episode_0642
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food.
The most essential element for human survival.
People often talk about the most basic necessities for human survival as food, clothing, and shelter, but I personally think that the most important of all necessities is ‘food’.
If you don’t have a home or clothes, it’s dangerous, but you can survive somehow, but if you don’t have food, you’ll die inevitably.
The food issue was the most important of the many problems this research facility faced. They already had a home and clothing.
‘They ate it all up. Not even a single seed was left behind.’
Bam-
I pushed aside the debris of the facility that had been left behind and looked around.
I noticed fragments of a pot that appeared to have been used to grow plants, a few piles of dirt, and a twisted and broken pipeline here and there.
You could tell just by looking at them that the bug cubs had eaten everything they could find, including vegetables, seeds, and everything else they had turned upside down in the facility.
All that remained was the cool, dry air and the smell of dust.
‘This is the biodome area.’
I left the luggage to my group and visited the biodome area.
As its name suggests, the Dome occupied a large hemispherical area and could be said to be the area responsible for producing food for the research facility.
Since this was a research facility built in such secrecy, it would have been necessary to minimize the flow of goods coming and going periodically.
Since they’re going to use an entire satellite anyway, there probably won’t be a shortage of space for farming, so they probably created these areas to be self-sufficient in food.
In that sense, I also needed to normalize this area first.
‘There should be no need for subordinates to starve.’
Thanks to the healing rosary and various abilities, even if I have a saint image to my subordinates, it is not a saint from the moment I don’t eat.
Of course, I can also supply food by putting it in my inventory and moving it.
But originally, in any case, the best thing was automation that let the system run on its own.
It would be good to see the hiring of a character named Kai Delshad and the creation of a subordinate force centered around him as part of such automation. It was a matter of recruiting someone to work in my stead.
I doubt that will happen, but if I go to another galaxy or planetary system without fixing this area, it will be very difficult because I won’t be able to feed my party and subordinates who remain here.
But she’s my person, so I can’t let her end up like the starving bug queen.
That’s why this area was given top priority for restoration.
‘How long do you think it’ll take to recover? It looks like it’s pretty damaged.’
– I think it will take at least a month. The equipment will have to be disassembled and recycled to remove any unnecessary parts, and the plants to be grown inside will have to be brought in from outside.
‘A month…’
A month could be a very short period of time to repair an area this size.
But considering the technological prowess of this world, a month felt surprisingly long.
I’ve also personally seen construction drones move entire block buildings, and even though they’re broken, I wonder if it takes too much time to repair an existing area.
Maria added, noticing my expression.
-This area is also a facility that uses cutting-edge technology.
‘This biodome?’
Isn’t it just like a vinyl greenhouse where you can grow some plants?
– It’s not just about growing plants. There’s also a section that cultivates animal proteins to produce meat without raising livestock. Of course, growing plants also involves cutting-edge technologies like zero-gravity aeroponics cultivation technology and precision mutation editing technology. You can think of it as more like a laboratory and a food production plant than a greenhouse. It’s a factory that maximizes production efficiency by controlling all environmental factors, such as temperature, humidity, and lighting.
‘What is aeroponics?’
-You can think of it as an advanced hydroponic method. The Serapian method sprays nutrients directly onto plant roots in a zero-gravity state, saving up to 99% of water.
‘What about precision mutation editing technology?’
-You can think of it as a more advanced method than the current radiation breeding technology or genetic recombination method.
As expected, as I delved deeper, I started to encounter terms that were difficult for ordinary people like me.
‘Please explain it a little more simply.’
Chin-
I sat down on some debris nearby and asked.
It would take a month for this place to be repaired anyway. Maria said it herself, so it could be done a little faster, but she meant that she would have to spend some time here for the time being.
In the meantime, the party had enough food in their inventory, so they were just thinking about satisfying their curiosity.
Maria continued.
-You know that the plant seeds that people cultivate are selected and grown from those that have characteristics that are useful to humans, such as being resistant to pests and diseases, or producing large and delicious fruit.
‘yes.’
– But those useful characteristics are surprisingly hard to find in nature. Naturally occurring mutations are rare, and among them, mutations that are convenient and beneficial are very rare. Radiation breeding maximizes the induction of such mutations by exposing plant seeds to radiation. Genetic recombination is the process of extracting genes with useful characteristics and applying them to the desired plant.
However, she also talked about the downsides of such methods.
Radiation breeding has the disadvantage that it requires repeating the same process like random gacha until the desired mutation is expressed, and genetic recombination cannot be applied to genes that do not exist.
Listening to her explanation, I felt as if I was listening to a documentary on the radio.
‘Oh… Then what’s different about the technology that went into this?’
-The technology of the Serapian family can be seen as combining the strengths of those two technologies. It is a method that can induce mutant characteristics and even create genes that did not exist before. It is not for nothing that the Serapians are considered one of the families that contributed the most to the expansion of the human empire by contributing to the fields of medicine and food production.
‘Medicine has extended lifespan, and food production technology has increased population.’
-In the case of developing planets, it seems like they mainly eat synthetic food because they can’t even obtain that kind of food properly.
Well, the things the bartender served before were also synthetic foods.
To be honest, I was curious about the taste and wanted to try it at least once, but I never had the chance.
A sudden thought occurred to me and I called the bartender to the biodome.
“Bartender, what do you think about leaving this area to you?”
“Yes…? You’re leaving this to me?”
The bartender looked dumbfounded when he heard me suddenly dragging him in and telling him to take charge of the biodome.
“I wonder if I have the ability to do something like that… ”
“Most facilities will manage it automatically, but that doesn’t mean people can’t look into it. Among the people here, you’re the only one with knowledge about food.”
“I don’t know much about food either. The only thing I know how to handle is synthetic food… ”
“Not bad. Rather, it would be fun to research from the beginning. There are some parts where synthetic food is better for long-term preservation, so it would be good to have knowledge about that.”
I deliberately ignored his seemingly unconfident answer.
Actually, I didn’t find that attitude incomprehensible.
For convenience’s sake, he is called a bartender, but his real job was more like a broker for commissions than a bartender.
However, now that you are under my command, you won’t be able to earn a living by taking on other people’s requests, so shouldn’t you make use of your experience in the restaurant industry, which was a side job?
When I explained it in a roundabout way, the bartender finally nodded and seemed to understand.
He would be better suited to this than to wander around space with a gun like his other subordinates.
“From what I heard from Kai Delshad, you didn’t really eat real food on the planet you were on before, right? I don’t know about anything else, but I won’t let you feel bad about eating. You can develop the dishes you want, so just take charge and do your best.”
“… Okay.”
He took my outstretched hand and said:
“My name is James Novak. Please call me Jimmy.”
“Yeah, Jimmy. That’s a friendly and nice name.”
There was a lot to do during the month that the biodome was being restored, other than appointing a manager.
We had to process the shells of elite individuals to create Moonjiyu’s equipment, and we also had to procure items that were immediately needed for the facility from other planets.
And more than anything, it was important to have enough strength so that my subordinates wouldn’t go around getting beaten up.
Except for the issue with Moon Ji-yu’s equipment, the answers to the remaining problems could be found from Basnit.
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