation $200K/yr
[#20] Operating costs for covert vans, boats and charter redeployments (fuel, charters, maintenance).
Remote Monitoring Maintenance $150K/yr
[#17] Maintenance, comms and servicing for buoys, shore stations and remote camera networks.
Field Equipment Maintenance $50K/yr
[#6] Maintenance, spares and periodic replacement for ruggedized field comms, portable servers and optics.
Sensor Kit Maintenance $50K/yr
[#16] Maintenance and replacement for portable seismic/EM/GPS sensor kits.
Training Refreshers $50K/yr
[#19] Recurring training exercises, tabletop refreshers and simulations.
Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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Cover Identity Management $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $92.3M/yr
89.0% probability / year
Normal year with continuous monitoring, routine research, and reserve funding but no major incidents.
continuous_surveillance routine_research_and_admin
🚨 Minor Incident $94.3M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Localized public incident requiring emergency response, PR campaign, victim compensation and temporary asset surge.
population_center_appearance small_scale_transport_disruption
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $192.3M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$100.0M vs baseline
Major transportation disaster or mass-casualty event related to SCP effects requiring large-scale liability payouts and emergency operations.
airliner_or_shipping_loss mass_casualty_event
👥 Personnel 20 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#5] Front-line MTF personnel (Iota-1); part of staff_wages estimate.
Research Scientist 4 [#5] Scientific support for monitoring and R&D; included in staff_wages estimate.
Analyst / Satellite/ISR Operator 2 [#5] Analysts and operators processing imagery/telemetry; included in staff_wages estimate.
Administrative Staff 2 [#5] Liaison, logistics and administrative support; included in staff_wages estimate.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide good qualitative ranges and specific line items, but most values are wide ranges and contingency/reserve sizing is highly uncertain—hence medium confidence.
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