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SCP-3520 Keter ? low confidence
SCP-3520
Expected annual
$26.1M
One-time setup
$85.7M
Annual recurring
$23.3M
Personnel
12
Initial capital buildout is large (~$85.7M) and dominated by overseas buyouts and contingency/reserve funds; recurring annual costs are substantial (~$23.3M/yr) driven primarily by overseas surveillance, logging subsidies, and domestic suppression operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $85.7M
Liquidation Buyouts $55.0M
[#19] Buyout/acquisition program to neutralize logging influence in both regions (item 19, estimated per-region aggregated).
Escalation Contingency Reserve $25.0M
[#27] One-time contingency reserve for rapid scale-up to large-scale containment (item 27).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.5M
[#25] Initial anomalous-influence research program startup costs (item 25).
Facilities $1.9M
[#1, #18] Transmitter towers, hardened control shelter/site prep (item 1) and overseas safehouse/region setup (item 18).
Cover Infrastructure Setup $575K
[#22] One-time setup of shell corporations, trusts, and international cover infrastructure (item 22).
Equipment $428K
[#4, #6, #8] County spectrum sensor nodes (item 4), air-gapped storage/ADCs/cold tape library (item 6), and one-time audio-forensics hardware (equipment portion of item 8).
Exploratory Campaign $275K
[#16] One-off long-range/source-location campaign cost per campaign.
Environmental Remediation Spend One Time $0
[#23] One-time spend if remediation is triggered; baseline assumes maintained recurring reserve instead (item 23).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $23.3M/yr
Logging Operational Subsidies $9.0M/yr
[#20] Operational subsidies to maintain logging operations despite degradation (item 20; aggregated both regions).
Overseas Surveillance Operations $4.0M/yr
[#17] Continuous covert surveillance operations in Borneo and Ghana (item 17; aggregated both countries).
Cover Story And Legal $3.4M/yr
[#13, #14, #22, #24, #26] Local cover broadcast operations & PR (item 13), FCC/regulatory legal retainers (item 14), maintenance of international cover infrastructure (recurring portion of item 22), domestic insurance/settlement reserve (item 24), and public emergency preparedness/local liaison (item 26).
Research And Monitoring $2.8M/yr
[#25] Ongoing anomalous-influence research program funding (recurring portion of item 25).
Covert Diplomatic Payments $1.6M/yr
[#21] Routine covert payments, local influence operations and intermediaries (item 21).
Staff Wages $1.2M/yr
[#9, #11, #15] Department staffing (item 9), rapid-response on-call pay/readiness (item 11), and redaction/archival labor (item 15).
Environmental Remediation Reserve $1.0M/yr
[#23] Annual reserve allocation for environmental remediation/emergency response (item 23).
Facilities Maintenance $225K/yr
[#2, #3, #5, #7, #10] Site leases/maintenance/insurance (item 2), power & fuel (item 3), spectrum array comms/calibration (item 5), archival tape rotation/maintenance (item 7), and physical site security maintenance (item 10).
Supplies And Consumables $138K/yr
[#8] Recurring audio-forensics licenses, software and consumable license costs (recurring portion of item 8).
Logistics And Transport $50K/yr
[#12] Travel, deployments, lodging and per diem for agent movement (item 12).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $23.3M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing suppression, monitoring, overseas surveillance, subsidies and routine operations; no major incidents or buyouts beyond planned recurring activity.
routine suppression operations ongoing overseas surveillance no major exposures or escalations
🚨 Minor Incident $25.3M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Localized exposure or interference event requiring emergency remediation, increased legal settlements/PR and temporary operational surge.
public complaint/exposure localized environmental remediation short-term legal settlements
🚨 Major Escalation $107.9M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$84.6M vs baseline
Full-scale escalation requiring immediate liquidation of regional logging influence, large contingency mobilization, rapid overseas scale-up and major one-time investments.
evidence of influence spread O5-mandated buyouts/liquidation large-scale containment mobilization
👥 Personnel 12 total
Role Count Notes
Department of Anomalous Broadcasting staff (operators, RF engineers, signal analysts, archivists, manager) 8 [#9] Core DoAB FTEs responsible for suppression, monitoring, recording and first-line analysis (item 9).
Rapid-response containment / Field agents (on-call technicians/agents) 2 [#11] On-call field team readiness and deployment staff (item 11).
Redaction & archival staff (linguists, transcribers, memetics officers) 2 [#15] Staff for transcription, redaction and memetic review (item 15).
📋 Confidence Notes
Wide ranges in analyst estimates (especially for overseas buyouts, subsidies, and contingency spending) and many scenario-dependent, scalable items produce high uncertainty in totals; modeling uses midpoints and aggregated per-region assumptions.
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