Is temperature tolerance really that expensive?

[DangerousThing]

Originally Posted by gilbertocarlos

So, let's imagine a robot character, he is made of steel and has HT12, so he could easily live anywhere from -200Fº to 1600ºC(arbitrary numbers, but it is around this range), so, he would need 145 points into Temperature Tolerance(since each level gives 12Fº and the base is only 55º).

Is that right? 145 points just to resist hot and cold climates?

In a game where all the main characters are robots, you can set it that way and humans would have a disadvantage. GURPS is human-centric.

However, it is extremely difficult to create mechanics and electronics that work at those extreme temperatures today.

Heat does nasty things to pretty much everything. For instance, I'm willing to bet that the interior electronics would contain metals which melt at lower temperatures. Even in a robot society I'm willy to bet that only specialized droids would have TT that extreme.

A couple of recent Charles Stross books have talked about an all robot society and the characters aren't much durable than we are.