SCP-4802 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-4802
Expected annual
$24.3M
One-time setup
$37.9M
Annual recurring
$22.4M
Personnel
38
One-time setup is dominated by procurement and installation of Miller-Harwell arrays and R&D/lab buildout (~$34.6M). Recurring costs are driven by media remediation, research & monitoring, capture teams, legal/PR and amnestic programs (~$22.39M/year).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $37.9M
Equipment $17.8M
[#1, #6, #10, #15, #16, #20] Procurement of Miller-Harwell units (300 units @ $50,000 = $15,000,000), 10 portable rapid-deploy kits ($300,000), regional surveillance sensor deployments (5 regions @ $200k = $1,000,000), initial archive-processing labor/software ($300,000), broadcast-filter development/tooling ($1,000,000), staff headsets and peripheral gear ($150,000).
Facilities $9.8M
[#2, #7, #14, #20, #26, #8] Per-site array installation (50 sites @ $40k/site = $2,000,000), 5 sound-isolation rooms ($750,000), stockpile build/cold-chain ($2,000,000), site retrofits ($2,500,000), capital for region-wide mass-intervention planning/deployment ($2,000,000), initial specialized aviaries (10 @ $60k = $600,000).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $7.0M
[#3, #23] Classified R&D, prototyping, safety testing and production tooling ($5,000,000) and initial lab/anechoic chamber and specialized research equipment ($2,000,000).
Mass Intervention Planning $2.0M
[#26] Up-front capital for contingency staging / planning for region-wide interventions (command, comms, staging).
Broadcast Filter Development $1.0M
[#16] Development and initial deployment of broadcast-safe audio filters and integration tooling (estimated).
Media Sanitation Initial $300K
[#15] One-time bulk archive remediation / initial sweep for Foundation assets (1,000 hours @ ~$300/hr = $300,000).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $22.4M/yr
Archive Remediation $5.0M/yr
[#17] Ongoing large-scale public archive remediation and editorial replacement work (national-scale remediation budget; mid-range estimate).
Research And Monitoring $3.8M/yr
[#10, #13, #23] Ongoing surveillance analytics and compute (~$250,000), post-amnestic psychiatric follow-up (1,000 cases @ ~$500 = $500,000), and recurring research program (immunology/audio/neuroscience) budget (~$3,000,000/year).
Staff Wages $3.4M/yr
[#9, #12, #10, #21] Salaries for capture/mitigation teams (regional), medical admin staff for amnestic administration, monitoring analysts, and limited operations/admin salaries.
Cover Story And Legal $2.5M/yr
[#16, #18] Annual retainer/monitoring for broadcast partners (~$500,000) plus ongoing legal/PR/cover operations (~$2,000,000).
Mass Intervention Reserve $2.0M/yr
[#26] Annual reserve for potential small-to-medium mass interventions (mobilization, temporary clinics, targeted amnestic campaigns).
Facilities Maintenance $1.8M/yr
[#4, #5, #7, #20] Power and continuous operation ($180,000), array maintenance and lifecycle replacement (approx $1,500,000/year), HVAC/maintenance of acoustic rooms and ongoing training/retrofit upkeep ($150,000).
Supplies And Consumables $1.3M/yr
[#6, #8, #11, #12, #14, #15] Portable kit consumables/rotation ($10,000), aviary consumables and care ($100,000), amnestic procurement baseline (1,000 doses @ $500 = $500,000), per-treatment medical supplies portion ($400,000), stockpile rotation ($200,000), ongoing media ingestion processing ($50,000).
Indemnity Fund $1.0M/yr
[#24] Annual reserve for lawsuits, settlements, whistleblower payouts, and legal contingencies.
Logistics And Transport $500K/yr
[#9, #12, #26] Vehicles, field logistics, and short-notice transport for teams and amnestic/mobile clinics (operational transport budget).
Public Health Liaison $400K/yr
[#22] Covert hospital contracts, false-diagnosis protocols, and payments to health providers to manage inadvertent civilian treatments.
Records Management $300K/yr
[#21] Hardened, classified incident reporting and records system operations, backups, and audits.
Coordination And Permits $250K/yr
[#19] Liaison, permits, formal agreements, compensations and occasional payments to wildlife agencies/local governments.
Productivity Loss And Hr $200K/yr
[#25] HR hours, retraining, morale programs, and productivity loss mitigation at sites.
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $22.4M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing containment, monitoring, routine treatments, and media remediation at the assumed program scale.
no major new outbreaks only routine detections and treatments
🚨 Minor Incident $24.9M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Localized outbreak requiring regional surge: extra capture deployments, increased amnestic distribution, targeted media remediation and legal actions.
regional cluster of active transmitters concert/venue exposure
🚨 Metropolitan Mass Event $97.4M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$75.0M vs baseline
Large metropolitan exposure requiring mass-intervention: city-scale amnestic clinics, blackout/coverage operations, extensive archival and broadcast sanitation, and emergency capture.
major city-targeting SCP-4802-1 mass media propagation / stadium/event outbreak
👥 Personnel 38 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent (capture teams) 20 [#9] Five regional teams (approx. 4 operators/team) for capture and field mitigation; salaries included in staff_wages.
Research Scientist 6 [#3, #23] PI-level and technical research staff for acoustics/neuroscience and mitigation R&D; salaries allocated to staff_wages/research program.
Medical Officer 4 [#12, #11] Physicians/nurses for amnestic administration and post-treatment observation; salaries and medical labor accounted in staff_wages and supplies.
Analyst / ML Engineer 4 [#10] Surveillance and acoustic analytics staff for detection/modeling; salaries included in staff_wages and monitoring budgets.
Administrative / Program Support 4 [#21, #18] Operations, records management, legal/PR liaison support staff; salaries included in staff_wages and cover/legal budgets.
📋 Confidence Notes
Wide input ranges, unknown national scale of exposures, and many costs scale nonlinearly with chosen mitigation aggressiveness; estimates use mid-range assumptions (50 sites, 5 regions, 10 portable kits, 1,000 baseline treatments/year).
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