SCP-9960 — SCP-9960 A World Without You

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SCP-9960 Unknown ? low confidence

SCP-9960 A World Without You

Expected annual

$30.2M

One-time setup

$164.6M

Annual recurring

$28.9M

Personnel

Estimated one-time capital build-out and equipment is approximately $165M driven primarily by hardened facility construction, large-scale holographic/display infrastructure, and redundancy/power systems; annual operating costs are ~ $29M/yr driven by specialized staff wages, contingency reserves, energy, ongoing research/countermeasures and cybersecurity.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $164.6M

Facilities $121.5M

[#1, #27] Excavation and hardened underground complex, blast doors, support infrastructure and one-time HVAC/install costs.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $11.0M

[#2, #10] Custom VR/holographic environment software development and high-end neuroscience imaging purchase for research.

Equipment $10.8M

[#3, #4, #5, #9, #11] Holographic/volumetric projectors, compute cluster and redundant VR stacks, failover hardware, sensors installation, remote manipulators/robots.

Power Infrastructure $5.5M

[#6] Dedicated substation upgrades, UPS arrays, diesel generators/turbines and on-site fuel storage (one-time capital).

Decommissioning Reserve $5.0M

[#29] One-time reserve/fund set aside for safe long-term shutdown, demolition and remediation if needed.

Chamber Interior $2.8M

[#16] Construction of 'fake realm' internal surfaces, projection surfaces, scent/atmospheric control surfaces and durable finishing.

Emergency Response Hardware $2.8M

[#19] Rapid-response vehicles, sedation/containment munitions, mobile VR fallback rigs and heavy equipment purchases.

Transportation And Heavy Lift $2.5M

[#32] Specialized heavy-lift/crane/heavy-transport equipment and contractor standby for relocation/movement (per-move capital).

Memetic Shielding $1.1M

[#8] Faraday-caging, RF/optical dampening, memetic-filter hardware and installation.

Amnestic Stockpile $550K

[#18] Initial procurement of amnestic/psychotropic drug stockpile and memetic suppression agents.

Cybersecurity Setup $500K

[#21] One-time secure OS/hardware procurement and initial air-gap assurance/audit/setup.

Data Archival Setup $300K

[#24] One-time secure archival/tape vault setup and initial long-term storage provisioning.

Cover Story Setup $250K

[#22] Initial legal retainer, PR/cover-story setup costs and zoning/lease arrangements.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $28.9M/yr

Contingency Reserve $10.0M/yr

[#30] Annual set-aside toward contingency/insurance reserve for catastrophic failure and mass amnestic operations.

Staff Wages $7.9M/yr

[#12, #13, #14] Salaries for security officers/MTF, research scientists, engineers, system admins, medical officers and administrative staff (aggregate).

Research And Monitoring $3.0M/yr

[#15] Ongoing research & countermeasure program (experiments, trials, animal studies, countermeasure development).

Hardware Refresh $2.5M/yr

[#31] Periodic refresh budget averaged annually for projectors, servers, robots and medical equipment replacement.

Facilities Maintenance $1.0M/yr

[#7, #27] Electricity/fuel ongoing operational energy and HVAC/containment environmental maintenance.

Cover Story And Legal $1.0M/yr

[#22, #23] Ongoing legal retainer, liaison, covert payments/leases and PR/misinformation incident management budgets.

Staff Rotation And Morale $600K/yr

[#26] Hazard pay, rotation costs, counseling and morale programs to limit exposure durations.

Emergency Readiness $500K/yr

[#19] Standby readiness, maintenance and training cost for rapid-response unit and equipment.

Training And Drills $500K/yr

[#20] Regular breach/evacuation drills, remote ops rehearsals and tabletop exercises.

Cybersecurity Monitoring $500K/yr

[#21] Ongoing intrusion detection, red-team audits and secure monitoring of VR control systems.

Community Monitoring $300K/yr

[#33] Ongoing community mental-health monitoring and remediation/fund for affected civilians.

Supplies And Consumables $250K/yr

[#17] Filters, projector lamps, spare electronics, consumables for robots, PPE and replacement parts.

Amnestic Replenishment $200K/yr

[#18] Ongoing replenishment and replacements for amnestic/psychotropic stockpile and memetic suppression agents.

Data Archival $200K/yr

[#24] Long-term telemetry/neural data storage, archival media rotation and secure backup costs.

Continuous Vetting $175K/yr

[#25] Background checks, continuous vetting, psychological screening and counter-insider measures.

Waste Decon $150K/yr

[#28] Waste handling, decontamination, sterilization and disposal for contaminated gear and biological waste.

Specialized Sensors Maintenance $125K/yr

[#9] Annual maintenance/calibration for EEG/MEG rigs, cameras, acoustic and environmental sensors.

Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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Budget Guidance $0/yr

[#34] Summary guidance entry (no direct cost).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $28.9M/yr

83.0% probability / year

Normal year with steady operations, no major incidents; all systems functioning and routine maintenance performed.

routine_operations no_breach standard_research_activity

🚨 Minor Incident $30.9M/yr

15.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Localized systems failure or limited containment breach requiring emergency response, localized amnestic use, repairs and PR/cover management.

localized_breach system_failure limited_memetic_leak

🚨 Major Breach $78.9M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$50.0M vs baseline

Significant containment failure or mass memetic exposure requiring large-scale amnestic operations, hardware replacement, facility repairs and possible decommissioning actions.

major_containment_failure mass_exposure facility_damage

👥 Personnel 88 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	40	[#12] Continuous manning of perimeter and internal response teams; example staffing level used in cost estimate.
Research Scientist	30	[#13, #15] Neuroscience, cognitive science, AI/VR and containment research staff running experiments and tuning the calming simulation.
Engineer / Maintenance	8	[#13, #31] Containment engineers, HVAC and facilities maintenance staff for the physical plant and hardware refresh cycles.
System Administrator / IT	4	[#4, #5, #21] VR/compute stack administrators and cybersecurity personnel for air-gapped systems.
Medical Officer	4	[#14] On-site physicians/psychiatrists for treatment, monitoring and coordination of amnestic administration.
Administrative Staff	2	[#22] Administrative and legal liaison personnel supporting cover story, government liaison and procurement.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are low-confidence because SCP-9960 is esoteric and many cost drivers (memetic propagation modes, required scale of memetic countermeasures, and breach frequency) are highly uncertain; analyst ranges are wide.

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