What eateries are in your Universe.

[whartung]

This information is sent to the "kitchen" where a multi-ingredient maker system synthisizes your meal.

If you want to put the tech to the level of ST Food Synthesizers, or that scene in Fifth Element where the girl puts the pill in the machine, and 2s later out comes a lovely roast chicken dinner, then fine.

But, until then, folks are going to cook with the best ingredients they can get their hands on.

 

[Badenov]

If you want to put the tech to the level of ST Food Synthesizers, or that scene in Fifth Element where the girl puts the pill in the machine, and 2s later out comes a lovely roast chicken dinner, then fine.

But, until then, folks are going to cook with the best ingredients they can get their hands on.

Well, what's a food synthesizer but a 3D printer for printing food? We've got 3D printers today (arguably early TL8), making food synthesizers can't be that far off. I would say TL9 or at the very latest TL10 that should be doable.

 

[Condottiere]

Texture might be wanting.

Flavour and aroma probably can be chemically duplicated.

 

[kilemall]

Well, what's a food synthesizer but a 3D printer for printing food? We've got 3D printers today (arguably early TL8), making food synthesizers can't be that far off. I would say TL9 or at the very latest TL10 that should be doable.

The printers are working, the feedstock manufacturing is already done to get that to work. May need a bit more TL to get to galley countertop, or actual meat proteins.

 

[BobLoftin]

The Mooch Mine -- serves the mildly hallucinogenic drink, Mooch. Also serves food.

 

[bookwyrm]

Why? The space for galleys comes out of the collective 4T per passenger. Small ships with 1-2 cabins might get a food prep nook. 100-passenger liners get a full kitchen sort of thing.

From New Era 1248 Ships 2: Scout Ships -

"An additional component has been defined for these designs: A 2 ton Galley, costing MCr 0.1. This component is defined because of the very real need for such a component in any kind of starship, and so has been added to these High Guard designs."

I personally like this idea, but find myself frustrated at the lack of even minimum details. I leave it to others to decide whether they would like to use it or not in their own games or ship designs. Just sharing.

Stewards are a part of Traveller, one for every eight High Passengers. I feel that there is room for more use of Stewards on a ships crew, but that's just me, and goes beyond the minimum requirement for Traveller High Passenger needs.

I'm sure most games/campaigns have cooking in the background, so it should only be a concern when it's an important part of play and/or Character development.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Stewards are a part of Traveller, one for every eight High Passengers.

It's the job of last resort for PCs who need Working Passage. Even if you've gor no other "space" skill, Steward will get you on board.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Very nice, elegant, deeply comfy leather chairs with high backs.... which contain full metabolic scanners, FMRI, fPET, the whole enchelada of scanning.
When you sit down, it does a full body scan, including the pathways in the brain that have to do with taste

No-one is quite sure why it does this, though, as it invariably produces a cup of liquid that is almost -- but not quite -- entirely unlike tea.

 

[bookwyrm]

It's the job of last resort for PCs who need Working Passage. Even if you've gor no other "space" skill, Steward will get you on board.

It's thinking like this that makes me think that High Passengers must be shaking in their suits as they remember their last trip on a 'Tramp Trader' being 'serviced' by a so called 'Steward' with the barest hint of 'required training', and all the 'advice' they gave to said 'Steward' to hopefully improve the 'service' so that there wouldn't much of a traumatic memory of the trip to awaken from in the weeks ahead. And of course, the 'advice' was taken the wrong way by the 'Steward' and was reflected in the 'service'. Possibly. Maybe.

Of course, there are those few Stewards on Tramps that are in high demand, who prefer Tramps to all the rule & regulations of the Liners on regular routes.

Just my Cr 0.1 worth of opinion.

 

[Commander Truestar]

I'm totally putting Seth Skorkowsky's Shwarma Cat ("feed the Warrior") into my Traveller Universe!
In most Starports of Class C or better there is a franchise named "Ivan the Edible". It's been around for decades, sort of a neighborhood bar style restaurant like a TGI Fridays, or Applebees, serving cheap well drinks and a menu the size of the Moot Roster (mostly appetizers). Their signature appetizer are deep-fried, parmesean dusted, bacon-wrapped bacon. Basically salty cheese on cured fatty meat all deep fried in a carbohydrate batter. Perfect for snacking with a frosty-foamy fermented grain brew! It might be able to clog the arteries of a warrior Aslan.

I am TOTALLY stealing both "Shwarma Cat" and "Ivan the Edible"!!!!