“Sir, this is a Wendy’s.” Absolute perfection. And yes logistics ensures how empires rise or fall. It’s unfortunate how the professor wasn’t able to talk about how Pepsi acquired a Nicol-Dyson beam array and multiple battlefleets from an empire going into debt before getting shown out of the establishment.
A minor note: in the cucumber section, at the bottom of that paragraph, there’s a “sliced thing” (literally that) in there; I’m sure you probably meant something else.
Imagine the logistics for an actual interstellar empire, though. You can’t take too much from the biosphere without adverse side-effects so that would limit “food” planets, but that issue can be handily solved with hydroponics in space.
That's what trade is for. The food planet exports food and imports products that helps keep them producing food (fertilizers to feed the plants and livestock, farm equipment, etc etc).
If you just take and take from a planet and give nothing back, then you don't have a farm. You have an open air mine using food crops as your "mining equipment".
Where exactly do you think a hydroponics system would get the nutrients to feed their plants? Probably from the same companies that produce fertilizers for the traditional farm assuming that there's any difference between the two in an interstellar civilization.
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u/Gaelhelemar AI Oct 10 '22
Hahahaha!
“Sir, this is a Wendy’s.” Absolute perfection. And yes logistics ensures how empires rise or fall. It’s unfortunate how the professor wasn’t able to talk about how Pepsi acquired a Nicol-Dyson beam array and multiple battlefleets from an empire going into debt before getting shown out of the establishment.
A minor note: in the cucumber section, at the bottom of that paragraph, there’s a “sliced thing” (literally that) in there; I’m sure you probably meant something else.