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SCP-2721 Keter-provisi ~ medium confidence
SCP-2721
Expected annual
$10.5M
One-time setup
$1.7B
Annual recurring
$9.9M
Personnel
52
Baseline operations require ~USD 9.94M per year for staff, secure facilities, telemetry leasing and monitoring; one-time infrastructure baseline outlay ~USD 6.7M for site and systems, but optional one-time programs (dedicated lunar relay or kinetic intervention) create low-probability one-time jumps into the hundreds of millions or billions.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.7B
Lunar Intervention One Time $1.5B
[#21] Extreme escalation contingency: direct lunar intervention / interceptor/lander mission — very low-probability but extremely high cost.
Lunar Relay Satellite One Time $150.0M
[#8] Optional dedicated lunar-relay smallsat (build + launch) if Foundation chooses independent far-side telemetry capability.
Facilities $4.2M
[#1, #12] One-time Site-73 secure buildout, physical upgrades for antimemetic/biological workspaces, badge/access control and one-time security systems (cameras, secure transport staging).
Platform Buyin One Time $3.0M
[#5] Optional one-time buy-in/hush/transfer to hosting provider or Tumblr to secure privileged access (arrangement-dependent).
Emergency Capability One Time $2.0M
[#10] One-time development of high-readiness cyber/kinetic contingency toolkits and legal preps for Protocol 1111-Scratch readiness.
Equipment $1.9M
[#4, #6, #11, #14, #16, #18] One-time hardware & development for SP-3937/proxy stack, archive ingestion/indexing systems, specialized hardened electronics, OPSEC persona infrastructure/setup, content-moderation development, and archival initial hardware.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $600K
[#7] One-time laboratory equipment, shielding and psych-testing suites for antimemetics research and controlled exposure testing.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $9.9M/yr
Staff Wages $5.0M/yr
[#2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #12, #15] Salaries and benefits for 12 embedded Tumblr researchers, social-media ops team, SP-3937 engineers, archive FTEs, antimemetic research staff & technicians, security guards, and forensic/OSINT analysts.
Facilities Maintenance $2.0M/yr
[#1] Site-73 program overhead recurring operations: power, HVAC, classified lab operations, access control, and program-level facilities operations.
Research And Monitoring $1.1M/yr
[#6, #7, #8, #9, #15, #16, #18] Recurring costs for archive storage & maintenance, telemetry lease, deep-space/DSN downlink time, content-moderation maintenance and tooling, and research non-salary operating costs.
Cover Story And Legal $750K/yr
[#5, #17] Recurring legal/PR budgets and potential operational retainer with hosting provider for covert cooperation; ongoing disinformation and legal defense spend.
Contingency Pool $500K/yr
[#10] Recurring contingency pool for rapid cyber operations, emergency takedowns, leased cloud/CDN capacity and short-notice containment actions.
Mental Health And Rotation $200K/yr
[#13] Counseling, medical monitoring, rotation policy costs and psychiatric care for exposed staff.
Supplies And Consumables $150K/yr
[#14] Recurring OPSEC/identity upkeep (microtransactions, persona upkeep) and small consumables; general recurring supplies.
Audit And Oversight $150K/yr
[#20] Audit, oversight, external review board and containment review costs.
Logistics And Transport $100K/yr
[#19] Travel, inter-site coordination, and international liaison costs.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $9.9M/yr
93.8% probability / year
Normal operational year: telemetry leased, no major exposures or launches; steady containment and research.
normal_monitoring telemetry_leased no_public_exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $10.4M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized deanonymization attempt or content spread requiring emergency response, legal action, and overtime.
deanonymization_attempt localized_content_spread
🚨 Major Breach $14.9M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Significant public exposure or platform logs leak that demands large legal/PR response and potential one-time procurement (buy-in/retainer).
public_exposure platform_logs_leak
🚨 Dedicated Lunar Relay Build $162.9M/yr
0.2% probability / year +$153.0M vs baseline
Decision to build and launch a dedicated lunar relay/smallsat to receive far-side telemetry independently.
loss_of_telemetry_cooperation decision_to_independent_telemetry
🚨 Lunar Intervention $1.5B/yr
0.0% probability / year +$1.5B vs baseline
Extreme escalation to direct lunar intervention (kinetic/lander/interceptor) to neutralize or alter SCP-2721.
Protocol_1111_executed decision_for_kinetic_neutralization
👥 Personnel 52 total
Role Count Notes
Embedded Tumblr Researcher / Operator 12 [#2] Full-time personas maintaining in-character blogs and containment social engineering.
Research Scientist (Antimemetic) 8 [#7] Memetics/psychology/neuroscience/physics researchers studying SEP field and ontological effects.
Research Technician 2 [#7] Technical support for antimemetic labs and controlled testing.
Social Media Operations (Community Manager / Social Engineer / Moderator) 4 [#3] Coordinate personas, posting schedules, platform liaison and emergent community management.
Engineer / Maintenance (SP-3937 / Networking) 3 [#4] Infrastructure engineers for proxies, telemetry, high-availability appliances and forensic logging.
Security Officer / Site Guards 16 [#12] Armed/unarmed guards and security contractors for involved facilities and transport.
Forensic Analyst / OSINT Specialist 3 [#15] Deanonymization monitoring, red-team, honeypots and takedown processes.
Administrative Staff 2 [#1, #19] Site administrative and program coordination staff; liaison travel coordination.
Medical Officer / Mental Health 2 [#13] Counseling, medical monitoring and rotation policy implementation for exposed staff.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges for most costs; however wide ranges on platform cooperation, lunar assets and extreme contingency scenarios create substantial uncertainty in one-time caps and scenario probabilities.
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