It has been suggested elsewhere in these forums that a typical vehicle can be outfitted relatively cheaply with a cyberbrain, puppet-sleeve, what have you and effectively be a synth body. This has even led to jokes about matrioshka powered armor. That said, I have to wonder about the requirement for a 'body bank' for synths. High-end synths that have a lot that might go wrong with them if simply 'shut down', I can see... But why can't you just stuff a powered-down Case morph into a locker somewhere until it's needed? If you can theoretically 'park your car' (which, with minor mods constitutes a synth body) in a garage somewhere and only be paying for your parking spot-plus-trickle-charge, say...How much more difficult to stash a Case or a Spare? Hell, for that matter, how difficult can it be to 'park your car'? The real owner of a rarely-driven but valued vehicle knows that this doesn't just entail stuffing it into a rental garage and locking the door; regular minor maintenance is needed to ensure that it remains in good condition. Rolling it around a bit so that tires don't develop an off-center flat spot, starting the engine every now and again and letting it run a bit to distribute lubricants and keep the battery charged, etc. Paying the rent on a roll-in and having someone contracted to come out once a month and give it a little love isn't exactly cheap, but neither is it frighteningly expensive. Not when compared to, say, harborage for that yacht... Even so, this would seem to be in a very disparate cost-category from 'I need you to store a comatose biological body indefinitely for me.' This entails a constant feed of liquid nourishment (and cleaning of associated byproducts), storage in a sterile environment non-conducive to infections, running some manner of muscular stimulators to ensure that it doesn't lose muscle tone, re-orienting it constantly relative to gravity so that it doesn't get bedsores, maintaining medical monitoring (possibly with a crash-cart on-call in case something bad happens), et al. In a post-scarcity environment either cost is effectively 'negligible' provided one maintains and massages one's rep on a regular basis, but not all of the system runs on a P-S rep 'economy'. It just seems rather odd that someone with a spare Case morph stuffed into a locker (admittedly that isn't the optimal way to keep such a thing, but it's a CASE...) should have the same monthly 'upkeep' for that asset as someone who is keeping, say, a Protean Whiplash on ice. I'm half-inclined to suggest something along the lines of 'morph upkeep is one bracket lower than the cost of the morph', which means you can keep your Case in a box for a monthly 'low' fee while most unusual morphs require a moderate-to-high monthly investment that reflects their more sophisticated mechanical or biological systems. This'd also cover the player who wanted to have a few 'vehicular synths' stowed hither and yon. Thoughts? Impressions? Thoughts?