SCP-6780 — SCP-6780 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6780 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-6780

Expected annual

$14.7M

One-time setup

$38.0M

Annual recurring

$13.0M

Personnel

Initial setup costs are approximately $38M driven primarily by METATRON.aic development, secure storage/medical suite construction, and a large contingency reserve; recurring operations are ~ $13M/year dominated by legal/PR/cover operations, cloud inference compute, amnesticization program costs, and staff wages.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $38.0M

Crisis Contingency Fund $25.0M

[#24] One-time contingency reserve for mass-exposure rapid response (emergency amnestic campaigns, large MTF mobilization).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $10.0M

[#1] METATRON.aic development: initial R&D, model training, software engineering and on-premises integration.

Facilities $2.3M

[#4, #12] High-Yield Data Storage Facility setup and secure medical clinic suite buildout (secure room construction, racks, environmental controls, medical suite equipment).

Backup Power Procurement $350K

[#20] Procurement and installation of diesel generators, UPS banks, and associated electrical work (one-time capital purchase).

Equipment $300K

[#7] Video forensics & redaction tooling development, custom editors/re-encoding pipelines and hash-preservation tooling.

Personnel Training Per Hire $15K

[#17] One-time/per-hire cost for clearance processing and memetic-safety/video-forensics training (representative per-hire figure).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $13.0M/yr

Cover Story And Legal $4.0M/yr

[#10, #14, #21, #22, #28, #30] Legal & platform liaison (in-house + outside counsel retainers), evidence settlement & uploader compensation reserve, public-replacement content production, multi-jurisdictional legal retainers, PR/misinformation suppression activities, and audit/compliance costs.

Staff Wages $2.8M/yr

[#8, #9, #13, #15, #16, #10] Salaries and benefits for video editors/forensic analysts, content-review analysts, MTF field operators, research staff, specialized security, and in-house counsel (combined recurring personnel costs).

Cloud Inference Compute $1.8M/yr

[#2] Continuous AI inference & cloud/GPU compute costs for 24/7 detection, OCR/transcription, and indexing (selected channels -> whole-platform scale increases cost).

Amnesticization Direct Costs Per Year $1.5M/yr

[#11] Per-subject amnesticization direct costs (assumes moderate throughput—representative example: ~500 subjects/year at ~$3,000 avg per subject).

Goi Liaison $500K/yr

[#29] Intelligence, monitoring and liaison costs to track GOI-5889 and manage counter-GOI interactions.

Research And Monitoring $400K/yr

[#15] Ongoing memetic/cognitive research costs (lab experiments, participant fees, data analysis) beyond staff salaries.

Amnesticization Program Overhead $400K/yr

[#11] Program overhead for amnestic clinic operations, medical staff, pharmaceuticals, monitoring and logistics.

Facilities Maintenance $360K/yr

[#5, #20] High-yield storage hosting/maintenance (power/cooling, hardware maintenance) plus recurring fuel & maintenance for backup power systems.

Web Crawling And Api Access $360K/yr

[#3] Bandwidth, storage IO, API access fees, platform partnerships/privileged logs for ingestion and takedown support.

Supplies And Consumables $250K/yr

[#27] Consumables & replacement IT hardware (workstation, GPU refresh cycles), general consumables for operations.

Cybersecurity And Encryption $150K/yr

[#18] IDS/IPS, SIEM, key management, secure authentication and annual security service subscriptions for archives and detection systems.

Monitoring Expansion $150K/yr

[#23] Additional tuning, connectors and platform-specific moderation workflows to expand monitoring to new social platforms.

Mental Health And Occupational Safety $100K/yr

[#25] Counseling, medical surveillance, memetic debriefs and cognitive screening for staff exposed to SCP-6780 content.

Logistics And Transport $85K/yr

[#19] Offline/air-gapped evidence duplication & secure courier transport of physical media between sites.

Forensic Archival And Auditing $75K/yr

[#26] Cryptographic timestamping, legal-grade notarization, immutable logs and routine audits of evidence preservation systems.

Archival Media Refresh $60K/yr

[#6] Periodic tape/drive replacements, duplication, off-site air-gapped duplicates and cold storage refresh cycles.

Personnel Training Program Refresh $35K/yr

[#17] Annual program refresh for memetic-safety and video-forensics training and recurring clearance-related costs.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $13.0M/yr

88.0% probability / year

Normal year with low-to-moderate prevalence, routine monitoring, periodic amnesticization and standard legal/PR activity.

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🚨 Minor Incident $19.5M/yr

10.0% probability / year +$6.5M vs baseline

Localized surge in SCP-6780 instances requiring expanded MTF deployments, elevated amnesticization throughput, and larger-than-normal legal settlements.

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🚨 Major Breach $63.0M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Mass-exposure event or platform-wide propagation requiring large-scale emergency response, extensive amnestic campaigns, international legal operations, and use of contingency funds.

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👥 Personnel 27 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	6	[#13, #16] Field response teams and site security staffing (fully-burdened personnel cost included in staff_wages).
Research Scientist	4	[#1, #15] ML/memetic research staff contributing to METATRON development and memetic studies (included in staff_wages).
Engineer / Maintenance	2	[#4, #20] On-site engineers for archive/server maintenance, backup power systems and infrastructure upkeep (included in staff_wages).
Research Assistant / Lab Technician (forensics)	6	[#7, #26] Forensic analysts and technicians for evidence handling, redaction tooling operation and archival processes.
Content Review Analyst	8	[#8, #9] Human-in-the-loop triage and senior reviewers covering shifts for video/audio verification and takedown decisions.
In-house Legal Counsel	1	[#10, #22] In-house counsel coordinating platform takedowns and compliance (outside counsel retainers captured in cover_story_and_legal).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are based on analyst-provided ranges and reasonable mid-point selections; significant uncertainty exists due to prevalence variability, per-subject amnestic costs, and GOI/platform cooperation—hence medium confidence.

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