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SCP-5940 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-5940
Expected annual
$1.3B
One-time setup
$3.3B
Annual recurring
$1.0B
Personnel
300
One-time capital costs to establish secure psychodentistry facilities, lunar relay deployment and contingency reserves are on the order of multiple billions; ongoing annual operations (censorship, memetic deployment, logistics, personnel and covert actions) drive recurring costs into the low billions per year.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.3B
Contingency Reserve $2.0B
[#20] One-time long-term contingency fund for catastrophic scenarios, legal liabilities and large-scale emergency responses.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $500.0M
[#10] R&D program setup for ABSOLUTE TOOTH FIELD: secure psych lab suites, simulation infrastructure and initial research capital.
Lunar Relay Deployment $300.0M
[#9] One-time deployment of lunar far-side communications relay satellites and associated launch costs to enable far-side missions.
Medical Surge Reserve $200.0M
[#15] One-time surge reserves for disaster-level medical/dental/prosthetics readiness.
Facilities $150.0M
[#1] Secure Department HQ / psychodentistry lab buildout, Faraday/memetic shielding and physical containment vault construction.
Lunar Recovery Facilities $150.0M
[#22] One-time buildout of lunar recovery/analysis labs, quarantine facilities and specialized sample handling infrastructure.
Equipment $25.0M
[#2, #12] Hardened servers, takedown infrastructure (hardware + secure comms + custom software) and secure analytics cluster / monitoring hardware one-time purchases.
Front Company Setup $10.0M
[#26] One-time creation and legal setup of front companies, shell NGOs and funding conduits.
Archive Vaults Setup $5.0M
[#25] One-time construction of secure archive vaults and physical media destruction teams setup.
Consumables And Expedition Kit Procurement $1.0M
[#16] One-time procurement of expedition kits, controlled explosives, PPE and long-term stockpiles.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.0B/yr
Memetic Deployment $300.0M/yr
[#11] Rolling program costs for seeding, amplifying and sustaining meme complexes (media buys, targeted ads, proxies, influencers).
Censorship And Information Control $200.0M/yr
[#3] Ongoing worldwide content removal, PR buys, covert influence campaigns, takedown litigation and bot/troll operations.
Logistics And Transport $150.0M/yr
[#5, #6, #17, #29] Polar expedition program costs, sponsored Antarctic proxy logistics, airlift/sea freight/heavy lift and disposal/remediation of decommissioned hardware.
Cover Story And Legal $120.0M/yr
[#14, #18, #26] Legal/diplomatic payments, bribes, cover funding, casualty compensation baseline and shell company maintenance.
Covert Action And Security $75.0M/yr
[#13] Black ops teams, covert action, asset recovery, special forces safehouses and secure transport.
Staff Wages $45.0M/yr
[#4] Core Department staffing (researchers, lab techs, data scientists, legal, ops, security, administrators).
Facilities Maintenance $25.0M/yr
[#1, #9, #25] Ongoing maintenance of secure facilities, lunar relay ops costs and archive vault operations.
Spacecraft Impact Coordination $25.0M/yr
[#8] Annual costs to negotiate/redirect satellites and fund deliberate impactors (program-level recurring coordination).
Research And Monitoring $20.0M/yr
[#12, #24, #27] Operations for monitoring/modeling infrastructure, controlled memetic field trials and demographic/economic modeling.
Deep Sea Operations $15.0M/yr
[#7] Recurring charter/purchase servicing, crewed submersibles, ROVs and station-keeping near oceanic pole.
Public Health Emergency Readiness $10.0M/yr
[#15] Annual baseline for psychiatric/dental surge capacity, mobile clinics and stock rotation (separate from one-time surge reserve).
It Security And Counter Leak $10.0M/yr
[#19] Insider risk mitigation, continuous monitoring, vetting and counterintelligence operations.
Space Agency Incentives $10.0M/yr
[#21] Ongoing contracts and inducements to space agencies and private launch providers to influence end-of-life targeting.
Public Dentistry Outreach $10.0M/yr
[#28] Covert public dental hygiene campaigns and partner NGO programs to mitigate psychodental trauma.
Misc Contingency $2.0M/yr
[#30] Flexible petty fund for permits, emergency procurements, expedited shipping and cover stories.
Supplies And Consumables $1.0M/yr
[#16] Annual resupply of consumables and expedition kit replacements.
Archive Vault Operations $1.0M/yr
[#25] Ongoing operations and teams to remove, store and destroy physical evidence and artifacts.
Prosthetics And Reconstructive Liability Reserve $0/yr
[#23] Contingent liability for mass prosthetics/reconstructive dentistry; baseline annual spend set to 0 as this is an open-ended contingent exposure (see one-time contingency reserve and catastrophic scenarios).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.0B/yr
86.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major leaks or large-scale incidents; recurring programs run at planned tempo.
no major leaks regular expedition cadence steady memetic operations
🚨 Minor Incident $1.1B/yr
12.0% probability / year +$100.0M vs baseline
Localized leak or expedition loss requiring targeted containment, increased censorship and litigation payouts.
expedition casualty targeted leak contractor compromise
🚨 Major Breach $3.5B/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.5B vs baseline
Significant public exposure or large multi-jurisdictional leak requiring global emergency response, heavy legal payouts and accelerated containment missions.
major public disclosure coordinated media amplification widespread memetic spread
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $2.0T/yr
0.0% probability / year +$2.0T vs baseline
Full public revelation / mass psychodental event triggering multi-billion-to-trillion-dollar liabilities (mass prosthetics, relocation, worldwide remediation).
global public knowledge simultaneous memetic activation collapse of cover networks
👥 Personnel 300 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 60 [#4] Memetics, dentistry and psionics researchers assigned to Department of Psychodentistry.
Lab Technician 80 [#4] Laboratory technical staff for psychodental experiments, sample handling and equipment maintenance.
Data Scientist / IT 30 [#4] Monitoring, analytics, secure data centre operations and model maintenance.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 50 [#4] Site security, expedition protection and covert field teams.
Covert Operations / Field Agents 20 [#4] Proxy operations, black ops teams and deniability managers supporting field missions.
Engineer / Maintenance 20 [#4] Facility, submersible and relay satellite maintenance and TEMPEST/ Faraday shielding upkeep.
Medical Officer 10 [#4] Psychiatric and dental emergency readiness and surge support coordination.
Administrative Staff 20 [#4] Legal, procurement, finance and liaison personnel for front companies and interagency coordination.
Legal / Diplomatic Staff 10 [#4] Negotiations with space agencies, diplomatic payments and litigation management.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide wide ranges and multi-decade/multi-domain programs; one-time and contingent liabilities (especially prosthetics and global remediation) are highly uncertain, so medium confidence in baseline/recurring estimates but low confidence on catastrophic tails.
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