10th Life - And we were broke, it's true [video]

[onlytheblue]

[Well hello, Network, it's been a little while. He's been lying low since his future started cropping up everywhere, including his future self. He's no saint about spoilers, but he'd still rather not have an entire portion of his future laid out for him. Imagine the drag however many years that stretched for would be. Besides that, he's not the

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[sand_wormie]

People could... invent grayweave thousands of years early? A couple generators could feed a lot of people for as long as they're running. I think there'd be something similar around already.

[Winces.] It doesn't taste like much though.

[onlytheblue]

[He grimaces.] It's a good theory, but as you said, you'd be inventing it thousands of years early, potentially off-setting the future in massive ways. [He rubs at his chin thoughtfully.] But if we could do something that's temporary, and that only the very, very clever could look back and replicate...

[sand_wormie]

It's this single-celled thing grown in a medium with whatever else it needs. The waste product settles to the bottom of the tanks, you skim off some of the... stuff when it gets too thick, and both it and the waste are technically edible. It only grows in the generators.

If there was something like that and you just took the generators apart later, that could work. I know they already grow one-cell foods in some places. Like agar. Just not on that kind of scale.

[onlytheblue]

[He rubs at his chin.] We'd need to make enough to feed the entire planet regularly, and we'd need to keep the generators secure and secret enough that the designs--even the concept, really--couldn't get out or be stolen by the Sith. And we'd need a delivery system.

[sand_wormie]

So... a lot of space, first, which is kind of a premium here unless you go downlevel a long ways. If you do go down that far you need people to keep the scavengers and monsters away, and you'd have to maybe gimmick a lift up so it can bring stuff up to the populated places. Maybe start with one sector; there's speeder trucks and so on.

- Also I don't actually know what the medium is or much about how they made the grayweave organism. I don't know anyone who does - it's kind of a Corporate Sector secret.

Don't Ithorians do gene splicing? Back home there was someone doing this thing with hubba gourds...

[onlytheblue]

[He gives a small smile at that.] Well...maybe not grayweave, then...but making our own food in high quantities more cheaply than the Republic does is a good idea. [He squints at the screen a moment, thoughtful.] Hubba gourds?

[sand_wormie]

Those're just plants that grow on Tatooine. Don't bother, they're bad crops. Really picky.

Hydroponic anything might be good. We do that back home, underground. There's only one sun and it's not that strong, so I guess there's power issues here... [He shakes his head.] Still, if you need a food source that's cheap, grows fast so it can get harvested a lot, and doesn't need too many resources, single-celled anything tends to work. On the farm we've only got the one algae tank, but that's 'cause we don't need much, the farm's been running for years.

[onlytheblue]

[He rubs his chin.] Hydroponic isn't a bad idea, potentially, but that's a method of growth, not a plant itself. And even if we choose a plant, we'll need to get it. And in sufficient quantity.