SCP-3596 — SCP-3596 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-3596 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-3596

Expected annual

$35.0M

One-time setup

$37.4M

Annual recurring

$33.5M

Personnel

Estimated up-front capital costs are roughly $37.4M for a hardened Site-26 modification and specialist one-time hardware/R&D. Recurring annual costs are roughly $33.52M driven primarily by event-response logistics (airlift, heavy equipment, evacuation), mass amnesticization operations, and ongoing staff wages and censorship/monitoring.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $37.4M

Facilities $24.0M

[#1] Hardened containment suite construction, HVAC, redundant power, Faraday/EM shielding, blast doors, heavy-equipment bays and secure vaults.

Insurance Reserve Seed $5.0M

[#21] Seed fund for self-insurance / catastrophe reserve.

Equipment $4.0M

[#2, #7, #12, #23] Anti-memetic containment hardware, custom restraint fixtures, one-time transport crate sets, covert communications/jamming equipment, and one-time communications/IT infrastructure purchases.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.2M

[#10, #29] Initial cloaking cognitohazard R&D seed and one-time containment R&D project funding / lab buildout for mitigation research.

Repair Materials Stockpile $1.1M

[#13] Initial stockpile of construction materials, heavy-equipment parts and consumables for repairs and cover-story restoration.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $33.5M/yr

Logistics And Transport $17.2M/yr

[#6, #7, #14, #30, #13] Annualized rapid-response MTF deployments, airlift costs, heavy-equipment rentals/operation, emergency evacuation/relocation capacity and replenishment of repair materials after events (assumes ~26 Nakajima events/year).

Mass Amnesticization Operations $3.9M/yr

[#9] Annualized cost for mass amnesticization responses to Nakajima events (assumes ~26 events/year, mid-range event severity averaged).

Staff Wages $3.4M/yr

[#4, #5, #11] Security personnel (armed guards, supervisors, armorer), 12 on-site SCP-3596-2-qualified personnel and censorship analyst wages (annualized).

Cover Story And Legal $2.9M/yr

[#15, #12, #20, #26] Cover-story PR, legal counsel, covert liaison/legal cover payments, liability reserves and international/covert influence operations.

Research And Monitoring $1.6M/yr

[#17, #10, #29] Ongoing anomalous-property research, R&D maintenance/testing for cloaking cognitohazards, and recurring containment R&D program funding.

Hazardous Waste Disposal $1.3M/yr

[#22] Annualized secure disposal of anomalous remains and hazardous materials after events (assumes ~26 events/year).

Facilities Maintenance $625K/yr

[#3] Utilities (24/7 HVAC for containment), water, waste, routine maintenance, groundskeeping and storage maintenance.

Insurance Replenishment $500K/yr

[#21] Annual replenishment contribution to the catastrophe/insurance reserve.

Catastrophic Repair Reserve $500K/yr

[#27] Annualized reserve for potential large-scale infrastructure/public repairs (episodic catastrophic events).

Medical And Psych Support $300K/yr

[#18] Continuous medical monitoring, memetic-safety screenings, psychiatric counseling and aftercare for staff.

Amnestic Production $275K/yr

[#8] Production, procurement and secure storage of Class-B/C amnestics and inventory replacement.

Communications It Operations $250K/yr

[#23] Recurring operations for encrypted comms, intrusion detection, backup data centers and secure servers for censorship and coordination.

Censorship Infrastructure $200K/yr

[#11] Servers, filtering software, ISP relationships and other infrastructure to support media censorship and monitoring operations (analyst wages allocated to staff_wages).

Supplies And Consumables $150K/yr

[#24] Replacement weapons/ammo, medical consumables, PPE, memetic-safe printing materials and general consumables.

Satellite Imagery Procurement And Manipulation $150K/yr

[#16] Commercial imagery purchases and occasional covert manipulation/contract costs.

Training And Drills $150K/yr

[#19] Quarterly/annual drills, memetic-safety training, transport rehearsals and certification costs.

Weekend Overtime And Surge Premium $100K/yr

[#25] Overtime and surge-pay for concentrated Saturday-morning containment/censorship operations.

Record Keeping And Vetting $60K/yr

[#28] Background checks, re-vetting, secure archives and records management.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $33.5M/yr

64.0% probability / year

Normal year with routine Nakajima events and no major unexpected public exposures or catastrophic infrastructure damage.

routine_Nakajima_events no_major_public_exposure

🚨 Minor Incident $35.5M/yr

30.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

One or more Nakajima events impact populated areas requiring expanded amnestic campaigns, extra PR/legal and higher repair costs.

urban_event expanded_amnesticization

🚨 Major Breach $45.5M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$12.0M vs baseline

Significant containment/response stress: multi-site repairs, extended mass amnestic campaigns and major transport/reconstruction operations.

multi-site_damage extended_reconstruction

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $58.5M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline

Catastrophic event requiring very large public infrastructure repairs, emergency relocation and major international/legal exposure mitigation.

catastrophic_infrastructure_damage major_public_exposure

👥 Personnel 38 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	18	[#4] 24/7 armed security staff (midpoint between 12–30 guards).
Specialized On-site Personnel (SCP-3596-2-qualified)	12	[#5] Minimum of 12 trained personnel maintaining continual presence.
Analyst / Media Censorship Staff	8	[#11] Analysts for monitoring and censorship operations (4–12 range; midpoint used).

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges, enabling a reasoned estimate; uncertainty remains high around event frequency/severity (location of Nakajima events), choice of midpoints for ranges, and the Foundation's actual per-event resource allocation policies.

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