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SCP-6707 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6707
Expected annual
$71.1M
One-time setup
$74.3M
Annual recurring
$68.7M
Personnel
168
Baseline annual operating cost is dominated by personnel, grants/influence operations, and research/monitoring; one-time capital is dominated by seedbank/quarantine facility construction and lab buildouts. Typical yearly operations run tens of millions USD with one-time setup in the tens of millions for a global program.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $74.3M
Facilities $51.0M
[#6, #7, #18] Construction and structural work: hardened seed vault(s), multi-site greenhouse/arboretum construction, localized quarantine physical barriers/checkpoints and associated land compensation, and safehouse/site facility buildout for international operations.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $12.0M
[#8, #6] Research lab buildout and scientific instruments: botany/genomics/metabolomics sequencing rigs, controlled-environment growth chambers, tissue-culture labs and initial biological/materials inventories for seedbank propagation and lab research.
Reserve Fund Seed $5.0M
[#17] Initial seeding of contingency/reserve funds for rapid buyouts, hush money, and emergency international operations.
Equipment $4.3M
[#3, #4, #5, #9, #1, #11, #14, #2] Hardware and installed systems: data center/hardware for imagery processing, cyber-infrastructure/tools, field vehicles and small-craft, rapid-response heavy equipment/helicopter purchase, identity setup tooling, NGO/journal platform infrastructure and archive/publication platforms.
Memetic Research And Development $2.0M
[#13] One-time R&D and capability development for memetic countermeasures, amnestic production R&D and memetic containment tooling.
Off World Research Mission $0
[#19] Optional long-range contingency (off-world seeding/terraforming). Not budgeted in baseline one-time totals; per-mission cost estimated in analyst notes at $50M–$200M if executed.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $68.7M/yr
Staff Wages $18.2M/yr
[#1, #3, #5, #9, #6, #8, #18, #13] Salaries and benefits for embedded operatives, field botanists/ecologists/technicians, rapid-response teams, cyber/security engineers, seedbank/greenhouse propagation staff, lab researchers, and local international staff.
Research And Monitoring $18.0M/yr
[#2, #4, #8, #14] Grant funding and sponsored research programs, satellite imagery leases and processing, climate and genomic research operations, and ongoing fabricated-archive generation for cover narratives.
Program Management Overhead $9.0M/yr
[#20] Program management, senior oversight, auditing and compliance overhead (set to ~15% of baseline operations).
Facilities Maintenance $5.0M/yr
[#6, #7, #15] Ongoing facility maintenance: seed vault HVAC/backup power, greenhouse/arboretum maintenance, quarantine infrastructure upkeep and energy-related maintenance costs.
Cover Story And Legal $4.5M/yr
[#11, #12, #14] PR and media management, front organizations maintenance, lobbying and legal retainers/casework, and operational costs for fabricated publications and narrative engineering.
Supplies And Consumables $4.0M/yr
[#8, #13, #14] Lab consumables and reagents, amnestic production/administration supplies, and materials for archive/fabrication of datasets and publications.
Logistics And Transport $2.0M/yr
[#10, #5, #9] Baseline air freight, refrigerated/secure shipping, charter flights, vehicle fuel/maintenance for sample/specimen movement and field deployments.
International Ops $2.0M/yr
[#18] Recurring costs for covert embassy-level operations: local staff, safehouse upkeep, and country-specific operational expenses.
Emergency Public Health Contingency $2.0M/yr
[#21] Annual budget for public-health/disaster-response contingency, small-scale climate/food-security mitigations and humanitarian cover operations.
Cultural Programs $1.5M/yr
[#16] Long-term cultural and educational programs to shape public perception, curriculum seeding, and museum/exhibit support.
Covert Ops Budget $1.0M/yr
[#3, #12] Recurring black-ops and bribery budgets, covert influence payments, and ongoing cyber manipulation operational funds.
Reserve Replenishment $1.0M/yr
[#17] Annual replenishment allocation for contingency/reserve funds to maintain liquidity for buyouts and emergency operations.
Memetic Administration And Training $500K/yr
[#13] Recurring training, memetic countermeasure administration, and small-scale amnestic operations budget.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $68.7M/yr
76.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with ongoing monitoring, embedded operations, research funding, and maintenance — no major incidents.
routine_monitoring grant_and_field_operations
🚨 Minor Incident $71.2M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Localized discovery or exposure requiring emergency field response, targeted amnestic administration, and localized PR/legal actions.
localized_discovery field_deployment media_attention
🚨 Major Breach $93.7M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Significant public exposure or containment failure requiring large-scale quarantine enforcement, land buyouts, international legal campaigns and humanitarian mitigation.
large_public_exposure quarantine_enactment international_scrutiny
🚨 Off World Seed Mission $188.7M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$120.0M vs baseline
Executive decision to pursue off-world seeding/terraforming research and experimental missions to reproduce SCP-6707 analogs off-Earth.
policy_shift_to_offworld executive_decision terraforming_research
👥 Personnel 168 total
Role Count Notes
Embedded Operative (scientific cover) 35 [#1] Foundation operatives placed inside space agencies, universities and private expeditions.
Field Botanist / Ecologist / Technician 60 [#5] Ground monitoring teams conducting surveys, sample collection, and covert interventions.
Rapid-Response Crew / MTF-like Team 30 [#9] Emergency removal/mitigation teams for specimen removal, containment and eradication operations.
Cyber / Data Operations Staff 8 [#3] Cyber teams developing backdoors, monitoring remote datasets and executing data redaction.
Research Scientist (botany/genomics/climate) 10 [#8] Lab-based research staff for sequencing, metabolomics and climate modelling.
Seedbank / Propagation Staff 5 [#6] Staff for cryopreservation, tissue culture and living collection maintenance.
Administrative / Program Management 6 [#20] Senior management, auditing and program oversight personnel.
Legal / PR Staff 4 [#11, #12] In-house legal and media-management staff coordinating cover operations.
Logistics / Drivers / Pilots 6 [#10] Personnel for specimen/material transport and vehicle operations.
Medical / Amnestic Operators 4 [#13] Personnel trained in memetic containment, amnestic administration and public-health mitigation.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are mid-range selections from wide analyst ranges; many line items are scenario-dependent and optional (e.g., off-world missions) so uncertainty is moderate. Line-item ranges and program scaling introduce variance.
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