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SCP-8146 Keter ? low confidence
SCP-8146
Expected annual
$15.5M
One-time setup
$136.8M
Annual recurring
$10.2M
Personnel
22
Initial program capitalization is dominated by hardened containment construction and a large catastrophic-reserve set-aside (~$136,850,000 one-time). Recurring annual costs are driven by research programs, staffing (security/MTF/medical) and continuous digital suppression efforts (~$10,240,000/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $136.8M
Catastrophic Breach Reserve $100.0M
[#30] Set-aside contingency fund for worst-case mass-response, mass amnesticization, reconstruction and litigation.
Facilities $28.6M
[#1, #2, #18] Purpose-built reinforced containment wing and facility retrofits including HVAC/EM shielding and the medical isolation suite build-out; structural work, airlocks and decon suite.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $4.0M
[#7, #11] Initial R&D and prototyping for countermeasures plus cognitohazard/antiperceptive implant development and safety testing.
Equipment $2.8M
[#8, #9, #16, #23, #24] Specialized restraint hardware, initial monitoring suite instrumentation, deepfake/GPU servers, vehicle purchases and backup power hardware.
Initial Capture Operation $1.0M
[#5] One-time complex capture/raid operation (planning, aerial assets, tactical insertion, containment transfer).
Signal Triangulation Initial $300K
[#21] Initial intensive campaign to locate stream origin (telecom metadata purchases, RF nodes, drones) as a one-time effort.
Cover Story Production $150K
[#14] Initial production of fabricated interviews/behind-the-scenes material (studio rental, production, VFX/deepfake creation).
Decon Kit Initial $50K
[#25] Initial decontamination kit and equipment purchase referenced in hazardous-waste/decon line item.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $10.2M/yr
Research And Monitoring $3.8M/yr
[#6, #7, #20, #31, #33] Salaries for research team, ongoing R&D program budgets, secure data/archive for analysis, long-term thaumaturgy/physics research grants and small-scale community monitoring programs.
Staff Wages $2.8M/yr
[#3, #4, #18] Ongoing payroll for onsite security teams, rotating MTF/tactical specialists and on-call medical staffing.
Cover Story And Legal $1.1M/yr
[#13, #15, #26, #32] Content-removal legal teams, ongoing disinformation/PR operations, legal retainers/local liaison budgets and recurring production of cover-story props/materials.
Logistics And Transport $500K/yr
[#22] Air and ground asset retainers (helicopter hours, tactical vehicle leases, armored transport) and rapid-deployment logistics.
Covert Ops Fund $400K/yr
[#27] Discretionary rapid-response fund for off-the-books expenses, informants, fast payments.
Witness Management $300K/yr
[#17] Field witness interviews, amnestic administration, relocation and aftercare (projected 20–100 witnesses/yr).
Public Safety Liability $300K/yr
[#29] Budget for evacuation coordination, temporary sheltering and liability/compensation in case of public manifestation.
Web Monitoring $200K/yr
[#10] Continuous webcrawlers, content fingerprinting and cloud compute costs for automated takedown/suppression infrastructure.
Facilities Maintenance $170K/yr
[#9, #24] Maintenance of monitoring suite (approx. 10% of instrumentation) and backup-power fuel/maintenance contracts.
Cognitohazard Operations $150K/yr
[#12] Ongoing deployment, updates and maintenance of antiperceptive web implants and monitoring for bypasses.
Signal Triangulation Ongoing $150K/yr
[#21] Ongoing RF analysis, metadata purchases and probe deployments after the initial campaign.
Psychological Support $125K/yr
[#28] Screening, counseling and cog-safety training for staff exposed to cognitohazards and Keter-class stressors.
Supplies And Consumables $100K/yr
[#19] Ongoing amnestic stock and medical consumables resupply.
Hazardous Waste Disposal $60K/yr
[#25] Annual biohazard/chem-waste pickup, licensing and disposal contracts.
Deepfake Maintenance $30K/yr
[#16] Maintenance, license and modest operational costs for GPU servers and forensic QA for multimedia fabrication.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $10.2M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing containment, research, digital suppression and routine operations; no major breaches or mass exposure events.
standard_operations scheduled_research_and_maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $12.2M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline
Localized containment incident or temporary public exposure requiring emergency response, repairs, surge witness management and legal actions.
localized_breach public_stream_exposure temporary_power_or_sensor_failure
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $260.2M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$250.0M vs baseline
Major containment failure with widespread public exposure requiring mass amnesticization, evacuations, large-scale litigation and infrastructure rebuild.
major_containment_breach mass_public_exposure infrastructure_collapse
👥 Personnel 22 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer 12 [#3] 24/7 onsite guard teams (10–16 typical); budgeted to cover wages, benefits and overtime.
MTF Agent / Tactical Specialist 8 [#4] Rotational rapid-response tactical team specialists with higher pay and training costs.
Medical Officer 2 [#18] On-call medical staff for traum/amnestic administration and containment medical bay coverage.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates have wide ranges due to speculative containment engineering for gravity/thaumaturgic anomalies and uncertain operational scale; digital suppression costs are better-bounded but physical/R&D and catastrophic exposures are highly uncertain.
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