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SCP-5172 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5172
Expected annual
$18.7M
One-time setup
$26.8M
Annual recurring
$18.4M
Personnel
69
One-time setup and infrastructure (Wi‑Fi monitoring, Site‑30 expansion, lab equipment, vehicle fleet, and contingency reserve) total approximately $26.8M; recurring annual operations (MTF staffing, monitoring, research, legal/cover, and facilities) run roughly $18.4M/year, driven primarily by MTF wages, monitoring operations, and memetics research.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $26.8M
Contingency Reserve $10.0M
[#21] Contingency escalation reserve for mass events / public exposure (one-time reserve fund).
Equipment $9.3M
[#1, #5, #17, #16] Wi‑Fi/DPI hardware deployment (targeted major chains), field vehicle fleet purchase, surveillance/evidence kit procurement, one-time PPE procurement.
Legal Partnership Setup $3.0M
[#3] Carrier/legal partnerships & covert authorizations one-time setup costs (agreements, initial legal work, covert payments).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.0M
[#9] Forensic & memetic research lab equipment (digital forensics rigs, EEG, spectrometers, GC-MS, SEM, controlled-testing apparatus).
Facilities $1.2M
[#8] Site-30 containment space expansion & secure storage buildout (10–30 machine capacity).
Hotel Remediation Fund $1.0M
[#25] Optional remediation/upgrade fund for partner hotel room upgrades if remediation policy is chosen.
Personnel Briefing Materials $250K
[#15] One-time development of North American Hotel Protocol materials, apps, and briefing kits.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $18.4M/yr
Staff Wages $11.5M/yr
[#2, #4, #19] Salaries and fully-loaded costs for monitoring analysts (8–12 FTE), MTF Mu-9 operatives (40–60 operatives across rotations), and memetics research team (6–12 staff).
Research And Monitoring $3.4M/yr
[#2, #9, #10, #13, #18] Cloud compute and ML/NLP model maintenance for monitoring, lab consumables & calibration, human subject research costs, public memetic/anti-meme campaigns (production & placement), and long-term archival/study costs.
Cover Story And Legal $2.1M/yr
[#3, #7, #12, #20, #22, #15] Ongoing legal renewals, covert payments/NDAs to hotel staff, replacement/cover installations at removal sites, mortuary/body-disposition cover costs, witness relocation/settlement budget, insurance/internal audits, and recurring updates/briefing maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $480K/yr
[#11, #16, #17, #24] Amnestic agents & medical supplies, recurring PPE replenishment, surveillance kit replacements/consumables, and miscellaneous office/operational consumables.
Logistics And Transport $441K/yr
[#5, #6] Vehicle maintenance, fuel, insurance, and per-removal secure shipping/short-haul trucking and cross-border handling for recovered machines.
Facilities Maintenance $375K/yr
[#8, #23] Site-30 utilities, climate control, CCTV, and general facility maintenance / HVAC/power for labs and storage.
It Security $125K/yr
[#14] IT security, secure log storage, encrypted backups, insider-threat mitigation, and archival data retention costs.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $18.4M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Targeted monitoring of major hotel chains with routine MTF response and ongoing research; no major escalations or public exposures.
targeted monitoring routine MTF deployments ongoing research and legal renewals
🚨 Minor Incident $18.9M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized multi-hotel incident or a handful of simultaneous Zalmunna Events requiring overtime, expedited shipping, and extra legal/cover expenses.
simultaneous local Zalmunna Events MTF overtime and overtime logistics short-term increased legal/amnestic deployments
🚨 Major Breach $23.4M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Widespread or high-profile exposure / mass events requiring large contingency deployment, press control, major amnestic use, and significant settlements.
mass awareness or multi-city events large-scale amnestic deployment major legal settlements and emergency reserve drawdown
👥 Personnel 69 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 50 [#4] MTF Mu-9 operatives required for rapid-response across North America (40–60 operatives; count here represents an on‑duty/roster figure).
Analyst / Monitoring Specialist 10 [#2] Monitoring analysts for 24/7 triage of flagged traffic and NLP/ML oversight (8–12 FTE).
Research Scientist / Memetics PI 9 [#19] Memetics research hires including senior PI and cognitive scientists (6–12 staff).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges allowing midpoint estimates, but large uncertainties remain around chosen Wi‑Fi coverage scope, frequency/scale of Zalmunna Events, and rarity of catastrophic exposures; hence medium confidence.
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