SCP-7930 — SCP-7930 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-7930 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-7930

Expected annual

$9.7M

One-time setup

$6.7M

Annual recurring

$9.4M

Personnel

One-time setup and a contingency reserve drive upfront costs (~$6.7M). Annual operating costs are dominated by staff wages, per-screening ticket purchases/security, MTF readiness/operations, and legal/cover expenses, yielding a recurring ~ $9.42M/yr (baseline).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $6.7M

Incident Response Reserve $5.0M

[#24] Prudent one-time contingency/reserve fund for large-scale incident response / surge procurements (Keter-class planning >$5M).

Facilities $550K

[#1, #2] Facility acquisition/seizure and secure containment room build-out (legal fees, seizure/relocation, room retrofit, secure doors, separate HVAC, CCTV/alarms).

Equipment $325K

[#3, #4] On-site incinerator purchase/installation (~$200k) and on-prem secure servers/network (~$125k).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $300K

[#16] Research lab outfitting for non-visual analysis (forensic audio/video analysis, instruments).

Fingerprinting Development $300K

[#6] One-time custom development for automated film-identification / fingerprinting (lower end of custom R&D estimate).

Personnel Replacement Hiring $120K

[#15] One-time replacement hiring/training costs for personnel excluded under SCP-7930 profile (approx. per-FTE replacement aggregated).

Monitoring System Setup $80K

[#7] One-time setup of real-time theatre-program monitoring tools, software integrations and initial APIs.

Ticket Purchase System Setup $60K

[#8] One-time development & vendor relationships for ticket-purchase automation and bot infrastructure.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $9.4M/yr

Staff Wages $3.2M/yr

[#5, #13, #16, #14] Database/content ingestion staff (~$260k), MTF standing salaries (~$1.8M), forensic analysts (~$260k), on-site security guards (~$900k).

Ethics Uplift $3.1M/yr

[#26] Operational uplift (assumed 50%) applied to research & operational recurring budgets due to Ethics constraint (implicit 25–100% uplift).

Mtf Operations $600K/yr

[#12] Mobile Task Force Theta-36 deployment operations (travel, lodging, covert entry, equipment). Assumed average deployment cadence aggregated annually.

Per Screening Ticket Purchases $432K/yr

[#9, #11] Baseline assumed 300 unknown screenings/yr × ~$1,440 per screening = $432,000/yr (scales linearly with event frequency).

Cover Story And Legal $400K/yr

[#18] Retainer for legal/PR, payments to local authorities/owners, ongoing cover-up, and routine settlements.

Mtf Equipment Amortization $300K/yr

[#13] Amortized vehicles, specialized equipment, comms, and readiness costs for MTF Theta-36.

Informants And Local Intel $300K/yr

[#19] Payments to local informants, city-level coverage, and human intel networks for non-digital theatre info.

Monitoring Staff And Contractors $125K/yr

[#7] Ongoing monitoring staff, web-scraping services, paid listings, and informant management for non-digital venues.

Ethics And Psych Support $120K/yr

[#17] Counseling, staff safety programs, Ethics Committee staffing and oversight for non-viewing protocols.

It Security And Auditing $120K/yr

[#21] Red-team audits, SIEM, air-gapping, classified-network maintenance and security auditing.

Ticket Refund Contingency $100K/yr

[#22] Reserve to cover chargebacks/refunds and related legal defense from bulk ticket purchases.

Travel And Per Diem $100K/yr

[#23] Routine travel, lodging, and per-diem for monitoring, inspections, and MTF movement.

Per Screening Security $90K/yr

[#10] On-site guard costs to prevent viewing during unknown screenings (assumes avg ~$300 per screening × 300 screenings).

Facilities Maintenance $80K/yr

[#2] HVAC, CCTV, secure-door maintenance and building upkeep for the containment room(s).

Long Term Archival $70K/yr

[#25] Metadata licensing and cold-storage archival costs for the database of known adult movies.

Film Identification License $60K/yr

[#6] License/maintenance or upkeep for automated film-identification/fingerprinting systems.

Hiring And Hr $50K/yr

[#15] Ongoing background screening, policy enforcement, and HR costs related to personnel exclusions and turnover.

Incinerator Contract $40K/yr

[#3] Option to contract hazardous-waste vendor / incineration service when preferable to on-site incineration.

It Operations And Backups $30K/yr

[#4] Ongoing hosting, backups, maintenance for secure database and air-gapped backups.

Ticketing Maintenance $30K/yr

[#8] Maintenance and account costs for ticket-purchase automation and vendor relationships.

Supplies And Consumables $10K/yr

[#3] PPE, consumables, fume abatement consumables, ash handling supplies.

Research And Monitoring $0/yr

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Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $9.4M/yr

64.0% probability / year

Normal year with assumed screening frequency (~300/yr), routine operations and no major incidents.

no_major_incident routine_screening_rate

🚨 Minor Incident $9.7M/yr

30.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline

Localized surge/increase in unknown screenings or small-scale incidents requiring extra purchases, small deployments, and legal buyouts.

local_surge_in_unknown_screenings small_breach increased_package_volume

🚨 Major Breach $11.4M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Significant regional surge or repeated breaches requiring many deployments, large legal settlements, and expanded ticket/security buys.

regional_outbreak sustained_increase_in_unknown_screenings multiple_MTF_deployments

🚨 Catastrophic Breach $19.4M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Mass event / global surge requiring full incident response reserve, large-scale closures, and significant legal payouts.

mass_exposure nationwide_surge widespread_public_exposure

👥 Personnel 36 total

Role	Count	Notes
Mobile Task Force Agent / MTF Theta-36	12	[#12, #13] Twelve-person MTF team maintained on-call; salaries included in recurring staff_wages.
Research Scientist / Forensic Analyst	3	[#16] Forensic audio/video analysts for non-visual analysis; recurring salaries included in staff_wages.
Database Content Specialist	3	[#5] Content ingestion and verification team (2–4 FTE range; modeled as 3 FTE).
Security Officer / Guard	18	[#14] On-site security staffing for 24/7 coverage (modeled midpoint of 12–24 guards).

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes are detailed and provide ranges for most line items, enabling mid-range point estimates, but many quantities (screening frequency, deployment cadence, uplift multiplier) are uncertain and scenario-dependent, producing medium confidence.

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