How does the 'verses money work?
POSTED BY: blackbeanie
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Simon was going on about platnums or something, and there's bits and credits...Can anyone explain?
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Hello Blackbeanie:
They seem to use paper currency and platinum.
On Earth platinum is very rare, so is very expensive, even against gold. I have never even seen the stuff. It is probably a little more available in the system Firefly travels because those bags they toss around would be a lot smaller.
You can probably Google platinum and compare it's value to gold. I'm sure it's much greater.
As for the paper currancy. I have never noticed what the amount a single bill is. It could represent some amount of platinum or a standard set by the Alliance.
I'm going to have to get the other Firefly publications and become a true Browncoat. Maybe than I would know more.
Traveler
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We never really got a solid explanation in the show. Why not? Because it'd be gorramn boring. But the Serenity RPG covers it. Basically Credits are a Core thing and work pretty much like money today. It's mostly just accounting with some paper currency floating about to pay for minor things like moche lattes and un-licenced companions. Platinum is a Border/Rim thing and actually illegal for transactions in the core. Credits are easilly traceable while Platinum is fairly anonymous. A rough conversion (based on dialog from Ariel) is 1 Credit to 2.5 Platinum. The RPG suggests that 1 credit is about equal to $25 US.
It's not strictly speaking canon but it rings true enough to me.
David
"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de
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Thanks all.
[We never really got a solid explanation in the show. Why not? Because it'd be gorramn boring.]
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I have never even seen the stuff.
You proably actually have; it is fairly common in jewelry. However, it is indistinguisable from silver with a casual view, though it is more durable.
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Well, it's like this. People in the 'verse who have money can exchange it for various things of value, such as foodstuffs and spaceship fuel. Similarly, folks who have things of value can exchange them for money.
Couldn't resist.
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How does the 'verse's money work?
Not nearly as well as Mal wishes it did.
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Hey DaveShayne - good info, thanks! This is something I've been wondering about myself, for fic stuff.
You've provided RPG facts before (my grav drive question - remember?) and I'm just wondering who created the RPG 'verse. Show writers, or the players, or what?
I know nothing about RPG, btw, in case it's not obvious.
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Obviously, Alliance Express ain't too popular in the Outer Worlds. 
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Originally posted by mal4prez:
Hey DaveShayne - good info, thanks! This is something I've been wondering about myself, for fic stuff.
You've provided RPG facts before (my grav drive question - remember?) and I'm just wondering who created the RPG 'verse. Show writers, or the players, or what?
It's produced by Margaret Weis Productions (Margaret is also credited with wrting the fiction pieces in the book) the primary author and design credit goes to Jamie Chambers. There isn't any crossover between show/movie talent and the RPG staff that I can see but they did have access to production materials and Universal did have to aprove the books contents. The information in the book never really contradicts anything we know from either the movie or the series though there are a number of areas where in the absence of canon they made it up as they went. So it's not official official but it does closely track the 'Verse as we know it.
David
"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de
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