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SCP-2964 Keter ? low confidence
SCP-2964
Expected annual
$32.6M
One-time setup
$230.8M
Annual recurring
$30.1M
Personnel
49
Initial capital purchases (backbone filtering, hardened facilities, equipment and a large contingency reserve) drive one-time costs (~$231M), while recurring yearly costs are dominated by staffing, legal/media operations, and ISP cooperation (~$30.1M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $230.8M
Catastrophic Contingency Fund $200.0M
[#30] One-time reserve for catastrophic public-leak response (mass amnestic campaigns, large-scale covert operations, diplomatic/legal fallout).
Equipment $19.6M
[#1, #4, #9, #12, #16, #22, #23, #25] Backbone DPI/filter appliances deployment, web-crawler servers and workstations, archive storage arrays, MTF vehicles/equipment, initial forensic-sweep kit, initial HPC/AI cluster, honeypot setup, and generators/UPS.
Facilities $9.0M
[#15, #20, #24] Facility hardening for exposed Sites (multiple sites), construction of secure off-site containment/holding facility, and secure viewing suites.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.2M
[#7, #19] Amnestic development/manufacturing setup and initial stockpile; dedicated research lab buildout for SCP-2964 mechanism research.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $30.1M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $11.0M/yr
[#3, #6, #26, #27] ISP/government cooperation retainers, legal takedown/PR/covert content-removal operations, media monitoring/covert narrative management, and insurance/legal/diplomatic reserves.
Staff Wages $8.2M/yr
[#5, #11, #13, #21, #23] Salaries/benefits for web-crawler/takedown team, core research/forensics/cyber staff, portion of MTF staffing/standby pay, staffing at off-site facilities, and part of red-team/honeypot staffing.
Facilities Maintenance $3.5M/yr
[#2, #13, #21] Annual vendor support/licenses for backbone/filter appliances, MTF facility readiness maintenance, and operation/maintenance of off-site facilities.
Research And Monitoring $3.1M/yr
[#19, #22, #23, #29] Ongoing research program funding, compute/GPU/cloud licensing for ML analytics, honeypot/red-team program operational budget, and annual training/exercises/audits.
Contingency Reserve $2.0M/yr
[#14] Annual contingency reserve for overseas covert operations, emergency seizures, and rapid legal/logistical fallout funding.
Logistics And Transport $1.0M/yr
[#8, #13, #25] Amnestic administration logistics and per-use budget, deployment-related transport and fuel elements of MTF readiness, and other rapid-deploy logistics.
Supplies And Consumables $540K/yr
[#5, #10, #16, #25, #28] Cloud bandwidth/API costs and infra for crawler ops, bandwidth/data egress, calibration/consumables for sweep equipment, generator fuel/maintenance, and small consumables/replacements.
Emergency Medical Reserve $500K/yr
[#18] Reserve for emergency medical treatment, medevac and prolonged hospitalization for field incidents.
Psychological Care $275K/yr
[#17] Ongoing counseling, psychiatric care, staff monitoring and backfill costs for affected personnel.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $30.1M/yr
84.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major breaches; containment and suppression systems operate as expected.
daily monitoring routine takedowns no major public exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $31.6M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Localized public leak or partial exposure requiring intensified takedowns, extra amnestic administrations and targeted legal/PR responses.
localized leak rapid takedown & amnestic operations temporary media attention
🚨 Major Breach $40.1M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
Source location identified or a significant sustained leak requiring overseas raid, seizure operations, expanded legal and diplomatic response.
source traced overseas raid/seizure wide legal/diplomatic fallout
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $230.1M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$200.0M vs baseline
Full public exposure of SCP-2964 leading to widespread dissemination; emergency mass-response using the catastrophic contingency reserve.
mass public leak viral dissemination across media international political crisis
👥 Personnel 49 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 10 Senior researchers and leads working on content analysis and mechanism research (mapped to [#11, #19]).
Video Analyst / Forensics 10 Video forensics and scene analysts for stream review and origin tracing (mapped to [#5, #11]).
Cyber / Network Engineer 6 Network/DPI engineers and operators for backbone filtering and tracing (mapped to [#1, #2, #11]).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 MTF Mu-7 operational personnel for rapid response and raids (mapped to [#12, #13]).
Medical Officer 3 Medical teams for amnestic administration and casualty care (mapped to [#7, #8, #18]).
Administrative Staff 3 Operations/admin, legal coordination and liaison roles (mapped to [#6, #21, #27]).
Red-team / Honeypot Operator 2 Honeypot and covert ops staff (mapped to [#23]).
Site Staff / Off-site Facility Staff 3 Staffing for off-site evidence/holding facilities and secure viewing operations (mapped to [#20, #21, #24]).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are order-of-magnitude with wide ranges in the analyst notes; many costs scale with unknowns (number of jurisdictions, stream volume, chance of breach). The anomalous and distributed nature of SCP-2964 increases uncertainty.
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