SCP-1790 — SCP-1790 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-1790 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-1790

Expected annual

$14.9M

One-time setup

$4.1M

Annual recurring

$13.4M

Personnel

One-time setup costs for a dedicated secure containment cell and specialized equipment are approximately $4.09M; recurring annual operations (staff wages, research, monitoring, regional readiness, legal/cover operations, and contingency funds) total approximately $13.44M/year, driven primarily by senior researcher salaries, security staffing, and ongoing research/canvass readiness.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.1M

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.2M

[#12] Major research equipment purchases (MRI time/equipment, sequencers) for transmission research.

Facilities $1.1M

[#1, #19] Construction/modification of reinforced humanoid cell and regional field-office/setup costs.

Contingency Reserve One Time $1.0M

[#21] One-time contingency/incident reserve fund to seed rapid-response and emergency relocation capabilities.

Equipment $676K

[#2, #3, #4, #5, #13, #22] Generators/UPS, monitoring hardware, secure comms device development/hardware, vocal restraint/blindfold stock, containment-team equipment, IT security build.

Training Development $62K

[#20] Initial SOP/training curriculum development and documentation.

Antipas Execution Reserve $0

[#25] Execution-phase Antipas costs are classified/extraordinary and not budgeted here as a single one-time line-item.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $13.4M/yr

Research And Monitoring $3.5M/yr

[#12, #23] Ongoing neuroscience/epidemiological research program and archival/analyst maintenance.

Staff Wages $2.9M/yr

[#6, #7, #8, #19] Salaries: full-time medical responder, dedicated security staff (9 guards + benefits), roster of Level-4 researchers (6 rostered), and payroll portion for maintained rapid-response teams.

Cover Story And Legal $2.0M/yr

[#16, #24] Legal cover-up, NDAs, payments to hospitals/families and public relations/disinformation readiness funds.

Discretionary Fund $1.5M/yr

[#30] Miscellaneous contingency fund for bribes, local intel purchases, emergency legal payouts, and classified ad-hoc needs.

Hospital Canvass Operations $500K/yr

[#14] Annualized budget for hospital/midwife canvassing operations and associated legal/field work (readiness/occasional execution).

Candidate Monitoring $500K/yr

[#15] Annualized funds for covert monitoring/safe-house networks for candidate infants (per-candidate/month costs averaged over expected caseloads).

Forensic Testing $500K/yr

[#18] Ongoing pediatric diagnostic workups, sequencing, and neuroimaging for candidate identification.

Protocol Antipas Planning $500K/yr

[#25] Planning, legal review, and simulations for Procedure Antipas readiness.

Mobile Response Ops $400K/yr

[#19] Vehicles, local safe-houses, translators, and operational costs for maintained rapid-response teams (ops portion, payroll included in staff_wages).

Travel And Accommodation $250K/yr

[#29] Staff travel, lodging, and per-diem for canvasses, apprehensions, and research.

Contingency Replenish $200K/yr

[#21] Annual replenishment for contingency/incident insurance funds as used.

Psych Neuro Screening $120K/yr

[#9] Regular psychological and neurological screening program for handling personnel.

Incident Investigation $100K/yr

[#26] Budget for internal investigations, audits, and compliance teams.

Logistics And Transport $90K/yr

[#13] Per-year budget for occasional containment/transport deployments and per-operation consumables (assumes limited deployments annually).

Pediatric Contracts $75K/yr

[#28] Retainers and standby agreements with pediatric hospitals/ICUs.

Turnover And Replacement $68K/yr

[#10] Recruiting, training, relocation, and severance costs for expected staff turnover/reassignment.

It Operations $50K/yr

[#22] IT security operations, audits, and cover-channel upkeep.

Security Training And Equipment $50K/yr

[#7] Annual training and equipment budget specific to security handling protocols and anti-exposure rotations.

Staff Counseling $40K/yr

[#11] Ongoing counseling, trauma care, and employee assistance programs.

Training And Exercises $30K/yr

[#20] Recurring refresher courses, simulations, and tabletop exercises.

Supplies And Consumables $26K/yr

[#5, #6, #27] Consumables: sterile blindfolds/vocal restraint replacements, medical supplies and routine PPE/cleaning.

Secure Comm Operations $18K/yr

[#4] Ongoing operations/hosting/audit for the secure asynchronous text interface and triple-review workflow.

Facilities Maintenance $6K/yr

[#2] Annual maintenance, fuel, and UPS/generator upkeep.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $13.4M/yr

86.0% probability / year

Normal year with no major containment breaches or large-scale canvass operations; routine research, staffing, and readiness costs only.

no_death_event_within_radius routine_research_and_readiness

🚨 Death Canvas Event $16.9M/yr

12.0% probability / year +$3.5M vs baseline

A death of the current instance triggers a large hospital/midwife canvass and months of candidate monitoring and forensic testing.

identified_instance_death multi-region_canvass high_candidate_count

🚨 Protocol Antipas Execution $63.4M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Procedure Antipas is authorized/executed due to inability to identify or contain candidates (political/legal barriers or overwhelming candidate numbers).

candidate_numbers_exceed_capacity cross-border_legal_barriers O5_authorization_for_Antipas

👥 Personnel 24 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	9	[#7] 3 guards/shift × 3 shifts = 9 guards (salaries estimated in staff_wages).
Research Scientist (Level-4)	6	[#8] Roster of 6 Level-4 staff to provide triple-review availability (salaries included in staff_wages).
Medical Officer	1	[#6] Full-time on-site RN/EMT/paramedic for suicide/self-harm response (salary included in staff_wages).
Rapid Response / Field Agent	8	[#13, #19] Maintained rapid-response teams (payroll portion estimated and included in staff_wages; operational costs in mobile_response_ops).

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges allowing a bounded estimate, but many high-cost items (canvass scale, cross-border legal exposure, and any Antipas execution) are highly uncertain and could change costs by orders of magnitude.

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