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SCP-4028 Keter ? low confidence
SCP-4028
Expected annual
$11.7M
One-time setup
$67.8M
Annual recurring
$11.0M
Personnel
52
Initial capital/setup is estimated at $67,800,000 one-time, driven largely by contingency reserves, archival infrastructure, and initial research programs; steady-state operations are about $11,000,000/year, driven primarily by specialized personnel, legal/cover operations, and ongoing monitoring/research.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $67.8M
Containment Escalation Contingency $50.0M
[#29] Worst-case global cultural cascade contingency reserve (large-scale mobilization, international operations).
Emergency Contingency Fund $10.0M
[#22] Standby reserve for large-scale cultural incidents and rapid response operations.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $4.0M
[#4, #24] One-time bot/model development (I/O-ISMETA, I/O-MANDELA) and seed funding for long-term research program (modeling, datasets, pilot studies, lab setup).
Facilities $1.5M
[#9] Hardened offsite/climate-controlled physical and digital vault initial construction and hardening.
Initial Acquisitions $1.0M
[#14] Seed fund for purchase/acquisition of rare editions and replacements (initial purchases to build canonical masters).
Reputation Buyout Seed $1.0M
[#28] Initial lump-sum reputation/academic buyouts or grants to influence key actors as a setup/campaign seed.
Equipment $300K
[#8] Forensic scanning and archival imaging equipment (high-resolution scanners, spectral imaging, microfilm readers, secure copying stations).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $11.0M/yr
Staff Wages $7.0M/yr
[#1, #2, #3] Salaries/benefits for specialist teams: MTF Rho-1 (12 FTE philologists/academics), MTF Mu-4 (20 FTE digital/NLP/forensics), MTF Gamma-5 (20 FTE covert/PR/legal operatives).
Research And Monitoring $1.6M/yr
[#5, #7, #10, #15, #20, #21, #24] Bot operations & compute, multi-language adaptation, data storage/snaps, scholarly restoration per-text work, online-community monitoring, training and ongoing research program funding.
Cover Story And Legal $1.2M/yr
[#16, #17, #18, #23, #25, #28] Legal retainer/takedowns, covert cover-up/counter-intel funding, public library/retailer cooperation, insurance/liability, cultural-liaison payments, and recurring reputation buyout funding.
Logistics And Transport $425K/yr
[#12, #13, #19] Physical retrieval and removal, destruction/disposal per-incident costs, and travel & lodging pool for emergency worldwide deployments.
Facilities Maintenance $200K/yr
[#9, #26] Maintenance, power, rotation, and HVAC/overhead for offsite air-gapped digital vaults and climate-controlled storage; energy/facilities overhead.
Cybersecurity And Incident Response $200K/yr
[#11] SOC operations, threat-hunting, hardening against adversarial manipulation, legal/forensic readiness.
Journal Subscriptions And Licensing $150K/yr
[#6] Institutional access and licensing for paywalled academic journals and databases required for full-text analysis and takedown requests.
Acquisitions And Replacements $100K/yr
[#14] Ongoing purchase/acquisition budget for replacements and rare-edition procurement for restoration comparisons.
Supplies And Consumables $30K/yr
[#27] Small equipment, consumables and field kits (cameras, storage media, protective gear, archival supplies).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $11.0M/yr
79.0% probability / year
Normal year with steady-state monitoring, routine restoration, and no large-scale cultural cascade.
routine detections small-scale restorations ongoing monitoring and legal actions
🚨 Minor Incident $12.0M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline
One or more localized incidents requiring increased field operations, legal action, and targeted restoration campaigns.
cluster of adjacency incidents medium-scale public resistance spikes in takedown/legal actions
🚨 Major Cascade $61.0M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Rapid high-volume adjacency hops across major world canons requiring multinational mobilization and use of contingency reserves.
widespread cross-canonical spread high public exposure multiple simultaneous institutional targets
👥 Personnel 52 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Philologist 12 [#1] MTF Rho-1 literary scholars, editors, philologists for text review and restoration.
Engineer / NLP Engineer / Digital Forensics 20 [#2] MTF Mu-4 developers, NLP engineers, digital-forensics staff to run bots and triage flags.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 20 [#3] MTF Gamma-5 covert ops, field retrieval, PR/cover authors, and legal liaison operators.
📋 Confidence Notes
Ranges in analyst estimates are wide, SCP is metafictional with uncertain incident frequency and tail risks; many costs (contingency, escalation) are scenario-driven and inherently speculative.
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