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[aberrant_type]

Who: Zoe Hange
Broadcast: Yes, fleetwide video
Action: If you're on the Red Fish
When: 2/16 early afternoon

[Tap-tap-tappity goes Hange's finger on the mic, and the speakers pop-pop-pop in response. There's a moment's pause, and then Hange flicks the setting from audio to video and grins at the camera.]

Good afternoon, everyone! New arrivals and parties being planned, I see everyone's keeping busy. Good, good! The fastest way to get bored is to give yourself nothing to do!

Speaking of that - I've been working on a little something I'd like to rope the whole fleet into, if ships are willing! It'd be to the benefit of all of us, hopefully, and I think it would boost morale around here too. We aren't meant to be crammed in these cans with no sky and no trees around. So!

[Up pop some drawings, in front of the screen. It looks like a vertical setup of... troughs? Deep troughs with some other stuff thrown in there. Hange's voice continues cheerfully from behind her papers.]

What I'd like to do is get us microfarming! I took as many samples as I could from that forest, so we have some stock to start with. I'm looking especially at producing edible plants and those with medicinal purposes! Vertical arrangement would be more space-efficient then horizontal. I'm hoping to start things off on the Red Fish, and if we see success, build similar setups in the ships of those who are interested! One of our young engineers seems confident he can set us up with growlights, so that'd mitigate the lack of sunlight we see on these ships. And I know we have some people around who are excellent at working with plants!

[She drops the papers, grins sunnily at the camera again.]

Of course, they'd require tending to. That's why I'm broaching the idea to everyone!

[Kaneis]

Say! Introduce me to your botanically-inclined crewmate!

[Hiro]

You're still on board for this, right?

Comments

Re: action;

[aberrant_type]

[she waves! Mellow with his as she usually is.]

Whatcha got there, kiddo?

[mortalcoil]

[he holds out the paper to her--a list of plant species, along with their preferred soil pH, and any mineral or chemicals they especially require.

nightshade, yew, wild yam, witch hazel, henbane...]

[aberrant_type]

[she glances over his notes - useful...]

Keep in mind that you might not be able to get hold of samples of plants you're already familiar with. It might not be impossible, you understand? But I wouldn't count on it.

When we were in the forest I took the opportunity to collect as many samples as I could. [and extensive notes on their environments too - Hange is a genius in her own right, after all. She's no slouch in the lab.] I was thinking we could start with those. With the assistance of some of our botanically-inclined fleetmates to help growth along.

[mortalcoil]

['w-i-s-h-l-i-s-t,' he takes the time to spell out. he knows he probably won't find these plants on foreign planets, but... it's all he cares about, really. he can hope.]

[aberrant_type]

Fair enough.

[She leaves the papers to him. He can prod at her design at his leisure if he wants.]

There is someone here telling me she can create new plants, so perhaps we can cobble together something similar if those claims prove true.

[mortalcoil]

[he'll poke at the notes, but gardening is not exactly his specialty. his is a very limited knowledge on these sorts of things.

...and the claim that someone can create new plants gets quite the skeptical look. he glances up from the notes with a raised brow. did she mean that literally?]

[aberrant_type]

[She's sort of making it up as she goes along. That's why she'd rather keep the entire thing small at first: it's easier to modify errors in one setup then in a lot of them.

Anyway.]

Haha, I know! I'll see if she's willing to demonstrate because an ability like that would really be something.