SCP-6933 — SCP-6933 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-6933 Safe ~ medium confidence

SCP-6933

Expected annual

$929K

One-time setup

$2.0M

Annual recurring

$926K

Personnel

Initial implementation (vaccine rollout, IT development, training materials, and contingency reserve) is a moderate one-time expense; ongoing costs are driven by a small memetics team, monitoring/IT operations, and legal/PR retainers. Expected initial-year spend ~ $2.02M with recurring annual costs ~ $925.75k.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.0M

Memetic Vaccine Initial $600K

[#1] Purchase/preparation of MV-27 doses for entire current workforce (production, QC, sterile packaging) for 5,000 employees.

Contingency Reserve $550K

[#16] One-time contingency/remediation reserve for large-scale public incidents (signage replacement, recalls, reimbursements).

Employee Time Initial $312K

[#13] Lost productivity cost (paying employees during mandatory initial training + vaccination; 1.25 hours × 5,000 employees at loaded $50/hr).

Medical Admin Rollout $300K

[#3] Nurse/medical technician time, observation, records and pharmacovigilance systems for initial mass administration (one-time rollout).

Equipment $145K

[#6, #11, #17, #10] IT/filtering systems and servers (initial procurement), forensic kit/tools, and endpoint keyboard/font deployment hardware/software.

Training Development $40K

[#4] Development and validation of sanitized memetics training modules, controlled demonstration protocols, and vetted sample materials.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $28K

[#12] Psychometric/memetic susceptibility testing tool development/licensing and initial validation (research instruments/startup).

External Monitoring Setup $25K

[#7] Initial setup for OSINT crawlers and monitoring pipelines (automated crawler configuration, storage provisioning, analyst onboarding).

Facilities $15K

[#5] Room modifications and lockable equipment for controlled demonstration environment (air-gap, shielding, physical access controls).

Decommission Policy $5K

[#20] One-time development of secure decommissioning and disposal procedures for contaminated media (policy and SOPs).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $926K/yr

Staff Wages $390K/yr

[#8, #3] Dedicated memetics research/monitoring personnel (3 FTEs fully loaded ≈ $360k) plus ongoing medical administration/pharmacovigilance labor (~$30k/yr).

Incident Response Standby $150K/yr

[#9] Standby capability (training, readiness, travel fund) for rapid mobilization to local outbreaks; per-incident mobilization budgets handled separately.

Cover Story And Legal $125K/yr

[#15] Annual legal/PR retainer for takedowns, crisis PR, and coordination with local counsel.

Memetic Vaccine Production $50K/yr

[#2] Annual production for new hires, boosters, and replacements (covering ~5–10% workforce growth).

Psychometric Testing $50K/yr

[#12] Administration, scoring, and occasional re-testing for memetic susceptibility (~$5–$20/test across new hires/periodic retesting).

External Monitoring Osint $40K/yr

[#7] Ongoing OSINT crawling and human analyst time to track public spread (storage, analyst subscriptions, tooling).

It Ops And Hosting $35K/yr

[#6] Hosting, maintenance, and operational support for site-wide content filter/scanner and related IT systems.

Employee Time New Hires $25K/yr

[#13] Paid time for training/vaccination for annual new hires (estimated at 5–10% workforce growth).

Training Recurring $25K/yr

[#4] Annual refreshes of sanitized training materials and recurrent internal training sessions.

Coordination With Vendors $15K/yr

[#18] Liaison contracts and small vendor agreements with printing houses, signage vendors, and font vendors.

Secure Archival Storage $6K/yr

[#11] Recurring storage/backup costs for secure archives, encrypted offsite backups and access controls.

Minimal Hardware And Energy $6K/yr

[#19] Server energy, hosting fees, and small hardware depreciation for monitoring systems.

Supplies And Consumables $5K/yr

[#14] Printing of controlled exemplars, consumables for controlled sample production, PPE, consumable training materials.

Keyboard Font Support $3K/yr

[#10] Ongoing endpoint support, font licensing refreshes, and minimal device configuration maintenance.

Facilities Maintenance $1K/yr

[#5] Minimal recurring maintenance for controlled demonstration environment and locked media equipment.

Research And Monitoring $0/yr

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Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $926K/yr

94.5% probability / year

Normal year with routine monitoring, vaccinations for new hires, and no public incidents.

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🚨 Minor Incident $946K/yr

5.0% probability / year +$20K vs baseline

Localized public spread detected (small outbreaks in municipal signage or social media memes) requiring targeted mobilization and takedowns.

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🚨 Major Breach $1.4M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$500K vs baseline

Large-scale public contagion or mainstream media replication requiring substantial remediation (signage replacement, recalls, broad PR/legal ops).

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👥 Personnel 4 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist / Memetics Researcher	2	Core memetics researchers conducting audits, experiments, and vaccine efficacy work (part of the 3-FTE team estimate).
Engineer / Data & IT Support	1	Data/IT support for monitoring tools, scanners, and secure archival systems (included in memetics team loaded-cost estimate).
Medical Officer / Nurse	1	Medical staff to administer vaccines and manage adverse-event monitoring (ongoing part-time/admin support reflected in recurring wages).

📋 Confidence Notes

Notes provide explicit ranges for most line items and workforce assumptions, enabling a reasonable estimate; uncertainty remains around frequency/scale of public incidents and the size of contingency/PR spend, so confidence is medium.

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