"Everyone excepts gold," he replied with a grin. Rub a couple Gold Standards someone's way and they'll drop everything for you.

"The Builders... The Night of a Thousand Suns happened to them," he poured himself a cup of coffee when it finished, blowing on it to cool it down a bit, "Well over a thousand years ago they came across secrets and magics that scared them. So they unleashed their greatest weapons on each other. The Builder Suns, though the oldest texts just called them weapons of mass destruction. Burned the sky, burned the world."