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It's a turkey fryer, which is basically just a gas burner on legs. They're pretty common over here: that one at least has some shielding around the flame. They are a huge source of accidents around thanksgiving, generally from tipping over and spraying boiling (and possibly burning) oil everywhere.Of course, if you cook your poultry with what almost look like an home-made combustion chamber...
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For safety, the legs need to be a wider base like the Apollo LM, as a tip preventive, perhaps aftermarket custom retrofit.
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That's an easy one, that would be Howl's moving castle.
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Anybody up for a bit of creative brainstorming on the name for a scifi currency?
Here's a rough summary of the situation:
There's an orbital population of some two million people, but it's disconnected from earth for several decades due to "a minor Kessler event".
The offworld population is itself divided into station dwellers in high earth orbit, and lunar colonists. The station dwellers require resources from the moon. People on earth require orbital services like satellite deployment and repair from the station dwellers, since they can't launch their own stuff anymore. The moon, meanwhile, requires the services of researchers and computers on earth to find solutions for industrial processes in the absence of important volatiles. So the three begin to trade.
Initially, I'd imagine, it would be based on some representation of computational capacity, like AWS credits or something. Basically, parties on earth would tell the station dwellers "hey, would you fix our satellites and maybe make us some new ones, we'd give you such and such credits from those guys with the computers". The station dwellers then go to the Lunans and ask "hey, how much alluminium and oxygen would it be worth to you if you could use this and this much computing capacity on earth?" and so on. Before long, this would be formalised in some form of currency that is not directly tied to the old computational credits, though their value would certainly be a major pillar of it.
So... what the hell do I call that currency? Somehow, the only things coming to my mind are either too bland, or too cheeky. Anybody got any ideas I could steal?
Here's a rough summary of the situation:
There's an orbital population of some two million people, but it's disconnected from earth for several decades due to "a minor Kessler event".
The offworld population is itself divided into station dwellers in high earth orbit, and lunar colonists. The station dwellers require resources from the moon. People on earth require orbital services like satellite deployment and repair from the station dwellers, since they can't launch their own stuff anymore. The moon, meanwhile, requires the services of researchers and computers on earth to find solutions for industrial processes in the absence of important volatiles. So the three begin to trade.
Initially, I'd imagine, it would be based on some representation of computational capacity, like AWS credits or something. Basically, parties on earth would tell the station dwellers "hey, would you fix our satellites and maybe make us some new ones, we'd give you such and such credits from those guys with the computers". The station dwellers then go to the Lunans and ask "hey, how much alluminium and oxygen would it be worth to you if you could use this and this much computing capacity on earth?" and so on. Before long, this would be formalised in some form of currency that is not directly tied to the old computational credits, though their value would certainly be a major pillar of it.
So... what the hell do I call that currency? Somehow, the only things coming to my mind are either too bland, or too cheeky. Anybody got any ideas I could steal?
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Well, one approach would be to look at the dominant culture on Earth in your setting and reuse a historic currency from that. Or name it by a historic, real or fictional, figure, like Kerensky (the fiction one, not the real one) among the Battletech Clans. You could also give it a informal name, like reducing computational credit to ComCreds or Coms.
Of course, another question is: Does there have to be just one currency, or could it be better on the long term, to have different currencies? A Kepler syndrome is a on-going catastrophic event in your scenario, so the economy and society is still adapting to it. Maybe the Kepler syndrome has just formed and nobody really has the big picture of which changes are going to come. And if the economies try to adapt and maybe even try to get the best outcome for themselves, it might be that not only pride and separatism leads to new currencies, but also plain neoliberalism leading to the view that different variable exchange rates might stabilize the economies better.
Of course, another question is: Does there have to be just one currency, or could it be better on the long term, to have different currencies? A Kepler syndrome is a on-going catastrophic event in your scenario, so the economy and society is still adapting to it. Maybe the Kepler syndrome has just formed and nobody really has the big picture of which changes are going to come. And if the economies try to adapt and maybe even try to get the best outcome for themselves, it might be that not only pride and separatism leads to new currencies, but also plain neoliberalism leading to the view that different variable exchange rates might stabilize the economies better.
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In short, yes! In order to not drive both the developer (read: me) and the players crazy, It's important to have only one currency in the game. There are certainly other currencies around in the world, but only one the player should have to deal with while conducting their orbital business.
Currently this currency has no explanation in the game, I just knew that it was a gameplay necessity. I was wondering for some time how I could plausibly explain how the entire orbital economy came to be handled in just one currency, especially considering the somewhat troubled and balkanized pre-history of the game (so much for dominant culture).
Then, in my last wordlbuilding session, this early "triangle trade" situation that had been hanging at the back of my mind but that I had never written down before suddenly revealed itself as an organic opportunity to make that happen, so I'm not going to pass it up
I had in fact thought of "ComCreds" as a shorthand for "Computational Credits", and it's still on the list, it just seemed a bit too on the nose at first. Maybe I'll warm up to it...
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Well, you could of course do some in-game joke and use a name fit for a fringe cryptocurrency... like "ΔvCoin", which could informally be called "Deevees", which could be justified in the back story by a corporate monopoly in space at some time in history.
jedidia
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After some thought, some reading and some waiting for inspiration that finally suddenly struck, I think I came to a conclusion.
Since the whole thing initially is literally based on a credit system, it seems natural that the word credit would somehow be entangled in the emerging currency, but it always seemed too bland. I mean, every darn scifi currency out there is called a credit, what gives? And internally, it would mostly be used to trade resources, something which I felt should also be reflected in the currency name. So I decided that when they finally formalize it as a currency, they call it the "Cislunar Resource Exchange Dollar". Disambiguated to CRED, obviously, in a bit of a wink to the hilarious disambiguation game current-day space programs seem to be playing.
Also, I can keep using the $ as a currency symbol, which is universally understood and which I conveniently have built into every font without having to mess with it. Believe it or not, that was a concern while looking for a name
Since the whole thing initially is literally based on a credit system, it seems natural that the word credit would somehow be entangled in the emerging currency, but it always seemed too bland. I mean, every darn scifi currency out there is called a credit, what gives? And internally, it would mostly be used to trade resources, something which I felt should also be reflected in the currency name. So I decided that when they finally formalize it as a currency, they call it the "Cislunar Resource Exchange Dollar". Disambiguated to CRED, obviously, in a bit of a wink to the hilarious disambiguation game current-day space programs seem to be playing.
Also, I can keep using the $ as a currency symbol, which is universally understood and which I conveniently have built into every font without having to mess with it. Believe it or not, that was a concern while looking for a name
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We're not sci-fi, but had a similar discussion. While we feature 4 'partner nations', we decided to stick with the $ as a universal symbol that any (terran) player would associate to 'money'.
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I think most folk here would know of Scott Manley and his space based youtube channel.
Here is part of one he did regarding the computers that were on board the ill-fated OcenGate Titan vessel.
This concentrates on one of the on-board cameras.
Here is part of one he did regarding the computers that were on board the ill-fated OcenGate Titan vessel.
This concentrates on one of the on-board cameras.
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Programmer: "Huh, I flipped the order of the position and velocity calculation, now the orbital simulation is much more stable!"
Mathematician: "Hold my beer..."
Mathematician: "Hold my beer..."
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Today I managed to run for the first time a half marathon distance - life is pain.
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When your Son comes excitedly and yells "Dad, Dad, look at this awesome game I found!" and you take a look and go "uhm, yeah, I know that one. I, uh, made that model there... some 20 years ago, I think?"
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Unlikely? Yes. Impossible? No.
On a related note, this is what LSD must feel like:
On a related note, this is what LSD must feel like:
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