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SCP-6681 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6681
Expected annual
$2.7M
One-time setup
$3.9M
Annual recurring
$2.6M
Personnel
17
Baseline recurring costs are approximately $2.58M/year driven mainly by personnel (embedded agent, QRF standby, AI/legal teams) and digital censorship; one-time capital and episodic response costs (rights acquisition, recovery missions, forensic work) add several million up front.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.9M
Rights Acquisition $1.5M
[#13] Optional purchase/control of film/photograph rights (Chaplin estate / archives) to avoid continual takedown; large one-time potential cost.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.0M
[#21] Initial lab buildout / capability acquisition for a basic research program (bench/translational capability; optional high-end research capital treated as initial capability).
Witness Management $300K
[#15] One-time witness management/amnestics budget for initial cohort (medical administration, counselling, follow-up); example-sized program funding.
Historical Recovery And Mtf Operation $285K
[#5] Retrospective two-month MTF tracking/recovery mission (sniper observation, stakeouts, transport, field medical, lodging).
Film Reel Retrieval And Sanitization $175K
[#12] Covert acquisition/restoration/conservation of problematic film reels, rights/payments, restoration and secure archiving/destruction of originals.
Equipment $149K
[#2, #9, #18] Surveillance installation (cameras/sensors/backhaul) plus initial small incremental Wells hardware/deployment and embedded-agent training equipment.
Facilities $120K
[#7] Fit-out or allocation of a secure refrigerated vault/case and environmental control/monitoring for remains/artifacts (one-time construction/fit-out cost).
Physical Archival Campaign $120K
[#11] Multi-month physical archival censorship campaign (field teams, conservators, discreet document replacement, travel/bribes) — one-time campaign cost.
Cover Story And Local Payments One Time $110K
[#14] Immediate one-time cover-story PR, discretion payments, local official/funeral staff payments to shape initial narrative after incidents.
Forensic Cleanup And Autopsy $80K
[#6] Crime scene work, BSL autopsy, forensic analysis, biohazard cleanup, chain-of-custody processing and short-term quarantine of remains.
Cemetery Cooperation Package One Time $50K
[#19] One-time compensation / modest infrastructure repair fund for Corsier-sur-Vevey cemetery to secure cooperation and repair costs.
Archive Restoration $34K
[#20] Restoration/conservation of burned/charred documents, multispectral imaging and digitization (one-time).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.6M/yr
Staff Wages $1.3M/yr
[#1, #4, #9, #10, #16] Salaries and benefits: embedded cemetery operative, standby/QRF personnel rotations, portion of Wells engineering/ops staff, digital takedown legal/human reviewers, occult/cult-monitoring analysts and conservator rotations.
Cover Story And Legal $305K/yr
[#10, #14] Digital takedown / legal operations (platform liaison, subcontractors, non-wage takedown costs) plus ongoing local liaison/discretion stipends.
Contingency Fund $300K/yr
[#24] Reserved annual contingency for rapid escalation (viral leaks, legal emergencies, emergency buy-outs, large PR responses).
Logistics And Transport $200K/yr
[#4, #17, #23] Vehicle leasing/fuel/maintenance for QRF readiness, recurring artifact-recovery mission fund (~100k/yr), and travel/rotation costs for specialists (archivists/forensic visits).
Wells Ops $200K/yr
[#9] Recurring non-salary AI ops costs (cloud credits, model retraining, secure hosting redundancy) assuming incremental ongoing operation.
Research And Monitoring $198K/yr
[#8, #16] Long-term biobank/sample curation and recurring non-salary operations for occult/cult-monitoring (sample checks, cataloguing, periodic field ops support).
Energy And Data Center $32K/yr
[#22] Power, UPS, cooling, and hosting costs attributable to Wells compute and remote sensor sites.
Supplies And Consumables $26K/yr
[#11, #18] Ongoing small budget for physical archival maintenance/campaign tail work (~20k/yr) and recurring training consumables / re-certification for embedded agent (~3k–8k/yr).
Facilities Maintenance $19K/yr
[#7] Ongoing environmental control, monitoring and maintenance for secure vault/storage (climate control, monitoring systems).
Cemetery Stipend $10K/yr
[#19] Annual stipend to cemetery administration for cooperation and extra workload.
Surveillance Maintenance $8K/yr
[#3] Recurring maintenance, replacement, power and comms for grave sensors, NVR/cloud storage and tamper detection.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.6M/yr
81.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, embedded agent operations, and scheduled censorship/maintenance activity.
no_major_incidents regular_censorship_activity
🚨 Minor Incident $2.8M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
An isolated surface event (mask/replica appears, small local media attention) requiring a targeted recovery mission, limited amnestic use and PR/legal takedown surge.
mask_surface local_media_report small_recovery_mission
🚨 Major Breach $3.8M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline
Widespread public exposure or high-profile investigative attention requiring large emergency operations: multiple missions, large amnestic campaigns, emergency legal payouts and intensified PR.
viral_leak major_journalistic_investigation coordinated_occult_operation
🚨 Rights Acquisition Or Research Scaleup $5.1M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Foundation chooses to buy controlling rights / or immediately scale into active research (major one-time capital purchases and program funding in that year).
strategic_rights_purchase initiation_of_full_research_program
👥 Personnel 17 total
Role Count Notes
Embedded Foundation Agent (Cemetery Operative) 1 [#1] Full-time undercover cemetery staff member; wages/benefits/housing included in staff_wages.
Security Officer / MTF Agent (QRF standby) 6 [#4] On-call rapid response team (4–8 operatives); staffed on rotation and paid via staff_wages line item.
Wells / AI Engineer / Ops 3 [#9] Engineers and ops staff supporting Learning Computer Zeta-92; part of staff_wages allocation for recurring AI operation support.
Digital Takedown / Legal Staff 4 [#10] Multilingual legal/takedown coordinators and human reviewers accounted for in staff_wages; non-wage takedown costs are in cover_story_and_legal.
Occult/Cult Monitoring Analysts / Field Operatives 2 [#16] Analysts and occasional undercover field operatives for HUMINT and monitoring; wages included in staff_wages with operations in research_and_monitoring.
Archivist / Conservator (rotational) 1 [#11, #20] Specialist conservator/archivist who rotates for physical record interventions and document restoration; wages included in staff_wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes enumerate many explicit line items with ranges, allowing a reasoned budgetization, but several high-cost items are optional (rights acquisition, full research program) and some recurring splits (wages vs ops) required judgment calls; therefore medium confidence.
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