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SCP-8479 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-8479
Expected annual
$36.9M
One-time setup
$60.3M
Annual recurring
$33.6M
Personnel
36
Initial one-time buildout and covert telecom backdoors plus contingency reserves drive capital costs (~$60M); recurring annual costs are dominated by research/monitoring, legal/cover/witness management, telecom maintenance and MTF salaries (~$33.6M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $60.3M
Contingency Reserve $20.0M
[#16] Emergency contingency reserve (liquid fund for surge charter, surge staffing, emergency procurement).
Facilities $10.0M
[#10] Heavy-site containment facility upgrades, specialized chambers, redundant controls and engineering.
Intelligence Asset Recruitment $7.5M
[#17] Recruitment/placement costs for HUMINT assets in communications industry (approx. 50 assets midrange).
Containment Rnd $6.0M
[#22] Long-term containment R&D program startup for memetic dampeners and redundant containment tech.
Telecom Backdoors $3.8M
[#1] Initial placement/development of SS7/SIP/VoIP backdoors and carrier access across targeted carriers (10-carrier estimate).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $2.0M
[#6] Cyber-forensics & signal analysis team hardware and initial setup (deep packet capture, time-sync, trace equipment).
Field Containment Equipment $2.0M
[#9] Mobile containment trailers, modular holding bays, Faraday shields, memetic dampeners for temporary onsite containment.
Research Program Setup $1.8M
[#21] One-time setup for program to model entity appearance/payment mechanics and controlled trials.
Legal Cover Company $1.2M
[#5] Setup and seed funding for shell companies, legal entities, takedown litigation fund and initial liaison funds.
Analog Audit Decommission $1.1M
[#30] Audit & decommission program for analog/non-phone activation vectors (payphones, embedded devices).
Pr Oneoff $1.0M
[#24] One-off large media/false-narrative campaign costs for major incidents.
Amnestic Program $950K
[#11] Amnestic lab build/certification and initial stockpile of chemical/memetic amnestics (doses + portable rigs).
Mtf Vehicles $750K
[#8] Purchase and retrofit of ground vehicles and transport fleet for MTF deployments.
Power Redundancy $600K
[#27] UPS/generator/secure power redundancy install for containment suites.
Ppe Equipment $300K
[#14] Specialized PPE sets and anti-anomalous equipment for MTF teams (initial purchase for teams).
Data Infrastructure $300K
[#19] Initial storage, logging, encrypted backup, and forensic infrastructure setup.
Intl Lobbying Setup $300K
[#25] One-time negotiation/establishment costs for international regulatory lobbying and bribery risk mitigation.
Secure Comms Setup $300K
[#29] Encrypted radios, satellite phones and secure VoIP setup.
Web Ops Setup $150K
[#4] Initial tooling & campaign for web crawling, SEO suppression and takedown tooling.
Honeypot Development $100K
[#3] Development and deployment of IVR baitline/decoy number network.
Memetic Research Setup $100K
[#13] One-time literature acquisition and lab support for memetic/psychological/theological research.
Vetting Infrastructure $100K
[#28] Initial CI/vetting infrastructure (background checks, polygraph facilities, vetting IT).
Equipment $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $33.6M/yr
Research And Monitoring $7.3M/yr
[#6, #13, #21, #22] Cyber-forensics team operating costs, memetic/theological consultant retainers, running experimental research program, ongoing containment R&D.
Cover Story And Legal $6.8M/yr
[#5, #15, #24, #25] Ongoing legal/liaison costs, witness relocation & resettlement funds, PR suppression buys, international regulatory lobbying budgets.
Staff Wages $4.3M/yr
[#7] Salaries for 3 regional on-call MTF teams (3 teams * 12 personnel * ~$120k fully burdened).
Telecom Backdoors Maintenance $2.2M/yr
[#1] Ongoing personnel, maintenance, and access upkeep costs for carrier backdoors and embedded operator placements across carriers.
Intelligence Handling $2.0M/yr
[#17] Annual handling and running costs for HUMINT assets and asset management in communications industry.
Contingency Replenishment $2.0M/yr
[#16] Annual replenishment target for emergency contingency reserve after uses in major incidents.
Facilities Maintenance $1.9M/yr
[#9, #10, #27, #8] Ongoing operations/security/utilities for containment suites, fleet maintenance, field-equipment upkeep and backup power fuel/maintenance.
Web Ops Recurring $1.5M/yr
[#4] Ongoing web crawling, takedown fees, SEO suppression and disinfo campaign staffing/hosting.
Incident Response $1.0M/yr
[#23] Regional investigation & cleanup crew ongoing costs (scene cleanup, memetic remediation, evidence handling).
Monitoring Subscriptions $720K/yr
[#2] Continuous monitoring subscriptions (call-record feeds, CNAM, VoIP registries, robocall blacklists).
Third Party Partnerships $600K/yr
[#18] Fees to call-blocking apps, spam-list vendors, and third-party partners for flagging/blacklisting.
Training Programs $600K/yr
[#20] Annual training, exercises, interoperability drills for MTFs and telecom/cyber teams.
Personnel Security $600K/yr
[#28] Ongoing internal CI, vetting, leak detection and counterintelligence operations.
Supplies And Consumables $485K/yr
[#11, #12, #14] Recurring amnestic production/consumables, per-incident amnestic deployment consumables, PPE replacements and consumables.
Logistics And Transport $400K/yr
[#8] Per-deployment logistics and transport costs (charters, fuel, emergency transport averaged annually).
Data Storage $360K/yr
[#19] Recurring storage, bandwidth, and archival costs for intercepted calls, logs and forensic backups.
Translation Services $300K/yr
[#26] Retainers and on-call translators / cultural liaisons for multilingual theological containment.
Analog Maintenance $175K/yr
[#30] Localized recurring maintenance and monitoring for decommissioned/monitored analog devices and payphones.
Honeypot Hosting $150K/yr
[#3] Hosting and telephony fees for IVR baitlines and decoy numbers.
Secure Comms Services $125K/yr
[#29] Service contracts and airtime for encrypted comms and satellite/leased lines.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $33.6M/yr
74.0% probability / year
Normal year with continuous monitoring, regular research, three regional MTFs on call, routine legal/PR and no major incidents.
no major activations routine monitoring and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $33.8M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Localized activation requiring MTF dispatch, amnestic application, honeypot analysis, cleanup and targeted PR/legal action.
single-site activation small-scale public exposure
🚨 Major Breach $58.6M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Large or multiple concurrent activations (needing mass amnesticization, significant deployments, use of contingency funds and large PR response).
multiple concurrent activations city-level public exposure large-scale containment effort
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $233.6M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$200.0M vs baseline
Severe, sustained escalation (mass manifestations or prolonged public crisis) requiring full contingency reserve drawdown and international emergency operations.
city- or nation-level manifestation sustained mass casualties or exposures international diplomatic crisis
👥 Personnel 36 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 36 [#7] Three regional rapid-response teams of 12 personnel each; headcount corresponds to salaries included in staff_wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are built from detailed analyst notes with ranges; however the anomalous nature of SCP-8479, variable incident rates, and uncertainty in covert carrier access costs lead to substantial variability in both one-time and recurring figures.
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