Charmaylarg Dufrain
🎖️ Game Master
Kazumi watched Eidan depart, her face a wooden mask as she worked over those words.
you might want to figure out what seeds and plants you want to be transferred when we get there.
A twinge of annoyance overcame her at that, the implication that should be a given that all of them was the obvious answer... Granted she would have to take clippings from the more desirable stock to graft and pull the right parental genes from the line but did the lord mean that she had a limit to what she could requisition?
Nobody had told her that earlier. She had simply been under the impression that her full inventory would be transferred over! Perhaps-
Kazumi gave a short distracted wave from the wrist as someone passed by.
Yes... That would work as a good excuse! Kazumi nodded to herself, black horns bobbing with her head as she took a few shuffling steps forward, feet sliding on the deck more than lifting as-
"Wait, what?" She paused, looking now long after the departed scout only just registering her statement as Kazumi brought two fingers up to her lips in an old motion from when she used to chew on her nails as she pursed them.
Spirits, But her father was right about what she would find when she entered the sector (and now beyond) at large!
A bit more of a pep in her non-existent step that any compliment brings as she shuffled on with short choppy steps Kazumi moved past the bridge, the armory and its strange smells, and towards the greenhouse.
Greenhouse
Clipping and preserving several grafts was the simple part. Each sealed an an envelope for travel and sequestered in a crate off to the side Kazumi moved over to a set of inset swinging doors which opened into each other like an accordion gate as one-by-one Kazumi began pulling small vials each with numerical nomenclature codes and labels of what they were as each composed a thin but tall vial of stacked seeds each in tiny coin-shaped dispensers separating them from each seed but carrying easily a hundred or more depending on the size.
Pulling out trays she began setting them in a transportable container with tiered pull-out rows with small foam liners to sort each vial into. The vials of course could be used to plant normally in a greenhouse such as the one she was in. But the true treasure she was after was the genetic code they carried that, with the right fabricators, hypothetically she could print seeds in bulk like they did on Inari station in her home system. They would be the same every time; Making it important to update the sequence whenever a better crop with stronger traits was cultivated. In essence, she could pull the genetic sequence from any flora that she could get the code of even if the Shiori didnt have it in stock!
The cultivation of such a method was not new. But the dedicated technology had yet to replace much of the third-party reliance on undedicated fabricators on a ship like the Shiori, unlike a dedicated botanical vessel.
Leaving behind only a minimum inventory to refill the Shioris' stock later from Kazumi folded the trays on the large rolling crate that easily weighed more than she did now filled with seeds, stock, fibres, grafts, and small genetic samples to clone from later.
Grabbing the handle and pulling with all her might and her not-inconsiderate strength she managed to barely budge the crate and drag it a few feet despite it having its own wheels on the end to help with the process before her hand slipped off the handle and she nearly lost her balance and fell as the side of the container slammed back down to the deck.
Audibly harumphing at her stalwart enemy before her, Kazumi glared at the craft with her arms folded over her chest.
"Machine." She nearly hissed, never taking her eyes off of just short of the entire greenhouse crammed inside of a longer than it was wide packing container that dared defy her. After a moment when nothing happened she took her eyes off the crate momentarily to look up towards the ceiling when her call went unanswered.
She tried again, waiting for the ships faux-intelligence to answer her call, "I would like someone to help move this equipment it is... Delicate." She half lied about her inadequacy and desire to not drag around a couple-hundred-pound seed vault across the ship that was 1% actual seed and 99% the equipment to keep them preserved and from shocking, sprouting, or drying.
"And ask lord Eidan if he should want his strawberries transplanted when we arrive to... Wherever it is we are going again."
The lord never seemed to eat them before they all seemed to be hone from Kazumi's observations. Everyone else did, herself included hence she would prefer to bring a shrub or two while wondering without noticing the irony as to why he never ate any was because everyone else seemed to get them all first...
Perhaps despite his comment earlier he didn't like strawberries? Just an inside joke perhaps?
"Never mind, withdraw the previous message." She sighed, able to read between the lines of her lords desires in this context she felt.
She would leave the shrubs behind.
He clearly wouldn't miss them.
"Machine?" Kazumi tried again this time not sure if she was just talking to the ceiling like a fool.
you might want to figure out what seeds and plants you want to be transferred when we get there.
A twinge of annoyance overcame her at that, the implication that should be a given that all of them was the obvious answer... Granted she would have to take clippings from the more desirable stock to graft and pull the right parental genes from the line but did the lord mean that she had a limit to what she could requisition?
Nobody had told her that earlier. She had simply been under the impression that her full inventory would be transferred over! Perhaps-
“Looking cute, Kazumi’
Kazumi gave a short distracted wave from the wrist as someone passed by.
Yes... That would work as a good excuse! Kazumi nodded to herself, black horns bobbing with her head as she took a few shuffling steps forward, feet sliding on the deck more than lifting as-
"Wait, what?" She paused, looking now long after the departed scout only just registering her statement as Kazumi brought two fingers up to her lips in an old motion from when she used to chew on her nails as she pursed them.
Spirits, But her father was right about what she would find when she entered the sector (and now beyond) at large!
A bit more of a pep in her non-existent step that any compliment brings as she shuffled on with short choppy steps Kazumi moved past the bridge, the armory and its strange smells, and towards the greenhouse.
Greenhouse
Clipping and preserving several grafts was the simple part. Each sealed an an envelope for travel and sequestered in a crate off to the side Kazumi moved over to a set of inset swinging doors which opened into each other like an accordion gate as one-by-one Kazumi began pulling small vials each with numerical nomenclature codes and labels of what they were as each composed a thin but tall vial of stacked seeds each in tiny coin-shaped dispensers separating them from each seed but carrying easily a hundred or more depending on the size.
Pulling out trays she began setting them in a transportable container with tiered pull-out rows with small foam liners to sort each vial into. The vials of course could be used to plant normally in a greenhouse such as the one she was in. But the true treasure she was after was the genetic code they carried that, with the right fabricators, hypothetically she could print seeds in bulk like they did on Inari station in her home system. They would be the same every time; Making it important to update the sequence whenever a better crop with stronger traits was cultivated. In essence, she could pull the genetic sequence from any flora that she could get the code of even if the Shiori didnt have it in stock!
The cultivation of such a method was not new. But the dedicated technology had yet to replace much of the third-party reliance on undedicated fabricators on a ship like the Shiori, unlike a dedicated botanical vessel.
Leaving behind only a minimum inventory to refill the Shioris' stock later from Kazumi folded the trays on the large rolling crate that easily weighed more than she did now filled with seeds, stock, fibres, grafts, and small genetic samples to clone from later.
Grabbing the handle and pulling with all her might and her not-inconsiderate strength she managed to barely budge the crate and drag it a few feet despite it having its own wheels on the end to help with the process before her hand slipped off the handle and she nearly lost her balance and fell as the side of the container slammed back down to the deck.
Audibly harumphing at her stalwart enemy before her, Kazumi glared at the craft with her arms folded over her chest.
"Machine." She nearly hissed, never taking her eyes off of just short of the entire greenhouse crammed inside of a longer than it was wide packing container that dared defy her. After a moment when nothing happened she took her eyes off the crate momentarily to look up towards the ceiling when her call went unanswered.
She tried again, waiting for the ships faux-intelligence to answer her call, "I would like someone to help move this equipment it is... Delicate." She half lied about her inadequacy and desire to not drag around a couple-hundred-pound seed vault across the ship that was 1% actual seed and 99% the equipment to keep them preserved and from shocking, sprouting, or drying.
"And ask lord Eidan if he should want his strawberries transplanted when we arrive to... Wherever it is we are going again."
The lord never seemed to eat them before they all seemed to be hone from Kazumi's observations. Everyone else did, herself included hence she would prefer to bring a shrub or two while wondering without noticing the irony as to why he never ate any was because everyone else seemed to get them all first...
Perhaps despite his comment earlier he didn't like strawberries? Just an inside joke perhaps?
"Never mind, withdraw the previous message." She sighed, able to read between the lines of her lords desires in this context she felt.
She would leave the shrubs behind.
He clearly wouldn't miss them.
"Machine?" Kazumi tried again this time not sure if she was just talking to the ceiling like a fool.