Well everyone coming from different places isn't so odd -- space stations and the Outpost are like that. But the matter of money....

"What kinda place is this, that y'all got different money? What's wrong with pixels?" Pixels are common to all the space-faring races, so the idea of using something else seems... downright primitive.

"I was raised on Earth, but I'm a Novakid. We're kinda like... lil' humanoid stars? Kinda." How a bunch of sapient plasma in a humanoid shell functions 'biologically' is a mystery for the ages, even to Novakids themselves.