The Universal Hustle
Lightyears of travel, distant moons, and first contact... only to find that the ultimate universal language isn’t math—it’s paperwork. 🛸📑
"Take me to your leader" has officially been replaced by "Please sign the NDA." Gree is taking the blue planet’s trade margins to the stars, but this local wasn't ready for a supply chain audit. Some things are truly universal: the shock of a surprise contract!
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The Theory of Interstellar Trade [pdf]
https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
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Interstellar Trade Relations
Ron Garrita analyzes interstellar trading between worlds of differing technology levels in the Traveller TTRPG
"We're shipping forty million tons of individually-packaged spider-silk personal refreshment wipes twelve-hundred light years?"
"Do you want the detailed answer, or just a comment on the absurdity of the universe?"
"The details, please."
"It's hard to keep them wiping their asses with sand when they're sitting on a fortune in spice."
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