SCP-6965
Unknown
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low confidence
SCP-6965
Expected annual
$15.7M
One-time setup
$16.1M
Annual recurring
$15.5M
Personnel
122
Estimated one-time setup and capital costs are approximately $16.1M, dominated by vault construction, lab/compute/archival buildout, and a contingency reserve. Annual operating costs are approximately $15.48M driven primarily by staff wages (security/MTF/clinicians), continuous monitoring/takedowns, memetic deprogramming, D-class testing programs and interagency/cover operations.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $16.1M
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $15.5M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$15.5M/yr
Normal year with no major incidents; routine operations, monitoring, deprogramming, and readiness maintained.
no major leaks
regular monitoring/takedowns
routine research and staffing
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Minor Incident
$16.0M/yr
Limited leak or localized exposure requiring medical response, targeted takedowns, legal action and increased short-term monitoring.
localized public exposure
small-scale memetic spread
targeted takedown/legal action
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Major Breach
$20.5M/yr
Significant containment failure or coordinated leak leading to multi-jurisdiction takedowns, large-scale deprogramming and sustained interagency operations.
mass distribution of SCP-6965-A/B
cross-border dissemination
extended MTF and covert operations
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Political Exposure
$30.5M/yr
High-impact sociopolitical fallout where memetic content influences public/political actors widely, requiring activation of contingency reserves and long-term covert/legal remediation.
nationwide political contagion
major litigation or public scandal
activation of contingency reserve
Personnel
122 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Security Officer / Guard | 12 | [#3] Vault guards assigned to 24/7 armed coverage (mid-range staffing). |
| Security Supervisor | 2 | [#3] Supervisory staff for guard rotations and access control. |
| MTF Agent / MTF Kappa-43 | 30 | [#8] Field operatives for removals, investigations and escort operations (mid-size team). |
| Research Scientist / Archivist / Memetic Analyst | 10 | [#9, #10, #12] Personnel conducting archives/revision work, memetic analysis and cataloguing. |
| Memetic Psychologist / Therapist | 6 | [#6, #7, #22] Specialist clinicians conducting deprogramming, assessments and long-term care. |
| Medical Officer | 4 | [#14] On-call trauma medics and clinical support for exposures. |
| Engineer / Maintenance | 3 | [#2, #25] Facility engineers for HVAC, power redundancy and equipment maintenance. |
| Administrative Staff | 5 | [#13, #21, #29] Admin, legal liaisons, compliance and training coordination staff. |
| Class-D Personnel | 50 | [#15] Active test subject population for D-class research/testing programs (baseline active count). |
Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on wide ranges in analyst notes and on uncertain operational tempo for memetic containment; many costs (reserves, frequency of transport/disposal events, scale of D‑class testing and probability of breaches) are highly uncertain so precision is low.