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Originally Posted by maximara
I doubt a TL 12 galaxy would care much for gold other then it being a good conductor for electricity. More over anybody with any sense will quickly realize everybody trying to make gold (or anything regarded as precious) like its going out of style will make that thing worthless.
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Magic could allow the production of materials that are either impossible or prohibitively expensive (in the latter case, it will allow marked drops to the price of such materials, allowing for much more widespread use - but the first few mages to cash in are going to make out like bandits, at least if they can avoid the actual bandits trying to steal from them). PTU’s (polytransuranics) from
Schlock Mercenary come to mind - they are necessary for creating the matter->energy conversion plants of the setting, and are useful elsewhere as well, but require such massive energy expenditures they almost require you to already have such plants, and even then it’s a slow, expensive process. Magic that lets you make it more easily would be a great boon (the Toughs get something comparable, finding a huge ancient cache of the stuff, and it makes them incomprehensibly wealthy).