In space, livable space comes at a premium price …
Each habitat within the Niecti system requires its own monthly cost of living for subsistence-level Chronology.
Most habitats offer improved shelter and amenities at additional costs.
Air and Water: If you cannot afford air or water, then you must stop using it, hustle for it, or go somewhere it's plentiful enough to not be tracked by the liter.
Niecti is the only planet in the system with enough breathable atmosphere and liquid hydrosphere to support untaxed breathing and drinking.
Several worlds and asteroid belts in the system support water, but not in liquid form unless willing to work for it.
Many governments across the Niecti system will subsidize air or water costs until circumstances change or subsidize the ticket cost on the next ship heading for Niecti itself.
Food: If you cannot afford food, then you must stop eating it or hustle for it.
Hydroponic installations and agricultural farming stations provide the food across the Niecti system, and agricultural operations constantly fall short of labor.
People willing to grow food will have food and will easily find their way to the surface hydroponics on Niecti or the Sunflower stations around the inner system.
Clothes: At starvation or subsistence levels of Chronology, donations and charities help scrounge clothes.
Shelter: provides a safe space for rest, hygiene, and storage.
Most stations and ships have limited shelter space to assign or rent and very little unclaimed space to tolerate or support squatters.
At the low end of the scale, people may pool resources to “hot-bunk” up to 4 to a bunk, coffin hotel-style, assuming each person only sleeps in it one shift out of every 4, sharing that hotel's per-bunk hygiene facilities.
Niecti's biosphere supports homeless encampments in the warmest equatorial regions.
| Lifestyle | Costs | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Poverty | less than 500 CCr a month | Struggles daily to afford air, water, food, and shelter |
| Low | less than 2,500 CCr a month | Contract-to-contract or payday-to-payday with little safety net or room for luxury |
| Mid | less than 5,000 CCr a month | Stable work that provides a small safety net and occasional luxuries |
| Upper | less than 10,000 CCr a month | Stable lucrative work that provides a safety net, and frequent luxuries |
| High | more than 10,000 CCr a month | Significant worth, investment, safety net, and additional luxuries |
Alliance Core Credits (CCr)