Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 1

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

The point isn't that tankers are cheap. The point is that they weren't rich enough to outright bribe a small poor government to operate on their territory, and that they made the first of their world-changing inventions and production compact enough to operate out of a tanker-sized area. The world is big, but they managed to shake it.

Well, sure, but nothing about that really requires that man-sized Biofabs be cheaper than $4,000,000 each. They were canonically funded by a multi-millionaire.*

What I'm looking for is some sense of what GURPS Wealth level should be required in the setting to be able to own a human-sized Biofab/Biofac. If we go by the $50,000 in the Transhuman Space book, it's Comfortable Wealth to be able to afford one, Wealthy to be able to afford one and still be able to afford other things. If we use the Bio-Tech/Ultra-Tech pricing, no one below Multimillonaire 1 can afford one.

I'm also looking for a fair THS price on smaller Biofabs, ones that are suitable for making bacteria, viruses and maybe biological microbots. Well, and an intermediate-sized model, one that can grow spare organs and body parts, not a whole adult-sized bioroid or even carry a fetus to term.

*In the sense that he was regarded as ultra-rich in-setting, not that he merely owned more than two millions of Euros or Dollars or whatever (which, while impressive some years ago, is probably rather mundane in 2100).