Ship's Fabricator

[Terry Mixon]

Never implied they were. I was just extending Anstett's musings. But they may be significantly denser than humans. Say, 1.25 times?

In any case, it all still comes back to dimensions, not density. Estimating how many litres of fabricator you will need to print a body or body part is going to be based on its height, width and depth. So unless the print is conveniently shaped the same as the cavity, you will usually need a lot more volume of fabricator than the print has.

An average human requires a 32 slot medical chamber according to the rules. Imperial regulations bumps that to 50 to cover virtually every human, no matter how massive or obese.

A robotic slot is 1.5 liters, so a 48 liters would accommodate an average human, according to the rules.

You can use that as a scale for smaller chambers for body parts or skimp and save to get one that works.

 

[MonsterX]

Can you reduce the slots if you accept short stubby replacement arms and legs instead of full-length ones? It could be all your health insurance will cover...

 

[CordwainerFish]

Virushi are significantly denser, I think.

Are they? I'd expect them to be bags of mostly water, like the rest of us. For certain their skeleta may compose more of their bulk, but bone does not average that much more dense than the gooshier parts of us - and Virushi could easily have a lower ratio of cortical to cancellous bone than we do.

 

[rinku]

Are they? I'd expect them to be bags of mostly water, like the rest of us. For certain their skeleta may compose more of their bulk, but bone does not average that much more dense than the gooshier parts of us - and Virushi could easily have a lower ratio of cortical to cancellous bone than we do.

They have a thick armoured hide. I was including that too, but also you would expect average bone density would be higher in a higher G environment. Virush is Size A, so nominally 1.4G, as well as having a dense atmosphere and high radiation. I'd expect pretty much denser and thicker everything. They mass around 1000kg, but appear roughly the size of a large quadruped.

At a guess, a Terran critter that size might be 500-700kg. So I think a density on the order of 1.25 to 1.5 would not be out of line.

In any case... you're going to need a bigger printer

 

[J. L. Brown]

That looks larger than a bull, and masses about the same.