Meatware 165

TheJagged on March 23, 2023

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…maybe not the most subtle of critiques. :^)

Glom = conglomerate

Lots of stuff is still cheaper to be done by hand. Just like today, those cashew nuts ain't gonna peel themselves. Farmfolk are always the first settlers on any new planet, to run the second phase of a terraform procedure. Phase 1 is making the air breathable and the land farmable, with little direct human involvement. Phase 2 is inviting/hiring people to build up communities and a place for more settlers. Phase 3 is opening up the planet for business. So companies can finally start to profit off of them.

The cities tend to grow organically around those first settlements. People reproduce more as the available resources grow, new people migrate from off-world. Some of the original settler families have a bit of an ego about themselves, as they built up with their blood & sweat what everyone else is now living on.

The animal face you see on the farms there is ZAM Glom's mascot, Zammy the dormouse. (No relation to a certain other corporate mouse mascot.)

Every kid knows Zammy, she's on every ZAM product and frequently features in propaganda i mean educational material. The cute face of the happy ZAM corp family.

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