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SCP-3768 Safe ✓ high confidence
SCP-3768
Expected annual
$995K
One-time setup
$246K
Annual recurring
$979K
Personnel
7
One-time setup of archival, RF capture and suppression tooling is ~$246,000; annual operations are ~$979,300/yr driven primarily by staff wages (research, sysadmin, security) and legal/digital suppression costs.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $246K
Webcrawler Development $150K
[#2] Development and initial deployment of webcrawler "7-ORFEO" and takedown/expunge tooling (one-time development/integration).
Facilities $25K
[#6] Faraday-shielded listening/experiment room installation and associated installation labor (antenna/room installation portion of #6).
Onboarding And Clearance $25K
[#10] Initial background checks and clearance processing for personnel who will access 5/3768 materials.
Vehicle Purchase $25K
[#14] Purchase of vehicle for material transport and field support within allowable 500 km range.
Equipment $20K
[#1, #5, #7, #13] Secure paper cabinet/vault and sensors (#1), radio hardware and backups (#5), initial storage server (#7), specimen refrigerator/cold cabinet unit (#13).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $500
[#11] Initial procurement and professional mounting/preservation of seven bee specimens and related specimen prep.
Permits And Licenses $500
[#18] Initial biohazard permits and regulatory fees for acquiring/shipping insect specimens.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $979K/yr
Staff Wages $600K/yr
[#8, #9, #3] Salaries/benefits/overhead for 2 researchers, 1 sysadmin, 1 records custodian (#8), security staff (2 guards) (#9), and ongoing webcrawler/dev support staffing component (#3 staff portion).
Cover Story And Legal $230K/yr
[#4, #16, #17] Digital suppression/legal takedown team and associated costs (#4), PR/cover-story and information control (#16), FOIA/legal reserve for public requests and contested suppression (#17).
Research And Monitoring $107K/yr
[#15, #7] Annual research program for audio analysis and extradimensional study (#15) and ongoing archival storage/backup ops for continuous audio capture (#7 recurring storage).
Supplies And Consumables $12K/yr
[#12, #13, #10, #18, #21] Ongoing specimen replacement/preservation supplies and PPE (#12), refrigeration energy/consumables (#13), annual training refreshers (#10), biohazard disposal/compliance (#18), and miscellaneous supplies/office overhead (#21).
Webcrawler Hosting $10K/yr
[#3] Hosting, bandwidth, cloud server costs and modest scraping bandwidth for 7-ORFEO (recurring hosting/bandwidth).
Contingency Fund $10K/yr
[#20] Insurance, contingency and rapid incident response fund for emergency contractors, disclosure remediation or emergency containment.
Logistics And Transport $5K/yr
[#14] Vehicle fuel, maintenance and field transport support (recurring).
Equipment Maintenance $5K/yr
[#19] Periodic calibration, maintenance and replacement reserve for RF equipment, servers, recorders, antennas and radios.
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $979K/yr
90.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine suppression, monitoring, research and maintenance.
routine operations scheduled research normal suppression activity
🚨 Minor Incident $1.1M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$75K vs baseline
Localized public leak or mirror proliferation requiring emergency takedown, short-term legal fees and added contractor hours.
accidental public disclosure minor mirror proliferation targeted researcher post
🚨 Major Suppression Scaleup $1.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Widespread leak, contested litigation, refusal of platforms to comply; rapid scale-up of legal, PR and paid-delisting operations and specialist contractors.
large-scale public exposure litigation or subpoena platform noncompliance
👥 Personnel 7 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 2 [#8] Audio/linguistics/anomalous media analysts; full-time staff as described in note #8.
Sysadmin 1 [#8] Responsible for webcrawler/recording infrastructure and logs.
Records Custodian 1 [#8] Custodian for the single paper SCP-3768-A document and archive handling.
Webcrawler Engineer / DevOps 1 [#3] Ongoing webcrawler operations and incident handling staffing component from note #3.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 2 [#9] Two Level-2 guards for archive and equipment room as incremental guarding staff.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item estimates for capital and recurring costs; quantities, staffing and operational needs are well-described, allowing a high-confidence consolidation.
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