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SCP-4762 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-4762
Expected annual
$246.4M
One-time setup
$1.3B
Annual recurring
$240.2M
Personnel
38
One-time establishment and reserve costs are dominated by a billion-dollar contingency reserve and major mission-control / interstellar construction; annual costs are driven by ongoing interstellar asset operations, data-recovery contingency, and various ongoing containment programs (amnestic support, forensic staffing, covert operations).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.3B
Contingency Reserve $1.0B
[#22] One-time contingency reserve for cosmological-scale escalation and rapid scale-up.
Legal Litigation Reserve $100.0M
[#29] One-time insurance / litigation reserve for potential settlements and legal risk mitigation.
Facilities $96.5M
[#5, #19, #21] Includes secure quarantine vault build-outs (6 sites), high-assurance communications ground-station construction/lease, and mission control / simulation facility construction.
Equipment $28.0M
[#2, #4, #8, #11, #14, #25, #26] Capital purchase of replacement devices for targets, rapid-response team setup (vehicles/kit), honeypot hardware, body-double production infrastructure, amnestic deployment vans/stockpile setup, destruction equipment, and alternate/analog infrastructure pilot.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $28.0M
[#6, #9, #13] Forensic reverse-engineering lab buildout, cybersecurity/AI R&D commitment, and amnestic R&D/trials/production setup.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $240.2M/yr
Interstellar Asset Ops $100.0M/yr
[#20] Ongoing operations of existing deep-space/interstellar assets and mission operations baseline.
Research And Monitoring $43.0M/yr
[#8, #9, #17] Ongoing honeypot monitoring/analysis, cybersecurity anomaly-detection support, and data-recovery / telescope/experiment replacement contingency funds.
Cover Story And Legal $30.0M/yr
[#10, #12, #18, #23] Ongoing legal/cover-up apparatus, media manipulation/PR operations, public-health-style cover capability, and covert payments to partners/institutions.
Mission Control Ops $30.0M/yr
[#21] Staffing and operational costs for mission control and simulation facilities supporting interstellar assets.
Staff Wages $10.2M/yr
[#1, #7, #27, #28] Salaries for intelligence analysts/DB staff, forensic/reverse-engineering personnel, social-engineering/liaison teams, and internal oversight/compliance staff.
Logistics And Transport $6.0M/yr
[#4, #24] Rapid-response operational readiness and global training/travel budget for field ops and liaison officers.
Medical Care For Long Term $6.0M/yr
[#15] Long-term inpatient care for catatonic or long-term affected subjects (program-level estimate for ~10 patients).
Psych Rehab And Monitoring $6.0M/yr
[#16] Psychological rehabilitation, monitoring, and periodic amnestic boosters for recovered subjects.
Body Double Upkeep $3.0M/yr
[#11] Annual maintenance, training, and upkeep of body-double roster and identity-management program.
Device Maintenance Replacement $3.0M/yr
[#3] Ongoing device maintenance, spare hardware, secure OS updates, and field technicians (15–25% of capital/year estimate).
Supplies And Consumables $1.4M/yr
[#14] Per-operation amnestic deployment costs and consumables (baseline per-year operations assumed).
Containment Training Exercises $1.0M/yr
[#30] Annual tabletop and live drills to test seizures, honeypots, amnestic deployment, and PR responses.
Facilities Maintenance $600K/yr
[#5] Operating costs for secure quarantine vaults / site-level maintenance (estimated $100k/site/year for 6 sites).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $240.2M/yr
95.5% probability / year
Normal year with standard monitoring, device maintenance, amnestic operations, and interstellar asset upkeep; no major breaches or cosmological escalations.
no_breach routine_operations standard_incident_rate
🚨 Minor Incident $245.2M/yr
4.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Localized containment incident: several targeted device seizures, additional amnestic operations, and expanded PR/legal activity.
targeted_breach localized_media_exposure
🚨 Cosmological Escalation $1.4B/yr
0.5% probability / year +$1.2B vs baseline
Severe escalation requiring use of contingency reserve and rapid global/interstellar scale-up (emergency missions, mass operations, large settlements/payouts).
major_breach evidence_of_cosmological_threat mass_public_exposure
👥 Personnel 38 total
Role Count Notes
Intelligence Analyst / Database admin 8 [#1] Personnel to maintain target identification and monitoring database; 6–10 analysts estimated in notes.
Research Scientist / Malware Analyst / Cryptographer 16 [#7] Forensic reverse-engineering, cryptography, and anomalistics staff; notes estimate ~12–20 FTEs.
Social-Engineering / Public-Safety Liaison Officer 6 [#27] Liaison and social-engineering teams to coordinate with governments and institutions.
Internal Oversight / Compliance / Auditor 5 [#28] Compliance officers, auditors, and documentation managers.
Administrative Staff 3 [#1, #28] Support staff for admin, scheduling, and record management.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are drawn directly from analyst ranges but many line items have wide ranges and scale assumptions (number of targets, frequency of incidents, and interstellar mission decisions), so totals are approximate and sensitive to program scale.
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