SCP-3335 — SCP-3335 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-3335 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-3335

Expected annual

$377.5M

One-time setup

$602.0M

Annual recurring

$309.0M

Personnel

410

One-time establishment and infrastructure costs are dominated by emergency reserves, medical wards, and specialized R&D/containment facilities (~$602M). Recurring annual costs are driven by global covert HUMINT/interdiction, information warfare, and ongoing medical/research operations (~$309M/year).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $602.0M

Emergency Reserve Fund Establishment $500.0M

[#16] Establishment of an emergency contingency reserve pool for LK-class or emergent events.

Facilities $30.0M

[#5] Build-out for specialized secure medical containment wards (100-bed isolation ICU-style wards).

Amnestic Rnd $20.0M

[#15] R&D and production facility setup for Class-B/C amnestics and delivery-development (facility capital and initial development).

Vault Upgrades $20.0M

[#28] Hardened underground vaults / EMP shielding / blast-protected long-term storage capital upgrades.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $10.0M

[#4] Research lab buildout and animal facilities / initial reagents and trial setup for toxicology and pharmacology programs.

Specialized Transport Fleet $10.0M

[#13] Capital purchase/lease of armored ambulances, secure transport vehicles and special containers.

Equipment $6.0M

[#3] Capital purchase of advanced analytical instruments (GC–MS, LC–MS/MS, high-field NMR), secure sample vaults and custom analytical hardware.

Black Budget Setup $5.0M

[#30] Setup costs for off-books accounting, shell corporations, and secure audit-control systems.

Evidence Destruction Facility $1.0M

[#7] Small secure destruction/incineration facility capital (high-temp incinerators / neutralization setup).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $309.0M/yr

Information Warfare $50.0M/yr

[#9] Multi-platform disinformation, ad buys, influence operations and public-health style campaigns to demonize SCP-3335 and suppress demand.

Emergency Reserve Replenish $50.0M/yr

[#16] Annual replenishment target for emergency contingency reserves and rapid procurement budgets.

Humint Network $40.0M/yr

[#1] Covert human intelligence network staffing: undercover operatives, identity fabrication, safe houses, rotation, training and cover expenses.

Staff Wages $30.0M/yr

[#22] Salaries for on-site security contractors, surveillance analysts, IT staff, drivers, logisticians and administrative staff hired under cover identities.

Interdiction Logistics $20.0M/yr

[#12] Maritime/air surveillance leases, container scanning, forensic tracking and costs associated with intercepting shipments worldwide.

Eradication Operations Estimate $20.0M/yr

[#14] Maintaining covert termination/eradication capability and associated deniable assets and cleanup readiness.

International Coordination $20.0M/yr

[#25] Costs for multinational operations, liaison officers, safe basing abroad and front organizations for foreign operations.

Surveillance Ops $10.0M/yr

[#17] SIGINT/OSINT monitoring, drone and camera networks, commercial satellite/sensor retainers and encrypted-comm monitoring.

Tactical Response $9.0M/yr

[#2] Ongoing maintenance/training/equipment for tactical strike teams and rapid-response units (training, weapons, armored vehicles).

Remediation Units $6.0M/yr

[#8] Maintaining rapid-deployment clandestine lab remediation teams and contractor/cover payments globally.

Research And Monitoring $5.0M/yr

[#4,#3] Dedicated anomalous-toxicology research team recurring costs (salaries, animal studies, reagents) and ongoing analytical instrument service/consumables.

Secure Medical Containment Operating $5.0M/yr

[#5] Operating costs for secure isolation wards: staffing, monitoring, restraints, decontamination and routine ICU-level operations at partial capacity.

Bribery And Influence $5.0M/yr

[#10] Payments to corrupt officials, shipping-line bribes and clandestine influence operations.

Specialized Transport Ops $5.0M/yr

[#13] Operating costs for armored ambulances, secure transports, cold-chain and rapid exfiltration logistics.

Diagnostics Services $5.0M/yr

[#19] Specialized clinical diagnostics for affected patients and research cohorts (imaging, assays, experimental techniques).

Rehab Programs $5.0M/yr

[#23] Psychological operations, covert rehab programs, addiction treatment and relapse prevention initiatives.

Research Moratorium Loss $5.0M/yr

[#24] Opportunity cost and costs of maintaining idle specialized labs/personnel due to experiment moratoriums.

Hospital Coverups $5.0M/yr

[#26] Payments to hospitals/public-health entities to alter records, conceal comatose clusters and assume covert care contracts.

Ambient Monitoring $3.0M/yr

[#20] Metropolitan sensor networks, rapid-response monitoring teams and data storage for likely hotspot observation.

Cover Story And Legal $2.0M/yr

[#11] Legal counsel, lobbying, fabricated cases and intel-liaison teams to maintain plausible deniability and domestic/foreign cooperation.

Tactical Raid Operations $2.0M/yr

[#2] Annual average per-raid logistics and execution costs aggregated across expected raids (aircraft/vehicle/time per major raid averaged annually).

Amnestic Production $2.0M/yr

[#15] Ongoing small-scale production and delivery logistics for Class-B/C amnestics and targeted deployment costs.

Facilities Maintenance $1.0M/yr

[#21] Energy, utilities, HVAC, generator maintenance and fuel reserves for containment and medical facilities.

Forensic Maintenance $1.0M/yr

[#3] Instrument service contracts, consumables and maintenance for forensic/analytical chemistry capability.

Fatality Disposal $1.0M/yr

[#29] Per-body disposal/cremation and forensic handling averaged annually for expected fatalities and covert disposal operations.

Black Budget Ops $1.0M/yr

[#30] Ongoing costs for off-books accounting, shell company maintenance and covert financial controls.

Training And Psych Support $500K/yr

[#27] Specialized training curricula, simulators and counseling for agents exposed to traumatic SCP-3335 incidents.

Evidence Destruction Ops $300K/yr

[#7] Annual operational costs for secure destruction, hazardous-waste compliance and certified disposal.

Ppe And Decon $200K/yr

[#18] Field PPE, disposable biohazard supplies, decon showers and onsite sterilization consumables.

Supplies And Consumables $0/yr

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Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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Mass Comatose Liability Estimate $0/yr

[#6] Contingent long-term care liability for mass comatose events (10,000-patient estimates run into billions/year); tracked as a contingent liability (not included in baseline recurring).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $309.0M/yr

80.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with ongoing covert interdiction, research, and containment at current levels; no major emergent mass-comatose events or public exposure.

steady-state interdiction no mass SCP-3335-1 events limited political exposure

🚨 Minor Incident $359.0M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Localized surge in production/use requiring increased raids, additional HUMINT deployments, and larger interdiction and legal expenditures.

localized outbreak new clandestine labs discovered regional spike in use

🚨 Major Mass Comatose Event $2.0B/yr

3.0% probability / year +$1.7B vs baseline

Large-scale SCP-3335-1 event producing thousands of comatose/chronically affected patients requiring emergency medical care, long-term support or mass termination operations.

mass SCP-3335-1 manifestation thousands of new long-term patients overwhelmed medical infrastructure

🚨 Political Exposure $809.0M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$500.0M vs baseline

Public/political exposure or international diplomatic incident forcing large-scale cover operations, emergency amnestic dispersal consideration, or expensive diplomatic mitigation.

major leak or media exposé UN/international scrutiny failed covert operation becomes public

👥 Personnel 410 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	250	[#22] Contracted security staff and rapid-response tactical personnel for site security, raids, and transports (covered within staff_wages).
Research Scientist	40	[#4] Toxicologists, medicinal chemists, neurologists and support scientists (part of research_and_monitoring budget, not HUMINT).
Surveillance Analyst	80	[#17,#22] SIGINT/OSINT analysts and monitoring staff operating under cover (covered within staff_wages).
Engineer / Maintenance	20	[#21,#28] Facility engineers and maintenance staff for containment, generators, HVAC and vault infrastructure (covered within staff_wages/facilities_maintenance).
Medical Officer	10	[#5,#19] On-site medical officers for secure wards and diagnostic oversight (covered within staff_wages/research_and_monitoring budgets).
Administrative Staff	10	[#11,#30] Administrative, legal liaisons and covert finance support (covered within staff_wages and black-budget ops).

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges and prior incident history enabling mid-confidence estimates, but many categories have wide ranges and contingent high-impact tail events (mass comatose liabilities, reserve sizing, HUMINT scale), reducing precision.

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