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SCP-7893 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-7893
Expected annual
$3.2M
One-time setup
$2.8M
Annual recurring
$3.0M
Personnel
12
One-time startup and R&D (notably memetic R&D, psychosonar development, and a contingency fund) drive capital costs (~$2.8M), while recurring annual costs are dominated by specialized staff wages, hosting/data feeds, and research/response readiness (~$3.0M/year).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.8M
Contingency Fund $1.0M
[#19] One-time insurance/contingency fund set-aside for catastrophic response, litigation, and emergency hires/equipment replacement.
Memetic Rd $800K
[#16] One-time specialized equipment R&D (development of hardware/software memetic dampeners/filters).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $425K
[#1] Development and licensing of central psychosonar analytics software (one-time development/licensing costs).
Facilities $200K
[#7] Construction/modification of secure clinical containment rooms/isolation suites and small monitoring-lab structural work.
Response Vehicles $150K
[#12] Purchase/modification of secure transport vehicles (armored vans/rapid-response vehicles) and related equipment.
Training Curriculum Development $60K
[#6] Initial creation of memetic hazard training, psychosonar interpretation curriculum, and certification materials.
Surveillance Setup $60K
[#11] One-time setup of screening algorithms, tooling, and initial deployment for host-identification/surveillance.
Equipment $50K
[#2, #13] Secure servers/storage hardware (air-gapped copies) and communications hardware/misc secure comms devices.
Initial Medical Stockpile $40K
[#8] Initial procurement of amnestics, sedatives, anti-anxiety and emergency psych meds, secure storage setup.
Background Vetting Initial $20K
[#23] Initial background vetting / clearance checks for personnel (est. for ~20 people).
Startup Summary Reserve $0
[#25] Budgeting summary/triage note captured; no direct one-time cost allocated here (summary only).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.0M/yr
Staff Wages $1.7M/yr
[#4, #5] Intrametics Division analysts/engineers (3–5 FTEs; modeled at 4 FTEs) and Applied Memetics rapid-response team (6–10 FTEs; modeled at 8 FTEs) including benefits and on-call/overtime premiums.
Research And Monitoring $400K/yr
[#15] Experimental research budget for controlled studies, IRB-equivalent oversight, participant compensation, and monitoring work.
Cover Story And Legal $125K/yr
[#10] Legal counsel, compliance, cover-story maintenance, and PR/legal retainers for privacy/medical/legal exposure.
Psychosonar Hosting $120K/yr
[#1] Cloud hosting, updates, and managed services for psychosonar analytics (estimated ~$10k/month).
Data Feeds Licensing $100K/yr
[#3] Access to social media APIs, telemetry/medical feeds, news/media monitoring and third-party datasets (scale-dependent).
Logistics And Transport $80K/yr
[#12] Ongoing vehicle ops, fuel, pilot/airlift readiness and maintenance for field responses and specialist transport.
Facilities Maintenance $75K/yr
[#7, #22] Utilities, HVAC, physical security, cleanroom upkeep, and annual inspection/maintenance of containment rooms and monitoring lab.
Psychiatric Aftercare $75K/yr
[#9] Ongoing counseling, cognitive reprocessing, and multi-month therapy costs for affected hosts (modeled at intermittent incidents/year).
Pr Mitigation $75K/yr
[#18] PR mitigation, takedowns, and low-level misinformation/remediation retainer and per-event budget averaged annually.
Surveillance Ops $60K/yr
[#11] Monthly ops for screening algorithms and human review to flag potential SCP-7893-1 candidates.
Community Outreach $50K/yr
[#21] Cover institutions, sponsorships, liaison work, and maintenance of plausible ties to Highland cattle communities.
Memetic Rd Maintenance $50K/yr
[#16] Maintenance and updates for specialized memetic dampeners/filters developed under R&D.
Supplies And Consumables $45K/yr
[#8, #14] Medical supplies replenishment (amnestic/pharmaceutical replenishment) and incident response consumables/PPE.
Forensic Investigation $25K/yr
[#17] Psychological autopsy and forensic investigation resources averaged over time (per-incident costs averaged).
Secure Comms Service $18K/yr
[#13] Recurring encrypted comms service subscriptions and emergency alerting systems.
Training Program $15K/yr
[#6] Recurring updates, per-person training costs and running certification courses.
Recordkeeping Archival $15K/yr
[#20] Secure cataloguing, redaction, and long-term forensic archiving costs.
Server Ops Backups $12K/yr
[#2] Ongoing operations for secure storage, offsite backups, redundancy, and encrypted archival.
Background Vetting Renewal $6K/yr
[#23] Annual renewal/continuous monitoring costs for ~20 high-clearance personnel.
Scale Factor Reserve $0/yr
[#24] Placeholder representing multiplicative risk if incident frequency increases; actual multiplier applied in scenario analysis rather than as fixed recurring cost.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.0M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with weekly monitoring, routine maintenance, and no major incidents.
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🚨 Minor Incident $3.2M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Single localized incident requiring Applied Memetics deployment, targeted amnestic administration, on-site response, and modest PR/legal work.
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🚨 Major Breach $7.0M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$4.0M vs baseline
Widespread or high-profile manifestation requiring large-scale emergency response, heavy PR mitigation, contingency fund use, and expanded medical/psych support.
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👥 Personnel 12 total
Role Count Notes
Intrametics Analyst / Engineer 4 [#4] Data scientists and memetics-literate analysts to run weekly scans, triage alarms, and maintain psychosonar systems.
Applied Memetics Rapid-Response Team 8 [#5] Memeticists, clinical psychologists with memetic training, and containment officers for on-call rapid deployment.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges but many values are wide and contingent on incident frequency (#24); staffing and R&D scales introduce substantial uncertainty, so medium confidence is appropriate.
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