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SCP-3601 Keter ? low confidence
SCP-3601
Expected annual
$13.1M
One-time setup
$1.0M
Annual recurring
$13.1M
Personnel
15
One-time setup (~$1.05M) covers secure vault, vehicles, IT and archival equipment; annual recurring costs (~$13.06M/yr) are dominated by a large contingency/reserve, ongoing staff wages, and a sustained long-term research fund.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.0M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $500K
[#8, #23] Preservation / SRA-style storage equipment and integration ($350k midpoint) and specialized memetic-detection R&D/procurement ($150k midpoint).
Equipment $252K
[#2, #3, #13, #22] Cybersecurity hardware and integration ($120k); web-archiving tooling/config ($5k); mail-handling equipment ($15k); vehicle fleet purchase ($112.5k midpoint).
Facilities $235K
[#7, #21] Vault / secure evidence room build-out and initial offsite archival setup (vault build-out $225k midpoint; offsite backup initial $10k).
Internet Monitoring Development $60K
[#1] One-time development of internet monitoring platform, crawlers, NLP signatures and alerting system (midpoint of $40k–$80k).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $13.1M/yr
Incident Response Contingency Fund $10.0M/yr
[#16] Contingency reserve for CK-class or large reality-change remediation (planning/reserve contribution; suggested planning reserve $5M–$20M; $10M annual allocation used here).
Research And Monitoring $1.2M/yr
[#1, #3, #15, #17, #18, #23, #24] Internet monitoring operations (annualized ~$2.5k), web-archiving per-event (annualized ~$1k), domain/DNS monitoring (~$5k), documentation/intel reporting (~$16.5k), training (~$35k), specialized equipment calibration (~$10k), and long-term research fund (midpoint ~$1,125,000/yr).
Staff Wages $1.1M/yr
[#4, #9] MTF Alpha-4 operational staffing (salaries & benefits) and forensic/analysis team salaries (combined midpoint estimates: MTF ~$800k/yr; forensic team ~$350k/yr).
Cover Story And Legal $449K/yr
[#6, #14, #19, #20] Legal retainer/liaison (~$40k/yr) and per-event expedited legal (~$6.25k annualized), cover/OPSEC front costs (~$15k/yr), PR/compensation reserve (~$300k maintained), and self-insurance reserve (~$87.5k/yr).
Amnestic Stockpile $100K/yr
[#10] Manufacturing/acquiring amnestics and maintaining medical readiness (stock & staff estimated midpoint ~$100k/yr).
Logistics And Transport $54K/yr
[#5, #12, #22] Field interception per-event annualized (~$21,250), evidence processing per-event annualized (~$6,250) plus baseline admin ($2k/yr), and vehicle maintenance/fuel (~$25k/yr).
Facilities Maintenance $48K/yr
[#7, #21] Vault/climate-control/security maintenance (~$22.5k/yr) and offsite redundant backup storage recurring (~$25k/yr).
Supplies And Consumables $38K/yr
[#8, #13, #25] Preservation consumables & upkeep (~$20k/yr), mail-handling consumables (annualized ~$3k), miscellaneous small-item contingency (~$15k/yr).
Human Containment Annual Reserve $11K/yr
[#11] Annualized reserve for temporary detention/rehabilitation/compensation per occasional affected subject (midpoint per-subject $55k, low baseline frequency annualized).
Cybersecurity And Storage Maintenance $10K/yr
[#2] Encrypted/high-assurance storage maintenance, patching, audits and associated non-salary costs (~$10k/yr).
Amnestic Administration Expected $2K/yr
[#10] Per-administered-subject costs ($1k–$5k); low baseline expected administration rate annualized (~$1.5k/yr assumed for planning).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $13.1M/yr
97.9% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year with biennial monitoring/interception posture and no major incidents.
no_major_incidents routine_monitoring_and_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $13.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$435K vs baseline
Localized containment failure or limited reality-change requiring surge operations, additional legal/PR actions, and targeted remediation.
localized_reality_changes widespread_submission_surge failed_interception_in_some_regions
🚨 Ck Restructuring $63.1M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Unprevented CK-class reality restructuring event causing mass infrastructure/population impact requiring major remediation.
winning_entry_causes_ck_event global_infrastructure_changes mass_population_impact
👥 Personnel 15 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 10 [#4] MTF Alpha-4 on-call cadre (6–10 operators plus planners; 10 used here to represent full on-call staffing included in MTF salary estimate).
Research Scientist 5 [#9] Linguists, memetic analysts, forensic document examiners and lab support (3–5 specialists + support; 5 total used to align with forensic team salary estimate).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are order-of-magnitude with wide ranges in the analyst notes, large optional contingency fund choices, and rare but high-impact tail risks; many items (per-subject frequencies, scale of potential CK events) are highly uncertain.
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