Carl Miller wrote:Why do loroi use octal if they have ten fingers?
Because the Trade language and its numeric system are adopted alien systems, and not ones the Loroi invented themselves.
Carl Miller wrote:Did the Alliance or Union at any point use coins or banknotes?
I can imagine a variety of tokens for exchange, mostly in local currencies or company/caste scrip, but at this tech level such things are just too easy to counterfeit, and so any transaction of more than a trivial sum is going to have to involve some kind of electronic verification. I'm not sure that cash is going to survive the transition from TL8 to TL9.
Suederwind wrote:I know I will regret those questions, but is such "explicit content" widely spread among Loroi females/males or available to them? Would they be surprised if they found Jardins or Kirklands hidden stack of pictures? Or is that something totaly alien to them?
I'm sure it exists, but I don't think it would be common. Loroi females enjoy sex, but it's not a continual compulsion for them the way it is for humans. Humans are unusual (though not unique) in this regard; for most mammals, sex is something that's done solely for reproduction and only at certain times of the year. For humans, it's an important part of the social glue that holds a family together, and humans have an emotional need for it (or a substitute) even if they aren't in a relationship. And so we have invented porn.
Loroi males have a similar need, but they don't have much trouble getting access to the real thing.
Loroi females would not be shocked at the idea of pornography, knowing as they do the needs of males of their own species (though they might be shocked at certain examples of pornography).