SCP-7462
Unknown
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medium confidence
SCP-7462
Expected annual
$2.8M
One-time setup
$2.0M
Annual recurring
$2.7M
Personnel
21
Upfront one-time capital for secure containment, IT, and conservation is roughly $2.0M; annual recurring operations driven by staff wages, monitoring/webcrawler operations, research and contingency allocations are roughly $2.67M per year.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $2.0M
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $2.7M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$2.7M/yr
Normal year: steady monitoring, occasional small retrievals, routine maintenance and staffing; no major incidents.
no major discoveries
standard monitoring and maintenance
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Minor Incident
$2.8M/yr
Single localized retrieval or online exposure requiring rapid takedown, small amnestic use, extra legal action and travel.
local auction / private sale discovered
social media post / small viral mention requiring takedown
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Major Retrieval Campaign
$3.6M/yr
Contested multi-fragment recovery and wide takedown campaign with increased research and amnestic response.
contested auction or multiple public rediscoveries
coordinated takedown + acquisition push
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Catastrophic Breach
$52.7M/yr
Major failure of non-recontextualisation leading to widespread public recontextualisation and mass exposure.
widespread recontextualisation
mass social spread / high-profile media event
Personnel
21 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Security Officer / MTF Agent | 8 | [#3] 24/7 onsite guards with rotation and no-reading protocols; fully burdened staffing estimate. |
| Research Scientist | 3 | [#21, #13] Memetic/hermeneutic research staff and conservation-forensics specialists supporting secure non-transcription analysis. |
| Containment Specialist / Archivist | 3 | [#4, #23] Archivists/containment officers handling accessioning, cataloguing, and enforcing non-recontextualisation protocols. |
| IT / Cybersecurity / Webcrawler Ops | 2 | [#9, #14] Operators and sysadmins for webcrawler, SIEM, air-gapped storage and secure IT. |
| Digital Takedown Moderators / Legal Liaisons | 3 | [#10, #12] Multilingual moderators and legal/liaison staff coordinating takedowns and platform requests. |
| Administrative Staff | 1 | [#23] Admin/clerical support for recordkeeping, chain-of-custody logs and classified catalog maintenance. |
| Medical Officer | 1 | [#6, #15] Medical/amnestic-capable practitioner for staff support, screening follow-up and small-scale countermeasure administration. |
Confidence Notes
Analyst notes are detailed and allow anchoring of major cost buckets (security, monitoring, research), but wide ranges for retrieval incidents, amnestic use and catastrophic outcomes introduce significant uncertainty; hence medium confidence.