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SCP-3746 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-3746
Expected annual
$6.9M
One-time setup
$2.4M
Annual recurring
$6.8M
Personnel
67
Initial one-time setup/capital is approximately $2.36M, dominated by memetic lab and retrieval operations; annual recurring operations are approximately $6.81M/yr, dominated by wages for employing 67 affected subjects and administrative overhead.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.4M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M
[#9] One-time memetic research lab and instrumentation (containment-grade memetics suite).
Retrieval Operations $670K
[#6] One-time documented retrieval/containment operational costs for 67 cases (~$10k/op assumed).
Facilities $250K
[#11] Vault retrofit/secure corpse storage installation and structural modifications.
Relocation Moving Stipends $134K
[#5] One-time moving assistance stipends (~$1k–3k per subject; estimated total for relevant subjects).
Case Database Development $75K
[#20] One-time development of the centralized case management and memetic-flagging database.
Initial Amnestics $67K
[#1] Initial Class-C amnestic administration for 67 subjects (~$1,000/administration).
Digital Monitoring Development $50K
[#8] One-time development of web scraping/memetic filter systems and initial tooling.
Pathology Reserve $50K
[#10] Reserve for initial pathology/forensic handling, disposal and hazardous remains processing.
Staff Training Initial $50K
[#15] One-time curriculum and initial training for field teams/front company staff on SOPs and memetic hygiene.
Equipment $13K
[#7] Monitoring hardware and wearable sensors (67 devices at ~$200 each, device integration).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.8M/yr
Staff Wages $3.0M/yr
[#3] Wages + benefits + payroll overhead for employing 67 affected subjects at ~$45,500/yr each.
Insurance And Administrative Overhead $1.3M/yr
[#17] Insurance, HR, accounting, security staff for housing and labs; estimated ~30% overhead of recurring budget.
Research And Monitoring $634K/yr
[#7, #8, #9, #20] Recurring budgets: monitoring service & analyst time ($33,500), server/infra ($50,000), digital intelligence analysts & infra ($200,000), memetic research budget & staff ($300,000), DB maintenance ($50,000).
Contingency Reserve $600K/yr
[#19] Contingency fund for escalation/public incidents (recommended reserve 10–25%; conservative 10% used here).
Cover Story And Legal $400K/yr
[#12, #16] Legal/cover-up operations and communications/PR for front companies (~$200k legal + ~$200k cover/PR).
Housing And Lodging $360K/yr
[#5] Recurring secure housing costs for ~30% of cases requiring Foundation lodging (~20 subjects at ~$1,500/mo).
Psychiatric And Counseling $134K/yr
[#4] Routine psychiatric care and in-house counseling for 67 subjects (~$2,000/yr per subject).
Logistics And Transport $100K/yr
[#6] Recurring retrieval/containment operations budget for new incidents (field teams, travel, vehicles, overtime).
Followup Amnestics $50K/yr
[#2] Follow-up/higher-level amnestic administrations and inpatient monitoring reserve (planning conservative $50,000/yr).
Facilities Maintenance $40K/yr
[#11, #18] Vault and lab utilities/security and energy/IT for monitoring servers and HVAC (~$10k vault + $30k IT/energy).
Family Amnestics $35K/yr
[#13] Family amnestic administrations and follow-up psychological care (planning reserve ~$20k–50k/yr).
Supplies And Consumables $34K/yr
[#14] PPE, consumables, replacement sensors, pharmaceuticals (~$500/yr per subject).
Pathology Storage And Maintenance $20K/yr
[#10] Storage/maintenance for retained ossified remains and utilities/security for storage (~$2k per stored item scaled).
Staff Training Recurring $20K/yr
[#15] Recurring refreshers and new-hire training (~$20,000/yr).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.8M/yr
91.0% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year with routine containment, employment, monitoring, research, and administrative overhead only.
no major public incidents routine new cases only
🚨 Minor Incident $7.6M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$800K vs baseline
Localized public incident or a small cluster of attempts that require emergency retrievals, mass amnestic deployments, increased legal/PR action and pathology processing.
small-scale public attempted burials clustered seminar advertising or spread
🚨 Major Breach $9.3M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Significant spread of seminar/memetic vector or multiple public incidents requiring large-scale containment, mass amnestic campaigns, rapid research scale-up and staffing expansion.
widespread memetic dissemination mass-casualty or national media exposure
👥 Personnel 67 total
Role Count Notes
Employed Subject / Front Company Employee 67 Affected subjects employed as part of containment cover; count matches staff_wages line-item (67 subjects at ~$45,500/yr).
📋 Confidence Notes
Line-item estimates are based on explicit analyst figures and conservative assumptions (67 known cases). Uncertainty remains regarding incident frequency, numbers requiring Foundation housing, and the potential for memetic spread, so medium confidence is appropriate.
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