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SCP-2047 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-2047
Expected annual
$17.7M
One-time setup
$1.3M
Annual recurring
$17.6M
Personnel
33
One-time capital/setup is approximately $1.26M for shielded containment, secondary vault, monitoring hardware, robotics and IT; recurring annual costs are approximately $17.55M driven primarily by 24/7 personnel, MTF operations, global monitoring, amnestic programs, and large contingency reserves.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.3M
Equipment $792K
[#3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #16, #17] Spectrum monitoring suite, optical/photometric sensors, remote manipulators/robotics and tooling, non-destructive imaging startup equipment (budgeted), secure transport equipment/vehicle charter (initial seizure), UPS/generator hardware portion, and initial hardened IT/server hardware.
Facilities $470K
[#1, #2, #16] Construction of a Faraday/EMC-shielded chamber and welded/reinforced blast-rated secondary vault including structural work, floor anchors, lift points, minor installation work for backup power (portion of note #16).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $17.6M/yr
Catastrophic Reserve $10.0M/yr
[#23] Long-term reserve recommended for catastrophic Event 2047-A scenarios (set-aside capital to fund very large-scale amnestic campaigns, evacuations, and remediation).
Staff Wages $3.2M/yr
[#8, #9, #10] Ongoing salaries, benefits, and hazard pay for 24/7 security (guards + containment techs), on-site scientific staff, and MTF-operatives personnel costs (personnel component of MTF Omega-4).
Emergency Contingency Fund $2.0M/yr
[#13] Rapid-response contingency fund for heavy-equipment rentals, remediation, temporary quarantines, demolition, and large short-notice remediation needs.
Research And Monitoring $955K/yr
[#3, #6, #11, #14, #21] Ongoing spectrum/optical monitoring (including per-session imaging fees), public communications/observatory liaison monitoring, funded research projects/experiments, and Theta-c/xenolinguistic contractor support included here (imaging per-session fees and contractor work).
Cover Story And Legal $900K/yr
[#12, #15] Amnestic administration costs (medical staff, pharmacological agents, procedures) and legal/diplomatic/cover-up operations (retainers, PR, compensation, liaison payments).
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#7, #10] Annual travel, deployment, secure transport, and operational logistics (MTF travel & operations), vehicle/airlift readiness and route planning budgets.
Training And Drills $75K/yr
[#20] Regular containment drills, RF hazard training, medical refresher courses, and legal briefings.
Supplies And Consumables $50K/yr
[#18] PPE, spare parts for sensors, RF gasket replacements, batteries, calibration consumables, and routine small-parts replacement.
Data Security It $50K/yr
[#17] Ongoing maintenance for hardened servers, encrypted backups, IDS, storage growth from high-rate RF and imaging logs, and secure comms upkeep.
Decontamination And Disposal $50K/yr
[#19] Licensed hazardous waste disposal, decontamination contractors, shower/cleaning upkeep, and regulated-material handling costs.
Facilities Maintenance $25K/yr
[#1, #2, #16] Annual structural and HVAC/RF-shielding maintenance, certification retests, minor containment repairs and mechanical upkeep (includes small maintenance portion of power systems).
Archival And Records $20K/yr
[#22] Secure long-term physical and digital archives, retention, and periodic auditing.
Spectrum Software Updates $5K/yr
[#3] Ongoing software/license updates, patches and support for spectrum analysis/SDR systems.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $17.6M/yr
90.9% probability / year
Normal year with routine operations, monitoring, and reserve funding; no major breaches or large-scale events.
routine_monitoring no_breaches steady_research_activity
🚨 Minor Incident $18.1M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized containment incident or public sighting requiring increased response, limited amnestic administrations and equipment repairs.
localized_public_detection minor_containment_breach targeted_remediation
🚨 Major Breach $26.6M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$9.0M vs baseline
Significant containment failure with widespread detections, mass amnestic campaign, major remediation and infrastructure repair.
large_scale_breach mass_public_exposure extended_remediation
🚨 Event 2047 A $67.5M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Catastrophic Event 2047-A (large-scale spacetime exchange/structure event) requiring national/international emergency response, mass evacuations, and massive remediation/amnestics.
Event_2047-A_activation systemic_spacetime_anomaly mass_detections_and_remediation
👥 Personnel 33 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / Guard 12 [#8] 24/7 guarded presence, three shifts; salary+benefits included in staff wages.
Containment Technician 4 [#8] On-site containment techs for experiments, maintenance and rapid response.
Research Scientist 5 [#9] Materials scientist, physicist, xenolinguist, xenobiologist/analyst, systems engineer (4–6 specialists; budgeted as 5).
MTF Agent / Operative 12 [#10] Dedicated Mobile Task Force personnel for global monitoring and field response.
📋 Confidence Notes
Line-item estimates are based on analyst budget ranges and canonical staffing models; construction and equipment costs are relatively well-defined, but probabilities for breaches and catastrophic events are highly uncertain and contingency/reserve sizing dominates variance.
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