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SCP-6023 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-6023
Expected annual
$1.8M
One-time setup
$1.3M
Annual recurring
$1.6M
Personnel
7
Initial one-time setup (brand cover, production, contingency reserve) is ~$1.31M; steady-state annual operations are dominated by staffing, legal/PR, research, and viewcount operations at about $1.59M/year, with large escalation risk in rare mass-exposure scenarios.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.3M
Contingency Reserve $1.0M
[#23] Contingency / emergency escalation fund (reserved; lower-bound allocation from analyst range $1M–$10M).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $100K
[#13] One-time lab setup/upgrades for predisposition and long-term monitoring research.
Production Ad Campaign $75K
[#3] One-time professional video production of primary "Fish Snacks" ad series (shooting, VFX, actors, licensing).
Facilities $40K
[#14] Containment facility modifications and safe aquatic specimen handling (tanks, observation booths, biosecurity upgrades).
Shell Company Setup $25K
[#7] Shell company and cover branding setup: entity registration, domains, fake product pages, initial bookkeeping/trademark work.
Equipment $20K
[#10, #11] Initial amnestic supplies & medical equipment stock (#10); secure dossier initial deployment/migration hardware (#11 one-time).
Viewcount Infra Setup $20K
[#5] Setup costs for viewcount/engagement manipulation infrastructure (initial bot/account seeding).
Specimen Procurement One Time $20K
[#15] Initial procurement/purchase of cleaner wrasse specimens for controlled study (budgeted midpoint).
Training Initial $10K
[#19] Initial courseware and training development for memetic safety and disinfo operations.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.6M/yr
Staff Wages $640K/yr
[#1, #2] Dedicated social media/content team (~$400k/yr) and two-researcher disinformation/monitoring team (~$240k/yr). Includes salaries, benefits, and overhead.
Cover Story And Legal $415K/yr
[#6, #7, #16, #17, #21] Platform legal/takedown retainer ($150k/yr), shell company maintenance ($5k/yr), PR/influencer management ($50k/yr), legal defense & contingency retainer ($200k/yr), insurance/indemnity ($10k/yr).
Research And Monitoring $288K/yr
[#11, #12, #13, #15] Secure dossier operations/replication ($30k/yr), social listening/alerting tools ($48k/yr), research program recurring funding ($200k/yr), specimen husbandry maintenance (~$10k/yr).
Viewcount Operations $120K/yr
[#5] Ongoing viewcount/engagement manipulation operations (~$10k/month).
Logistics And Transport $35K/yr
[#18, #22] Extractions/covert interview logistics expected baseline (~$15k/incident assumed one/year) and records audits / cross-branch coordination travel ($20k/yr).
Amnestic Expected Annual $30K/yr
[#8] Expected baseline annual amnesticization spend estimated as 2 events/yr × ~$15k per event (variable; per-event cost $5k–$30k).
Quarantine Monitoring Expected Annual $25K/yr
[#9] Expected baseline annual quarantine/monitoring for identified SCP-6023-1 individuals (budgeted as one person/year at ~$25k/person for one month).
Extraction Expected Annual $15K/yr
[#18] Extractions/covert relocations: baseline assumed one small extraction/year (~$15k average per event).
Facilities Maintenance $12K/yr
[#20] Utilities, physical security, and IT energy costs attributable to containment ops.
Supplies And Consumables $5K/yr
[#10] Ongoing replenishment of amnestic supplies & medical consumables (initial stock was one-time).
Training Recurring $5K/yr
[#19] Periodic refresher trainings and on-boarding for new staff (~$5k/yr).
Records Audits And Coordination $0/yr
[#22] (Primary travel/coordination costs captured under logistics_and_transport; this key exists to explicitly map note #22.)
Escalation Planning $0/yr
[#24] Risk note — cost scaling if containment fails at scale; scenario-dependent, no fixed recurring allocation.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.6M/yr
88.9% probability / year
Normal year with steady-state operations and occasional minor activity only; no major exposures or large-scale amnestic campaigns.
routine monitoring periodic content releases no civilian mass-exposure
🚨 Minor Incident $1.8M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$180K vs baseline
Small localized exposure requiring a handful of amnesticizations, short quarantines, limited extractions and targeted PR/legal actions.
single civilian exposure cluster targeted amnesticization/quarantine small PR/lobbying push
🚨 Major Breach $14.1M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$12.5M vs baseline
Widespread exposure (dozens–low-hundreds), mass amnestic/monitoring operations, major PR buys, international legal actions and scaled research response.
viral spread of footage multiple civilian SCP-6023-1 identifications international media attention
🚨 Catastrophic Mass Exposure $101.6M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$100.0M vs baseline
Rare, catastrophic global or multi-region viral exposure requiring mass amnesticization, long-term monitoring, and major international intervention.
platform-wide viral event mass streaming leading to thousands exposed international legal and political escalation
👥 Personnel 7 total
Role Count Notes
Social Media Specialist / Content Team 5 [#1] Copywriter, video editor, motion graphics, community manager, ops — in-house content team producing and maintaining fake accounts/ads.
Researcher / Analyst (Disinformation Monitoring) 2 [#2] Two-researcher disinformation/monitoring team for triage, takedowns, amnestic coordination, and reporting.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and reasonable cost ranges for most categories (high confidence on staffing, production, legal retainer, and viewcount ops). Uncertainty remains around incident frequencies, per-case volumes, and the appropriate contingency reserve size — these drive scenario costs, so overall confidence is medium.
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