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SCP-8359 Keter/Thaumiel ~ medium confidence
SCP-8359
Expected annual
$5.1M
One-time setup
$10.3M
Annual recurring
$4.3M
Personnel
27
Initial one-time capital and contingency costs are large (~$10.2M) driven by specialized OCU buildout, secure hardware, amnestic reserves and a seeded emergency reserve; ongoing annual operations are driven by high-cost staffing, continuous monitoring, legal/cover operations and contingency allocations (~$4.27M/yr baseline).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $10.3M
Amnestic Deployment Per Incident $5.0M
[#15] Per-incident contingency for focused to large-scale amnestic deployment / media buys / distribution and suppression (one-time per incident).
Reserve Seed $2.0M
[#25] One-time seed to establish an emergency contingency/insurance reserve for large-scale responses.
Facilities $1.2M
[#1] One-time construction/retrofit of air-gapped OCU with Faraday/EMP shielding, blast doors and compartmentalized access.
Monitoring Software Development $600K
[#6] Initial bespoke automated monitoring stack development, ingestion pipelines and anomaly-detection model buildout (one-time R&D/deployment).
Amnestic Stockpile Initial $600K
[#14] Initial procurement of Class-B/C amnestics, memetic counteragents, secure-dispersion hardware and medical support kits.
Equipment $485K
[#2, #3, #8, #18] Hardened servers/racks/forensic appliances, UPS/generator/HVAC setup, initial WORM/tape hardware and initial secure communications consoles.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $250K
[#13] Non-networked lab buildout, psycholinguistic rigs and experimental workstations separate from the OCU.
Secure Communications Initial $100K
[#18] Initial purchase of air-gapped control consoles, one-way data diodes and fallback pager/satellite gear.
Legal Initial Setup $50K
[#11] Initial legal/contract setup costs and retainer establishment for Homloch contract and anomalous-asset legal work.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.3M/yr
Staff Wages $2.1M/yr
[#4, #5, #12, #26] Ongoing fully-burdened wages for dedicated security guards (24/7), information-security/sysadmin & memetic-safety staff, research team salaries and ethics/compliance reviewers.
Reserve Allocation Per Year $500K/yr
[#25] Annual allocation to build/maintain the containment emergency reserve fund.
Research And Monitoring $485K/yr
[#7, #9, #10, #8, #23] Ongoing monitoring compute/licensing & model retraining, scheduled IT inspection/patching, red-team penetration testing, secure archival storage and curated archival retention.
Logistics And Transport $430K/yr
[#16, #24] Covert ops/takedown team budgets and travel/liaison/logistics for vendor/site coordination and retrieval operations.
Cover Story And Legal $360K/yr
[#11, #17, #27] Ongoing Homloch contract/retainer, public-relations/disinformation campaigns and media-monitoring/takedown tooling subscriptions.
Facilities Maintenance $120K/yr
[#3, #28] Generator/UPS/HVAC maintenance and apportioned Site-119 sublevel maintenance & overhead.
Supplies And Consumables $120K/yr
[#13, #20] Research reagents/supplies and routine consumables/spare-parts/hardware refresh averaged annually.
Incident Drills $75K/yr
[#22] Full-scale incident response drills, tabletop exercises and readiness simulations.
Secure Training And Sops $50K/yr
[#21] Memetic-safety training, SOP development and periodic re-certification for relevant staff.
Energy And Fuel $20K/yr
[#19] Electricity for servers/HVAC and generator fuel/maintenance averaged annually.
Secure Communications Maintenance $15K/yr
[#18] Recurring maintenance and small license/support costs for air-gapped communications hardware.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.3M/yr
82.9% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; steady operations, monitoring and periodic maintenance/drills.
no detected anomalous spikes routine operations and audits
🚨 Minor Incident $4.8M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized exposure or targeted post that requires targeted takedown, limited amnestic use, overtime and legal/PR surge.
targeted public post with limited spread successful takedown requiring rapid response
🚨 Major Breach $34.3M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$30.0M vs baseline
Widespread exposure requiring a coordinated regional/national amnestic campaign, large covert operations and large logistics expenditures.
rapid viral spread to thousands failure of automated deletion and containment
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $204.3M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$200.0M vs baseline
Nationwide or multi-region exposure requiring emergency mass-amnesticization, federal-level operations and extremely large contingency spending.
runaway viral dissemination coordinated attacks or multiple concurrent failures
👥 Personnel 27 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 10 [#4] 24/7 dedicated Sublevel 14 access control and rapid-response guards (two-three per shift plus supervisor).
Research Scientist 5 [#12] Senior Researcher plus assistants/memetics specialists for ongoing SCP-8359 study (3–6 recommended).
Information Security / Sysadmin 6 [#5] Full-time sysadmins, incident analysts and memetic-safety engineers to oversee monitoring and investigate anomalies.
Engineer / Maintenance 2 [#3] Technical staff for generator/UPS/HVAC and hardware refresh/maintenance.
Medical Officer 2 [#14] Medical support for amnestic handling, authorized clinical counteragent administration and emergency response.
Ethics/Compliance Officer 1 [#26] Oversight for memetic-safety board, legal/ethical review and approval of extreme measures.
Administrative Staff / Site Supervisor 1 [#4, #11] Supervisory/admin support for contracts, logistics and site coordination.
📋 Confidence Notes
Many line items have wide ranges (especially per-incident amnestic operations and reserve sizing); hardware and personnel costs are better defined but incident-response expenses are highly uncertain, hence medium confidence.
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