SCP-9165 — SCP-9165 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-9165 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-9165

Expected annual

$25.5M

One-time setup

$36.8M

Annual recurring

$24.8M

Personnel

Up-front capital costs are substantial (~$37M) driven by satellite, sensor and research buildouts; annual recurring costs are dominated by continuous satellite operations, specialized R&D, legal/cover efforts and an insurance/reserve fund (~$24.8M/yr).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $36.8M

Equipment $27.1M

[#2, #3, #4, #5, #7, #9, #12, #13, #18, #22, #23, #24] Satellite procurement/upgrades, street cameras, servers/software, ground sensors, MTF vehicles/equipment, anti-telepathy unit procurement, forensic kits, triage software setup, archive research travel, mobile containment prototypes, municipal one-time payments, and data-analytics development.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $8.2M

[#9, #11, #21] R&D and lab buildout for anti-telepathy/ shielding trials, EEG/MEG/fMRI-capable labs and specialized sensor R&D program starts.

Facilities $1.4M

[#14, #19] Amnestic/containment medical facility construction and training/scenario facility development.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $24.8M/yr

Satellite Operations $8.0M/yr

[#1] 24/7 Foxtrot-O9 telemetry, sensor tasking, ground-station operators, bandwidth and satellite bus maintenance.

Insurance Reserve $5.0M/yr

[#25] Annualized reserve for catastrophic exposure, mass legal claims, emergency amnestic manufacture or large-scale response.

Research And Monitoring $2.0M/yr

[#11] Ongoing research programs into telepathy/teleportation and behavior (personnel, experiments, contracts) excluding specialized sensor R&D accounted separately.

Staff Wages $1.9M/yr

[#6] Dedicated MTF Xi-323 roster (16 personnel at ~$120k all-in average).

Rapid Response Reserve $1.5M/yr

[#20] Liquid reserve for emergent field research, emergency purchases and ad-hoc ops.

Specialized Sensor Rnd Ops $1.5M/yr

[#21] Ongoing costs to continue specialized sensor programs for teleportation/gravity signatures.

Cover Story And Legal $1.0M/yr

[#15] Public-cover operations, PR, disinformation, municipal payments and legal work.

Governmental Liaison $850K/yr

[#17] Legal contingency, secure counsel and diplomatic/liaison channels with local/regional agencies.

Report Triage Team $600K/yr

[#13] Analysts, social-media forensics, local police liaisons, call-center intake and automated triage software ongoing costs.

Logistics And Transport $400K/yr

[#7] Vehicle/helicopter ops maintenance, fuel, hangar and associated logistics for MTF rapid response.

Amnestic Medical Ops $325K/yr

[#14] Staffing, pharmaceuticals and compliance for secure amnestic/medical facility operations.

Per Deployment Ops $320K/yr

[#8] Expected annual spend on travel, staging, temporary facilities, overtime and consumables for field deployments (modeled as ~8 deployments/year at ~$40k each).

Psychological Care $300K/yr

[#10] Counseling, PTSD care, meds and monitoring for exposed staff and civilians.

Witness Relocation $200K/yr

[#16] Annual expected budget for witness relocation, buyouts and amnestic administration (modeled as occasional incidents/year).

Data Analytics Ops $200K/yr

[#24] Compute, model updates and staff for multi-site correlation AI systems.

Training Exercises $150K/yr

[#19] Recurring scenario training, tabletop exercises and simulations to maintain readiness.

Data Processing $100K/yr

[#4] Secure storage, backups, compute, AI/video analytics, software licenses and forensic processing staff.

Anti Telepathy Maintenance $100K/yr

[#9] Maintenance, upgrades and certification for shielding, EM-noise and psychoacoustic devices.

Mobile Containment Maintenance $100K/yr

[#22] Maintenance and re-supply of mobile containment/trap prototypes and vans.

Supplies And Consumables $75K/yr

[#12] Consumables for forensic/field kits, drone ops and lab analyses.

Ground Sensor Maintenance $75K/yr

[#5] Maintenance, calibration and data ingestion for acoustic/seismic/RF/LIDAR/magnetometer arrays.

Archive Ongoing $50K/yr

[#18] Ongoing archival work, FOIA requests and witness re-interviews.

Street Camera Maintenance $15K/yr

[#3] Connectivity, power, maintenance and camera replacement for installed NJ street-camera network.

Municipal Cooperation Fees $15K/yr

[#23] Ongoing local payments or covert agreements with utilities, police and landlords.

Facilities Maintenance $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $24.8M/yr

75.0% probability / year

Routine year with continuous monitoring, regular R&D and no major public incidents.

no major sightings scheduled R&D and maintenance routine deployments only

🚨 Minor Incident $25.8M/yr

20.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline

Localized validated sighting(s) requiring multiple MTF deployments, increased triage and limited witness relocation/amnestics.

validated local UFO/SCP-9165 appearance several field deployments targeted PR/legal actions

🚨 Major Breach $34.8M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline

Major multi-site appearance or mass-exposure event that triggers large-scale deployments, emergency amnestics, accelerated R&D and reserve drawdown.

mass sightings / mass-exposure widespread media attention multiple simultaneous deployment sites

👥 Personnel 16 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	16	[#6] Represents the dedicated MTF Xi-323 roster funded in staff_wages (~16 personnel at $120k all-in).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are based on analyst-provided ranges and canonical containment steps; wide ranges for satellite procurement, specialized R&D and insurance reserves reduce certainty but recurring operational costs are reasonably anchored.

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