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SCP-7007 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-7007
Expected annual
$2.8M
One-time setup
$3.0M
Annual recurring
$2.6M
Personnel
18
Initial one-time setup (~$3.04M) dominated by vault modification, laboratory setup, and contingency reserves; ongoing annual costs (~$2.64M/yr) are driven by personnel (research, RAISA, security, intelligence) and sustained legal/cover and monitoring operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.0M
Facilities $700K
[#1, #15] Build/modify soundproof tamper-resistant vault inside Site-43 High-Yield Data Storage Facility (airlock, acoustic isolation, certification) and controlled destruction capability (remote-safe incineration/vitrification) installation.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $560K
[#7, #16] Lab equipment for memetic/cognitive testing (EEG, fMRI access agreements, secure test rooms, air-gapped storage) and initial forensic/materials analysis contracts.
Insurance And Reserve Fund $500K
[#21] Insurance/contingency reserve fund (initial seed for incident liability and diplomatic/legal contingencies).
Full Scale Suppression Reserve $500K
[#26] Partial one-time reserve toward preparedness for full-scale public-release suppression (note: actual operations may far exceed this reserve and are modeled in scenarios).
Equipment $325K
[#2, #3, #4, #14, #19, #24] Secure transport case and handling kit, dedicated access control hardware and redundant CCTV, hardened offline archival hardware, tamper-evident signage/tooling, secure shredding/incineration tooling, secure comms gear.
Initial Legal And Cover Engagements $250K
[#12] Initial one-time legal/cover engagements (buyouts, NDAs, takedown contracts, initial covert influence spend).
Compromised Person Sequestration Reserve $200K
[#8] One-time contingency per compromised person for sequestration/reassignment/forensic/legal placement (baseline reserve to handle the first compromised individual).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.6M/yr
Staff Wages $1.5M/yr
[#5, #6, #9, #13, #19] Ongoing personnel compensation: RAISA/records specialists, memetics research team salaries (lead/research scientists/technician), dedicated security detail, intelligence analysts, documentation specialist staffing.
Research And Monitoring $390K/yr
[#6, #7, #16, #17] Ongoing memetics research consumables and subject compensation, fMRI/scanning rental and maintenance, forensic follow-up contract work, red-team/penetration-test engagements.
Cover Story And Legal $280K/yr
[#12, #20, #25] Ongoing legal/cover operations, public/media management/disinformation budgets, and containment policy administrative overhead.
Logistics And Transport $225K/yr
[#10, #11] MTF rapid-response readiness budget and an annualized breach-response/rescue/retrieval reserve for small/medium incidents.
Replacement Hiring Fund $100K/yr
[#18] Budget to recruit/hire and train replacements for roles lost to compromise or reassignment (annualized baseline).
Psych Care Monitoring $75K/yr
[#8] Recurring psychological monitoring, care, and legal/case management for any retained exposed personnel (baseline monitoring budget).
Reserve Replenishment $50K/yr
[#21] Annual replenishment target for contingency/incident reserve fund.
Facilities Maintenance $22K/yr
[#3, #23] Recurring maintenance for access/monitoring systems and incremental energy/climate-control costs for vault integration.
Archival And Destruction Maintenance $20K/yr
[#4, #15] Maintenance of hardened offline archival systems, secure destruction workflow upkeep and secure-paper-destruction operations.
Secure Comms Ops $10K/yr
[#24] Operations budget for audited offline communications, secure phones, and physical logbook upkeep.
Supplies And Consumables $6K/yr
[#22] Consumables and archival materials (gloves, mats, boxes, shredder/printer consumables).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.6M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal, uneventful year with routine research, maintenance, and monitoring; no major leaks or large-scale suppression required.
no_incidents routine_research_and_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $2.8M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Limited containment breach or localized leak requiring field retrievals, legal takedowns, and limited personnel sequestration.
small_breach localized_leak single_compromised_person
🚨 Major Suppression $7.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Public release or large-scale dissemination requiring an international, multi-million-dollar suppression campaign and mass interventions.
widespread_public_exposure international_GoI_involvement mass_exposures
👥 Personnel 18 total
Role Count Notes
RAISA / Records Specialist 2 [#5] Two full-time RAISA-level officers to manage access approvals, non-disclosure enforcement and counter-leak measures (~$120k each).
Lead Researcher 1 [#6] Lead memetics/cognitive researcher (senior salary portion included in staff_wages).
Research Scientist 3 [#6] Memetics research scientists (team members for experiments and inoculation development).
Lab Technician 1 [#6, #7] Technician supporting controlled experiments, EEG/fMRI coordination and secure sample handling.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#9, #10] Dedicated armed security detail for 24/7 coverage at containment location (overlapping posts); MTFs are on-call for large incidents.
Intelligence Analyst 4 [#13] HUMINT/SIGINT personnel to monitor GoI-5889 and related distribution channels (ongoing intelligence monitoring).
Documentation Specialist 1 [#19] Secure documentation/redaction handler responsible for transcript control and secure destruction workflows.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and realistic ranges, but many costs (breach frequency, scale of GoI involvement, how many personnel are irreversibly compromised) are uncertain; contingency and scenario costs have wide ranges, reducing confidence to medium.
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