Deciding that those two could use a bit more privacy, Freddy asked the adjudicator for another room where could browse the shop in peace. To his credit, the man didn’t even ask why Freddy’s current room wouldn’t do and just gave him the keys to an empty guest room.Walking out, he took Sophia in tow and headed there. “Whatchu got there?” she asked playfully, leaning over to take a peek at the tablet. He briefly showed it to her and she immediately gaped in delight. “Oh, gimme!” She yanked it out of his grip and got to scrolling. She whistled and winced. “YIkes. Those are some crazy prices…”“Oh, woe be us! If only we had billions of dollars at our disposal…” Freddy muttered with a cheeky smirk. She snorted. “Well I don’t know about you, but I plan on splurging a bit.” She gasped. “Oh my god that’s so cute!” Tapping the screen, she pinched her fingers to zoom in on a specific item.Freddy couldn’t stop admiring the piece of etherology. He had no idea how Old-Earth electronics would compare in function, as he’d only ever read descriptions of them and saw drawings in books, but he thought this had to be rather close. He couldn’t help but wonder whether humanity would eventually recreate something like the Old-Earth Internet. The Ethernet was a thing, but it was mostly just for basic communication between the richest people in the empire or large organizations. And even then, it wasn’t as interconnected as the all-encompassing Internet of the old world. Putting (...)