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SCP-6874 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-6874
Expected annual
$1.3M
One-time setup
$433K
Annual recurring
$1.3M
Personnel
12
One-time capital costs are moderate (~$433k) for a hardened morgue/test chamber and equipment; annual costs are dominated by mandated family payments (≈$266.7k/person/year) plus staffing, security, research, and contingency, producing a baseline annual operating cost of ~$1.29M.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $433K
Facilities $175K
[#3, #5, #11, #20] Mortuary cold-room / room reconfiguration and hardened test/playback chamber and limited secure vault buildout; includes structural installation and room remodels (combined estimate of morgue install, exclusion-zone remodel, test chamber construction, small vault allocation).
Equipment $143K
[#3, #4, #5, #6, #9, #10, #21, #22] Hardware purchases: heavy-duty freezer/gurney, UPS/generator initial purchase, lockers/banks, handheld RF/phone detectors and walk-through screening station, sensor suite, Faraday/quarantine boxes, radios and initial device-management tooling, and archival server/hardened storage equipment.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $80K
[#10, #13, #18] Forensic/decontamination bench buildout, initial full-panel biological analyses and instrumentation for memetic/AV analysis, and initial SOP/training program development costs.
Front Company Setup $15K
[#2] One-time legal/setup costs to establish shell company and corporate registrations to route compensatory payments.
Transport One Time $10K
[#19] Per-move one-time contingency for armored/refrigerated secure transfer setup (reserve for an infrequent relocation).
It Device Management Initial $10K
[#21] Initial enterprise device-management, whitelisting, and software/hardening setup to ensure no-video compliance in controlled areas.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.3M/yr
Staff Wages $600K/yr
[#8, #12] Salaries/benefits for on-site security guards (24/7 coverage with relief), research staff (memetics/AV analysts), pathologist and laboratory technician time allocated as recurring payroll.
Family Payments $267K/yr
[#1] Mandated compensatory payments: 3,000,000 JPY/month ≈ $22,225/month ≈ $266,700/year per surviving family member; baseline assumes 1 recipient (cost scales linearly with recipients).
Incident Response Budget $100K/yr
[#17] Standby rapid-response team costs (training, vehicle, on-call pay) and emergency overtime for retrieval/lockdown in case of uncontrolled exposures.
Counseling And Liaison $92K/yr
[#15] Staff counseling contract (~$5k–$20k/yr) plus a dedicated family-liaison officer salary (~$60k–100k/yr); combined estimate includes both counseling services and liaison FTE (liaison salary funded here).
Research And Monitoring $75K/yr
[#9, #12, #10] Ongoing memetics/AV research projects, sensor monitoring subscriptions/maintenance, per-device processing costs and periodic research studies and experiments.
Contingency Risk Premium $50K/yr
[#24] Emergency reserve for unknown anomalous escalation (10–30% recommended); set here as a modest fixed reserve to cover unexpected legal/research/containment needs.
Front Company Maintenance $30K/yr
[#2] Ongoing bookkeeping, nominee/director fees, audits, compliance and legal retainer to launder/justify monthly transfers via front company.
Logistics And Transport $20K/yr
[#19] Annual contingency for refrigerated/secure transports, escorts and vehicle maintenance for occasional moves.
Cover Story And Legal $20K/yr
[#16, #2] PR/cover-story contingency and legal retainer work to manage public inquiries and maintain front-company/nominee services (separate from one-time setup).
Supplies And Consumables $13K/yr
[#13, #14, #23] Recurring lab reagents/assays follow-ups, PPE (gloves/gowns/masks) monthly, biohazard waste disposal, and minor operational supplies (tape, covers, cleaning).
Archival Storage And Classification $10K/yr
[#22] Annual secure storage, INFOHAZARD handling overhead, audits and personnel vetting for classified archives and logs.
Facilities Maintenance $7K/yr
[#4] Electricity, UPS maintenance and generator fuel/testing and small morgue environmental-control upkeep.
Training And Sop Refresher $3K/yr
[#18] Annual refresher training, SOP updates, and periodic drills.
It Device Management Maintenance $3K/yr
[#21] Recurring device-management subscription/licensing and support to enforce no-video policies and maintain encrypted voice-only comms.
Lockers Admin Overhead $2K/yr
[#7] Administrative overhead for locker program, badge/audit logs and access-control maintenance.
Device Detection Maintenance $1K/yr
[#6, #9] Annual calibration/service for handheld RF detectors, magnetometers, and sensor arrays.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.3M/yr
94.5% probability / year
Normal year with steady containment, routine research, and monthly family payments to a single recipient; no incidents.
no incidents payments maintained standard research and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $1.4M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Localized uncontrolled device exposure or small containment lapse requiring emergency response, overtime, short PR/legal costs and extra testing.
unsecured device within 4 m discovered limited public inquiry / local leak
🚨 Major Breach $1.8M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Significant public exposure or multiple-device uncontrolled playback leading to major PR/legal response, possible disposal decision and expanded containment actions.
widespread leakage of affected media political/legal exposure or litigation decision to dispose or perform large-scale remediation
👥 Personnel 12 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 8 24/7 coverage with relief and supervisory rotations; salaries included in staff_wages.
Research Scientist 2 Memetics/AV analysts and senior researchers included in staff_wages.
Pathologist 1 Full-time or long-term-assigned pathologist for corpse study; salary included in staff_wages.
Laboratory Technician 1 Bench technician supporting sampling and assays; salary included in staff_wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates use midpoints of wide ranges in the analyst notes; family-payment unit cost is well-defined but number of recipients is unknown and was assumed as one for the baseline. Many equipment and staffing ranges are broad and memetic/INFOHAZARD response costs are inherently uncertain, so overall confidence is medium.
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