SCP-5119 — SCP-5119 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5119 Keter ? low confidence

SCP-5119

Expected annual

$7.7M

One-time setup

$3.7M

Annual recurring

$7.3M

Personnel

One-time setup costs for secure rooms, IT, lab/GMP setup and equipment are approximately $3.67M; annual recurring operations driven by staff wages, contingency reserves, legal/PR, relocation and monitoring yield ~ $7.49M/yr.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.7M

Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.2M

[#3, #7, #10] One-time model development for ML classifier, GMP/R&D production setup for amnestics, and initial forensic lab buildout/instruments.

Equipment $670K

[#9, #11, #20] Purchase/retrofit of secure transport vehicles & custody containers, initial SCIF-grade secure IT/hardened servers and capital field detection kit.

Containment Research Expedition $500K

[#19] One-time exploratory containment/research expedition budget (small deployment).

Facilities $200K

[#8] Construction/retrofit of 4-room secure holding/quarantine suite (initial 4-room suite estimate).

Waste Disposal Reserve $50K

[#21] Initial reserve for per-incident waste disposal, decontamination and biohazard cleanup.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $7.3M/yr

Staff Wages $1.8M/yr

[#1, #5, #6] Salaries/benefits for social-media/open-source monitoring analysts (6), regional rapid-response/field team (5-person team salaries), and small medical team for amnestic administration.

Classified Program Overhead $1.7M/yr

[#26] Program overhead (accounting, security clearances, HR, utilities). Applied at ~30% of other recurring costs.

Emergency Contingency Fund $1.0M/yr

[#18] Maintained contingency/reserve for rapid-response surge operations, contract specialists and overtime.

Cover Story And Legal $550K/yr

[#12, #13, #15] PR/cover-story creation and placement, ongoing legal counsel & law-enforcement liaison, and covert takedown/content suppression budget.

Witness Relocation Program $500K/yr

[#14] Annual budget for witness relocation, identity support, living stipends and cover placement programs.

Research And Monitoring $200K/yr

[#3, #4, #10] Ongoing ML inference/cloud compute & retraining, darknet/archival monitoring subscriptions, and per-case forensic imaging/analysis budget.

Psychological Aftercare $200K/yr

[#17] Counseling, psychiatric follow-up and long-term monitoring program for subjects post-amnestic.

Public Liability Reserve $200K/yr

[#29] Reserve for settlements, compensation or public liability mitigation where legal/necessary.

Facilities Maintenance $160K/yr

[#8, #10, #11] Maintenance/operations for secure holding rooms, long-term evidence storage, and secure IT/SCIF operations (power, backups, audits).

Supplies And Consumables $160K/yr

[#6, #7, #25] Medical per-administration costs and inpatient monitoring, amnestic per-dose manufacturing and cold-chain storage, and routine consumables (PPE, kits, syringes).

Logistics And Transport $140K/yr

[#5, #9] Per-incident field interview travel/per-diem/equipment and vehicle maintenance/fuel for secure transport fleet.

Recruitment And Informant $120K/yr

[#24] Program costs to recruit/retain informants, moderators and community managers.

Insurance Liability $100K/yr

[#22] Insurance premiums and liability reserve fund.

International Coordination Budget $100K/yr

[#23] Annual budget for cross-border coordination, diplomatic cover and local contractors per incidents.

Vetting And Insider Mitigation $100K/yr

[#27] Background investigations, periodic vetting, insider-threat monitoring and secure key management.

Strategic Review Fund $100K/yr

[#30] Periodic independent reviews, risk assessments and escalation research funding.

Training And Exercises $75K/yr

[#16] Regular training, tabletop exercises and SOP development for analysts, agents and medics.

Archival And Redaction $60K/yr

[#28] Long-term redaction, labor and storage to maintain searchable, anonymized archives of interviews/reports.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $7.3M/yr

81.5% probability / year

Normal year with ongoing monitoring, interviews, amnestic administrations and program maintenance; no major public incidents.

routine_monitoring interview_and_amnestic_cases no_large_public_exposure

🚨 Minor Incident $7.7M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$400K vs baseline

Localized spike in public mentions requiring extra takedowns, several extra field interviews and additional amnestic administrations.

localized_viral_post multiple_subject_interviews

🚨 Major Breach $12.5M/yr

3.0% probability / year +$5.2M vs baseline

Widespread public exposure or cluster of mass-recall events requiring large-scale response (many relocations, mass amnesticizations and legal actions).

regional_mass_exposure coordinated_media_coverage

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $37.5M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$30.2M vs baseline

Major public incident or discovery prompting national/international response, full-scale containment/research expedition and major legal fallout.

nationwide_exposure political_and_media_scrutiny

👥 Personnel 14 total

Role	Count	Notes
Social-media Analyst	6	[#1] 24/7 monitoring analysts (includes shift premiums and benefits).
Rapid-response Field Agent	5	[#5] Regional operatives/agents forming a 5-person rapid-response/interview team (salaries included in staff_wages).
Medical Officer / Nurse	3	[#6] Small medical team to administer amnestics and monitor adverse events (salaries included in staff_wages).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates aggregate wide ranges from analyst notes; SCP-5119 is presently uncontainable and incident frequency/severity are highly uncertain, so cost ranges and scenario probabilities are low-confidence.

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