Luxuries
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A commodity found on the F8 markets screen.
Perfumes, spices, coffee. Mass-produced consumer goods.
Traded in TCs & stored in the Cargo Hold for trade.
Cheaper on industrial worlds, and more expensive at agricultural worlds. A premium-priced product.
New Cargoes OXP
New Cargoes is an OXP which allows trade specifically in such items as masks, poetry and Zero-G cricket balls.
The major legal specific variants of the luxuries commodity are
- Entertainment systems: Top-quality in-flight or home entertainment systems. Note that a few systems have banned the import of these devices, either because of concerns of corrupting effects on the people, or simply because they can't stand the programming.
- Fine clothing: Obtaining mere high quality fashionable outfits is straightforward in these days of intersystem trade. Those at the top of society naturally desire more. Clothing that uses nano-adjustments to tailor itself to you is lazy. The best outfitters make those adjustments by hand, to cater to the whims of their filthy rich clientele.
- Masks: The Tionislan solution to their shyness problem has been adopted to some extents by other naturally aloof species. The sharing of mask designs and mechanisms is a profitable niche market.
- Poetry: While the majority of poets in the galaxy are more renowned for their taste than their literacy, the rarefied mountain atmosphere of a few worlds gives the right environment for poetry with superb emotional resonance.
- Vacuum Cricket Bats: Ribiso in Chart 1 invented vacuum cricket, and for many centuries was the undisputed galactic champion. Their recent decision to allow the rules to be translated and the kit exported has led to a few of the richer systems putting together their own teams, and for the first time Ribiso's lead is no longer a foregone conclusion.
- Vacuum karate training videos: Vacuum Karate is a rare martial art, and those wishing to learn must travel across the galaxy - and often between galaxies - to visit its masters. For the slightly less rich, these training videos fetch a good price.
- Wooden furniture: Thick woody plants are relatively rare in most systems, and that's not counting the 'trees' that are actually giant grubs. The production of furniture from real wood, especially in these days of cheap synthetics, is a major expense.
- Zero-G cricket balls: Zero-G cricket is a popular sport across the galaxies, though few systems have a team good enough to make the major leagues. Less skilled systems often have to make do with second-rate equipment, so a shipment of top-quality balls can fetch a high price.
- Zero-G hockey sticks: Consistent regulation of Zero-G hockey collapsed during the Esveor Embargo, and technological boosts to player skill became commonplace. While the League was able to re-regulate the sport afterwards, many of the innovations were kept as fan favourites. The top sticks are no mere piece of metal now - they often contain more sophisticated targeting systems than the average Mamba.
- Mud tennis rackets: One of the more unusual sports in Galcop space is mud tennis. Invented, and most commonly played, in Chart 2, it has its devotees throughout the eight
- Mud hockey pucks: The swamp worlds enjoy a game of hockey as much as anyone, but need special pucks to cut through the dense mud. A few other systems are taking up the game, finding it more comprehensible and strategic than the more common zero-G variation.
