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SCP-7001 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-7001
Expected annual
$158.8M
One-time setup
$392.2M
Annual recurring
$154.3M
Personnel
780
One-time capital and contingency costs are dominated by contingency reserves, vaults and bunkers (~$392M one-time). Annual operating costs for staffing, mnestic supply, and research dominate recurring spend (~$154M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $392.2M
Catastrophic Contingency Reserve $200.0M
[#20] Insurance-like reserve for catastrophic containment failure / global-level response.
Contingency Reserve Recontainment $100.0M
[#13] Recommended contingency reserve for anomalous payload stabilization and recontainment.
Facilities $42.0M
[#8, #9] Construction of secure archival vaults and multiple hardened bunkers (2–3 vaults, 3 bunkers).
Property Acquisition $20.0M
[#21] Purchase/leasing of sacrificial nodes, Exclusionary/Provisional sites and staging properties.
Equipment $14.5M
[#3, #6, #14, #18, #22] Anti-memetic hardware development/procurement, emergency isolation equipment cache, secure communications gear, data redundancy hardware, monitoring sensors.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $14.0M
[#1, #4] Mnestic production laboratory buildout and initial HPC / lab/supercomputing setup for memetic research.
Forensics Initial Sweep $1.8M
[#7] Initial documentation forensics / decontamination sweep across affected sites.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $154.3M/yr
Staff Wages $80.0M/yr
[#5, #10] Salaries for MTF teams, memeticists, neuroscientists, security analysts, logistics and senior oversight and broader specialist staff.
Supplies And Consumables $32.5M/yr
[#2] Ongoing mnestic production, packaging and distribution (monthly dosing program for rotating staff).
Research And Monitoring $17.0M/yr
[#4, #25] Ongoing multidisciplinary research program into SCP-7001 origin/behavior and sponsored partnerships/grants.
Cover Story And Legal $9.0M/yr
[#15, #24] Legal, misinformation, cover-up operations and internal ethics/oversight administrative costs.
Containment Of 7001 1 Instances $5.0M/yr
[#12] Ongoing capture, secure custody, study and round-the-clock guarding for SCP-7001-1 instances.
Facilities Maintenance $3.0M/yr
[#9, #8] Ongoing upkeep, utilities, and maintenance for bunkers and archival vaults and site-level maintenance.
Logistics And Transport $1.5M/yr
[#5, #17] Field travel, MTF vehicle/air support logistics and routine site audits.
Emergency Isolation Response Per Incident $1.0M/yr
[#6] Average annualized budget for engineering rapid-response isolation deployments (readiness + occasional incident response).
Psychological Care $1.0M/yr
[#11] Counseling, psychiatric care and long-term treatment for exposed personnel.
Anti Memetic Hardware Maintenance $650K/yr
[#3] Annual maintenance, calibration and spare parts for anti-memetic hardware and kiosks.
Forensics And Decontamination $600K/yr
[#7] Ongoing audits, scanning, sanitization and document/media restoration work.
Archival Vaults Maintenance $500K/yr
[#8] Staffing and upkeep for secure off-site archival vaults and analog backups.
Training And Drills $500K/yr
[#19] Regular memetic contamination exercises, inoculation training and MTF scenario drills.
Secure Comms Operations $500K/yr
[#14] Operations for hardened out-of-band communications (satellite, secure fiber, couriers).
Hazmat Disposal $500K/yr
[#16] Incineration, sterilization and hazardous-material disposal services for contaminated materials.
Monitoring Operations $450K/yr
[#22] Annual operations for environmental scanning and sensor networks.
Identity Restoration $350K/yr
[#23] Baseline costs to re-establish corrupted personnel records, identity restoration and compensation.
Data Backup Operations $300K/yr
[#18] Rotation, integrity checking and maintenance of air-gapped and analog backups.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $154.3M/yr
74.5% probability / year
Normal year with scheduled research, mnestic production and readiness; no major SCP-7001 manifestation or large recontainment required.
no_manifestation routine_research_and_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $159.3M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Single local manifestation requiring one MTF deployment, targeted forensics and increased mnestic consumption.
local_manifestation small_recontainment_deployment
🚨 Major Breach $204.3M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline
Major manifestation affecting multiple sites requiring extended MTF operations, large forensics sweep, legal/cover operations and significant recontainment effort.
multi_site_manifestation large_recontainment high_public_exposure_risk
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $354.4M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$200.0M vs baseline
Widespread containment failure or catastrophic manifestation requiring activation of large contingency reserves, potential property loss and massive recontainment.
widespread_containment_failure catastrophic_infrastructure_loss
👥 Personnel 780 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 520 [#5] 13 nominal MTF teams (~40 personnel per team) maintained for rapid response.
Research Scientist 60 [#4] Memeticists, neuroscientists and cognitive scientists running core research programs and experiments.
Medical Officer 40 [#2, #11] Medical staff administering mnestics and providing psychiatric/amnestic treatment.
Engineer / Maintenance 30 [#6, #22] Engineers for isolation systems, sensor networks and facility hardening.
Administrative Staff 80 [#24] Oversight, ethics review, procurement, HR and cover-story administration.
Site Director / Executive Staff 10 [#9, #24] Leadership retained for decision-making and liaison with Overseer Council.
Logistics Officer 20 [#17, #21] Coordinating travel, property staging and supply distribution.
IT / DataOps 20 [#18, #22] Managing air-gapped backups, secure communications and monitoring platforms.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are low-confidence due to broad ranges in analyst notes, high uncertainty in manifestation frequency/severity, and the inherently unpredictable costs of anomalous recontainment.
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