Business and bargaining
Business and bargaining (was Leviathan) posted in Rules & Errata forum comment posted by uncle_jimbo| Author (uncle_jimbo @ Oct 22 2022, 15:36) |
Impressive work from a longer tradition:
Trade Tables |
Applying quick
equivalents of the Trade Classifications/Codes, these might first suggest listed exports and/or specified commodities, in terms above, for a planet.
I might not start with Industrial worlds, because I don't think there are any among planets described in detail for Alternity. Non-Industrial worlds are defined more or less as a negative, but their interpretation as Resource worlds might be useful. (It raises a question: are Trade Codes just summaries of other facts? They seem more like descriptors that begin to take effect in themselves. Maybe that's a function of the Third Imperium's economic traditions, which literally alter transactions based on known Trade Codes.)
A Resource World, then, might export:
- Refined ores, non-metals, ferrous metals and non-ferrous metals: Probably all Ore, Common.
- Refined ores, radioactive: By comparison to other ores and to Processed radioactives, these (like a few other entries) might be a specified commodity that's a less-processed or precursor material to Star*Drive's listing. If I apply a suggestion above and also earlier discussions about fission reactors, I can account for the four times difference in value: Processed radioactives are Star*Drive's Radioactives, of elements and grades that are still useful to the Stellar Ring's economy, though not in large quantities or for particularly vital uses.
- Raw hydrocarbons: A specified commodity that is a precursor to Chemicals
- Raw crystals, Raw precious gems: I've added only one row for Crystals and Gems (see a discussion above about scarcity) so these are probably either another specified commodity that's cheaper as a raw material or, come to think of it, Ore, Rare.
- Processed ores: Precious metals and rare earth metals as Refined Metal, Rare, radioactives as Radioactives, others as Refined Metal, Common
- Processed crystals, processed precious gems as Crystals and Gems, Processed hydrocarbons and Processed nitrogen compounds as Chemicals.
Ah, but there are subtables. Pharmaceuticals, Explosives and Fertilisers might well be specified commodities.
From Agricultural Worlds, I don't yet have Forest Products (from another source, wood carvings are of course Art) or Living Plants, which might have more than one sub-category, much like (or exactly as) living animals. Speaking of which, riding (or racing, or working) animals could fit in between Star*Drive's Livestock and Exotic Animals.
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