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News Credits: 5 · by **Thunderbot** » Mon May 17, 2010 2:27 pm

In Transformers they use energon cubes as currency, but this confuses me because it is both thier energy source and thier money system. How does this work?

News Credits: 3 · by **Name_Violation** » Mon May 17, 2010 7:50 pm

Transbot wrote:In Transformers they use energon cubes as currency, but this confuses me because it is both thier energy source and thier money system. How does this work?

Same way people used livestock, tobacco, salt, ect for centuries in exchange for goods. metals arent the only form of currency.

by **Lorekeeper** » Sat May 22, 2010 6:37 am

I vaguely remember energon coins from a G1 episode.

News Credits: 7 · by **Dragonslayer** » Sat May 22, 2010 9:24 pm

Name_Violation wrote:
Transbot wrote:In Transformers they use energon cubes as currency, but this confuses me because it is both thier energy source and thier money system. How does this work?

Same way people used livestock, tobacco, salt, ect for centuries in exchange for goods. metals arent the only form of currency.

Yeah, it's probably more of a barter system than a monetary one.