Bk2: High Guard states:
There is a 5% price discount per TL for older technology devices
if bought new at the source, to a maximum of –30%. Characters
can buy second–hand outdated technology for a fraction of the price
(10% to 75%, depending on condition and usability). For example,
a character buying a new TL8 engine at a TL10 world gets a 10%
discount. A character buying TL8 engines from a scrapyard could
pick them up for 50% of their original cost.---p.52
Found it... :twisted:
So it
is possible for up to -30% discount off original price at the source moving in 5% increments....
8)
So a
TL9 item, made at
TL15 could conceiveably come 30% cheaper (6 TL differential); But a TL7 item, made at TL15 has the same -30% (despite an 8 TL differential).
Yes gentlemen, I am aware of the "plateau affect" when other technological items come along and replace the older ones (Gypsy Comet's shovel example, e.g.)
I was looking at the profitability margins off Book Price for items made at higher tech levels and specifically for Imperial Client States, or Imperial megacorps on Non-aligned but trade friendly worlds to say the Imperium & Zhodani Consulate.
Let us say, medical/pharmaceutical products, made at TL-11-14, by a licensed subsidiary, Trade friendly world(s), that are *exempt* from direct Imperial taxes & perhaps lower labor costs than inside the Imperium/ Consulate
This would be 'outsourcing' would it not?
What is the best guess at the direct *Imperial tax* rate? I am trying to see how said product costs less to produce as sufficiently higher tech worlds vis-a-vis Imperial member worlds.
One may use
Collace (Ht Hi In) TL-13, as an example versus say,
Lunion (Hi Ht In) TL-13 for this bit, and a product of TL13, the Age-Slow Drug, for example.
Compendium 1 book cost is 1Kcr a dose.
Collace cost :?:
Lunion Cost :?:
Tax rate :?:
The reason being is of course to see where & why SuSAG and other megacorp manufacturers like to outsource to High tech worlds just outside the Imperium, and how profitable that can be for them.
