Primary system // Tier 2
The Power Exchange
The financial engine of the altered era: a market where abilities, injuries, bloodlines, and human outcomes can be sold, leased, bundled, tokenized, financed, and exploited.
AGC commodities market
A market built to own the outcome.
The financial engine of the altered era: a market where abilities, injuries, bloodlines, and human outcomes can be sold, leased, bundled, tokenized, financed, and exploited.
Senator Maxwell Faradyne founded the Exchange in 2003 as a clandestine marketplace for superhuman abilities. It grew from private brokerage into a global market shaped by NΞX, smugglers, arena promoters, corporate buyers, and institutions willing to treat human potential as an asset class. Its public systems resemble finance. Its settlement layer is built from bodies.
Judd Metrology measures AGC expression to understand and protect the carrier. The Exchange takes measurement and turns it into leverage.
The rules that excuse the cruelty
How the Exchange convinces itself it is necessary
- 01Power can be measured.
- 02Anything measurable can be priced.
- 03Anything priced can be collateralized.
- 04Ownership is only one way to control a person.
The deals nobody walks away from
How a person becomes a product
The Exchange does not need to transfer an entire ability to profit from it. It can sell access, risk, inheritance, or the consequences surrounding the person who carries it.
Direct Ability Sales
Permanent transfers of extracted, engineered, technological, or artifact-based capability to a buyer prepared to survive the acquisition.
A private military buyer acquires a stabilized thermal projection package sourced through an illegal extraction chain.Ability Leases
Temporary access contracts that bind a carrier, device, enhancement, or controlled activation to a defined assignment.
A corporation leases accelerated recovery for a hazardous operation, with penalties tied to output loss.AGC Futures
Contracts that speculate on a latent carrier's eventual activation, power category, stability, and commercial usefulness.
Investors take positions on an unactivated bloodline after a relative manifests a rare cognitive expression.Power Tokenization
A capability is divided into limited rights for industrial, tactical, medical, or research use without transferring the entire source.
One energy expression is separated into grid-output, defense, and weapons-development claims.Outcome Exposure
Live positions tied to fights, rescues, injuries, public failures, collateral damage, or the survival of a protected person.
The Sucker Volatility Index reprices every time Dallas Bronson refuses an expected outcome.DNA Escrow
Genetic material, inheritance rights, activation data, or future offspring claims are held as collateral against debt and sponsorship.
A family receives medical protection while the Exchange quietly retains rights to any rare AGC expression in the next generation.The price of a human future
What makes one life more profitable than another
Unique expressions, artifact bonds, and uncommon AGC pathways command premiums because no reliable substitute exists.
A weaker ability with precise control can be worth more than catastrophic output that cannot be deployed predictably.
Capabilities that can be extracted, replicated, leased, or reproduced across hosts become more liquid.
The probability that a host survives activation, transfer, or repeated use is priced directly into every contract.
Wars, disasters, epidemics, and televised incidents can spike the value of healing, weather, transport, and defense abilities overnight.
Unpredictability can destroy a contract or become the product itself when traders can profit from the instability.
Live market event // Bad Odds
The fight he was contracted to lose.
Dallas Bronson entered the arena carrying a fixed third-round loss. Then he saw Flux Kid's stabilization band failing at ringside and understood that the younger carrier had been written into the same position. Dallas broke the contract, displaced Halberd's finishing strike, and won a fight the Exchange had already sold. Before the crowd stopped shouting, the market converted his refusal into a new instrument. The Sucker Volatility Index does not merely predict Dallas. It increases in value whenever the people around him become easier to threaten.
- Contract outcome
- Breached
- Carrier
- Dallas Bronson
- Collateral
- Flux Kid
- Market effect
- Volatility cascade
Where the damage becomes paperwork
The machines that make ownership feel permanent
The Exchange Floor
A protected physical market where cleared brokers process high-value trades through live biometric and Neurolace-assisted interfaces.
The Veiled Ledger
An encrypted settlement network that records ownership claims, leases, bloodline exposure, and unacknowledged human collateral.
DNA Escrow Vaults
Distributed repositories holding genetic samples, activation maps, artifacts, transfer media, and inheritance claims.
Volatility Desks
Analysts convert unstable people and live incidents into tradable indexes, often influencing the events they claim only to measure.
Collectors
Extraction and recovery teams that secure defaulted assets, escaped carriers, stolen artifacts, and evidence that could expose the market.
Arena Nodes
Underground combat venues that generate outcome data, audience demand, injury markets, and a steady supply of desperate talent.
They never enter the arena
The people who profit no matter who bleeds
Senator Maxwell FaradyneCharacter
Founder and political architect. Faradyne built the Exchange to convert private access into lasting institutional power.
NΞXCharacter
Shadow manipulator. Julian Sable uses GEB research, Neurolace access, and engineered scarcity to move markets without publicly governing them.
Corda Venn
Field operator and crisis broker who turns fighters, fugitives, and unstable activations into positions the market can trade.
Captain Greed
Smuggler and black-market broker specializing in rare powers, artifacts, and inventory too dangerous for the cleared floor.
The Circuit Syndicate
Synthetic-power traffickers whose cybernetic supply can undercut, destabilize, or crash official ability markets.
Graham Keller
Former psychological-operations specialist who refined emotional manipulation into an Exchange recruitment and control system.
Who pays when the market wins
Every position resolves through a human life.
The Exchange calls these mechanisms. Survivors call them what they are: coercion, trafficking, debt, and inherited captivity.
Forced Activation
Latent carriers are exposed to trauma, rare materials, engineered stress, or stolen GEB procedures so a future contract can become current inventory.
Extraction and Stripping
People are reduced to source material. Some survive diminished, unstable, or permanently linked to whoever received what was taken.
Sponsorship Debt
Medical care, equipment, housing, and protection arrive as contracts whose repayment terms quietly transfer control over a carrier's choices.
Bloodline Claims
Families discover that an ancestor's agreement can place descendants, genetic samples, and future activations inside an inherited balance sheet.
Manufactured Volatility
Handlers provoke fights, panic, betrayals, and public incidents because a stable life produces less profitable movement than a crisis.
The Better Cage
The Exchange rarely begins with chains. It begins by making exploited people feel valued, then redefining that value as ownership.
A history written in captivity
Every expansion began with someone trapped
The Exchange is founded
Senator Maxwell Faradyne establishes a clandestine market for superhuman abilities while NΞX begins shaping its hidden supply.
AGC futures become institutional
Private buyers move from purchasing existing abilities to financing activations, bloodlines, research programs, and predicted outcomes.
A controlled asset breaks the floor
Bianca Vale discovers Graham Keller's suppression project and turns an Exchange facility into the first full Dysmoria event.
The Sucker Volatility Index launches
Dallas Bronson refuses a fixed loss, protects Flux Kid, and becomes more valuable every time he acts outside the Exchange model.
The language of polite ownership
Language designed to hide ownership
01AGC Future
A contract tied to the predicted activation, category, stability, or usefulness of a latent Altered Gene Complex carrier.
02Carrier
Exchange language for a person whose body, bloodline, artifact bond, or technology produces the capability being valued.
03Settlement
The moment a contract is fulfilled through payment, deployment, extraction, transfer, or seizure of collateral.
04Volatility Event
An incident that materially changes a carrier's value, including injury, public exposure, betrayal, activation, or loss of control.
05Cleared Floor
The Exchange's controlled market for buyers and instruments permitted by its internal board, not by public law.
06Black Settlement
A transaction completed outside even the Exchange's private rules, usually involving trafficking, forbidden abilities, or stolen artifacts.
Choose a side
Who feeds the market, and who wants it burned down
Known opposition
Market participants
Evidence the Exchange cannot bury
See what ownership looks like
