A question about cloning costs

[Commander Truestar]

Hello,
I admit I am just starting my research on this and have checked the books to find little to inspire me.

I am curious what you charge IYTU to have a character cloned?
Assume the character has a wafer jack and has had an image taken of their mind, to use in restoring the clone after the death of the original
IMTU, crude Cloning "becomes available" at TL D with more refined methods at TL E

So, where I am looking at TL E Refined cloning, what would you say the charge is on a TL E world?

Thanks for any inspiration!

 

[Commander Truestar]

So, T-20 says Mcr25 to clone a Whole Body....that seems a bit extreme even for such a move.

I also came across (sorry, I don't recall where) a formula of KCr 50 X the total of the physical stats(Str, Dex, End)
So, if a character were 7, 7, 7, then it would cost 21*50,000 = Cr 1,050,000. That seems more realistic to me.

I am still looking for guidance if anyone has a house rule, etc....

 

[Commander Truestar]

Star Frontiers Zebulon's Guide has:
Cloning Process
Body-gene box 20 5,000
Sample Taken -- 5,000
Storage Per Year -- 10,000
Clone Grown -- 75,000

So, KCr 95 there....

 

[mike wightman]

There is lots of info about clones in T5.

 

[Commander Truestar]

There is lots of info about clones in T5.

There is, about the "How"
But, I still have not found guidance on the cost?

Have you?

To be clear, T5 even has Life Insurance, which is the only place costs are mentioned.
And there, the policy is MCr 1 with a one-time update included. Subsequent updates cost an extra KCr 100

But, what if you don't have the insurance?
I can guess based on real-world insurance policies like "full car" or "full House" replacement but...

 

[mike wightman]

If you have the latest version it is on page 119 of book 1.

 

[Commander Truestar]

If you have the latest version it is on page 119 of book 1.

Thank you!!!
I had misread that chart while I was scanning the section and thought it was simply procedural since the left-most items were not related to pricing

Now that you've pointed it out, I re-checked and see the KCr labels in the more Right-justified columns

 

[mike wightman]

Glad to be of help, hope it's useful

 

[Condottiere]

If it's not instant mix, I suspect it's a lot cheaper getting the sample, then using a human (or pig alternative) surrogate, and then accelerated growth.

 

[Commander Truestar]

The situation is that several of my players have characters with a "Stent" which was my name for a wafer jack many years before it became part of Traveller.
Under circumstances I won't go into a mental image was created at a point some months before the characters which has been killed.
Now, they have stuck his formerly-frozen remains in a low berth and are planning to go somewhere and see how much it costs to clone the character. The "why" being he was their Astrogator with a Navigation-4. Their backup is only a Nav-1 so they want their fancy plots back...

 

[Baroun Tardis]

T5.10, Book 1, p119
Basic creation : 10kcr
Marking as a clone (legal issue) 1kcr
Implanting memories from backup: 2kcr
Gestation 1kcr
Forced growth so you get an 18 year old body: 18kcr
Total: 32kcr

That presumes already dead and working from an old recording
If you bring them in "mostly dead" and have no recordings.... 100kcr additional cost

 

[mike wightman]

I only noticed a few days ago that T5 character generation has wafer jack implants and clone insurance as mustering out benefits now.

 

[Commander Truestar]

@mike wightman
Yeah,
I noticed that in my research and have started working it into MTU.

@Baroun Tardis: thanks! I was using Ver 5.0 and the costs based on C1/C2/C3/C4

 

[kilemall]

The situation is that several of my players have characters with a "Stent" which was my name for a wafer jack many years before it became part of Traveller.
Under circumstances I won't go into a mental image was created at a point some months before the characters which has been killed.
Now, they have stuck his formerly-frozen remains in a low berth and are planning to go somewhere and see how much it costs to clone the character. The "why" being he was their Astrogator with a Navigation-4. Their backup is only a Nav-1 so they want their fancy plots back...

Classic D&D resurrection quest…

 

[Commander Truestar]

Classic D&D resurrection quest…

Quest indeed.
In the end, they found the steps taken to "freeze" his body formed destructive crystallization at a cellular level
So, they went out to hire at the next port