| Property | Details |
|---|---|
| Category | Habitation Systems |
| Description | Creates a backup point for pioneers in case of covered work-related accident. |
| Fragments Required | 1 |
The Biobed is an essential device that can be found in the Lifepod serving as player's respawn point to reprint them after death. Additional Biobeds can be constructed in seabases.
Recipe
The blueprint for the Biobed can be found by scanning a Biobed, which are found in most Pioneer Seabases and some Wrecks. Specific locations can be found below.
| Crafted At | Ingredients | Output |
|---|---|---|
| Habitat Builder | * 3x Titanium<br>* 1x Glass<br>* 1x Copper Wire | 1x Biobed |
Usage
Biobeds serve as the player's spawn point, being set in the Lifepod by default. Biobeds can be constructed in seabases and assigned to a player. The player will respawn in the last Biobed used upon death.
Fragments
Biobed fragments can be found at the following locations:
| Coords & Depth | Description | Image |
|---|---|---|
| -323229, 409433 @ 15m | In Camp One |  |
| -335676, 395046 @ 55m | In the destroyed Biobed room at the Old Habitat |  |
Databank Entry
Source: Unlock the Biobed blueprint
The "Shanti Essentials" biobed is a ruggedized scanner/fabricator for human bodies.
Despite the power of modern scanners and computers, it's impossible to image and record every molecule in a human body as digital data. The biobed uses quantum imaging to store a 'ghost' of the patient in its optical lattice. This ghost can be printed back into matter by precise fabrication. When paired with a blackbox implant (which transmits the last brainstate before death back to its paired biobed on a phase channel), a biobed can detect a colonist's death and reprint them with no loss of memory or subjective experience.
- Does not require power or raw material (automatically collected from seawater)
- When synced with a biobed, colonists will be fabricated in a new body (a "print") if killed
- Blackbox implant allows transfer of final memories, but not all possessions
- Biobed quartz memory is stable into geological time
- Used to store Cicada colonists during long interstellar flight
Because the ghost is not digital data, it cannot be edited or duplicated. However, a biobed can record many ghosts during a single session and store them in quantum superposition. In theory, a single biobed could produce many duplicates of many people- populating an entire colony with clonal strains of a few initial colonists. This process is illegal under Trans-System Federation Law, and blocked at the software level in all legal biobeds.
