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SCP-7959 Ticonderoga ~ medium confidence
SCP-7959
Expected annual
$3.9M
One-time setup
$12.6M
Annual recurring
$3.8M
Personnel
6
One-time setup and resilience (vaults, hardware, R&D seed funds and endowment) are the primary upfront costs (~$12.65M); recurring yearly costs are driven by specialized staff, legal/cover operations, medical & redundancy reserves, and ongoing monitoring (~$3.76M/year).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $12.6M
Black Budget Contingency $5.5M
[#14] Seed black-budget contingency for covert operations, rapid procurement, leasing, or outside co‑option when containment escalation is authorized.
Containment Reassessment Rnd Fund $2.8M
[#24] One-time programmatic fund for containment reassessment R&D, grants and prototypes if mitigation research is authorized.
Long Term Endowment $1.8M
[#25] Endowment / archival integrity insurance capital to underwrite perpetual monitoring/preservation if TL‑7959 requires long-term surveillance.
Facilities $1.6M
[#1, #2, #23] Hardened archival vault (site buildout, HVAC, EMP protection, access controls) plus geographically redundant cold storage sites and initial records-quarantine/destruction setup.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $500K
[#6] Secure experimentation suite buildout (remote observation booths, robotics, one-way AV interfaces, hardened cameras and remote actuators) to allow no-direct-exposure experiments.
Equipment $462K
[#3, #11] High-integrity server hardware, immutable storage and specialized logging appliances; secure/hardened client devices and development/initial rollout of memetic-filter viewer software.
Training Program Initial $100K
[#15] Initial costs to establish training, screening and clearance program (background checks, psychological screening, memetic inoculation simulation infrastructure).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $3.8M/yr
Cover Story And Legal $1.4M/yr
[#13, #22] Legal, cover-story, information-control budgets plus public-relations and narrative-maintenance costs (NDAs, takedowns, front organizations, fabricated research).
Staff Wages $850K/yr
[#5] Specialist research team salaries (memetics researchers, timeline theorists, senior data scientists, two safety officers); midpoint estimate for a small specialized team (approx. 6 FTE incl. benefits).
Emergency Medical Reserve $300K/yr
[#7] Annual reserve for emergency medical response and neurological care (on-call neurology, ICU beds, ambulance/airlift, acute procedures). Per-incident acute costs handled in scenarios.
Insurance And Benefits $225K/yr
[#18] Insurance, worker's compensation and long-term benefits reserve for medical liabilities and survivor benefits.
Equipment Redundancy Replacement Fund $175K/yr
[#9] Redundancy and replacement fund for frequent hardware replacement, emergency procurement and corrupted equipment recovery.
External Experts $175K/yr
[#20] External contracting and peer review (neurologists, memeticists, timeline theorists, data-recovery firms).
Personnel Redundancy And Rotation $125K/yr
[#17] Costs for mandatory rotation, hiring/training replacements, paid leave and hazard pay to limit cumulative exposure.
Research And Monitoring $110K/yr
[#4, #21] Ongoing data-integrity operations (checksum scanning, tape refresh cycles, bit-rot repair) plus indexing/monitoring compute costs for canonical-bundle scans and anomaly detection.
Facilities Maintenance $100K/yr
[#1, #2] Annual maintenance for vault infrastructure, HVAC, fire-suppression system maintenance, EMP protection upkeep and off-site cold storage upkeep.
Logistics And Transport $85K/yr
[#19] Secure transport and logistics (armored courier services, discrete relocations, temporary housing and short-notice travel).
Trauma Psychiatric Care $70K/yr
[#8] Ongoing trauma, psychiatric care and memetic counseling program for survivors and staff; memetic debrief protocol development.
Forensic Diagnostics Reserve $60K/yr
[#10] Annual reserve for forensic diagnostics, neuroimaging, autopsy budgets and neuropathology following exposures.
It Security And Filters $60K/yr
[#12] Ongoing IT security, patching, memetic-filter updates, pen-testing and incident response for viewer/filter software.
Training And Clearance Upkeep $25K/yr
[#16] Recurring costs for refresher courses, background re-investigations and per-person clearance upkeep.
Records Quarantine Operations $22K/yr
[#23] Ongoing operations cost for records quarantine, secure isolation and destruction (incineration/geomasked burial) of contaminated media.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $3.8M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major exposure incidents; ongoing monitoring, staff operations, legal/cover and reserves continue at planned levels.
no breaches routine operations only
🚨 Minor Incident $4.3M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$570K vs baseline
Localized exposure event affecting a small number of staff or a single dataset leading to medical treatment, forensic workup, limited PR/legal response and equipment replacement.
single-site exposure localized data corruption limited media/public leak
🚨 Major Breach $8.9M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$5.1M vs baseline
Significant containment failure or public leak causing multiple exposures, large-scale medical response, major legal/PR operations and substantial covert contingency expenditures.
multi-person exposure public dissemination containment escalation
👥 Personnel 6 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / Memetics Researcher 2 [#5] Senior memetics researchers to analyze TL-7959 artifacts and develop safe observation protocols.
Timeline Theorist 1 [#5] Specialist in timeline theory to interpret canonical-bundle indexing anomalies.
Research Data Scientist 1 [#5] Senior data scientist for indexing, integrity checks and anomaly-detection pipeline oversight.
Safety Officer / Specialist 2 [#5] Two full-time safety officers for operations oversight, rotations and emergency response coordination.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are midpoints of analyst-provided ranges and include conservative selections (e.g., two off-site vaults). SCP-7959 is memetic/temporal and inherently unpredictable; line-item ranges are broad so aggregate figures carry moderate uncertainty.
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