In the world of Ghimderi, there was a gathering at a well-travelled area. This was the galactic stock exchange and was what one might call the heart of the galaxy. Millennia ago, the Ghimderi Banking Clans had centralized the currency used by interstellar civilizations. And though the Major Galactic powers each marked their "credits" differently, they were all functionally the same thing.
Here the stockbrokers from a thousand different species gathered to buy and sell stocks in an attempt to make themselves and their civilizations rich. For some time now there had been an up and coming industrial corporations, whose products were not only high quality, but extremely cost effective.
