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SCP-5089 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-5089
Expected annual
$3.3M
One-time setup
$3.2M
Annual recurring
$3.2M
Personnel
16
Estimated one-time capital costs are approximately $3,208,000 driven by optional aircraft purchase and contingency reserves; recurring annual costs are approximately $3,238,400 driven primarily by on-call field team wages, an ongoing R&D program, and monthly retrieval operations/sensor subscriptions.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.2M
Helicopter Purchase $2.0M
[#7] Optional aerial asset purchase (helicopter) as an alternative to charter; $2,000,000 one-time estimate (includes basic acquisition/hangar costs).
Equipment $663K
[#2, #3, #5, #8, #10, #12, #15, #22, #26] Includes backup containment hardware ($5k), GPS trackers/hardware ($8k), rapid-response vehicles purchase ($200k), drone fleet ($120k), monitoring center setup equipment ($200k), field search equipment ($30k), archival outfitting ($15k), secure communications setup ($60k), digital forensics setup ($25k).
Incident Contingency Seed Reserve $250K
[#19] One-time incident response contingency fund (seed reserve) for search expansion, equipment replacement, emergency care.
Amnestics Emergency Reserve $200K
[#18] One-time emergency reserve for large amnestic/cover incidents; $200,000 seed reserve.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $60K
[#13] Portable contamination control and BSL bench setup; $60,000 one-time for portable decon + BSCs.
Facilities $35K
[#1] Reinforced storage/vault, tamper sensors, Faraday/EM isolation; $35,000 one-time for safe/installation and integration.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.2M/yr
Staff Wages $1.2M/yr
[#4, #10, #14, #15] Salaries and fully‑loaded costs: on‑call recontainment field team (~8 FTEs = $720k), monitoring center operators + sysadmin ($220k), lab lead + technician ($180k), conservator ($60k) included in payroll totals.
Research And Monitoring $1.1M/yr
[#14, #16, #20, #26] Ongoing lab testing consumables/services ($40k), translation/analysis retainer ($80k), baseline long‑term R&D program ($1,000,000/yr), digital forensics/licensing and compute ($15k/yr). Note: staff salaries for scientists are allocated to staff_wages.
Logistics And Transport $629K/yr
[#5, #6, #8, #9, #11, #25] Vehicle fuel/maintenance ($30k), helicopter charter ($144k/yr), drone parts/maintenance ($25k), commercial satellite imagery subscription ($50k), land access/leases/covert assets ($200k), monthly retrieval operational costs aggregate ($180k/yr).
Cover Story And Legal $175K/yr
[#18, #24] Amnestics/cover baseline ($100k/yr) and PR/legal retainer ($75k/yr).
Training Exercises $50K/yr
[#21] Regular MTF drills, tabletop exercises, and training travel/sim costs ($50k/yr).
Supplies And Consumables $23K/yr
[#2, #12, #13, #15] Replacement parts/spares ($1k/yr), field gear replacements/calibration ($5k/yr), decon consumables/waste disposal consumables ($12k/yr), archival scanning/maintenance ($5k/yr).
Psych Meme Safety $20K/yr
[#17] Psychological screening, counseling, and memetic safety training for staff ($20k/yr).
Secure Comms Maintenance $12K/yr
[#22] Ongoing secure communications, backups and maintenance ($12k/yr).
Hazardous Waste Disposal $12K/yr
[#23] Regulated disposal of contaminated PPE/consumables ($12k/yr).
Trackers Subscriptions $2K/yr
[#3] Satellite/GSM tracker subscriptions and comms uplink for trackers; $2,400/yr.
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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Helicopter Ops Maintenance $0/yr
[#7] $200,000/yr ops estimate applies only if helicopter is purchased; baseline assumes chartering so recurring cost set to $0 here.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.2M/yr
78.0% probability / year
Normal year with scheduled monthly recontainments carried out by the on‑call team and routine research/monitoring; no major incidents or purchases.
monthly_recontainment routine_analysis scheduled_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $3.3M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$75K vs baseline
A recoverable field incident that requires additional replacements, extra amnestic/PR actions, and modest emergency procurement during the year.
equipment_loss larger-than-expected_amnestic_use extended_local_search
🚨 Major Breach $4.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline
A large containment failure or civilian exposure requiring extensive search expansion, international coordination, significant legal/amnestic expenditure, and accelerated R&D scale‑up.
containment_failure civilian_exposure international_incident
👥 Personnel 16 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 5 [#4] Part of the on‑call recontainment field team; primary retrieval/security roles (subset of the 8 FTEs).
Team Leader / Senior MTF Agent 1 [#4] Senior operator/leader within the 8 FTE field team.
Field Technician 1 [#4] Technical support on field deployments (included in the 8 FTE estimate).
Research Scientist (field) 1 [#4] Scientist embedded with field team for on‑site processing (included in the 8 FTE estimate).
Monitoring Operator / Communications 4 [#10] 24/7 operator consoles receiving sensor feeds; part of monitoring center staffing.
Engineer / Sysadmin 1 [#10] Sysadmin for servers, secure comms and operator systems (monitoring center staffing).
Research Scientist (lab lead) 1 [#14] Lead scientist responsible for specialist analyses and oversight of lab testing.
Laboratory Technician 1 [#14] Technician supporting laboratory testing and specimen handling.
Conservator 1 [#15] Archival conservator responsible for SCP‑5089‑A preservation and digitization.
📋 Confidence Notes
Line items were provided with explicit estimates for most categories, yielding a clear budgetary picture. Uncertainty remains due to optional capital choices (helicopter purchase), the open‑ended scope of long‑term R&D, and unpredictable incident severity which can consume contingency reserves.
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