Post by The Conman on Jan 7, 2016 19:09:35 GMT -5
This guide will be split into a few different parts, based on who has access to what. For reference, while the Boska have no official currency, they do barter their faces off with whatever they have around. That being said, Credits do go far for most, though some will be looking for goods, or a favour.
Basically, stuff, will get you just as far as credits, booze, or spices, though a pretty face and low cut top will also probably have a similar effect.
Basic: ( cause it’s free )
Goop ( doesn’t really have a name ):
Basically, the closest thing to this IRL is Soylent. Drink 4 servings a day and you can *technically* live off it. 4 servings ( 5 if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding) have everything you need, all the minerals, vitamins, calories, protein, carbs, etc etc. It’s free for the Boska, along with water, and is available on nearly every ship in a few forms. Bags, containing 1, 4 or 8 servings are common, along with premixed bottles containing 1 or 4 servings ( 500ml or 2l ) are common as well, though not so much on the less “developed” ships.
It’s flavour is as neutral as neutral can be, and has been described as oaty or chalky. It’s not uncommon to add flavours to the drink to make it more palatable, though it’s just as common that the Boska will drink it as is. Even though it’s flavour isn’t the best, many boska grew up with it and it’s a sort of comfort food.
Algaefry, Dondo, Y’trula, Me’ka, etc:
Closest thing to this IRL is Tofu. Basically what the Boska do to make this stuff is grow Algae in bays on their ships, then harvest, and process it. This stuff is the result. High in protein, vitamins, minerals, yet low in carbs, it’s typically breaded ( talk about that later ) to get some level of carbs into the mix. The Algae also produces high levels of oil, typically this would be tossed, as the Boska have no use for this sort of stuff.
However, due to the dish being a very popular fried snack, it’s kept and used to fry the Tofu after it’s been breaded. Combined with the goop, one could easily survive off the two forever, as they provide everything your body needs to live. Variety notwithstanding, of course.
Sausage Soup, Oupasa, etc:
Erbswurst, essentially. Some kind of pea/lentil flour combined with some kind of high-fat meat in about an 8-1 ratio. Made from whatever the Boska factory ships have on-hand, so it’s a bit of a mystery. Most commonly though it’s green or yellow pea flower with pork or bantha belly. The result is a “sausage” of sorts that is precut into 6,12, 25 gram segments, or 12, 50 gram segments for feeding more than yourself.
This stuff basically keeps forever, and it’s super cheap to make. The above three foods are the basic “backbone” of Boska cuisine, though a myriad of spices grown wherever there’s space, in closets, beside a window, or wherever else is convenient, add to the variety. Spices are one of the more useful and generally accepted forms of currency. Not quite as valuable as booze, but damn near.
Low Tier/Super Cheap:
Flour:
Might not be *exactly* what you want, but it’s flour. Might be corn, might be oats, some kind of wheat, or something more alien, but it’s usually “close enough”. Used to make a bunch of stuff, fairly cheap, and readily available except on the farthest flung ships.
Caf ( Coffee )
Common as hell, basically the fuel the fleet runs on, so it’s available in at least one place on every ship. Use your imaginations here.
Flatbread (or just bread):
Not like a tortilla, more like what you’d get out of a tandoori, with bubbles and such. Unleavened, for speed and simplicity sake, and typically sold in measures of 250 grams. Made with whatever flour was available to the Boska, whenever they got it, it could be Corn, Wheat, Oat, or any number of other more alien grain formulations. As the Boska keep their grain under vacuum and ensure it’s irradiated, the stuff basically keeps forever, allowing them to have a constant supply of relatively cheap flatbreads.
The vendors who make the stuff tend to add their own “flair” to it, in the form of spices, herbs, vegetables, and whatnot. It’s not uncommon for a particular ship to have a particular “flavour” that their bread vendor caters too.
Pastas:
Yep, just like Italy, the Boska have pasta. Made from the same stuff as the bread, and costing about the same per gram, it’s basically something that you can get instead to spice things up. Not much to say here, pasta is pasta and what it looks like depends on how you make it. Couple this with some ground up sausage ( mentioned later ) and some spices, and you’ve got yourself some decent raviolis.
Margarine:
Made with the excess oil from the Algae production process, this is as close to butter as 99.98% of the Boska will ever come on a regular basis.
Vegetables:
This is a bit arbitrary, and depends on what they’ve managed to grow in the greenhouses that particular season, but generally is some kind of beans, corn, and squash. Mainly because the three can be grown extremely densely and maximise the amount of yield from a given square meterage of groundspace in a greenhouse. Though it’s not nearly as high as Algae, this is typically done by people on their own time in their own spaces, and it’s not a cooperative effort like the algae is.
It’s normal to find Potatoes, various Beans, Squashes, carrots, onions, mushrooms of a number of varieties ( Twi’leks love ‘em ), Tomatoes, and peppers. More rare are things like Apples, Pears, Plums, Oranges, Meloruns, Jogans, etc etc. All of the above are in their “normal” and “alien” variations, so use your imagination.
Basically, Fruits are relatively rare, while most veggies are pretty common, mainly due to the differences in their growing requirements.
Spam/Corned Bantha:
This is basically what it says on the Tin, preserved meat in the style of Spam ( for you Americans ) or Corned Beef ( to the rest of the world ). It comes in a can, it’s about the same price as the sausage, and it’s usually made in large runs on whatever world they stop at that has a cannery. Availability and price fluctuate wildly based on who they can bribe and when, so most boska tend to hold onto this stuff if possible, as it’s better tasting than the sausage typically as it’s spiced.
High Tier/Expensive
Cured Meats:
Basically what you’d call “bacon”. It’s not necessarily pork, though it’s close enough in most respects. What it *really* is, well...Basically, it’s lab-grown meat. They grow it in great big giant slabs and then cut it and cure it. This is where they get the fat for the erbswurst, basically. Cheapest kind of meat after the Spam, sometimes less on certain ships.
Sausage:
Identical basically to Jadgwurst, mostly. Whenever a Boska talks about sausage, he’s either talking about his third lekku, or this. It’s made out of a few different kinds of animal, preserved, and made into a fairly simple sausage. It’s used for everything from breakfast, to a quick snack at lunch, to breaded and deep fried with noodles in ketchup sauce for dinner. This constitutes the vast majority of meat in the Boska diet outside of holidays, and is the most expensive of the foods listed so far.
While it’s not expensive per-se, it’s not necessarily cheap either, the poorer boska families/individuals seeing it as a bit of a luxury, and going without it more often than not.
Luxury
Eggs
They’re a thing, and available, if you know who to ask. Some people keep space chickens in their gardens and it’s not impossible to find them, though they tend to be pricey. Use your imaginations here, friends, crazy purple alien eggs are a thing.
Cheese/Butter
This is RARE.
Not due to them not keeping, fridges are a thing, but because of lack of access to the proper equipment in the proper quantities. The Boska don’t have Banthas and they don’t have access to the milk, nor do they have the stuff required to make cheese and butter in large amounts.
Milk
Rare AF in the fleet, outside of boobs, it basically doesn’t exist, full stop. Most Boska won’t even bother with it, cause it goes bad in weeks and is too much of a hassle. The powdered variety is far more common and tends to be seen as an ingredient more than a “thing” to be used for anything on it’s own. Used in sauces and gravies, typically.
Basically, stuff, will get you just as far as credits, booze, or spices, though a pretty face and low cut top will also probably have a similar effect.
Basic: ( cause it’s free )
Goop ( doesn’t really have a name ):
Basically, the closest thing to this IRL is Soylent. Drink 4 servings a day and you can *technically* live off it. 4 servings ( 5 if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding) have everything you need, all the minerals, vitamins, calories, protein, carbs, etc etc. It’s free for the Boska, along with water, and is available on nearly every ship in a few forms. Bags, containing 1, 4 or 8 servings are common, along with premixed bottles containing 1 or 4 servings ( 500ml or 2l ) are common as well, though not so much on the less “developed” ships.
It’s flavour is as neutral as neutral can be, and has been described as oaty or chalky. It’s not uncommon to add flavours to the drink to make it more palatable, though it’s just as common that the Boska will drink it as is. Even though it’s flavour isn’t the best, many boska grew up with it and it’s a sort of comfort food.
Algaefry, Dondo, Y’trula, Me’ka, etc:
Closest thing to this IRL is Tofu. Basically what the Boska do to make this stuff is grow Algae in bays on their ships, then harvest, and process it. This stuff is the result. High in protein, vitamins, minerals, yet low in carbs, it’s typically breaded ( talk about that later ) to get some level of carbs into the mix. The Algae also produces high levels of oil, typically this would be tossed, as the Boska have no use for this sort of stuff.
However, due to the dish being a very popular fried snack, it’s kept and used to fry the Tofu after it’s been breaded. Combined with the goop, one could easily survive off the two forever, as they provide everything your body needs to live. Variety notwithstanding, of course.
Sausage Soup, Oupasa, etc:
Erbswurst, essentially. Some kind of pea/lentil flour combined with some kind of high-fat meat in about an 8-1 ratio. Made from whatever the Boska factory ships have on-hand, so it’s a bit of a mystery. Most commonly though it’s green or yellow pea flower with pork or bantha belly. The result is a “sausage” of sorts that is precut into 6,12, 25 gram segments, or 12, 50 gram segments for feeding more than yourself.
This stuff basically keeps forever, and it’s super cheap to make. The above three foods are the basic “backbone” of Boska cuisine, though a myriad of spices grown wherever there’s space, in closets, beside a window, or wherever else is convenient, add to the variety. Spices are one of the more useful and generally accepted forms of currency. Not quite as valuable as booze, but damn near.
Low Tier/Super Cheap:
Flour:
Might not be *exactly* what you want, but it’s flour. Might be corn, might be oats, some kind of wheat, or something more alien, but it’s usually “close enough”. Used to make a bunch of stuff, fairly cheap, and readily available except on the farthest flung ships.
Caf ( Coffee )
Common as hell, basically the fuel the fleet runs on, so it’s available in at least one place on every ship. Use your imaginations here.
Flatbread (or just bread):
Not like a tortilla, more like what you’d get out of a tandoori, with bubbles and such. Unleavened, for speed and simplicity sake, and typically sold in measures of 250 grams. Made with whatever flour was available to the Boska, whenever they got it, it could be Corn, Wheat, Oat, or any number of other more alien grain formulations. As the Boska keep their grain under vacuum and ensure it’s irradiated, the stuff basically keeps forever, allowing them to have a constant supply of relatively cheap flatbreads.
The vendors who make the stuff tend to add their own “flair” to it, in the form of spices, herbs, vegetables, and whatnot. It’s not uncommon for a particular ship to have a particular “flavour” that their bread vendor caters too.
Pastas:
Yep, just like Italy, the Boska have pasta. Made from the same stuff as the bread, and costing about the same per gram, it’s basically something that you can get instead to spice things up. Not much to say here, pasta is pasta and what it looks like depends on how you make it. Couple this with some ground up sausage ( mentioned later ) and some spices, and you’ve got yourself some decent raviolis.
Margarine:
Made with the excess oil from the Algae production process, this is as close to butter as 99.98% of the Boska will ever come on a regular basis.
Vegetables:
This is a bit arbitrary, and depends on what they’ve managed to grow in the greenhouses that particular season, but generally is some kind of beans, corn, and squash. Mainly because the three can be grown extremely densely and maximise the amount of yield from a given square meterage of groundspace in a greenhouse. Though it’s not nearly as high as Algae, this is typically done by people on their own time in their own spaces, and it’s not a cooperative effort like the algae is.
It’s normal to find Potatoes, various Beans, Squashes, carrots, onions, mushrooms of a number of varieties ( Twi’leks love ‘em ), Tomatoes, and peppers. More rare are things like Apples, Pears, Plums, Oranges, Meloruns, Jogans, etc etc. All of the above are in their “normal” and “alien” variations, so use your imagination.
Basically, Fruits are relatively rare, while most veggies are pretty common, mainly due to the differences in their growing requirements.
Spam/Corned Bantha:
This is basically what it says on the Tin, preserved meat in the style of Spam ( for you Americans ) or Corned Beef ( to the rest of the world ). It comes in a can, it’s about the same price as the sausage, and it’s usually made in large runs on whatever world they stop at that has a cannery. Availability and price fluctuate wildly based on who they can bribe and when, so most boska tend to hold onto this stuff if possible, as it’s better tasting than the sausage typically as it’s spiced.
High Tier/Expensive
Cured Meats:
Basically what you’d call “bacon”. It’s not necessarily pork, though it’s close enough in most respects. What it *really* is, well...Basically, it’s lab-grown meat. They grow it in great big giant slabs and then cut it and cure it. This is where they get the fat for the erbswurst, basically. Cheapest kind of meat after the Spam, sometimes less on certain ships.
Sausage:
Identical basically to Jadgwurst, mostly. Whenever a Boska talks about sausage, he’s either talking about his third lekku, or this. It’s made out of a few different kinds of animal, preserved, and made into a fairly simple sausage. It’s used for everything from breakfast, to a quick snack at lunch, to breaded and deep fried with noodles in ketchup sauce for dinner. This constitutes the vast majority of meat in the Boska diet outside of holidays, and is the most expensive of the foods listed so far.
While it’s not expensive per-se, it’s not necessarily cheap either, the poorer boska families/individuals seeing it as a bit of a luxury, and going without it more often than not.
Luxury
Eggs
They’re a thing, and available, if you know who to ask. Some people keep space chickens in their gardens and it’s not impossible to find them, though they tend to be pricey. Use your imaginations here, friends, crazy purple alien eggs are a thing.
Cheese/Butter
This is RARE.
Not due to them not keeping, fridges are a thing, but because of lack of access to the proper equipment in the proper quantities. The Boska don’t have Banthas and they don’t have access to the milk, nor do they have the stuff required to make cheese and butter in large amounts.
Milk
Rare AF in the fleet, outside of boobs, it basically doesn’t exist, full stop. Most Boska won’t even bother with it, cause it goes bad in weeks and is too much of a hassle. The powdered variety is far more common and tends to be seen as an ingredient more than a “thing” to be used for anything on it’s own. Used in sauces and gravies, typically.