How a player faction excludes a characteristic of the NPC faction

[Agmen of Eladesor]

Let's go for another description. Such as, say, greenhouses. If the idea is that Crete's soil is, by and large, nutrient poor or consisting of arid desert then it suggests that what crop production they would already be in a position of maintaining systems with heavy emphasis on recycling and enclosed environments. When the soil is dead and the land dry you can't just afford to throw seeds at rocks and then spray them down with water after all.

But, to go off the Dusty Lens favored model. Let's say there's 500 million Corsairs on Crete.

two acres x 500 000 000 = 4,046,856,422,400 m^2

Gracious. That's a whole lot of green houses. Would be easier to handle if you could just use the land but, wel-p. In this case you would need to employ a lot of artificial constructs.

At a certain point importing chow likely becomes more efficient.

Except that you're a bit high - in one respect, anyway - you only need 1.2 acres per person to feed at current U.S. dietary requirements, and with regular diet. So you say, wow, we need 600 million acres of greenhouses, then.... (Or at least something to provide nutrients, whether it's compost heaps, wells, and fertilizer factories.)

The Louisiana Superdome covers 13 acres, so does that mean we need 46 million Superdomes? Yes - and no. That also presumes that we're using standard open air farming techniques. Well, if you're growing in a greenhouse, that means that you're able to squeeze more bio-mass in. And one other detail - for a rather varied vegan type of diet - not just sustinence - you only need 0.2 acres per person - so suddenly the land requirements go down tremendously.

I thought the population of Gran Canaria was 500 million - and that Crete was more along the lines of maybe 100 million.

But seriously - with technology that we have today, we could build a greenhouse that covers 20 or 30 acres without any problem. You don't need a huge, unsupported dome - just put up some support pylons similar in height to a wind farm, and you'd be fine. Is it sill a lot of greenhouses? Sure. Does it allow you to become self-supporting? Yep - and sometimes not being dependant upon someone else is more important.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.