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Grrl Power #1367 - Get rich violently scheme
🕑 Added 2025-06-23 10:00:10 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys and grrls are awesome!
Cora's plan probably sounds like a bad idea for a number of reasons. Some of those reasons may be laid out in the next few pages.
At the time this page was posted, a Kg of rhodium is worth about $183,260, which honestly is less than I would have guessed. Iridium clocks in at $132K/Kg, and palladium is a bargain at $35K/Kg. I know they're all useful in electronics, and also that Rhodium was the primary currency in Star Justice, where I guess it was used as star ship drive fuel.
In the Grrl-verse, elements are valued by four factors: how pretty is it, how abundant is in nature, how useful its chemical properties are, and most importantly, how energy intensive it is to mine/refine/extract or artificially fabricate. Generally speaking, the higher the atomic number, the more energy intensive it is. Also isotopes take more energy - generally, the more neutron variance, the more energy intensive it is to create.
Even with alien super science, the laws of physics still exist, and you can't use your nuclear reactor to create more reactor fuel. Well, you can, but even the best alien super science can't get you over 100% efficiency, so it'd be dumb to do. That said, it's also possible to create Dyson arrays around stars and harvest absolutely massive amounts of solar energy, so it's possible to create darn near anything - if you have access to a Dyson Array slash Matter Replicator - Let's just call it a Knights of the Old Republic Star Forge. Not everyone does, of course. Have access to something like that, I mean. Not even every race has their own Star Forge, so while the greater galactic community claims to be post scarcity, the reality is that there is scarcity based economics at play. It's all just at a wildly different scale than what Earth manages.
Comments
Eric Loken
Sadly there will always be some dumbass who thinks they are stronger, or takes it as a challenge. "Well, it got so that every piss-ant prairie punk who thought he could shoot a gun would ride into town to try out the Waco Kid. I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille. It got pretty gritty. I started to hear the word "draw" in my sleep. Then one day I was just walking down the street, when I heard a voice behind me say, "Reach for it, mister!" I spun around, and there I was face-to-face with a six-year-old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass!" -- Blazing Saddles
Christopher Upton
I really like the style. Sharpe lines, yet a little cartoon-ish. I hope this one sticks around for a while
eddi_TBH
Max is mightily tempted. Too bad she's not even a little impulsive. When thinking of pluses add, aliens watch her dismantle a killbot with her pinkies, think twice before thinking about bothering Earth, ever.
