What do they eat on Asteroids and airless worlds?
How do you grow food cheaply enough to ship in bulk to worlds with no atmospheres?
IMTU the answer is Root Marm. Root Marm can grow on any world with some atmosphere and deep, deep sand. The Root Marm is a gigantic tuber, the size of supermarket, that grows underground in deep sands.
It tastes incredibly bland and joyless, but not necessarily bad. But, it requires very little work to plant or tend, is fairly nutricious, grows quickly and requires little processing. Dig the sucker up, cut it into pieces, cram your hold full of it and take it to the nearest mining colony.
When your PC pirates seize a merchant vessel, what's the last thing they want to find in the hull? ROOT MARM!
When your PC mercenaries open their "free rations" provided by their patron, what's the last thing they want to find? ROOT MARM!
If you must make a deal with rioting miners, what's the last thing they'll ever accept, and what is your hull crammed with? ROOT MARM!
How do you grow food cheaply enough to ship in bulk to worlds with no atmospheres?
IMTU the answer is Root Marm. Root Marm can grow on any world with some atmosphere and deep, deep sand. The Root Marm is a gigantic tuber, the size of supermarket, that grows underground in deep sands.
It tastes incredibly bland and joyless, but not necessarily bad. But, it requires very little work to plant or tend, is fairly nutricious, grows quickly and requires little processing. Dig the sucker up, cut it into pieces, cram your hold full of it and take it to the nearest mining colony.
When your PC pirates seize a merchant vessel, what's the last thing they want to find in the hull? ROOT MARM!
When your PC mercenaries open their "free rations" provided by their patron, what's the last thing they want to find? ROOT MARM!
If you must make a deal with rioting miners, what's the last thing they'll ever accept, and what is your hull crammed with? ROOT MARM!