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SCP-7798 Meteor ? low confidence
SCP-7798
Expected annual
$8.7M
One-time setup
$559.6M
Annual recurring
$8.4M
Personnel
29
Estimated one-time capital of approximately $559.2M driven primarily by an optional deep-space salvage mission and smallsat procurement; recurring operating costs are about $8.4M/year driven by personnel, contingency reserves, and legal/cover budgets.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $559.6M
Deep Space Salvage Mission $550.0M
[#17] Optional unmanned probe / salvage mission contingency (very large, mission-dependent).
Dedicated Smallsat $5.0M
[#15] Optional cubesat/smallsat development + launch rideshare for dedicated stream monitoring (optional/capex).
Facilities $2.1M
[#9, #19] Vault upgrades/short-term containment vault capacity and quarantine/mobile quarantine modules setup.
Equipment $1.7M
[#4, #7, #3, #12] Field response vehicles & kits, Hume detector procurement, initial secure storage appliances, and communications hardware.
Quarantine Setup $400K
[#19] Mobile/partial quarantine modules and decontamination setup (one-time capital).
Webcrawler Development $375K
[#1] One-time software development, model licensing, and initial deployment of dedicated webcrawlers and NLP classifiers.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.4M/yr
Staff Wages $2.8M/yr
[#2, #5] Web-analyst staffing and field response personnel wages & benefits (analysts + field agents/supervisors).
Contingency Emergency Fund $2.0M/yr
[#23] Annual contribution to a reserve to respond to significant fragment impacts, evacuations, disaster relief, remediation and payouts (recommended annual contribution).
Cover Story And Legal $1.7M/yr
[#11, #22] Legal/cover-story/liaison budgets plus insurance/legal defense reserve capacity.
Logistics And Transport $625K/yr
[#10, #21] Secure per-incident transport (couriers, charters, chain-of-custody) and international operations contingency/local hires/relocation funds.
Supplies And Consumables $518K/yr
[#6, #19, #20] Per-incident replacement/replication consumables, quarantine consumables/medical staffing & consumables, and decontamination/destruction processing.
Research And Monitoring $440K/yr
[#3, #14, #16, #24] Secure data storage/logging, paid space-survey/telescope access, low-priority artifact research fund, and cataloging/archival staff/resources.
Facilities Maintenance $185K/yr
[#8, #9, #25] Hume detector maintenance/calibration, ongoing vault security/climate, and incremental energy/overhead.
Training And Exercises $100K/yr
[#18] Annual training, exercises, and doctrine updates for analysts, field teams, legal/PR staff.
Communications Services $30K/yr
[#13] Recurring encrypted comms/service subscription fees and key management.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.4M/yr
84.5% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, confiscations at assumed 50 incidents/year, standard operations and no major incidents.
routine_seizures (~50/yr) no major public exposures no large fragment impacts
🚨 Minor Incident $8.9M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Cluster of higher-severity seizures and localized media attention requiring additional replacements, transport and modest legal/PR escalation.
simultaneous incidents localized media exposure increased replacement complexity
🚨 Major Breach $11.9M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$3.5M vs baseline
Public breach or legal challenge requiring large legal defense, widescale amnestics/amendments, and significant operational surge.
major public exposure multi-jurisdictional legal action large coordinated seizures
🚨 Catastrophic Fragment Impact $33.4M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Significant fragment impact in populated area requiring evacuation, disaster relief, large payouts and rapid large-scale cover operations.
large fragment impact civilian casualties/exposure major infrastructure damage
👥 Personnel 29 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 18 [#5] Field response team members (3 regional teams × 6).
Team Leader / Field Supervisor 3 [#5] Supervisors for regional response teams.
Research Scientist / Lab Analyst 2 [#16, #24] Artifact / archaeotech analysis and records/custody support.
Web Analyst 3 [#2, #1] 24/7 webcrawler monitoring analysts who triage leads and coordinate with field teams.
Medical Officer 1 [#19] Medical screening/decontamination lead (mobile capability).
Administrative Staff 2 [#11, #24] Dispatch/administrative support for liaison, records and FOIA/audit handling.
📋 Confidence Notes
Costs are estimates based on midpoints and the analyst assumption of ~50 incidents/year; major uncertainties include true incident frequency, scope of optional space assets (smallsat, salvage missions), and unpredictable anomaly-driven events which can greatly increase costs.
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