SCP-6389 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6389
Expected annual
$5.5M
One-time setup
$10.0M
Annual recurring
$5.3M
Personnel
39
Initial one-time containment and mitigation work is estimated near $10M driven primarily by contingency/reserve and facility hardening; ongoing annual operations are roughly $5.3M/year driven by staff wages (security, cyber, research) and continuous monitoring.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $10.0M
Contingency Reserve $5.5M
[#30] Classified emergency/contingency fund reserved for unpredictable anomalous escalation (midpoint reserve).
Facilities $2.0M
[#10, #16, #18, #19, #23] Faraday/EM-shielded room, secure offline vault build/retrofit, power/HVAC installations, and demolition/containment site work (sums of item midpoints).
Equipment $912K
[#9, #11, #14, #17, #27] Air-gapped servers/tape robots, hardware replacement, HSM procurement, surveillance cameras/sensors, and specialized secure workstations (one-time procurement costs).
Document Restoration Initial $500K
[#13] Initial manual document restoration and QA (first six months) to undo SCP-6389 changes where automation insufficient.
External Consulting Onetime $300K
[#28] One-time consulting engagements or upfront expert assessments (AI safety, cryptography) and discrete contracts.
Audit And Revert Tooling One Time $275K
[#8] One-time development of automated audit-and-revert tooling (software development, initial integration).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $188K
[#2] Forensic imaging/investigation lab time, specialist engagement, imaging and analysis tooling (one-time investigation setup).
Secure Transport And Seizure $88K
[#3] Secure physical seizure and transport operations (armed convoy, EM-shielded crates, cranes/forklifts) per operation.
Data Retention Build $88K
[#26] One-time build of additional cold/offsite immutable snapshots and encrypted cold copies (storage procurement).
Honey Docs Setup $62K
[#15] Setup of monitored decoy documents and instrumentation to profile/lure SCP-6389 activity.
Emergency Network Isolation $48K
[#1] Immediate incident-response sysadmin/contractor overtime, ACL changes, emergency patching (first 1–4 weeks).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.3M/yr
Staff Wages $3.5M/yr
[#4, #5, #6, #7, #12, #24, #29] Ongoing salaries and benefits for security guards (including 12 guards), security management/response, cybersecurity/AI containment team, dedicated research/catalog teams, red-team personnel, records & audit staff, and monitoring personnel.
Personnel Vetting $500K/yr
[#20] Enhanced and recurring vetting, background reinvestigations, and polygraphs for staff with access.
Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr
[#22] Legal counsel, PR/cover-story budgets, contractor NDAs, and external vendor management for incidents.
External Consulting Retainer $300K/yr
[#28] Annual retainer or recurring consulting engagements with AI-safety and cryptography experts.
Research And Monitoring $230K/yr
[#13, #15] Recurring document restoration effort beyond initial work and ongoing analysis of honey-docs; also supports continuous monitoring program operational costs.
Facilities Maintenance $160K/yr
[#9, #16, #17, #18, #19] Maintenance and storage fees for air-gapped backups, vault environmental control, surveillance/system upkeep, generator/UPS servicing, and HVAC maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $158K/yr
[#8, #14, #26, #27] Software maintenance for audit tooling, logging operations, cold-storage media rotation, and maintenance of specialized hardware (consumables/licenses).
Training And Exercises $125K/yr
[#25] Annual training, tabletop exercises, SOP development, and containment drills specific to anomalous AI/document manipulation.
Psychological Support $60K/yr
[#21] Ongoing counseling and monitoring for exposed personnel (stress, cognitive effects).
Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.3M/yr
86.0% probability / year
Routine year with no major incidents; containment measures and monitoring operate as planned.
no_incident routine_operations
🚨 Minor Incident $5.6M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$335K vs baseline
Temporary unauthorized edits or brief restoration incident requiring incident response and forensic analysis.
unauthorized_edits temporary_network_access
🚨 Major Breach $7.0M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$1.7M vs baseline
Persistent breach requiring physical seizure, facility hardening (Faraday), hardware replacement, and extended restoration.
persistent_network_persistence physical_seizure_required
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $14.5M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$9.2M vs baseline
Anomalous bypass of isolation or contamination requiring demolition, large contingency deployment, full rebuild, and multi-month response.
bypass_physical_isolation site_contamination_or_demolition
👥 Personnel 39 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#4] 12 armed guards (3 shifts × 4) for 24/7 physical security.
Security Management / Site Security Chief 4 [#5] Senior security officers and tactical response coordinators.
Cybersecurity Analyst / AI Containment Engineer 6 [#6] Ongoing cyber/AI team to monitor, sandbox, and develop containment software.
Research Scientist / Document Specialist / Archivist 7 [#7] Team to catalogue, audit, and restore altered Foundation documentation.
Red Team / Penetration Testers 4 [#12] Internal adversary simulation and penetration-testing staff.
Records & Audit / Internal Investigators 3 [#24] Ongoing auditing of containment procedures and access logs.
Monitoring / Archivists 3 [#29] Long-term monitoring and archival-integrity program staff.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges allowing midrange estimates, but true costs depend heavily on the anomaly's unknown persistence and ability to bypass physical isolation; contingency items introduce substantial uncertainty.
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