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SCP-3689 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-3689
Expected annual
$56.6M
One-time setup
$113.3M
Annual recurring
$54.8M
Personnel
46
One-time capital and reserve costs are dominated by large contingency and influence campaigns (~$113.3M total one-time); ongoing annual costs are driven by covert influence and embedded government funding, personnel, and R&D (~$54.8M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $113.3M
Initial Influence Campaign $55.0M
[#6] Initial multi-year covert lobbying/influence campaign to embed anti-whaling laws across jurisdictions (one-time multi-year campaign estimate).
Emergency Mass Exposure Reserve $55.0M
[#24] One-time reserve fund set aside for a worst-case global viral exposure response (mass amnestic ops, surge capacity).
Facilities $1.6M
[#1, #9] Secure vault construction and quarantine/ward buildout (vault: biometric/EM shielding/certification; quarantine ward retrofit).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $625K
[#14] Culinary research kitchen and laboratory-grade equipment buildout for controlled trials.
Amnestic Stockpile Initial $600K
[#12] Initial procurement/stockpile of specialized amnestic agents and certified delivery systems (one-time procurement).
Equipment $400K
[#2, #3, #8] Air-gapped storage hardware (#2), monitoring bot development compute/hardware (#3), evidence PPE and biosafety cabinets (#8).
Initial Training $100K
[#18] Initial training & certification rollout costs for ~200 staff.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $54.8M/yr
Covert Influence $27.5M/yr
[#6] Ongoing covert funding/operatives and influence to ensure anti-whaling laws and enforcement across multiple jurisdictions (annual midpoint estimate).
Embedded Government Funding $10.5M/yr
[#28] Recurring payments, maintenance and operational support for embedded operatives and false entities in government/enforcement bodies.
Staff Wages $6.0M/yr
[#19, #4, #9, #3, #20] Salaries and benefits for dedicated program personnel including researchers, memeticists, analysts, security, medical and support staff (aggregate of program staff and embedded specialist teams).
Research And Monitoring $2.0M/yr
[#13] Clinical & memetic research budgets (RAISA/Culinary Dept) and controlled studies; R&D project funding separate from tooling/compute listed elsewhere.
Memetic Ai R And D $1.2M/yr
[#27] Ongoing R&D in memetic-AI to detect partial conceptualizations and reduce downstream incidents.
Cybersecurity And Leak Response $1.1M/yr
[#4] Full-time digital forensics and takedown team retainer, rapid response capability and operational budgets.
Investigations $1.0M/yr
[#7] Undercover stings, forensics and investigative teams for suspected violators (baseline small caseload).
Field Monitoring And Human Intel $600K/yr
[#5] Online and real-world surveillance budgets, covert human assets, travel and purchases of suspect materials.
Quarantine Ward Operations $600K/yr
[#9] Staffing and operational costs for specialized containment/quarantine ward for symptomatic individuals.
Insurance And Legal Defense $550K/yr
[#25] Insurance premiums, legal defense funds and settlement reserves for program liabilities.
Cyberviral Incident Reserve $500K/yr
[#4] Annual reserve allocated for per-major-viral-incident takedown, legal actions and emergency content removal budgets.
Fatality Response Reserve $500K/yr
[#16] Annual reserve for preventing/investigating suicides and fatalities (recovery, autopsy, family cover stories and compensation).
Supplies And Consumables $315K/yr
[#8, #14, #29, #12] Ongoing disposables/consumables for evidence handling, culinary trials, routine lab supplies and amnestic replenishment consumables.
Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr
[#17] Annual baseline cover-up, PR, legal fees and media management for routine incidents.
Publisher Surveillance Audit $300K/yr
[#21] Surveillance and audit of cookbook publishers, recipe sites and culinary curricula.
Forensic Memetic Database $250K/yr
[#20] Forensic linguistics and memetic signature database maintenance and analyst support.
Audit And Oversight $250K/yr
[#30] Internal audits, ethics reviews and senior management oversight budgets.
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#23] Secure transport, vehicles, armored transfers, fuel and couriers for field teams and seized material.
Acute Medical Response Reserve $200K/yr
[#10] Annual baseline reserve for acute medical/amnestic treatments per patient (per-incident costs can be much higher; this is a baseline budget).
Long Term Care $200K/yr
[#11] Ongoing psychiatric therapy, rehabilitation and supervised living for affected individuals.
Monitoring Compute And Ops $140K/yr
[#3] Ongoing compute, scraper maintenance and software updates for I/O-DINE monitoring bot (human analysts' salaries included in staff_wages).
Facilities Maintenance $135K/yr
[#1, #22] Vault and facility certifications/maintenance and energy/facility operations (climate control for vaults/servers/labs).
Ingredient Procurement $110K/yr
[#15] Contracts for synthetic ingredient suppliers and lawful procurement channels for research substitutes.
Public Health Coordination $100K/yr
[#26] Liaison and zoonotic surveillance coordination with public health agencies and testing budgets.
Evidence Disposal $65K/yr
[#8] Annual contracts and consumables for secure destruction/incineration and biohazard handling.
Amnestic Replenishment $50K/yr
[#12] Annual replenishment, QA and cold-chain costs for amnestic stockpile.
Training And Certification $50K/yr
[#18] Annual refresher training and certification costs for staff handling infohazards.
Airgapped Storage Maintenance $20K/yr
[#2] Maintenance, media replacement and periodic audits for air-gapped archival server and write-once workflows.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $54.8M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, research, influence and no major public leak or mass exposure.
no major leak routine monitoring standard investigations
🚨 Minor Incident $57.3M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Localized viral leak or small cluster of affected individuals requiring emergency takedown, targeted amnestic responses and investigations.
localized viral post small cluster exposures rapid takedown & legal actions
🚨 Catastrophic Global Exposure $124.8M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$70.0M vs baseline
Major worldwide viral leak triggering mass amnestic operations, global takedowns, emergency shelters and large-scale international covert operations.
global viral spread mass exposures international diplomatic/legal crisis
👥 Personnel 46 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 8 [#13, #14, #20] Lab research, memetic studies and culinary experimentation staff included in staff_wages.
Memeticist / Analyst 6 [#13, #27, #3] Memetics, AI model oversight and monitoring analysts (included in staff_wages).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#1, #9, #23] Security and transport personnel for vaults, quarantine wards and secure transfers (included in staff_wages).
Cybersecurity Specialist / Digital Forensics 6 [#4, #2] Digital forensics and takedown specialists supporting leakage response (included in staff_wages and cybersecurity budget).
Medical Officer / Psychiatrist 3 [#10, #11, #9] Medical staff for acute amnestic treatments, long-term care and quarantine ward operations (included in staff_wages).
Engineer / Maintenance 3 [#14, #22] Facilities and equipment maintenance for labs, vaults and servers (included in staff_wages).
Administrative Staff 4 [#30, #17] Program administration, legal liaison and cover-story coordination support (included in staff_wages).
Site Director / Executive Staff 2 [#30, #19] Senior management and program oversight (included in staff_wages).
Culinary Specialist / Chef 2 [#14, #15] Chefs and culinary technicians to run controlled trials and ingredient procurement (included in staff_wages).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges, enabling a midpoint-driven estimate; large ranges on covert influence, emergency reserves and incident frequency create significant uncertainty, so medium confidence is appropriate.
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