SCP-9200 Keter ~ medium confidence
SCP-9200
Expected annual
$76.0M
One-time setup
$211.4M
Annual recurring
$70.8M
Personnel
140
Estimated one-time establishment costs are approximately $211.4M, driven primarily by hardened facilities, excavation/neutralization planning and heavy equipment; recurring annual costs are approximately $70.8M, driven by specialist staff wages, ongoing research, security and intelligence operations.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $211.4M
Facilities $52.5M
[#1] Construction of hardened on-island research/containment complex, Faraday/shielding, airlocks, decon suites, datacenter and coastal/marine construction premiums.
Excavation And Neutralization Initial $50.0M
[#16] Excavation, stabilization and (if attempted) neutralization/disassembly planning and heavy civil-engineering mobilization.
Equipment $24.1M
[#6, #11, #17, #13] Initial procurement of patrol boat, RHIBs, medium helicopter, armored convoy/secure transport kit, HPC clusters, specialized robotics/remote manipulators.
Decommissioning Reserve Contingent $20.0M
[#32] Contingency reserve for decommissioning, cleanup, memorialization and long-term legal settlements.
Counter Ai Initial $15.0M
[#12] Initial procurement and setup of counter-AI/cyberdefense tooling, air-gapped environments and analysis infrastructure.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $10.0M
[#10, #11] Lab buildout and initial instrumentation for long-distance temporal/physics research and AI/temporal simulation facilities.
Sensor Network Installation $7.5M
[#7] Installation of gravimetric array, infrasound, seismic, magnetometers, hydrophones and distributed timekeeping.
Communications Systems Initial $5.0M
[#8] Initial SIGINT/listening station hardware, DSP systems and radio array infrastructure.
Containment Cell Suites Initial $4.0M
[#15] Initial buildout of specialized containment cell suites for hazardous humans/entities.
Perimeter Infrastructure $3.5M
[#2] Fencing, checkpoints, controlled docks, helipad upgrade, roads, shoreline barriers and cover-story tourist amenities.
Archive Buyouts Initial $3.0M
[#20] Initial archive buyouts, false-archive production and forgery creation for cover-story efforts.
Long Term Neutralization Planning Initial $3.0M
[#29] One-time planning and options-analysis for long-term neutralization/kinetic or nonstandard procurement.
Community Projects Initial $3.0M
[#31] Initial local economic projects, infrastructure investment and replacements to mitigate disruption.
Medical Facility Initial $3.0M
[#14] Secure medical/quarantine facility construction and outfitting for transformed/affected humans.
Government Buyouts And Leases Initial $2.5M
[#3] Initial buyouts, land-use leases and one-time compensation to Greek/local authorities to secure island access.
Vaults And Hazard Storage Initial $1.2M
[#9] Secure, climate-controlled evidence/artifact vaults and hazardous materials storage design and installation.
Archaeological Seizures Initial $1.0M
[#21] Initial seizures, conservation setup and replacement artifact production capacity.
Generator And Ups Initial $1.0M
[#22] Generators, UPS and grid-upgrade/installation costs to supply site power and redundancy.
Archival Program Initial $1.0M
[#27] Initial purchases and large archival acquisitions to suppress/alter academic records.
Emergency Stockpile Initial $800K
[#18] Emergency response stockpile: explosive containment kits, chemical neutralizers, fire suppression and decon supplies.
Legal Retainer Initial $300K
[#23] Initial legal retainer, international agreements and classified program setup costs.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $70.8M/yr
Staff Wages $18.0M/yr
[#4, #5] Salaries, benefits, hazard pay for scientific personnel, security teams, MTF rotations and specialist hires.
Research And Monitoring $10.0M/yr
[#10] Ongoing long-distance temporal/physics research budgets (experiments, compute time, classified experiments).
Counter Ai Recurring $6.0M/yr
[#12] Ongoing personnel, tooling and operations for counter-AI, malware analysis, incident response and honeypots.
Cover Story And Legal $5.0M/yr
[#20, #23, #27, #26] Media monitoring, legal suppression, false archival funding, academic influence and tourism spin operations.
Intelligence Ops Recurring $5.0M/yr
[#19] Covert ops, informant networks, clandestine funding and infiltration/counter-GOI operations budgeting.
Insurance Contingency Recurring $5.0M/yr
[#24] Contingency/black-budget reserve for unexpected escalation, payouts and emergency buys (~10-20% program reserve).
Facilities Maintenance $2.0M/yr
[#1, #2] Site upkeep, structural maintenance, shoreline/perimeter repairs and facility systems.
Logistics And Transport $2.0M/yr
[#6, #13, #22] Routine transport operations, convoy/sea/air sortie costs, fuel & basic ops for logistics.
Maritime And Air Assets Maintenance $2.0M/yr
[#6] Maintenance, crewing and operational costs for patrol boat(s), RHIBs and helicopter.
Medical And Quarantine Recurring $2.0M/yr
[#14] Staffing, long-term care costs, meds and prosthetics for affected cohorts.
Supplies And Consumables $1.5M/yr
[#9, #14, #18] Decontamination consumables, medical supplies, prosthetics and routine hazardous-material handling consumables.
Government Payments Recurring $1.5M/yr
[#3] Recurring lease/compensation/covert payments to Greek government, liaison salaries and pension-like payments.
Compute And Publication Monitoring $1.5M/yr
[#25] Monitoring global compute/cloud usage, academic publications, OSINT feeds and supercomputing access.
Communications And Sigint Recurring $1.2M/yr
[#8] Bandwidth, satellite tasking, SIGINT analysis and data-fusion operational costs.
Secure Transport Ops $1.0M/yr
[#13] Armored convoy operations, secure containers and quarantine transport recurring costs.
Utilities Recurring $1.0M/yr
[#22] Diesel/generator fuel, grid costs, UPS and specialized power consumption for compute and life support.
Archival Program Recurring $1.0M/yr
[#27] Scholarship funding, archive purchases and placement/influence of academics.
Local Economic Compensation Recurring $1.0M/yr
[#31] Recurring local compensation, hiring programs and mitigation for economic disruption.
Containment Cell Maintenance $800K/yr
[#15] Power, servo/coolant maintenance and monitoring for specialized containment suites.
Sensor Network Maintenance $600K/yr
[#7] Ongoing calibration, maintenance and replacement for gravimetric, seismic, hydrophone and magnetometer arrays.
Robotics Maintenance Recurring $500K/yr
[#17] Maintenance and spare parts for specialized robotics and remote manipulators.
Media Ops Recurring $500K/yr
[#26] Ongoing public perception campaigns and tourism management.
Program Management Recurring $500K/yr
[#30] Program management, compliance, audits and classified finance overhead.
Vaults And Hazard Storage Maintenance $300K/yr
[#9] Environmental control, monitoring and compliance costs for artifact/hazard storage.
Emergency Stockpile Replenish $300K/yr
[#18] Replenishment of explosive containment, neutralizers and decon replenishment.
Archaeology And Conservation Recurring $300K/yr
[#21] Ongoing conservation, forgery production and museum replacement efforts.
Training Recurring $300K/yr
[#28] Staff doctrine, temporal-incursion training, anti-infiltration training and drills.
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $70.8M/yr
93.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents: routine operations, research, security and influence programs continue.
no breach steady GOI monitoring routine research operations
🚨 Major Breach $95.8M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$25.0M vs baseline
Significant containment breach or coordinated GOI-004C operation requiring emergency response, repairs, medical surges and legal containment.
GOI assault/raid temporal incursion expansion major hull exposure
🚨 Aggressive Neutralization $270.8M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$200.0M vs baseline
O5-approved attempt to excavate/neutralize/disassemble the buried vessel or execute large-scale temporal countermeasures, triggering heavy one-off procurement and international operations.
decision to attempt neutralization temporal spread threatens outside area political escalation requiring kinetic intervention
👥 Personnel 140 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 25 [#4] AI researchers, theoretical/experimental physicists, gravimetry specialists, archaeologists and linguists; high-skill salaries included in staff_wages.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 60 [#5] Armed guards, MTF rotation, special operations and rapid-reaction crews; wages and equipment accounted in staff_wages and recurring security costs.
Engineer / Maintenance 10 [#1, #17] Site engineers, robotics technicians and maintenance personnel for facility and heavy equipment upkeep.
Medical Officer 6 [#14] Specialist surgeons, medical staff for quarantine and prosthetics/biomech care.
Administrative Staff 8 [#30] Administrative, accounting, classified finance tracking and compliance staff.
Cybersecurity / Counter-AI Specialist 12 [#12, #25] Offensive/defensive cyber teams, malware analysts and monitoring staff.
Site Director / Executive Staff 4 [#30] Program management and executive liaison for classified program oversight and diplomatic interfaces.
Logistics / Maritime Crew 10 [#6, #13] Crews for patrol boats, RHIBs, helicopter logistics and secure transport operations.
Robotics / MTF Technical Specialists 5 [#17] Teleoperation specialists for remote manipulators, excavation robotics and specialized tooling.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed categories and ranges, but temporal/spacetime risks and potential political escalations make cost scaling highly uncertain; many estimates are order-of-magnitude.
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