1d12 Illegal Bioprinter Schematics

15 Aug, 2025

What is a Bioprinter

Bioprinters are a slightly misleading name for a combined incubator environment and an expanding field of research into "programmed" mRNA.

The printer consists of a sterile steel print bed dotted with drain channels. Above this hangs eight micron needles on pivoting arms, each linked by an array of coiled tubes to canisters in the body where proteins are synthesized by 'programmable' viral populations.

Replacement medical grade amino acid cartridges can be bought for 100kc, and will supply about ten 'full bed prints'. There is a grey market for 'recycled biomatter' cartridges that are significantly cheaper (20kc) but come with a high risk (10%) of contamination of the viral populations and are not recommended for use.

Contamination of the viral populations would, at best, require the machine to be completely replaced (5mc) or at worst could result in DNA from who knows what being transplanted into patients.

Bioprinters allow (and are solely intended for) for the printing of medical grade transplant tissue. They are available in most well equipped medical stations. However, there is a fairly active scene of "BPS Hacks" which repurpose the machines various far less beneficial ends.

BPS Hackers near exclusively make use of company owned hardware, due to the prohibitive cost.

12 Illegal Schematics

1. BoneRifle.bps: One of a number of black market schematics for printing biological firearms. Often used to evade restrictions on firearms or conventional 3D printed weaponry. Includes add-ons for an ocular lens sight, spinal picatinny rail or camouflaging flesh. It's 'well known' that each FTL trip you take increases the odds of cancer by about 10%, but studies show this is merely confirmation bias. Tumours regularly flag false positives for the biological checkpoint scanners used to identify weapons like these.
2. AsioWarrior_DE3050.bps: One of several thousand files leaked from Asio Defense by activist hackers. The Warrior is a full body scan of an xenobiological humanoid. Approximately one foot tall, with wrinkled grey skin and sunken eyes. What little is left unencrypted in supporting documents seem to indicate it is the tun state of one of their more formidable biological weapons, but no enthusiast biologists have discovered how to activate it. At least none who have lived long enough to share it.
3. Milk.bps: A decently accurate recreation of cows milk that is left pooled in the printer bed. The only downsides are that there are significantly cheaper ways of acquiring cows milk, and overriding the machine's Tissue Layering leaves a so-called "thumb" of unappetising grey keratinous flesh bobbing in the liquid.
4. Womb.bps: Bioprinters are intentionally limited from being able to print self replicating cells, but Womb foregoes these restrictions by instead simulating the full developmental conditions for zygotes. Includes the ability to release developmental hormones and to "kill" itself through apoptosis, leaving whatever it was housing behind. The structure looks like a large amniotic sac draped over the printer bed. Several hackers claim to have attempted to clone themselves with Womb.bps.
5. Myhead.bps, MikeLotHead.bps, UntitledFile.bps, etc. : Any one of thousands of desperate "Revivalists" who have autodecapitated while scanning their head in the hopes that future medical developments will allow them to be brought back to life. The terminal illness equivalent of pulling a tooth out with a piece of string. It is believed that any such "revival" project would likely bankrupt itself quickly as most "Saviour Funds" left by the deceased have either been reabsorbed by hosting companies or breached and drained by hackers.
6. Spiders.bps: One of several bafflingly earnest attempts to create "a whole printer bed of spiders". Heavily constrained by the validation logic of most modern bioprinters. While the twitching, jostling, keratinous bundles of spines usually produced clearly aren't actually spiders, they certainly are similar enough to horrify any arachnophobe.
7. Pet.bps: An immobile lump of pink flesh. Four protrusions look almost like legs, and two dark patches at the front look almost like eyes. Almost. Sits around gurgling upsettingly until it stops. Some might wonder if this creature is conscious at all, or feels pain, or hardship. But we will likely never know. The field of bioprinting is on to bigger, better things. This short life, not afforded agency nor means to sustain itself, is merely a momentary distraction among thousands for the curious BSP Hacker.
8. God.bps: A bulbous grey chitinous protrusion, textured like the back of a crab and about the size of a fist. Short hairs bristle from an orifice at the front, lacing around moist white tissue deeper within. Supposed parts of God. Ardents are encouraged to allow these to sit with the hairs touching data transfer ports of Castnet connected devices. Several self-reported oracles online claim to be receiving messages from God through their machines, commanding people to spread the word and rebuild God, piece by piece.
9. Dinner.bps: A ribeye steak shaped fillet, printed from human pseudoflesh. Designed by the growing community of 'Ethical Conspecific Diners' (more commonly known as Ethical Cannibals) that are banned from most BPS Hacking boards.
10. LachlanMatrix.bps: An implementation of the highly controversial Lachlan Matrix. A thin, semi-permeable and highly conductive membrane that sits atop the human cortex, allowing it to be fully puppeted by an artificial intelligence. The host is powerless to operate themselves, forced to watch this parasite live (and ruin) their life.
11. Seed.bps: Intentionally compromises the viral populations in the printer. Usually a retaliation by disgruntled engineers, but there are rumours of a family far more insidious "Seed Scripts". TumourSeed.bps is a notorious urban legend that there's a seed script out there that quietly laces all future prints with fast spreading cancer cells.
12. OrchidRip.bps: A full scan of Pleurothallis Mavrosia. The Dark Bonnet Orchid. A highly prized designer species that has long symbolised wealth and luxury due to prominent use of its distinctive arcing shape in various designer clothes lines. Grosvenor - the holding company of its DNA, copyright and sole breeding permits - are notoriously litigious and aggressive in their pursuit of breaches. Several modified duplicate files have been uploaded over the years by now deleted accounts. These modified versions produce an orchid that secretes potent neurotoxins.

(Image taken from the National Cancer Institute)