Biogel Filter Unit (World Guide, Technical) (Patreon)

Biogel Filter Unit

A biogel filter unit is the one absolutely necessary accessory for anyone who wears or otherwise makes use of biogel in the home. These units remove excess waste mass from any volume of biogel, converting it into softball sized spheres of rubbery-firm biogel. Each sphere represents about two day's wear for a biogel suit, or a week's use for a typical cushion or mattress.

Biogel filter units are connected via a biogel cable which automatically adheres to any biogel mass. For safety, filter units are generally connected to cushions or mattresses which act as a buffer between a biogel wearing sapient organic life form's suitand the filter itself, though direct connection to the suit is possible. Simply making contact with the cushion or mattress is sufficient to trigger the transfer of waste mass to the filter.

If a filter unit is directly connected to a biogel wearer's suit, there is a small risk that it might cause the suit to glisten her body. The risk is generally understood to be roughly 1 in 10,000 individual incidents of direct connection, rising to 1 in 5,000 for suits with less than 4 hour of wear time since the last filtering, and to 1 in 1,000 for suits with less than 1 hour of wear time since the last filtering.

Every biogel suit sold comes with at least one cushion or mattress, and one basic combined filter/control unit. Separate filter cartridges are required, and they are not user-reconditionable. Filters lasting 1 month for 1 person cost ₵25 per unit. 3 month high capacity filters cost ₵70. 6 month super capacity filters cost ₵125.