Post by Morse on Sept 5, 2012 1:39:26 GMT -5
Services
• Allied Postal Service: c5 (per 25 pounds)
The Allied Postal Service is a fairly reliable way to send small parcels on interplanetary freight. The maximum possible load is 500 pounds for a cost of ₡ 5 per 25 lbs, or fraction thereof, beyond the 10 lb limit. If the recipient does not have a permanent home address or lives on a ship (at least currently), the receiver will be sent a wave and then have 2 weeks to pick up his parcel from a nearby Postal Office, though service and quality depend on the individual franchisee.
• Analysis, Forensic: 226c
The autopsy of a body, analysis of biological clues, or similar services. The cost represents a skilled forensic scientist or professional clinician working with adequate
supplies and a lab, adequate time, and with a degree of discretion (no Cortex feed searches). A forensic analysis takes two or more days, depending on how complex it is and how elusive the desired information may be.
• Analysis, Scientific: 270c
Scientific analysis includes biologic, chemical, bacteriological, or related examination with the end result being a report of findings. The cost represents a skilled scientist working with adequate supplies and a lab, adequate time, and with a degree of
discretion (no Cortex feed searches).
• Companion, evening: c500 (c50 yearly fee to be listed in the client registry)
Companions are trained in all the arts, at least rudimentarily (though they must demonstrate skill at several), as well as games, and pastimes of all manner, including fencing and archery. Schooled in music, dance, etiquette, languages, and, of course, the physical skills required, Companions provide comfort and care to their clients. Companions choose their own clients and may reject and even blacklist those who cross the line. The Companion’s Guild has transformed the sex trade into an established and respected industry. The Guild is very powerful and protects its own (and its reputation) through networks of contacts that they have established over the years
• Companion, full day: c750 (c50 yearly fee to be listed in the client registry)
• Cortex Access, Public: 1c
A private link to the Cortex is usually the preserve of the wealthy, and requires a fixed domicile. For those who are satisfied with public terminal access, you can pay by the minute at one of the handy, friendly booths located throughout public spaces. An IdentCard is required to use the Cortex, and your activities while online are assuredly
monitored at some level.
• Cortex Access, Unlicensed: 2.5c
If you don’t have an IdentCard or would like some modicum of privacy in your Cortex use, there’s always the option of unlicensed access, usually offered where someone’s illegally linked into the Cortex, co-opted someone else’s account, or even hacked into a public access terminal with falsified credentials. One advantage is the lack of a data trail—unlicensed access is necessarily anonymous. This sort of use is furtive and
dangerous, and the penalties for such activity are considerable.
• Diagnostic, Computer: 8c
This service is offered in the more civilized sections of the ‘Verse, and involves a complete systems sweep, identifying and removing viruses and glitches, optimizing performance, and otherwise repairing a computer system or network to its full
functionality. A full computer system diagnostic can take anywhere between four hours and two days, depending on the software’s sophistication and extent of the network.
• Diagnostic, Technical: 40c
A technical diagnostic includes a complete exam of a ship or that of another major technological system, looking for faults, misalignments, erratic behavior, and other potential areas where a breakdown may occur. It can also sweep for any nonstandard modifications, known or otherwise. The goal of a technical diagnostic is to present
the engineer with a laundry list of areas that need fixing but would otherwise escape cursory notice, and to indicate aspects where a ship’s performance might be enhanced through slight upgrades
• Interplanetary Freight, Cargo: c70 (price per day)
Running cargo and passengers from one place to another is a necessary part of the industry of the Alliance, and most other organizations in the ‘Verse. A reputation for speedy and reliable service, as well as the quality of the transport can be weighty factors in the negotiation of prices. The rates given on the chart
represent the level of quality and comfort a Firefly or similar vessel can provide—which is to say, not all that much. A luxury liner like the El Dorado could charge up to ₡ 300 per day, providing fresh food, entertainment, private suites, and the like to its customers. Sailing the black can be mightily expensive. The ship needs to be in good condition to be space worthy. Since help may be far away, you need to keep supplies on hand for all sorts of emergencies. Parts, supplies, and fuel are more expensive for spacecraft than for planet-side vessels. You can make a lot of
money hauling cargo for the Alliance (and maybe a lot more hauling it without the Alliance finding out), but one big breakdown, a problem with a major crime boss, or a run-in with the law can cost you your ship—and maybe even your life. Things often don’t go smooth, so the trick is to stay five minutes ahead of the posse and hope there’s a Shepherd praying for you.
• Interplanetary Freight, Passenger: c20 (price per day)
• Ship Repair: c640 (per hour of labor, parts extra)
• Labor, Heavy: 2c
There’re aplenty of folks down enough on their luck that they’ll take any work, no matter how rough. That means heavy lifting, construction, or other grunt work that people with money would rather not think about, much less do.
• Labor, Menial: .5c
This covers all manner of minor and menial tasks, from having your transport cleaned to carrying your bags around a busy starport.
• Laundry: 1c
No matter who you are, having clean skivvies is a basic requirement for comfort. Most ships have (lousy) washing machines, but there’s no substitute for having your laundry done right. Most skyplexes and ports have laundry services with lightning-fast turnaround times.
• Legal Counsel, Major: 10,000c
Given the sort of behavior most crews are more’n certain up to, it’s a miracle you’ve not already made the acquaintance of legal counsel on several worlds. For crimes such as involving death, major malfeasance, or other genuinely criminal activities, your only hope of freedom is to book yourself a crack legal mind, an advocate from one of the high powered, multi-world law firms that span the Core worlds, or some law scholar
with a mad-on for the Alliance. This represents an advocate who’ll work with you for weeks, gathering evidence and putting together a case to support your claim of innocence, and will stand alongside you throughout your trial. It’ll likely also involve the services of an assistant and maybe even a small team of advisors. The best legal help you can get . . . and you’ll pay every credit you have and more for it.
• Legal Counsel, Minor: 200c
It’s only a matter of time before you’re pinched for something and find yourself before a frontier magistrate, or worse, facing an Alliance tribunal. In event of such an unlucky occurrence, you’d be advised to get yourself an advocate who can walk you through the legal process, and hopefully stay your mangy hide from incarceration. Minor legal counsel includes a junior advocate (or garrulous country lawyer) who’ll meet with you and present your case in court, and is recommended for any crimes relating to minor theft of property, moving violations, assault, disturbing the peace, and so on. For a greater infraction, you ought to seek yourself someone better than this.
• Makeover: 5c
Sometimes you just want to go beyond the daily spit-shine and show folks what you look like at your shiny best. A salonstyle makeover includes a haircut and style, a chemical cleansing peel, an astonishing variety of grooming from head-to-toe, and makeup if you’re the sort to wear it.
• Prostitute, One hour: 4c
It might be neck-and-neck with farming as the oldest profession in the ‘Verse, and it’s certainly more widespread. Those without the connections, cash, or status for a Registered Companion turn to prostitution and live with the risks involved. The cost covers an hour or so of attention . . . a full night is five times the amount. The bar floozy is an example of the sort of doxy this price represents.
• Security, Major: 52c
A major security detail represents round-the-clock protection from a small and dedicated team of professional guards, often former lawmen or soldiers. They’re paid well and are expected to do everything within their power to safeguard the subject of their duty, whether it be a building, an object, or a person. The hired gun is a good example of this level of guard.
• Security, Minor: 10c
This means hiring a part time guard, usually trained in basic security procedures and observation, and almost certainly unwilling to risk life and well-being in the line of duty. The frontier deputy’s the quality of the security this buys.
• Tattooing, Deluxe: 40c
Deluxe tattooing covers a range of sophisticated techniques, from colorflux ink (changes color), animatoos (animated tattoos), chameleon ink (takes on colors of nearby images), reflect ink (mirrored), lume ink (tattoos that light up when pressed, or glow all the time), and so on. You spend this much making yourself stand out, you’d better have good cause for it.
• Tattooing, Standard: 8c
Standard tattooing is your basic ink job, still common thousands of years after the first person thought to break skin and lay down color.
• Translator: 1.5
When there’s a barrier to honest communication, sometimes you’ve got to bring in outside help. Hiring a translator is fairly easy if you’re not picky, likely a native speaker. If you want to spend more, you can get someone better, or you can spend less, try your luck, and hope your business won’t be too adversely affected.
Medical Care
• Antibiotic Course: c11
A basic treatment course for an infection. Pop one pill once a day for about two weeks. Unfortunately, sometimes you can’t find even common antibiotics out on the Rim.
• Cosmetic Body Modification, Major: Prices May Vary
Major cosmetic body modification is significant alteration to one’s appearance, having a few inches added to height, major facial reconstructive surgery, having a notinconsiderable amount of weight added or removed, skull reshaping, and the like. This sort of procedure usually takes several days (at least one day of nothing but prep), and weeks, if not more, of recovery time.
• Cosmetic Body Modification, Minor: 5.5c
A minor cosmetic body modification covers anything not involving surgery. This can be as superficial as a piercing or subdermal implant, removing a tattoo, or even a cosmetic decoration grafted to skin or bone. It can include hairimplants such as color-changing fiber-optic microcables, or a coloration shift of one’s skin or eyes. Minor cosmetic surgery can change the shape of a face superficially (lips, teeth,ears, cheekbones, nose, etc. ) or can provide augmentation of a more personal nature. Depending on its nature, this procedure can range from one hour to several days.
• Diagnostic, Medical: 103c
A medical diagnostic represents a comprehensive medical examination by a skilled medical professional, or using the services of a competent clinic. A diagnosis can be sought for a specific medical condition, analysis of symptoms, or it can be performed as part of a general checkup. This includes blood and fluid work, full-body imaging, an
interview, and a detailed examination for symptoms. A medical diagnosis can take hours
to days of diligent work, depending on how elusive the medical condition is and the nature of any symptoms (if any).
• Full Physical: c8
A basic exam. Generally, it’s a good idea to get checked out regular.
• Surgery, Major: c600+
Major surgery can mean anything from extensive cosmetic alterations to heart replacement surgery. The price varies widely between different operations, but the listed price can serve as a median for surgery of this nature, which probably requires at least three medical personnel and an extended stay in a hospital.
• Surgery, Minor:c150+
Minor surgery refers to reattaching ears, laser surgery on eyes, appendix removal, or other operations that are potentially serious, but do not require extraordinarily advanced equipment, extended hospital stays, etc.
• Allied Postal Service: c5 (per 25 pounds)
The Allied Postal Service is a fairly reliable way to send small parcels on interplanetary freight. The maximum possible load is 500 pounds for a cost of ₡ 5 per 25 lbs, or fraction thereof, beyond the 10 lb limit. If the recipient does not have a permanent home address or lives on a ship (at least currently), the receiver will be sent a wave and then have 2 weeks to pick up his parcel from a nearby Postal Office, though service and quality depend on the individual franchisee.
• Analysis, Forensic: 226c
The autopsy of a body, analysis of biological clues, or similar services. The cost represents a skilled forensic scientist or professional clinician working with adequate
supplies and a lab, adequate time, and with a degree of discretion (no Cortex feed searches). A forensic analysis takes two or more days, depending on how complex it is and how elusive the desired information may be.
• Analysis, Scientific: 270c
Scientific analysis includes biologic, chemical, bacteriological, or related examination with the end result being a report of findings. The cost represents a skilled scientist working with adequate supplies and a lab, adequate time, and with a degree of
discretion (no Cortex feed searches).
• Companion, evening: c500 (c50 yearly fee to be listed in the client registry)
Companions are trained in all the arts, at least rudimentarily (though they must demonstrate skill at several), as well as games, and pastimes of all manner, including fencing and archery. Schooled in music, dance, etiquette, languages, and, of course, the physical skills required, Companions provide comfort and care to their clients. Companions choose their own clients and may reject and even blacklist those who cross the line. The Companion’s Guild has transformed the sex trade into an established and respected industry. The Guild is very powerful and protects its own (and its reputation) through networks of contacts that they have established over the years
• Companion, full day: c750 (c50 yearly fee to be listed in the client registry)
• Cortex Access, Public: 1c
A private link to the Cortex is usually the preserve of the wealthy, and requires a fixed domicile. For those who are satisfied with public terminal access, you can pay by the minute at one of the handy, friendly booths located throughout public spaces. An IdentCard is required to use the Cortex, and your activities while online are assuredly
monitored at some level.
• Cortex Access, Unlicensed: 2.5c
If you don’t have an IdentCard or would like some modicum of privacy in your Cortex use, there’s always the option of unlicensed access, usually offered where someone’s illegally linked into the Cortex, co-opted someone else’s account, or even hacked into a public access terminal with falsified credentials. One advantage is the lack of a data trail—unlicensed access is necessarily anonymous. This sort of use is furtive and
dangerous, and the penalties for such activity are considerable.
• Diagnostic, Computer: 8c
This service is offered in the more civilized sections of the ‘Verse, and involves a complete systems sweep, identifying and removing viruses and glitches, optimizing performance, and otherwise repairing a computer system or network to its full
functionality. A full computer system diagnostic can take anywhere between four hours and two days, depending on the software’s sophistication and extent of the network.
• Diagnostic, Technical: 40c
A technical diagnostic includes a complete exam of a ship or that of another major technological system, looking for faults, misalignments, erratic behavior, and other potential areas where a breakdown may occur. It can also sweep for any nonstandard modifications, known or otherwise. The goal of a technical diagnostic is to present
the engineer with a laundry list of areas that need fixing but would otherwise escape cursory notice, and to indicate aspects where a ship’s performance might be enhanced through slight upgrades
• Interplanetary Freight, Cargo: c70 (price per day)
Running cargo and passengers from one place to another is a necessary part of the industry of the Alliance, and most other organizations in the ‘Verse. A reputation for speedy and reliable service, as well as the quality of the transport can be weighty factors in the negotiation of prices. The rates given on the chart
represent the level of quality and comfort a Firefly or similar vessel can provide—which is to say, not all that much. A luxury liner like the El Dorado could charge up to ₡ 300 per day, providing fresh food, entertainment, private suites, and the like to its customers. Sailing the black can be mightily expensive. The ship needs to be in good condition to be space worthy. Since help may be far away, you need to keep supplies on hand for all sorts of emergencies. Parts, supplies, and fuel are more expensive for spacecraft than for planet-side vessels. You can make a lot of
money hauling cargo for the Alliance (and maybe a lot more hauling it without the Alliance finding out), but one big breakdown, a problem with a major crime boss, or a run-in with the law can cost you your ship—and maybe even your life. Things often don’t go smooth, so the trick is to stay five minutes ahead of the posse and hope there’s a Shepherd praying for you.
• Interplanetary Freight, Passenger: c20 (price per day)
• Ship Repair: c640 (per hour of labor, parts extra)
• Labor, Heavy: 2c
There’re aplenty of folks down enough on their luck that they’ll take any work, no matter how rough. That means heavy lifting, construction, or other grunt work that people with money would rather not think about, much less do.
• Labor, Menial: .5c
This covers all manner of minor and menial tasks, from having your transport cleaned to carrying your bags around a busy starport.
• Laundry: 1c
No matter who you are, having clean skivvies is a basic requirement for comfort. Most ships have (lousy) washing machines, but there’s no substitute for having your laundry done right. Most skyplexes and ports have laundry services with lightning-fast turnaround times.
• Legal Counsel, Major: 10,000c
Given the sort of behavior most crews are more’n certain up to, it’s a miracle you’ve not already made the acquaintance of legal counsel on several worlds. For crimes such as involving death, major malfeasance, or other genuinely criminal activities, your only hope of freedom is to book yourself a crack legal mind, an advocate from one of the high powered, multi-world law firms that span the Core worlds, or some law scholar
with a mad-on for the Alliance. This represents an advocate who’ll work with you for weeks, gathering evidence and putting together a case to support your claim of innocence, and will stand alongside you throughout your trial. It’ll likely also involve the services of an assistant and maybe even a small team of advisors. The best legal help you can get . . . and you’ll pay every credit you have and more for it.
• Legal Counsel, Minor: 200c
It’s only a matter of time before you’re pinched for something and find yourself before a frontier magistrate, or worse, facing an Alliance tribunal. In event of such an unlucky occurrence, you’d be advised to get yourself an advocate who can walk you through the legal process, and hopefully stay your mangy hide from incarceration. Minor legal counsel includes a junior advocate (or garrulous country lawyer) who’ll meet with you and present your case in court, and is recommended for any crimes relating to minor theft of property, moving violations, assault, disturbing the peace, and so on. For a greater infraction, you ought to seek yourself someone better than this.
• Makeover: 5c
Sometimes you just want to go beyond the daily spit-shine and show folks what you look like at your shiny best. A salonstyle makeover includes a haircut and style, a chemical cleansing peel, an astonishing variety of grooming from head-to-toe, and makeup if you’re the sort to wear it.
• Prostitute, One hour: 4c
It might be neck-and-neck with farming as the oldest profession in the ‘Verse, and it’s certainly more widespread. Those without the connections, cash, or status for a Registered Companion turn to prostitution and live with the risks involved. The cost covers an hour or so of attention . . . a full night is five times the amount. The bar floozy is an example of the sort of doxy this price represents.
• Security, Major: 52c
A major security detail represents round-the-clock protection from a small and dedicated team of professional guards, often former lawmen or soldiers. They’re paid well and are expected to do everything within their power to safeguard the subject of their duty, whether it be a building, an object, or a person. The hired gun is a good example of this level of guard.
• Security, Minor: 10c
This means hiring a part time guard, usually trained in basic security procedures and observation, and almost certainly unwilling to risk life and well-being in the line of duty. The frontier deputy’s the quality of the security this buys.
• Tattooing, Deluxe: 40c
Deluxe tattooing covers a range of sophisticated techniques, from colorflux ink (changes color), animatoos (animated tattoos), chameleon ink (takes on colors of nearby images), reflect ink (mirrored), lume ink (tattoos that light up when pressed, or glow all the time), and so on. You spend this much making yourself stand out, you’d better have good cause for it.
• Tattooing, Standard: 8c
Standard tattooing is your basic ink job, still common thousands of years after the first person thought to break skin and lay down color.
• Translator: 1.5
When there’s a barrier to honest communication, sometimes you’ve got to bring in outside help. Hiring a translator is fairly easy if you’re not picky, likely a native speaker. If you want to spend more, you can get someone better, or you can spend less, try your luck, and hope your business won’t be too adversely affected.
Medical Care
• Antibiotic Course: c11
A basic treatment course for an infection. Pop one pill once a day for about two weeks. Unfortunately, sometimes you can’t find even common antibiotics out on the Rim.
• Cosmetic Body Modification, Major: Prices May Vary
Major cosmetic body modification is significant alteration to one’s appearance, having a few inches added to height, major facial reconstructive surgery, having a notinconsiderable amount of weight added or removed, skull reshaping, and the like. This sort of procedure usually takes several days (at least one day of nothing but prep), and weeks, if not more, of recovery time.
• Cosmetic Body Modification, Minor: 5.5c
A minor cosmetic body modification covers anything not involving surgery. This can be as superficial as a piercing or subdermal implant, removing a tattoo, or even a cosmetic decoration grafted to skin or bone. It can include hairimplants such as color-changing fiber-optic microcables, or a coloration shift of one’s skin or eyes. Minor cosmetic surgery can change the shape of a face superficially (lips, teeth,ears, cheekbones, nose, etc. ) or can provide augmentation of a more personal nature. Depending on its nature, this procedure can range from one hour to several days.
• Diagnostic, Medical: 103c
A medical diagnostic represents a comprehensive medical examination by a skilled medical professional, or using the services of a competent clinic. A diagnosis can be sought for a specific medical condition, analysis of symptoms, or it can be performed as part of a general checkup. This includes blood and fluid work, full-body imaging, an
interview, and a detailed examination for symptoms. A medical diagnosis can take hours
to days of diligent work, depending on how elusive the medical condition is and the nature of any symptoms (if any).
• Full Physical: c8
A basic exam. Generally, it’s a good idea to get checked out regular.
• Surgery, Major: c600+
Major surgery can mean anything from extensive cosmetic alterations to heart replacement surgery. The price varies widely between different operations, but the listed price can serve as a median for surgery of this nature, which probably requires at least three medical personnel and an extended stay in a hospital.
• Surgery, Minor:c150+
Minor surgery refers to reattaching ears, laser surgery on eyes, appendix removal, or other operations that are potentially serious, but do not require extraordinarily advanced equipment, extended hospital stays, etc.