SCP-7367 — SCP-7367 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-7367 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-7367

Expected annual

$4.6M

One-time setup

$27.0M

Annual recurring

$4.0M

Personnel

Estimated one-time setup costs are approximately $27,980,000 driven mainly by contingency reserves, research buildout, and emergency/response kit procurement; ongoing operations run about $3,971,750/yr driven by staff wages, ongoing research/monitoring, and readiness/transport/logistics.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $27.0M

Heavy Contingency Reserve $10.0M

[#19] Large contingency/reserve fund for large-scale manifestation events, mass quarantine, evacuation and extraordinary containment measures.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $5.5M

[#4, #14, #15] Development of memetic redaction/obfuscation software and safe-preview system (#4); clinical testing / research program capital (#14); specialized lab upgrades for memetic research (air-gapped, sound-isolated labs) (#15).

Facilities $3.1M

[#1, #8] Secure containment vault construction and quarantine/isolation ward construction (soundproof/anechoic vault, double airlock, independent HVAC isolation rooms).

Insurance Reserve $2.0M

[#27] Insurance/liability reserves and legal holdback for civil fallout/discovery.

Destruction Budget $2.0M

[#31] Contingency budget for deliberate neutralization/destruction attempts (contractors, specialized operations).

Emergency Response Kit $1.5M

[#18] Rapid-response team equipment, portable containment kits, ruggedized remote systems and tactical gear (initial kit capital).

Equipment $1.1M

[#2, #3, #5, #10, #11, #12, #16] Robotic manipulators and sealed glovebox (#2), memetic-safe scanning/digitization hardware (#3), high-security archival enclosure (#5), audio-containment hardware capital (#10), CCTV/video hardware (#11), initial PPE kit (#12) and secure air-gapped digital archive hardware (#16).

Legal Setup $1.0M

[#20] Initial legal/government liaison and cover-story/deniability setup costs (faux organizations, legal retainers, initial disinformation infrastructure).

Transport Vehicle $300K

[#17] Soundproofed transport vehicle procurement for secure relocations and specialized crates.

Decontamination Infrastructure $300K

[#23] Incinerators, secure shredders, chemical neutralization and certified disposal infrastructure.

Personnel Vetting Setup $100K

[#29] Initial personnel vetting and psych-screening program setup (systems, contracts).

Secure Comms $50K

[#28] Secure communications upgrades (encrypted radios, emergency scramblers) initial capital.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.0M/yr

Staff Wages $1.6M/yr

[#6, #7] 24/7 on-site security staff payroll and dedicated memetics research team salaries (hazard premiums and benefits).

Research And Monitoring $900K/yr

[#13, #21, #24, #25, #26, #32] Training/drills and certification (#13), public health monitoring/epidemiological liaison (#21), psychological support/post-exposure monitoring (#24), red-team testing/audits (#25), translation/linguistics contracts (#26), and long-term archival research fellowships (#32).

Cover Story And Legal $400K/yr

[#20] Ongoing legal, governmental liaison, cover-story upkeep, and deniability operations.

Logistics And Transport $337K/yr

[#17, #22, #23] Per-transport operational costs and escorts averaged to annual, forensic/time-of-vanishment investigations expected annual cost, and per-incident decontamination costs averaged to an annual figure.

Emergency Response Readiness $300K/yr

[#18] Readiness/maintenance for rapid-response teams and replacement of portable containment gear.

Facilities Maintenance $150K/yr

[#30] Routine facility operations: power, HVAC, inert-gas top-ups, backup power and general repairs.

Supplies And Consumables $90K/yr

[#9, #12] Medical supplies, sedatives/antipsychotics stockpile (#9) and annual PPE replacement/consumables (#12).

Cctv Ops $50K/yr

[#11] Secure CCTV operations, tamper-proof logging storage and secure archival of metadata.

Personnel Vetting Maintenance $50K/yr

[#29] Ongoing vetting, psych screening renewals and surveillance of assigned personnel.

Secure Comms Maintenance $20K/yr

[#28] Annual maintenance and license costs for encrypted and redaction communications systems.

Audio Containment Maintenance $15K/yr

[#10] Annual maintenance/calibration for active noise cancellation and sound-masking arrays.

Secure Archive Maintenance $10K/yr

[#16] Maintenance and cold-backup media rotation for the air-gapped digital archive.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.0M/yr

80.0% probability / year

Normal operational year with no major incidents; routine research, maintenance, and monitoring.

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🚨 Minor Incident $4.4M/yr

12.0% probability / year +$400K vs baseline

Localized outbreak or single-stage-3/4 case requiring rapid-response deployment, extra decontamination, limited forensic work and temporary surge staffing.

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🚨 Major Breach $6.5M/yr

6.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline

Significant breach/outbreak requiring mass quarantine, large-scale forensic investigations, multi-day emergency deployments and broader public-health coordination.

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🚨 Catastrophic Manifestation $24.0M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$20.0M vs baseline

Large-scale manifestation (spherical objects, widespread infection or mass disappearances) requiring full contingency fund expenditure, multi-jurisdictional operations and extraordinary containment measures.

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👥 Personnel 15 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	8	[#6] Frontline 24/7 security roster to cover shifts and rotations; salaries included in staff_wages.
Security Supervisor / Specialist	1	[#6] On-site supervisory/security specialist with memetics containment training; included in staff_wages.
Research Scientist / Memeticist	4	[#7] Principal memeticist + researchers conducting monitoring and experiments; salaries included in staff_wages.
Linguist / Translation Specialist	1	[#26] Contracted/embedded linguist for Middle English/Latin/Sarkic analysis; pay included in research budget.
Clinical Psychologist	1	[#7, #24] Clinical support for memetic susceptibility screening, post-exposure care; salary included in research/staff budgets.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are low confidence because the SCP's memetic transmission dynamics, frequency of manifestations and scale of potential events are highly uncertain; analyst ranges were broad and many per-incident costs were averaged.

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