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SCP-2702 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-2702
Expected annual
$9.6M
One-time setup
$65.4M
Annual recurring
$7.3M
Personnel
18
One-time setup and resilience reserves dominate upfront costs (~$65M) driven by SIGINT/contingency funds and facility upgrades; recurring annual costs are driven by personnel, attribution R&D, content suppression, HUMINT and ongoing monitoring (~$10.29M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $65.4M
Worst Case Response Fund $25.0M
[#25] Contingency fund for large-scale outbreak/national-level responses (one-time reserve to ensure rapid deployment capacity).
Sigint Asset Acquisition $20.0M
[#11] Up-front purchase/lease or tasking of high-resolution SIGINT/satellite assets and opaque one-time acquisition costs for attribution program (midpoint of large possible range).
Insurance Reserve $10.0M
[#24] Reserve fund recommended for liability, large-scale deployments or lawsuits (one-time seed of reserve fund).
Facilities $3.7M
[#3, #9] Construction/retrofit of secure viewing/memetic labs (3 labs) and containment rooms with Faraday shielding, filtered HVAC and security upgrades; combined midpoint estimate for lab buildouts and facility retrofits.
Equipment $3.5M
[#1, #2, #4, #7, #8, #16, #18, #21] SDR nodes and deployment ($2,000,000), central ingest hardware portion ($450,000), redaction/tooling ($162,500), response vehicles ($225,000), secure transport crates ($100,000), cognitive PPE initial units ($37,500), archive build portion ($137,500), robotics enclosure tooling ($350,000).
Humint Initial Campaign $2.8M
[#23] One-time sustained covert HUMINT/infiltration campaign initial costs to investigate credits/production entities (sustained campaign buildout).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $550K
[#10] Memetic research instrumentation (EEG/fMRI, eye tracking, physiological monitoring), certified human-subjects infrastructure and lab instrumentation.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $7.3M/yr
Staff Wages $2.2M/yr
[#5] Core payroll for containment/research/IT/security/medical/admin staff (midpoint of $1.5M–$3.0M range).
Content Suppression $1.0M/yr
[#12] Ongoing takedown/suppression operations, crawlers and platform liaisons (midpoint of $250k–$2M range).
Humint Ops $600K/yr
[#23] Ongoing covert operations/HUMINT sustainment costs to track credit lists and production entities.
Cover Story And Legal $350K/yr
[#13] Ongoing PR/cover-story retainers, influencer liaison and low-level payments to manage exposures.
Immediate Response Ops $350K/yr
[#7] Staffing, training, fuel and deployment costs for field response teams and secure transport vehicles on an operational cadence.
Intelligence And Translation $325K/yr
[#26] Linguists, translation, ML models and trend analysis to detect uploads across languages and platforms.
Redaction Team $300K/yr
[#4] Salaries and compute for 4 FTE redactors/analysts (~$75k each) and ongoing licensing/compute costs.
Legal And Diplomatic $300K/yr
[#14] Domestic and international counsel retainers and incident legal/diplomatic costs.
Facilities Maintenance $290K/yr
[#3, #9] Annual maintenance, calibration and utilities for secure viewing labs and containment upgrades (labs + facility utilities maintenance).
Research And Monitoring $200K/yr
[#10] Consumables, subject recruitment and usage costs for memetic research instrumentation and lab studies.
Global Monitoring Ops $200K/yr
[#1] Bandwidth, replacement hardware and operations for the distributed SDR/sensor array.
Insurance Premiums $200K/yr
[#24] Insurance and liability premium costs as ongoing expense (baseline premium payment).
Experimental Runs $200K/yr
[#17] Annual budget for authorized experimental runs (staffing, monitoring and emergency preparedness for several experiments per year).
Amnestic Supply $125K/yr
[#6] Baseline production/acquisition, storage and administration costs for ~100 Class B amnestic doses per year (midpoint estimate).
Robotics Maintenance $125K/yr
[#21] Engineering/AI maintenance, parts and periodic audits for SCP-2702-2 (Prescott).
Capture Infrastructure Ops $100K/yr
[#2] Offsite rotation, maintenance and power for ingest/transcode/quarantine infrastructure and archival media handling.
Energy Datacenter $85K/yr
[#19] Power and cooling for capture servers, Faraday rooms and monitoring hardware under normal operations.
Archive Ops $65K/yr
[#18] Ongoing indexing, forensic logging, metadata and redaction-log operations.
Psychological Programs $60K/yr
[#15] Screening, monitoring, resiliency programs and baseline mental health care resources for staff.
Logistics And Transport $50K/yr
[#8] Baseline secure transport/custody logistics and occasional retrieval operations (small number of retrievals per year).
Recruitment And Vetting $50K/yr
[#22] Background checks, polygraphs and enhanced vetting program baseline costs.
Supplies And Consumables $40K/yr
[#20] Optical media, tapes, consumables, batteries and routine replacement electronics.
Decommissioning Ops $15K/yr
[#27] Routine secure disposal and purge protocols; larger purges are ad-hoc incident costs.
Cognitive Ppe Maintenance $10K/yr
[#16] Replacement and maintenance of specialized cognitive PPE, filters and interlocks.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $7.3M/yr
75.5% probability / year
Normal year of monitoring, research, and routine suppression with no major public incident.
steady monitoring load routine research and takedowns no large viral episode
🚨 Minor Incident $12.8M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$5.5M vs baseline
Localized viral episode requiring intensified takedowns, targeted field response and additional amnestics/PR.
regional viral episode small-scale mass exposure coordinated takedown and field deployments
🚨 Major Breach $25.3M/yr
4.0% probability / year +$18.0M vs baseline
Widespread, multi-region outbreak requiring large HUMINT/countermeasures, substantial amnestic deployments and R&D surge.
national-level viral spread major public exposures deployment of mass amnestics and legal operations
🚨 Catastrophic Outbreak $110.3M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$103.0M vs baseline
Nationwide or multi-national uncontrollable spread requiring emergency national responses, drawing on worst-case reserves.
rapid uncontrollable public spread requirement for mass emergency amnestics activation of worst-case contingency funds
👥 Personnel 18 total
Role Count Notes
Level-4 Oversight 2 [#5] Senior oversight/on-call staff (example: 2@ ~$200k).
Research Scientist / Memetics Researcher 3 [#5, #10] Senior memetics researchers performing experiments and analysis.
Technician (IT/AV/Field) 6 [#1, #2, #7] Maintain SDR nodes, capture infrastructure, field gear and lab instrumentation.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 4 [#7, #9] On-site security and field response personnel for containment operations.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#5] Site-level management and coordination.
Medical Officer 1 [#6] Clinician for amnestic administration and follow-up.
Administrative Staff 1 [#5] Admin, logistics and procurement support.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges allowing mid-point estimates, but several items (SIGINT asset acquisition, HUMINT sustained campaigns, worst-case reserves and outbreak scale) have very wide ranges and are scenario-dependent, reducing overall confidence.
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