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SCP-4613 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-4613
Expected annual
$12.0M
One-time setup
$7.7M
Annual recurring
$11.6M
Personnel
43
One-time setup costs are dominated by potential dedicated facilities and evidence archival (~$7.7M). Annual recurring costs are driven by staff wages, MTF rapid-response teams, legal/PR/telco retainers and incident budgets (~$11.6M/yr baseline), with scenario-driven spikes for major incidents.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.7M
Facilities $5.2M
[#22, #28, #29] Construction/upgrade of soundproof containment/holding rooms, optional dedicated containment wing/small reinforced building, and initial evidence/archive storage (initial archival infrastructure).
Equipment $1.5M
[#5, #6, #8, #14, #15, #17] Purchase of tactical/response vehicles fleet, portable command center hardware and secure comms installs, RF jamming / Faraday inventory, initial crowd-control hardware, PPE (headsets/etc.), and CCTV/drone fleet upgrades.
Software Development $400K
[#1] One-time development of social-media scraping, NLP classifiers, geotag/event clustering and alert integration.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $300K
[#19] Lab buildout and specialized equipment for memetic/psych research and experiments.
Audio Detection Development $125K
[#16] Development of trained speech-recognition/phrase-spotting models and integration for live audio detection.
Celebrity Interaction One Time $100K
[#12] One-off costs associated with contacting/transporting/interacting with SCP-4613-1 (appearance fees, transport, security) for a single event.
Data Indexing Initial $10K
[#2] Initial indexing/ingest of archived social media posts/media for forensic indices.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $11.6M/yr
Staff Wages $5.9M/yr
[#3, #4, #19, #27] Salaries for 24 MTF rapid-response operators (~$3.6M), 9 24/7 monitoring analysts (~$810k), research team salaries (PI + staff, ~$1.0M), and IT/security personnel portion (~$500k).
Cover Story And Legal $1.2M/yr
[#9, #10, #12, #20] Legal retainer and rapid counsel (~$500k), PR/cover-story standing capabilities (~$500k), celebrity liaison retainer (~$100k), and ethics/oversight review budgets (~$100k).
Incident Operational Budgets $1.0M/yr
[#25, #14] Flexible per-incident budget covering overtime, emergency lodging, ad-hoc rentals, and deployment costs (also covers per-incident crowd-control deployments).
Research And Monitoring $846K/yr
[#1, #2, #6, #16, #18, #26] Ongoing social-media scraping/cloud compute/storage (~$144k), cloud/hot index costs (~$144k), satellite/secure comms (~$72k), audio-detection compute (~$36k), data-forensics / takedown operations (~$250k), and counter-meme/campaign operations (~$200k).
Facilities Maintenance $505K/yr
[#22, #28, #29] Annual maintenance, security, utilities and audits for containment rooms and any dedicated facility; includes archival facility upkeep.
Payments Compensation $500K/yr
[#11] Annual reserve for reimbursements/compensation to affected businesses and civilians.
Insurance And Reserve $300K/yr
[#24] Insurance premiums and running reserve contributions for liability exposure.
Telco Coordination Retainer $300K/yr
[#7] Standing retainer to telecom providers to enable rapid targeted service suspension.
It Security Tools $250K/yr
[#27] Recurring tooling & platform costs for privileged-access controls, auditing, and insider-threat mitigation.
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#5, #13] Vehicle operating costs, fuel, maintenance and driver/secure-transport operational budget (annual).
Training And Exercises $200K/yr
[#23] Annual tabletop and live exercises with telcos, police, PR, and MTFs.
Community Liaison $200K/yr
[#30] Stipends and liaison budgets for local police, emergency services and community outreach.
Medical And Psych Support $100K/yr
[#21] Counseling and medical/psychological support program for exposed staff and civilians.
Surveillance Maintenance $50K/yr
[#17] Maintenance, licensing and telemetry costs for CCTV, drones and surveillance equipment.
Supplies And Consumables $20K/yr
[#15] Replacement PPE, consumables, and small equipment replacement.
Evidence Storage Audit $20K/yr
[#29] Annual storage, auditing and chain-of-custody management for archived evidence/media.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $11.6M/yr
64.0% probability / year
Normal, uneventful operational year with no major incidents; regular monitoring, retainers, training and expected incident budgets only.
routine monitoring no major public incidents regular training/exercises
🚨 Minor Incident $11.8M/yr
30.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
One or a few localized SCP-4613 events requiring telco outages, per-incident legal/PR response and compensation payouts.
localized event(s) rapid telco suspension limited public exposure
🚨 Major Incident $13.6M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Larger urban or multi-site events requiring extended outages, significant PR/legal action, expanded MTF deployments and larger compensation payouts.
major urban sector outbreak extended service suspensions multi-site coordination
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $31.6M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$20.0M vs baseline
Nationwide or high-profile event(s) forcing large-scale containment, emergency facility activation, heavy litigation, and major public-relations crisis.
nationwide spread high-profile public casualties prolonged legal/PR fallout
👥 Personnel 43 total
Role Count Notes
Monitoring Analyst 9 [#3] 24/7 monitoring analysts (3 per shift × 3 shifts).
MTF Operator / Rapid-response Agent 24 [#4] 2–4 teams of ~8 operators each assumed (mid-range 24 operators).
Research Scientist 6 [#19] PI + research staff for memetic/psych studies (salaries included in research budget).
IT / Security Engineer 4 [#27] Privileged-access and insider-threat personnel included in IT/security staffing.
📋 Confidence Notes
Notes provide detailed line-item ranges for nearly every cost driver, enabling a reasonable mid-range estimate; uncertainty remains in incident frequency, choice to build dedicated facilities, and per-incident telco/legal payouts, so confidence is not high.
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