SCP-3532 — SCP-3532 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-3532 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-3532

Expected annual

$10.3M

One-time setup

$28.3M

Annual recurring

$9.3M

Personnel

Up-front one-time setup and large contingency reserves dominate costs (~$28.3M one-time), while ongoing personnel, legal/PR, and monitoring operations drive recurring costs (~$9.79M/year). Main drivers: staffing, paid influence/legal retainers, ML/monitoring operations, and large emergency/global-response reserves.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $28.3M

Global Response Reserve $20.0M

[#30] Large-scale worst-case global-response mobilization reserve.

Cyber Incident Fund $2.0M

[#11] Initial contingency/reserve for emergency takedown/cyber operations (seed reserve).

Corporate Control Operations $2.0M

[#12] Covert corporate campaigns / potential buyout seed (covert recruitment/campaigns or initial acquisition fund).

Insurance Reserve $2.0M

[#25] Initial insurance/legal-risk reserve / hush-fund seed.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $680K

[#1, #3, #21, #28] Initial webcrawler/monitoring development, ML R&D for cognitohazard detection, training curriculum development, and content-neutralizer development.

Public Safety Event Fund $500K

[#17] Seed fund for a major public-safety event / consumer-protection interventions.

Facilities $400K

[#4] Safe analysis lab buildout (Faraday cage/viewing suite, isolated playback hardware) one-time construction.

Raid Budget $300K

[#13] Single moderate raid/campaign operational costs (planning, travel, equipment).

Equipment $170K

[#2, #20] Secure archival hardware and replication (#2) plus communications procurement / secure comms hardware (#20).

Forensic Investigations $150K

[#15] Initial forensic accounting investigations and asset-tracing setup.

Merch Takedown Campaign $100K

[#16] One-off merchandise buyouts / takedown campaign budget.

Evidence Storage $30K

[#24] One-time physical evidence storage lockers and chain-of-custody setup.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $9.3M/yr

Staff Wages $3.8M/yr

[#5, #6, #7, #13, #14] Salaries and benefits for memetics/cognitohazard researchers, social-media analysts/OSINT staff, web/sysadmin staff, standing MTF rotation costs, and on-site security guards.

Research And Monitoring $824K/yr

[#1, #3, #23, #26] Ongoing monitoring operations (cloud crawling), ML inference/training compute & contracted ML expertise, monitoring/graph-analysis tool access, and long-term cult/network monitoring.

Paid Influence $800K/yr

[#10] Budget for counter-propaganda, ad buys, seeded negative-perception campaigns and media manipulation.

Witness Protection $600K/yr

[#18] Ongoing witness protection, rehabilitation, and debriefing program capacity costs.

Legal Retainers $500K/yr

[#8] International legal retainers and emergency counsel for takedowns, subpoenas, FOIA, and cross-jurisdictional actions.

Cyber Incident Reserve Replenishment $500K/yr

[#11] Annual replenishment to maintain rapid-response cyber/ops contingency funds.

Public Safety Reserve Replenishment $500K/yr

[#17] Ongoing contingency replenishment for public-safety interventions / recalls.

Logistics And Transport $400K/yr

[#13, #19] Travel, secure transport, field ops logistics, and MTF/campaign travel not captured in salaries.

Media Pr $400K/yr

[#22] Ongoing media/PR and cover-story budget for planting narratives and steering public perception.

Forensic Monitoring $240K/yr

[#15] Ongoing forensic accounting, bank cooperation, and monitoring of revenue streams.

Platform Cooperation $200K/yr

[#9] Paid emergency access/retainers with major platforms for accelerated removals and cooperation.

Training Ops $150K/yr

[#21] Ongoing exercises, media training, and maintenance of negative-perception counteragent readiness.

Facilities Maintenance $110K/yr

[#4, #24, #29] Annual maintenance for safe analysis lab, evidence storage operations, and containment facility utilities/energy.

Psychological Support $90K/yr

[#27] Staff psychological screening, debriefs, and support programs for memetic exposure.

Supplies And Consumables $75K/yr

[#4, #13, #20, #24] PPE, air-gapped media consumables, disposable comms devices, and evidence handling consumables.

Security Tooling $65K/yr

[#7] SIEM, endpoint, and security tooling/license renewals.

Merch Monitoring $50K/yr

[#16] Continuous monitoring of merchandise/supply-chain channels.

Communications Maintenance $20K/yr

[#20] Maintenance and replacement costs for secure comms, satcoms, and burner infrastructure.

Tech Obfuscation Maintenance $12K/yr

[#28] Maintenance and small updates for content-neutralizer tools.

Cover Story And Legal $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $9.3M/yr

64.0% probability / year

Normal year with continuous monitoring, staff operations, and routine legal/PR/monitoring activities; no major incidents.

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🚨 Minor Incident $10.8M/yr

30.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline

Localized spike in SCP-3532 activity causing targeted viral spread requiring emergency takedowns, extra legal action, and intensified counter-propaganda.

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🚨 Major Breach $14.8M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$5.5M vs baseline

Significant containment failure: multiple platforms compromised or major coordinated real-world actions requiring national-level interventions and company coercion.

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🚨 Catastrophic Global Spread $39.8M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$30.5M vs baseline

Worst-case global spread causing mass coordinated actions; requires mobilizing global-response reserves, major platform shutdowns, and multi-national operations.

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👥 Personnel 33 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist / Memetics Researcher	4	[#5] Memetics / cognitohazard research specialists (3–6 recommended).
Social-media Analyst / OSINT Staff	6	[#6] Social-media analysts and OSINT staff (4–8 recommended).
Web Infrastructure / Sysadmin	3	[#7] Web infrastructure, sysadmin, and security staff (2–4 recommended).
Security Officer / Guard	6	[#14] On-site security and physical protection staff (4–12 recommended).
MTF Agent (standing detachment)	12	[#13] MTF rotation / standing detachment for infiltration, raids, and rapid response.
Administrative Staff	2	[#7, #19] Administrative coordination, logistics support, and program management.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are based on analyst-provided ranges for many discretionary items (legal retainers, paid influence, corporate actions) and thus have moderate uncertainty; physical/infrastructure costs are better-defined but scenario probabilities and rare catastrophic cost magnitudes remain uncertain.

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