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SCP-6182 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6182
Expected annual
$1.5M
One-time setup
$11.9M
Annual recurring
$1.2M
Personnel
12
One-time historical and contingency costs dominate (total ~ $11.9M upfront) driven largely by prior research, standby contingency equipment, and a worst-case remediation fund; annual baseline operations (~$1.20M/year) are driven by staff wages for monitoring, embedded veil operatives, and ongoing legal/PR/cyber operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $11.9M
Worst Case Remediation Contingency $10.0M
[#20] Contingency reserve for large-scale remediation/veil operations (order-of-magnitude budget; covers multi‑million response scenarios).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.1M
[#1] Historical research & containment program (2013–2022): personnel time, lab runs, media acquisition, archival research, initial experiments and consumables.
Neutralization Operation $200K
[#2] Costs of Dr. Barthes' neutralization operation: overtime, emergency teams, rented/consumed equipment, immediate tests and debriefs.
Standby Cache And Equipment $162K
[#16] One-time purchase of rapid-response cache: portable lab gear, secure comms and emergency equipment.
Legal Initial Actions $138K
[#7] One-time retainer/initial legal takedown actions, DMCA/PR emergency fund and initial settlement reserves.
Field Logistics Historical $85K
[#12] Historical field logistics and media acquisition: travel, purchase payments to collectors/publishers for rare materials.
Cyber Infrastructure Setup $40K
[#6] One-time setup for servers, scrape/alert systems, anonymization endpoints, and initial software licenses.
Amnestic Procurement $30K
[#13] One-time procurement/training costs for amnestic agents and administration training.
Training Development $30K
[#15] One-time training and doctrine development for veil operations and researcher training.
Facilities $25K
[#9] Site-19 locker/vault upgrades: upgraded lock/hardware, intrusion alarms, environmental control and installation.
Mental Health Initial $20K
[#14] One-time counseling/debriefing costs for initial responders exposed during operations.
Archival Processing $4K
[#8] Document 6182-Final redaction, secure printing/binding, secure courier and locked logged record creation.
Equipment $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.2M/yr
Staff Wages $820K/yr
[#3, #4, #11] Ongoing salaries+benefits for 2–3 FTE researchers (monitoring and analysis), 6–10 embedded disinformation operatives, and archival/record-keeping staff.
Cover Story And Legal $185K/yr
[#5, #7, #17, #18] Content production/influence buys, ongoing legal fees/retainer draw-downs, PR/cover-story generation and FOIA/record-request handling.
Logistics And Transport $75K/yr
[#16] Standby personnel allowance, travel and rapid-deployment mobilization costs for recontainment/resurgence responses.
Cyber Infrastructure Ops $50K/yr
[#6, #19] Recurring hosting, updates, log retention, anonymization services, persona/account maintenance and software/license renewals.
Supplies And Consumables $30K/yr
[#13, #14] Recurring consumables: replacement amnestic doses, medical follow-up, and ongoing staff mental-health program costs.
Facilities Maintenance $20K/yr
[#9, #10] Annual maintenance for storage locker/vault environmental controls and incremental Site-19 utilities/guard/CCTV overhead.
Research And Monitoring $15K/yr
[#15] Recurring training refreshers and modest research/monitoring program expenses (refresher courses, small equipment replacement linked to research/training).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.2M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Routine year with no re-emergence or major incidents; only steady monitoring, veil operations, legal upkeep and maintenance.
no_reappearance routine_monitoring standard_veil_operations
🚨 Minor Incident $1.3M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Limited re-emergence or localized exposure requiring rapid-response deployment, extra legal/PR actions, and modest emergency operations.
localized_reappearance small_public_discussion_spike targeted_legal_takedowns
🚨 Major Resurgence $3.2M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Significant narrative resurgence requiring wide veil operations, larger legal campaigns, mass content buys and deployment of standby equipment and teams.
widespread_media_resurgence coordinated_public_discussion multiple resistant_observers
🚨 Catastrophic Public Remediation $26.2M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Widespread public exposure/mass memory divergence requiring large-scale remediation: global PR, reissuing corrected editions, mass amnestics and major settlements.
nationwide_memetic_event major_media_cascade legal_class_actions
👥 Personnel 12 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 3 [#3] 2–3 FTE researchers/analysts responsible for monitoring, analysis and small-sample research.
Disinformation Operative / Embedded Agent 8 [#4, #5, #17, #19] Embedded veil operatives conducting online operations, content seeding and persona maintenance.
Archivist / Records Manager 1 [#8, #11] Archivist to maintain catalogue entries, handle access/redaction requests and chain-of-custody logs.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are built from analyst-provided ranges and sensible midpoints; recurring staff and veil operations are reasonably well described, but one-time contingency/response costs and scenario probabilities are highly uncertain, so overall confidence is medium.
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