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SCP-9250 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-9250
Expected annual
$1.9M
One-time setup
$1.8M
Annual recurring
$1.8M
Personnel
8
One-time capital costs for secure archival storage, audio/headset and venue hardening dominate (~$1.84M). Recurring annual costs are driven by staff wages, R&D/monitoring, amnestic readiness and large contingency/reserve budgets (~$1.80M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.8M
Equipment $736K
[#3, #5, #6, #10, #11, #12, #14, #20, #21, #23, #24] Badge/biometric/CCTV hardware (#3); custom IEM/headset systems and spares (#5); central audio/mixer/radio systems (#6); lockbox system (#10); rapid-fail safes/engineered cutoffs (#11); on-site medical equipment (#12); amnestic equipment & training capital (#14); instrument pickups/install (#20); secure container (#21); surveillance hardware (#23); non-lethal/restraint gear (#24).
Background Screening $400K
[#4] One-time full-field background investigations for ~200 potentially cleared staff (one-time bulk cost estimate).
Facilities $385K
[#1, #8, #24, #27] Vault/safe + vault room upgrades and environmental control; performance room hardening; holding-room conversion; UPS/generator capital.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $150K
[#17] Initial lab buildout and R&D-specific instrumentation for countermeasure research.
Pr Contingency Fund $125K
[#25] One-time contingency/retainer pool for PR/cover-story and initial legal contingencies.
Administrative Setup $35K
[#26] SOP writing, training materials and initial administrative/documentation setup.
Archival Conservation $10K
[#22] Archival conservation/restoration work for the original manuscript (one-time).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.8M/yr
Staff Wages $560K/yr
[#2, #18, #23, #26] Ongoing wages for core containment staff: site guards, core research staff, on-site medical/EMT, monitoring/operator and administrative personnel (includes guard salaries and FTE research/admin/monitoring positions).
Misc Contingency Reserve $300K/yr
[#29] Annual miscellaneous contingency/reserve for unexpected legal settlements, large-scale amnestic operations, specialist contractors and escalation.
Research And Monitoring $288K/yr
[#3, #17, #28] Ongoing R&D into countermeasures/safe replication (approx. $250k/yr), plus monitoring/audit program and tabletop exercises (~$30k/yr) and hardware monitoring licenses (#3).
Amnestic Readiness $175K/yr
[#14] Annual readiness costs for amnestic capability (staffing, consumable provisioning readiness and procedural readiness budget).
Liability And Risk Pool $125K/yr
[#16] Liability/indemnity insurance or internal risk provisioning for high-risk operations.
Psychological Care And Therapy $100K/yr
[#13] Ongoing psychological screening, counseling and post-exposure therapy budget.
Background Rechecks $80K/yr
[#4] Annual re-checks and recurrent vetting of cleared personnel (re-check program).
Cover Story And Legal $50K/yr
[#15, #25] Ongoing legal counsel and PR retainer for secrecy/cover-story maintenance.
Facilities Maintenance $30K/yr
[#8, #24, #27] Ongoing maintenance of hardened rooms/venue, holding-room upkeep, generator/UPS maintenance.
Supplies And Consumables $30K/yr
[#7, #20] Headphone consumables (tips/batteries/ear-molds), pickup repairs, routine replacement parts and calibration.
Medical Standby And Training $30K/yr
[#12] Annual standby, training and readiness for on-site EMT/physician teams.
Equipment Maintenance And Licenses $20K/yr
[#6] Maintenance, RF coordination, licenses and service contracts for audio/low-latency systems.
Logistics And Transport $10K/yr
[#21, #19] Secure transfer/armored courier budget (baseline occasional transfers), minimal rehearsal-related transport in a low-activity year.
Archive Insurance $5K/yr
[#22] Insurance premium and periodic valuation for the original manuscript.
Per Performance Security And Crowd Control $0/yr
[#9] Per-event additional guard/crowd-control costs (6–12 guards, lockboxes); baseline containment model assumes no public performances so year baseline set to $0; costs are per-event and handled in scenarios when performances occur.
Per Performance Medical And Response $0/yr
[#12] Per-event on-site medics/rapid-response costs (per-day); baseline set to $0 and modelled in event scenarios.
Per Performance Musician Contracts $0/yr
[#18, #19] Contracted musician/day rates per performance and rehearsal; baseline assumes performances are banned or extremely rare so annual baseline set to $0 (scenario-driven otherwise).
Per Event Sweep And Interdiction $0/yr
[#10] Per-event phone/recording collection and RF sweeps; baseline set to $0 (scenario-driven otherwise).
Rehearsal Costs $0/yr
[#19] Per-rehearsal venue/security/medic/per-diem costs; baseline assumes minimal rehearsals (set to $0 baseline).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.8M/yr
89.0% probability / year
Normal uneventful year with no major incidents; performances banned or extremely limited; routine staffing, R&D and readiness maintained.
no_public_performances routine_operations scheduled_audits_and_rnd
🚨 Minor Incident $2.1M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
A limited containment incident during a rehearsal or small performance requiring medical response, several amnestic procedures, equipment repairs and legal/PR response.
misplayed_note_or_instrument_error assault_by_exposed_subject limited_equipment_damage
🚨 Major Breach $4.3M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$2.5M vs baseline
Significant breach or public leak causing multiple violent exposures, large-scale amnesticization, major legal/PR operations, equipment replacement and possible settlements.
public_exposure/leak mass_uncontrolled_performance coordinated_breach
👥 Personnel 8 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 2 [#2, #9, #24] Two full-time guards for vault rotation; additional per-event guards are contracted and budgeted per-event.
Research Scientist 3 [#17, #26, #13] Small R&D team conducting countermeasure research, monitoring and protocol development (covered in R&D and staff wage estimates).
Medical Officer 1 [#12, #14] On-site medical/EMT capability and amnestic procedure specialists for readiness and rapid response.
Monitoring / Surveillance Operator 1 [#3, #23] CCTV/audit/logging operator responsible for continuous logs and performance monitoring.
Administrative Staff 1 [#26, #15] Admin/SOP/training coordination and legal/cover-story liaison responsibilities.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are order-of-magnitude with wide ranges in the analyst notes (many per-event and per-incident variables). Key drivers (frequency of performances, choice of hired vs contracted musicians, incident rate) are uncertain and the SCP's anomalous behaviors add structural uncertainty.
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