SCP-6778 — SCP-6778 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6778 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-6778

Expected annual

$36.1M

One-time setup

$54.5M

Annual recurring

$35.7M

Personnel

Initial capital outlay approximately $54.5M driven by monitoring equipment installs, secure facility retrofit and emergency reserve; annual operating costs about $35.7M driven primarily by MTF staffing, monitoring/IT maintenance, hospital cooperation payments and logistics/medevac.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $54.5M

Monitoring Equipment $30.0M

[#5] One-time purchase and installation of continuous EEG rigs, telemetry and bedside video for targeted network of hospitals.

Emergency Reserve $10.0M

[#21] One-time reserve fund for surge capacity in mass-event scenarios.

Facilities $8.0M

[#1] Secure medically-equipped containment/interview wing retrofit (chosen mid-range retrofit estimate).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.5M

[#11] Lab equipment and neuroscience research capital purchases (EEG workstations, stimulus labs, sample processing).

Data Infrastructure Setup $1.5M

[#6] One-time secure database/ingest/backup setup for EEG/video/interview data.

Medevac Fleet Purchase $1.0M

[#7] One-time purchase/initial capital for air ambulance/charter arrangements and specialized medevac equipment.

Forensic Accounting Setup $1.0M

[#20] One-time setup costs for front organizations, shell companies, and financial obfuscation infrastructure.

Vehicles Fleet Purchase $800K

[#29] One-time purchase of armored vans/ambulances/utility vehicles for domestic retrievals.

Training Setup $250K

[#17] Initial training and simulation setup for MTF & liaison staff.

Archive Initial $250K

[#25] Initial secure archive construction and climate-control for long-term records.

Comms Hardware $200K

[#30] One-time purchase of satcom/encrypted radios and secure field comms hardware.

Equipment $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $35.7M/yr

Staff Wages $9.0M/yr

[#2] Salaries, benefits, hazard pay and overhead for MTF Zeta-28/operators (estimated staffing cohort).

Facilities Maintenance $3.0M/yr

[#5] Ongoing maintenance and servicing of EEG rigs, bedside video, telemetry networks and related infrastructure.

Hospital Cooperation Payments $3.0M/yr

[#13] Payments, reimbursements, stipends, and compensation to hospitals and staff for cooperation and access.

Research And Monitoring $2.5M/yr

[#10] Neuroimaging and research program costs (fMRI/PET sessions, longitudinal cohorts) at a modest multi-center scale.

Global Hospital Liaison Program $2.5M/yr

[#4] Covert liaison hiring, training, travel, and MOU cultivation with hospitals/ICUs worldwide.

On Call Medical Specialists $2.0M/yr

[#3] Neurologists, neuropsychologists, critical care physicians (consulting and part-/full-time hires).

Post Release Medical Support $2.0M/yr

[#9] Ongoing rehab, psychiatric counseling, covert transport and placement support for released patients.

Mnestic Research And Development $2.0M/yr

[#15] R&D budget for developing more effective mnestic protocols and alternative memory-suppression techniques.

Cover Story And Legal $1.5M/yr

[#12, #14] Legal, regulatory, covert compliance and public cover-story/PR maintenance budgets (multi-jurisdictional counsel, obituaries, media suppression).

Logistics And Transport $1.4M/yr

[#7, #29] Recurring patient transport costs (charters, medevac sorties) and ground fleet operations (fuel, maintenance).

Emergency Fund Replenish $1.0M/yr

[#21] Annual replenishment to maintain readiness of emergency reserve for surge events.

Insurance And Risk Reserves $1.0M/yr

[#31] Annual insurance-like reserves and risk buffer for accidental exposures or asset losses.

Data Infrastructure And Storage $800K/yr

[#6] Operational costs for secure encrypted storage, backups, high-throughput ingest and analytics.

Secure It And Opsec $700K/yr

[#23] Cybersecurity, secure comms, intrusion detection and OPSEC for witness/research data protection.

Training And Simulation $500K/yr

[#17] Ongoing training refreshers, simulations, and operator refreshers for MTF and liaison staff.

Forensic Accounting Upkeep $500K/yr

[#20] Ongoing maintenance/upkeep of front organizations, accounting, and slush-fund infrastructure.

Travel And Per Diem $500K/yr

[#22] Recurring travel, per-diem and deployment costs for interview and retrieval teams.

Lab Maintenance $300K/yr

[#11] Maintenance and consumables for neuroscience lab equipment (EEG/MEG access fees, sample processing).

Ethical Oversight $300K/yr

[#26] Internal compliance officers, oversight and internal investigations for morally fraught operations.

Psychological Counseling $250K/yr

[#16] Staff mental-health support, counseling and periodic evaluations to mitigate exposure effects.

Supplies And Consumables $150K/yr

[#28] ICU disposables, PPE, syringes, sterilization and medical consumables scaled to caseload.

Amnestic Procurement $150K/yr

[#8] Production/purchase of Class-A mnestic agents, controlled storage and administration costs.

Secure Sample Transport $150K/yr

[#18] Chain-of-custody couriers, biohazard-compliant shipping and kits for biological samples.

Translation And Linguistic Analysis $150K/yr

[#19] Translators, cultural specialists and folklorists for multi-lingual report processing.

Video Audio Transcription $150K/yr

[#24] Recording, cloud transcription, human QC and indexing of interviews and sessions.

Specialized Investigative Tools $100K/yr

[#27] Funding for field ethnographers, folklorists, mythologists and specialized analysis tools.

Comms Maintenance $75K/yr

[#30] Recurring satcom/radio service fees and field comms maintenance.

Archive Maintenance $60K/yr

[#25] Climate control, physical archive maintenance, and small storage upkeep for long-term records.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $35.7M/yr

88.5% probability / year

Normal operational year with targeted monitoring network and routine caseload; no major incidents or exposures.

steady caseload no breaches routine maintenance

🚨 Minor Incident $37.7M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Localized incident (e.g., small leak, limited exposure, or discovery by local press) requiring legal/PR response, replacement equipment and short-term surge staffing.

small publicity leak localized equipment failure minor regulatory action

🚨 Major Breach $45.7M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Significant containment breach or public exposure requiring major legal defense, extended PR campaigns, large-scale audits and multi-site investigations.

public investigative reporting multi-jurisdictional legal action significant data leak

🚨 Catastrophic Spike $65.7M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$30.0M vs baseline

Sudden widespread spike in SCP-6778 cases among coma patients requiring emergency surge: rapid bed expansion, mass medevac, contractor hires and accelerated research.

mass event/surge regional outbreak of cases simultaneous multi-hospital confirmations

👥 Personnel 40 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	30	[#2] Core MTF operators and security personnel included in staff wages.
Medical Officer / Medic	4	[#2] Embedded medics assigned to the MTF team; staffing covered under staff wages.
Research Scientist / Neuro-specialist Liaison	3	[#2] Neuro liaisons assigned to operations (salaries included in staff wages estimate).
Pilot / Logistics	3	[#2] Pilots and logistics operators for short-range transport (included in staff wages).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are based on analyst-provided ranges and a chosen baseline monitoring footprint (targeted network of ~100–300 hospitals). Uncertainty remains around required monitoring scale, true MTF staffing composition, and frequency/severity of incidents (mnestic effectiveness uncertain), producing a medium confidence rating.

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