' Wrote:I am not against such a concept - but we need to more clearly define what this flower is, and what properties it may have beyond being a pretty blue colour.
Is there a reason that it would be an export item - as opposed to simply exporting the seeds and having them grown in greenhouses all over Sirius?
Fresh-cut flowers tend to be.....freshly cut.
If this flower were shown to have some kind of medicinal property, would we then see a commodity such as "Blue Jillie Seed", or "Blue Jillie Extract" being shipped to Cryer bases? Or other locations involved with research?
Might Blue Jillies be desired as an ingredient for the pseudo-medical commodity "Elixirs"?
That's a good point. They are up til now not especially well defined. I'd say the difficulty in just exporting the seeds would be that they apparently require both a high oxygen level (thus the change in the O2:CO2 ratio has damaged their growth in recent years) and potentially very fickle soil conditions. They're having difficulty growing them in what was until this century their native land, so I think they may be very difficult to cultivate elsewhere. Though bulbs for the flower might work as an alternate idea for the commodity.
I like the medicinal angle. Some places would want to import them solely for their looks (Luxury Liners, etc), but maybe there is science to be had? If they were one ingredient of Elixirs, it would help fortify a supply-production route, especially if some other commodities were used the same way, ie being bought by bases that sell Elixirs.
Maybe they react unusually when exposed to alien organisms (there is a precedent in that in cardamine) and the places that deal with AO would want to check into it. Or maybe it turns out they're useful in terraformation? Specifically once ecosystems are starting to get going. All the corporations that deal with that tend to not be in Rheinland so it would explain the gap in the discovery.
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