Grrl Power #1415 - Catered scheme (Patreon)

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I wanted there to be more crews present, but I ran out of space and time to draw them. Also, there really should have been a few more aliens and sci-fi looking people in the mix, but no, I just drew your basic fantasy menagerie. Cora's crew is 4/5th aliens at least. I guess the mostly alien crews were off doing adventuring stuff. It's not like Cora's arrival had been announced before hand. 

I figure in a galaxy spanning economy, a modestly successful bit of entertainment, like a webcomic or an indie novel could potentially make a mint, because the potential audience size could be in the trillions. I'm pretty sure I've posted before about how cultural tropes across many species would be a pretty huge filter for pop-culture. Like, the Cardassians probably wouldn't be into J or K-pop, but they might really eat up Russian poetry and philosophy, what with their mutual predilection for bleak overtones. There's always subcultures within each society, even Star Trek-esque monocultures. So the total consumer population would always be a slim fraction of the actual number, but still, if you're starting with a trillion, as a nice round number for easy math here, if you can sell your indie movie or pop-single to 1/1,000th of 1/1000/th of the population, you're still making a million sales. And in the post-scarcity parts of the galaxy, entertainment is one of the economic pillars. 

All this is to say, the Unlimited Class Battle Arena has a lot more than a million people pay-per-viewing, and the gambling can get pretty out of control. I mean, there's the official gambling channels, then there's the underground stuff. If they really do have a ringer in Maxima, they could all buy a fleet of ships. The thing is, a lot of people have tried to put what they consider a sure thing into the Unlimited Class Battle Arena, but it's the Unlimited Class Battle Arena. So sometimes entrants do indeed sweep the field, but mostly audiences get an over the top event that would make Michael Bay erection to death, and bookies laugh all the way to the bank.