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SCP-2390 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-2390
Expected annual
$9.5M
One-time setup
$7.3M
Annual recurring
$8.9M
Personnel
32
Initial capital costs of roughly $7.35M for facilities, vehicles/equipment and research seed; recurring baseline operations are roughly $8.905M/yr driven by staff wages, monitoring, MTF readiness and R&D; infrequent incidents can add millions in a given year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.3M
Facilities $2.8M
[#9, #19] Construction/retrofit of a secure medical containment wing (ICU-capable for ~21 sedated subjects) and secure archive/vault buildout.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.2M
[#5, #27] Initial controlled-research program buildout and instruments for studying infection mechanics plus seed funding for long-term containment R&D.
Equipment $2.2M
[#2, #7, #13, #18] Secure servers and initial ML/model-training compute and storage, MTF tactical equipment & vehicles purchase, forensic/evidence-handling setup, fleet capital (armored/comms vans and communications systems).
Memetic Training Program Setup $125K
[#23] Initial development and simulation training program for memetic-safe interrogation and non-suggestive techniques.
Forensic Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.9M/yr
Staff Wages $4.0M/yr
[#4, #6, #12] Salaries+benefits/overhead for monitoring analysts (data scientists, cultural specialists, economist), MTF Kappa-4 baseline staffing (operators, medics, psy-ops liaisons), and specialized clinical (neurology/psychiatry/memetics) team.
Research And Monitoring $1.6M/yr
[#1, #3, #5, #19] Trend-monitoring subscriptions and market-data feeds, ongoing anomaly-detection compute/storage costs, recurring research program operations, and secure archival operations (digital SOC/ops).
Contingency Reserve $1.0M/yr
[#21] Annual set-aside reserve for potential market stabilization, buyouts or covert purchases in case of high-impact influence events.
Long Term Research R And D $600K/yr
[#27] Ongoing R&D into memetic dampeners, rapid amnestic delivery and containment tech to reduce long-run risk.
Cover Story And Legal $400K/yr
[#16] Baseline legal/cover-up retainers, crisis PR and hush funds for low-profile cases and records management.
Ethical Oversight $300K/yr
[#25] Internal review board, compliance, in-house counsel and external audits for ethical oversight and risk management.
Surveillance And Humint $250K/yr
[#17] Field surveillance teams, informant payments, and targeted investigatory expenditures (baseline investigative tempo).
Post Treatment Monitoring $200K/yr
[#20] Ongoing surveillance and reintegration support for rehabilitated persons (per-subject-year aggregated for typical caseload).
Facilities Maintenance $150K/yr
[#9, #19] Ongoing maintenance, security and utilities for medical containment wing and secure archives/vaults.
Logistics And Transport $150K/yr
[#18] Fleet upkeep, fuel, routine maintenance and short-range aircraft/rotorcraft availability costs.
Supplies And Consumables $95K/yr
[#10, #24] Medical consumables (sedatives, disposables, emergency meds) and field PPE/syringes/restraints for routine operations.
Memetic Training Refreshers $50K/yr
[#23] Annual refresher courses and simulations for MTF/interrogators in memetic containment and psychological interviewing.
Emergency Exercises $50K/yr
[#26] Annual drills/exercises with internal teams and public-safety partners to rehearse mass-sedation/amnesia events.
Forensic Processing $20K/yr
[#13] Routine evidence processing, destruction and chain-of-custody handling outside of major incidents.
Per Deployment Response $0/yr
[#8] Per-deployment arrest/containment operational costs (travel, overtime, safehouses). Per-incident costs are modeled in scenarios rather than baseline.
Amnestic Therapy Per Outbreak $0/yr
[#11] Per-subject intensive amnestic therapy costs (per-outbreak totals modeled in scenarios rather than baseline).
Counter Influence Ops $0/yr
[#14] High-cost covert counter-influence and PR operations for contested public-authority removals are modeled per-case in scenarios.
Covert Placement Ops $0/yr
[#15] Per-campaign covert placement/replacement costs (campaign-specific; modeled in scenarios).
Foreign Ops Reserve $0/yr
[#22] Cross-border covert/diplomatic operation costs are case-specific and modeled in scenarios.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.9M/yr
73.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents beyond routine monitoring, staffing, maintenance and R&D.
no_detections_requiring_deployment routine_research_and_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $10.1M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline
Single localized outbreak requiring one Kappa-4 deployment, mass-sedation, amnestic therapy for ~15 subjects and associated processing.
localized_outbreak (~15 subjects) single Kappa-4 deployment simultaneous amnestic therapy required
🚨 Major Incident $14.9M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$6.0M vs baseline
High-profile case where infected member attains public authority requiring counter-influence, covert placement campaigns and significant market/political intervention.
infected_public_official large-scale counter-influence_campaign market_stabilization_needed
🚨 International Operation $13.1M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$4.2M vs baseline
Containment crosses borders requiring foreign covert teams, diplomatic cover, bribes/contractors and extended logistics.
cross-border_outbreak foreign_ops_and_diplomatic_cover extended_logistics_and_local_contractors
👥 Personnel 32 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Data Scientist 4 [#4] Data scientists for monitoring/modeling and feed triage (mentioned as 4 data scientists).
Cultural Anthropologist 2 [#4] Cultural specialists/anthropologists to interpret trends and advising investigations (2 listed).
Economist 1 [#4] Economist for market analysis and economic intervention planning (1 listed).
Specialized Clinical Staff (Neurology/Psych/Memetics) 4 [#12, #11] Neurologists/psychiatrists/memetic specialists responsible for amnestic therapy design and administration (small specialist team).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 18 [#6, #7] Kappa-4 operational team (operators, medics, psy-ops liaisons) maintained at readiness; full-time MTF staffing.
Administrative Staff 3 [#16, #25] Administrative, legal liaison and site coordination staff to manage cover stories, legal retainers and ethical/compliance processes.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on analyst ranges and canonical containment procedures; many line items have large ranges and incident-driven costs are highly uncertain (political/foreign ops), so medium confidence is appropriate.
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