SCP-9995 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-9995
Expected annual
$4.8M
One-time setup
$11.1M
Annual recurring
$4.6M
Personnel
11
Initial one-time setup dominated by containment, legal reserves, and contingency funds (~$11.07M). Recurring annual costs driven by specialized staff, facility operations, legal/PR/takedown programs, and classified overhead (~$4.57M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $11.1M
Contingency Reserve Initial $5.5M
[#37] Large-scale leak / mass-exposure contingency reserve for emergency treatment, mass takedowns, PR, and indemnity.
Insurance Reserve $2.8M
[#21] Initial insurance / risk reserve held for catastrophic leak, third-party claims, and large legal/medical liabilities.
Equipment $788K
[#2, #4, #6, #7, #13, #18, #22, #23, #26, #27, #36, #34, #20] Fireproof/EMP safes and evidence lockers; hardened disposable test rigs; one-time purchase of high-speed capture & logging hardware; initial forensic software/license purchases (first-year); initial archive/playback servers; secure transfer devices; specialized memory-isolation appliances; media destruction hardware; specialized instrumentation (EEG/eye-tracking/etc.); initial cold-storage / data analysis hardware; documentation/printing/archive systems; initial rapid-response cache; IT/network isolation appliances.
Facilities $725K
[#3] Air-gapped containment lab buildout (Faraday shielding, HVAC segregation, biometric access, CCTV, intrusion detection).
Legal Retainer Initial $500K
[#15] Initial legal counsel retainer and litigation reserve for warrants, IP acquisition, and potential discovery defenses.
Ip Acquisition $275K
[#16] Covert purchase/acquisition of original assets, source code, or buyouts to secure primary assets.
International Ops Initial $275K
[#29] Budget for international warrants, foreign liaison, covert acquisitions and local counsel for cross-border incidents.
Acquisition Operations $200K
[#1] Field seizure and evidence-capture operations (multi-site tactical/digital forensics, travel, armored transport, chain-of-custody).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $60K
[#25] Initial development of SOPs, training program creation, and protocol development/setup costs.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.6M/yr
Staff Wages $1.4M/yr
[#8, #9, #10, #19] Salaries & benefits for reverse-engineering/software team (4 specialists), theoretical/research staff (2 researchers), on-call medical officer, and site security guards.
Facilities Maintenance $1.2M/yr
[#30, #31, #20, #21, #37] Annual lease/utilities/upkeep for containment & admin spaces; power/HVAC/UPS/generator fuel; IT/network isolation operations; insurance replenishment; annual contingency replenishment.
Classified Overhead $761K/yr
[#32] Secrecy/black-project overhead (20% of program recurring costs) to fund off-books vendors, false vendors, and obfuscation.
Cover Story And Legal $630K/yr
[#14, #15, #17, #28, #33] Online monitoring & takedown program, ongoing legal retainers/ops, PR/cover-story budgets, paid removals and media mitigation, outreach/bounty program.
Cohort Compensation $300K/yr
[#35] Compensation and follow-up costs for long-term study cohorts (e.g., 50-person longitudinal study aggregated).
Clinical Testing And Imaging $100K/yr
[#11] Annual clinical testing costs (MRI/CT/EEG/bloodwork) for exposed subjects and follow-ups (per-test budgeting aggregated yearly).
Research And Monitoring $62K/yr
[#9, #27] Theoretical research operating expenses and data storage/analysis operational costs.
Supplies And Consumables $61K/yr
[#5, #23, #26, #10] Consumable hardware replacement (PCs, SSDs, GPUs); per-event media destruction costs; instrumentation calibration/consumables; medical consumables (IV fluids, oxygen).
Human Subjects Compliance $30K/yr
[#12] Human-subjects IRB, legal approvals, consent protocol administration and outside consultant reviews.
Training Refreshers $25K/yr
[#25] Annual refresher training, drills, and protocol updates for staff, medics, and security.
Psychological Services $20K/yr
[#24] Counseling and psychiatric care for exposed personnel (per-case budgeting aggregated yearly).
Forensic License Renewals $12K/yr
[#7] Annual renewals for forensic/reverse-engineering software licenses (IDA, EnCase, X-Ways, network analyzers).
Logistics And Transport $6K/yr
[#18] Secure courier fees and audited air-gapped transfer device replacement/ops.
Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.6M/yr
82.0% probability / year
Normal operational year with ongoing containment, research, monitoring, and takedown activity but no major incidents.
no_major_leak routine_research_and_takedowns steady_staffing
🚨 Minor Incident $5.2M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$600K vs baseline
Localized public leak or small-scale infection requiring targeted seizures, emergency medical checks, and increased takedown/PR activity.
localized_leak new_uploads_detected small_public_exposure
🚨 Major Breach $9.6M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$5.0M vs baseline
Widespread leak or mass-exposure requiring international legal action, mass medical response, large PR/containment mobilization and major reserve drawdown.
mass_public_exposure international_hosting_of_tool coordinated_leak_or_breach
👥 Personnel 11 total
Role Count Notes
Reverse Engineer / Software Engineer 4 [#8] Four specialists to reverse-engineer, patch, and build safe emulations (senior-level salaries aggregated in staff_wages).
Research Scientist / Theorist 2 [#9] Interdisciplinary researchers (physicists/cognitive scientists) to study mechanism and human effects (salaries included in staff_wages; research expenses in research_and_monitoring).
Medical Officer 1 [#10] On-call medic for monitoring, emergency response, and clinical coordination (salary and consumables allocated).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 4 [#19] On-site security staff to guard lab/vault 24/7 (salaries and benefits included in staff_wages).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed itemized ranges and concrete program elements, enabling a mid-confidence estimate; however broad cost ranges for legal reserves, contingency planning, and uncertain incident frequency (object class unknown, containment history uneven) reduce precision.
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