COMMERCE

Commerce amongst factions and any other groups or affiliations is a moderatly simple procedure. When amongst factions the faction leaders discuss what they will be trading and what the costs are. Then they will trade the items. Since factions or tradable items are far apart and the factions are normally busy doing other duties the Ferengi oftenhandle the actual tranport of materials/ships/resources/etc for a nominal fee. The fee can be decided by the faction leaders doing the barter and the Ferengi. The common fee is a portion of dilithium (A single unit of dilithium can be divided into 10 dilithium chips. So a fee might be 4 dilithium chips for a cargo of phaser rifles, body armor and a few vehicles).

Any trade done between factions and non-player groups has to be cleared by a moderator, with the moderator taking part as the other party.

Just about anything can be traded, sold, or bought as long as a supply exists and they can pay for it. Also, at the faction leaders discretion, captains MAY be paid in dilithium chips, keeping in mind dilithium is extremly rare and valuable, few captains would be given more then 1 to 2 chips to do with as they will.

In essence trade is an open option between factions and, when believed necissary, non-player groups. There are no real rules for what can be traded, so feel free to offer whatever you have at whatever price you believe fair to other factions. Just keep it within the Star Trek essence (No trading sentient beings, weapons of mass destruction, etc).