Marrow Lattice

Cultured marrow lattice that produces blood cells at roughly twice the natural rate with engineered clotting factors.

Rules Reference

FieldValue
Capacity Cost3
Categorygene-mods
Rek Cost33000 (Core biomed; standard issue for reactor workers, marines, and Ironball pros)

Notes

Benefit: Cultured marrow lattice that produces blood cells at roughly twice the natural rate with engineered clotting factors. +4 to stabilization checks against death and blood loss, you heal 2 additional hit points per rest, you gain +4 to Fortitude saves against radiation sickness, and active bleed effects on you end after 1 round as clotting seals the wound. Moderate benefit level.

Install Risk: Medicine DC 17 to graft the cultured marrow into the long bones. Recipient makes a Fortitude save DC 14 or gains Botched Implant: runaway clotting, risk of thrombosis and -2 to Fortitude until a Medicine DC 15 thinning regimen.

Origin: Core biomed firms; issued to reactor workers, marines, and Ironball pros who expect to be opened up and need to not bleed out.

Signature: Restricted. Kadiss-flagged clinic-grade; legal only with a registered indication, otherwise it reads as black-market at a scan.

Strain: Thick blood. The engineered clotting raises the carrier's risk of thrombosis on long immobility; after 24 hours immobile, Fortitude DC 14 or suffer a clot (1d6 damage and -1 to Reflex for a day). The carrier also bruises less but bleeds slower once a vein is opened, drawing out simple transfusions.