What does the KFS buy and sell?

[dragoon500ly]

According to TM 1-1, 3rd Edition, the Rich Five (better known as the Kentucky Free State) are listed as covering a much greater area than the published modules acknowledge.

They cover two regions:

Northeastern Highland Region of Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky.

Southeastern Highland Region of South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama.

They are also listed as possessing a tech level of 1980+, including Unlimited power, fusion and laser technology and population. Some of their weapons are equivalent to the Project. Limited only be available materials and population (work force).

This implies that the KFS should have access to a large population, with a industrial base to match.

When asking how much technology the KFS has, it can be argued that they have as much tech as they need. And with them controlling ten states, and with "outposts" into the surrounding states (if only to secure strategic points and resources).....

[RandyT0001]

From 4th edition:

Location Found: 3/4 (former state of Kentucky).
Agents and traders may be found in the neighboring states.

Description: The KFS was founded by the Rich Five: a group of
industrialists who made plans similar to the Morrow
Project. However, the KFS has become a corrupt and
decadent society with a hugely wealthy upper class,
a small middle class and a form of slavery that is
vaguely similar to the Roman system. Note: the KFS
aristocracy is aware of the Morrow Project and has
directed the Secret Police to suppress it.

To me, the Kentucky Free State is the actual entity that covers most of Kentucky and about a third of Tennessee. They have holdings, primarily mines, in the highlands of the east, from Georgia to Canada, linked by rail that supplies the industrial needs of the Rich Five government, which is why they are listed in those areas. It also says that agents (spies, saboteurs, and subversives) and traders (spies, saboteurs, and more subversives) are in neighboring areas to Kentucky Free State (Ohio river valley and Tennessee river valley).

[knightofrubus]

Thats kinda how I picture them. Kentucky is their heartland with the Ohio River Valley and Tenesee River Valley as a kind of frontier that they've slowly started to explore. What Holdings they have are not unlike forts or mining towns of the Western frontier of the 1800s.

[dragoon500ly]

I've played the KFS with its core as Kentucky and Tennessee, with colonies in Ohio and Missouri, but reading the 3rd edition description, I think, would allow a PD to field a larger, nastier version than the modules have shown.

I'm playing with a list of resources and possible tech sites that were but nuked to see how far this can go.

[knightofrubus]

So what does the KFS use as money? Id assume printed currency with the Rich Five on it or do they use hard currency still

[dragoon500ly]

Originally Posted by knightofrubus

So what does the KFS use as money? Id assume printed currency with the Rich Five on it or do they use hard currency still

I'd assume barter in the smaller day to day transactions, coinage for slightly larger transactions and local trade between villages, paper for large transactions, all the way up to credit/debit cards in the major cities, for the elites only of course.