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SCP-6713 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6713
Expected annual
$113.5M
One-time setup
$516.0M
Annual recurring
$104.7M
Personnel
30
One-time capital and contingency reserves dominate the budget (~$516M) while ongoing covert access, cyber-ops, bribery, and specialist staffing drive annual costs (~$105M/yr). Main drivers are bribery/slush reserves, infiltration agents, cyber and special-ops capabilities, and contingency funds for major exposures.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $516.0M
Contingency Reserve $200.0M
[#18] Large strategic reserve for mass buyouts, global disinformation, settlements, or emergency worldwide operations.
Bribery Slush Fund $100.0M
[#2] Initial multi-year covert fund to enable large hush payments, bribes, and major payoffs (estimate in $50M–$200M range).
Decommission Reserve $100.0M
[#30] Reserve for eventual decommissioning, legacy costs, legal settlements and long-term wind-down (concrete reserve estimate).
Equipment $45.0M
[#3, #7, #17] HPC cluster purchase, cyber-operations hardware and tooling, and special-ops equipment/training range fit-out.
Facilities $33.0M
[#5, #6, #11, #26] Observatory purchases/leases, SCIF-like data center build-outs, leased/owned ground stations, and infrastructure for public-facing misinformation facilities.
Physical Seizure Operations $15.0M
[#4] One-time costs to acquire long-term control of key observatories (setup/staging/occupation for 5–10 sites).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $10.0M
[#21] Experimental laboratory setup for tabletop/medium-scale particle/quantum experiments (vacuum chambers, cryogenics, sensors).
Crisis Contingency Reserve $10.0M
[#12] One-time contingency budget to seed rapid-response crisis operations (supplemental to annual forensic/PR team).
Legal Setup $2.0M
[#13] Initial formation of shell-company/legal infrastructure and international legal setup costs.
Financial Infrastructure Setup $1.0M
[#23] One-time accounting, insurance placement, and financial obfuscation tooling / setup.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $104.7M/yr
Clandestine Bribery $20.0M/yr
[#2] Ongoing hush payments, targeted bribes, and influence operations (medium-scale estimate within $5–50M/yr range).
Contingency Replenishment $20.0M/yr
[#18] Annual replenishment to maintain large contingency reserves for major incidents.
Cover Story And Legal $12.5M/yr
[#12, #13, #14, #24] Legal operations, forensic/PR rapid-response, media manipulation, and diplomatic liaison/bribery budgets for cover narratives and suppression.
Infiltration Program $9.0M/yr
[#1] Recruiting, cover identities, salaries and support for ~30 embedded agents in space agencies/observatories (baseline 30 agents).
Cultural Cover Granting $6.0M/yr
[#28] Grants and funding for visible scientific programs used as cultural cover (planetary science PR, outreach).
Research And Monitoring $5.5M/yr
[#10, #22, #27] Continuous monitoring tasking, grants/co-option funding for cover research, and existential-risk modelling / scenario planning.
Special Ops Maintenance $5.0M/yr
[#17] Standing readiness, training, and maintenance for on-call special-ops tactical teams.
Facilities Maintenance $4.7M/yr
[#6, #7, #11, #20] Data-center/HPC upkeep (power/cooling/repairs), ground-station leases/ops, and related facilities utilities.
Staff Wages $4.5M/yr
[#8] Salaries & benefits for the dedicated research group (senior scientists, postdocs/technicians) interpreting data and advising containment.
Hpc Operations $3.0M/yr
[#7] Rental/allocated national-lab time and maintenance/power for simulation and large-scale analysis.
Experimental Operations $3.0M/yr
[#21] Annual operating costs for specialized experimental setups (cryogens, sensors, accelerator time).
Cyber Ops Operations $2.0M/yr
[#3] Ongoing offensive/defensive cyber team operations, backdoor maintenance, and code-deployment costs.
Personnel Long Term Costs $2.0M/yr
[#25] Long-duration welfare for embedded agents: mental health, identity maintenance, retirements, and replacements.
Software Engineering $1.8M/yr
[#9] Salaries & tooling for software engineers and data scientists building automated sanitization pipelines.
Financial Overhead $1.5M/yr
[#23] Insurance, accounting, obfuscation overhead and maintenance of financial front networks.
Amnestic Program $1.2M/yr
[#15] Ongoing costs for medical/psychological services, amnestic administrations, monitoring and secure detainment.
Misinformation Upkeep $1.2M/yr
[#26] Ongoing maintenance of fake datasets, faux institutions and controlled discoveries to distract public/scientific attention.
Logistics And Transport $600K/yr
[#16] Secure transport, charter flights, secure couriers and logistics for moving sensitive media and personnel.
Red Team Audits $600K/yr
[#29] Periodic independent audits, penetration tests, and reassessments of suppression apparatus.
Commercial Tasking $300K/yr
[#5] Recurring costs to task niche commercial deep-space imagery providers and occasional observation purchases.
Supplies And Consumables $250K/yr
[#19] Ongoing archival storage and media-retention consumables (per-PB storage costs).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $104.7M/yr
70.0% probability / year
Normal year with steady-state operation: monitoring, infiltration, cyber ops, grants, and reserve replenishment with no major public exposures.
no_major_exposure routine_operations
🚨 Minor Incident $109.7M/yr
25.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Localized exposure or leak requiring rapid legal/PR response, targeted amnestics, small special-ops, and bribery payments to contain.
whistleblower_leak localized_data_exposure
🚨 Major Breach $254.7M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$150.0M vs baseline
Significant public disclosure or breach (journalistic exposé, major observatory compromise) requiring kinetic operations, large settlements, and heavy contingency spending.
global_media_exposure multi-site_data_leak failed_containment_operation
👥 Personnel 30 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 15 [#8] Senior research staff included in research salary budget.
Postdoc / Technician 15 [#8] Postdocs and technical staff included in research salary budget.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are analyst-level midrange choices based on provided ranges; many costs (bribery, contingency reserves, frequency of incidents) are intentionally uncertain and scenario-dependent, so precision is limited.
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