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SCP-6722 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-6722
Expected annual
$7.0M
One-time setup
$82.1M
Annual recurring
$6.7M
Personnel
10
Initial one-time setup and contingency budget is large (~$82.06M) driven primarily by potential global neutralization campaigns, political fallout mitigation, and acquisition/archival facility builds; recurring annual costs are moderate (~$6.745M/yr) driven by specialist staff wages, covert monitoring/HUMINT, legal/PR retainers and contingency/insurance.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $82.1M
Historical Neutralization Campaign $42.5M
[#25] Historic-operation cost baseline (Operation PIXEL PERFECT analogue) — one-time global neutralization campaign budget (conservative mid-range estimate).
Political Fallout Mitigation Fund $27.5M
[#26] Political/corporate fallout mitigation fund (contingency reserve for diplomatic, governmental or industry reparations) — one-time reserve.
Physical Acquisition Budget $5.0M
[#7] Physical acquisition budget (targeted buyouts of rare dev builds, collector copies, prototype cartridges/discs) — chosen moderate proactive program estimate.
Long Term Research Facility Build $3.0M
[#27] Long-term archival & restricted research access facility build (higher-security research facility) — one-time construction cost.
Facilities $1.3M
[#1] Secure anomalous-research lab buildout (secure consoles, Faraday cages, dampening chambers, climate control, CCTV, secure cabinets).
High Security Vault Build $950K
[#10] High-security archival vault build (hardened storage, climate control, fire suppression, access controls).
Controlled Demanifestation Capacity $550K
[#12] Controlled demanifestation / destruction capacity (certified incineration, secure destruction chain, hazardous-materials processing) — initial capability build budget.
Initial Legal Liaison $550K
[#13] Legal liaison & cover agreements (retain counsel, draft NDAs, negotiate with corporate owners) — initial one-time retainers/agreements.
Equipment $350K
[#2] Thaumaturgic and spectrometric instrumentation (EVE detectors, spectrometers, EM/psi sensors, shielding hardware and initial calibration).
Digital Forensics Tooling $162K
[#6] Digital forensics & sandboxing tooling build/custom development (static/dynamic analysis suites, custom instrumented consoles, secure lab VM images) — one-time build portion.
Archival Digitization And Backups One Time $100K
[#20] Archival digitization & secure backups one-time (high-assurance digital copies, write-once media, offsite encrypted cold storage) — initial digitization/build.
Staff Training One Time $100K
[#21] Staff training, SOPs & documentation one-time development (containment protocols, training simulations, tabletop materials).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $6.7M/yr
Staff Wages $1.5M/yr
[#3, #5] Telepathic/psi operations team salaries and Software reverse-engineering & dev team salaries (psi ops team and 4–6 reverse engineers).
Logistics And Transport $750K/yr
[#8, #9, #17] Covert recovery/seizure posture (~$500k/yr), secure transport and armored courier (annualized estimate of transfers), and per-deployment rapid-response costs averaged into logistics.
Research And Monitoring $650K/yr
[#19] Research program into EVE & memetic architecture (grants, PhD/postdoc stipends, lab consumables for long-term theoretical/experimental work).
Covert Humint $650K/yr
[#15] Covert HUMINT at target developers (recruitment, payments, tradecraft to monitor development environments).
Cover Story And Legal $600K/yr
[#14] Ongoing legal & PR containment retainer, ongoing NDAs, memetic/PR management and takedown readiness.
Insurance And Contingency $550K/yr
[#23] Insurance & contingency reserve (liability insurance, escrow for emergency operation costs).
Long Term Facility Operations $525K/yr
[#27] Operations for long-term archival & restricted research access facility (staffing, utilities, specialized ops).
Rapid Response Retainer $500K/yr
[#17] Rapid-response strike team retainer (standby, mobile lab kits, readiness retainer).
Facilities Maintenance $250K/yr
[#11] Vault operations utilities, maintenance and ongoing facility upkeep (security guard utilities and maintenance portions).
Cyber Monitoring $250K/yr
[#16] Cyber monitoring & threat intel for repositories/marketplaces, automated scanners, takedown operations.
Community Leak Suppression $175K/yr
[#24] Community/leak suppression & disinformation operations (honeytrap uploads, decoy releases, takedown campaigns).
Energy And It Operations $155K/yr
[#18] Energy & IT operations (power, servers, storage, climate control, UPS).
Psychological Medical Support $65K/yr
[#4] Psychological/medical support for psi staff (counselling, psychiatric care, rotations, monitoring).
Digital Forensics Licenses $50K/yr
[#6] Ongoing software licenses & maintenance for digital forensics & sandboxing tooling.
Staff Training Recurring $50K/yr
[#21] Periodic retraining, tabletop exercises and SOP refreshers.
Supplies And Consumables $30K/yr
[#22] Consumables & PPE (EM-safe gloves, tamper-evident bags, archival sleeves, reagents, spare media).
Digital Archival Maintenance $20K/yr
[#20] Archival digitization & secure backups recurring maintenance (offsite storage costs, write-once media upkeep).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $6.7M/yr
93.5% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, research, retainers and standard operations; no major incidents or large-scale retrieval campaigns.
no new public exposure no large-scale finds routine operations
🚨 Minor Incident $7.2M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Single localized discovery or small community leak requiring extra retrievals, one rapid-response deployment, extra legal/PR activity and limited controlled destruction.
civilian finding/disclosure single recovery deployment targeted PR/legal action
🚨 Major Retrieval Campaign $26.7M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$20.0M vs baseline
Large coordinated retrieval/neutralization campaign (international scope) analogous to Operation PIXEL PERFECT requiring substantial one-off expenditure in a given year.
widespread public attention multiple dispersed active copies international seizures required
🚨 Political Exposure $18.7M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$12.0M vs baseline
Containment actions provoke political/corporate fallout requiring large diplomatic payments, reparations, and escalated legal defense.
incident involves major corporation governmental diplomatic pressure public legal action
👥 Personnel 10 total
Role Count Notes
Telepathic Operator / Psi-Agent 5 [#3] 3–5 telepaths plus 1 project lead; staffing estimate included in staff_wages.
Reverse Engineer / Security Researcher 5 [#5] 4–6 reverse engineers and security researchers; salaries included in staff_wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Costs include many high-uncertainty, scenario-dependent line items (unknown number of active copies, potential international operations, and political fallout). Estimates use midpoints where ranges are wide; therefore overall confidence is low.
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