SCP-5821
Keter
?
low confidence
SCP-5821
Expected annual
$100.3M
One-time setup
$1.2B
Annual recurring
$85.3M
Personnel
117
One-time capital and contingency funding dominate costs (major line items include hardened facilities, backup sites, transport assets, reserves and catastrophic contingency funds), while recurring annual costs are driven by security staffing, memetic R&D, surveillance/sigint, detention/legal/PR, and medical/psych services.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $1.2B
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $85.3M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$85.3M/yr
Normal year with active containment, ongoing R&D and no major incidents.
steady containment
no major attacks
routine R&D progress
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Minor Incident
$90.3M/yr
Localized attack or attempted assassination requiring medical response, asset replacement, short-term relocations and PR/legal action.
assassination attempt
limited leak
small-scale mob action
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Research Breakthrough Requiring Scale Up
$135.3M/yr
Successful/provocative memetic R&D result that requires rapid scale-up of trials/distribution infrastructure in a single year.
promising inoculation
regulatory approval needs
large-scale trial rollout
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Major Breach
$185.3M/yr
Major containment breach or sustained coordinated attack leading to relocations, many casualties, mass detention and heavy PR/legal exposure.
coordinated multi-site attack
large public leak
mass conversion cluster
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Catastrophic Societal Collapse
$10.1B/yr
Rare global-level escalation where memetic potency causes widescale mass-action, requiring national/multinational military and societal-level intervention.
pandemic-level memetic outbreak
widespread riots/cannibalism
national emergency declaration
Personnel
117 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Security Officer / MTF Agent | 60 | [#3, #19] PTF-Lambda-27 rotations and perimeter/hard-site security staffing. |
| Executive Protection | 8 | [#5] Dedicated close-protection specialists for SCP-5821-1. |
| Research Scientist / Memetics | 12 | [#10, #23, #11] Core memetics researchers, trial coordinators and long-term neutralization program staff. |
| Analyst / SIGINT | 6 | [#9] Surveillance, OSINT and signals intelligence analysts. |
| Medical Officer | 4 | [#6] On-site trauma/medical staff and psychiatric care. |
| Psychologist / Clinical Staff | 4 | [#4, #16] Psychological screening, rotation therapy and ongoing counseling staff. |
| Engineer / Maintenance | 3 | [#18, #8] Power/IT engineers and technical maintenance for Faraday, generators and anti-drone systems. |
| Training Instructor | 4 | [#19] Tactical and memetic-resistance training instructors. |
| Administrative Staff | 4 | [#24, #13] Administrative and accounting staff supporting cover operations and reserves. |
| Legal / PR | 4 | [#13, #24] Legal counsel, PR operatives and cover-story management. |
| Vetting & Security HR | 2 | [#16, #20] Continuous background monitoring, MMIs, polygraph and anti-insider controls. |
| Logistics / Transport Crew (pilots, drivers) | 6 | [#7, #21] Pilots, drivers and transport crew for armored vehicles, helicopters and evacuation logistics. |
Confidence Notes
Estimates are built from wide ranges in analyst notes, heavy model uncertainty due to the memetic nature of SCP-5821 and large tail-risk contingencies; many items (reserves, societal-collapse costs, long-term R&D scale) are highly speculative.