SCP-5465 — SCP-5465 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-5465 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-5465

Expected annual

$37.1M

One-time setup

$72.7M

Annual recurring

$36.2M

Personnel

300

Upfront capital is dominated by a secure, soundproofed 365-cell containment wing and an optional redundant backup facility (total one-time ~72.7M). Annual operations are driven by large security/MTF payrolls, ongoing research, takedown/mitigation, and contingency reserves (~36.24M/yr).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $72.7M

Facilities $50.0M

[#1] Secure, soundproofed wing sized for 365 single-occupancy cells plus control rooms, medical bay, research suite, server room, MTF staging, staff rooms, and construction costs; estimate chosen near mid-to-high of provided range.

Redundant Backup Facility $15.0M

[#17] Optional one-time cost for a smaller backup facility / duplicate containment capability (mid-range of provided estimate).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $4.0M

[#3] J-BRAVO psychoacoustic/paraphysiology R&D lab buildout, instrumentation, validation tools, and initial safety testing costs.

Webcrawler Development $1.2M

[#10] One-time development costs for SS-534 webcrawler (ML model development, ingest servers, fingerprint database initial population).

Equipment $1.1M

[#2] Per-cell infra‑sonic transducers, speakers, vibration isolation, sensors, CCTV, control terminals, tamper detection, furniture adapted to limit standing/walking; aggregated per-cell hardware one-time purchase.

Monitoring Software Dev $500K

[#14] One-time development for AI/ML lower-body activity detection, integration into security dashboards.

Initial Training Program $350K

[#20] Initial training & certification program development for security, techs, medical, MTF, and webcrawler analysts.

Generators And Ups $275K

[#15] Generators, UPS, and site-level backup power hardware to support infra‑sonic emitters, servers, and life support.

Audio Fingerprinting Setup $250K

[#23] Initial creation and secure storage of SCP-5465-1 fingerprint database and decoy distribution infrastructure.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $36.2M/yr

Staff Wages $10.3M/yr

[#7, #8] Site security payroll (conservative staffing: ~200 FTEs) plus medical/psychiatric staff salaries and small administrative payroll.

Mtf Tau15 Ops $4.5M/yr

[#12] MTF Tau-15 operations budget: salaries, travel, vehicles, tactical gear, training, and operational slush funds.

Redundancy Lease And Transition $3.5M/yr

[#17] Recurring cost option to maintain standby lease and transition logistics for off-site duplicate containment (mid-range recurring lease).

Long Term Program R&D $3.5M/yr

[#25] Long-term investment to monitor model drift, adaptive J-BRAVO updates, and work toward neutralization/permanent fix.

Research And Monitoring $3.0M/yr

[#9] Parakinesiology / containment research team recurring budget (staff salaries, equipment, consumables, secure testing costs).

Contingency Reserve $2.0M/yr

[#16] Incident response & contingency reserve for Priority 2 alerts, breaches, emergency overtime, and repairs.

Content Screening And Takedown $1.8M/yr

[#11] Human analysts, legal retainer, takedown budgets, covert source identification, emergency removal funds and payments to platforms/intermediaries.

Cover Story And Legal $1.8M/yr

[#19] Ongoing legal counsel, PR cover stories, payments to third parties to erase traces, coordination with local authorities and sealing records.

Hardware Lifecycle And Cybersecurity $1.1M/yr

[#18] Capital refresh (~10% of IT/AV spend) plus cybersecurity team/tools and secure-airgap procedures.

Amnestic Program $850K/yr

[#13] Amnestic acquisition/manufacture and administration costs: assumed mid-range administrations plus production & storage overhead.

Supplies And Consumables $600K/yr

[#5] 365 D-Class provisioning (food, bedding, clothing), routine consumables and basic medical supplies for daily regimen.

Logistics And Transport $550K/yr

[#24] Secure vehicles, encrypted communications, couriers, and logistics for moving personnel, samples, and hardware.

Facilities Maintenance $500K/yr

[#1, #15] Ongoing site maintenance, building repairs, HVAC servicing and minor infrastructure upkeep.

Webcrawler Operations $450K/yr

[#10] Recurring costs for SS-534 operations: compute, storage, model updates, ops staff, and ingestion pipelines.

Psychological Welfare $450K/yr

[#21] Welfare programs, compliance enforcement systems, counseling, monitoring for long-term J-BRAVO exposure effects.

Power Utility And Fuel $300K/yr

[#15] Electricity for emitters/servers and fuel/maintenance for backup generators.

Training Refreshers $275K/yr

[#20] Annual recurrent training, refreshers for personnel, and onboarding new hires.

J Bravo Production And Distribution $275K/yr

[#4] Ongoing production of J-BRAVO agent recordings, secure distribution, cryptographic signing and playback scheduling updates.

Monitoring Software Maintenance $200K/yr

[#14] Ongoing maintenance, retraining, and integration costs for automated behavior-detection software.

D Class Procurement $130K/yr

[#6] Procurement, intake processing, screening, amnesticization and recruitment to maintain a rolling 365 D-Class cohort.

Cell Hardware Maintenance $110K/yr

[#2] Annual maintenance for per-cell transducers, sensors, CCTV, tamper systems (~10%/yr of initial per-cell hardware cost).

Audio Fingerprinting Maintenance $100K/yr

[#23] Ongoing updates to fingerprint DB, decoy distribution updates, and audio engineering retainer.

Disposal And Forensics $50K/yr

[#22] Secure handling, autopsies, cremation/storage, and forensic chain-of-custody for D-Class fatalities.

Content And Takedown Overlap Reserve $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $36.2M/yr

83.0% probability / year

Normal year with routine operations, scheduled takedowns and no major containment incidents.

no major leaks routine takedowns normal staffing levels

🚨 Minor Incident $38.5M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$2.3M vs baseline

Localized content surge or partial leak requiring emergency takedowns, increased amnestic administrations, overtime and short-term MTF deployments.

coordinated upload campaign source requiring mass amnesticization temporary spike in takedown/forensic operations

🚨 Major Breach $61.2M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline

Containment compromise or widely distributed SCP-5465-1 causing mass spread and requiring large-scale remediation (facility damage, mass amnesticization, backup facility activation or construction).

facility breach global content wave loss of primary suppression capability

👥 Personnel 300 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / Site Guard	200	[#7] 24/7 coverage with rotations; conservative staffing ratio selected from provided 150–300 FTE range.
MTF Operator / Field Agent (Tau-15)	30	[#12] Mobile task force team for interdiction, debriefing and amnesticization; mid-range of 20–40 operators.
Research Scientist / Parakinesiology	20	[#9] Parakinesiology and containment research team conducting monitoring, experiments and J-BRAVO refinement.
Medical Officer / Nurse / Psychiatrist	12	[#8] Medical and psychiatric staff to monitor D-Class health and administer amnestics; mid-range of 8–20 FTEs.
Webcrawler / Data Operations	10	[#10] Engineers and ops staff to run SS-534 crawler, ML models and ingestion pipelines.
Content Analysts / Legal	15	[#11] Human analysts screening crawler flags and legal/PR staff for takedowns and cover operations.
Engineer / Maintenance	8	[#15, #18] Facilities, power, HVAC, generator maintenance and IT/AV hardware lifecycle support.
Administrative Staff	5	[#19, #20] Site administration, training coordination and program management.

📋 Confidence Notes

Notes provide many line-item ranges and qualitative risk descriptions enabling a reasoned mid-confidence estimate, but large parameter ranges (staffing, frequency/severity of takedowns/breaches, optional backup facility) and anomalous behaviors introduce material uncertainty.

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