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SCP-7550 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-7550
Expected annual
$5.6M
One-time setup
$9.8M
Annual recurring
$5.4M
Personnel
33
Initial capital outlay is approximately $9.8M driven primarily by construction of quarantine/containment facilities and one‑time development (webcrawler, lab setup). Ongoing annual costs are about $5.4M driven mainly by staff wages (monitoring, research, clinical) and recurring legal/operational support.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $9.8M
Facilities $7.2M
[#11, #15] One-time build/retrofit costs for medical quarantine/decontamination wing (#11) and a permanent high-security containment cell for SCP-7550-C (#15). Estimates use mid-range figures for construction and anomaly-hardening.
Contingency Fund $1.0M
[#22] One-time reserved contingency for emergency procurements, settlements, or large-scale remediation draws.
Equipment $800K
[#3, #10, #17, #19, #23] Includes secure archival storage hardware and air-gapped media (#3), PPE/memetic protection and sensory-control equipment (#10), initial secure comms/vault hardware (#17), fleet/vehicle purchase (#19), and backup generator purchase (#23).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $450K
[#9, #13] Honeypot/sandbox lab buildout and instrumentation (#9) and amnestic R&D/setup costs for memetic countermeasures (#13).
Webcrawler Development $275K
[#1] One-time custom webcrawler and ML classifier development, dataset labeling, testing, and security hardening.
Archival Sweep Large $50K
[#24] One-time large archival evidence-suppression sweep (paying caches/archives to remove snapshots).
Site Cooperation Agreements $30K
[#7] Upfront payments/agreements for major platform administrator cooperation and acquisition of moderator tools or deletion logs.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.4M/yr
Staff Wages $2.4M/yr
[#4, #5, #12, #16] Salaries + benefits for 24/7 monitoring & incident triage analysts (#4), rapid-response takedown/moderation specialists (#5), clinical staff for quarantine/medical monitoring (#12), and long-term research team wages (#16). Includes on-call premiums.
Administrative Overhead $898K/yr
[#25] Administrative overhead (HR, procurement, accounting, security clearances, facility leases), estimated at ~20% of pre-overhead recurring budget as typical program overhead.
Facilities Maintenance $632K/yr
[#3, #11, #15, #17] Ongoing maintenance and secure storage operations (#3), operational costs for quarantine/decon wing (#11), containment cell operations (#15), and secure-communications/upkeep (#17).
Cover Story And Legal $398K/yr
[#6, #7, #18, #24] Annual legal retainer and negotiated takedown/settlement budget (#6), ongoing site-cooperation upkeep (#7), public relations/cover-story budget and community outreach (#18), and recurring evidence-suppression buys for caches/search-index removals (#24).
Research And Monitoring $287K/yr
[#9, #16, #21] Ongoing non-wage research expenditures, honeypot/sandbox maintenance (#9), experiment consumables and analysis for the research team (#16), and training/simulations/safety drills (#21).
Per Mission Extraction Budget $250K/yr
[#14] Budgeted annual expectation for conducting at least one controlled extraction/recon mission (vehicles, medevac, field teams).
Logistics And Transport $220K/yr
[#14, #19] Vehicle/transport operational costs, travel, charters and logistics support for field deployments and occasional extraction support (#14, #19).
Attribution Investigations $100K/yr
[#8] Annual budget for social-engineering, private investigations, subpoenas, and attribution cases (multiple cases averaged annually).
Supplies And Consumables $60K/yr
[#20] Consumables, PPE replacements, reagents, testing kits, and replacement parts for sandbox lab (#20).
Amnestic Production And Distribution $50K/yr
[#13] Per-dose production/distribution/admin costs for amnestics and maintenance of secure pharmacy/distribution channels.
Energy And Utilities $50K/yr
[#23] Power, HVAC, UPS, generator fuel and utility costs for 24/7 ops and containment systems.
Continuous Hosting Scraping Compute $42K/yr
[#2] Cloud hosting, 24/7 crawling, scraping, autoscaling, queue processing and short-term caches.
Per Takedown Operational Costs $20K/yr
[#5] Operational per-takedown costs (capture, expedited actions, emergency account suspensions) aggregated annually.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.4M/yr
65.0% probability / year
Normal operating year with no major incidents: routine crawling, takedowns, research, and occasional small investigations.
routine_monitoring small_number_of_takedowns no_physical_recovery_attempts
🚨 Minor Incident $5.6M/yr
30.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Cluster of SCP-7550-A postings or a public cached snapshot requiring accelerated takedowns, extra legal actions, and multiple attribution efforts.
multiple_scp-7550-a_postings public_exposure high-profile_cached_snapshots
🚨 Major Recovery $7.9M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Decision to attempt physical recovery of SCP-7550-C or an escalated conveyance spike requiring multiple extractions and emergency containment actions.
attempted_physical_recovery multiple_conveyance_events discovery_of_scp-7550-c
👥 Personnel 33 total
Role Count Notes
Security Analyst / Monitoring 3 [#4] 24/7 monitoring and incident triage analysts (3 full-time equivalents for coverage per analyst-note assumptions).
Rapid-response Digital Ops Specialist 3 [#5] Takedown/moderation/legal-coordination specialists (2–3 specialists; wages included in staff_wages).
Research Scientist / Data Scientist 10 [#16] Long-term anomalous research team and data scientists to analyze conveyance behavior and run experiments.
Clinical Staff (Physician/Nurse/Therapist) 6 [#11, #12] Medical team for quarantine, decontamination, amnestic administration and ongoing health monitoring.
Legal / Compliance / PR 3 [#6, #18] In-house counsel and PR/cover-story contractors coordinating takedowns, retainer work and community outreach.
Engineer / DevOps / IT 4 [#1, #2, #17] Developers and sysadmins for webcrawler, ML systems, hosting, secure comms and maintenance.
Administrative Staff 4 [#25] HR, procurement, accounting and facilities management roles included in administrative overhead.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on detailed analyst ranges but many line items have very wide ranges (legal settlements, extraction mission costs, containment build scope) and uncertain event frequencies; staffing and major capital builds are better defined, so overall confidence is medium.
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