SCP-6175 — SCP-6175 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6175 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-6175

Expected annual

$13.3M

One-time setup

$3.3B

Annual recurring

$10.1M

Personnel

One-time capital and contingency costs are dominated by a potential interceptor mission and/or independent ground-station build (total one-time ~$3.305B); recurring annual costs are ~ $10.08M driven mainly by personnel, DSN access, and cyber/cover operations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.3B

Interceptor Mission $3.0B

[#15] Contingency interception/termination mission (interstellar-capable interceptor / small space program).

Facilities $300.0M

[#4] Foundation-owned deep-space ground station build (70m-class dish or phased array).

Equipment $1.3M

[#5, #8] Signal-capture hardware (RF front-end, cryo-LNAs, ADCs) and initial SAN/NAS/tape hardware for archival.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M

[#6] Secure on-site compute, GPU clusters, secure racks, UPS, licensing for FIRESTORM.aic and translation/analysis tooling.

Webcrawler Development $1.0M

[#11] Initial development of FIRESTORM webcrawler/content-suppression stack.

Covert Insertion $500K

[#1] Covert insertion / cover-identity setup for embedded operatives (forged records, relocation, legal work, retainers).

Emergency Response Staging $500K

[#14] MTF emergency response staging and equipment (vehicles, RF-jamming gear, suits, shielding kits).

Secure Comms Infrastructure $250K

[#9] Initial encrypted satcom/MPLS/fiber provisioning, hardened routers and provisioning for secure links.

Offsite Archival $150K

[#22] Initial costs for geographically distributed vaulting and disaster recovery site setup.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $10.1M/yr

Staff Wages $3.4M/yr

[#2, #10] Recurring payroll & benefits for embedded MTF/Gamma-55 personnel and Para-Astronomy Dept staffing (salaries, benefits, hazard/clearance pay).

Cover Story And Legal $1.5M/yr

[#12] Ongoing cyber-ops, legal, PR/cover-up operations, law firm retainers and takedown management.

Dsn Access $1.5M/yr

[#3] DSN / Deep Space Network access or cooperative costs (scheduling, paid time slots, commercial antenna leasing if needed).

Cyber Ops $800K/yr

[#11] Ongoing FIRESTORM operations: crawling, scraping, takedowns, reputation/SEO manipulation and automation maintenance.

Research And Monitoring $500K/yr

[#7] Ongoing compute/AI/cloud costs for translation, continuous inference, model updates and maintenance of FIRESTORM-related ML workloads.

Physical Security Influence $500K/yr

[#13] On-site physical security & Marshall facility influence costs, allowances to local contractors to permit covert activity.

Diplomatic Payments $500K/yr

[#20] International monitoring, clandestine payments or soft-power to dissuade foreign observatories/agencies from publicizing anomalies.

Cover Budgets $500K/yr

[#21] Research funding and plausible public projects used as cover budgets (fake grants, fellowships, visible outputs).

Facilities Maintenance $200K/yr

[#19] Energy, HVAC, cooling and general facilities overhead for antennas / servers / datacenter loads.

Emergency Response Maintenance $150K/yr

[#14] Maintenance, replacement and refresh for emergency RF shielding kits, vehicles, and rapid-response equipment.

Incident Exercises $150K/yr

[#16] Regular tabletop/field exercises and readiness training for embedded staff and Site-300-12 teams.

Psych Care $150K/yr

[#18] Psychological care, rotation, decompression and replacement hiring for exposed staff.

Personnel Vetting $75K/yr

[#17] Continuous vetting, reinvestigations, polygraphs and counterintelligence monitoring of personnel.

Supplies And Consumables $50K/yr

[#8] Media replacement, tape rotation, offsite transfer consumables and archival maintenance.

Logistics And Transport $50K/yr

[#22] Periodic secure transfer flights / secure couriers for archival rotation and disaster recovery transfers.

Secure Comms Operating $50K/yr

[#9] Ongoing bandwidth/leasing and operational costs for encrypted links, satcom or leased fiber.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $10.1M/yr

91.0% probability / year

Normal year with no major incidents; routine operations and maintenance.

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🚨 Minor Incident $12.1M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Localized leak or discovery requiring emergency legal/cyber response, temporary extra DSN scheduling costs and overtime.

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🚨 Major Breach Build Station $315.1M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$305.0M vs baseline

Significant exposure or policy decision forces Foundation to build independent ground station and perform large emergency operations.

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👥 Personnel 25 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	12	[#2, #14] Embedded operatives tasked with covert access, emergency response teams and on-call staging.
Research Scientist	6	[#10, #6] Para-Astronomy department scientists responsible for recording, translating and cataloging Voyager data.
Signal Analyst / Linguist	4	[#7, #11, #10] Signal processing, translation and FIRESTORM human-in-the-loop analysts.
Engineer / Maintenance	2	[#6, #19] RF/antenna and datacenter engineers for hardware, cryo-LNAs, and HVAC/power systems.
Administrative Staff	1	[#11, #12] Admin/legal liaison and operations coordinator supporting cover budgets and takedown operations.

📋 Confidence Notes

Many line items have wide ranges and depend on policy choices (rely on embedded NASA vs. build independent capability) and political feasibility (interceptor mission). Recurring personnel and DSN costs are better constrained, but large one-time capital and contingency items are highly uncertain.

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