"The Treatment only costs $1,500,000. What's the price of a life?"
~Dr. Avengaard Tribune
Near-Immortality... If You Can Afford It
By the Age of Convergence, resurrecting a dead body from a few preserved cells is absolutely possible. This is basically a specialized form of
Cloning, though the process is a lot more involved for a few reasons. By utilizing the cadaver's brain tissue, some portion of their memories can be preserved. The lower the amount of time spent dead, the better, but cryogenics can prolong the viability gap.
The real inhibition is the exotic radiation combinations that draw out, mimic, and extrapolate the residual energies of the dying neurons. This step is what separates the process from just being a fancy
Cloning machine. Provided that enough neurons are still present, most if not all of the original personality and even -in the best case scenario- memories can be recreated.
The Frozen Guillotine
A machine was developed to preserve the brain for transport quickly. Officially, it's officially known as the
Starlight Pharmaceuticals Emergency Preservation Container (SPEPC, or Spep-See). Colloquially, it's known as the Frozen Guillotine. When a comrade (or HVT) has died or is guaranteed to die, the box is placed over their head via a round orifice in the bottom. When activated, the box flash freezes the head, neck, and shoulders, then an iris closes on the bottom, severing the frozen neck about halfway down. The device instantly freezes the head all the way into the brain, preserving it. The box has about enough power to maintain this preservation for about 24 hours, though it can be recharged by any power grid or starship capacitor.
Shady bounty hunters have been known to make the taking of heads prisoner as SOP rather than bothering with black bags or full body extraditions.
Rebuild and Reconsruct
The Lazarus Pod is not just for resurrection, that's just the most potent use. In reality, it can reformat any human body into a base 'template' by swapping out any deviant cells or parts with new, rapidly cloned ones that match the preferred scan. It's an extremely expensive device to buy or utilize, but its power and effectiveness cannot be overstated.
Organics Only
Regardless of whether they were present during the template scan, a Lazarus Pod will not recreate
Cybernetics. They will have to be reinstalled the old fashioned way if they've been lost.
| Name | Description | Cost | LC |
|---|
| Resurrection Treatment |
Regrow a whole person with a pod. Roll an HT -1 for every hour the patient has spent dead to avoid Partial Amnesia. Head trauma guarantees some amount of Partial Amnesia. |
$1,500,000 |
2 |
| Healing Stint |
Rejuvinate based on a predetermined template. Your physical Attributes, physical Advantages and Disadvantages, age, and HP and FP are all restored to that template. Note: If you have improved physically since the template was taken, you are going to lose those physical improvements. |
$800,000 |
3 |
| SPEPC (Frozen Guillotine) |
Instantly preserve the head of a patient. Preferably just after they've died, as the flash freezing and head severing are extremely unpleasant. On its own power, the SPEPC can last 24 hours but it can be charged by plugging it into some large scale power generator for prolonged/indefinite preservation. |
$25,000 |
3 |
| Lazarus Pod |
The treatment pod itself. It requires immense amounts of power (Grade I QMB or better) and the exotic materials cost roughly $500,000 per treatment just to operate properly. |
$500,000,000 |
1 |
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