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SCP-2536 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-2536
Expected annual
$2.9M
One-time setup
$3.9M
Annual recurring
$2.8M
Personnel
17
One-time capital outlays (~$3.92M) driven by testing/buildout, equipment, and contingency; recurring annual costs (~$2.79M/yr) driven primarily by staff wages, research, secure transport, and legal/cover operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.9M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M
[#9] One-time specialized containment/testing bay buildout (Faraday cages, remote-handling, blast mitigation, antechambers, modular volume-capable bay).
Equipment $980K
[#5, #10, #11] One-time purchase/installation: AV detection site setup (~$30k), specialized instrumentation capex (~$600k), and remote-handling/heavy-lift fleet (~$350k).
Contingency Reserve $800K
[#25] Contingency reserve allocation to scale personnel/equipment and cover public cover operations in atypical high-frequency scenarios.
Emergency Response Reserve $500K
[#21] One-time reserve capacity: rapid-deploy equipment and stockpiled countermeasures for cascade events.
Facilities $300K
[#7] One-time buildout of high-security, climate-controlled quarantine vault(s) per major site (modular shelving, isolation capability).
Cyber Humint Investigation $150K
[#17] One-time cyber/HUMINT investigation into OSN provenance and related OPSEC work.
Policy And Legal Rollout $130K
[#1] Initial policy drafting, legal review, redaction, and secure printed procedure rollout (lawyers, senior researchers, documentation).
It Systems $60K
[#22] One-time IT & database changes: audit trails, access controls, redaction tools, and record markers.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.8M/yr
Staff Wages $1.2M/yr
[#6, #8, #16, #21] Annual wages and benefits for personnel: 3quarantine vault security (6 guards + benefits), hotline/triage staff, research personnel, and emergency/reserve staffing. Estimated salaries plus ~25% benefits.
Research And Monitoring $240K/yr
[#16, #10] Year-round research program non-salary costs and instrumentation consumables/calibration (experiments, conferences, non-personnel research expenses).
Cover Story And Legal $150K/yr
[#18] Public cover-story funds and procurement falsification contingency, plus legal defense retainer for leaks/external inquiries (cover/legal operations).
Insurance And Liability Pool $150K/yr
[#19] Insurance, legal defense, and personnel liability reserves for lawsuits or incidents caused by acceptance of items.
Logistics And Transport $145K/yr
[#11, #12] Secure transport baseline program and rentals for large moves (armored vehicle ops, secure transfer teams, occasional heavy-move rentals).
Per Item Testing $120K/yr
[#13] Per-item containment/testing budget for seized SCP-2536-1 items (assays, isolation, experiments). Assumes multiple items/year (median ~$20k/item; baseline ~6 items).
Disposal And Hazard Mitigation $100K/yr
[#14] Hazard mitigation/disposal procedures and regulatory/environmental compliance when items require destruction or neutralization.
Counterintelligence $100K/yr
[#17] Ongoing cyber/HUMINT operations and counterintelligence if the investigation is continued as a standing program.
Contingency Readiness $100K/yr
[#25] Annual capacity cost to maintain readiness for scaling personnel/equipment in atypical scale scenarios.
Training And Psych Briefings $90K/yr
[#4] Mandatory annual training and psychological briefings in December, training staff time and course maintenance.
Productivity Loss And Overtime $75K/yr
[#20] Loss of productivity and overtime costs due to restricted movement/policy enforcement in December.
Policy Maintenance And Legal Retainer $50K/yr
[#2] Annual policy reviews, updates, and legal retainer for handling inquiries, redactions, and procedural changes.
Distribution And Compliance Tracking $50K/yr
[#3] Organization-wide December distribution of procedures, signed acknowledgements, online training module, and compliance DB administration (~$10/employee example).
Item Monitoring And Audits $50K/yr
[#15] Long-term storage monitoring, sensors, logging, and annual integrity audits for retained items.
Staff Support And Whistleblower Program $30K/yr
[#23] Community/staff support, anonymous reporting hotline, and whistleblower protections to encourage compliance and reduce leak risk.
Facilities Maintenance $25K/yr
[#7] Annual utilities & maintenance for quarantine vault(s) and basic site-level facilities upkeep.
Supplies And Consumables $25K/yr
[#24] Miscellaneous consumables and PPE (gloves, containment bags, sealing materials, badges, neutralizers).
Emergency Readiness $25K/yr
[#21] Annual readiness costs for emergency reserve capacity (stockpile maintenance, rapid-deploy equipment readiness).
It Maintenance $15K/yr
[#22] Annual maintenance for IT systems, audit logs, access control upkeep, and redaction tools.
Av Detection Maintenance $4K/yr
[#5] Annual maintenance/support for deployed audio-recognition and CCTV analytics (~$2k–$6k/site).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.8M/yr
90.0% probability / year
Normal year with standard training, monitoring, storage, and research activity; no major incidents or breaches.
standard_december_manifestations routine_per_item_testing no containment breaches
🚨 Minor Incident $3.0M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
Localized incident where one or more personnel accept items leading to a contained breach or targeted removal requiring overtime, extra testing, and limited legal action.
unauthorized_acceptance localized containment breach limited inter-site transfer
🚨 Major Breach $5.3M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Significant cascade event where accepted items cause multi-SCP interactions or large-scale breaches requiring major emergency response, inter-site transfers, infrastructure repair and possible public cover operations.
cascade_effects mass-manifestation exploitation of contained SCPs
👥 Personnel 17 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#8] 24/7 security staffing for quarantine vault (3 shifts, 6 guards total).
Research Scientist 4 [#16, #10] Research team studying SCP-2536 mechanisms, instrumentation operation, and per-item analysis.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#11, #9] Engineers to maintain remote-handling equipment, heavy-lift fleet, and specialized containment/testing bay systems.
Administrative Staff 2 [#3, #22] Admins for distribution/compliance tracking, record redaction coordination, and procurement cover tasks.
Hotline / Triage Staff 3 [#6] 24/7 incident hotline and rapid-response triage desk staffing (seasonal surge coverage in December).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are midpoints of wide ranges in analyst notes and assume a single major site + org-wide training; uncertainty exists due to manifest frequency variability, per-item complexity, and contingency sizing.
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