Skeletal parts industry

Skeletal parts industries, or bone businesses are businesses who produce and sell bones and derivatives of bones. Due to wear and tear, skeletons often need to have their bones replaced. This created a unique market, akin to the automotive parts industry. Bone businesses are a big part of the undead market. While innovations in prosthetics can be attractive for their sleek designs and added functionality, the undead as a whole tend to prefer replacing bones.
== Overview ==
Due to general lack of interest and competition, bone businesses tend to be less regulated than the average business. This often leads to bone businesses being the largest and most influential corporations in undead communities. Because of its monopoly in the production of bones and replacement parts, the powerful companies essentially run the city they are in with little opposition. 
This was the case because before the refusal of sale jurisprudence, corporations could effectively deny the sale of parts to people, making the skeletal population subservient to the corporation. 
Bone businesses are known for their innovative efforts and their pun related slogans, such as 'It's an osteoblast!', ‘stay hip’ and ‘its humerus!’. 
== Refusal of sale jurisprudence ==
Main article: Jurisprudence: On the legality of Refusal of sale
The practice of denying the sale of a certain item to people, forcing them to comply with the company's wishes. The Empire forbade the practice as it gave monopolies complete control of populations dependent on the product, and was a clear case of cartelisation. The verdict was atomization or government buyout as a public monopoly. 
== Upgrades controversy ==
At some point, a trend appeared where prosthetics companies slowly took over spare parts companies and stopped production of bone parts altogether, and created upgrades to replace the old parts using metal from the Chop Shop in a malicious bid to 'out-mode' skeletons, forcing them to buy upgrades or be left to crumble. 
When prosthetics companies took control of Skeletal Parts Industries, they tried to permanently eradicate the brittle, broken-down skeletal lifestyle by halting the production of spare parts. This would force the skeletons with broken bones (called "out-modes") to purchase upgrades, making themselves look better and opening the prosthetics market further. Those who could not afford upgrades would be taken to Chop Shops, bone recycling plants. 
== Technologies ==
Modern bone businesses make use of several technologies in order to supply the undead with replacement bones. 
=== Recycling ===
The practice of recycling is collecting bone matter from the deceased and cleaning them for reuse. Usually recycling centers are public centers where people discard bones they have no use for, and bone businesses purchase them wholesale, clean them, repackage them and sell them. 
=== Matter Boiler ===
A matter boiler is a machine that boils whatever is inside until it melts. The liquid matter must then be cast in a matrix in order to become the wanted shape.
=== Bone Matrix ===
A bone matrix is a matrix into which liquid matter (be it bone, metal or otherwise) is poured in order to cast certain bones. 
=== Moulding ===
Broken bones are a constant issue for the undead, and a cheap solution is moulding the broken bone back into place. Moulding requires a matter boiler, osseous matter and the correct matrix. The boiler melts the fragments of bone and osseous matter and recasts it in the matrix into the shape of bone the user wishes. The resulting bone is perfectly functional and the machine can even reprint sinew. If fragments are missing, skeletons can purchase osseous matter commercially.
However replacing the bone often requires the services of a Necromancer. 
=== Printing technology ===
Main article: Printing technologies
The next step in bone replacement technology is printing technology which eliminates the need for a matter boiler and finding the correct bone matrix, which can be quite difficult. 
== Bone business products ==
Bone businesses offer a selection of bones, bone accessories and derivatives.
=== Bones ===
Bones and sinew are the bread and butter of any bone business. Bone businesses supply themselves either at recycling centers, chop shops, graveyards or by casting bones from bone matter. The more innovative bone businesses print their bones or synthesize them.
=== Sinew ===
Sinew is the connective neural tissue that connects the bones on a dalmer skeleton and allows electric impulses to go through the body that achieves locomotion by the coordination of connective magnets and inflating and deflating cushions.
=== Cushions ===
Cushions are small pressure chambers that occur naturally in the Dalmer organism that inflate and deflate with oxygen fed from bone pores. Cushions are mostly to avoid bones touching one another and damaging themselves through grinding. The coordination of magnets and cushions allow the skeleton to achieve pneumatic locomotion. 
=== Magnets ===
In between each bone of a Dalmer skeleton is a layer of minuscule magnets powerful enough to allow the bones to move. The brain sends signals to these magnets to inverse their charge, attracting the magnets to perform the bones natural movements.
=== Osseous Matter ===
Osseous matter is a paste made from cleaned and melted bones, osseous matter is often used in the moulding of replacement bones. Although osseous matter is often pure recycled bone matter, it is sometimes synthesized. 
== Upgrades ==
Main article: Upgrades
Upgrades are semi robotic parts resembling prosthetics used to make skeletons appear shinier and more physically appealing. A fully upgraded skeleton is more akin to a brain encased in a robot rather than a skeleton. 
Upgrades are still available today, but are naturally boycotted fiercely by skeletons. 
=== Examples of upgrades ===
==== Civilian Upgrades ====
Gives the look of a polished businessman, complete with a silver tuxedo and a red tie. 
To make the user look attractive and polished, they can be changed as if they were clothes, such as casual black clothes, a smart co-executive suit, and a black sleek strapless and backless evening gown.
==== Combat Upgrades ====
These upgrades are different however because they aren't meant to make the user look more attractive but to make them stronger and give them fighting abilities.
Examples include a headpiece resembling viking horns, and wears two circular plates on his chest, similar to a valkyries garb.
A cape, a black mask, black boots and a large metal belt. Similar to a professional wrestler.
A large headpiece resembling a cowboy hat, and a large set of metallic boots attached to his legs, making the user taller, two spike ball lunking guns as weapons and an announcer-like voicebox. Similar to a cowboy.
== Bone businesses ==
While most bone businesses are transforming into public utilities who deal in the production of bones for the mass market, some smaller businesses still specialize in bones.
Cortical Softwares: Specialize in the spine.
Cancellous Motors: Specialize in porosity and oxygen supplying bones.
Marrow Arts: Specialize in neural connectedness of bones to the brain.
Surprise Arts: Built robotic skeleton frames for uploaded consciousness’ who wish to live like a skeleton. 
Structural Matrix Intelligence: Specialize in the creation of custom bone matrixes.
Phenomenologies Inc.
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