 be fair to Zeltrolltch. 
Explaining and discussion is always good, no matter the topic. It allows other viewpoints into our bubbles.
Laughs at good and rages at evil is basically the creed of proper Trolly Trolls, man.
Kate is smart, and so am I. The difference is, she's far more clever than I or my SIs normally are. She's leveraging the first contact to quantum leap her country forwards. She is also fulfilling his request for money by giving him a lot more money, on top of screwing with him, in the form of people and a country he's responsible for. She's also anchoring America to Planetcaller in a gigantic way, and that's a two way street. I know this, she knows this. Due to how she's enlisting Planetcaller's aid, there would be very few people against helping out Planetcaller on the world stage. She's basically offering up America and its worldwide diplomatic might as Planetcaller's buddies, an incredibly important thing to do with a foreign entity. It gives him legitimacy on the planet, and creates a grateful populace.
I'm writing Kate as she was shown in Who. As close as I can.
Just because Planetcaller has the technology with which to absolutely murder the stock market, doesn't mean I know how to. This is another place where I'm subverting tropes. You can't always get perfect alien tech-tier connection to the Internet, and just because you're a super AI that doesn't mean you personally have the skill or knowledge to play the stock market.
Yep, this basically.
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Yeah, but fanfic writers nowadays reduced what is one of the most badass Neutral Good Characters in Nasuverse into a Deus Ex Machina for Xcross madness.
Now that would be OK, for example, there is a cross DxD fic on FF about a Roman gladiator that through sheer gumption and wiles was able to harness the last of Gaia's "mindless" and "formless" Natural Disasters (basically a guided Cataclysm) into a Human shaped being two steps below a Nature spirit with his conciousness.
The Gladiator went on to wander (his origin is Wanderer) about the Earth for years.
Now, with the help of 3 grand servants bound to him (Scatach, Altera, NotaAsshole!Gil), the four of them are interdimensional troubleshooters, and are now in a dimension where Trihexa is in danger of getting out and rampage through dimensions.
But, shameless plug aside, Fanfic writers now just have him as a less malicious, but still "entertain me mortal" 1D excuse of a character.
And that's what Grinds My Gears!
He's is own fuckin bad cliche of the ROB that ruins a guy/gal's life for the LULZ!!1! When he's the guy closest to a "Hero of Justice" Fate has!
Regardless of who you think someone is, what you know of them, people tend to be viewed and remembered for something they did in their lives.
And for Zel... well, that's the Kaleidosticks.
You can be the guardian of humanity throughout time. Punch gods in the face,and laugh in the face of the end of everything. But what he gets to be most recognized for, are two colorful magical girl sticks.
And his entire personality will be from now on viewed, through the colorful lens of a humanoid Kyuubei with a trolling streak dimensions wide.
It's an economic issue.
The state doesn't physically have that much money to begin with. Tax money comes in all the time, and is immediately spent on everything to keep a country running. Much more so that US doesn't back its cash with anything.
So in order to actually give him his cash they need to print it, or input more zeros in a banks virtual account.
But the sudden appearance of so much cash in rotation would cause the market to crumble, globally- other nations base their moneys value on the US dollar... that isn't backed by anything.
SI can't sell minerals without crashing the market, but if instead gives the US hard matter, like Gold, Silver, Platinum, or processed Uranium, this can all be used to show the world that the US dollar is backed by something tangible and trade-able, and of practical worth.
So if the US decides to print cash, they can use the "we had it backed always!" card, and get away with it without affecting the market.
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I understand that. Money is worth what it can buy and when you create and sell valuable things in a country you raise the value of that country's currency, enabling that country to print more cash. If PC created a billion cancer cures and sold them for a hundred bucks a pop the US could print a hundred extra billion dollars, because everyone on the world would want dollars to buy cancer cures with.
When PC said "gimme cash" he meant "Let me do some great public work, creating value in the US that would enable you to print more cash. Then give me that." And the president's counteroffer was "How about instead you do hundreds of great public works like that and we pay you with something that you don't need and that will only bring you trouble."
EDIT: About Zelretch. Uh, why does nobody go my route for ROBs? (Note that I haven't read any canon Zelretch dialogue.) Zelretch could reappear a while in and look what happened. The SI goes: "Whut? Weren't you watching for the lulz?" and Zel is like "What? Good grace man, do you think I do this for FUN? This and that and tis character was going to die, the Death Star blowing up/the Windstone crisis was fated to kill millions! I put you here because this world needed a Hero and you, with your near encyclopedic knowledge of what was bound to happen were it. Do you think the Wizard Marshal some asinine prankster? I manage thousands of people like you at a time and I have saved more people than there are atoms in a galaxy! Now worm, say your goodbyes, this was easy mode, next is a RWBY AU were Ruby watched Yang die and you need to fix everything that went wrong as a consequence. Hop to it, I have other's to help, there are countless billions of people dying while you pick up your Jaw from the floor."
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adaw Getting sticky.
That, also sounds like a destabilization issue. The U.S. economy will become immensely more powerful, which translates to the U.S. government becoming immensely more powerful. What will the Russian Federation do with a corrupt scumbag like Vladmir Putin in office? What will U.S. longtime allies do now that the U.S. just skyrocketed ahead in economic power?
Can I have a link for that fic please?
Someone better thank me with a good Zel Characterization, because GOOD GOD that was hard to find.
This fic shows a Wizard Marshall that, although he likes to play around, does other things than "troll" people.
There's Also a FIC with a serious Zel with an SI!Shinji trying to reddeem his future deeds, wanna link?
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Me too the serious one.
Story focused on SI!Shinji, but the parts that the man so badass that becoming a Dead Apostle was a downgrade for him is in shows abit what the Wizard Marshall can truly be, out of the LOLTROLL rails fanfics put him in.
Thank you for that. Sorry I didn't reply sooner, my notifications were backlogged to heck and back.
I hover over San Francisco, thinking.
About three miles above the Golden Gate Bridge, actually. Needless to say the entire world is aware of where I am now.
Kate is competent. 

I offered to give her an entire gram of antimatter… and she only considered it for a few moments.
No, instead of accepting rare material payment, you know what she wants?
My unique ability to manipulate the world on a grand scale.
Every dam, every road, every highway, hell, every old building that wasn't historical, she asked me to repair. Not just repair, but upgrade.
The upgrade only came after I revealed that most forms of matter were just as easy for me to make as any other forms. The only things that changed were the time required, and the energy needed.
I am also being hired to lay a full coast to coast Internet system of complete and total fiber cabling and whatever improvements I can make to Earth's network technology.
I was stunned at that, especially because I knew America's energy generation wasn't up to the level needed to power such a thing even with the current tech, much less what plans I've already started designing for the upgrades.
So she struck another deal. At that point I was just amused, and going along for the ride.
A billion dollars per fusion reactor.
And she'd ordered ten thousand of them.

I was too stunned to say no, even if I had that inclination. The woman is trying to make her nation a better place, and is the first politician of real, tangible