SCP-293
Keter
~
medium confidence
SCP-293
Expected annual
$10.3M
One-time setup
$2.1M
Annual recurring
$10.1M
Personnel
52
One-time setup of a reinforced containment wing and equipment is roughly $2.1M; annual operating costs are dominated by repeated mandated psychological evaluations and specialist staffing, producing ~ $10.1M/yr recurring expense.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $2.1M
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $10.1M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$10.1M/yr
Normal year with no major incidents; routine operations, scheduled evaluations, and modest maintenance.
scheduled evaluations
routine transfers
normal maintenance
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Minor Incident
$10.5M/yr
Limited containment incident requiring additional hospital admissions, short-term legal payouts, extra destruction and overtime.
isolated staff infections
public exposure requiring small settlements
extra quarantines
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Major Outbreak
$15.1M/yr
Widespread mass-bonding or multiple field discoveries requiring mass seizures, emergency shelters, mass psychiatric care and large legal/PR operations.
mass-bonding event
rapid spread to many items
large-scale public exposure
Personnel
52 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Containment Technician | 20 | [#5] Personnel performing handling, transfers, and enforcing interaction timing rules (shift rotations). |
| Security Officer / MTF Agent | 12 | [#6] 24/7 perimeter and vault security independent of technicians. |
| Psychiatric Clinician | 12 | [#7] Licensed clinicians to deliver mandated evaluations and follow-up care (high-frequency evaluation workload). |
| Research Scientist | 4 | [#17] Epidemiology/research staff studying bonding/spread and performing experiments. |
| Research Technician / Signal Analyst | 1 | [#15, #16] Technical support for audio/sensory monitoring and wearable data analysis. |
| Administrative Staff | 3 | [#21] Scheduling, compliance auditing, chain-of-custody recordkeeping and inventory control. |
Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on analyst ranges and midpoints; recurring psychology/evaluation costs and outbreak sizing are highly sensitive to operational choices and outsourcing, so medium confidence reflects reasonable anchoring but material uncertainty.