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SCP-5571 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5571
Expected annual
$9.8M
One-time setup
$10.9M
Annual recurring
$8.0M
Personnel
36
One-time setup costs of approximately $10.9M mainly for hardened storage, backup hardware, lab buildouts and an incident contingency fund; recurring annual costs ~ $8.0M driven by staffing, large manual remediation reserves, and ongoing monitoring/insurance.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $10.9M
Incident Contingency Fund $5.0M
[#12] Rapid-response reserve fund for emergency dev/ops/contractor costs (one-time reserve).
Historical Emergency Costs $3.5M
[#13] Record of prior emergency spend (historical R&D sprint & mobilization; midpoint estimate).
Equipment $950K
[#2, #5, #9, #10] Off-site redundant backup hardware ($50k), initial AI cluster purchase ($500k), MTF vehicles/equipment ($300k), forensic kits/van ($100k).
Facilities $550K
[#1, #3] Vault upgrades/Faraday hardening and safe-viewing chamber build-out ($400k + $150k).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $400K
[#8] Memetic research lab build-out & specialized equipment (midpoint of $300k–$500k range).
Legal Takedown One Time $250K
[#14] Major takedown / expedited legal actions (one-time event estimate).
Clearance Onboarding $200K
[#19] One-time cohort onboarding (background checks, polygraphs, initial clearance costs).
Redteam Tooling $75K
[#20] One-time tooling for red-team / replay simulations and adversarial testing.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.0M/yr
Staff Wages $4.0M/yr
[#4, #6, #7, #9, #10, #16, #20] METATRON ops (6 FTEs, $720k), Themis dev/ops engineers (~3 FTEs, $300k), memetic R&D team (senior memeticists + techs, $900k), MTF-Kappa-43 staffing (12 operators, $1.2M), forensic callout labor/ops (~$500k), social/platform analysts (~$150k), red-team personnel (~$200k).
Manual Device Sanitization $2.0M/yr
[#11] Reserve budget for manual device reimages/replacements and reimbursements when automated counteragent cannot reach devices.
Medical Monitoring $500K/yr
[#18] Mental health & medical treatment/monitoring budget for exposed staff and civilian treatment reserve.
Hardware Replacement Fund $400K/yr
[#24] Fund to replace civilian/partner devices corrupted during remediation or by the anomaly.
Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr
[#14, #15] Ongoing legal liaison/monitoring ($150k/yr) and public cover/OPSEC & covert PR ($150k/yr).
Insurance And Interagency $250K/yr
[#22] Insurance premiums, interagency liaison reimbursements and cooperative containment reimbursements.
Ai Compute And Hosting $200K/yr
[#5] Recurring power/colo/replace/ops costs for GPU/CPU clusters used by METATRON/Themis.
Supplies And Consumables $110K/yr
[#9, #23] MTF training & consumables ($100k/yr) and media destruction / PPE consumables ($10k/yr).
Research And Monitoring $100K/yr
[#2, #21, #25] Off-site backup verification ($5k/yr), archival & WORM logging ($20k/yr), annual audits/compliance/tabletops ($75k/yr).
Logistics And Transport $100K/yr
[#17] Dedicated bandwidth/reservations/peering and network propagation capability testing ($100k/yr).
Clearance Renewals $50K/yr
[#19] Annual renewals and rechecks for clearances / suitability checks.
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.0M/yr
75.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing monitoring, maintenance, and occasional small remediation actions; no major outbreak.
occasional re-uploads routine remediation no large-scale Themis failure
🚨 Minor Incident $11.0M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Localized cluster of re-uploads requiring substantial manual remediation, increased field forensics, and targeted legal takedowns.
localized coordinated re-uploads partial Themis coverage failure rapid social sharing in a region
🚨 Major Breach $33.0M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Nation-scale re-emergence or Themis failure that mandates full contingency activation, mass remediation, and emergency legal/PR operations.
nation-scale second outbreak Themis compromised or unable to propagate coordinated dissemination across major platforms
👥 Personnel 36 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#9] MTF-Kappa-43 standing readiness: 12operators on call (notional staffing reflected in $1.2M/yr).
AI/ML Engineer / MLOps 6 [#4] METATRON.aic maintenance and ops (6 FTEs @ ~$120k all-in).
Themis Engineer / DevOps 3 [#6] Themis maintenance & redeployment capability (2–3 engineers; budgeted $300k/yr).
Research Scientist (Memeticist) 3 [#7] Senior memetic researchers (3 seniors referenced in notes).
Technician / Lab Tech 2 [#7] Support technicians for memetic R&D (1–2 techs referenced).
Forensic Technician / Field Agent 5 [#10] Forensic capture and device remediation teams (field technicians/callout staff reflected in $500k/yr).
Red Team / Adversarial Tester 2 [#20] Red-team personnel for variant testing (~$200k/yr).
Data Analyst / Platform Monitor 3 [#16] Social media & platform monitoring analysts (2–3 analysts included in $150k/yr line).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are order-of-magnitude but based on explicit line-item figures in the analyst notes; uncertainty remains due to memetic unpredictability, scale dependence (device count), and local procurement/labor variance.
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