What are some good names for space money other than credits?
>>47569618
"Plats", for platinum precious metal coins.
Platinum and platinum-based metals is relatively common in space compared to Earth, and unless you have an FTL banking system that works perfectly and can get everyone to agree to a single currency exchange (which we can't even do among JUST human beings mind you), then physical goods and precious metals might come back into play just because digital currency is impossible, unreliable, or worthless.
Shares and certificates.
Chit.
Script.
Neo-shekels
What particular setting you aiming for?
Star trek money would have a different sound than 40k spacebux
>>47569675
Not OP, but how about corporate-dominated cyberpunk-space opera?
>>47569618
Money Units or MU (pronounced Myou)
>>47569618
Bitcoins
It doesn't have to be a future sounding generic name,eother create a random name which has to so with the story of the setting. Or just take a "normal" name like dinar,crown or one of those existing names and give it a twist.
In company towns owned by less moral corps, instead of proper currency you'd probably get paid in corporate funbux or raw commodities or something.
>>47569618
Marklar
ducats
doubledollars
dollarydoos
>>47569618
Australian dollars. The setting doesn't need Australia, or dollars.
>>47569661
>then physical goods and precious metals might come back into play just because digital currency is impossible, unreliable, or worthless.
Too unreliable from region to region.
Let's say we use gold (just for the sake of argument, yes other metals would probably be better if we looked into it).
What happens when Gold is rare on Earth but Planet X has 4 solid gold moons. Are you really expecting people to lug their weight in gold around to buy a sandwich because local inflation demands it? Or buy a ship capable of transporting 500lbs of gold, wasting fuel on every takeoff??
we'll probably use a multi-currency system similar to what we use now. Standard credit system will do most of your heavy lifting and serve you from region to region. But black market and under developed regions will heavily deal in barter and physical local currency for untraceable transactions. Barter will largely be food, medicine, and fuel.
>>47569713
yen
>>47569618
Space Cash!
>>47569618
Woolongs
Rites
noun, slang. Shortened form of Meteorites, used to refer to coins made of pressed meteoric metals.
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>>47569618
>What are some good names for space money other than credits?Starbucks.
>>47569799
That's actually why I used platinum as an example.
Most of our current knowledge predicts that platinum is significantly more common in our asteroid belt then gold is on Earth, and many asteroids have significant numbers of the shit and the conditions needed for it I guess are fairly common (in a cosmic sense) out there, more so then down here.
But that is indeed still a problem as you say because not all worlds will have an asteroid belt (in fact just due to size quite a few will not), and thus platinum will not always be minable in various planetary regions.
Flurbos
In my spess it really depends.
Some places don't use money all, just goods because money is a middle man to getting what you need.
But valuable metals, like gold are often used as the a currency that works in most places in the universe.
So yeah, gold.
chips
>>47569736
>Money Units or MU (pronounced Myou)
Using the μ as the symbol.
>>47569618
It's the Galactic Standard Currency Unit, an abstract measure of wealth that exists mainly in digital form, though paper banknotes are still printed by some governments. Usually shortened to "Galactic Standard" or just "Standard."
Debris
Carats
SUCC, or Standard Universal Currency Credit
>>47569713
1 corporation or several?
If using several make each company have it's own currency. Like they did in the depression era in the usa. People would pay out their employees with their own currency and then they basically had to spend it on site.
So players working a job for WeylandYutani would make a ₩¥ or whatever you want to call it. Only works on their planets. Bonus points in that it gives you huge control over the economy as well. Only works if you don't have a huge amount of corps. though or to many currencies bs
>>47569891
Platinum was also deemed worthless until the modern period (one of the big things D&D got wrong since 0E days). It's had a lot of fluctuation over the centuries.
beans
>>47569618
Brouzoufs
Currents-From the word currency, short term 'rents' or 'currs'
One I remember seeing on /tg/ that I really liked was SWAFF, which stood for slaves, water, air, food, and fuel.
Slaves removed from trade of course depending on the region and their laws/views on the subject when dealing with reputable businesses.
>>47569618
The way my GM always handles this, and which I really love, is that whenever his settings have something that fills the same niche as something the players know (transportation, money, whatever) he always tries to name it after something we all know already, but then make up a lot of fun bs about why it's called that.
So instead of
>You get 10 000 floznarbs. -What's a floznarb? Oh, it's money. -ok, so we get 10 000 money.
He'll go
>you get ten thousand moneyz"
And then when you ask him
>why the fuck the currency of a high-fantasy kingdom is called moneyz?
he'll go into a long rant about the background of the ancient kingdom that first used the standard silver coin, and how they all had the face of King Moni on them, and came to be called Monis, which over time got corrupted into Moneyz, because northerners always butcher pronounciation and they're the ones who conquered the continent.
So every time we start a game and he goes, "You see a Hors" everyone starts grinning and knows that, okay, it's going to be something that you ride, but it might not have anything to do with horses, maybe Hors is just the sound it makes, or the name of the color it has in the language of the people who breed them.
Bottom line is, nobody ever forgets what something is called, but it always helps with immersion anyway because we all enjoy hearing about how it fits in with the setting.
So next time you're worldbuilding, don't get hung up with having unique names for everything if it's just going to be the same old thing, the same old name for something that's fun to learn about is way better.
Debts
>>47570126
I like this idea
>>47570039
Didn't they dump a shipful of it into the ocean just that it couldn't be used to make cold coin forgeries?
>>47570126
>TFW the ghost of sir Terry Pratchett is posting on /tg/
>>47569618
clearly the best name for space money is dollarydoos
>>47570034
>When your boss gives you the SUCC
>>47569713
>
>>47570038
This guy said it bretty well
In my Space Western Opera, the federally controlled planets all offer non-transferable currency in the form of time-cards.
The whole time = money schtich has really interested me for ages, so I just went ahead and wrote it into my setting. It works really well, conceptually, but boy am I having a difficult time making payments sound enticing for my players.
>>47569618
Energy Units (EU) or energy unit fractions for sci fi.
Gobliaks for fantasy.
>>47570353
>DollaryDoos, the combined currency brought into circulation in 3006, of the spanish-speaking Pan-American union, the Dollar, and that of their Alien allies, the Do-o Empire.
>>47569618
cublars
>>47570380
>eu
>>47569618
Space Bucks
Erz
Minerals
Fleurodum
Slaves
>>47569674
Underrated post
Joules
>>47569850
10/10 naughty boi
O/B/A/F/G/K/M Sunpower
Fold.
Old ass slang term for money, "folding money", and it sounds vaguely sci-fi
It's a trick question! There won't be space money because humans will Never colonise the galaxy.
It will be colonised by your betters: Perfect Immortal Machines.
>>47569618
>ctrl+f
>portions
>no results
>mfw
>>47570839
perfection is for tools
>>47570855
but thats not money thats food
>>47570872
>implying there's any significant difference
Mine are just called 'Chips', because all the most reliable banks are casinos.
It's not actually sci fi though, so its kind of cheating.
>>47570879
OP said space money referring to currency as in cash whereas they were given food as incentive to work cause they were living on a barren desert planet
>>47570893
And here I thought traditional games was an inherently creative hobby.
>>47569618
>not using space bucks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPZ4yah3ROU
>>47570913
so is that your way of admitting you're wrong?
Yes it is
>>47570943
If you can't imagine a scenario where space money could be called portions and/or backed by food supplies then I'm afraid you may have actual, literal, not the 4chan insult but the actual condition, autism.
Black Matter per Magnacontainer.
pic related
>>47569661
just stop playing warframe. ...
>>47569618
Space oil.
>>47569674
Sha na na na get a job
>>47570961
Yeah sure portions could be a term for money but you/they used this pic >>47570855 referring to portions as in the force awakens which is food, not money.
>hurr autism
you just mad you've been bamboozled. But you tried
>>47569899
Grappels
>>47571021
>>47571002
After all, anything can be bought and sold for it.
>>47571054
again. Mad cause you're wrong
Cows.
>>47569618
Star Bucks
Also known as the Stellar Dollar.
dime
coin
dyna
chits
dosh
cents
zen or zenny
leaf or leaves
bsg (bee-si-g or bronze/silver/gold)
rock
paper
scissors (underground word for loose chage or full of coins)
any of these
>>47571120
c'mon bro that just refers to yourself. Its all there in the chat baby.
Pepes, their value increases by rarity
>>47569618
Jabronis
Cyberyuan
Spacedollars
Electrosparkles
Datacash
Futurmoney
On one world my players ended up on in our Dark Heresy campaign the money was called "Floor-Its". It was originally the high-gothic word "Florins" but due to backwater world and 400 years of warp storm BigFuckOffius cutting them off from the rest of the imperium the language got a bit colorful.
>>47569618
Jewgoldz
Why is "dollars" a problem? You can make it clear they're space dollars, not US dollars.
>>47570943
>>47571021
>>47571086
>>47571131
Not him but I think he's right and you have literal autism
>>47571163
I'm not either of those guys arguing, and I'm also not you. But having a CASH as a direct equivalence to food has no verisimilitude. It completely undoes the very real, distinct, and largely insurmountable differences between, necessities, commodities, and cash.
If the currency system was in any way directly linked to food, there would be no trade growth. You would have a subsistence economy with no means of speculating. Which is fine if you are making a space opera blockbuster for 8 year olds and manchilds who never grew up. But which gives little room to manoeuvre within a living world of an RPG.
>>47571163
nope
>>47571172
again this
>>47571131
>>47571214
>NU UH! NU UH! YOU ARE! YOU'RE WRONG! YOU! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>47569618
Space Shekkels
Space credits
>>47571240
who's reeing anon? I made my point and now instead of saying "well thats correct in that context" I'm getting "AUTISM AUTISM YOU TRIED YOU TRIED"
mils, bils, trils, or zils...
abbreviation for million, billion, trillion, zillion (galactic credits or whatever) - but they only abbreviated the prefix and not the unit.
>>47569618
Upvotes.
>>47569618
Debits.
>>47571152
I like the idea of a species of intergalactic space worms called The Djoog, who are also exceptional bankers and run the interplanetary financial systems. They issue, and hoard, a currency known as Djoog Gold.
Wing Wangs.
>>47569771
Made me smile
Flurbos
>>47569618
>good names
>other than credits
>implying credits isn't a terrible name that will get you hunted down by packs of rabid economists
If your setting has special starship fuel, call the space money "drops" and tie it to a fuel standard.
>>47571455
Again, if your cash system was inextricably linked to a single, essential consumable, then it would lack genuine liquidity. That's not to say the idea of a "petrodollar" type currency cannot exist. Just that it cannot exist in a vacuum. So you could have your "drops", but then you would also have to allow for a more liquid currency that permits looser trading conditions.
>>47569618
http://desustorage.org/tg/thread/46402781/#46402781
http://desustorage.org/tg/thread/44960404/#44960404
http://desustorage.org/tg/thread/44488461/#44488461
http://desustorage.org/tg/thread/44399372/#44399372
http://desustorage.org/tg/thread/43841772/#43841772
http://desustorage.org/tg/thread/43706091/#43706091
http://desustorage.org/tg/thread/29674376/#29674376
You already got your answer, now fuck off.
>>47571662
High blood pressure can kill. Cut down on your salt intake, m8.
>>47570375
You know the thing that always bugged me about those settings? how fucking irregular amounts of time are, and how arbitrary the largest values of it are.
Like, one second, sixty makes a minute, sixty of those make an hour, and then shit goes off the rails because it's only 24 hours to the (earth) day, but it's 118 (earth) days, 18 hours for a venusian day. And the number of days in a year varies based on whatever the elliptical eccentricity of a planet's orbit is, so taking a Year from, say, Mercury, and going to Venus, you instantly lose a SHIT TON of value, (Because a year on mercury is 88 earth days, which is only about one-and-a-bit mercurian days, while a year on venus is 225 days long, which is almost two venusian days...) and don't get me started on how fucked up it is that our months are 29-31 days long.
so: seconds, minutes, and hours? A-OK. Days+? That shit goes off the rails without tying it to a particular planet, and even then, it's clunky to deal with. I mean, can you imagine being charged a large, but irregular amount?
"2 years, February to June, twenty seven days, nineteen hours, forty eight minutes, and twelve seconds."
That might be the price for a new car.. instead of the simple and elegant "$35,999"
>>47569618
Credits. No, really: energy credits. You want to use or buy a shitload of power? One credit is worth a given amount of power. Matter may be replicable with sufficient power, giving goods an intrinsic value - how much power it takes to create it without access to the actual materials. This cost is lower if you have the actual materials and manufacturing processes, meaning its cost may go down (or up, for goods people specifically want handmade for presumably non-utilitarian reasons) where that's available. That effect would then radiate outward, corresponding to the altered cost affected by the energy used to transport it. And presumably you can stop at your friendly local Dyson-Eleven for a recharge.
One credit would probably be, for convenience's sake, worth 10YWh or similar (the energy required to alter matter like that in a controlled manner is likely colossal, as is the output of a dyson sphere or swarm. Even at 50% efficiency, a dyson swarm around our sun could produce 2,000YWh, meaning it would produce roughly 200 credits worth of energy per hour). Who even knows how much energy is used for close-to-light travel, or the kind of bulk data storage you'd use for multiple civilizations, or the kind of planetary antenna you'd need to transmit that data over hundreds of thousands of lightyears between systems? Christ, what about between galaxies? I can only assume the increases would be exponential.Man I don't know shit about this, I just figured it was an interesting idea and now I'm balls deep STANDING in numbers I have no concept of and my game of Star Wars next week is gonna be an existential nightmare. I'm out
>>47571159
Why not US dollars? Does the USA not exist in the future? Is the future lacking in economic FREEDOM?
>>47569618
Keks, it can also be used as a form of measurement
>>47571790
Why don't you just... standardize the days? You know, like a sane person would?
>>47571944
If any human currency makes it to our interstellar debut, it'll be the Euro, and our world will be called Europe.
Not because YUROP STRONK, really. Just we're all shit.
>>47572094
If we go purely by number of users, we'd wind up being the Chinese yen.
>>47571944
In the setting I wrote, Bernie won.
>>47572098
You mean yuan? Because yen is Japanese.
>>47569783
I thought Australian dollars would be a euphemism for something worthless
>>47571790
>>47572093
As here, units of time aren't necessarily time on that particular place, but time of a standard galactic time. Besides, you could still make the units of time different for different places, and then you get exchange rates and fluctuations. It might not always be that earth time is the same relative to Mars, if the Mars population has hours to spare the exchange drops ect.
>>47569618
Space rubles
>>47571790
m8
The time=currency money usually uses either computation time or work hours time as currency, it does not depend on the planet. A day will forever be 24 hours of work or computation, doesn't matter the planet.
>>47569618
Quatloos.Seriously, no one has said this yet? For shame, /tg/.
>>47572368
>Oh wow, I can't believe it took up to [CURRENT POST] for a reference to [FRANCHISE]!
>Fucking millennials and their lack of culture!
>>47572368
nobody cares about battlefield earth
Nigs.
Other galaxies aren't concerned if words that they've used for millennia offend delicate earth sensitivities.
>This spaceship is worth three billion nigs
What if money became an SI unit in the future? Would it be a new base unit, or could it be derived from something like the kilogram? To me, kilo-[money], mega-[money], etc. makes sense for things like spaceship prices, lottery prizes, and planetary debts.
"Klats", shortened from kiloliters of atmosphere. In the same way money in fantasy is simplified to "gold" because that's what it's backed by, space currency could be backed by the cost of life support.
>>47569618
They're called florins in my setting. It's just a cool sounding word.
>>47569618
disney dollars
>>47569783
don't you mean dollary-doos?
Schmeckles.
>>47569618
A Tugrik.
>>47569838
This.
>>47570879
>not knowing the difference between fiat and commodity
>>47570972
My legs are OK.
>not barter trading
lol good luck with using currency that's not backed on certain planets, even with a common trade law based federation.
incidentally, i noticed no one mentioned calories or kcals.
might as well throw out a few suggestions
>neo-taele (NT)
>central mint (CM)
>union bullion (UB)
>terra glint (TG)
>imperial crown (IC)
>>47569799
In a precious metal based currency, there is no arbitrary inflation like you describe, also the value of gold has historically been closely tied to the cost of mining it so large predictable deposits in deep space would not be a problem. Also a gold based economy doesn't mean everyone has 24 carat coins in their pockets, banks hold the gold and issue bank notes redeemable for gold. This is how bank notes worked before fiat currency. Bartering in food is just a terrible idea, you mentioned a ship carrying 500lbs of gold as wastefu,l imagine carrying enough food to buy a business. Medicine is actually too unreliable. Fuel is at least imaginable, but only if your ftl technology has a single version so every ship has to use the same fuel.
>>47572180
Exchange rates, yes. But how would the rate fluctuate... Unless a planet's spin was radically altered, but then you'd have larger issues.
>>47569674
Shex
Really, you should just look at what monetary units existed on Earth if the setting is gonna have humans.
Like the Star Kingdom of whoever use platinum ducats, but the Peoples Democratic Republic of some other place doesn't use it's own money because it's worthless due to hyperinflation.
Etc etc etc.
>>47569618
Kredits.
>>47569967
The whole point of money is that that middle position is useful because it facilitates trade. How do you get what you need if the person that has it doesn't want what you have?>>47571860
This is an interesting idea, but it would break down if different converters are specialized for different types of objects. There is also the issue of how the energy is stored and transferred.
>>47573092
>backed by the cost of life support
Do you mean it is tied to the cost of life support, or backed by actual containers of air? either way it is not a good idea, Earth and terraformed planets would have no use of such a commodity.
>>47574197
Good luck finding someone in a space economy that has what you want and wants what you have every single time you you perform an economic activity.
>>47569618
Other than street names? No, credits really is best. Our economy is now a debt-based economy where even the cash is a promise to pay. Credit IS money and "credits" does not just mean a unit of value, it means a promise to pay or render a good/service. It's exactly perfect and some cliches are good cliches.
>>47569675
>Star trek money would have a different sound than 40k spacebux
No shit, gold bricks with latinum have a pretty different sound from a Rogue Trader's tissue pile.
>>47569661
On the other hand physical nonmanufactured goods will also be fairly worthless eventually. If one system has a lot of platinum the value they place on it will be very low as their is surplus. It would be like trying to bribe the Greeks with marble, they would laugh and be like "Okay where's the valuable shit though we make buildings out of this stuff."
>>47570785
>Joule
This guy gets it. Have some Ɉ, mate.
>>47569618
>Credits
I took one. ONE accounting class and I want to stab whoever thinks naming the currency "credits" is a good idea.
"Credit" already means something. "Credits" as a currency would mean something entirely different. I swear the bankers really would shut it all down over this kind of "forgot the 's' on the contract" bullshit.
>>47575437
In the future, contracts are easier to rewrite.
Grams Palladium, plebs.
>>47575470
No they aren't. Physical copies would be printed out and sent to all relevant parties, including whoever is supposed to keep track of contracts and such then locked up. Digital copies might exist but who cares about that being changed when everyone who matters in the deal: You, the other parties, the government, and the notary all have physical copies filed away and stored somewhere for safe keeping to go "No, the digital copy was hacked and changed."
>>47575544
Contracts are written on paper where every atom is quantum entangled with the other papers' atoms, so that any alteration to one changes the others even at FTL speeds.
>>47570992
Just stop being a bitch...
>>47575570
That is stupid. The point of everyone getting a contract print-out is so that nobody can change the contract after people used to pull that shit all the time. Everyone getting a unique copy is a security feature. Why would you make a COUNTER security feature?
American dollars. America is the best, even in space.
>>47575570
>contracts that can be freely rewritten by any party
>something literally any bank would do
>laugh harder
>>47575605
America owns space we put a flag in that shit and everything.
>>47569618
Simoleans.
>>47569713
Brouzouf
Spice
>Moon Doubloons
>Spacebux
>Money
>>47569618
I long for the day where a space setting actually names its money as "space money"
>>47575889
>>47575898
>"That'll be 3.00 money, please
>>47575872
My legs are okay
>>47569618
Units.
SMA (store, medium, account)
>>47569618
Moon doubloons
Zorkmids
>that'll be 4×10^-56 Galaxies please sir.
>>47575898
Kingdom Hearts.
>>47570038
You'd need some sort of currency that the corporations use to pay each other, though. No Megacorp is going to take another Megacorp's scrip.
>>47569675
>Star Trek money
Wasn't it only weird aliens who had money? Since the output of human society was dedicated towards use and supply had eclipsed demand?
>>47569618
space money
>>47569618
Space-money
>>47569618
Dust
Uh hurr durr >>47572416 aside,
Nanomachines that can perform a standard amount of work, since you are trading using a standardized amount of labor.
>>47576265
>Turning currency from an abstraction into something literal
I cannot see this ending well.
>>47576024
Dredmor is pleased.
>>47572111
Fuck off, commie.
Quatloos
>>47569618
Slaves.
>>47576539
A money that will lose all value when you leave it sitting in a box for couple weeks is bad idea, I'd say. Unless the setting has readily available necromancy or something.
Quantum pieces of eight
Neutron Doublons
Galactic Thaller
>>47569850
And, once again, the awards for Best in Thread and Worst in Thread go to the same post.
>>47569618
Ningi.
>>47576665
Oh yeah, and I almost forgot this pic.
Solar Wulongs. Accept no substitutesor we'll light you on fire you rebellious fucks.
>>47569618
The name Dollar came from Joachimsthaler, typically shortened to just Thaler.
It meant Joachim's valley.
Named after where they were minted.
So Dollar is an English bastardisation on an old word, German I think, for valley.
With that in mind, go nuts.
>>47576062
No but they can take a third party companys scrips.
Taking another companys currency is only a problem if your deal might end up causing their currency to loose value.
Either that or pay in shares in each others companies at the top levels
>>47569850Did someone fracking call me?
>>47569618
'Souls', each representing a poorfag.
In the future, corporations own all the poorfags as slaves, cuz capitalism = evil.
This was an actual currency in old-timey Russia.
>>47572111
>Bernie won
Oh, then go with "rats", short for rations. Under socialism, stuff is allocated by political officials according to need. Need is determined by a committee of experts, enacted into law by politicians. In practice, this means that the individuals and groups who are best at lobbying and closest to those in power get the goods. Remember fungibility: wealth can buy power, but power can also appropriate wealth.
So while a ration card is theoretically authorization to appropriate a specific list of goods, in practice there's a whole underground system to exchange what you can argue the state into providing you, for the stuff you actually need.
Each Rat is a ration card given to a typical member of the prole sector, enough for subsistence living for a month. The plan is one Rat per person per month. In theory, you could just use the Rat, and a few really destitute people do. Enjoy your corpse starch.
You get one Rat for doing your assigned "community service" (ie job). You have no choice; that work is mandatory. Then they work off the clock on illegal-but-winked-at overtime jobs, and get paid in more Rats. You then buy things for Rats-- exchanging five cards for a loaf of bread, for example. Use it or lose it; Rats expire after 30 days.
Party leaders (and the mafia) collect the cards and encode new ones. It's essential to the economy, but totally illegal, but also winked at. Jailing people for "speculation" is a favorite pastime of the Security Service, but it's just usually cover for some other political crime that they don't want to make public.
The political elites don't get Rats (though they do get to issue Rats, which gives them a slush fund with which to buy favors or make up shortfalls in their production quotas). Elites get Party Cards, which evolved from a petty cash fund for senior managers. Party Cards let you shop in closed stores, use doctors at Party clinics, and acquire goods that can't be had for any price to non-elites.
Bison Dollars
>>47569799
Anon, go read >>47492440 or even that whole thread. You're identifying many of the right issues, but getting the solutions and lingo wrong.
Urist
Urists for every unit of measurement.
>>47569750
Good poast
>>47569850
Outstanding post, Anon.
>>47577130
>Urist
Sounds like fun.
>>47577130
>Urist McGoldback
>Urist McMeter
>Urist McVoltage
>Urist McPoundfoot^2
>Urist McKarat
>Urist McGDP
>>47569618
WATUKU
![Shankar_Vedantam[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/aGZCC4s.jpg "Shankar_Vedantam[1].jpg")
As an in-joke, our group started calling gold coins dunks, duchies, or dingoes. Eventually this nickname evolved into Shankar Vidantam, whose face appears on the coins.
>backed by the cost of life support
>Do you mean it is tied to the cost of life support, or backed by actual containers of air? either way it is not a good idea, Earth and terraformed planets would have no use of such a commodity.
The latter point I'll admit. I have to chalk that up to (CHOAM/Spacing Guild/etc.) setting the standard, and its value carrying over to planetary currencies. However I imagine populous planets will develop their own cultures and their own currencies to their liking, especially wholly owned corporate colony worlds extending the idea of buying from the company store to buying from the company world.
Also, for every 1 inhabited, terraformed world, there are a dozen atmosphere farms. Inflatable greenhouses of algae and sugarcane (also used to make the main ingredients of cheap, easily stored nutrient blocks) anchored to space elevators around ice worlds, where organic ices are mined, sublimated, and fed to oxygen-producing crops. Stations nearby can sell atmosphere without requiring ships to land or take off.
CHOAM/Guild/Space Templar/whoever controls the banks probably owns stock in atmofarms, rather than actually backs currency with air they hoard.
>>47569618
Astrodosh.
In practical theory, the only applicable currency system that would be accepted across a solar system/galaxy spanning area would be a currency backed to an actual commodity, or the commodity itself.
So depending on your setting, it could be named after the government(s) or whatever organisation backs the currency, or the commodity itself (space unobtanium necessary for FTL, raw units of energy, etc).
>>47569799
>Solid Gold Moons
Doesn't really work like that. If it's between Re and Hg in the table it's made in supernova or as byproducts of fission and is relatively rare in our universe, with most of it sinking into planetary cores. That's why you can find it more easily in astorids then in planetary crust.
>>47569618
I always dug using "Sol" as a unit. One Sol, Two sols, etc.
In the far future, the most valuable commodity is storage space, for consciousness uploads, wormhole caluclations, geographical models for terraforming etc. When a new person is born, they are allotted enough storage space on the Galactic Cloud to store only their consciousness. Work, and therefore the advancement of society, then therefore comes from the exchange of this storage space for goods and services. The name for this new, digital currency?Cache
>>47578072
I like this a lot
I think in the more immediate future energy will probably be the most valuable. I'd suggest something like EU (Energy Units, in GigaJoules perhaps?) as the most likely trading unit for space pioneers, traders, and explorers.
>>47569618
Dosh.
>>47569618
Current terms like cash and green, even though the meaning is lost.
Also even older ones like dosh and spondulicks.
>>47569618
Currency Chits (CC)
>>47569618
SEK
or brouzuf, but that's already been called twice
>>47572124
No, that's Zimbabwe dollarsOr Canadian dollars if you're being a cheeky cunt
>>47577000
noice
>>47569747
Damn, came here to say this
>>47570003
And wanted to suggest that.
Fug. Outplayed twice
>>47572094
That could get confusing with the Saturn moon Europa. In some languages (well german at least, but I guess there are others) Europe is called Europa.
>>47576564
Well, a scifi setting would have some kind of long term sleeping stuff, from back when there was no FTL or something I guess. So you could probably basically freeze the slaves you don't need or something.
>>47569618
>>47569747
I quite liked 'Keys' from Evolve
>>47569838
classic
also 'currency pledge' from Farscape
>>47569618
Why is it whenever creds are portrayed as a physical currency I want to put them in my mouth and chew on them.
>>47569618
>not just putting the word "Space" infront of everyday nouns to show they're futuristic
Units of Blood
You can only have as much as your body supports, welcome to super commie currency.
>>47570004
>Not shortening it to the GalStand or the GalCred or GalStandCred
Someone doesn't know how to future.
>>47570066
Underrated.
Clearly you must base currency around energy, making them fuel units. Their name, however, is Brouzouf.
>>47569820
Should be more futuristic, maybe have the basic unit actually be a much larger denomination of an older currency...
>Kilo-Yuan
>Mega-Yen
>Hectodollars
>Giga-Euros
>>47579954
My immediate reaction was 'StaCs'.
>>47569618
Neo-Shekels.
>>47570066
The only acceptable answer.
>>47569674
lol
>>47581868
read threads, then post, faggot.
>>47569774
ducats is Peter F Hamilton right?
>>47569713
K-Marks (Korp Marks, corporate currency. As an example, the Toshiba K-Mark)
>>47571031
Not sure if that's a crrency or a rating system for stolen items.
>>47569618
I also accept BitShekel and Neo-Shekel
>>47571054
>>47570961
>>47571163
fuck off and die you /v/ memer faggot children
>>47569618
"Space Money" is preddy gud
>>47571137
>Electrosparkles
kek
>>47569618
E-mon
>>47569618
>Farscape
Brandar Tiles
Currency Pledges
Krindars
Tacobuks
Flimshams
Bukakoi
Slurmi's
Wyrmo's
Pinchies
PinaCollatos
Frothings
fingers
nards
eye's
yards of pubic hair
booger thimbles
poo buckets
Space shekels
moons
stars
horseshoes
rainbows
clovers
>>47569899
Do you KNOW what two humans can do with a thousand flurbos?
Bits.
Pieces of Eight.
Universal Purchasing Currency, or UPCs for short.
Liked Glimmer from Destiny
>>47572800
I'M THE NIGGA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>47584342
But OP, wouldn't you want your currency to be worth something?
>>47569713
Mark of the beast
>>47584560
One nig is 3/5s of a credit
>>47579263
>>47584175
>Currency Pledges
Always liked that one. It just sounds like a good 'common' currency, like it's universally accepted at various exchange rates.
lectroducats
e-units
beambucks
>>47583276
Words cannot begin to describe how disapointed I am that this post wasn't gonna be something interesting
>>47569850
>>47577000
Now that is an idea i can get behind...
>>47584306
you forgot the
hearts
diamonds
balloons
squid, genetically engineered to store value in a special value-storage organ
>>47586483
i'd play it
>>47569618
Unicrence, adopted from the original phrasing UNIt of CurRENCy.
>>47569618
Cybershekels
>>47569618
Bitcoins
Delta-V. I still think it should be the official currency of Kerbal Space Program.
My setting uses energy as currency.
1 Unit Standard Energy (USE) = 1 gigajoule (~278 kWh, about $30 with current average US energy prices). USE is all-caps, never pluralized, and takes SI prefixes, ex: "Your ticket to LEO is 8.4 kiloUSE."
Nicknames are generally related to energy:
U's
Zaps
GJ's
Sparks
Juice
Cubes or Qubes are 1 x 1 x 1 units of generic mass. Matter manipulators can program cubes/qubes to become any type of matter and advanced replicators and tun that raw matter into basically anything as long as you have the formula/code.
Now it is replicator designs which become valued by society over raw material. Replicators/ make people much more self sufficient, so traders will more often then not trade tools/weapons/trinkets/random valuable substances for political power/contracts rather than trade the matter manipulators/replicators themselves to primitives.
Whether you spell it Cube or Qube depends on where you were born and who raised you and is the hot subject of debate and many fights. There are many arguments for which one should be used universally, but all it boils down to is if you put a "C" or a "Q" where the dollar sign would be.
>>47571327
and because of their spineless form, they employ security forces to keep them and their money safe.
After taxes are increased exponentially over hundreds of years of ruling, the poor are forced further and further into poverty until one man decides that enough is enough.
Speaking for the people and acting as their voice, this man, Reltih convinces the people to take up arms against the oppression of their money-hungry overlords and they begin the war to win back their freedom...
>>47587104
But how much mass do they have? Give me mass and unprogrammed density values so I can calculate how much space players' money takes up on their ship!
>>47569674
The currency of Israel today is literally "New shekel". You'd have to name it "New-new Shekel" or something.
>>47587104
So a gold block would honestly be worth its weight in gold. I like it.
.......mass would actually be shipped as bismuth to maximize atomic weight without depreciating in value due to radioactive decay. Maybe platinum or tungsten to maximize density..... this is a potentially vibrant system....
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>>47587132
I was thinking it would be some kind of goofy brightly-colored cub of generic mass almost like a children's building block that can be programmed into anything. It might be able to ignore the square-cube law and be hyper-dense without actually being "heavy."
