SCP-6739 — SCP-6739 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6739 Anomalous ~ medium confidence

SCP-6739

Expected annual

$1.4M

One-time setup

$1.2M

Annual recurring

$1.3M

Personnel

One-time instrumentation, secure storage, and an emergency reserve drive upfront capital (~$1.18M), while full-time research staff, counseling, and various memetic-safety recurring programs drive annual operating costs (~$1.34M/year).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.2M

Emergency Response Reserve $500K

[#24] One-time contingency reserve to mobilize emergency personnel, mass amnestic actions, or large-scale containment if the noospheric effect escalates.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $300K

[#5] Department of Surrealistics Class-⌘ agnostic procurement, prototyping, tooling and specialized device manufacture for residue extraction.

Amnestic Stockpile Initial $100K

[#11] Initial procurement and secure pharmacy-grade storage setup for amnestics stockpile.

Public Leak Contingency Planning $100K

[#21] One-time development of contingency cover stories, PR packages, and scenario planning.

Equipment $65K

[#2, #13] High-resolution surveillance installation and initial encrypted on-premise server/compute procurement.

Training Curriculum Development $45K

[#9] One-time development of memetic/noospheric handling training package and simulation scenarios.

Software Development Initial $35K

[#27] Initial development of memetic tagging, personnel exposure logs, alerting and access-control software.

Facilities $30K

[#17, #18, #19] Temporary experiment staging, secure interview room fit-out and analogue vault/climate-control one-time build/furnish costs.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.3M/yr

Staff Wages $600K/yr

[#4] Full-time research team salaries (PI/research lead, surrealistics specialist, 2 RAs, data scientist) including benefits and overhead.

Counseling Wages $180K/yr

[#8] On-site counselors/therapists (estimated 2 FTE) to treat personnel reporting attachment/distress related to the noospheric absence.

Facilities Maintenance $150K/yr

[#1] Site-400 cafeteria share: utilities, cleaning, HVAC and general maintenance attributable to continued access/use of the cafeteria corner.

Personnel Turnover And Hiring $100K/yr

[#25] Replacement hiring costs, background checks, and additional training aggregated for turnover caused by attachment/compromise.

Supplies And Consumables $66K/yr

[#6, #15, #26, #30] Class-⌘ upkeep & consumables, participant compensation & disposable experimental supplies, residue processing media, and miscellaneous consumables/incidentals.

Cover Story And Legal $60K/yr

[#20, #22] Ongoing legal counsel/internal ethics review and annual PR/legal retainer for cover-up contingencies.

Psychological Monitoring $60K/yr

[#7] Baseline and periodic cognitive/psychological exams (EEG/psychometric testing) and associated staff-hours.

External Consultants $50K/yr

[#16] Fees for philosophers, cognitive scientists, linguists and memetics specialists assisting interpretation and modeling.

Amnestic Replenishment $25K/yr

[#12] Restocking amnestics, medical staff time for administration and monitoring.

Training Refreshers $12K/yr

[#10] Annual refresher courses and new-hire training on SCP-6739 interaction/reporting procedures.

Surveillance Maintenance $10K/yr

[#3] Software licenses, storage, periodic hardware replacement and secure archiving for surveillance systems.

Secure Data Maintenance $10K/yr

[#14] Backups, power, maintenance and cloud/archive costs for encrypted memetic data and analysis pipelines.

Cafeteria Operational Impacts $8K/yr

[#29] Lost revenue and reconfiguration costs during experiments or temporary cordons in the cafeteria.

Software Maintenance $6K/yr

[#28] Ongoing patches, updates and minor feature work for memetic tagging and exposure-tracking systems.

Archival Maintenance $2K/yr

[#23] Upkeep and rotation of analogue vault materials and climate controls for memetic-safe records.

Research And Monitoring $0/yr

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Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.3M/yr

95.0% probability / year

Normal year with steady research, monitoring, counseling and routine maintenance; no major incidents or public exposure.

routine_operations no_incident

🚨 Minor Incident $1.4M/yr

4.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline

Localized personnel attachment cluster or small infohazard requiring targeted response and extra testing, counseling and amnestic use.

unexpected_attachment_cluster localized_infohazard

🚨 Public Exposure Major Response $3.3M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Civilian documentation or viral dissemination forces large-scale containment, mass amnestic administration, PR and legal action and longer lockdown.

public_documentation viral_social_media civilian_images

👥 Personnel 5 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist (PI)	1	Included in staff_wages [#4]; senior research lead overseeing SCP-6739 studies (approx. $150k salary component).
Surrealistics Specialist / Senior Researcher	1	Included in staff_wages [#4]; Department of Surrealistics expert (approx. $120k salary component).
Research Assistant	2	Included in staff_wages [#4]; two RAs supporting experiments and data collection.
Data Scientist	1	Included in staff_wages [#4]; handles annotation, analysis and modelling of conceptual-residue data.

📋 Confidence Notes

Line-item ranges in analyst notes allow reasonable point estimates, but memetic/noospheric behavior and escalation probabilities are uncertain, so confidence is moderate.

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