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SCP-8907 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-8907
Expected annual
$35.9M
One-time setup
$22.9M
Annual recurring
$32.3M
Personnel
9
Initial capital outlay is approximately $22.95M one-time for facilities, equipment and research setup; baseline annual operating costs are approximately $32.34M/year driven primarily by per-case monitoring, a public-relations suppression reserve, and standing operations/staff.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $22.9M
Facilities $10.8M
[#1, #8] Physical construction and hardened rooms: includes mapping lab buildout, shielding, redundant power and one secure child‑interview/therapeutic facility buildout.
Equipment $7.6M
[#1, #18] Instrumentation, high‑performance compute cluster, custom sensors, networking and transport fleet purchase (vans/armored vehicles).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $4.0M
[#1, #6, #7] Initial scientific instrumentation R&D, secure case database/AI pipeline deployment and initial data‑archive seeding.
Hiring And Clearance $375K
[#4] One‑time recruiting, background checks, clearance processing and specialist training pipeline ramp‑up.
Forensic Kit Setup $150K
[#17] Initial forensic collection and archival kit, chain‑of‑custody setup and cataloguing tools.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $32.3M/yr
Public Relations Reserve $10.0M/yr
[#12] Mid‑sized recurring emergency PR/cover reserve for suppression, buyouts, diversionary campaigns and licensing expenditures.
Misc Administrative Overhead $5.4M/yr
[#25] Institutional overhead (procurement, HR, facility insurance, additional utilities), estimated at ~20% of operating budget.
Per Case Monitoring $5.3M/yr
[#5] Per‑case monitoring packages: assumes ~20 actively monitored SCP‑8907‑A cases at ~$265,000/case/year (field agents, case manager psychologist, digital monitoring, stipends).
Emergency Response Fund $2.5M/yr
[#13] Rapid deployment contingency for seizure operations, emergency labs, temporary detainment and legal emergency actions.
Research And Monitoring $1.7M/yr
[#14] Narrative‑interaction R&D program funding (protocols, controlled tests, instrumentation and human‑subject program costs).
Staff Wages $1.5M/yr
[#3] Core research team salaries (multiversal physicists, narratologists, memeticists, developmental psychologists, data scientists); includes loaded salary + benefits and travel.
Facilities Maintenance $1.2M/yr
[#2, #9] Ongoing power, site leases, instrument upkeep, calibration campaigns and operational running of secure interview/therapeutic facilities (utilities, cleaning, safeguarding staff).
International Liaison $1.0M/yr
[#16] Diplomatic coordination, covert payments, relocation assistance and regional liaison staffing.
Cover Story And Legal $950K/yr
[#10] Legal, ethics, parental liaison budget for warrants, custody/consent, FOIA/press handling and court testimonies.
Memetic Safety $675K/yr
[#15] Memetic safety office staffing, content sanitisation teams and safety testers (small rapid‑reaction cell).
Compliance Audit $675K/yr
[#20] Routine audits, oversight and public records/FOIA defense budgeting.
Death Legal Contingency $300K/yr
[#24] Reserve for litigation, family support and post‑mortem stagnation handling per major event (annual allocation).
Media Monitoring $265K/yr
[#11] Social listening, fandom surveillance services, commercial feeds and 2–4 analysts.
Insurance $225K/yr
[#21] Insurance, bonding and partial liability protections where available.
Staff Mental Health $180K/yr
[#19] Trauma counselling, rotation policies and burnout mitigation for exposed personnel.
Logistics And Transport $175K/yr
[#18] Operating costs for transportation fleet, secure courier contracts and urgent airlift access.
Watchlist Maintenance $118K/yr
[#22] Long‑term watchlist upkeep, periodic re‑screening and analyst staffing.
Data Storage $85K/yr
[#7] Recurring archival storage, backups and offsite replication for audiovisual and mapping datasets.
Forensic Archive Recurring $63K/yr
[#17] Ongoing archival storage, climate control and curation for physical artifacts and evidence.
Knowledge Archive $63K/yr
[#23] Documentation, redaction and secure publishing of failed interventions and safe experimental results.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $32.3M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with planned monitoring, research and routine contingencies; no major viral incidents or large buyouts.
steady monitoring load scheduled R&D and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $42.3M/yr
12.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
Multiple regional incidents requiring emergency responses, several international relocations, and small/medium PR suppression buys.
regional memetic outbreak several international incidents multiple modest IP suppression buys
🚨 Viral Ip Buyout $112.3M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$80.0M vs baseline
A major above‑Veil media property derived from an SCP‑8907-B instance reaches mainstream/global popularity requiring large buyout/suppression or acquisition.
global viral property mainstream franchise acquisition demands
👥 Personnel 9 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 3 [#3] Senior multiversal/macrocosm researchers drawn from staff_wages budget.
Data Scientist 2 [#3] Data engineers and analysts for mapping, AI pipelines and simulations included in staff_wages.
Narratologist 1 [#3] Specialist in narrative analysis from the core research team.
Memeticist 1 [#3] Research memetic specialist (core team; separate memetic_safety cell funded elsewhere).
Developmental Psychologist 1 [#3] Specialist to analyse SCP‑8907‑A subjects and liaise with case managers.
Administrative Staff 1 [#3] Program coordinator/administrative support included in staff_wages.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges but contain substantial uncertainties (wide ranges for PR buyouts, contingency spending and number of monitored cases). Midpoint assumptions and an assumed 20 monitored‑case baseline (20 cases) produce the estimates; variability is high for episodic events.
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