Intergalactic Summit

Of course my New Years Orgy will not have actual human sacrifice!

Actually human sacrifice looked most acceptable among other options... well, together with alcohol, I presume. Alcohol is still somewhat... acceptable, even if not professional.

Good thing we have Kimmy to act as our moral guide.... makes it easier to ignore. I'll bring the lotions and whips!

I remember using a nova knife

With Immortal Clone Soldiers operating all over Molden Heath, alongside their Warbarges, Starbases and support staff/facilities for the past few years it would be extremely hard to imagine the level of medical care there being "primative". There was an extremely strong incentive for Capsuleers and Immortal Clone Soldiers to form alliances in order to set up starbases with significant production advantages, unseen even in null-sec until the recent release of Citadels and Engineering complexes.

The average Warbarge commanded by and Immortal Clone Soldier carried 30+ combat clones, all of their vehicles and a few spare Mobile Command Centers in addition to crew compliments of 750-1000 operational staff and 4000-8000 infantry (that weren't directly used in ICS vs ICS ground conflicts - but assisted in occupance of molden heath and various faction warfare zones); They were capital class ships in their own rights, roughly half the volume of the average freighter despite design documents for Warbarges being unavailable.

I can in fact speak to the *fact* that ICS corporations that held space on Molden Health ground frequently set up advanced cloning facilities specifically for combat clones to control territory; and each cloning facility in a district could put out 20+ combat capable clones a day (often with multiple cloning facilities per district, putting out a maximum of 100 clones per district). Immortal Clone Soldiers on average paid more than a capsuleer pays for well fit cruiser for a military grade clone.

To even suggest that Molden Heath is "primitive" in terms of medical technology when literal thousands of military grade ICS combat clones were pumped out daily is farcical.

While generally true, there was a significant investment of wealth there by ICS's and Capsuleers. Remember the discrepency of isk between "immortals" and baseliners.

The biomass processing and cloning facilities are part of the district infrastructure in Molden heath, set up by ICS', much like Capsuleers can buy and deploy command centers for various types of planets without even a thought to the cost of hiring baseliners to manage it.

There is some trickle-down to the baseliners... even with a lot of collateral damage.

That's a new one on me. Still doesn't make the clones any more useful in a medical capacity, I fear, if you're churning out the titanium boned combat grade examples. Unless you've got actual medical clone facilities. In which case, they would be a lot more useful in the capacity you're talking about, since you can get useful spare parts from them, albeit at a high cost that either you or the local economy would have to absorb.

That being the case, I'm still not convinced that the trickle down, as you put it, would cover the damages, AND operating costs to make medical cloning somehow available to the common man, since most of the money goes right back into a war economy several orders of magnitude smaller than what cappies have access to, in order to continue earning said money. Not to mention, the big, well paying wars are done for the time being, so revenue itself is an issue, unless you've got a bunch of donors with very loose purse strings.

If it's all the former, as described, you're looking at a perpetual war for the sake of sustaining the system that keeps said war going, and people employed therein. If the latter, and you've got some philanthropists on your side, Maker love em, and good luck to you.

I think we're on the same page, in the end. And yeah, there really is but one intent behind an immortal soldier, which goes hand in hand with the adage about old soldiers never dying. Since you seem to understand the intent behind my playing devil's advocate, I'll say no more on the matter, and wish you luck. Anvatkaa.

X-Ray machines are fine. It's just that there's now a safer alternative that does not require the use of radioactive material called the MRI.