Stilletto_Rebel
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I thought this up many years ago when I used to GM Star Wars. It was an easy way for the (mainly Bounty Hunter) group to make some quick and easy cash:
In my Star Wars Universe, whenever an individual took out a personal loan above a certain amount the bank, building society or loan shark would have a minute chip grafted on to a vein (usually behind the right ear). As long as the individual kept up the payments the chip stayed silent. However, if they defaulted the chip would be alerted by the bank and would then let off a signal of the individual's whereabouts every time that person walked through a doorway equipped with a sensor to pick up these default signals. These sensors would be found everywhere; pubs, shops public buildings, etc. So much so, in fact, that once a chip started emitting a signal, that individual had approximately 20 minutes before a bank-authorised bounty hunter would track them down and take them into custody (sometimes none too gently!).
Of course, this method of finding individuals was so much a way of life on most worlds that 99% of the population accepted these chips and had them. However, this method of tagging people was open to corruption. If people needed to find an individual, it would not take long to find out whom they owed money to and then it would simply be a matter of bribing someone inside the bank to either set off their chip or give their current location.
The Black Market for removing these chips would be very expensive and quite risky to both the black market surgeon and the lender. The chip would be grafted on to a vein in the lender's head or neck, and the flow of blood would both power the chip and inform it it was still inside the lender. If it was removed from the vein before its time it would immediately issue a signal advising it had been removed. The chip would emit this signal after .2 of a second of its being aware it could no longer feel blood pulsing through the vein.
Other spin offs from this of course would be combat. If a lender gets killed in a shoot-out, the area will be visited in a matter of minutes by police and/or bank-authorised bounty hunters. The flip-side would be a much lower murder crime rate too.
Another idea I had but never put into action was the tagging of money. I theorised that units of currency would still be used, and that the issuing authority would build some type of chip into the note, coin or whatever. When an individual extracted money from an ATM, the ATM would register the chips and would advise the bank those individual notes had been taken by individual 'X'. If individual 'X' then went into the pub and used one of those notes buying a round of drinks, the cash till would register the notes and advise the bank of it's location and what had been bought (i.e. O'neill's Spacer's Taven, Heathrow Down Port, three pints of Malibu Jack purchased with note# VCM3256748). The bank would see who had that particular note and add it to their database of information gathered on that individual. Combined with their credit card information, the bank would very quickly build up a large database of individual 'x's purchasing tastes, hobbies, vices, etc. The advertising potential of all this information would be astronomical and worth a fortune commercially.
In my Star Wars Universe, whenever an individual took out a personal loan above a certain amount the bank, building society or loan shark would have a minute chip grafted on to a vein (usually behind the right ear). As long as the individual kept up the payments the chip stayed silent. However, if they defaulted the chip would be alerted by the bank and would then let off a signal of the individual's whereabouts every time that person walked through a doorway equipped with a sensor to pick up these default signals. These sensors would be found everywhere; pubs, shops public buildings, etc. So much so, in fact, that once a chip started emitting a signal, that individual had approximately 20 minutes before a bank-authorised bounty hunter would track them down and take them into custody (sometimes none too gently!).
Of course, this method of finding individuals was so much a way of life on most worlds that 99% of the population accepted these chips and had them. However, this method of tagging people was open to corruption. If people needed to find an individual, it would not take long to find out whom they owed money to and then it would simply be a matter of bribing someone inside the bank to either set off their chip or give their current location.
The Black Market for removing these chips would be very expensive and quite risky to both the black market surgeon and the lender. The chip would be grafted on to a vein in the lender's head or neck, and the flow of blood would both power the chip and inform it it was still inside the lender. If it was removed from the vein before its time it would immediately issue a signal advising it had been removed. The chip would emit this signal after .2 of a second of its being aware it could no longer feel blood pulsing through the vein.
Other spin offs from this of course would be combat. If a lender gets killed in a shoot-out, the area will be visited in a matter of minutes by police and/or bank-authorised bounty hunters. The flip-side would be a much lower murder crime rate too.
Another idea I had but never put into action was the tagging of money. I theorised that units of currency would still be used, and that the issuing authority would build some type of chip into the note, coin or whatever. When an individual extracted money from an ATM, the ATM would register the chips and would advise the bank those individual notes had been taken by individual 'X'. If individual 'X' then went into the pub and used one of those notes buying a round of drinks, the cash till would register the notes and advise the bank of it's location and what had been bought (i.e. O'neill's Spacer's Taven, Heathrow Down Port, three pints of Malibu Jack purchased with note# VCM3256748). The bank would see who had that particular note and add it to their database of information gathered on that individual. Combined with their credit card information, the bank would very quickly build up a large database of individual 'x's purchasing tastes, hobbies, vices, etc. The advertising potential of all this information would be astronomical and worth a fortune commercially.
