RESURRECTION CHAMBER

The resurrection chamber is the most advanced application of nanotechnology.  The chamber is designed to revive a deceased subject and reunite their corporeal body with their immortal soul.  The chamber is typically a sarcophagus like structure consisting of alloys of noble metals and star metals.  These expensive metals are key to containing potentially lethal radiation required to stimulate cell growth and resist the corrosiveness of the nutrient bath used during the resurrection process.  The nanites are released into the chamber with the nutrient bath, allowing them immediate access to the building blocks of life.  Due to the complexity of the resurrection tasks, the nanites are controlled remotely by a specialized tier 10 computer.  Resurrecting a subject takes 1 hour per level or hit dice of the subject.

Resurrection chambers are extremely rare and access to a resurrection chamber normally requires membership to an organization which can afford to maintain and defend its resurrection chamber.  In addition to purchase price, every resurrection chamber has a per use cost associated with the nanites and nutrient bath which are consumed by the resurrection process.

COPPER RESURRETION CHAMBER

The copper resurrection chamber can restore life to a subject that has been dead no longer than 10 days.  On rare occasions the body is fully repaired but never regains consciousness.  Mystics have theorized that the subject’s soul must be free and willing to return.

Coming back from the dead is an ordeal. The subject brought back by the copper resurrection chamber gains two permanent negative levels when it is raised, just as if it had been hit by an energy-draining creature. If the subject is 1st level, it takes 2 points of Constitution drain instead (if this would reduce its Con to 0 or less, it can’t be raised from death).

A raised subject has a number of hit points equal to its current HD and does not regain any Stamina Points. Any ability scores damaged to 0 are raised to 1. Normal poison and normal disease are cured in the process of raising the subject. (If your campaign includes magic or psionics, diseases and curses of this nature are not undone.) While the chamber closes mortal wounds and repairs lethal damage of most kinds, the body of the subject to be raised must be whole. Otherwise, missing parts are still missing when the subject is brought back to life.  (If your campaign includes magic or psionics the raised subject returns with no spells or powers available.)

This chamber only works on creatures which can be identified by the Life Science skill.

SILVER RESURRETION CHAMBER

The silver resurrection chamber functions like a copper resurrection chamber, except that you are able to restore life and complete strength to any deceased creature.

The condition of the remains is not a factor. So long as some small portion of the subject’s body still exists, it can be resurrected, but the portion entering the resurrection chamber must have been part of the subject’s body at the time of death. (The remains of a subject must contain viable cells for the process to work. A subject who suffered death by disintegration would not be eligible for resurrection.) The subject can have been dead no longer than 10 weeks.

Upon completion, the subject is immediately restored to full Stamina Points, Hit Points, vigor, and health.  (If your campaign includes magic or psionics the subject will return with no loss of prepared spells or powers.)  The subject of the resurrection gains one permanent negative level when it is raised, just as if it had been hit by an energy-draining creature. If the subject is 1st level, it takes 2 points of Constitution drain instead (if this would reduce its Con to 0 or less, it can’t be resurrected).

You can resurrect someone killed by a death effect, or someone who has been turned into an undead creature and then destroyed. You cannot resurrect someone who has died of old age. This chamber only works on creatures which can be identified by the Life Science skill.

GOLD RESURRETION CHAMBER

The gold resurrection chamber functions like the silver resurrection chamber, except that you can resurrect a creature that has been dead for as long as 10 years.

Upon completion, the subject is immediately restored to full Stamina Points, Hit Points, vigor, and health, with no negative levels (or loss of Constitution.   (If your campaign includes magic or psionics the subject will retain all of the prepared spells or powers they possessed when they died.)

You can revive someone killed by a death effect or someone who has been turned into an undead creature and then destroyed. This chamber only works on creatures which can be identified by the Life Science or Mysticism skills, but cannot restore life to a creature which is currently undead.

Even a gold resurrection chamber can’t restore to life a creature who has died of old age.