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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[tronja307020]

[Oh! Doctor! Tron has been worrying about you since those User-deleted dreams were shared between he and Rose. He looks happy, and relieved, to see you.]

Doctor, it's good to see you again. Is...is Rose alright? Are you alright? [How exactly is he supposed to broach this subject? It's extremely awkward...] I don't know the first thing about resolving the rationing. Didn't even know the word until they started doing it...

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[onlytheblue]

[He may or may not have heard that much about it from Rose, his puzzled expression may simply be his not making the connection between the shared dreams and Tron's worry.]

Yes, we're both alright. Shouldn't we be? [As awkwardly as possible and work backward from there?] Well...the obvious answer to ending rationing is ending the need for it. Which leads us to three possibilities: Stop the war, convince the Senate Coruscant needs the food more than the military does, or...bring in more food.

[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.

[derpydrjimmy]

Yeah, it does suck...

Hm, maybe we can find some food on other planets and bring some back for everyone?

[onlytheblue]

[Hello! Have a bright smile and a wave!] Hello! That's a good starting point...but remember there's a trillion people on this planet, all--well, most--of whom need to eat approximately three meals a day. You'd have to find a massive amount of food, then a way to transport it, and then a way to continue doing so until the rationing ends.

[derpydrjimmy]

I guess. It would be pretty difficult.
But I guess it's worth a shot, if we find the best possible way

[onlytheblue]

It's a matter of getting people enough food to eat. It's absolutely worth a shot.

[huffpuffblonde]

Personally, I'm starting to become a big fan of the idea of cannibalism.

[This is her deadpan face.]

Considering the massive array of planets out there, why isn't there a bit more bloody farming going on?

[onlytheblue]

[Oh, Rose. The unamused look. You shouldn't find that funny with the number of times you've been on the menu.]

Well, considering there's a trillion people here and the Republic's taxed resources, they might not be able to supply enough to count.

[huffpuffblonde]

[Joking, Doctor. You've gotta have a sense of humor, or else ending up as the main course so often would drive you mad.]

A bit of foresight on these things. You'd think they'd have somebody in charge of monitoring that. And considering the vastness of the universe, even the galaxy, there's gotta be something, somewhere, that we're just not thinking of. What about... I dunno... supply houses full of canned goods. There're always loads of those. Or those MREs the military uses, with the powder and stuff.

[onlytheblue]

[He has a sense of humor. Yours just sucks.]

Oh, there's resources out there to feed a hundred Coruscants. The question is, how do we find them, how do we get there without a TARDIS, and how do we get it all here?

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[furwasflying]

[There's a moment of careful consideration before Chewie answers. It's fairly obvious that whatever they've got now isn't going work, and no one likes rationing.

So instead of offering a solution, he rumbles a question instead - one to the effect of inquiring what the Doctor thinks can be done.]

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[onlytheblue]

[sdfkslgh Chewie!

As it turns out, some of the languages he speaks are pretty close to wookie, so it's not that hard to figure what he's trying to say.]

Oh, anything could be, if we put enough effort into it. But the easiest answer might be supplementing supplies.

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[furwasflying]

[Chewie snorts at the first comment. He knows just fine that anything can be a help. He's been around long enough to know that much. Still, he gives the comment the consideration it deserves, and at length he comments that supplementing supplies on a planetary scale is easier said than done.]

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[onlytheblue]

[The Doctor nods, and offers a slim smile.] Unfortunately. First we'd have to find the supplies to do the supplementing with.