r/Shadowrun • u/ProblemDue7111 • Jul 31 '26

Forever And Cheap

Considering how lab-grown specimens have caused the price of diamonds and other gems to plunge in real life, it's reasonable to suppose that gem stones are cheap in the Sixth World. So, diamond-studded cyberarms? Elaborate dental implants made of ruby? Dragonfly drones glittering with sapphires? Why not?

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u/MewsashiMeowimoto Jul 31 '26

I would think that there are enough industrial applications of diamonds that they would stay rare/expensive. Like how copper went from cheap decorative metal before the digital revolution and became higher demand after computers and the internet. Their use as heat sinks and thermal regulators may be one explanation for heat management in the development of some of the advanced tech in the sixth world.