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SCP-3675 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-3675
Expected annual
$50.9M
One-time setup
$495.9M
Annual recurring
$45.0M
Personnel
71
Initial one-time establishment and contingency reserves dominate costs (~$496M one-time), while steady-state operations (AI monitoring, specialist staff, weekly Protocol 540, legal/cover operations, and readiness for mass response) drive recurring costs (~$45M/yr). Major drivers are contingency/reserve capital, emergency logistics provisioning, staff wages (including MTF), AARS821 operations, and countermeme/campaign expenditures.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $495.9M
Contingency Reserve Primary $250.0M
[#17] Primary contingency reserve fund for catastrophic events (capital reserve).
O5 Contingency Reserve $100.0M
[#28] High-level/O5 contingency reserve capital allocation.
Emergency Mass Logistics Provisioning $100.0M
[#16] One-time provisioning to enable standby capacity for mid-size city mass countermeasures.
Facilities $15.0M
[#1] Hardened Site construction (small/medium Site baseline assumed).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $9.4M
[#3, #7, #18] AARS821 development capitalized here along with neuroimaging equipment and red-team lab buildout.
Redundant Site Buildout $7.0M
[#24] Physical/digital redundancy: additional mirrored Site buildout (minimal redundancy assumed).
Countermeme Uplink Reserve $5.0M
[#12] Emergency pre-negotiated global uplink/satellite time reserve for countermeme dissemination.
Amnestic Development $5.0M
[#14] Development/validation of amnestic pharmaceuticals.
Equipment $1.8M
[#2] Air-gapped, tamper-resistant IT infrastructure (servers, storage, backups) one-time hardware costs.
Mtf Equipment Vehicles $1.2M
[#9] One-time equipment and vehicles for MTF Psi-10.
Secure Archive Vault $600K
[#21] Secure physical/digital archive vault buildout.
Screening And Clearance One Time $355K
[#19] One-time screening & clearance costs (assumed ~71 personnel × median clearance cost).
Training Development $300K
[#10] Development of training and countermemetic curriculum (one-time development costs).
Amnestic Initial Stockpile $150K
[#14] Initial on-site amnestic stockpile for Site personnel.
Systemic Risk Allowance $0
[#30] Conceptual systemic risk allowance (unbounded; treated as unquantified contingency — set to 0 for accounting purposes).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $45.0M/yr
Staff Wages $8.8M/yr
[#4, #5, #8, #9, #25] Salaries for research staff, SOC analysts, data-cleansing reviewers, MTF core salaries, clinicians and core Site staff (role mix detailed in personnel).
Emergency Logistics Readiness $5.0M/yr
[#16] Readiness costs to maintain rapid-deployment mobile clinics, teams, and cold-chain logistics.
O5 Reserve Financing Costs $5.0M/yr
[#28] Financing/holding costs associated with O5 contingency reserve and clandestine procurement readiness.
Redundant Site Recurring Staffing $4.4M/yr
[#24] Recurring duplicate staffing cost to maintain a minimal redundant/mirrored Site (~50% of initial payroll).
Cover Story And Legal $3.5M/yr
[#12, #13, #20, #22] Routine legal, PR, covert influence, cover-story maintenance, and baseline liability management.
Recruiting And Retention Premium $2.6M/yr
[#19] Salary premiums and retention bonuses for high-CRV, highly vetted staff (approx. 30% premium on core payroll).
Countermeme Campaigns $2.0M/yr
[#12] Professional countermeme creation, media buys and platform placement for routine campaigns.
Rehabilitation Care $2.0M/yr
[#15] Rehabilitation and long-term care for infected individuals (assumes modest caseload baseline).
Insurance And Liability $2.0M/yr
[#20] Insurance, captive-reserve financing and legal retainers for liability management.
Aars821 Maintenance $1.0M/yr
[#3] Ongoing compute, retraining, labeled-data maintenance and staff for AARS821.
Protocol 540 Weekly Operations $1.0M/yr
[#11] Weekly Protocol 540-Meriden operational costs (planning, distribution bandwidth, staff time).
Societal Mitigation Programs $1.0M/yr
[#27] Pilot long-term societal mitigation programs and education campaigns.
Research And Monitoring $800K/yr
[#3, #18] Non-AARS research ops, red-team experiment baseline operations, and lab monitoring costs.
Facilities Maintenance $600K/yr
[#1, #23, #24] Site upkeep, backup generators/fuel maintenance and facility-level maintenance including some redundancy support.
Red Team Operations $600K/yr
[#18] Ongoing operations, subject compensation, and safety testing for countermeme validation.
Interagency Coordination $500K/yr
[#22] Routine MOUs, coordination, and liaison expenses with external agencies and telecoms.
Public Health Liaison $500K/yr
[#25] Public health liaison and crisis communication cell staffing and activity costs.
Monthly Psych Screenings $480K/yr
[#6] Monthly psychological screenings for project staff (assumes ~71 personnel × mid-range screening costs).
Logistics And Transport $400K/yr
[#9, #16] Baseline travel, vehicle maintenance, and routine logistics for MTF and field ops (deployments handled in separate line items).
Mtf Per Deployment $400K/yr
[#9] Per-deployment costs for MTF operations (travel, temporary surge gear).
Energy And Fuel $400K/yr
[#23] Power for GPUs, climate control and fuel/maintenance for backup generators.
Supplies And Consumables $300K/yr
[#14, #21] Ongoing consumables including amnestic resupply for routine operations and regular secure destruction costs.
It Infrastructure Maintenance $300K/yr
[#2] Storage expansion, backups, hardware replacement and maintenance for air-gapped clusters.
Neuroimaging Contract Maintenance $300K/yr
[#7] fMRI maintenance / P.O.C. contract scan costs and EEG maintenance.
Containment Exercises $300K/yr
[#26] Containment failure modeling, tabletop exercises, and consulting.
Ethical Board $300K/yr
[#29] Ethical/compliance review board operations and retained legal counsel.
Soc Tooling $200K/yr
[#4] SOC tooling, licenses and platform subscriptions for 24/7 monitoring.
Training Refresher $150K/yr
[#10] Yearly refresher training and simulation exercises.
Amnestic Restocking $100K/yr
[#14] Ongoing amnestic procurement and controlled dispensing logistics for routine needs.
Destruction Operations $50K/yr
[#21] Regular certified destruction operations and chain-of-custody witnessing.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $45.0M/yr
90.5% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major incidents; steady weekly Protocol 540 and routine monitoring.
regular monitoring no major data contamination protocols functioning as intended
🚨 Minor Incident $50.0M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Localized spike in activations or a small containment breach requiring surge deployments and elevated countermeme buys.
localized data leak AARS821 false-negative spike small cluster activations
🚨 Major Breach $245.0M/yr
1.5% probability / year +$200.0M vs baseline
Widespread contamination across networks requiring mass deployments, large amnestic/rehab operations and capital drawdown for emergency logistics.
multi-jurisdictional data contamination Protocol 540 interruption >10 days cascading activations
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $5.0B/yr
0.1% probability / year +$5.0B vs baseline
Total Containment Failure / 3675-Abgrund event triggering Contingency Omicron-Eclipse and multi-billion emergency response.
Total Containment Failure global activation >50% systemic collapse
👥 Personnel 71 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 15 [#8] Cognitive scientists, memeticists, neuroscientists, software engineers and PIs forming core research team.
SOC Analyst / Secure Network Ops 10 [#4] 24/7 monitoring and manual review staff for AARS821 outputs and alerting.
Data Cleansing Staff / Document Reviewers 3 [#5] Manual sanitization workforce to cleanse infected files post-quarantine.
MTF Agent / Security Officer 30 [#9] Mobile Task Force Psi-10 core members for field identification, response and containment.
Clinical Psychologist / Medical Officer 4 [#6, #25] Monthly psychological screening staff and medical support for screenings and rehabilitation.
Engineer / Maintenance 3 [#23] Facilities, generator and compute/IT maintenance staff.
Administrative Staff 5 [#13, #29] Admin, legal liaisons and support for cover operations and ethics board coordination.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#28] Project lead / site director oversight and O5-level coordination interfaces.
IT Specialist 1 [#2] Dedicated on-site IT specialist for air-gapped infrastructure and backup handling.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are low-confidence due to wide ranges in analyst notes, high uncertainty about infection/activation dynamics, policy decisions (degree of secrecy vs. public action), and systemic/unbounded tail risk (see #30). Many line items are scenario-dependent and scale nonlinearly.
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