The Chrome Market ยท Chapter 7
Bioware
Bioware is grown: muscle, nerve, skin, and organs cultured from the patient's own cells and edited before they are put back.
| Cyberware | Bioware | |
|---|---|---|
| Load | 0 to 3 | 0 or 1 |
| Price | As listed | About three times as much for the same effect |
| Time | Hours | Four weeks to grow, then surgery |
| Found by | Any scanner | A medical scan and a Hard Medicine check |
| Ion and pulses | Shut it down | Nothing |
| Hacked | If it has a link | Never |
| Glitchy | Yes | No. A failed surgery means it does not take, and the money is gone |
Bioware does the quiet things. Nothing grown gives a characteristic, a weapon, or a link.
Load from bioware counts toward the same limit as Load from cyberware.
| Bioware | Load | Tier | Price | Avail | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muscle Graft | 1 | Near | 18000 | Restricted | Add 1 Boon Die to Athletics checks and to Might checks to lift, break, and hold |
| Nerve Sheathing | 1 | Chrome | 30000 | Restricted | Add 1 Boon Die to Reflexes and initiative checks |
| Dermal Weave | 1 | Chrome | 30000 | Rare | Resistance +1, counting as armour toward the limit of +3. It is skin: nothing finds it |
| Clotting Factor | 0 | Near | 9000 | Common | Bleeding ends by itself at the end of the user's next turn. Recover 1 more Wound from a night's rest |
| Tailored Liver | 0 | Near | 12000 | Common | Add 2 Boon Dice to resist checks against Ingested poisons and to Habit checks |
| Night Eyes | 0 | Near | 8000 | Common | Low-light vision. The eyes reflect light like a cat's |
| Deep Lungs | 0 | Near | 10000 | Common | Hold breath four times as long. Add 1 Boon Die to Fortitude checks against thin air and smoke |
| Gills | 1 | Chrome | 25000 | Rare | Breathe water. The slits at the neck close in air |
| Regrowth | 1 | Chrome | 50000 | Rare | Critical Injuries heal by themselves: Minor in a day, Moderate in a week, Severe in a month. A lost limb grows back in six months |
| Pheromone Glands | 1 | Chrome | 20000 | Illicit | Add 1 Boon Die to Charm and Negotiation checks at Engaged range, against people who breathe. A Chemical Nose notices |
| Chameleon Skin | 1 | Chrome | 40000 | Rare | Skin that takes the colour of its background. Add 1 Boon Die to Stealth checks, 2 when wearing little |
| Symbiotic Flora | 0 | Near | 6000 | Common | Add 2 Boon Dice to checks against disease and bad food and water. The user never needs clean rations |