Editing Traiders (section)

==Prospects==

;seeds in the bank: Your community is suffering from a devastating blight which makes it impossible to grow the staple crop regional farmers have depended on in recent years. Experts in evolution and ecology suggest that blight-resistant strains might be found elsewhere, but time is running out. There are rumours of a vault containing thousands of varieties of seeds in the semi-mythical land of Hyperborea at the North Pole. The Hyperboreans do in fact have a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault seed bank] with crops from around the world, but to make a withdrawal from this bank, the Hyperboreans require trade in kind: you must be able to provide seeds that ''they'' need.

;the pale blue dot: The Earth is a lonelier place without a global economy supporting space development and exploration. There are no more space stations and few satellites, even for communication. The space elevator plans of the past seem like Tower of Babel stories from some ancient myth. A few scientists still keep track of a few amazingly rugged probes which are still operating in the solar system, and they have even outlined an ambitious project for launching an array of swarming space telescopes to explore the universe through interferometry, which might be possible with the resources of many of the more prosperous communities working together.