SCP-6123 — SCP-6123 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6123 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-6123

Expected annual

$15.5M

One-time setup

$39.9M

Annual recurring

$15.1M

Personnel

Initial one-time setup is large (~$39.9M) driven by research buildout, amnestic stockpile, and emergency surge reserve; ongoing annual costs are substantial (~$14.3M/yr) driven by staff wages, legal/PR/cover operations, metatron hosting, amnestic replenishment and logistics.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $39.9M

Amnestic Stockpile $12.8M

[#14] Initial amnestic dose reserve (1,000–5,000 doses at specialist per-dose cost); large one-time stockpile procurement and secure storage costs.

Emergency Surge Reserve $12.5M

[#28] One-time contingency reserve set aside for large-scale/mass-event surge operations (MTF surge, mass amnestic application, emergency logistics).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $10.8M

[#13, #16, #18] Amnestic R&D and lab buildout (#13), forensic IT/mail evidence lab equipment & setup (#16), and initial long-term exospatial/origins research program seed budget (#18).

Metatron Development $2.2M

[#1] Development and secure deployment of METATRON.aic: software engineering, NLP model development, secure UI and legal integration for covert scanning.

Equipment $812K

[#9, #12, #23] One-time hardware and fleet capex: postal/parcel scanners & processing hardware (#9), transport fleet purchase (#12), secure communications hardware and Faraday facilities equipment (#23).

Facilities $725K

[#15, #25] Secure clinic fit-out and physical-evidence vault/climate-control fit-out; structural and fit-out costs for medical/quarantine and evidence storage.

Honeypot Setup $112K

[#7] One-time creation of honeypot webinar server, registration endpoints, secure logging and controlled study environment infrastructure.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $15.1M/yr

Cover Story And Legal $4.0M/yr

[#4, #19, #20] Legal/compliance teams for covert access and MOUs (#4), legal/cover-up contingency & settlements/gag orders (#19), plus PR/information-ops to suppress reporting and craft cover narratives (#20).

Staff Wages $2.1M/yr

[#3, #11] METATRON operations analysts/engineers (2–4 FTEs) and MTF Kappa-43 on-call staffing budget (12–24 personnel); fully-loaded salary estimate aggregated here.

Research And Monitoring $1.2M/yr

[#18] Long-term exospatial/origin research program ongoing budget for instrumentation, specialized hires, and continued trials.

Supplies And Consumables $1.1M/yr

[#13, #14] Amnestic production, QA and per-dose replenishment (production runs and replenishing stockpile).

Emergency Surge Allocation $1.0M/yr

[#28] Annual allocation/maintenance for surge-response capability, to top up reserves and readiness for large-scale events.

Logistics And Transport $950K/yr

[#9, #10, #12] Annual logistics: physical-interception program operations (#9), aggregated per-deployment field-response operational costs (#10), and vehicle/air transport maintenance & leases (#12).

Metatron Hosting $940K/yr

[#2] Ongoing METATRON.aic compute, hosting, model retraining, encrypted storage, bandwidth and backups.

Mtf Deployment Costs $400K/yr

[#10] Aggregated annual estimate for per-deployment MTF operational costs (vehicle fuel, consumables, per-diem) assuming moderate tempo of deployments.

Physical Interception $350K/yr

[#9] Recurring contracts with carriers, trained postal inspectors, and chain-of-custody operations for postal/parcel screening.

Covert Ops $325K/yr

[#5] Covert penetration and access operations budget: intrusion tools, red-team specialists, OPSEC for non-consensual access scenarios.

Facilities Maintenance $315K/yr

[#15, #25] Ongoing secure clinic operations (HVAC, observation beds, CCTV), and evidence-vault climate-control and cataloguing operations.

Partnerships $300K/yr

[#6] Payments and incentives to media companies, journals, and universities for legal data-sharing and flagged-forwarding arrangements.

Psychological Care $300K/yr

[#26] Counseling, psychiatric care, and reintegration program reserves for affected individuals.

High Profile Protection $275K/yr

[#27] Monitoring and escalation budget for protection/relocation of high-risk targets (journalists, producers).

Audit And Liaison $275K/yr

[#29] Internal audit teams, liaison officers and interagency secure briefings to coordinate containment and plausible deniability.

Hospital Contingency $250K/yr

[#21] Annual contingency fund for emergency hospital/trauma care, secure transport and NDA'd hospitalization contracts.

Forensic It Lab $138K/yr

[#16] Staffing and consumables for forensic IT and mail evidence analysis (packet capture, cryptanalysis, sample handling).

Cybersecurity Retainer $125K/yr

[#17] Third-party incident response retainer for large-scale or cross-jurisdiction communications corruption.

Training And Simulation $125K/yr

[#22] Regular drills and training for MTF, medical staff, and analysts on amnestic administration and field procedures.

Data Storage $125K/yr

[#24] Secure, redundant storage, retention, and auditing for captured invitations, logs, and forensic artifacts.

Disposal Contingency $125K/yr

[#30] Annual contingency for decommission and safe disposal procedures (hazardous waste handling, incineration) and per-incident budgets.

Honeypot Ops $78K/yr

[#8] Ongoing honeypot hosting, 24/7 monitoring, incident handling and forensic logging for trap endpoints.

Secure Comms Ops $65K/yr

[#23] Ongoing secure communications operations costs (satellite links, secure phones, OPSEC audits).

Evidence Vault Ops $40K/yr

[#25] Operations for physical-evidence vaults: climate control, cataloguing, and preservation consumables.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $15.1M/yr

88.0% probability / year

Normal year with moderate operational tempo (tens–low hundreds of flagged invitations), no major incidents; routine containment and monitoring.

no_mass_events operational tempo remains moderate honeypot and METATRON functioning

🚨 Minor Incident $15.4M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$330K vs baseline

Localized spike of invitations requiring multiple deployments, moderate amnestic use, increased PR/legal and hospital contingency activation.

clustered invitations several on-site MTF deployments limited media exposure requiring legal/PR response

🚨 Major Breach $32.8M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$17.8M vs baseline

Large-scale event (hundreds–thousands affected) requiring mass deployments, mass amnestic application, major hospitalizations and high legal/PR settlements.

mass-selection event widespread media exposure simultaneous infrastructure compromise

👥 Personnel 21 total

Role	Count	Notes
METATRON Analyst / Engineer	3	[#3] 2–4 FTEs indicated for model tuning, triage, and system ops; midpoint used.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	18	[#11] On-call MTF Kappa-43 staffing (12–24 personnel rotating); midpoint used and included in staff_wages.

📋 Confidence Notes

Line items are grounded in analyst ranges but individual categories have wide ranges and depend heavily on operational tempo, legal constraints, and whether covert or negotiated access is used; many figures are mid-point estimates rather than precise bid quotes.

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