There is also the problem of time lag with Jumping. I suspect that Letters of Credit are going to be used a lot, with some means of keeping them from being forged. I think that a fair number of your passengers on Free Traders are going to be financial people along to verify the Letter of Credit to the destination bank, or merchants just making sure that they actually get the profit from the sale and delivery of their cargo.
And what's a bank note or bill if not a Letter of Credit to a Central Bank (despite being considered cash)?
I remember when I was a child (probably before Traveller even existed) the Spanish bank notes have written on them "El banco de España pagará al protador 100/500/1000 pesetas" (translated: The Bank of Spain will pay to the bearer 100/500/1000 pesetas), so clearly showing that it was a letter of credit to it. This sentece disappeared from the bank notes somtime in the 70s, IIRC...
given that the pay ranges from Cr300 to Cr2000 or so... and about 1/10 are officers at Cr1000-Cr2000, while Enlisted are Cr300 to Cr1000...
Let's assume the average officer is Cr1400 (O3), and Enlisted is a PO3 drawing Cr500, we get Cr5900 per 10... that's only 847 bodies.
Might be a weekly payroll for a subsector.
Well, the adventure says:
(...) his fleet had arried a quarterly fleet payroll: three months wadges for all Imperial naval personnel in the sector
Of course, MCr 5 is by no means enough, but this may be just the part this specific ship carried, or the part that is left usable of it, I don't know (or more probably the writer of the adventure thought that more than this was too much a reward for the players, but that's metagame thinking).
Again, in any case, it shows clearly that in OTU canon cash is still used, and that's why I brought this adventure to bear, despite any flaws it may have.
Another (IMHO) example of evidence that some form of cash is used we can find in LBB7:Merchan Prince, page 45, among posible cargoes a ship may carry:
(bold original)Units of Exchange: Sometimes shipments between worlds consist of money itself.
This also appears (carbón copied) in MT:RM, page 48.
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