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SCP-7732 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-7732
Expected annual
$30.8M
One-time setup
$1.0B
Annual recurring
$29.4M
Personnel
66
Baseline recurring program costs are approximately $29.4M/yr, driven chiefly by covert human operations, legal/cover campaigns, and secure detention; one-time capital and contingency setup (including an optional deep-space mission) add ~ $1.024B mostly from the optional probe and a legal reserve.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.0B
Deep Space Probe Mission Optional $1.0B
[#23] Optional one-time cost for a dedicated Jovian probe/mission; included as an optional major capital project.
Legal Financial Reserve Establish $20.0M
[#19] One-time establishment of an emergency legal/financial contingency fund.
Equipment $1.4M
[#4, #9, #10, #17, #20] Includes cyber tooling (#4), initial secure storage cluster (#9), initial compute/licensing (#10), secure facility hardware (#17), and clandestine hardware/toolkits (#20).
Psychological Rehab Program Initial $1.1M
[#24] Initial setup for rehabilitation/deradicalization program for idolized researchers (est. for 20 persons).
Agent Cover Creation $900K
[#2] One-time costs to create forged academic records, shell histories, and legal cover for 20 agents.
Cyber Tooling $200K
[#4] One-time tooling for cyber/forensic ops to intercept, modify and replace data.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $150K
[#8] Dialogue/lab startup costs for continuous SCP-7732 engagement.
Facilities $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $29.4M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $12.7M/yr
[#5, #13, #14] Legal/PR unit operations, contingency diplomatic payoffs, and media suppression/misinformation budgets.
Staff Wages $7.1M/yr
[#1, #4, #8, #15, #17, #25] Salaries for infiltration agents (20 @ fully loaded), cyber/forensic team (~10), dialogue research staff (~8), academic-monitoring team (~4), guards (~15), and program management/oversight staff.
Secure Detention Costs $3.0M/yr
[#7] Ongoing fully-loaded custody costs for long-term detained noncompliant researchers (10 detainees midpoint).
Logistics And Transport $2.2M/yr
[#6, #11] Recurring reserves for covert physical operations, travel, on-site tampering visits, local assets and technician contracts.
Supplies And Consumables $1.2M/yr
[#16] Amnestic development, administration and consumables (limited-use program costs).
Cover Funding And Grants $1.2M/yr
[#3] Ongoing cover funding, fake grants, and stipends to observatories and cooperating staff to secure access and goodwill.
Research And Monitoring $837K/yr
[#9, #10, #12] Recurring storage/maintenance for gravitational-wave datasets, ongoing HPC/time for analysis, and telescope/DSN observing/transmission session budgets.
Psychological Rehab And Programs $600K/yr
[#24] Recurring rehabilitation/deradicalization program costs (~$30k/yr per person for 20 people midpoint).
Training And Resilience $300K/yr
[#18] Ongoing training program and periodic per-agent training allowances for infiltrators.
Monitoring Amateur Community $125K/yr
[#22] Grants, seeded explanations and outreach aimed at hobbyist/amateur astronomy communities.
Facilities Maintenance $100K/yr
[#21] Energy, HVAC, networking, colocation and site maintenance for servers, labs and facilities.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $29.4M/yr
82.0% probability / year
An uneventful year with normal monitoring, covert operations, and program maintenance but no major exposures or escalations.
normal monitoring cadence no public exposure routine covert operations
🚨 Minor Incident $30.9M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Localized exposure or researcher defiance requiring extra framing, covert action, and limited legal settlements.
targeted whistleblower small public leak single major framing operation
🚨 Major Breach $69.4M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$40.0M vs baseline
Significant public exposure or international incident requiring large diplomatic payoffs, major legal settlements, mass operations and detention expansions.
multinational exposure major court case / whistleblower campaign failed suppression leading to political/diplomatic response
👥 Personnel 66 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Infiltrator (cover) 20 [#1] Foundation agents covertly placed at observatories (20 agents).
Cyber/Forensic Specialist 10 [#4] 8–12 specialist team for data interception, manipulation, and monitoring (midpoint used).
Research Scientist (Dialogue team) 8 [#8] Dialogue research board and support staff for ongoing communication with SCP-7732.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 15 [#17] Site guards and security staff (10–20 midpoint used).
Program Director / Administrative Staff 4 [#25] Program management, compliance and inter-site coordination staff.
Monitoring Analyst / Academic Liaison 4 [#15] Staff dedicated to watching academic outputs, conferences, arXiv and liaising with editors/organisers.
Medical Officer / Amnestic Team 3 [#16] Medical and amnestic staff for limited-use amnestic administration and monitoring.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#9, #21] Server, storage and site infrastructure maintenance staff.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are assembled from analyst ranges and midpoints; staffing and operational elements are reasonably well-specified, but diplomatic payoffs, legal contingency sizing, and the optional probe introduce high variance and judgement calls.
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