SCP-7906 — SCP-7906 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-7906 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-7906

Expected annual

$6.2M

One-time setup

$14.5M

Annual recurring

$5.9M

Personnel

Initial one-time establishment and mitigation funding is approximately $14.54M, driven by R&D programs, contingency reserves and an optional platform-suppression buyout; baseline annual operations run roughly $5.92M/yr driven primarily by staff wages, replacement/obsolescence and ongoing monitoring/field operations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $14.5M

Platform Suppression Buyout $10.0M

[#30] Optional strategic buyout / broad suppression fund (highly optional; illustrative chosen midpoint).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.9M

[#7, #13, #22] Food-analysis lab equipment (GC-MS/HPLC/etc.) and initial memetic/amnesiac/memetic-countermeasure R&D program startup costs.

Contingency Reserve Emergency Fund $1.5M

[#25] One-time allocation to an emergency contingency reserve for large incidents.

Field Operations Initial Retainer $500K

[#15] Initial covert ops / field operation retainer to fund several early operations.

Legal Retainer $300K

[#4] Initial legal retainer / covert negotiation setup.

Equipment $235K

[#5, #18, #19, #23] Forensic archive hardware, secure-communications hardware, backup/mirror server hardware, camera/access hardware.

Webcrawler Development $50K

[#1] Development and deployment of webcrawler / redirection infrastructure (one-time development).

Facilities $35K

[#8] Secure test kitchen / controlled kitchen setup one-time costs.

Ethical Protocol And Indemnity Setup $30K

[#9] One-time drafting of ethical protocols, IRB-style review setup and indemnity paperwork.

Training Materials Development $15K

[#20] Development of SOPs, signage and initial training materials.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.9M/yr

Replacement And Obsolescence $2.2M/yr

[#29] Annual replacement/refresh budget estimated at ~15% of initial capital (applies to equipment, servers, lab instruments, etc.).

Staff Wages $1.4M/yr

[#2, #3, #12, #16, #23] 24/7 XX monitoring staff, incident-response team salaries, research personnel salaries, monitoring/data-analyst salary, contracted security guard wages (benefits included where noted).

Cover Story And Legal $385K/yr

[#4, #9, #14] Recurring legal contingency / prioritized platform support, indemnity insurance renewals, and public-cover/PR buys.

Research And Monitoring $300K/yr

[#13, #22] Ongoing controlled-test memetic countermeasure R&D and continued memetic/amnesiac research budgets.

Field Operations Ongoing $300K/yr

[#15] Ongoing covert field ops budget (travel, safehouses, operatives) retained per year.

Global Monitoring And Analytics $270K/yr

[#16] Automated scraping cloud compute/storage + analyst triage for global recipe monitoring.

Contingency Replenishment $200K/yr

[#25] Annual replenishment target for emergency contingency fund to sustain preparedness.

Administrative Overhead $200K/yr

[#26] Pro-rated accounting, HR, IT support and utilities for teams working on SCP-7906.

Medical And Psychiatric Care $150K/yr

[#10] Ongoing psychiatric care, medication, therapy and aftercare support budgeting.

Forensic Software And Compute $90K/yr

[#6] Video/image forensic tool licenses and model-training cloud compute.

Mirror Nodes Colocation $78K/yr

[#19] Colocation / bandwidth for global mirrors and takedown automation.

Allied Outreach And Intel Contracts $60K/yr

[#27] Subscriptions, informant payments, and small contracts to monitor GOI-4319 / allied intel.

Logistics And Transport $50K/yr

[#24] Travel budget for platform meetings, GOI diplomacy, conferences and secure travel.

Remediation Reserve $50K/yr

[#17] Per-year reserve for remediation operations (amnestics/containment/aftercare for occasional civilians).

Supplies And Consumables $45K/yr

[#7, #8] Lab consumables and reagents for food-analysis + test-kitchen disposables / biohazard disposal consumables.

Webcrawler Hosting Maintenance $42K/yr

[#1] Hosting/CDN/DOH/DNS-level redirection and ongoing domain/IP spoofing defenses.

Incident Response Operational Reserve $30K/yr

[#3] Budget for ad-hoc incident response operations (supplement to salaries for small-scale ops).

Recruiting And Staff Monitoring $30K/yr

[#11] Recruiting costs and ongoing psychological monitoring for XX staff.

Hazard Pay And Replacement Pool $30K/yr

[#21] Ongoing hazard pay and replacement hiring pool for affected staff.

Secure Comms Maintenance $10K/yr

[#18] Maintenance for air-gapped/secure communications and token systems.

Training And Sop Refreshers $6K/yr

[#20] Annual refresher training and compliance audits.

Decontamination And Disposal $6K/yr

[#28] Waste disposal, incineration and per-test disposal costs.

Forensic Archive Maintenance $2K/yr

[#5] Maintenance and secured-storage costs for offline archives.

Facilities Maintenance $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.9M/yr

75.0% probability / year

Normal, uneventful year with steady monitoring, routine R&D and modest ops.

no_large_reuploads routine_research regular_field_ops

🚨 Minor Incident $6.2M/yr

20.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline

Localized reappearance or targeted viral repost requiring rapid takedowns, 1–2 field ops and increased PR/amnestics.

reappearing_uploads localized_public_exposure single_field_operation

🚨 Major Breach $10.9M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

Widespread replication / viral outbreak requiring mass remediation, large ops, emergency contingency drawdown and extensive PR/legal work.

viral_recreation mass_civilian_exposures large_scale_field_and_remediation_ops

👥 Personnel 14 total

Role	Count	Notes
Monitoring Officer / XX Content Monitor	4	[#2, #11] 24/7 monitoring requirement by staff with XX chromosomes; includes coverage for shifts, leave and benefits.
Research Scientist	3	[#7, #12, #13, #22] Food scientists, chemists and memetics researchers funded in recurring research salaries.
Incident Response Team (Digital/Legal)	3	[#3, #15] Senior engineers and on-call legal officer; salaries budgeted in incident-response line.
Analyst / Data Triage	1	[#16] Global monitoring analyst who triages scraping results and flags matches.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	3	[#23, #21] Guard staff for physical security of researchers and facilities; wages included in staff budget.

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges allowing a middle-confidence estimate; large ranges for some items (field ops, buyouts, R&D outcomes) and the anomalous nature of SCP-7906 introduce material uncertainty.

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