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SCP-9487 Unknown ? low confidence
SCP-9487
Expected annual
$5.2M
One-time setup
$2.8M
Annual recurring
$5.0M
Personnel
15
Initial setup costs are primarily driven by research lab startup and secure facility build-out (~$2.8M one-time); ongoing annual costs are dominated by staff wages, research/ML operations, and contingency/legal reserves (~$5.0M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.8M
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.2M
[#16] Oneironautics / dream research lab startup (EEG/PSG baseline equipment, basic lab fit-out). Does not include optional fMRI scanner installs (see notes).
Facilities $675K
[#6, #12] Secure operations center build-out and leasehold improvements (item #6) plus dedicated clinical/containment room build-out (item #12).
Webcrawler Development $250K
[#1] One-time development of custom crawlers, parsers, analyst UX and data pipelines (item #1).
Field Response Setup Training $165K
[#10] Setup & initial training for field amnesticization teams (one-time portion of item #10).
Diagnostic Kits Development $150K
[#17] Development and validation of specialized diagnostic kits/protocols to confirm SCP-9487 presence (item #17 one-time).
Security Hardening It $125K
[#18] One-time classified-IT hardening, key management, and initial compliance work (item #18 one-time).
Intel Software $75K
[#5] Intelligence fusion / case management system purchase and integration (one-time portion of item #5).
Training Sop Development $70K
[#21] Development of SOPs, training materials, and initial tabletop exercise costs (item #21 one-time).
Medical Supplies Initial $28K
[#11] Initial stockpile of sedatives, amnestics, resuscitation kits and controlled-substance compliant storage (item #11 one-time).
Equipment $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $5.0M/yr
Staff Wages $1.2M/yr
[#4, #7, #10, #30] Salaries for digital analysts/linguists/OSINT team (item #4), minimal physical security staffing (item #7), ongoing field response team salaries (item #10), and senior program management/oversight (item #30).
Contingency Reserve $1.0M/yr
[#19] Annual reserve to be available for large-scale migration events (item #19).
Research And Monitoring $970K/yr
[#3, #16] Ongoing ML/NLP model training and maintenance, labeled-data creation, retraining (item #3) plus recurring research program budget for oneironautics (item #16 recurring).
Legal Risk Fund $500K/yr
[#20] Litigation, settlements, hush-money and liability reserve (item #20 recurring estimate).
Cover Story And Legal $335K/yr
[#8, #14, #25] Legal retainers/platform liaison and takedown actions (item #8), cover-story/PR content suppression operations (item #14), and archival/redaction/record-retention baseline costs (item #25).
Personnel Vetting And Mental Health $125K/yr
[#15] Background checks, continuous monitoring, psychiatric support and periodic sleep studies for at-risk personnel (item #15).
Compute Hosting $108K/yr
[#2] Ongoing compute, hosting, bandwidth, storage, backups and ML inference costs for monitoring infrastructure (item #2).
Psychological Aftercare $105K/yr
[#28] Counseling and monitoring budgets for amnesticized civilians and post-intervention care (item #28).
Facilities Maintenance $90K/yr
[#6, #7, #12] Ongoing lease/utilities/maintenance for operations center, Faraday rooms and clinical observation rooms; also equipment maintenance (items #6, #7, #12).
Logistics And Transport $85K/yr
[#13] Vehicles, fuel, travel reimbursements, emergency flights and safehouses for field operations (item #13).
Covert Outreach Humint $85K/yr
[#9] Covert outreach, informant payments, forum infiltration and small local ops to identify hosts (item #9).
Security Audits $60K/yr
[#18] Periodic IT/infosec audits, classified-IT compliance upkeep and assessments (item #18 recurring).
Public Safety Liaison $45K/yr
[#24] Coordination and liaison budgets with local law enforcement/public safety partners (item #24).
Supplies And Consumables $40K/yr
[#11, #12, #17, #22] Medical resupplies, observation-room operational consumables, per-test consumables for diagnostic kits, and decontamination/evidence-handling disposables (items #11, #12, #17, #22).
Intel Software Maintenance $36K/yr
[#5] Annual maintenance, licenses and integration costs for case-management/link-analysis software (item #5 recurring).
Training And Exercises $35K/yr
[#21] Recurrent training, tabletop exercises and refresher SOP education (item #21 recurring).
Ethics And Irb $35K/yr
[#26] Annual costs for ethical compliance, IRB processes and human-subjects safeguards for research/interventions (item #26).
Monitoring Subscriptions $30K/yr
[#29] Commercial monitoring and analytics subscriptions (item #29).
Personnel Replacement $30K/yr
[#27] Attrition/replacement/hiring/training costs for exposed staff (item #27, baseline assuming low turnover).
Internal Comms $28K/yr
[#23] Systems to control knowledge dissemination internally and audits for personnel-level exposure (item #23).
Webcrawler Updates $24K/yr
[#1] Ongoing small updates, bugfixes, and engineering support for crawlers and parsers (item #1 recurring).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $5.0M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with steady monitoring, periodic small interventions, and no large-scale migration event.
sporadic individual migrations no significant media exposure routine research and maintenance
🚨 Minor Incident $5.5M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Localized cluster or a handful of civilian hosts requiring intensified field operations, targeted takedowns, and additional legal/PR work.
clustered migrations in a region targeted platform takedowns required short-term increased field deployments
🚨 Major Migration Event $10.0M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Widespread migration requiring mass amnesticization campaigns, emergency contingency drawdown, large-scale PR suppression, and potential major litigation.
rapid multi-region spread media exposure / whistleblower action simultaneous civilian host discovery
👥 Personnel 15 total
Role Count Notes
Digital Analyst / OSINT Analyst 5 [#4] 3–6 analysts recommended in notes; midpoint staffing used here to match allocated analyst wage budget.
Field Response Operator 4 [#10] Core field operators for covert amnesticization teams; salaries included in staff_wages.
Medical Officer / Medic (field) 1 [#10, #11] Medic embedded in field response unit for sedation/amnestic administration; salaries included in staff_wages.
Psychologist (field/program) 1 [#10, #15] Psychologist to assist with amnesticization protocols and staff mental-health support; salary included in staff_wages.
Security Officer / Guard 2 [#7] Minimal physical security staffing (2–4 guards); count chosen to match recurring security wage allocation.
Program Director / Senior Staff 2 [#30] Senior management, compliance and budget oversight staff included in program overhead wage allocation.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates use midpoints of wide ranges provided in analyst notes; SCP-9487's unquantified migration dynamics, potential for rare high-impact events, and discretionary choices (build vs lease, fMRI acquisition, contingency sizing) produce high uncertainty, so overall confidence is low.
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