Well, Fen /do/ have to eat, and pay for that load of doritos and Dew somehow...
Rockhounds, Inc deals - on paper - primarily in American dollars, and all paperwork related to its transactions uses that as its primary currency reference. Other currencies are accepted, however. Any currency listed on the Bank of Sol exchange is accepted, especially the three primaries and Hidden Asteroid. (Most of the more unusual currencies go right back out the door as payment to the various asteroid-mining groups.)
One source of frequent injections of US dollars into the orbital community is the Benjamin Franklin space station, which buys (universally in American currency) odd items of 'wavetech from fen for the TSAB research program. While this constitutes a relatively minor source of Fenspace's overall trade with Earth (which is, of course, dominated by tourism, export of asteroid ore, and import of foodstuffs, electronic gadgetry of all sorts, and entertainment media), it is a welcome infusion of ready cash for the occasional spacer in need - and a handy way to dispose of 'waved gadgets that didn't quite work out the way you wanted them to.
And, since I don't think anyone's brought it up yet, rumor has it that Rockhounds is currently in negotiation with the United States Government to open a new branch dealing in disposal of toxic and nuclear waste by means of solar dumping. The scheme as currently imagined would involve using mined-out rocks too small or of too-inconvenient internal shape to convert into habitations, filling them with barrels of waste, sealing them up, and using a long-burn, low-thrust rocket to lob them into the sun along a carefully-calculated polar orbital path (so as to avoid the risk of having spacers wander into their path, graviational capture by inner planets, collisions with random asteroids, etc).--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
Rockhounds, Inc deals - on paper - primarily in American dollars, and all paperwork related to its transactions uses that as its primary currency reference. Other currencies are accepted, however. Any currency listed on the Bank of Sol exchange is accepted, especially the three primaries and Hidden Asteroid. (Most of the more unusual currencies go right back out the door as payment to the various asteroid-mining groups.)
One source of frequent injections of US dollars into the orbital community is the Benjamin Franklin space station, which buys (universally in American currency) odd items of 'wavetech from fen for the TSAB research program. While this constitutes a relatively minor source of Fenspace's overall trade with Earth (which is, of course, dominated by tourism, export of asteroid ore, and import of foodstuffs, electronic gadgetry of all sorts, and entertainment media), it is a welcome infusion of ready cash for the occasional spacer in need - and a handy way to dispose of 'waved gadgets that didn't quite work out the way you wanted them to.
And, since I don't think anyone's brought it up yet, rumor has it that Rockhounds is currently in negotiation with the United States Government to open a new branch dealing in disposal of toxic and nuclear waste by means of solar dumping. The scheme as currently imagined would involve using mined-out rocks too small or of too-inconvenient internal shape to convert into habitations, filling them with barrels of waste, sealing them up, and using a long-burn, low-thrust rocket to lob them into the sun along a carefully-calculated polar orbital path (so as to avoid the risk of having spacers wander into their path, graviational capture by inner planets, collisions with random asteroids, etc).--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.