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
Facilities $1.1M
[#1, #10] Secure containment wing construction/retrofit including reinforced rooms, basic climate control, emergency power and small evidence/forensics lab; includes quarantine build-out portion.
Equipment $800K
[#2, #3, #8, #13, #15, #16, #20, #22] Purchase of 200 opaque sealed containers, site security hardware (access control, CCTV), psych testing hardware/software, on-site destruction chamber (purchase option), audio/sensory detection hardware, wearable suites, initial IT/database setup, and training program development.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $150K
[#17] Initial research lab buildout and start-up instruments/consumables for dedicated epidemiology/research program.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $10.1M/yr
Staff Wages $5.7M/yr
[#5, #6, #7, #17, #21] Containment technicians, security guards, psychiatric/psychology clinicians for mandated evaluations, research staff wages, and administrative/compliance staff (loaded compensation incl. benefits).
Research And Monitoring $1.8M/yr
[#9, #17, #8, #16, #20] Clinical lab and biomarker testing contracts, research program operating budget, psych testing licenses/support, wearable data analysis & replacement, and ongoing IT/monitoring operations tied to research.
Contingency Reserve $1.0M/yr
[#25] Emergency contingency fund set-aside for large-scale outbreak / mass-bonding events.
Cover Story And Legal $775K/yr
[#18, #19] Legal/PR/cover-up budget plus replacement/reparations fund for seized/destroyed property to avoid public exposure.
Medical Quarantine Admissions $200K/yr
[#10] Budgeted annual contingency for contracted psychiatric admissions/quarantine bed costs and longer-term care.
Insurance And Risk Premiums $150K/yr
[#24] Insurance, risk management and liability premium costs for high-risk operations.
Emergency Response Reserve $138K/yr
[#23] On-call medical/psychiatric overtime reserve, rapid-response contingency and crisis intervention supplies.
Supplies And Consumables $98K/yr
[#11, #14, #27] Single-use interaction consumables/PPE, decontamination chemicals/equipment, and miscellaneous supplies and minor replacements.
Facilities Maintenance $95K/yr
[#1, #3, #15, #26] Ongoing maintenance of containment wing, security hardware upkeep, audio lab maintenance, and utilities/HVAC/backup fuel testing.
Consumable Destruction $60K/yr
[#12] Hazardous-waste disposal, incineration, and contracted destruction of contaminated consumables and items.
Logistics And Transport $54K/yr
[#4] Armored/secure transfers, secure transport crates and contract transfers or internal van operations.
Training Refreshers $40K/yr
[#22] Annual refresher training, new-hire training and SOP updates for handling and legal compliance.
It Operations $30K/yr
[#20] Ongoing IT operations, encrypted records, CCTV retention, backups and database hosting.
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $10.1M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine operations, scheduled evaluations, and modest maintenance.
scheduled evaluations routine transfers normal maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $10.5M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$400K vs baseline
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
🚨 Major Outbreak $15.1M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
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.
← SCP-292 ↑ All SCPs SCP-294 →