I worked my own into my RP history. Like many in the Federation my character was born and raised on benefits where having 100 creds would be unusual. So 3000 for a sidewinder, impossible and the same for the millions raised like me.
For most getting a job which may give you 10-20 credits on top of basic assistance a week would be considered as being a success so having a billion in the bank and flying ships worth millions (let alone 100s of millions) is an unbelievable dream to most.
For my character getting sponsored into Pilots Federation selection by a PF pilot from my original home world with a handful of others was a dream come true. Passing selection and being loaned a sidewinder with more credits than my parents ever had in their lives was how I started, so my character has considered himself lucky to be here and not like the majority of Fed citizens trapped on welfare. Imperial slavery I consider about the same as welfare, and often worse if your contract is owned by the wrong people, and full on slavery elsewhere worse than both.
The number of criminal factions across the bubble I see as just a reflection of society's massive levels of poverty for the majority and people trying to get out of the poverty trap they were born in to.
Comes across in my game choices as I nearly always donate to famines and outbreaks to help those who are still at the bottom and suffer most, and will support and work generally for the democracies and other groups that hold the ideal of working for the benefit of all the people rather than the minority or corporate profit.
Helps keep the game alive for me and how I play, and the deeper history I developed frames my wider choices and distrust of groups generally as Harley so hopefully FDev won't suddenly change it to some utopian future with the majority with no wants, but with slavery, wars, famines, outbreaks, bust, narcotics, piracy, huge criminal organisations and major faction politics I can't see it.
For most getting a job which may give you 10-20 credits on top of basic assistance a week would be considered as being a success so having a billion in the bank and flying ships worth millions (let alone 100s of millions) is an unbelievable dream to most.
For my character getting sponsored into Pilots Federation selection by a PF pilot from my original home world with a handful of others was a dream come true. Passing selection and being loaned a sidewinder with more credits than my parents ever had in their lives was how I started, so my character has considered himself lucky to be here and not like the majority of Fed citizens trapped on welfare. Imperial slavery I consider about the same as welfare, and often worse if your contract is owned by the wrong people, and full on slavery elsewhere worse than both.
The number of criminal factions across the bubble I see as just a reflection of society's massive levels of poverty for the majority and people trying to get out of the poverty trap they were born in to.
Comes across in my game choices as I nearly always donate to famines and outbreaks to help those who are still at the bottom and suffer most, and will support and work generally for the democracies and other groups that hold the ideal of working for the benefit of all the people rather than the minority or corporate profit.
Helps keep the game alive for me and how I play, and the deeper history I developed frames my wider choices and distrust of groups generally as Harley so hopefully FDev won't suddenly change it to some utopian future with the majority with no wants, but with slavery, wars, famines, outbreaks, bust, narcotics, piracy, huge criminal organisations and major faction politics I can't see it.