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That does sound cool, but... Is it practical? Blaze is a good shot, but there's a 90% chance his bolt will pierce John's hand.

Also, what's the currency in this world/galaxy?

You're right, it isn't particularly realistic, I'll change it to him having a knife on hand instead and then having the drawer he's going for have some kind of firearm in it.

As to the currency, maybe just some some system like the one Star Wars has, where I think we're supposed to assume that each credit is worth roughly one U.S. dollar (don't ask me how I came up with this. It's just an arbitrary conclusion). I had an idea that all money was digitized and controlled by banks, and while that gives some interesting potential for plots it would over-complicate the pirates' raiding to a point where I don't think its worth the trouble.

In other words: I don't really have any idea that would work, other than using some system that is roughly analogous to our money system, and really we just need to know enough about it for the reader to know when amounts of money are big and when they aren't.

I'm open to ideas.

It would be simplest then to use the US system and slap on a random name to it instead of dollars.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

We can make an entirely new system, just slap some names around and we'll be good.

Here’s a few suggestions if you need some (I just threw some random letters together),

Chip, Mart, Ban, Zirk, Hapag, Josk, Naz, Cag, Quot, Lug...

I should probably stop now.

I kinda like chip.

Chip and quot sound good to me. They have that sci-fi-ish feel.

I agree.

Cool,
so maybe a Chip is equivalent to a dollar and quots are cents?
They can always be swapped around if need be.

I don't know the US system, but sure.

how about just run with it as a decimal currency?

100 quots = 1 Chip

That sounds good to me.

*pokes*

How are the posts going?

Good, it’s taking longer than expected, but I’m almost at the end. School can be quite annoying.