Labs (Laboratories) in UT & HT vs. Labs in Spaceships. What gives?

[vierasmarius]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

As for the spaceships labs those are Star Trek "we can do anything" labs. The labs in the tech books would be for specific disciplines. (And indeed specialities within those disciplines.)

Only if you select the Science! Labs, which are 30 times as expensive. The labs in UT and HT make no mention of being specialty-specific, just skill-specific.

I do think it makes sense for zero-G labs to be more expensive (though most science fiction gets around that feature of space in one way or another). Pricing for spaceship habitats and structures should be more expensive than terrestrial ones. While it's feasible to use the SS rules to create ground-based vehicles and installations, IMO it rarely gives very satisfactory results.