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SCP-3975 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-3975
Expected annual
$5.1M
One-time setup
$8.7M
Annual recurring
$4.7M
Personnel
12
One-time containment buildouts and contingency reserves total roughly $8.7M, while recurring annual operations—dominated by staff wages, MTF readiness, OREOSTOP operations, and legal/PR/embedded-agent overhead—run about $4.66M/year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $8.7M
Emergency Reserve $5.0M
[#20] Recommended emergency Masquerade / mass-response reserve.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $800K
[#7] Secure forensic/memetic research laboratory build-out (vaults, Faraday cages, climate control).
Legal Litigation Contingency $500K
[#6] One-off litigation or emergency legal fees.
Settlement Pool $500K
[#19] One-time reserve for settlements or larger medical/compensation payouts.
Oreostop Development $400K
[#5] Development & deployment of Alpha-59 / OREOSTOP infrastructure (servers, model tuning).
Corporate Contingency $300K
[#13] One-time corporate liaison/compensation contingency for Mondelēz/Christie responses.
International Response Contingency $300K
[#15] One-time major international response funding.
Pr Campaign Contingency $250K
[#12] Single large PR or narrative-management campaign contingency.
Secure Comms Equipment $125K
[#10] One-time purchase of encrypted comms hardware and secure mobile kits.
Ingestion Pipeline $125K
[#16] One-time ingestion pipeline & initial data engineering for propagation tracking.
Facilities $110K
[#9, #14] One-time storage racks/IT and mailroom monitoring equipment for major buildings.
Digitization Fleet Setup $100K
[#21] Fleet setup for rapid onsite digitization kits (portable scanners, secure laptops).
It Remediation One Time $100K
[#26] One-time IT remediation/patching after takedown operations as needed.
Forensic Software Setup $60K
[#24] One-time licensing/setup for forensic suites, OCR pipelines, template matching.
Training Setup $25K
[#2] One-time curriculum and memetic-safety certification development.
Equipment $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.7M/yr
Staff Wages $1.2M/yr
[#5, #8, #4] Salaries for research scientists, OREOSTOP analysts, medical/admin staff (non-embedded-agent staff).
Mtf Readiness $700K/yr
[#3] Maintaining Canada-capable Mobile Task Force readiness posture (equipment, training, standby costs).
Embedded Agent Program $600K/yr
[#1] Liaison and retention overhead for embedded Foundation agents in federal/provincial governments (retention, cover maintenance, admin).
Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr
[#6, #12] Ongoing legal takedown budgets and narrative/cover-story maintenance (paid takedowns, liaison).
Oreostop Ops $300K/yr
[#5] Ongoing OREOSTOP operations, cloud costs, continuous monitoring, and ops staff overhead (non-salary portion).
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#3, #15] Per-deployment travel and transport costs (domestic response trips, some international liaison travel).
Amnestic Program $150K/yr
[#4] Ongoing amnestic stockpile replenishment, QA, medical administration costs.
Facilities Maintenance $100K/yr
[#7] Ongoing secure lab maintenance, vault climate control, and physical evidence storage upkeep.
Training Refresher $100K/yr
[#2] Annual memetic-safety refresher courses and bilingual training for embedded staff and MTFs.
It Access Liaison $100K/yr
[#11] Fees, covert contracts, and technical liaison for privileged access to government networks.
Corporate Liaison $100K/yr
[#13] Annual retainer and ongoing corporate liaison work with implicated brands.
Psyops $100K/yr
[#27] Ongoing R&D and pilot deployment budgets for benign counter-memes and inoculation campaigns.
Language Consultancy $80K/yr
[#18] Bilingual contractors for French/English content management and replacement text.
It Remediation Recurring $75K/yr
[#26] Annual budget for covert IT remediation, website hardening, and small replacement work.
Research And Monitoring $50K/yr
[#8, #16, #27] Non-salary research budgets, memetic testing, pilot counter-meme trials, minor field studies.
Communications Services $50K/yr
[#10] Recurring secure comms service fees and crypto maintenance.
Printroom Monitoring $50K/yr
[#14] Annual staffing and inspections for mailroom/printshop monitoring in government buildings.
International Travel $50K/yr
[#15] Travel & liaison budgets for international spillover coordination.
Analytics Tooling $50K/yr
[#16] Tooling, storage, and subscription costs for propagation tracking and analytics.
Redaction And Amendment $50K/yr
[#17] Staff time and administrative costs to amend official records and archives.
Medical Followup $50K/yr
[#19] Routine medical monitoring and minor follow-up costs for amnestic recipients.
Third Party Reproduction $50K/yr
[#22] Outreach and covert agreements with regional printers and small publishers.
Archival Takedowns $50K/yr
[#28] Specialist takedowns and outreach to archive/mirror sites and enthusiast caches.
Evidence Management $40K/yr
[#9] Evidence storage, cataloguing, and controlled destruction logistics (routine volume).
Oversight And Audit $25K/yr
[#25] Internal audits, secure archival of incident logs, and governance reporting.
Supplies And Consumables $20K/yr
[#23] Gloves, evidence bags, tamper seals, forensic consumables.
Forensic Software Licenses $20K/yr
[#24] Recurring license fees and support for forensic suites and OCR tools.
Secure Lab Maintenance $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.7M/yr
78.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, periodic small deployments, and ongoing containment operations.
routine detections small local deployments regular takedowns
🚨 Minor Incident $5.7M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline
Localized viral spread requiring multiple deployments, larger takedown/legal effort, and targeted PR spend.
clustered workplace manifestations press exposure requiring amnestics and PR
🚨 Major Viral Outbreak $14.7M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
Widespread, rapid online/physical proliferation that breaches local containment and requires emergency mass response and large PR/amnestic campaigns.
nationwide viral spread broken Masquerade / public exposure
👥 Personnel 12 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 6 Dedicated memetics analysts/social psychologists (included in staff_wages) [#8].
OREOSTOP Analyst 3 Alpha-59 / web-monitoring analysts (included in staff_wages) [#5].
Medical Officer 1 On-call medic for amnestic administration and follow-up (included in staff_wages) [#4].
Administrative Staff 2 Admin/liaison support for evidence handling and coordination (included in staff_wages) [#9, #25].
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide many line-item ranges and clear containment drivers, but substantial ranges and discretionary contingency choices (reserve sizing, staffing counts) leave moderate uncertainty.
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