SCP-4000 — [REDACTED PER PROTOCOL 4000-ESHU]

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SCP-4000 Keter ~ medium confidence

[REDACTED PER PROTOCOL 4000-ESHU]

Expected annual

$12.8M

One-time setup

$45.8M

Annual recurring

$9.8M

Personnel

One-time setup is approximately $45.8M driven primarily by a purpose-built containment wing, BSL-3/4 fit-out and per-site sealing/remediation; recurring operations run about $9.85M/year, driven by dedicated personnel, legal/containment operations and amnestic production.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $45.8M

Facilities $26.8M

[#1, #4, #5] Includes construction and fit-out of a secure underground containment & research wing ($25,000,000), per-site physical sealing & sensor arrays for 10 sites ($1,250,000 total), and structural remediation/hazard-proofing for 10 chimneys ($500,000 total).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $11.1M

[#2, #8] BSL-3/BSL-4 laboratory and small GMP production suite fit-out ($10,000,000) plus initial Type-G viral-amnestic batch and validated cold-chain storage ($1,050,000).

Contingency Reserve $5.0M

[#25] Emergency reserve fund for large-scale breach, mass amnestic roll-out, legal settlements and large cross-border operations (rapid-access fund).

Replacement Upgrade Capex $1.0M

[#29] Next-cycle capital refresh for freezers, HVAC, lab instruments and sensors (representative one-time $1,000,000; amortized on a multi-year cycle).

Equipment $850K

[#6, #7, #10] Nomenclative-diversity generator dev+hardware ($300,000), secure records redaction/expurgation tools ($150,000), and initial expedition/field equipment purchase ($400,000).

Training Program Setup $800K

[#9] Development of immersive training modules, simulator hardware, curriculum design and instructor training for 4000-SEP.

Site Survey And Mapping $300K

[#3] One-time mapping & site survey of known chimneys/portals: field teams, lidar/drone mapping, geotechnical and legal/title research for 10 sites.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $9.8M/yr

Staff Wages $3.9M/yr

[#11, #12, #13] Salaries + benefits for dedicated MTF (12 members; $1,404,000/yr), research & memetics staff (10 FTEs; $1,820,000/yr) and security/monitoring staffing (8 FTEs + contractor monitoring; $724,000/yr).

Cover Story And Legal $1.4M/yr

[#17, #28] Information containment, takedowns, legal retainers and PR/disinformation assets ($1,000,000/yr) plus international legal retainers and country-specific compliance costs ($400,000/yr).

Facilities Maintenance $850K/yr

[#19, #22] Utilities, facility maintenance & insurance for containment wing and labs ($800,000/yr) plus secure archive and artifact containment maintenance ($50,000/yr).

Amnestic Production And Restocking $750K/yr

[#15] Ongoing Type-G viral-amnestic manufacturing, QC, batch release, disposables and cold-chain logistics (assumed midpoint $750,000/yr).

Black Ops Cover Budget $500K/yr

[#27] Off-books expenditures for covert logistics, hush money, fabricated records and front-company operations.

Research And Monitoring $400K/yr

[#14] Annual mandated expedition (minimum one successful expedition per year) — planning, transport, MTF+research team pay/overtime, medevac insurance, consumables, sample transport and quarantine.

Logistics And Transport $300K/yr

[#23, #30] Helicopter/airlift retainer for emergencies and expeditions ($200,000/yr) plus logistics/shipping and secure transport of artifacts and personnel ($100,000/yr).

Long Term Disquisitional Rehabilitation $300K/yr

[#26] Long-term multi-month therapy, identity rebuilding and ongoing monitoring for those amnesticized and released under controlled conditions.

Supplies And Consumables $250K/yr

[#24] PPE replacement, batteries, sensors, lab reagents, memetic-safe printing materials and specimen transport consumables.

Medical Clinic And Followup $200K/yr

[#16] Amnestic administration, clinical follow-up, hospitalization/recovery and disquisitional rehabilitation therapy for released individuals.

It And Data Security $200K/yr

[#20] Ongoing data security, encrypted backups, intrusion detection, logging and compliance audits to enforce nomenclative protocols.

Psychological Monitoring Programs $200K/yr

[#21] Psychological screening, monitoring and memetic-resilience programs including regular psych evals and staff rotation training.

Public Facing Cover Research Budgets $200K/yr

[#32] Grants, fake journals and funding for plausible-deniability cover studies and publications.

Forensic Identity And Expurgation $150K/yr

[#18] Forensic identity work, expurgation operations, replacement identity creation and tool maintenance ($100,000/yr + $50,000/yr).

Staff Replacement And Attrition $150K/yr

[#33] Recruiting, onboarding and backfilling specialized personnel lost to contamination, injury or reassignment.

Mortuary And Biohazard Disposal $50K/yr

[#31] Mortuary services, biohazard disposal and cleanup fund for recovered bodies and breached sites.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $9.8M/yr

82.5% probability / year

Normal year with no major incidents; routine operations, one expedition, scheduled production and maintenance.

no breaches routine expedition only standard staffing and production

🚨 Minor Incident $14.8M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

Localized nomenclative leak or single-site breach requiring additional amnestic deployment, legal takedowns and expanded rehab.

localized breach limited public exposure targeted legal/amnestic response

🚨 Major Breach $59.8M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Large multi-site or regional nomenclative breach requiring mass amnestic distribution, international operations and major legal expenses.

multi-site exposure significant public documentation cross-border response

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $259.8M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$250.0M vs baseline

Widespread, high-casualty nomenclative exposure or public revelation triggering mass legal settlements, global operations and extended remediation.

nation-scale exposure public/media cascade large-scale litigation and mass amnestization

👥 Personnel 30 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	12	[#11] Dedicated MTF & rapid-response unit (12 members) included in staff wages.
Research Scientist / Memeticist / Linguist	10	[#12] Research staff & memetics/language specialists (10 FTEs) included in staff wages.
Security Officer / Regional Guard / Monitoring	8	[#13] Security & on-site monitoring staffing equivalent to 8 FTEs included in staff wages.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are derived directly from analyst line items and are internally consistent; uncertainty remains around breach probabilities, scale of catastrophic events, and whether viral-amnestic production is maintained in-house versus outsourced, so confidence is medium.

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