Silver Cluster

Centrally located near the Yidna Band, the Silver Cluster has long been a teeming center of commerce, both legitimate and more keenly profitable. Recent rumors of the presence of Zeugor have left the real estate market reeling. Some say this is an elaborate ruse, but would you stay? Don't forget to hit Stub's one more time on your way out. With the market so volatile, it's more important than ever that Mooncursers cater to all budgets. Any ship whose cargo contains all possible QUALITY values receives a Budget Bonus equal to the total QUALITY value of their UNETHICAL items.

Zeugor

Zeugor is the planet swallower, born at the universe's creation to balance the expansion of the universe. Zeugor is currently believed to be located somewhere in the Silver Cluster, where vendors are enjoying a brisk trade in both "Repent before Zeugor" and "Bite me, Zeugor!" flibs. The ship delivering the most QUALITY 0 items to their Galactic Consortium trading agent receives a Kitsch Bonus equal to the number of QUALITY 0 items squared.

Mantar

The Mantese people have created an economy based entirely on tourism, which is astounding for a planet under perpetual cloud-cover with no remarkable natural features whatsoever. The Mantese chose to compensate by creating artificial attractions and charging exorbitant prices to see them, shrewdly capitalizing on the belief that high prices implies great value.

Mooncursers, on the other hand, believe in quality. The crew delivering the highest combined QUALITY total to a Galactic Consortium trading agent receives the Top Quality Bonus. The crew is paid triple for its cargo before any other bonuses are applied.

APOGEE

Apogee Consolidated is a multicluster conglomerate with divisions in a number of diverse fields including spaceship bras, exterior garbage containers (via their U-Tow line), Markin lures, and of course, dicatalytic converters. Their latest venture is a chain of viewing posts which can reveal the mysteries of the past, under the slogan: "That's right, stuff that's already happened!" This venture should be less vulnerable to claims of libel than Apogee's previous effort, What's Next Inc., which we cannot discuss due to ongoing legal action in 56 systems and mostly illegal action in 23 more.

Speaking of consolidation, Mooncursers enjoy a Bundle Bonus: All MANUFACTURED items of matching quality earn a bonus of N * (N+1) / 2 *per item*, where N is the number of matching items.

The closest viewing post is at [47.6614 N, 122.3334 W].

Marcus Nembek

Marcus Nembek is credited with discovering the method by which kurgle eggs may be harvested with a pair of andirons. He is not credited with discovering the minimum safe distance from the kurgle when the eggs are missed (which turns out, by the way, to be 42 Instarx).

With this 42nd edition of the Handbook, Galactic Consortium is pleased to offer a Mooncurser Edition Bonus. If the total quality values of a ship's cargo is exactly 42, that ship may double the value of any one other bonus it receives.

GalactoChef

GalactoChef, the highest rated reality-show in the galaxy is a three-day marathon cookoff. Three contestants must prepare from scratch a 15-course meal starting only with raw materials. These raw materials include base plant life and animals that must be cloned to avoid violating bans on harming first-order life. Contestants spend the first two days deftly manipulating heat lamps and cloning machines to bring the ingredients to the right level of maturity. Next comes the wheel of change, where each ingredient might get turned over to a competitor or forfeited to the judges for impromptu sampling, based on the luck of the spin. Finally they must prepare the meals without the use of heat or water, while audience members are permitted to throw additional ingredients into the mix! Despite all of this, the contestants final products are usually quite delicious and usually start new eating trends across the galaxy!

The success of these melanges inspired the Mooncursers' Straight Bonus. For each attribute (ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL, MANUFACTURED, SEX, RARE, DANGEROUS, UNETHICAL, DRUG, FOOD), any group of at least five items having that attribute and consecutive quality values earns a bonus equal to their combined base values. Each item can be part of only one set per attribute.