SCP-9696 — SCP-9696 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-9696 Thaumiel ~ medium confidence

SCP-9696

Expected annual

$9.6M

One-time setup

$33.0M

Annual recurring

$9.3M

Personnel

Initial capital and reserve costs are large (one-time ~$33.0M) driven by contingency reserves, containment-wing retrofit, R&D and integration; annual operating costs are substantial (~$9.25M/yr) driven by specialized staff wages, medical/response teams, research, and memetic/data-containment operations.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $33.0M

Contingency Reserve $20.0M

[#23] Long-term capital reserve for major unexpected events (mass manifestations, mass exposures, legal suits).

Forensic And Cover Reserve $3.0M

[#12] Contingency reserve for mortuary handling, false records, legal/bribery costs for fatality cover-ups.

Facilities $2.0M

[#1] Waterproofed, blast/lockdown wing retrofit, sump pumps, sealed surfaces, independent HVAC/dehumidification and secure access.

Data Redaction Reserve $2.0M

[#19] Reserve for rapid leak response, legal takedowns, memetic sanitizers, PA cover operations.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $1.5M

[#3] High-sensitivity sensor R&D prototyping, testing and calibration lab buildout and instrumentation.

Aic System Development $1.5M

[#4] Secure AI/video-filtering pipeline development, secure model training and integration with site CCTV.

Containment Integration Setup $1.0M

[#22] One-time SOP/program setup to integrate SCP-9696 as a Thaumiel asset and initial training materials.

Equipment $900K

[#2, #5, #6] Specialized pumps/plumbing hardware, compute/storage/bandwidth capital, and secure comms/hardened hardware.

Memetic Documentation Setup $500K

[#16] Initial memetic/semantic sanitization infrastructure, restricted publishing systems and engineering hires for setup.

Amnestic Production Setup $500K

[#11] Initial amnestic production, testing, inventory setup and approvals.

Wearables Initial $120K

[#18] Initial procurement of ~200 wearable monitoring devices (pressure/humidity/HR/panic).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $9.3M/yr

Staff Wages $3.3M/yr

[#7, #9] Dedicated Thaumiel oversight team and security staffing payroll (senior project leads, researchers, security/black-ops).

Research And Monitoring $1.4M/yr

[#3, #13] Ongoing sensor recalibration/testing and medical/clinical research and long-term studies on affected populations.

Oncall Medical Ops $600K/yr

[#8] On-call rapid-response medical staffing, ambulances, specialized equipment and emergency concealment unit ops.

Containment Oversight $600K/yr

[#22] Ongoing oversight costs to manage SCP-9696 as a Thaumiel asset and training of other teams.

Personnel Secrecy And Retention Premiums $500K/yr

[#24] Salary premiums, secrecy bonuses and secure housing/relocation for critical Level-6+/O5-adjacent staff.

Amnestic Administration Expected Annual $400K/yr

[#11] Annual expected costs for amnestic administration and psychological follow-up (per-subject treatments aggregated).

Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr

[#15] Legal, policy, ethics oversight and external legal risk mitigation for cover stories and defense.

Psych Support And Reintegration $250K/yr

[#14] Counseling, reintegration programs and retention incentives for affected personnel post-treatment.

Memetic Ops $250K/yr

[#16] Ongoing memetic/semantic sanitization operations, restricted-file maintenance and redaction efforts.

Red Team Audit $250K/yr

[#21] Independent red-team audits, QA and simulated breach/exposure testing.

Supplies And Consumables $200K/yr

[#2, #8, #26] Pump spares, chemical dessicants, medical consumables and miscellaneous PPE/disposables.

Aic Ops And Maintenance $200K/yr

[#4] Operations, retraining, secure model maintenance and monitoring for the AIC filtering system.

Energy And Utilities $180K/yr

[#20] Extra power and fuel costs for dehumidifiers, pumps, servers, UPS and generator fuel.

Facilities Maintenance $150K/yr

[#1] Annual upkeep, HVAC/dehumidifier and structural maintenance for the retrofit wing.

Logistics And Transport $150K/yr

[#25] Travel, intersite coordination, secure couriering and transport of sensitive samples/media.

Compute And Bandwidth $150K/yr

[#5] Power/maintenance/cloud fees for GPU clusters, storage replication and bandwidth for video analytics.

Training Drills $150K/yr

[#17] Annual containment and O5-notification drills, tabletop exercises and readiness training.

Public Cover Operations Expected Annual $100K/yr

[#27] Annualized expected cost for occasional public cover operations (staged accidents/compensation) averaged over time.

Detention And Interrogation Expected Annual $50K/yr

[#10] Expected annual cost for detention/interrogation operations (assumes modest number of incidents at ~$2k–$25k each).

Forensic Per Fatality Expected Annual $50K/yr

[#12] Expected annualized forensic/mortuary handling costs based on low-rate fatalities (per-fatality $50k–$300k).

O5 Comms Ops $30K/yr

[#6] Operations and maintenance for hardened O5 notification/comms infrastructure.

Wearables Maintenance $30K/yr

[#18] Replacement, provisioning and privacy accommodations for wearable monitoring program.

Specialized Flood Response Maintenance $12K/yr

[#2] Annual maintenance/consumables for submersible pumps, salvage units and rapid-seal kits.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $9.3M/yr

65.0% probability / year

Normal year with routine operations, occasional small detections filtered and handled internally; no major public exposures or large-scale incidents.

routine AIC detections standard amnestic treatments scheduled research and maintenance

🚨 Minor Incident $9.6M/yr

30.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline

Small cluster of SCP-9696-1 manifestations requiring multiple detentions, several amnestic administrations, extra medical responses and targeted public cover work.

clustered manifestations multiple stage-one/ two detentions increased amnestic & medical use

🚨 Major Breach $14.3M/yr

5.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline

Large-scale exposure or media leak with multiple hospitalizations/fatalities requiring major public cover operations, heavy legal action and drawing on contingency reserves.

mass exposure public hospitalizations/leaks media attention requiring large-scale cover

👥 Personnel 12 total

Role	Count	Notes
Senior project lead / O5 liaison	1	[#7] Oversees Thaumiel program and coordinates O5-level decisions.
Research Scientist / Thaumaturgical Researcher	3	[#7, #13] Sensor R&D, noospheric research and clinical study leads.
Memetic Engineer	1	[#16] Develops memetic sanitization and documentation control.
AI Lead / ML Engineer	1	[#4, #5] Develops and maintains AIC video-filtering and analytics systems.
Security Officer / MTF Agent	3	[#9] Guard forces and covert operatives for detentions, black-ops concealment and evidence operations.
Medical Officer	1	[#8] On-call medic capable of ICU-level intervention and specialized treatments.
Engineer / Maintenance	1	[#1, #2, #20] Maintains pumps, dehumidification, HVAC, servers and physical containment wing systems.
Administrative Staff / Program Coordinator	1	[#7, #25] Admin, legal liaison scheduling, travel coordination and logistics support.

📋 Confidence Notes

Many line items have wide published ranges and contingency/reserve sizing is policy-driven; staffing and incident-frequency assumptions are estimates based on analyst notes rather than precise historical incident rates.

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