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SCP-755 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-755
Expected annual
$8.3M
One-time setup
$2.8M
Annual recurring
$8.1M
Personnel
37
Upfront capital costs are modest (approximately $2.78M) for vehicles, facility upgrades, and lab/storage fitout; annual operations are the dominant expense at roughly $8.07M/yr driven by MTF staffing, research/analysis, legal/PR reserves, and contingency funds.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.8M
Facilities $1.2M
[#9, #11, #12, #26] Includes low-risk materials storage fitout, aviary construction, Humanoid Detaining Facility 17 upgrades, and one-time interrogation/containment setup costs.
Equipment $1.1M
[#2, #15, #16, #20, #23] Armored/mobile containment vehicles and command/mobile lab vans, digital-forensics servers and development, initial fleet of graffito-detection field kits, on-site incinerator option, and IT/comms hardware.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $500K
[#10] Specialized research lab buildout and imaging/neuroimaging/behavioral equipment baseline for controlled studies and initial experiments.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.1M/yr
Staff Wages $2.6M/yr
[#1, #3, #4, #10, #11, #12, #18, #28] Salaries for MTF Gamma-30 (team leader, ~8–12 agents, medics, comms), research scientists and technicians, CCTV/forensic analysts, social-media/moderation staff, aviary staff, facility guards, epidemiologists, and program/administrative personnel.
Legal Settlement Reserve $1.0M/yr
[#14] Annual reserve for front-company payouts, victim compensation, and hush-money settlements in major incidents.
Contingency Reserve $1.0M/yr
[#21] Insurance-like reserve for worst-case multi-site or mass-casualty responses (equipment replacement, emergency hospitals, extended PR).
Research And Monitoring $825K/yr
[#3, #8, #10, #11, #15, #18] Non-salary recurring research costs: commercial CCTV/facial-recog licenses and footage purchases, lab consumables and specialized tests, research consumables/experiment costs, avian field-op equipment maintenance, digital-forensics maintenance and epidemiological analysis support.
Cover Story And Legal $500K/yr
[#5, #25] PR retainers, municipal payments, bogus community funding, ongoing takedown/legal retainers and foreign counsel fees.
Amnestic Treatment Reserve $500K/yr
[#6] Annual reserve for amnestic production/administration and post-treatment monitoring (typical reserve covering multiple incidents).
Local Remediation Reserve $500K/yr
[#27] Annual reserve to cover repairs of infrastructure and vehicle replacements arising from graffito-linked accidents.
Logistics And Transport $300K/yr
[#2, #13, #17] Vehicle maintenance/fuel/insurance for mobile fleet, inter-agency travel and liaison embeds, and recurring transport/ambulance coordination costs.
Digital Takedown Ops $250K/yr
[#4] Real-time scraping/takedowns, contracting digital-takedown firms, moderation and related platform costs.
Medical Response $150K/yr
[#17] On-call medical teams, redirected ambulances, and scene-level emergency supplies.
Informant Networks $150K/yr
[#19] Informant payments, bounties, and undercover field-op expenses in graffiti/street-artist communities.
Cleanup And Site Restoration $100K/yr
[#7] Crime-scene containment teams, hazardous-waste disposal, site restoration and per-instance cleanup consumables beyond supplies.
Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr
[#9, #12] Climate-control and maintenance for storage and facility upgrades (Site 17 operations support).
Training And Simulations $50K/yr
[#22] Full-scale drills, rented urban training facilities, actor costs and regular containment simulations.
It Communications Maintenance $30K/yr
[#23] Recurring maintenance, airtime, and service fees for encrypted radios, satellite phones and secure comms.
Supplies And Consumables $25K/yr
[#24] Paint-out materials, solvents, PPE, evidence bags and routine consumables used per removal/cleanup.
Evidence Disposal $20K/yr
[#20] Recurring per-batch disposal/incineration costs when using off-site services.
Kit Consumables $10K/yr
[#16] Replacement consumables for graffito-detection field kits (bags, solvents, single-use items).
Long Term Custody $0/yr
[#26] Recurring custody/rehabilitation costs for SCP-755-a if captured. Set to 0 in baseline (capture treated as a scenario).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.1M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents beyond routine surveillance, removals, research, and periodic deployments.
routine_detections regular_MTF_deployments ongoing_research_and_monitoring
🚨 Capture And Custody $8.5M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$450K vs baseline
SCP-755-a is captured alive during a deployment, triggering one-time containment setup and the start of long-term custody expenses.
vandal_captured custodial_setup long-term_detention
🚨 Major Mass Casualty $12.1M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$4.0M vs baseline
Large multi-vehicle pileup or other mass-casualty event tied to an SCP-755 instance, requiring emergency response, large settlements, and massive PR/amnestic expenditure.
major_public_casualties multi-city_incident extensive_media_exposure
👥 Personnel 37 total
Role Count Notes
MTF Team Leader 1 [#1] Leads Gamma-30 rapid-response operations.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 12 [#1] Field agents for deployments, capture, crowd control, and graffito removals (8–12 typical).
Medical Officer 2 [#1, #17] Medics attached to field teams and on-call medical responders.
Communications Specialist 1 [#1, #23] Field comms specialist for deployments and secure links.
Research Scientist 3 [#10] Senior research staff conducting mechanism investigation and controlled studies.
Forensic Analyst / Data Analyst 4 [#3, #15, #18] CCTV/forensic video analysts, epidemiologist/data analysts for correlation work.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#2, #23] Vehicle and IT/comm systems maintenance staff.
Avian Specialist / Ornithologist 2 [#11] Field ornithologists for surveillance and captive aviary care.
Site Director / Executive Staff 1 [#28] Program manager / senior oversight for the SCP-755 program.
Administrative Staff 2 [#28] Procurement, accounting, and program administration.
Facility Security Guards 4 [#12] Guards and custodial staff for Humanoid Detaining Facility 17 and holding.
Field Technicians / Evidence Technicians 3 [#7, #16, #20] Evidence collection, sample conservation, and cleanup crews.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are medium confidence: analyst notes provide ranges for most line items enabling mid-range selections, but many costs scale strongly with incident frequency and capture status, and anomalous containment/amnestic costs are uncertain.
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