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SCP-7993 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-7993
Expected annual
$8.2M
One-time setup
$9.8M
Annual recurring
$8.1M
Personnel
48
Initial capital/setup costs are approximately $9.78M driven by mobile units, monitoring hardware, and a $5M surge reserve; baseline recurring operations are about $8.145M/yr dominated by staff wages, R&D, and legal/cover operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $9.8M
Large Scale Surge Reserve $5.0M
[#26] One-time contingency reserve for city-scale countermeasures and surge mobilization ($5,000,000).
Equipment $3.6M
[#1, #4, #6, #12, #21] Dedicated broadcast-monitoring hardware and licenses ($750,000), 6 mobile interception units ($1,800,000), jamming/override hardware ($600,000), archive setup/hardware ($150,000), SOC hardened build ($300,000).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $625K
[#7, #22] Secure analysis/Faraday rooms and playback isolation (3 rooms × $75k = $225k) plus ML/DSP development capital ($400k).
Facilities $500K
[#3, #15] Site build/setup for regional relay sites ($300,000) and site power redundancy installs (UPS/generators) ($200,000).
Cover Story Content Creation $50K
[#9] One-time professional content creation / forged assets to seed cover narratives ($50,000).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $8.1M/yr
Staff Wages $3.9M/yr
[#2, #5, #13, #16, #17, #24] Telecommunications analysts (20 @ loaded avg $80k = $1.6M), field operations salaries/travel portion (~$1.2M), OSINT/social media team (~$450k), protest mitigation team (~$400k), psychological/resettlement support (~$150k), medical support (~$75k).
Research And Monitoring $1.1M/yr
[#8, #22] Ongoing memetic countermeasure R&D ($1,000,000/yr) and ML/compute/cloud costs for signal detection ($100,000/yr).
Coverup Contingency Fund $1.0M/yr
[#11] Annual discretionary fund for rapid payouts, witness payments, settlements ($1,000,000/yr).
Cover Story And Legal $670K/yr
[#9, #10, #18] Public cover/PR & reimbursements ($300k/yr), legal/regulatory liaison retainer and incident legal budget ($250k/yr), international coordination/translation fees ($120k/yr).
Logistics And Transport $600K/yr
[#4, #14, #23] Mobile unit maintenance & ops ($200k/yr), rapid response vehicle operations/fuel/travel ($300k/yr), mobile relocation budget for population-center moves ($100k/yr).
Facilities Maintenance $285K/yr
[#3, #7, #15] Regional site leases/ops ($240k/yr), secure lab climate/control maintenance ($15k/yr), generator fuel/maintenance ($30k/yr).
Supplies And Consumables $215K/yr
[#19, #12, #20] Equipment spares/consumables ($75k/yr), archive storage & maintenance ($40k/yr), training materials & memetic-safety protocol costs ($100k/yr).
It And Cybersecurity Ops $200K/yr
[#21] SOC operations, patching, incident response and secure-ops staffing ($200k/yr).
Insurance And Liability $200K/yr
[#25] Insurance, indemnity, and liability reserve / premium-level coverage ($200k/yr).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $8.1M/yr
93.0% probability / year
Normal operations year with standard monitoring, R&D, and routine field activity.
no major broadcast escalation routine deployments and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $8.6M/yr
6.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized broadcast spike or protest requiring additional field deployments, legal actions, and small-scale compensation payouts.
localized multi-site hijack small civil protests / legal incidents
🚨 Major Escalation $15.1M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$7.0M vs baseline
Significant geographic spread or intense memetic event requiring surge mobilization, large-scale jamming/deployments, and accelerated R&D/medical countermeasure rollout.
widespread transmission mass protests and exposures requirement to deploy surge reserve
👥 Personnel 48 total
Role Count Notes
Telecommunications Analyst / Signal Operator 20 [#2] Explicitly specified in notes as ~20 analysts to cover 24/7 monitoring.
OSINT Analyst 6 [#13] Social media & open-source monitoring team specified as 6 analysts.
Field Technician / MTF Agent 12 [#5, #4] Field operations teams and mobile intercept deployments (4-person teams rotating); headcount estimated to support recurring deployment tempo reflected in item #5.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 4 [#16] Protest mitigation and civil-influence team duties; headcount estimated from recurring mitigation budget.
Research Scientist 2 [#8, #22] R&D staff for memetic countermeasures and ML/DSP development covered by research budget.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#15, #19, #21] Engineers/technicians to maintain generators, regional sites, antennas, and SOC hardware.
IT / SOC Staff 1 [#21, #22] SOC operations and ML/system maintenance staffing reflected in IT ops recurring budget.
Administrative Staff / Legal Liaison 1 [#9, #10, #18] Administrative and liaison roles for cover story, legal, and international coordination.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line-item estimates and specified staff counts for some items (e.g., 20 analysts), enabling a medium confidence total; uncertainty remains due to the anomalous and potentially rapidly-scaling nature of SCP-7993 (probabilities of escalation and exact staffing mixes are uncertain).
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