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SCP-6398 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6398
Expected annual
$11.4M
One-time setup
$2.3M
Annual recurring
$10.9M
Personnel
37
One-time setup is moderate (~$2.3M) driven by secure custody facilities, servers, and development of a Foundation-grade monitoring API; recurring annual costs are substantial (~$10.92M/year) driven primarily by staffed SOC/field ops, legal/contingency reserves, and ongoing monitoring/R&D.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.3M
Facilities $770K
[#9, #21, #29] One-time costs for secure containment/cell modifications for D-9332, initial archival/air-gapped storage facility setup, and structural physical-security upgrades at data centers/HQ.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $600K
[#16] Initial R&D lab buildout and instrumentation for psychology/memetic countermeasure research and related human-trial infrastructure.
Equipment $505K
[#2, #5, #10, #18] One-time purchase of dedicated servers/hardware and racks, forensic workstations and mobile seizure kits, hardened hardware wallets/HSMs for custody, and rapid-deploy vehicles / emergency kit hardware.
Software Development $400K
[#1] Foundation-grade secure monitoring & analytics API development (secure coding, QA, cryptographic verification, SOC/IR integration).
Training Curriculum Development $50K
[#17] Initial development of training curricula, simulations, and tabletop exercises for field agents and analysts.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $10.9M/yr
Staff Wages $4.3M/yr
[#3, #6, #15, #9, #13, #28, #19] Salaries and benefits for SOC analysts, field agents, linguists/behavioral analysts, custody guards, in-house legal counsel, data scientists/ML staff, and medical officer(s).
Server Takedown Operations $1.0M/yr
[#22] Reserve/budget for monitoring and takedown/seizure/purchase of physical servers/ISP cooperation and jurisdictional operations.
Market Buyout Reserve $1.0M/yr
[#23] Contingency budget for cryptoeconomic manipulation, token buyouts, or exchange-level interventions to control liquidity or recruitment vectors.
Research And Monitoring $820K/yr
[#1, #4, #16, #28] Ongoing API/cloud ops and maintenance, blockchain/ledger intelligence subscriptions and tooling, recurring R&D budgets, and compute/tooling for ML lexicon detection.
Covert Ops Reserve $500K/yr
[#7] Contingency reserve for covert overseas operations, liaison costs, safehouses, and local assets/bribes per incident or campaign.
Medical Aftercare $500K/yr
[#19] Ongoing psychiatric and medical aftercare for subjects post-amnestic and related follow-up care/rehab programs.
Insurance And Indemnity $500K/yr
[#20] Liability insurance, indemnity funds, and reserves for settlements or quiet compensation tied to seizures/operations.
Logistics And Transport $350K/yr
[#6, #11] Field operations travel, per-diem, vehicle fuel/maintenance, and device seizure logistics plus evidence storage/cataloging costs.
Account Takedown Operations $300K/yr
[#12] Ongoing budget for remote account takedowns, negotiations with providers, legal takedowns, and related technical work.
Redundancy Premium $300K/yr
[#26] Additional staffing/hardware/facility redundancy premium to avoid single points of failure for monitoring/containment.
Cover Story And Legal $250K/yr
[#13, #14] External legal fees and PR/counter-propaganda operations (excludes in-house legal payroll included under staff_wages).
Amnestic Procurement $200K/yr
[#8] Procurement, storage, and medical administration costs for C-Class amnestic doses and related training/consumables.
Custody And Care $200K/yr
[#9] Recurring non-payroll custody costs for D-9332: facility operations, medical care, special access controls and monitored wallet interface operations.
Online Covert Ops $200K/yr
[#27] Community infiltration, undercover moderators, sockpuppet maintenance, and covert online operations budgets.
Facilities Maintenance $185K/yr
[#2, #18, #21, #29] Colocation/cloud fees and datacenter maintenance, safehouse and emergency-kit maintenance/leases, archival refresh/storage refresh, and physical-security testing/maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $135K/yr
[#5, #17, #30] Forensic software renewals and consumables, recurring training cohort costs, and general operational consumables / petty expenses.
Translation And Local Liaison $100K/yr
[#24] Translation/localization and multi-jurisdiction investigation liaison costs.
Device Destruction $20K/yr
[#25] Recurring costs for certified device destruction, sanitization, and environmentally compliant disposal.
Custody Audits $10K/yr
[#10] Recurring audits, maintenance, and ceremonies for multi-sig/HSM/hardened-wallet custody infrastructure.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $10.9M/yr
80.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with routine monitoring, field ops, and planned R&D; no major incidents or high-cost foreign campaigns.
no large-scale gatherings no major leaks steady detection workload
🚨 Minor Incident $11.9M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline
Localized cluster or operational incident requiring surge field response, additional amnestics, and short-term PR/legal work.
small public event escalates multiple simultaneous transfers coordinated recruitment spike
🚨 Major Breach $20.9M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
Large-scale public incident or international campaign (mass violence, large recruitment event, or protracted foreign legal battle) requiring multi-million-dollar covert and kinetic response.
mass public gathering converted to civil unrest international exposure requiring cross-border campaigns sustained campaign to buyout/control market
🚨 Political Exposure $12.9M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Public/official exposure leading to diplomatic/legal fallout, large PR campaign, and expensive settlements or indemnities.
media/whistleblower leak government investigation failed cover-up
👥 Personnel 37 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 Field agents rostered for global tracking, apprehension, and seizure operations. [#6]
Security Officer / Guards 4 24/7 custody guards for D-9332 and secure facilities; counted separately from field agents. [#9]
Security Operations Center Analyst / SOC Analyst 8 24/7 SOC analysts for alert triage and ledger monitoring. [#3]
Research Scientist 4 Linguists, behavioral analysts, and memetics researchers for lexicon decoding and countermeasures. [#15, #16]
Data Scientist / ML Engineer 2 Model development and automated lexicon/transaction flagging. [#28]
Engineer / Maintenance 2 Infrastructure, servers, and custody hardware maintenance. [#2, #10]
Medical Officer 1 Medical administration of C-Class amnestics and aftercare oversight. [#8, #19]
Administrative Staff 2 Admin, logistics, and coordination for field ops and custody. [#30]
Legal Counsel 2 In-house counsel supporting warrants, international law, and containment-related legal actions (external counsel budgeted separately). [#13]
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges and operational requirements so top-level budgeting is reasonable, but many items (covert foreign ops, buyouts, legal outcomes) have high uncertainty and could vary by an order of magnitude, reducing confidence.
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