SCP-3487 — SCP-3487 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-3487 Keter ? low confidence

SCP-3487

Expected annual

$5.2M

One-time setup

$165.9M

Annual recurring

$5.1M

Personnel

Initial capital costs are dominated by specialized reality/temporal stabilizers and large contingency reserves (≈ $166M one-time). Recurring annual operations (≈ $5.07M/yr) are driven primarily by dedicated staff wages, legal/cover operations, and ongoing stabilizer and research maintenance.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $165.9M

Catastrophic Mitigation Reserve $150.0M

[#26] Large-scale CK-scenario mitigation reserve fund (capital held across jurisdictions).

Reality Stabilizer $8.5M

[#6] Procurement / integration of reality/temporal stabilizer unit (purchase/development capital).

Emergency Contingency Reserve $5.5M

[#15] One-time funded rapid-response reserve for minor-to-moderate reality restructuring events.

Cubesat Payload $625K

[#10] CubeSat payload launch and integration for off-planet immutable backups.

Facilities $325K

[#1] Containment suite build-out/modification (structural work, soundproofing, tamper anchors, vestibules).

Amnestic Stockpile $300K

[#12] Initial stockpile acquisition/manufacture of amnestics and memetic countermeasures.

Ai Development $150K

[#5] One-time development/tuning of automated monitoring / AI anomaly detection.

Offsite Terrestrial Archive $125K

[#10] Terrestrial distributed encrypted backups / deep vault setup.

Equipment $92K

[#2, #3] Active restraint systems and high-redundancy video/sensor array/hardened recorders (one-time hardware costs).

Backup Power $65K

[#18] UPS, backup generators and EMP/hardening measures (one-time installation).

Secure Communications $62K

[#17] Air-gapped consoles and secure hardware for test control and logging (one-time hardware).

Leading Prevention Infrastructure $60K

[#24] Site-wide door interlocks, physical barriers and access-control modifications.

Personnel Archive $30K

[#25] Cat-impervious archive of personnel identity and rosters (setup).

Motion Countermeasures $25K

[#19] Biometric locks, inertial sensors and tamper alarms for human carriers (one-time hardware).

Immutable Analog Backups $15K

[#11] Setup of film/etched-plate analog backups across jurisdictions.

Portable Containment Kits $12K

[#9] Human-carried containment kits, multiple sets.

Personnel Anchoring Setup $10K

[#13] Initial setup costs for personnel cognitive-anchoring program (IDs, initial materials).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.1M/yr

Staff Wages $2.8M/yr

[#4, #7, #8] Salaries: 6watchers (~$330k total incl. benefits allocated below), 6–8 specialist researchers (salary pool), 12 MTF-style response specialists (salaries).

Cover Story And Legal $800K/yr

[#14, #23] Legal/cover-up/disinformation operations plus retained counsel/insurance/legal reserve.

Research And Monitoring $490K/yr

[#5, #7, #22] Recurring research consumables and ops: AI ops tuning/ops, research equipment/consumables, long-term modeling resources.

Stabilizer Maintenance $300K/yr

[#6] Calibration, specialist maintenance and consumables for reality/temporal stabilizer units.

Forensic Baseline $200K/yr

[#21] Baseline budget for forensic and breach-reconstruction capacity (overtime, contractors, lab processing).

Training Drills $138K/yr

[#20, #8] Regular drills, tabletop sims, cross-site exercises and MTF training/equipment allotment.

Amnestic Replenishment $125K/yr

[#12] Replenishment, storage and administration of amnestic/memetic countermeasures.

Satellite Ops $60K/yr

[#10] Annual satellite / CubeSat operations and telemetry upkeep.

Personnel Anchoring $45K/yr

[#13] Ongoing psychological testing, training and anchor maintenance for staff.

Logistics And Transport $30K/yr

[#11] Secure courier rotations and vault fees for analog backups.

Facilities Maintenance $20K/yr

[#3] Ongoing maintenance of containment suite and sensor upkeep (sensor maintenance portion from #3).

Personnel Archive Maintenance $20K/yr

[#25] Ongoing maintenance/audits of personnel identity archives and cryptographic seals.

Cat Care $15K/yr

[#16] Veterinary care, feeding, enrichment and regenerative-study consumables for SCP-3487.

Leading Enforcement $15K/yr

[#24] Enforcement and training costs for policies preventing unauthorized 'leading'.

Backup Power Maintenance $12K/yr

[#18] Fuel, generator maintenance and testing for backup power systems.

Secure Comm Maintenance $10K/yr

[#17] Maintenance of air-gapped logging hardware and physical token systems.

Motion Countermeasures Maintenance $6K/yr

[#19] Annual maintenance/calibration of biometric/inertial sensors and tamper alarms.

Supplies And Consumables $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.1M/yr

85.9% probability / year

Uneventful year with standard operations, scheduled maintenance, and routine research.

normal_operations scheduled_maintenance

🚨 Minor Incident $5.4M/yr

12.0% probability / year +$350K vs baseline

Localized containment compromise or small history-rewrite event requiring forensic response, amnestic use and minor legal/cover actions.

restraints_compromised localized_historical_rewrite

🚨 Major Breach $8.1M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline

Significant breach or sustained multi-day containment failure requiring large-scale response, mobilization of reserves, heavy forensic reconstruction and extended memetic campaigns.

multi-shift_breach widespread_record_tampering

🚨 Catastrophic Ck Event $55.1M/yr

0.1% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Rare object-caused CK-class restructuring requiring international coordination, mass memetic deployment and drawing on catastrophic mitigation reserves.

large_scale_historical_rewrite systemic_ck_risk

👥 Personnel 25 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Watcher	6	[#4] 24/7 camera watching: three 8-hour shifts with two watchers per shift.
Research Scientist	7	[#7] Multi-disciplinary specialist research team (physicists, temporal specialists, biologists, memetics) — mid-point staffing.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	12	[#8] Dedicated response / capture team for physical relocation and containment operations.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates use midpoints of wide ranges; major uncertainties include whether stabilizers can be procured versus requiring costly development, the true frequency of breaches, and the scale of legal/CK-mitigation needs. Large one-time reserve numbers dominate uncertainty.

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