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SCP-3612 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-3612
Expected annual
$2.5M
One-time setup
$12.0M
Annual recurring
$2.3M
Personnel
35
One-time establishment and software/hardening work dominate upfront costs (development, hardened replicas, vaults, contingency/reserve). Ongoing costs are driven by personnel (security, oversight, incident response, analysts) and continual research/monitoring (~$2.32M/year).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $12.0M
Contingency Reserve $5.0M
[#12] Emergency contingency reserve for catastrophic corruption of the Mainlist; capital reserve allocation recommended (~$5,000,000 chosen within $2–10M guidance).
Software Development And Production $2.9M
[#5, #6, #7, #8, #17] Development/validation of automated SSO generators (#5 ~$650k), C8/3612 endpoint inoculation R&D & deployment (#6 ~$685k one-time), SSO-scoring research + productionization (#7 ~$1,100,000), SCiPNet schema/workflow rewrite (#8 ~$275k), and tamper-evident logging implementation (#17 ~$175k).
Risk Premium $2.0M
[#25] Program-level risk premium for unknown/novel consequences and flexible emergency studies (~$2,000,000 chosen within $1–5M guidance).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M
[#19] Initial research program funding and lab overhead to study SCP-3612 behavior and mitigation (~$1,000,000 one-time).
Facilities $850K
[#2, #4, #10, #23] Fit-out of list-generation rooms (#2 ~$250k total), tamper-evident vault/hardware (#4 ~$100k), hardened replicas / air-gapped backup hardware & vaulting (#10 ~$300k), and datacenter physical security upgrades (#23 ~$200k).
Initial Training Setup $140K
[#11, #14] Initial incident-response tabletop setup and training exercises (#11 ~$40k) plus rollout of personnel training/cognitive-safety briefings (#14 ~$100k).
Equipment $125K
[#20] Dedicated hardware and compute for SSO analysis and archiving (#20 ~$125k).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.3M/yr
Staff Wages $1.0M/yr
[#1, #9, #11, #7] Wages for security/guards and oversight from D-Class supervision (#1 ~525k of the $600k estimate), audit & compliance personnel (#9 ~160k), incident-response retainer/on-call pay (#11 ~225k), and ML/analyst staffing for SSO systems (#7 ~100k).
Research And Monitoring $720K/yr
[#19, #7, #6, #8, #21, #15, #14] Ongoing research and monitoring (long-term research program #19 ~$350k/year), ML infra & operations for SSO scoring (#7 ~$100k/year), endpoint updates/patching (#6 ~$100k/year), SCiPNet software maintenance (#8 ~$50k/year), red-team/adversarial testing (#21 ~$60k/year), psych/medical monitoring (#15 ~$60k/year), and periodic refresher training obligations (#14 included here ~$0–$0 as primary refresher line but presence noted).
Facilities Maintenance $135K/yr
[#4, #10, #17, #20] Recurring maintenance for archival storage/vaults (#4 ~$25k/year), hardened replica maintenance & secure transport (#10 ~$50k/year), key-management and logging storage ($17 ~$30k/year), and hardware power/cooling/maintenance for analysis servers (#20 ~$30k/year).
Cover Story And Legal $100K/yr
[#16] Legal counsel, cover-story maintenance, information sanitization, and audit handling (~$100k/year).
Backup Personnel Training $100K/yr
[#18, #14] Ongoing training and rapid onboarding / refreshers for replacement personnel and churn (~$100k/year).
Misc Administrative Overhead $100K/yr
[#24] Miscellaneous administrative overhead: program management, procurement, insurance, and small purchases (~$100k/year).
Supplies And Consumables $95K/yr
[#3, #1] Continuous replacement media and consumables for physical lists (#3 ~$20k/year) plus D-Class housing/food/medical upkeep component of the distraction protocol (#1 ~$75k/year).
Logistics And Transport $40K/yr
[#22] Communications, synchronization, secure scheduling, and admin overhead between sites (~$40k/year).
Forensic Cleanup $20K/yr
[#13] Forensic cleanup and secure deletion costs per incident; assuming multiple minor incidents per year (~$20k/year modeled as ~4 minor incidents at ~$5k each).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.3M/yr
75.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; recurring operations only.
steady_operations no significant corruption events
🚨 Minor Incident $2.4M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline
Localized SSO-positive contamination requiring forensic cleanup, overtime, and short-term mitigation.
discovery of SSO-positive material small-scale contamination targeted forensic response
🚨 Major Breach $5.3M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Significant corruption of Mainlist/SCiPNet requiring extended rebuild, large-scale forensics, relocations, and partial use of contingency funds.
massive Mainlist corruption rapid SCP-3612 propagation multi-site coordinated failure
👥 Personnel 35 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 10 Two guards per site across five sites (from #1).
Class-D Personnel 5 One active D-Class generating lists per site as required by the distraction protocol (#1).
Research Scientist 6 Data scientists, ML researchers, and psych researchers supporting SSO scoring and research (#7, #19).
Engineer / Maintenance 3 Sysadmins and engineers for backups, segmentation, and compute maintenance (#10, #20).
Incident Response Team 4 Rapid-response personnel and on-call staff for containment & tabletop exercises (#11).
Audit & Compliance 2 Personnel to audit numbering protocol and assignments (#9).
Administrative Staff 3 Program managers, procurement, and coordination across sites (#24, #22).
Medical Officer / Mental Health 1 Psych/medical screening and monitoring for exposed personnel (#15).
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 Overall program leadership and liaison to higher Foundation command.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide many line-item ranges and operational requirements but several costs (frequency of incidents, scale of breaches, and choices between automation vs. human strategies) are uncertain; estimates use midpoints and conservative choices where ranges existed.
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