SCP-6191 — SCP-6191 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6191 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-6191

Expected annual

$32.8M

One-time setup

$80.8M

Annual recurring

$31.9M

Personnel

136

Initial capital and contingency reserves dominate first-year spending (~$79.2M) driven by aircraft options, large contingency/scientific war-chests, secure facilities and lab buildouts; recurring costs are personnel- and operations-heavy (~$31.9M/yr) driven by field teams, OSINT/web operations, legal/compensation, and logistics.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $80.8M

Scientific Contingency Fund $35.0M

[#26] Seed R&D war-chest for rapid escalation scenarios (antimemetic research, large-scale mnestic production, emergency interventions).

Contingency Reserve $17.5M

[#20] General contingency reserve fund for major incidents, asset loss and anomalous escalations.

Aircraft Purchase $9.0M

[#2] One-time capital cost if helicopters are purchased rather than leased (2 medium helicopters at midpoint purchase price).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $5.0M

[#5] Forensic laboratory build-out and purchase of specialized analytical instruments and secure research infrastructure.

Equipment $4.2M

[#1, #3, #4, #6, #23] Regional field vehicles/equipment, tactical & survey drones (incl. spares), secure field evidence kits, mnestic pharmacy/infrastructure, initial medkits.

Facilities $2.3M

[#4, #14] Central secure storage vaults and small secure datacenter/air-gapped vault build (includes offsite redundancy).

Vetting And Clearance $1.5M

[#21] Initial deep-background checks, clearances, and vetting infrastructure for estimated staff.

Legal Contingency $1.0M

[#11] One-off contingency litigation budget for takedowns/settlements/legal emergencies.

Sensor Grid Pilot $1.0M

[#15] Pilot deployment of environmental sensor nodes in hotspot forest zones.

Major Media Campaign Fund $1.0M

[#24] Reserve for one-off major public deception/media campaigns if needed.

Safehouse Outfit $900K

[#22] Outfitting of 6 communication blacksite safehouses for witnesses and investigators.

Webcrawler Development $600K

[#9] Development and initial deployment of OSINT/webcrawler infrastructure and tooling.

Cybersecurity Infrastructure $500K

[#10] Initial hardened systems, air-gapped transfer hardware and secure comms setup.

Data Archival Implementation $500K

[#13] Implementation of multi-jurisdictional immutable timestamping and archival systems.

Field Training Startup $250K

[#1] Startup budget for field-team training program (evidence preservation and anomalous protocols).

Cognitive Training Startup $200K

[#25] Initial curriculum and instructor costs for cognitive countermeasure/mnestic-resistant interviewing training.

Mnestic Ethics Startup $120K

[#7] Curriculum development and ethics board startup for mnestic use and oversight.

Medkit Initial $100K

[#23] Initial purchase of advanced field medkits and training materials.

Decommissioning Protocol Setup $50K

[#28] Initial setup of secure destruction/archival protocols and hazardous-waste handling procedures.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $31.9M/yr

Staff Wages $14.9M/yr

[#1, #2, #5, #6, #7, #9, #10, #14, #17, #18] Salaries for regional field teams (80 agents), pilots/aviation support, research staff (10), psychiatrists & medical technicians, oversight/compliance staff, web/OSINT analysts, infosec team, datacenter security, investigative liaisons, and public-safety liaisons.

Cover Story And Legal $7.6M/yr

[#8, #9, #11, #12, #19, #24] OSINT/web operations (servers & paid amplification), legal retainers and crisis legal fees, witness protection/compensation budget, media monitoring/PR/outreach and public-deception content creation.

Logistics And Transport $3.9M/yr

[#2, #16, #23] Helicopter lease/operation and fuel (baseline leasing), vehicle/field fuel and travel logistics, medevac contracts.

Research And Monitoring $1.8M/yr

[#5, #13, #15, #17, #18, #25, #28] Human-subject trial costs, archival anchoring fees, sensor-grid data processing and satellite tasking, contract lab replication, public-safety training materials, refresher courses, and decommissioning operations.

Administrative Overhead $1.5M/yr

[#27] Office space, procurement, finance, program management, utilities and shell-entity upkeep.

Insurance And Premiums $750K/yr

[#20] Annual insurance/premium-like allocations and allocations toward contingency reserves.

Facilities Maintenance $700K/yr

[#4, #14, #22] Annual operations, energy/cooling and upkeep for vaults/datacenter and safehouses.

Supplies And Consumables $415K/yr

[#1, #3, #4, #6, #23] Drone maintenance/insurance, field-team consumables/vehicle upkeep, evidence consumables, mnestic per-dose materials, and medkit replenishment.

Personnel Monitoring $200K/yr

[#21] Ongoing vetting, continuous monitoring, integrity checks, and background surveillance.

Cybersecurity Operations $150K/yr

[#10] Secure communications licenses, VPNs and ongoing cybersecurity tooling (infosec salaries accounted under staff_wages).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $31.9M/yr

90.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with no major incidents; standard leasing/operational posture and routine investigations.

routine missing-person investigations no large-scale exposure steady incident rate

🚨 Minor Incident $33.9M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Localized containment incident or small spike in retained-memory cases requiring increased relocations, limited litigation and surge operations.

cluster of retained-memory cases targeted investigation requiring extra relocations minor legal/takedown activity

🚨 Major Breach $71.9M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$40.0M vs baseline

Significant escalation: large-scale information exposure, widespread retained memories, or rapid activity increase triggering emergency R&D and use of contingency funds.

mass dissemination of retained-memory accounts major public exposure rapid transmissibility or spike in incidents

👥 Personnel 136 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	80	[#1] Regional rapid-response field teams (20 teams × 4 agents).
Research Scientist	10	[#5] Forensic/research program personnel (10 researchers).
Psychiatrist / Pharmacologist	2	[#6] Full-time psychiatrists to administer and monitor mnestic use.
Nurse / Medical Technician	4	[#6] Medical technicians/nurses for mnestic distribution and monitoring.
Pilot / Aviation Crew	6	[#2] Helicopter pilots and aviation support staff for rapid insertion/extraction.
Infosec / Incident Response	4	[#10] Dedicated cybersecurity / incident response team.
Web/OSINT Analyst / Content Specialist	6	[#9] Webcrawler and OSINT staff (analysts/writers) supporting discrediting operations.
Data Center Security Officer	6	[#14] Physical security staff for investigative data centers / vaults.
Liaison / Evidence Verification	4	[#17] Investigative liaisons and foreign/third-party verification personnel.
Local Law Enforcement Liaison	10	[#18] Public safety coordination and local/state police liaisons.
Administrative Staff / Program Management	4	[#27, #7] Oversight, compliance and administrative staff supporting operations and mnestic oversight.

📋 Confidence Notes

Notes provide extensive line-item estimates for personnel, equipment and contingency funds, allowing middle-range confidence in numeric aggregation; however SCP-6191 is anomalous and non-localized, so incident frequency and scale remain uncertain.

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