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SCP-7625 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-7625
Expected annual
$47.9M
One-time setup
$1.0B
Annual recurring
$47.6M
Personnel
16
One-time setup and preparatory costs are dominated by a recommended STARDUST contingency reserve (≈$1.007B one-time); routine annual operations are ~ $47.6M/yr driven by reserve replenishment, victim compensation/legal/cover operations, and staffing for research, cyber, and field teams.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.0B
Contingency Reserve Establishment $1.0B
[#17] Establishment of a STARDUST contingency capital reserve (recommended large-capital fund to cover catastrophic ontological events).
Victim Compensation One Time $5.0M
[#19] One-time funding for potential large legal settlements or cross-border actions (major incident settlements).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $675K
[#10, #15] Secure testing facility buildout (soundproof rooms, physiological monitoring) and one-time specialized software/tooling purchases for safe analysis.
Webcrawler Development $375K
[#4] One-time design/development of covert global webcrawler and takedown automation (capital development).
Forensic Contracts $300K
[#6] One-time deep forensic/contract incident response work for major breaches.
Field Team Setup $250K
[#12] One-time stand-up of case retrieval and field containment teams (vehicles, surveillance equipment, initial tactical gear).
Facilities $150K
[#1, #13] Secure containment locker retrofitting and vaulting/long-term storage vault establishment (locker retrofit + vaulting hardware and structural work).
Legal Major Actions $125K
[#7] One-time costs for major cross-border legal actions, subpoenas, or special takedown operations.
Active Cover Creation $100K
[#8] One-time creation of "Heaven's Bridge" assets (content creation, sites, personas, printed material).
Communications Infrastructure $60K
[#23] One-time secure communications infrastructure (encrypted channels, out-of-band alerting systems hardware/setup).
Training Curriculum Dev $50K
[#16] Initial curriculum development for memetic exposure drills and procedural documentation.
Equipment $8K
[#2] Faraday/air-gap hardware and purpose-built non-networked tablet devices (hardware/ruggedization write-blockers).
Stardust Emergency Response Fund $0
[#18] Emergency disaster response costs are event-driven/contingent; baseline one-time is zero (funding expected to come from contingency reserve).
Public Health Contingency One Time $0
[#25] Large-scale public health response costs are contingent/event-driven; baseline one-time is zero (covered by contingency reserves/response budgets when triggered).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $47.6M/yr
Contingency Reserve Replenishment $30.0M/yr
[#17] Annual replenishment/insurance-like readiness costs for the STARDUST contingency fund and reserve readiness.
Cover Story And Legal $10.3M/yr
[#7, #8, #19] Legal retainers and takedown retainer costs, active cover/PR maintenance, and recurring small-scope victim compensation/settlement operating budget.
Staff Wages $2.1M/yr
[#3, #6, #9] Salaries/benefits for allocated security officers (~2 FTE), Cyber Incident Response/Digital Forensics team (4–8 FTE, mid estimate included), and research team (memetics/neuroscience/psychology FTEs).
Medical Containment $2.0M/yr
[#11] Standing medical/psychiatric inpatient capacity and outpatient programs (~50-bed capacity operational cost estimate).
Logistics And Transport $1.9M/yr
[#12, #20, #23] Recurring operations for case retrieval/field containment (vehicles, surveillance, tactical ops), international/covert operational budgets, and communications operations O&M.
Research And Monitoring $888K/yr
[#5, #21, #24, #15, #16] Webcrawler/monitoring ops hosting and bandwidth, dark web/P2P intel subscriptions, long-term social/behavioral analytics, recurring software/tool licensing and compute, and ongoing training/simulations.
Ethical Oversight $200K/yr
[#22] Institutional review, compliance officers, and ethical oversight for memetic research and cover activities.
Facilities Maintenance $130K/yr
[#1, #10, #13] Ongoing maintenance/calibration for secure locker environmental control, testing facilities maintenance/calibration, and vault maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $30K/yr
[#14] Consumables and secure destruction (media sanitization, incineration, evidence bags, Faraday sleeves).
Faraday Hardware Refresh $2K/yr
[#2] Periodic hardware refreshes for air-gapped devices/tablets (drive wiping and replacement cadence).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $47.6M/yr
87.9% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, takedowns, research, maintenance, and reserve replenishment; no major breaches or STARDUST events.
standard_ops routine_takedowns
🚨 Minor Incident $48.1M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized unauthorized uploads / mirror proliferation requiring extra takedowns, legal fees and limited field retrievals.
unauthorized_uploads mirror_proliferation limited_field_retrievals
🚨 Major Breach $52.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Significant breach or coordinated leaks requiring large-scale forensic response, cross-border legal actions, and substantial victim settlements.
coordinated_leak cross-border_hosting large_forensic_response
🚨 Stardust Event $247.6M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$200.0M vs baseline
STARDUST Event (ontological restructuring) causing widespread losses; emergency response and reconstruction required.
STARDUST_trigger widespread_ontological_loss
👥 Personnel 16 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 2 [#3] Two FTE security officers allocated for locker/entry control (baseline allocation).
Cyber Incident Response / Digital Forensics 6 [#6] Midpoint estimate for digital forensics/CIRT staffing (4–8 FTE range in notes).
Research Scientist 8 [#9] Memetics/neuroscience/psychology research team (6–12 FTE range; midpoint used).
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates combine concrete recurring items (staffing, hosting, legal retainers) with large-range and highly uncertain contingent items (STARDUST reserves and event costs). Wide ranges for staff counts and the anomalous, rare STARDUST outcomes reduce precision.
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