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SCP-001-CHAMOMILE82-S-PROPOSAL Keter ~ medium confidence
Chamomile82's Proposal
Expected annual
$15.0M
One-time setup
$454.6M
Annual recurring
$14.6M
Personnel
38
One-time setup and contingency reserves dominate initial costs (~$455M) driven by relocation/remediation reserves, exotic safes, and secure facility refit; baseline annual operations are staff-, security-, and research-heavy at roughly $14.6M/yr.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $454.6M
Major Relocation Estimate $275.0M
[#18] Planning-level major relocation cost estimate (single full move: $50M–$500M; midpoint shown for planning).
Large Scale Remediation Contingency $100.0M
[#27] Contingent planning-level remediation reserve if SCP-001-KO confirmation requires large-scale operations.
Base Relocation Reserve $62.5M
[#18] One-time contingency reserve for potential base/site relocation (recommended reserve $25M–$100M; midpoint used).
Insurance Reserve $13.5M
[#29] One-time internal insurance / sunk-risk reserve (planning midpoint $2M–$25M).
Equipment $1.7M
[#2, #5, #6, #8, #10, #21] Anti-surveillance kit, guard equipment & armoring, barium-stannate safes manufacturing (multiple safes), armored vehicle purchase, password/hardware tokens, and secure comms hardware one-time costs.
Facilities $1.1M
[#1, #9] Secure conference-room refit (Site-15 B5) and underground vault construction one-time build costs.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $678K
[#13, #20] HPC cluster and initial archival supplies / research lab setup one-time costs.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $14.6M/yr
Staff Wages $5.5M/yr
[#3, #4, #7, #12, #14, #19, #22, #28, #25, #11, #23, #8] Annual salaries/benefits for guards, TSCM tech, scribes, research team (4–8 FTEs + techs + PM), field/task forces, legal/ethics staff, clearance/admin staff, red-team and medical standby/courier personnel (aggregate wages portion).
Relocation Contingency Fund $3.8M/yr
[#18] Annual top-up reserve for potential site relocation and large logistical contingencies (line-item recurring funding).
Research And Monitoring $2.0M/yr
[#12, #13, #14, #25, #26, #20] Non-salary research ops and monitoring: HPC power/maintenance, experiment/simulation costs, field-op consumables, red-team contract work, incident-response standby supplies, and ongoing archive continuity costs.
Insurance Top Up $1.2M/yr
[#29] Annual internal insurance / risk-top-up to cover equipment loss, personnel casualty, and legal exposure (ongoing replenishment).
Logistics And Transport $650K/yr
[#8, #23] Armored-vehicle operations, couriers, fuel/maintenance, medevac/evacuation contracts and transport escorts.
Amnestic Treatment $640K/yr
[#16] Annual budget for amnestic procedures, drugs, medical staff time and post-op monitoring (10–50 treatments/yr assumed; midpoint used).
Cover Story And Legal $458K/yr
[#17, #19, #10] Baseline cover-up/memetic-containment PR funds, legal expenses, and password/key custody operations and auditing.
Record Keeping And Admin $225K/yr
[#28, #22] Administrative staff for meeting logs, clearance processing, auditing, and secure paperwork handling.
Facilities Maintenance $70K/yr
[#9, #5, #1] Vault & conference-room maintenance, acoustic/structural upkeep, and equipment upkeep (guard lockers/armoring maintenance).
D Class Management $50K/yr
[#15] D-Class housing, escorts, medical assessments, and handling for controlled document access windows.
Supplies And Consumables $35K/yr
[#24, #30, #7] Archival-quality paper/stationery, meeting consumables (meals/translation), and scribe materials/overtime per meeting.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $14.6M/yr
94.5% probability / year
Normal operational year with scheduled meetings, routine research, and no externally visible breaches.
scheduled_meetings routine_research_and_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $14.9M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Small-scale containment/OPSEC lapse or localized breach requiring targeted investigation, PR, and short-term remediation.
failed_pre-meeting_sweep small_information_leak targeted cleanup
🚨 Major Breach $39.6M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Significant exposure or violent incident affecting personnel or facilities that requires relocation-of-assets, major remediation, and expanded operations.
public_exposure assault_on_site forced_relocation
🚨 Catastrophic Confirmation $514.6M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$500.0M vs baseline
Full confirmation/manifestation requiring national/international-scale remediation, mass amnestic campaigns, and major infrastructure rework.
SCP_confirmation_public apocalyptic_scale_event international_remediation
👥 Personnel 38 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 10 [#4] Ten guards hired to staff rotations and meeting perimeters (covers 5 stationed per meeting plus relief).
Electronic Countermeasures Technician (TSCM Technician) 1 [#3] Dedicated full-time sweep/inspection technician on-call.
Research Scientist 6 [#12] Core research team (4–8 FTEs; midpoint used) for variable testing and End investigations.
Lab Technician 2 [#12] Lab tech support for experimental and documentation work.
Computational Scientist 2 [#12, #13] HPC/system analysts and modelers for simulations and data analysis.
Project Manager 1 [#12] Senior project lead for coordination of variable testing and ops.
Scribe / Calligrapher 2 [#7] Two cleared scribes to hand-copy documents and produce duplicates after meetings.
Administrative Staff 2 [#28, #22] Admins for logs, clearance processing, and secure mail handling.
Legal / Ethics / Internal Affairs 2 [#19] Counsel and ethics oversight staff dedicated to SCP-001-KO decisions.
Medical Officer 2 [#23, #16] Medical staff for amnestic procedures, trauma standby, and psychotropic management.
Incident Response / Hazmat 4 [#26] Clean-up and breach response team on standby for evidence destruction, containment, and hazardous incidents.
Courier / Transport Security 4 [#8] Teams for secure courier runs and armored transport (2-person teams for moves; rotation covered).
📋 Confidence Notes
Notes are detailed and many line items are quantified, but many items use wide ranges (especially contingency, relocation, and amnestic budgets) and several assumptions were required to allocate recurring vs. one-time and wage vs. non-wage portions; therefore medium confidence.
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