Bacta Tank

vong · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 1:38 pm Post subject: Bacta Tank

I cannot seem to find the price of a bacta tank, and the cost to refill the bacta each use. can anyone elighten me Very Happy

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Kayle Skolaris · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject:

Well, Gry Sarth's handy-dandy Equipment File says the D20 Core Rulebook page 140 lists a bacta tank as costing 3,000 credits. No idea how much the bacta to fill the tank costs.

masque · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject:

It'll depend on the source. There's an article on the bacta trade in Adventure Journal 3. Most bacta originates with a single species, the Vratix, and their world is pretty much a corporate oligarchy. The Empire has easy access to it, of course, but black market bacta would be significantly more expensive. There's no prices listed, unfortunately, but I priced it at about 10,000 credits a barrel in the first adventure of my smuggling campaign.
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Gry Sarth · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject:

Even though I list the d20 Rulebook as a source, those stats are actually a gathering of information presented in WEG books, such as the Revised Screen.

Looking at the d20 Rulebook, it actually gives a more thorough, and in my opinion more accurate, account of bacta cost. It lists a Bacta Tank costing 100,000 credits and each liter of bacta costing 100 credits. Since a Bact Tank needs 300 liters to operate, the "refil" cost is 3,000 credits, which I guess is what WEG was listing. If the tank must be refilled with each use, then 3,000 would be the cost of a single Bacta Tank treatment.
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PsiberDragon · Commander Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 260

*checks math*

*pokes Gry* umm... you missed a decimal place... 100*300 = 30,000... Wink

and tha's if the GM lets you have it at "cost"... Wink

something that I, personally, would NEVER do... Twisted Evil

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Gry Sarth · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject:

In the wise words of a wise man:

"D'oh!"

Darn, am I stupid or what. I did have a feeling there was something wrong with that math, but I guess I so wanted wizards' and weg's prices to match up that I didn't go through it again.

30,000 to refill a bacta tank... well then, maybe we can assume that a full tank will last 10 uses, then weg's price still works, and I do think that 300 liters of bacta should be good for more than a single application.

PS: 30,000 divided by 10 is 3,000, right?
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Kayle Skolaris · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject:

A proper filtering system should be able to extend the usefulness of a single tank-full of bacta.

PsiberDragon · Commander Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 260

*checks math... carry the one...* yep... that's right...

of course... didn't they have some issue at one time w/ a bacta shortage? like having to clean out the bacta from the people's ears, even?

and what would THAT do to the price... Twisted Evil

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Soniv · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 11 Jul 2005 Posts: 210

Actually, I don't think that the entire 300 liters is pure bacta; If I recall, bacta can be mixed with water quite readily, and the bacta/water mixture is what doctors immerse the patients in. Therefore, one could say that the tank needs to be only 10% bacta to be effective. Therefore, 30 liters of bacta, 3000 credits.

Gry Sarth · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject:

Well, the d20 rulebook says that a tank needs 300 liters of bacta, but I do like your line of thought.
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garhkal · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:57 am Post subject:

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