Talking room quietly back to Taro's unleashed words. And a few moments later, simultaneously, words of denial lift up from each of them.
"Dude, you'd be forced to decide. What are you talking about?"
"It's a special hunk of know-how, like food production. Where are you going to get this information from?"
"Yeah, and if they could do that, they'd be doing it on their own."
"I know it's an interesting idea, but I don't know. Is that realistic?
With disappointment, he throws words at Taro one after the other to question him. But that also returns quiet with a word of quietly emitted Xiao Mei.
"I see. Is that so?"
A voice that is short but passes well. Together with seeing Xiao Mei in such a way as to be incredible. Taro goes on to say "The problem is" in order to get back to that same attention.
"You mean that knowledge of food production itself is difficult, know-how is needed, and it takes a lot of money and time to create equipment. Well, even with this, you have a food production department, and you know that much."
Then he laughed, "But Sa" and Taro.
"Fast growing, high calories. Taste has been proven, no poisons whatsoever. It can be grown at 1G per bar, and temperature changes plus or minus 30 degrees are sufficient. All you need is nutrients and water, so all the equipment is from the general space station. Plenty of cheats that it can be converted as it is. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All you need is a magic grain offering, right?
There's nothing to say, "Right?" and Taro. In contrast, Sakura gives a look similar to anger and rises on the spot.
"You're making fun of me!! Such convenient food, etc!!
But so that he could wear it on her like that, Marl would raise his voice in a stiff manner.
"............... rice!!
Sometimes in times of war, Takasaki shipyards continue to operate at full capacity. While numerous plants present in EAP territory continued to create vessels, here in the Niigata system they were being chased to mass production of one-of-a-kind vessels.
"Hey. What do you use this for?
A worker working at the shipyard sees and crushes countless chunks flowing through a huge shipbuilding line.
"I don't know. I don't even know if I heard it up there, and it's rumored that you're going to use it on crazy people. Why don't you just pack it with explosives and let it go in?
A fellow worker answers without much interest.
"I don't even have room for a turret... a life support device and an engine. Are you going to immigrate after the war just because you have two debris incineration beams?
If you have no idea what that means, a blurry worker with his neck covered.
Hundreds of this mysterious vessel had already been produced and were scheduled to continue to produce unquantified quantities again in the future. Unquantified means make as much as you can.
This cylindrical ship had barely enough minimal equipment to call it a ship, and there was nothing else. It has a minimal outer shell to prevent radiation, but it is not decorative and has no armor capability at all. On the contrary, some armor has allowed the transmission of ultraviolet and visible light.
In addition, because it is not a modular vessel, there is no development. At first, it seems to be possible to dock other modules as externals, but due to the weak electrical output from the engine, it is not possible to connect turrets or shields.
"You don't even have a frozen sleep device? That would just not be there. And you have zero habitability. And what's that shelf inside? You want me to put people on that thing? I'm not kidding."
Long, thin shelves and plumbing make up the majority of the ship's interior. The plumbing had holes at equal intervals, and I could imagine pouring something into it, but I couldn't even imagine what that was.
"President. A company called Rising Sun has received a ship offering… what the hell can I say? You don't seem to belong to the EAP, but it seems to be a company hostile to the Alliance."
The man involved in the building business in the system within Enzio territory lets his men frown on reports from him. Not at all, because I didn't know what it meant.
"What the hell. A ship? A trap or something? Or how did you get here?
"No, I tested the contents, but nothing of that sort. It is also unclear about the transport route. There was also a polite description of the contents, which actually seems to be true."
"Whoa, what the hell. Let me see... this. necessary for seedlings and cultivation......"
A man who uses BISHOP and glances at the explanatory notes sent by his men. The man began to read it with a face stained with disbelief, but gradually changed his complexion and eventually opened his eyes in amazement.
"Oh, did you tell anyone about this? What's the report to the top!?
"Yes, no. Not yet. I'm sorry. Right now..."
"Stop!! I don't care!! I'm in touch... I need to contact my buddies right away!!
When the man opened the communication with a trembling hand, he immediately shared information via a cryptographic line.
"Emergency line...... it's from Murdoch...... look!! Looks like it got to him too!!
What was reported on the secret line used by the Resistance was exactly the same as what happened in the system he owned. Dozens of reports had already been collected, and they all told similar stories.
"Mr President, we have received a report from the bioengineering sector. No toxicity or similar hazards were observed for example cereals. Instead, it's what the instructions say it is."
"Yikes!! Hurry up and get into production!! Before the Allied government starts acting!! I don't mind all other ship production stopping!!
"Su, is it everything? But you don't know what the Allied government is going to say, do you?
"It's okay!! Look, the ship they did send could itself be collected. It's supposed to be more our property than it was supposed to be given to us, but, well, it's about them. I'm sure it's up to you to be obsessed with it."
When the man takes a breath, he gives a gruesome grin with a face stained with excitement.
"But. For a new ship or something, it's totally, totally ours. It's not copyrighted, it's just a tiny ship. There is no name for what the Allied government will do with it. All right? We simply have to lift our hands and welcome you to finally free yourself from the food shortage. If that's what we're going to do, then..."
A man of resistance who laughs and distorts his face even more.
"The Allied government will be completely disengaged. That's all they have to avoid."
And it turned out just like he expected.
The government of the Enzio Alliance obtained the presence of seedlings and ships in a network placed under full control as soon as possible - not all seedlings were sent only to the Resistance - but things were delayed in responding because of things. The story might have been different if the Allied government had made a decision as a single organization, like the Empire, but the Enzio government had been formed by three forces.
Besides, above all, the inhabitants were starving, and taking it up threatened to develop into a major problem shaking the backbone.
And eventually it was an allied government that decided to pick off suspicious ships, but two weeks before that was decided was a deadly delay. Because seedlings had already appeared in each system and new shipbuilding had been built.
Furthermore, the characteristics of the seedlings loaded on suspicious ships were so abnormal that it was fatal that they could be cultivated everywhere if it was an area where people could live. Normally, a complex device is needed to recreate the environment of the star from which the plant was born and grown, and it is not something that the average human being can do with a good hand. The plants were expensive and valuable.
But that didn't apply to this seedling at all. By the time a month had passed, it was virtually impossible to take all of this up, to the extent that some of the general vessels were even grown in the corner of the residence station. People seemed confused by the taste and the unfamiliar food called natural foods in the first place, but that was no longer a matter of time.
"Is that okay, boss? Probably a good product with a good margin, if it's meant to be, right?
Heinline, director of the Rising Sun Food Development Department, releases modestly toward Taro. The chip in his hand contained a complete set of instructions for the cultivation of global foodstuffs, which were mounted on all ships leaving for the Enzio system.
"Mm, I got my plans a little early, but in the end, I guess I was destined to have them around me. Look, seedlings, they can be used for the next production, right?
Instead of reverse engineering the machine, you can easily increase the exact same thing from the seed. In fact, this was also a fatal weakness as a commodity. Except if it was sold as fully processed rice, etc., it would have been known. DNA cannot be deluded.
"Still, I should have had an advantage for a few months to a few years... but, well, are there ways to do this?"
Taro had patented important sequences on several DNA as well as sending prototype models of global food products and their cultivation stations towards the Enzio system. The royalties that could be collected were very insignificant, and the due date for payment was an out-of-the-box one. It was therefore extremely suspicious whether or not it would actually be paid, but he thought it would be okay to have zero at worst. Because these are not used to make money, so to speak, as strategic weapons.
"Yeah. If there was a company that would pay me a little, I wonder what it would be on that amount. They'll be made locally in the future... well, I wouldn't have been able to do 100% without initial EAP funding"
The number of small farming stations sent in completing production was thus over 1,000. Taro offers these "free of charge" to companies within each Enzio system, including seedlings, to include everything from their structure to composition. If the food situation reaches a tight system, it will surely make the most of that information.
"But well... here's the problem"
Taro drops his gaze on hand and squeezes a gripping little stone. It was an ore of a special metal called raiser metal, used everywhere in life in the Galactic Empire.
"As for resources, blah, blah, blah. I have no idea. What to do, this"