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Ducatto

The Ducatto is the currency of the Commonwealth, having replaced the Pound during the conversion from the Empire. Since all of the citizen’s basic needs are met by the state, the Ducatto is exclusively used for luxury goods; for the player characters Silver is mostly used for bribing NPCs.

The AIs use Ducatto among themselves to purchase processing power, and are therefore generally always receptive to getting more, though any sum less than 1 Gold is unlikely to sway them.

For efficiency in binary coding, the Ducatto Standard is based on powers of two, with one Gold Ducatto being worth 8 Silver. Coins exist in Silver up to 64, for historical reasons; Silver coins worth 1 Gold or more are retired from general circulation.

Herbs and Pharmaceuticals

Herbs are represented by Herb cards. These can be used by a character with the Pharmacist skill to create pharmaceuticals.

Herb cards can be identified by any character who can recognise the pictured herb on the card. There will be information available to the characters that can be used to help recognise herbs.

Pharmaceutical cards each look slightly different; they have a similar but subtly different appearance and each one is labeled with its appearance (e.g. “bubbling yellow oil”). You do not automatically know what a pharmaceutical does, but you can label one you own by placing a slip of paper inside the sleeve with the card.

The various herbs are also popular among humans as medicines or recreational substances, and are sometimes used as a black market currency. AIs are rarely interested in herbs but might be interested in a pharmaceutical with effects relevant to their other interests.

Components

Components are represented by small tokens. These can be used by a Tesla Technologist character with the Create Device skill to create scientific wonders.

Components can also be used by the AIs to create grand projects. These will require large numbers of Components.