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SCP-1733 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-1733
Expected annual
$1.6M
One-time setup
$1.9M
Annual recurring
$1.6M
Personnel
12
Total initial one-time setup is approximately $1,918,500 driven primarily by contingency reserves, legal mitigation/cleanup, and research/archive buildouts; annual recurring operations are approximately $1,607,500/yr driven mainly by staff wages (security, researchers, monitoring), amnestic reserves, and ongoing legal/monitoring costs.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.9M
Emergency Contingency Reserve $750K
[#24] One-time contingency fund reserve for catastrophic disclosure (midpoint $500k–$1M).
Legal Initial $275K
[#13] Initial legal/cover-up/PR mitigation (midpoint of $150k–$400k).
Insurance Reserve Initial $200K
[#18] One-time insurance/legal reserve for third-party claims.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $196K
[#3, #14, #16] Air-gapped archival duplication (LTO drive + tapes), digital forensics/storage servers & tools for lab buildout, and amnestic/containment R&D pilot study (one-time items combined).
Facilities $135K
[#1, #4] Archival vault retrofit and isolated playback chamber buildout; midpoint estimates used ($90,000 + $45,000).
Contingency Response Initial $100K
[#15] One-time equipment/training for contingency/rapid-response teams.
Public Archive Cleanup Initial $100K
[#21] Initial monitoring/suppression/cleanup of public archival records (midpoint $50k–$150k).
Amnestic Initial $50K
[#11] Initial suppression/amnestic administration effort one-time budget.
Equipment $44K
[#2, #5, #7] Tamper-evident DVR container, dedicated playback/forensic hardware, and site security system hardware (midpoints combined).
Backup Offsite Initial $32K
[#17] Back-up/secondary offsite air-gapped copy storage (midpoint $25k–$40k).
Sop Initial $25K
[#19] SOP documentation and initial staff training development.
Transport Initial $12K
[#8] Initial seizure / recovery transport costs (midpoint of $8k–$15k).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.6M/yr
Staff Wages $1.1M/yr
[#6, #9, #12] On-site security staffing (6 guards incl. benefits $337,500), dedicated research team oversight (3 FTE incl. benefits $450,000), social media analysts wages (2–3 FTEs ~$270,000).
Research And Monitoring $135K/yr
[#16, #10] Ongoing amnestic/containment R&D program (~$100,000/yr) and medical/psychological monitoring & post-exposure care (~$35,000/yr).
Amnestic Reserve Yearly $100K/yr
[#11] Ongoing amnestic stockpile / administration reserve (~$100,000/yr).
Cover Story And Legal $75K/yr
[#13] Ongoing legal / cover-up / PR budget (~$75,000/yr).
Contingency Response Annual $60K/yr
[#15] Annual readiness staffing/training and on-call costs for response teams (~$60,000/yr).
Social Media Ops $50K/yr
[#12] Operational costs for covert moderation, fake accounts, takedowns (~$50,000/yr).
Insurance Retainer $50K/yr
[#18] Annual insurance/legal retainer for claims (~$50,000/yr).
Public Archive Maintenance $25K/yr
[#21] Ongoing suppression/maintenance of public archival records (~$25,000/yr).
Ethical Oversight $20K/yr
[#22] Independent ethical review board / external reviewers (~$20,000/yr).
Sop Refresher $10K/yr
[#19] Annual refresher training and SOP updates (~$10,000/yr).
Supplies And Consumables $8K/yr
[#20] Miscellaneous consumables and incremental utilities/UPS/HVAC replacement averaged (~$5k–$10k/yr).
Facilities Maintenance $6K/yr
[#7, #17] Site security system maintenance (~$3,500/yr) and offsite copy storage maintenance (~$3,000/yr).
Forensics Tools Licenses $5K/yr
[#14] Software licenses and maintenance for digital forensics/video analysis (~$5,000/yr).
Logistics And Transport $3K/yr
[#8] Budgeted per-move transport contingency (~$3,000 per future move; baseline budgeting assumes one small move/year).
Longterm Archival Annual $2K/yr
[#23] Long-term archival media migration averaged (~$2,000/yr).
Media Refresh Migration $1K/yr
[#3] Periodic media migration and checksum verification labor (~$1,000/yr).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.6M/yr
95.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; routine monitoring, staffing, and maintenance only.
routine_operations scheduled_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $1.8M/yr
4.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Small public leak or unauthorized partial playback requiring targeted amnestic administration, localized legal/PR action, and overtime response.
small_web_leak unauthorized_playback localized_evidence_recovery
🚨 Major Breach $3.9M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$2.2M vs baseline
Large-scale disclosure requiring wide amnestic campaign, major legal settlements, mass PR/cleanup and emergency contingency fund drawdown.
widespread_media_exposure large_scale_data_leak litigation_or_publicity_event
👥 Personnel 12 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#6] Six guards to staff 24/7 coverage (three-shift rotation, includes relief).
Research Scientist 3 [#9] Dedicated memetics/digital-forensics/psychologist oversight team (3 FTE).
Social Media Analyst 3 [#12] 2–3 analysts for continuous web monitoring and takedowns; budgeted here as 3 FTE for staffing continuity.
📋 Confidence Notes
Line items are well-identified but many estimates are midpoints of broad ranges and contingency/legal outcomes are highly uncertain; reasonable fidelity for budgeting but significant variance possible.
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