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SCP-928 Euclid-exsequi ~ medium confidence
SCP-928
Expected annual
$1.5M
One-time setup
$417K
Annual recurring
$1.4M
Personnel
13
Initial one-time setup is moderate (~$417k) driven by containment room buildout, research instrumentation, and surveillance/IT equipment; recurring annual costs are substantial (~$1.42M/yr) driven primarily by staffing (analysts, researchers, security) and incident/legal/contingency reserves.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $417K
Initial Research And Lab Setup $158K
[#7, #14, #15, #16] Initial research campaigns and tooling: chess-engine adaptation, forensic/acoustic/materials testing campaign, specialized consulting engagements, and chess-specific database/engine setup (noting overlap with Item #7).
Facilities $112K
[#2, #13] Containment room construction (3m×5m) and on-site medical/exam room setup; includes reinforced walls/door, environmental controls, antechamber and basic medical exam room buildout.
Equipment $81K
[#1, #3, #4, #5, #17, #18, #19] Museum-grade display case, biometric/dual-key hardware and safes, initial redundant AV/sensor suite, initial secure storage hardware, document-control hardware/printing, initial IT security appliances, and UPS/generator tie-in equipment.
Relocation And Escalation $30K
[#24] One-time contingency planning and potential execution cost for relocation/escalation to a higher-containment site.
Personnel Vetting Initial $20K
[#10] Initial background checks / intensive vetting for baseline operational staff (assumes vetting for core containment team).
Training And Onboarding One Time $18K
[#9] Initial training, backups onboarding, succession planning and drills for key-holders and backups.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.4M/yr
Staff Wages $820K/yr
[#6, #7, #8, #16] Salaries and benefits for continuous monitoring analysts, research staff (including developer), security guards and supervisor as primary recurring labor cost.
Contingency Reserve $171K/yr
[#25] Contingency/unknown-anomalous-effects budget equal to 15% of baseline annual operating costs to cover unplanned analyses, equipment replacements, or emergency operations.
Research And Monitoring $130K/yr
[#5, #14, #15, #16, #18] On-going secure storage & archival costs, follow-up forensic/analytic testing budget, recurring consulting, chess-analysis computing time, and IT/security monitoring/updates.
Insurance And Liability Reserve $114K/yr
[#22] Reserve equal to ~10% of baseline annual operating budget to cover liability, regulatory investigation and escalation costs (calculated from baseline pre-reserve recurring costs).
Logistics And Transport $50K/yr
[#11] Annual contingency reserve for incident response, rapid-deployment transport, overtime and limited search/recovery operations.
Cover Story And Legal $50K/yr
[#21] Annual reserve for cover-story maintenance, legal fees, family liaison and routine amnestic-equivalent operations.
Personnel Vetting Annual $30K/yr
[#10] Continuous psychiatric monitoring and annual vetting budget for authorized personnel.
Medical And Quarantine Operations $20K/yr
[#13] Annual operations/reserve for medical screening, quarantine, decontamination and per-exposure testing reserves.
Audits And Compliance $10K/yr
[#23] Regular SOP audits, two-person-rule compliance checks, and procedure/documentation updates.
Replacement Hiring Budget $9K/yr
[#12] Budgeted recruiting/clearance/onboarding costs to replace staff lost to exposure (estimated 0.2–0.5 hires/yr).
Facilities Maintenance $8K/yr
[#2, #4, #19] Annual maintenance of containment room, surveillance hardware upkeep and backup power/UPS maintenance.
Training Refresher $5K/yr
[#9] Ongoing refresher training and cross-training for backups and key-holders.
Supplies And Consumables $5K/yr
[#20, #3, #17] Batteries, replacement sensors/camera parts, cleaning/filters, locksmith supplies, spare key replacement and minor document-control consumables.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.4M/yr
81.5% probability / year
Normal uneventful year with steady operations, staffing, and routine reserves; no major incidents.
no exposure incidents routine audits and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $1.6M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Single limited exposure resulting in one lost staff member or small-scale retrieval/search requiring per-incident response and cover-story costs.
single exposure/disappearance localized search & recovery and legal/cover costs
🚨 Major Incident $2.0M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$600K vs baseline
Larger-scale incident with multiple personnel lost/compromised requiring extensive recovery efforts, legal settlements, and longer-term research interruption.
multi-person exposure extended search/recovery and significant legal/cover operations
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $4.4M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Severe containment failure or public exposure leading to major investigation, potential site relocation, regulatory costs and large legal/compensation expenses.
public exposure regulatory investigation site relocation or multi-site escalation
👥 Personnel 13 total
Role Count Notes
Monitoring Analyst 3 [#6] 24/7 recording analysis coverage; three shift analysts (FTE).
Research Scientist 2 [#7, #16] Researchers analyzing chess moves and linguistic/musicological data (1–2 FTE mapped to 2 headcount).
Software Developer 1 [#7, #16] Developer (0.5 FTE assumed filled by one part-time headcount) for engine adaptation and computational reconstruction.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#8] Six guards to maintain two-person rule and continuous presence at containment door/anteroom.
Security Supervisor 1 [#8] Supervisor to oversee guard shifts and access control (key-rule enforcement).
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items are explicitly estimated in analyst notes (salaries, equipment, incident planning) improving confidence, but the object's anomalous and unpredictable disappearance behavior and per-incident variability introduce significant uncertainty in incident frequency and per-incident costs.
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