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SCP-9593 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-9593
Expected annual
$8.0M
One-time setup
$7.9M
Annual recurring
$7.6M
Personnel
29
Initial setup and containment seed costs are approximately $7.9M one-time, dominated by legal contingency and R&D; baseline annual operations are about $7.56M/yr driven by monitoring staff, legal/PR, and research/maintenance. Expected annual cost (probability-weighted including low-probability large incidents) is about $7.96M/yr.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $7.9M
Legal Contingency Fund $5.0M
[#19] One-time emergency fund for hush payments, settlements, cross-jurisdictional cooperation (recommended baseline).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.3M
[#8, #12] Psychometric MRS development and validation (#8 $300k) plus counter-meme/filter R&D seed (#12 $1,000,000).
Physical Media Retrieval $500K
[#5] Covert buys, buybacks, seizures, international courier operations for physical copies (planning midpoint).
Equipment $425K
[#14, #18, #17] Air-gapped servers & storage procurement (#14 $200k), secure destruction equipment initial purchase (#18 $75k), redundancy/archival duplication / vetted transport (allocated here #17 $150k).
Facilities $350K
[#6] Secure anomalous-media vault construction / upgrades at Site-322 (climate control, shielding, safes, certification).
Digital Remediation Software $350K
[#1] Digital takedown / remediation software development (web crawlers, scraping/parsing tools, fingerprint DB, engineering/QA/deployment).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $7.6M/yr
Staff Wages $3.0M/yr
[#2, #7, #9, #16, #13, #10, #4, #3] Aggregate fully-burdened wages for digital monitoring team (8 FTEs), vault guards/custodial/monitoring techs, MRS admins, field analysts/operatives, memetics researchers, controlled-viewing staff, PR & liaison counsel portions.
Cover Story And Legal $2.1M/yr
[#3, #4] Legal team retainer/active counsel/litigation & contingency payments (~$1.4M, #3) plus PR / cover-story management and routine social steering (~$750k, #4).
Research And Monitoring $980K/yr
[#9, #10, #13] Ongoing MRS screening operations (#9 $180k), controlled-research viewing program costs (#10 $300k), counter-meme maintenance and deployment ops (#13 $500k).
Administrative Overhead And Opportunity Costs $750K/yr
[#20] Site overhead, clearances, insurance, internal audits and opportunity-cost buffer (~15% planning overhead).
Medical And Amnestic Treatment $500K/yr
[#11] Baseline inventory and low-level treatment/debrief capacity; planning band is wide ($0.5M–$250M) but baseline reserves kept small absent major exposure.
Facilities Maintenance $110K/yr
[#7, #14, #15] Vault utilities/periodic maintenance (~$20k), air-gapped hardware maintenance/replacement cycle (~$50k), incremental energy/UPS/generator fuel (~$40k).
Supplies And Consumables $90K/yr
[#2, #10, #18] Cloud/bandwidth and hosting for monitoring (~$40k from #2), per-viewing consumables and medical supplies (~part of #10), small per-destruction operational consumables contingency (#18 per-op variable).
Logistics And Transport $20K/yr
[#17] Recurring secure transport protocols and off-site rotation logistics for archival copies (small annual logistics budget).
Catastrophic Contingency Reserve $0/yr
[#21] Planning band for catastrophic / mass-exposure scenarios ($100M–$3B+). Not funded as a steady annual line-item here; handled via incident-specific contingency protocols and scenarios.
Destruction Operation Budget $0/yr
[#18] Per-destruction operational costs ($5k–$20k/op) are episodic; not included as steady annual expenditure in baseline.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $7.6M/yr
95.0% probability / year
Normal year with containment stable; routine monitoring, legal/PR, research, and vault maintenance only.
no major leaks routine takedown activity
🚨 Minor Incident $10.6M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Localized spike or leak requiring emergency takedown surge, targeted PR campaign, and limited medical/amnestic response.
viral leak on major platform coordinated mirror redistributions
🚨 Catastrophic Exposure $507.6M/yr
0.1% probability / year +$500.0M vs baseline
Widespread cultural uptake / mass-exposure event triggering large-scale medical/amnestic campaigns, international legal battles, and major PR/economic stabilization efforts.
mass exposure (hundreds of thousands+ viewers) international media contagion
👥 Personnel 29 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 3 [#7] Dedicated guards for vault staffing.
Custodian 1 [#7] Custodial staff for vault operations.
Monitoring Analyst / Digital Analyst 8 [#2] 8 FTEs for 24/7 digital monitoring and takedown operations.
DevOps / Engineer 2 [#1, #2] Software engineers and DevOps for remediation tooling and crawler infrastructure.
Research Scientist 4 [#8, #12, #13] Psychometricians and memetics researchers (MRS development, counter-meme R&D, maintenance).
MRS Administrator / Testing Admin 2 [#9] Admins to run screening, recertification, and database maintenance.
Field Operative / Investigator 2 [#16] Field operatives for cult/ideology surveillance and covert community penetration.
Legal / Counsel 3 [#3] In-house liaison / active counsel complementing retained legal services.
PR / Communications Specialist 2 [#4] PR/cover-story management and social steering staff.
Medical Officer 2 [#10, #11] Standby medical staff for controlled viewings and treatment/amnestic administration.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide line-item estimates and ranges for most budget elements, enabling a mid-confidence aggregation; large uncertainty remains around exposure-dependent medical/amnestic costs and low-probability catastrophic scenarios, which is why catastrophic planning is scoped separately.
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