SCP-9749 — SCP-9749 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-9749 Ticonderoga ? low confidence

SCP-9749

Expected annual

$1.4B

One-time setup

$8.0B

Annual recurring

$1.2B

Personnel

115

Initial capital outlay is on the order of multiple hundreds of millions to several billion USD driven by hardened facilities, emergency seed funds and global continuity programs; recurring annual costs are in the low billions driven by surveillance, legal/PR, hush funds and personnel.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $8.0B

Civil Defense Mitigation $5.2B

[#17] One-time capital for large-scale civil defense, evacuation and continuity programs (national/global scale midpoint).

Emergency Reserve Seed Fund $600.0M

[#13] Seed fund for rapid-disbursement capital to respond to leaks, outbreaks and prophetic cascades.

Self Insurance Fund $550.0M

[#22] One-time capitalization for self-insurance / asset-protection pool where private insurers will exclude exposure.

Legal Settlement Reserve $525.0M

[#27] One-time reserve pool for major litigation, class actions and settlements capitalization.

Facilities $500.0M

[#1] Hardened subterranean research & monitoring facility construction, shielding, blast doors, life-support and classified construction security.

Surveillance Setup $110.0M

[#6] Purchase/integration of satellite access, SIGINT feeds, social-media scraping pipelines and secure analysis platforms.

Amnestic R And D $110.0M

[#8] One-time R&D program for scalable amnestic protocols, clinical trials and neurotech countermeasures.

Seed Vaults Redundancy $105.0M

[#16] Secure offsite storage for biological, cultural and informational backups.

Decommissioning And Destruction $105.0M

[#30] Costs to securely destroy records/facilities and environmental remediation if decommissioning is required.

Tactical Equipment $55.0M

[#5] Armored transport, helicopters, UAVs, EW suites, mobile Faraday shelters and field diagnostic kits initial procurement.

Computing And Archival Setup $55.0M

[#15] High-performance computing, data centers and long-term air-gapped archival setup (one-time).

Legal And Diplomatic Setup $27.5M

[#10] Initial legal retainers, covert payments and establishment of covert agreements with governments/agencies.

Experimental Hardware $26.0M

[#26] Neuroimaging, invasive recording rigs and other specialized experimental hardware initial purchases.

Comms Setup $15.0M

[#23] Classified redundant communications network setup, encrypted sat phones and closed intranets (one-time).

Equipment $0

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Initial Research And Lab Setup $0

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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.2B/yr

Cover Story And Legal $277.8M/yr

[#11, #29] Ongoing legal defense, public affairs, influence operations and periodic external audits/reviews.

Hush Payments $275.0M/yr

[#12] Annual hush payments, compensation and operational funds for buyouts and settlements to secure silence/cooperation.

Public Safety Aid $275.0M/yr

[#14] Funds for emergency relief, mass sheltering, medical care and humanitarian aid during prophecy-driven incidents.

Research And Monitoring $118.0M/yr

[#7, #15, #18] Ongoing surveillance & intelligence operations, satellite tasking/cloud compute, monitoring of high-risk subjects and computing operations for analysis.

Insurance Premiums $110.0M/yr

[#22] Premiums or ongoing capitalization for self-insurance against lawsuits, losses and asset replacement.

Disinformation Campaigns $105.0M/yr

[#24] Paid media, sponsored content and narrative-management campaigns to redirect public interest and dampen curiosity.

Staff Wages $19.8M/yr

[#3, #4] Salaries and benefits for ~50 research specialists (~$200k each) plus rapid-response operators (~65 operators at ~$150k each).

Amnestic Deployment $12.5M/yr

[#9] Manufacturing, storage and field administration of amnestics / memetic countermeasures (estimated administrations per year).

Logistics And Transport $10.0M/yr

[#5] Recurring operational costs for vehicles, helicopters, fuel, maintenance and transport logistics for fieldwork.

Facilities Maintenance $8.5M/yr

[#2] Ongoing power, HVAC, waste processing, life-support, environmental controls and routine infrastructure replacements.

Comms Operations $5.5M/yr

[#23] Operations and leases for secure communications, encrypted links and classified network upkeep.

Psychological Support $5.5M/yr

[#20] Mental health services, debriefing and rehabilitation for staff and exposed civilians.

Training And Drills $2.8M/yr

[#19] Regular personnel training, simulations and safety drills.

Ethics And Compliance $2.8M/yr

[#21] Internal and external ethics oversight, compliance infrastructure and review panels.

Supplies And Consumables $1.1M/yr

[#25] Lab chemicals, single-use PPE, secure containers, decontamination supplies and chain-of-custody consumables.

Opportunity Cost And Unquantified Risks $0/yr

[#28] Unquantifiable long-term economic externalities and existential risks; unable to reliably assign an annual dollar figure (conceptual).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.2B/yr

81.8% probability / year

Normal year with routine monitoring, research, operations and no major public incidents.

routine_operations no_major_leaks steady_surveillance_load

🚨 Minor Incident $1.2B/yr

15.0% probability / year +$20.0M vs baseline

Localized leak, small prophetic outbreak or tactical engagement requiring targeted response and extra PR/legal work.

localized_leak field_engagement short-term_public_attention

🚨 Major Breach $2.2B/yr

3.0% probability / year +$1.0B vs baseline

Significant public exposure or coordinated prophetic cascade requiring major emergency funds, large-scale amnestic deployment and legal/compensation payouts.

widespread_leak mass_propagation large_scale_litigation

🚨 Catastrophic Cascade $51.2B/yr

0.2% probability / year +$50.0B vs baseline

Civilizational-scale prophetic cascade or systemic collapse requiring activation of large civil-defense and continuity programs.

systemic_cascade nationwide_panic infrastructure_failure

👥 Personnel 115 total

Role	Count	Notes
Research Scientist / Specialist	50	[#3] Cognitive scientists, memeticists, philosophers, data scientists, clinical psychologists and lab technicians (fully-burdened ~$200k/yr each).
Security Officer / MTF Agent	65	[#4] Rapid-response containment and arrest operators (fully-burdened ~$150k/yr each).

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are low-confidence due to the abstract/ontological nature of SCP-9749, wide ranges in analyst notes, and inherently unquantifiable existential risks; many costs are scenario-dependent and could scale far beyond the central estimates.

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