Business

Domestic

Home Furnishings

Whether filling a multi-room dwelling with creature comforts, or just a rug to avoid standing on cold metal in a stateroom, all sentients prefer furnishings to make a house their home.

Home Appliances

From the esoteric hover-masseuse to the ubiquitous Insta-Nuker, these are the champions of eternal consumerism. All these products are designed to simplify the life of the buyer, or so the sales pitch goes.

Robot Servants

Trained in the nuances of absolute servility, and having the abilities of a bodyservant and portable data storage unit, these machines are valued accessories for those too poor or too ethical to use human servants.

Personal Transport

Whether dropping down to the local dispensary, or travelling around the planet to visit friends, these wheeled, hover and flight conveyances serve every requirement of the average traveler.

Electronics

Standard PADs

Personal Assistant Devices incorporate functions such as planetary communications, data storage and retrieval, and electronic diary, all in one small, usually hand sized and hand held package.

Premium PADs

While costly, advanced developments in electronics now permit PADs that can be strapped to a wrist or similar appendage, rather than be carried in hand. A holographic projection provides the interface device, rather than hard wiring in the PAD itself.

Consoles

Popular descriptive name for a Central Entertainment System. These systems include wall mounted 2D video screens, holographic projectors, recording and playback devices for audio and visual, planetary communications and the ability to play games over virtual networks.

Luxury

Classical Instruments

Typically, those musical instruments designed and built before the age of industrialization. Usually percussion and acoustic instruments, most of which were built by those regarded as masters in their musical fields.

Jewelry

All sentients enjoy personal adornment. Both for the visual appearance alone, as well as to serve as a measurement of personal success. Usually consisting of precious metals and gems worked into fantasic pieces of work by master jewellers. The most famous was Xilothee's Dress, consisting of several ropes of gold and three large gemstones, strategically placed and worn with no other stitch of material.

Rare Artwork

In the age of plasprints and holvids, the creations of the hand hold an especial value to today's connoiseur. There is just something about wood, canvas and oil paints that appeals. The more famous the artwork, or the artist, the more valuable the piece. Most famous of all is the 'Moaning Lisa', itself apparently a derivative of an older, lost work of art.

Personal

Personal Hygienics

As advanced as the sentient races have become, they have not escaped the need for a good scrubbing up every once and a while. Creams and balms promise to use the latest advances in nanoscale chemical transport to remove wrinkles and provide superior skin tone, anti-esthers seek out and destroy unpleasant scent particles, and lastly orifice specific probes to prevent or clean up awkward bodily excretions.

Clothing

Clothing of all manner of make and manufacture can be sold in almost any region of inhabited space. Ranging from military unitards influenced by ancient holovids, to the current trends of haute couture, to apparel derived from animals on lesser developed worlds.

Pleasure Borgs

With the rise in dangerous transmitted diseases, self-cleansing pleasure borgs were developed to serve as the oldest profession in known history. Highly trained and able to perform duties ranging from the gentlest of touches, to the wildest imaginings of S and M, these borgs are an expensive but pleasurable pastime.

Aromatic Scents

Scented oils, perfumes and fragrances derived from various plants and minerals that are pleasing to the senses. Often used for their effect on sentient biochemistry - whether for relaxation, stimulation or eroticism. Commonly mixed with water and delivered by evaporation, though some are applied directly to the body.

Books

A well told tale still remains one of the chief forms of entertainment. Only the delivery of the tale changes. While books of the past consisted of large tomes filled with biodegradable paper, today's versions consist of plasfilm storage to be inserted into your PAD for projection.

Music

Being entertainment consisting of sound, music takes many forms ranging from classical melodies, to heavy beat music, to today's synthetic muzo. Strangely, music from bands with bug names features highly in music culture, and one fellow known only as 'The King' has been generating music for several centuries.

Holovids

Mindless 3D visual entertainment for the masses. Especially popular among those with no noticeable social life. This year's top seller on the Confederation frontier: 'Who's your Dgn?: Interspecies Fantasies XXIV'. And, as always, the top seller in High Born space: 'Birth of a Nation II.'

Erotica

Consisting of a meld of most forms of entertainment (holovid, aromatic oil, music, and the odd pleasure borg), erotica is a sensual feast wherein the purveyor is immersed in all the forms of sensation known to their race.

Games

Providing near endless possibility for gameplay and maximizing entertainment return, interactive computer games are a market fueled by the hard labors of underfunded dreamers. Despite their lack of fiscal resources they still manage to produce high quality products and garner wide fan bases. These these fan bases could theoretically provide support for the poor, downtrodden programmers and content providers, but strangely they never seem to.

IntaTouch

A tactile simulator that provides an Aera with relaxing sensations.

VirtuArea

A wall hanging that projects the illusion of open space.

Musical Instruments

Collective description of contempory music generation equipment. Commonly consisting of sound synthesizers, they also include modern forms of the percussion and acoustic instruments of older times.

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