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SCP-2371 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-2371
Expected annual
$5.5M
One-time setup
$5.6M
Annual recurring
$5.4M
Personnel
16
Initial one-time capital for secure facilities, testbeds, and lab setup is estimated at about $5.6M; recurring annual operations (staff, R&D, prototyping, legal/cover operations, and maintenance) are estimated at roughly $5.38M/yr, with prototyping and exotic-materials procurement as the largest recurring drivers.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $5.6M
Facilities $2.8M
[#1, #12, #8, #19] Testing Chamber 14 Level-5 structural upgrades, testbed structural/cleanroom buildout, secure archival room structural work, and one-time secure waste vault setup. Estimate sums mid-range values from notes.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.3M
[#9, #12, #8] Forensic materials/analysis lab setup (microscopes, mass spec, FTIR, hoods), prototype fabrication tools/microfabrication equipment for testbeds, and initial research lab buildout elements associated with secure analysis/digitization.
Equipment $720K
[#2, #3, #5, #8, #18, #14, #23] Faraday/EM shielding, continuous monitoring hardware (cameras/sensors), Level-5 guard kits, high-res scanners/digitization hardware, MTF vehicle/equipment, PPE/decon equipment, and contractor vetting/setup (per-contractor).
Contingency Reserve Establishment $500K
[#25] One-time establishment of a contingency/catastrophic-response reserve (lower-bound set per notes).
Ethical Legal Reserve $250K
[#28] One-time hardened ethical/legal contingency/reserve to cover extreme external settlements or secrecy operations.
Pr Cover Establishment $100K
[#15] One-time setup of PR/cover infrastructure, legal scaffolding, and initial cover-story resources.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.4M/yr
Staff Wages $1.8M/yr
[#4, #5, #6, #7, #11] Salaries and benefits: 1FTE research technician (incl. overtime), 6 Level-5 guards (3 shifts), Project Lead and senior scientific staff, research team (4–6 personnel midpoint used), and dedicated psychological/linguistic specialist.
Research And Monitoring $1.4M/yr
[#24, #17, #27, #3, #8, #16] Core R&D budget to adapt/engineer safe derivatives, red-team/risk assessments, metadata/translation/redaction labor, monitoring hardware maintenance, archival IT maintenance, and oversight/administrative review overhead.
Cover Story And Legal $700K/yr
[#15, #23, #28] Ongoing legal counsel, cover-story/information-control operations, contractor premium fees for secrecy, and recurring top-ups to ethical/legal contingency funds.
Exotic Materials Procurement $500K/yr
[#13] Baseline annual contingency for procurement/licensing of rare alloys, isotopes, or specialized controlled materials under secrecy.
Prototype Consumables And Builds $300K/yr
[#12] Annual baseline budget for per-prototype build/testing (consumables, small builds); major individual prototypes may exceed this and are treated as episodic costs.
Supplies And Consumables $240K/yr
[#9, #14, #19, #26] Forensic consumables and tech support, PPE replacement and decon consumables, contracted hazardous waste disposal, and routine consumables (paper, envelopes, gloves).
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#18, #10] MTF standby readiness, training/maintenance, and secure courier/communique handling costs within-site and short-range transport.
Facilities Maintenance $110K/yr
[#1, #2, #8, #12, #20] Ongoing structural and environmental control maintenance for Testing Chamber/Testbeds/secure rooms, EM/EMI re-certification/testing, and energy/utilities for climate control and labs.
Contingency Reserve Topup $100K/yr
[#25] Recurring top-up to maintain contingency/catastrophic-response reserve as risk persists.
Training And Psych Care $70K/yr
[#22] Regular training/drills and personnel psychological monitoring/counseling services.
Archival Retention $30K/yr
[#21] Long-term archival retention, off-site clones, inventorying, and periodic media refresh (operational annualized cost).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.4M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with daily monitoring, routine prototyping at baseline rates, and no major incidents.
no breaches routine prototyping normal oversight cycles
🚨 Minor Incident $5.6M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Localized incident (dangerous prototype malfunction or contamination) requiring targeted MTF response, prototype remediation, extra legal/PR activity, and overtime.
prototype malfunction small containment breach targeted contamination event
🚨 Major Breach $8.4M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Significant containment breach or uncontrolled release/use of a high-end SCP-2371-2 prototype requiring large-scale MTF mobilization, demolition/disposal, emergency R&D, and legal/compensation measures.
large-scale prototype release major containment failure external exposure requiring legal action
👥 Personnel 16 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#5] Six full-time Level-5 guard positions (two per shift across three shifts) accounted for in security wages.
Research Technician 1 [#4] One full-time technician for daily inspections and immediate secure storage handling (includes overtime budget).
Project Lead / Executive Staff 1 [#6] Project Lead responsible for communiques and high-level decisions; salary included in staff wages.
Senior Research Scientist 2 [#6] Two senior scientific staff for evaluation and authorization of research and communiques.
Research Scientist / Engineer / Specialist 5 [#7] Research team (engineers, physicists, materials scientists, linguists, archivist) to analyze manifests and prototypes.
Psychological / Linguistic Specialist 1 [#11] Dedicated specialist for drafting communiques and evaluating emotional/linguistic impact.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates follow analyst-provided ranges and midpoints; many large line items (prototyping, exotic materials, legal exposure) are highly variable and scenario-dependent, thus moderate confidence.
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