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SCP-3369 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-3369
Expected annual
$5.1M
One-time setup
$51.7M
Annual recurring
$4.4M
Personnel
30
One-time setup and a large contingency reserve dominate costs (≈$51.7M one-time) while annual operations (detection, response teams, medical & research) run at a multi-million dollar pace (~$4.35M/yr), driven mainly by MTF readiness, staff wages, and digital detection/response.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $51.7M
Emergency Reserve $50.0M
[#26] Contingency reserve for large urban outbreak / mass-response (recommended planning figure; held as one-time reserve allocation).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.1M
[#5, #13, #21] Webcrawler / memetic detection development (ML/dev cost), amnestic production setup and validation, and counter-meme R&D seed funding.
Equipment $320K
[#3, #10, #25] Air-gapped test workstation & Faraday enclosure; initial MTF outfitting (kits, vehicles); and one-time secure evidence archiving hardware.
Facilities $142K
[#1, #18] Secure storage locker hardening and a dedicated secure interview/testing suite buildout (tamper sensors, fire suppression, acoustic/airlock work).
Training And Sop Development $95K
[#27] One-time development of containment SOPs, memetic-safety training modules, and simulation exercises.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.4M/yr
Staff Wages $3.0M/yr
[#7, #11, #15, #20, #22] Salaries for digital forensics/takedown team, MTF Phi-7 annual operating/personnel costs, medical staff/psychiatric follow-up, specialist researchers/linguists, and internal personnel-monitoring staff.
Research And Monitoring $600K/yr
[#6, #19, #23, #24, #28] Hosting/operation of webcrawler and storage, neuroimaging/lab studies, venue field surveillance (per-city baseline), epidemiological investigations/public-health liaison, and annual audits/red-team testing.
D Class Carrier Program $300K/yr
[#16] Housing, security, medical care, monitoring and replacement for continual D-Class carriers (baseline for up to 5 carriers).
Cover Story And Legal $200K/yr
[#8, #9, #30] Content-deletion/legal cooperation baseline, legal/PR retainers and routine covert payments/compensation for witnesses/platform cooperation.
Logistics And Transport $120K/yr
[#12, #29] Per-deployment mobilization (assumed baseline deployments) plus fleet upkeep and transportation maintenance for field ops.
Supplies And Consumables $105K/yr
[#4, #14, #25] Air-gapped workstation consumables & media refresh, per-dose amnestic costs (baseline 100 doses/year assumption), and annual storage costs for archived forensic media.
Training Refreshers $35K/yr
[#27] Annual refresher training and SOP updates (simulation exercises, memetic-safety refreshers).
D Class Termination $15K/yr
[#17] Annual estimate for termination events (amnestic administration + disposal/biohazard costs) assuming periodic replacements.
Facilities Maintenance $2K/yr
[#2] Climate/control, environmental monitoring and quarterly inspections for the storage locker; basic site-level maintenance tied to preservation and alarms.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.4M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine detection, small-scale responses, and ongoing research/maintenance only.
routine detections quarterly deployments no major public exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $4.7M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$360K vs baseline
Localized outbreak (single venue or small online cluster) requiring extra deployment(s), surge takedown and limited amnestic use.
local venue outbreak viral online reposts single-city cluster
🚨 Major Urban Outbreak $37.0M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$32.6M vs baseline
Large-scale spread in a major metropolitan area requiring mass response, extensive amnestic operations, national takedown, and heavy PR/legal operations.
citywide propagation national media exposure multiple simultaneous outbreaks
👥 Personnel 30 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 10 [(#10, #11)] Standing Phi-7 unit sized per analyst notes (8–12); counted as 10 for planning.
Digital Forensics / Takedown Analyst 4 [#7] For trace-and-delete specialists (3–6 analysts); midpoint staffing of 4.
Research Scientist / Memeticist 3 [#20] Specialist memeticists/linguists for testing and counter-meme research (2–4).
Engineer / DevOps 3 [#5] Engineers required for webcrawler / detection tooling development and maintenance (2–3 engineers).
Medical Officer / Psychiatrist 3 [#15] ER-capable medics, nurses and psychiatrist contracts (2–4 medical staff).
Internal Affairs / Personnel Monitoring 2 [#22] Internal security and monitoring team (1–3 FTE) to vet and monitor staff.
Class-D Personnel 5 [#16] Continuous D-Class carriers (1–5 continual carriers; baseline uses 5).
📋 Confidence Notes
Mid confidence: many line items are well-described (storage, workstations, staffing) so baseline recurring costs are fairly certain, but large ranges on webcrawler R&D, MTF outfitting, amnestic setup, and the discretionary emergency reserve produce substantial uncertainty in one-time totals and incident surge costs.
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