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SCP-6295 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-6295
Expected annual
$17.3M
One-time setup
$41.8M
Annual recurring
$16.6M
Personnel
68
Initial containment and capability development require a large upfront investment (~$41.8M) dominated by a contingency reserve and secure vault & capability construction; ongoing operations are expensive (~$16.6M/yr) driven by legal/takedown costs, covert operations, monitoring, and staffing.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $41.8M
Incident Contingency Reserve $20.0M
[#25] Large initial contingency/insurance-equivalent reserve to underwrite catastrophic events and surge responses.
Facilities $12.0M
[#3] Hardened, climate-controlled memetic-safe vault construction and fit-out (layered security, shielding, isolation rooms).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.0M
[#7] Research lab buildout for memetic/literary analysis (safe read rooms, testing rigs, secure comms).
Extradimensional Capability Development $3.0M
[#14] Initial capability/reserve for extradimensional retrievals and training (Wanderer's Library retrieval capability).
Initial Retrieval And Seizure $1.0M
[#2] One-off field operations to locate/purchase/seize and transport existing infected books (travel, seizures, overtime, legal warrants).
Emergency Amnestic Reserve $1.0M
[#6] Dedicated reserve fund for rapid large-scale amnestic/medical response per major incident.
Ai Model Build $500K
[#11] One-time development/build of ML detection models for SCP-6295 activation vectors.
It Build $400K
[#24] One-time build of hardened air-gapped catalog/chain-of-custody database, backups and DR setup.
International Coordination Retainer $250K
[#19] Initial legal retainer to facilitate international coordination and cross-border takedowns.
Legal Retainer Emergency $250K
[#20] Upfront retainer for emergency seizure orders, gag orders, and urgent cross-border litigation.
Training Program Creation $200K
[#21] One-time creation of memetic-safety curriculum and in-person/online training modules for publishers/librarians.
Ppe Initial Procurement $150K
[#22] Initial procurement of field PPE and memetic suppression equipment (suits, filters, sound-cancelling gear).
Equipment $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $16.6M/yr
Staff Wages $5.7M/yr
[#1, #4, #5, #8, #12, #13, #15, #16, #17, #19, #21, #23, #24, #26, #27, #28, #29, #30, #10, #11] Aggregated salary costs across analysts, curators, guards, memeticists, field operatives, covert staff, medical and support staff (split out from line-item totals).
Cover Story And Legal $3.2M/yr
[#9, #17, #19, #27] Ongoing legal settlements/buyouts, PR/cover operations, international coordination payments, and oversight/auditing (non-salary portions).
Compensation Relocation $2.0M/yr
[#18] Buyouts, relocation, witness protection and housing assistance for civilians affected by containment activities.
Research And Monitoring $1.5M/yr
[#1, #8, #11, #23, #29, #30] Continuous monitoring/crawlers, model inference ops, research experiments, audiobook/audio monitoring, translation support, and contingency planning war-gaming (non-salary operational portions).
Covert Ops $1.2M/yr
[#13] Off-books covert surveillance, infiltration, disruption and informant payments (operational, non-salary portion).
Logistics And Transport $700K/yr
[#12, #16] Vehicle/amortization and secure transport/destruction costs for removals and evidence chain-of-custody (non-salary portions).
Outreach Incentive Program $600K/yr
[#28] Grants and financial incentives to publishers for self-policing and redaction work (non-staff portion).
Digital Enforcement $400K/yr
[#10] Online takedown/DRM enforcement, contracts with hosts, takedown request ops and paid partnerships (non-salary portion).
Reintegration And Long Term Monitoring $400K/yr
[#15] Ongoing quarantine, psychiatric treatment, memory stabilization and monitoring (non-salary portion).
Facilities Maintenance $300K/yr
[#4, #3] Vault utilities, environmental controls, routine maintenance and equipment calibration (from vault operations).
Supplies And Consumables $300K/yr
[#5, #22] Baseline amnestic doses, medical supplies and replacement PPE/consumables.
Training Program Operations $120K/yr
[#21] Ongoing costs to run/update publisher/librarian memetic-safety training program (non-salary portion).
It Operations $120K/yr
[#24] Ongoing IT ops, backups, disaster recovery and secure system maintenance (non-salary portion).
Occupational Health $50K/yr
[#26] Non-staff program costs for counseling, memetic-exposure monitoring and burnout mitigation (service/ops portion).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $16.6M/yr
90.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing monitoring, takedowns, research, and routine containment actions.
routine_detections publisher_cooperation no_large_outbreaks
🚨 Minor Incident $20.6M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$4.0M vs baseline
Localized outbreak or a small viral title leading to surge retrievals, amnestic deployments and short-term covert responses.
localized_outbreak publisher_resistance targeted_mass_reads
🚨 Major Incident $28.6M/yr
1.5% probability / year +$12.0M vs baseline
Significant spread (bestseller/viral fanwork) requiring full retrieval operations, mass amnestic administration, legal battles and relocations.
viral_best_seller mass_public_exposure cross_border_distribution
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $56.6M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$40.0M vs baseline
Widespread uncontrolled distribution leading to mass Library entries and multi-site emergency operations.
mass_distribution coordinated_recruitment simultaneous_multi_site_failures
👥 Personnel 68 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 20 [#4, #12, #16] Site guards, field operatives for retrieval and secure transport teams.
Research Scientist 12 [#8, #7] Memeticists, computational linguists and cognitive scientists conducting experiments and prevention work.
Research Analyst / Linguist 10 [#1, #11] Human analysts triaging crawler output, language specialists and model trainers.
Curator / Librarian 3 [#4, #22] Trained memetic-safety librarians and curators for vault operations and handling.
Medical Officer 6 [#5, #6, #15] Medical staff for amnestic administration, emergency clinics and reintegration support.
Engineer / IT Specialist 4 [#24, #11, #1] IT operators, database/air-gap maintenance, and ML infra support.
Administrative Staff 6 [#9, #19, #20, #21] Legal liaisons, contract managers, outreach/admin for publisher coordination and training programs.
Psychological Support Staff 2 [#26, #15] Counselors and occupational health personnel for staff and returned civilians.
Covert Operations Specialist / Intelligence Agent 5 [#12, #13, #14] Covert operatives, informant handlers and retrieval specialists (including extradimensional retrieval training teams).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based directly on analyst line-items with many explicit figures, but large ranges and uncertain outbreak scales (language coverage, public cooperation, extradimensional retrieval frequency) produce moderate confidence.
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