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Originally Posted by whswhs
That seems almost absurdly cheap. The TL7 suit in the Basic Set is $2 million (which is apparently less expensive than real space suits have been!) and the TL9 ones based on mechanical compression are around $10,000. I wonder what the difference in assumptions is?
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That 2 million would be for an Apollo program "moon suit" which is a hand-built prototype designed at a very low state of the art (a _lot_ of gueswork). It doesn't really have anything to do with a msture design 2 TLs levels higher that's mass produced.