So..about Scrip...

[jasper murtagh]

The only reason Luke had his scrip hidden was to hide it from his father, either because he really was trying to get away from Defiance or because he was up to some shady stuff.

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Or it his mad money, he does notwant his brother going into his wallet to buy cigs, it is all his christmas money from his mommy. Hey I hid money away from my family when I was teen and now from my wife.

PS. Just because Thunder clap is "Published" author gives him no authority over someone else universe. I can pt to other published authors (david weber) who have bad science in them. Now if he was writer for the series, he would be an authority.

[Snowranger19]

I was at SXSW, it was really hard to get a plushy. By the time I found their booth (it was outside, not even on the main floor) they didn't haz any.

So does anyone who went to SWSX or the convention where they got the hellbug plushies got any?

[Jack Johnson]

You are trying to explain away why there is an inconsistency without proof.

There is no inconsistency. You're simply nitpicking.

[Nero]

I think to answer the question. Scrip is paper currency printed by E Rep and backed back valuable resources such as gulanite. Just as American money is backed by gold.

The world largely operates off scrip and bartering.

Also the VC take the scrip currency because the VC are officially a part of the UN or were at some point. Also why the jek do the Votans have only 5000 years of history and obtained space travel while humans have a much longer history. 6000 years of written history and much much more oral history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history

[aRtFuL]

Actually it is. You always place something of revelance on your money. The 5 has the e-rep seal on it. So why not this?
That has the actual location of e-rep on it. Unless they are not telling us something.

Actually that globe above would be incorrect if you check out the wiki. E-Rep only has control over some parts of East coast (which was depicted in the E-rep currency's globe). West coast is largely frontiers and contolled by various groups.

The globe on the currency might very well be correct as E-Rep might actually control the Atlantic and Europe as well (which was not depicted in the series).

[Nero]

Actually that globe above would be incorrect if you check out the wiki. E-Rep only has control over some parts of East coast (which was depicted in the E-rep currency's globe). West coast is largely frontiers and contolled by various groups.

The globe on the currency might very well be correct as E-Rep might actually control the Atlantic and Europe as well (which was not depicted in the series).

E-Rep when it was formed was the UN. As of today, they contain 193 countries and the Votan makes 194.

[aRtFuL]

E-Rep when it was formed was the UN. As of today, they contain 193 countries and the Votan makes 194.

Which is pretty much what I am saying - America in Defiance's timeline is pretty much wasteland. Only Eastern seaboard really has heavy concentration civilized areas.

See map below:



So technically Western seaboard is not really their center of influence, thus make the map on the currency correct.