SCP-1233 — SCP-1233 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-1233 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-1233

Expected annual

$92.8M

One-time setup

$181.2M

Annual recurring

$91.2M

Personnel

214

Estimated one-time capital/setup costs are approximately $181M driven by satellites, research lab setup, and global MTF equipment; baseline annual operating costs are ~ $91M/yr driven by MTF salaries, contingency reserve contributions, and ongoing ARGOS/monitoring operations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $181.2M

Equipment $119.8M

[#1, #3, #5, #6, #7, #8] ARGOS satellite hardware & launches, hardened comms hardware, MTF vehicles/mobile command posts, regional helicopter purchase, deployable sensor kits, HPC/data hardware.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $38.5M

[#9, #19] Amnestic R&D infrastructure and dedicated research program buildout for propulsion/materials studies.

Facilities $12.0M

[#2, #20] Ground stations, secure antenna farms/ops center and secure storage vaults one-time buildout.

Amnestic Stockpile $11.0M

[#10] One-time purchase/assembly of ~100,000-dose stockpile and associated cold-storage procurement.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $91.2M/yr

Contingency Reserve $25.0M/yr

[#24] Annual allocation toward contingency/escalation reserve for rapid scale-up (program reserve contribution).

Staff Wages $23.2M/yr

[#4, #2, #11, #19] Salaries for MTF operators (~144 operators), ARGOS operators/analysts, research staff, field medical standing cadre (portion as wages).

Administrative Overhead $11.9M/yr

[#25] Finance, HR, audits, covert accounting; estimated at ~15% of base recurring program costs.

Research And Monitoring $8.5M/yr

[#18, #19] Long-term surveillance of affected populations and dedicated physics/propulsion/materials research program recurring costs.

Cover Story And Legal $6.0M/yr

[#16, #17, #22] Media suppression/disinformation capability, legal retainers/diplomatic funds, insurance/financial cover operations.

Field Medical Teams $3.0M/yr

[#11] Standing mobile medical personnel cadre and mass-treatment logistics readiness.

Argos Operations $2.5M/yr

[#2] ARGOS ops center non-staff recurring costs: power, comms leases, processing and anomaly-detection software maintenance.

Mtf Training $2.4M/yr

[#5] Annual refresher training, scenario and memetic-safety training for MTFs.

Psych Personnel Care $2.1M/yr

[#23] Psychological care, debriefing, rotation costs for MTF teams.

Facilities Maintenance $2.0M/yr

[#2, #6, #7, #8, #20] Ground station/ops center power & facility upkeep, hangar/heli maintenance overlap, sensor and vault maintenance.

Amnestic Manufacturing $1.1M/yr

[#9] Ongoing manufacturing, QA, and small-scale R&D for amnestic agents.

Logistics And Transport $1.0M/yr

[#6, #7] On-call regional airlift contractual/operational readiness and general rapid-transport logistics.

Data Ops $600K/yr

[#8] Secure storage, redundancy, and HPC/cloud operational costs for high-frame-rate telemetry.

Deployable Kits Maintenance $550K/yr

[#7] Maintenance and calibration for deployable sensor kits staged globally.

Supplies And Consumables $500K/yr

[#7, #10, #11] Consumables for deployable kits, stockpile rotation supplies, event medical consumables.

Secure Comms $500K/yr

[#3] Leased satcom/line-of-sight & crypto maintenance for real-time MTF alerting.

Amnestic Storage Rotation $275K/yr

[#10] Cold storage, rotation, and logistics for stockpiled doses.

Mass Amnesticization Per Event $0/yr

[#12] Per-event direct cost to perform mass amnesticization (event-driven; accounted for in scenarios).

Local Site Security Per Event $0/yr

[#13] Per-event local security/cordon/quarantine costs (event-driven).

Property Damage Remediation Per Event $0/yr

[#14] Per-event property and infrastructure remediation (event-driven).

Compensation Per Event $0/yr

[#15] Per-event compensation/hush-money/buyouts (event-driven).

Hazmat Debris Handling Per Event $0/yr

[#20] Per-event hazmat/debris handling and testing (event-driven).

Staged Cover Story Per Event $0/yr

[#21] Per-event staged cover-story assets and actors (event-driven).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $91.2M/yr

76.0% probability / year

Normal year with readiness maintained and no major SCP-1233 appearance-driven incidents.

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🚨 Typical Event $95.2M/yr

22.0% probability / year +$4.0M vs baseline

SCP-1233 appears and provokes a local incident requiring mass amnesticization and modest remediation in a nearby small town.

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🚨 Severe Event $128.2M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$37.0M vs baseline

Large-scale event with mass amnesticization, extensive property damage, international diplomatic/legal action and large reconstruction.

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👥 Personnel 214 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	144	[#4] 12 regional MTFs × ~12 operators each (covert operators, disinfo/med specialists).
Research Scientist	12	[#19] Dedicated theoretical/experimental team for suit/composition and propulsion research.
Satellite Operator / Analyst	20	[#2] ARGOS ops center operators, analysts, and ML/software staff (10–30 FTEs; midpoint used).
Medical Officer / Field Medical Staff	20	[#11] Standing medical cadre to support mass-treatment logistics and field triage.
Engineer / Maintenance	10	[#2, #6, #8] Engineers and maintenance staff for satellites, comms, deployable kit calibration and data systems.
Administrative Staff	8	[#2, #25] Finance, HR, legal liaisons, and covert accounting to manage cover funding lines.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges and event frequency, but many costs depend on uncertain choices (satellite fleet size, reserve policy, event severity), so numerical estimates use midpoints and programmatic assumptions.

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