Markets

Each world has a global market of items for sale, offered by Estates with a Trade Hall or passing Starships fitted with a Gravity Dock.

Estates
An estate may sell items on the world market as long as it has a Trade Hall. The merchant classes of the world take the items from the estate and arrange payments to be delivered upon sale.

To buy items, the estate must have a shuttle port building. Each shuttle port level allows the estate to buy 1000 total mass of items per chronum.

Spaceships
A spaceship fitted with a Gravity Anchor may trade with the world market from orbit. It may buy items on sale as long as it has space for the cargo or sell items from its inventory.

Listing
A seller may list any quantity of any item for sale, specifying a price they are expecting. The sale is tied to the house of the seller and the item taken into escrow until sold or the sell order is revoked. If revoked, the current estate of the character doing the revoking receives the returned items.

If sold, the seller receives the sovereigns due from the buyer.