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SCP-6747 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-6747
Expected annual
$72.5M
One-time setup
$616.4M
Annual recurring
$69.0M
Personnel
80
Estimated one-time capital of approximately $616.4M driven by hardened underground facilities, vessel/HPC fabrication, contingency and emergency reserves; ongoing annual operations run roughly $69.0M/yr dominated by staffing, energy, multi-bubble maintenance and legal/insurance/secrecy costs.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $616.4M
Contingency Reserve $200.0M
[#31] Large contingency/escalation reserve for unknown unknowns, novel physics, emergent memetic properties and legal fallout.
Facilities $150.0M
[#1] Reinforced underground lab construction with memetic-resistant architecture, Faraday/EM shielding, dead-rooms, airlocks, blast/EMP hardening and redundant physical isolation.
Equipment $108.0M
[#2, #4, #5, #9, #15, #19, #27] Capital hardware: onsite power/substation equipment, █X-MCD/II vessel R&D & fabrication, quantum/HPC racks, vehicles & transport gear, mesofictional session hardware, fail-safe/destructive containment hardware, and decommissioning-related hardware.
Emergency Response Reserve $100.0M
[#20] Reserve fund for emergency response, rapid deployment quarantine teams, cleanup and covert sheltering set-aside.
Secrecy Markup One Time $41.3M
[#30] One-time secrecy premium (~15% uplift applied to capital procurement to account for covert sourcing and procurement markups).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $11.1M
[#6, #8, #11, #13, #17, #23, #24] Data storage cold-vault & off-site replication setup, clinic fit-out, initial training program, rehab/long-term-care initial expenses, initial consumables stock, initial vetting costs, and narrative/archive library setup.
Memetic Containment Initial $3.0M
[#14] One-time buildout of bespoke memetic/information-hazard containment filters, analog quarantines and memetic-proof documentation tools.
Legal Cover Initial $2.0M
[#22] Initial legal retainers, front-company setup, procurement shells and initial cover-story creation costs.
Special Shipments One Time $1.0M
[#29] One-time special secure shipments / transport of vessel components and hazardous materials.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $69.0M/yr
Staff Wages $12.0M/yr
[#7] Scientific staff salaries (physicists, memetics specialists, narratologists, neurotech engineers, cognitive scientists, senior leads) estimated for ~40–100 FTEs.
Research And Monitoring $11.6M/yr
[#5, #6, #14, #16, #18, #25, #26] HPC / memetic compute ops, data storage operations, memetic containment upkeep, creative/memetic operator labor, red-team testing, inter-CB redundancy overhead for additional micro-universes, and long-term telemetry/analytics.
Secrecy Markup Recurring $9.0M/yr
[#30] Recurring secrecy/ procurement premium (~15% uplift applied across recurring operational procurements).
Facilities Maintenance $6.0M/yr
[#3, #10] Continuous energy/cooling/cryogen replenishment and specialized containment engineering & maintenance for field coils, vacuum systems and stabilizers.
Human Subjects Program $5.0M/yr
[#12] Compensation, insurance and program-level costs for testing and shared-imagination participants.
Insurance And Indemnity $5.0M/yr
[#21] Internal insurance/indemnity budgets to cover containment failures, liabilities and covert settlements.
Cover Story And Legal $4.0M/yr
[#22] Ongoing legal retainers, front companies, procurement shells, false records and operational secrecy maintenance.
Security Personnel $4.0M/yr
[#9] 24/7 armed security personnel salaries, vetting and routine access-control operations.
Supplies And Consumables $3.0M/yr
[#17, #15] Experimental consumables (cryogens, superconductors, replacement components) plus routine maintenance of mesofictional session hardware.
Clinical Staff And Medical $3.0M/yr
[#8] Clinical staff salaries and medical infrastructure operational expenses for ICU-capable care, psychiatry and post-reinstatement care.
Rehabilitation And Longterm Care $2.0M/yr
[#13] Ongoing medical/psychological/social reintegration and identity/legal cover for reinstated individuals.
Vessel Operations Crew $1.5M/yr
[#11] █X-MCD/II crew salaries, simulator time, certifications and ongoing training.
Administrative Overhead $1.2M/yr
[#28] HR, finance, facilities and procurement day-to-day administrative costs.
Fail Safe Upkeep $500K/yr
[#19] Upkeep for fail-safe destructive containment hardware, EMP systems and protocol maintenance.
Personnel Vetting $500K/yr
[#23] Continuous monitoring, polygraphs, psychological monitoring and lifestyle audits.
Logistics And Transport $400K/yr
[#29] Travel, secure transport and routine logistics between sites (secure couriers, personnel transfers).
Archive And Library Maintenance $300K/yr
[#24] Ongoing archive curation, licensing and narrative-crafting library maintenance.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $69.0M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal operating year with no major incidents; routine maintenance, staffing, energy and monitoring costs.
routine_operations no_breach standard_reinstatements
🚨 Minor Incident $74.0M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Localized memetic contamination, small CB instability or equipment failure requiring repair, limited amnesticization and short-term shutdown.
localized_memetic_outbreak equipment_failure small_CB_unstable
🚨 Major Breach $219.0M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$150.0M vs baseline
Containment failure or vessel-related catastrophe requiring large-scale emergency deployment, decommissioning actions, high-cost settlements and major repairs/rebuild.
vessel_malfunction CB_collapse widespread_narrativohazard
👥 Personnel 80 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 40 [#7] General research scientists and physicists performing daily CB experiments and simulations.
Memetics Specialist 10 [#7] Specialists tasked with memetic filtration, protocols and narrative safety.
Narratologist 8 [#7] Creators/analysts of narrative topologies and story injection design.
Neurotech Engineer 12 [#7] Engineers maintaining neural interfaces, KING integration and session hardware.
Senior Research Lead 10 [#7] Project leadership and senior oversight for research and safety.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges enabling a reasoned midpoint estimate, but critical technical unknowns (power draw, number of reinstatements, CB stability) and the program's experimental nature leave appreciable uncertainty.
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