Better Living Through Chemistry

Creating new chemicals to help mankind survive on alien worlds is a major branch of scientific enquiry. Thousands of new drugs are designed and tested every year. Through the testing process some are made more safe, some are declared ineffective, and some pass through to the pharmaceutical corporations (such as SovSys Health Technologies - commonly...

Food Security – Kosmos Trucker

By the 1960’s the alarm bells were ringing that life on Earth was increasingly threatened by its own success. The mathematics were clear: the people of Earth were headed for a crash. The easy culprit of overpopulation was seen as the problem: too many people competing for limited resources. But there was no easy solution...

Planet Profile – Simanovsk: Feed Me, St. Maur

An SPF (Special Purpose Fleet) scout base has been established on this exotic jungle world. There are many carnivorous plants on Simanovsk, as well as some mobile plant forms. There are indications that some, or all, have a measure of intelligence, although many doubt this last claim. There is also a peak of radioactivity at...