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SCP-7751 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-7751
Expected annual
$11.6M
One-time setup
$6.6M
Annual recurring
$11.2M
Personnel
41
Initial capital and setup costs are roughly $6.6M one-time, driven by cryogenic infrastructure, scanners/incinerator, webcrawler commissioning, and site retrofits. Recurring annual costs are roughly $11.2M/yr, dominated by staff wages, ongoing research/webcrawler operations, legal/cover budgets, and a recurring liability/black budget.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $6.6M
Equipment $1.6M
[#5, #9, #10, #17, #25, #3] Medical-grade cryogenic freezers and support (#5), specialized non-invasive mail scanners and integration (#9), industrial incinerator hardware/install (#10), forensic LIMS initial deployment (#17), off-site/hot-spare hardware (#25), and archival digitization/scanner hardware/setup (#3).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.3M
[#13, #30] One-time dataset curation and initial model training (#13) plus initial tranche of classified/seed research grants to start a multi-year R&D program (#30).
Webcrawler Development $1.2M
[#1] Development and initial deployment of Foundation Webcrawler 402-OVERFISHING-class system: software engineering, ML model development, OCR/image-analysis pipeline, secure sandboxing, and initial licensing.
Incident Response Fund Initial $1.1M
[#16] Initial allocation to a rapid incident response/contingency fund reserved for emergency takedowns, legal emergency teams, temporary relocation, and PR campaigns.
Facilities $700K
[#20, #5] Includes vault/cryobay retrofits and redundant life-support/fire-suppression construction work required to house SCP-7751 materials and cryo bays (portion of #5 as lab-bay retrofit + #20 vault construction).
Mailroom Acquisition $600K
[#8] One-time costs to acquire/control the Chicago Sun-Times mailroom (lease/acquisition/bribes/cover-entity setup as needed).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $11.2M/yr
Staff Wages $4.4M/yr
[#7, #11, #12, #18, #26] Salaries and benefits for medical/animal-care staff (#7), on-site security (#11), media-forensics analysts (#12), core ops (project managers, site leads, sysadmins, devops, data engineers) (#18), and Ethics/oversight staff (#26).
Research And Monitoring $2.3M/yr
[#1, #2, #13, #15, #23, #24] Webcrawler maintenance and updates (#1), compute/cloud for crawling and inference (#2), periodic ML retraining (#13), third-party archive/API access fees (#15), external research collaborations/grants (#23), and monitoring/translation for international English-speaking outlets (#24).
Liability And Black Budget $1.1M/yr
[#27] Recurring reserve/slush funds for liability insurance, bribery contingencies, off-book covert costs, and insurance against accidental exposure.
Long Term Research Program $1.0M/yr
[#30] Recurring multi-year program funding for long-term R&D aimed at permanent containment, inoculation strategies, or safe excision technologies.
Cover Story And Legal $775K/yr
[#14, #28] Legal retainer and PR/forgery/cover budgets (#14) plus public-facing content takedown and misinformation-suppression efforts (#28).
Facilities Maintenance $405K/yr
[#3, #6, #21, #25] Ongoing climate control and archival ops (#3, #21), cryo power/consumables/maintenance (#6), and upkeep for redundancy systems/hot-spares (#25).
Logistics And Transport $275K/yr
[#4] Secure transport (armored courier, vehicle fleets, cleared drivers) for moving artifacts between sites and mailroom transfers.
Mailroom Operations $275K/yr
[#8] Recurring staffing/operational costs to run the covert controlled Chicago Sun-Times mailroom operation.
Incident Response Replenish $250K/yr
[#16] Annual replenishment budget for the incident response contingency fund as used.
Supplies And Consumables $125K/yr
[#22, #10, #9] Redaction/excision consumables and labor (#22), incinerator fuel/maintenance (#10), and scanner software/license renewals (#9).
Training And Compliance $85K/yr
[#19] Annual training, safety drills, ethics compliance programs, and external ethicist/consultant fees.
Psych Support And Hazard Pay $85K/yr
[#29] Counseling, hazard pay, and psychological support for staff regularly exposed to memetic content or SCP-7751-B instances.
Forensic Lims Maintenance $50K/yr
[#17] Ongoing maintenance, backups, and audits for forensic logging and chain-of-custody systems.
Onboarding And Vetting $40K/yr
[#11] Background vetting, polygraphs, and per-new-hire onboarding costs for personnel handling SCP-7751 materials.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $11.2M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, maintenance, and planned research spend; no major containment incidents or public exposures.
routine_monitoring scheduled_retraining regular_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $12.7M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$1.5M vs baseline
Localized containment failure or limited public dissemination requiring emergency takedowns, legal action, and rapid PR response.
limited_public_leak single_site_containment_breach rapid_takedown_campaign
🚨 Major Breach $18.7M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$7.5M vs baseline
Widespread exposure or major containment failure requiring large-scale legal settlements, site remediation, replacement of archives, and extended PR campaigns.
public_exposure multi-site_breach litigation_and_settlements
👥 Personnel 41 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 14 [#11] Armed/unarmed guards, access control, and supervisory security staff responsible for media vaults, mailroom, and site access control.
Research Scientist / Media Forensics Analyst 6 [#12] Image forensic analysts, political-media analysts, and historians doing manual review and redaction/excision planning.
Medical Officer / Cryonics Technician 6 [#7] Clinicians, cryonics technicians, veterinarians/xenobiologists responsible for SCP-7751-B stasis and welfare.
Sysadmin / DevOps / Data Engineer 6 [#1, #2, #18] Personnel maintaining the webcrawler, compute infrastructure, data pipelines, and secure sandboxing.
Project Manager / Site Lead 2 [#18] Project managers and site leads for Site-59 and Site-7751 overseeing operations and coordination with Ethics Committee.
Administrative Staff / HR 3 [#18] HR, administrative, and logistics staff supporting operations, hiring, and procurement.
Ethics Committee / Review Board 1 [#26] Ethics auditors and legal-ethics counsel performing mandated reviews and oversight.
Contracted Researchers / External Collaborators 3 [#23, #30] Covert-funded external researchers and university collaborators engaged for classified studies and long-term R&D.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide numerous line-item ranges permitting reasonable mid-point estimates, but many items (research program scale, contingency slush funds, incident frequency) are highly uncertain; hence medium confidence.
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