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SCP-7922 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-7922
Expected annual
$79.4M
One-time setup
$7.3M
Annual recurring
$79.5M
Personnel
56
One-time setup ~ $7.3M for software, lab fit-out, secure archives and initial legal/cover setup; recurring annual operations ~ $73.7M driven primarily by field deployments, forensic analysis, global liaison network, continuous moderation/takedown, and a large emergency contingency reserve.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.3M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $3.2M
[#13] Memetics/psycholinguistics secure lab fit-out and initial instrumentation for analysis.
Equipment $2.5M
[#1, #16, #21, #28] Surveillance software / crawler & dashboard development, digital-preservation hardware (scanners/backups), mobile field containment unit purchase(s), HPC setup for pattern detection (one-time capital).
Training Materials Setup $625K
[#9] One-time development of hospital training materials, online modules, and initial workshop content.
Facilities $500K
[#15] Vault construction and physical secure-archive fit-out (climate control, alarms, basic shelving).
Legal Entity Setup $400K
[#22] One-time legal/accounting/setup costs for shell companies, fake grants, and cover infrastructure.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $79.5M/yr
Logistics And Transport $18.8M/yr
[#6, #14] Field deployment travel/vehicles/per-diem/logistics (estimated 5% of ~15k paralytic cases -> ~750 deployments) and secure transport/chain-of-custody per-incident costs.
Forensic Analysis $11.2M/yr
[#12] Forensic pathology, autopsy, PCR/sequencing consumables and analysis for incidents (per-incident average applied across expected deployments).
Emergency Contingency Reserve $10.0M/yr
[#23] Allocated reserve capacity for large-scale intentional mass-execution attempts (rapid PR, mass takedowns, mass patient monitoring).
Overhead $9.6M/yr
[#30] Program coordination and management overhead estimated at ~15% of annual operations budget.
Secure Transport $6.4M/yr
[#14] Armored/covert courier and chain-of-custody transport per-incident costs aggregated annually.
Staff Wages $6.2M/yr
[#3, #5, #13, #19, #20] Salaries for moderation/takedown staff, remote triage epidemiologists/medical staff, memetics research staff, archive security guards, and high-clearance liaison officers (staff portions of listed items).
Liaison Network $5.0M/yr
[#4] Global rabies-case monitoring liaison agreements, travel reimbursements, local contracts and covert payments to contacts.
Research And Monitoring $3.8M/yr
[#8, #16] Remote per-case monitoring/telemedicine costs for paralytic rabies cases (communications/translation/local reimbursements) and recurrent digital-preservation storage/integrity checking.
Medical Supplies Prophylaxis $1.8M/yr
[#10] Procurement and covert distribution of vaccines/antiserum/post-exposure prophylaxis in targeted areas.
Cover Story And Legal $1.6M/yr
[#18, #22, #25] Annual reserve for destruction/redaction/legal cover-up operations, legal entity upkeep, and insurance/auditing/compliance reserves.
Destruction And Coverup Reserve $1.0M/yr
[#18] Annual reserve to fund ad-hoc legal/PR takedowns, compensations, and cover operations for leaks.
Communications Ops $1.0M/yr
[#27] Counter-messaging, social engineering campaigns, ad buys, creative teams, and A/B testing to steer communities away from execution instructions.
Moderation And Takedowns $900K/yr
[#3] Non-salary portion of continuous moderation/takedown ops: outsourced takedowns, platform coordination, ad buys for takedown delivery, and contractor fees.
Legal Entity Upkeep $600K/yr
[#22] Recurring costs for maintaining shell companies, fake grants, lawyers, accountants, and transaction fees.
Training And Credentialing $300K/yr
[#24] Ongoing clinical training, simulations, and credentialing programs for responding clinicians.
Ppe And Biohazard Kits $255K/yr
[#11] PPE and biohazard kit replenishment plus per-deployment PPE consumables.
Memetics Lab Ops $250K/yr
[#13] Non-staff operational costs for memetics lab (computing, consumables, secure lab ops).
Analyst Review $175K/yr
[#17] Long-term memetic/literary review hours and backlog management (per-major-event review + ongoing backlog handling).
Personnel Recruitment $175K/yr
[#29] Recruitment, background checks, clearance processing, periodic polygraphs, and vetting-related costs.
Web Infrastructure $150K/yr
[#2] High-availability encrypted hosting, mirrored servers, log retention, secure ops for crawlers and takedown tooling.
Hpc Recurring $150K/yr
[#28] Ongoing CPU/GPU costs, maintenance, and cloud compute for pattern detection and simulations.
Digital Preservation Infra $85K/yr
[#16] Yearly storage, encrypted backups, redundancy checks for preserved digital copies.
Mobile Unit Maintenance $62K/yr
[#21] Maintenance, fueling, and readiness costs for mobile field containment unit(s).
Facilities Maintenance $60K/yr
[#15] Utilities, security systems maintenance, and conservation for physical archive vault.
Supplies And Consumables $23K/yr
[#26] Consumables: bags, tamper seals, evidence labels, bioswab kits, archival boxes.
Digital Preservation Per Incident $10K/yr
[#16] Per-major-incident digitization/delivery costs (scanning/OCR/metadata) applied conservatively (assumes few major events/year).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $79.5M/yr
96.5% probability / year
Normal year with continuous monitoring, routine deployments at expected rates, no major leaks or mass-execution attempts.
steady paralytic-case monitoring routine web moderation periodic small deployments
🚨 Minor Incident $75.4M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$-4025400 vs baseline
One-year with several localized intentional attempts or leaks requiring multiple significant per-incident responses, PR/legal actions, and extra analyst time.
multiple localized leaks 3–5 significant confiscations increased legal/PR spending
🚨 Major Breach $98.7M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$19.3M vs baseline
Rare large-scale intentional mass-execution attempt or widespread dissemination requiring international emergency response, mass prophylaxis, and heavy PR/legal operations.
coordinated mass-execution attempt widespread leak/distribution international emergency vaccination/monitoring
👥 Personnel 56 total
Role Count Notes
Moderation Officer / Takedown Specialist 20 [#3] Online moderation, false identities, takedown coordination and manual review across languages (portion of continuous moderation staff).
Epidemiologist / Medical Officer 9 [#5] Remote case-triage team performing triage of flagged paralytic rabies cases and coordination with hospitals.
Research Scientist 12 [#13] Memetics/psycholinguistics analysts and lab researchers staffing the memetics lab and performing analysis.
Archive Security / Guard 9 [#19] Security personnel for physical archives and restricted access facilities.
High-Clearance Liaison Officer 6 [#20] Intelligence and liaison officers maintaining covert relationships with national security, public health, and platform operators.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on analyst-provided ranges and program assumptions (paralytic-case incidence and 5% deployment rate); many line items (per-incident volumes, liaison payments, and emergency reserve usage) are uncertain, so figures are mid-range budgetary estimates rather than precise accounting.
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