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SCP-3880 Keter/Uncontained ? low confidence
SCP-3880
Expected annual
$5.5M
One-time setup
$4.4M
Annual recurring
$5.4M
Personnel
25
One-time program setup and specialist engagements drive multi-million dollar upfront costs (notably thaumaturgy lab conversion and legal/contractor spends); recurring costs are dominated by personnel, cloud streaming/GPU inference, obfuscation/account maintenance, and an annual reserve for disaster response.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $4.4M
Facilities $1.3M
[#9, #13] Lab conversion/secure ritual chamber and short-term containment/safehouse fit-out (mid-range estimates combined).
Emergency Legal Reserve $1.1M
[#24] One-time emergency legal war chest for retrospective liabilities / litigation (mid-range reserve).
Legal Retainer $600K
[#7] Retained counsel and negotiation budget to pressure platforms (one-time retainer, mid-range of estimates).
Contractor Engagement $600K
[#8] Budget for hiring private cyber/content-moderation contractors per major engagement (single-engagement mid-range).
Network Forensics Operation $275K
[#10] One-off network forensics / subpoenas / metadata procurement operation (mid-range per major op).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $262K
[#2, #3] Generative audio training & development (one-time R&D) plus content library production (studio/time/licenses).
Field Investigation Campaign $150K
[#11] Cost for an online infiltration/PI campaign or moderate multi-region field investigation (mid-range).
Automation Software Development $75K
[#5] One-time development of orchestration/restreaming/moderation automation (developer time and initial tooling).
Equipment $48K
[#18, #19] Secure archival vault/setup and agent PPE/noise-cancelling equipment and field outfitting (one-time purchases).
Account Acquisition Initial $30K
[#4] Initial purchase/verification of disposable SIMs/VoIP numbers and account creation for ~1,000 accounts (mid-range).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.4M/yr
Staff Wages $2.8M/yr
[#6, #9, #12, #14, #15, #23] Consolidated annual salaries and benefits across social-media analysts, thaumaturgy specialists, MTF roster standby, research staff, medical/counseling staff, and admin for a dedicated program (mid-range consolidated estimate from item #23).
Reserve Fund Annual Allocation $1.0M/yr
[#21] Annual allocation to a reserve fund for large-scale weather disaster response and large amnestic/repair operations (maintain $1M+ reserve; annual provisioning).
Streaming And Cloud Compute $492K/yr
[#1, #2, #5] Streaming VM/CDN egress and realtime GPU inference costs for generative audio, plus automation maintenance (annualized mid-range).
Research And Monitoring $378K/yr
[#6, #14, #22] Analytics software and tooling, longitudinal study ongoing costs, and specialized meteorological data feeds/analyst time (combined annual recurring).
Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr
[#7, #16, #24] Ongoing legal/notice costs, amnestic/cover-up contingency baseline and PR/press remediation budget (annual contingency baseline).
Public Relations $180K/yr
[#17] Ongoing paid-content/seeded restreams and influencer subsidies to shape search results (monthly campaigns annualized).
Facilities Maintenance $110K/yr
[#20] Energy/facilities overhead margin for servers, labs, and containment spaces (annual 10–25% margin applied to compute/lab budgets; mid-range).
Logistics And Transport $60K/yr
[#4, #11, #12] Ongoing travel, shipment of burner SIMs/equipment replacements, and routine field investigation logistics (annualized).
Account Maintenance $60K/yr
[#4] Ongoing account replacement, phone/VoIP/SMS costs and proxy/VPN services (annualized replacement budget).
Supplies And Consumables $50K/yr
[#9, #19] Consumables for thaumaturgy experiments, protective materials and replacement PPE for agents (annual consumables).
Archival Storage $5K/yr
[#18] Annual storage/maintenance for archived chat logs, transcripts and audiovisual evidence (redundant secure storage).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.4M/yr
87.0% probability / year
Normal year of monitoring, obfuscation and incremental operations with no major public incidents.
no major storms tied to public fatalities steady streaming/monitoring operations routine account churn and small takedowns
🚨 Minor Incident $5.5M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline
Localized public incident linked to a stream (few fatalities or notable media attention) requiring targeted remediation and limited MTF/amnestic action.
small-scale storm-related fatalities or injuries local media attention requiring targeted amnestics
🚨 Major Weather Event $7.9M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Major storm event tied to SCP activity with widespread impact requiring large-scale disaster response and major amnestic/legal operations.
storm causing dozens–hundreds of casualties widespread infrastructure damage tied to anomalous storms
🚨 Targeted Take Down Operation $8.4M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Active high-cost campaign to locate and detain PoI-60413 and forcibly remove/neutralize the stream (contractors, covert ops, advanced thaumaturgy attempts).
definitive PoI lead decision to execute high-intensity takedown/covert intervention
👥 Personnel 25 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Thaumaturgist 4 [#9] Specialist thaumaturgy researchers for ward analysis and ritual operations (salaries included in staff_wages).
Research Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer 4 [#2, #3] Generative audio modelers and audio engineers for content library and realtime inference (salaries included in staff_wages).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 [#12] Field-ready MTF operators for deployments and extractions; roster maintained as part of personnel costs.
Research Analyst / Social Media Analyst 5 [#6] Continuous social-media monitoring, trend detection, and intelligence fusion (salaries included in staff_wages).
Engineer / DevOps 2 [#1, #5] Streaming/cloud operations, orchestration, and bot maintenance staff (salaries included in staff_wages).
Medical Officer / Counselor 1 [#15] On-call medical and counseling support for field teams and research subjects (salaries included in staff_wages).
Administrative Staff 1 [#23] Program administration, legal liaison scheduling and procurement support (salaries included in staff_wages).
📋 Confidence Notes
High variance and many wide ranges in analyst estimates (notably thaumaturgy, legal/covert ops, contractor engagements and weather-event response). Many costs are conditional on operational posture; therefore point estimates are low-confidence and should be treated as order-of-magnitude planning figures.
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