1. Canned King. The upper crust of the Republic
of Sea Serpents has an ancient cultural predilection for the consumption of
monarchs of all kinds, be they metaphorical, as in the king of beasts, or
actual kings and queens. This demand has created a galaxy wide industry of king
fishing. After harvesting and processing of the various rulers, they are sorted
into three designations, certified sapient free, uncertified and certified
sapient only. Of the three, sapient only commands the highest price among the
senators and consuls of the republic. Cans of kings are commonly given as
reparations as a sort of were-smelt.
2.Omniplast. A form of ancient Floozy biotech.
These single celled symbiotes can be programed to perform a wide range of
functions, including curing diseases and altering genomes. They are flexible
and powerful bio engineering tools, made only more valuable by the fact they
can only be grown in living hosts. They can be transported in stasis vials but
they only reproduce in living hosts, and only those that contain certain
ancient floozy protein markers. These "forge beasts" are found on
former Floozy colony worlds across the galaxy. It is fairly easy to filter the
onmiplasts out of their blood. The real trick is keeping a forge beast alive
and contained in order to continually harvest form it, especially as they
always have surprising and deadly abilities
3.Pickled Sky Vermin. The Rain of Vermin is a
pilgrimage organized by the Church of the Holy Vermin wherein they bring
scuttling life to burnt and broken worlds. Their venerable vermin engine seeds
the upper atmosphere with new life, which then rains down to the benighted surface.
Pilgrims waiting on the ground catch and pickle a few choice specimens. As the
rain restores life and vitality to the planet, it is believed that a single
vermin can restore health to an ailing organic who consumes it. Authenticate pickled vermin (and the most
cunning forgeries) squirm and twitch inside their jars, a sign of their sacred
life energies.
4.Riddle Helix. The Floozies used genetic
material to encode their secrets and their sagas. Over the ages the meaning of
these sequences has mutated and evolved in strange ways. Many of the galaxies'
scholars are engaged in a never ending quest to find and decode these molecular
codices and will pay good money for an interesting sequence. Finding a riddle
helix is a simple matter of sequencing a genome and searching for certain key
patterns with a search algorithm know as a riddle sieve. Any given sequence
might be an astonishing revelations or derivative garbage. Those who decode the
riddles to separate the treasure from the dross are known as riddle mongers.
They buy riddles in bulk and sell the most coherent ones off to their network
of scholars. Selling both bulk riddles and select riddles is a massive faux
pass.
5.Kaiju Eggs. Massive eggs that will hatch into
massive monsters. They are sought after by power hungry polities and warlords
that hope to weaponize the young kaiju. They are also sought after by scholars
who hope to study them, as well as kaiju cultists looking for a new god. Those
who often end up paying the most are gourmands who seek kaiju eggs as the
ultimate delicacy.
6.Viral Pilgrims. To weave their vast empire together, the
Floozies created viral pilgrims, nomadic bits of genetic information that would
wander the galaxy from host to host, gathering data and rumors. In the modern
era many of these messengers have gone extinct
but the Order of the Viral Tide
seeks to keep them around. A secretive organization with outposts around
the galaxy, the order will handsomely pay those infected by viral messengers.
They can extract the information in the virus through a secret method, and they
sell this intelligence to interested
parties. Symptoms of a viral pilgrim infection are usually mild but in extreme
cases they can cause hallucinations and delusions as the information leeks into
the hosts brain.
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