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SCP-3626 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-3626
Expected annual
$15.3M
One-time setup
$16.0M
Annual recurring
$15.1M
Personnel
25
One-time capital for hardened, air-gapped containment and safe-viewing hardware is moderate (~$16.0M total one-time including a large emergency reserve); recurring annual operations are driven by specialized staff, global takedown/cooperation, monitoring, logistics and legal/cover operations (~$15.1M/yr baseline).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $16.0M
Emergency Response Reserve $10.5M
[#19] One-time emergency reserve allocation to fund large-scale mitigation (evacuations, mass amnestics, settlements, international sweeps). Midpoint of noted range used.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.8M
[#7, #14, #17, #24] Initial forensic/IT tooling, research lab equipment and imaging access, initial SOP/training development costs, and seed funding for exploratory pocket-dimension research programs.
Facilities $2.5M
[#1, #18] Secure containment suite construction (hardening, Faraday/EM shielding, negative-pressure HVAC, vaults) plus additional-site duplication setup (redundancy/geographic segregation). Midpoint of provided ranges used.
Equipment $318K
[#2, #3, #11, #21] Air-gapped write-once safe viewing terminals (4 units), hardened auto-forward/kill-switch device development+hardware, incineration/destructive-device setup, and initial archival media purchase.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $15.1M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $4.8M/yr
[#8, #15, #16, #22] Global takedown/cooperation program, ethical/legal/compliance staffing, cover operations/public deception budget, and outreach/ISP partnership commitments.
Logistics And Transport $2.8M/yr
[#10, #23] Secure transport, armored transit, evidence handling, field containment actions, temporary quarantines and public-safety operations; includes recurring incident-driven logistics budget.
Staff Wages $2.6M/yr
[#4, #5, #6, #7] Salaries, benefits and overhead for specialized memetics research team, site security, partial MTF/personnel pay and incident/IT response staff (recurring portion). Midpoint estimates and allocated shares used.
Compensation Reserve Replenishment $1.1M/yr
[#13] Annual replenishment contribution to long-term psychological support/compensation contingency pool for staff and civilians.
Emergency Reserve Replenishment $1.0M/yr
[#19] Annual replenishment target for emergency response reserves / breach insurance funding.
Research And Monitoring $850K/yr
[#9, #24] Monitoring and scanning infrastructure (gateway filters, honeypots, dark-web monitors) plus ongoing long-term research funding for pocket-dimension study (ongoing program funds).
Mobile Response $690K/yr
[#6] Recurring non-salary portion of mobile response/MTF retrieval (vehicles, specialized PPE, training ops). Salaries allocated into staff_wages.
Reputation And Retention $550K/yr
[#25] Hazard pay, retention bonuses and mental-health incentives to retain cleared staff working on the file.
Amnestic And Medical Support $275K/yr
[#12] Routine and emergency medical support, amnestic/psychotropic treatments, psychiatric care and trauma counseling for affected personnel.
Supplies And Consumables $125K/yr
[#14] Lab consumables, PPE, sterile supplies and routine test materials for memetics research and safe testing.
Redundancy Maintenance $100K/yr
[#18] Ongoing operational maintenance costs for geographically segregated duplicate facilities and cold-backup archives.
Facilities Maintenance $75K/yr
[#1, #18] Ongoing maintenance, physical inspections and minor upgrades for containment suite(s) and redundant sites.
Training And Sop Refresher $62K/yr
[#17] Annual refresher training, drills and SOP updates for 'do-not-look' protocols and memetic-resistant communications.
Destructive Media Disposal $50K/yr
[#11] Recurring per-device disposal contracts and hazardous-waste fees for burned/incinerated infected hardware.
Energy And Utilities $45K/yr
[#20] Continuous power, backup generators/UPS maintenance, climate control and server power for secure rooms and evidence vaults.
Data Archival Maintenance $11K/yr
[#21] Periodic integrity checks, media storage fees and offline archival maintenance for write-once archives and logs.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $15.1M/yr
91.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; ongoing containment, monitoring, staffing and cooperation operate at steady-state.
no_significant_leak routine_operations standard_monitoring
🚨 Minor Incident $15.6M/yr
7.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized leak or small public exposure requiring targeted takedowns, additional amnestics, overtime, and limited legal/PR response.
localized_leak limited_public_exposure single-site_breach
🚨 Major Breach $25.1M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
Widespread leak requiring international takedowns, mass amnestic deployment, emergency legal settlements and major field operations.
widespread_online_proliferation international_exposure mass_casualty_or_settlements
👥 Personnel 25 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 3 [#4] Senior memetics researchers (high-clearance) as described in analyst notes; salaries included in staff_wages.
Research Technician 4 [#4] Research assistants/technicians supporting memetics work; salaries included in staff_wages.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 [#5] Dedicated onsite security personnel enforcing two-person rule and escort duties; salaries included in staff_wages.
MTF / Mobile Response Agent 6 [#6] Mobile response/tactical retrieval personnel; partial salary allocation included in staff_wages, with operational costs in mobile_response.
Incident Forensic / IT Response 4 [#7] Forensic & IT response specialists responsible for detection, signatures and network removal; salaries included in staff_wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed cost ranges for most line items, but many figures are wide ranges and several items (reserves, large-scale incidents, long-term research) are speculative. Estimates use midpoints and allocation assumptions; therefore confidence is medium.
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