EVE Fiction

Kinda did some digging around, and am curious about the different cultures food. From high end stuff to commoner's meals. Anyone have any sources related to what people in New Eden eat?

We know Caldari Prime was terraformed, it's not that much of a stretch that other worlds probably were as well. So, a lot of what's on those planets would probably be Terran species (i.e.: from Earth) maybe with a few of the more palatable and useful alien species discovered by humanity back in the Milky Way prior to the EVE gate collapse (which would explain where Kresh trees came from).

I think that spacefarers are probably primarily vegetarian out of necessity. Raising a meat creature in space is a significant investment of volume and calories, and hauling it up out of a gravity well would take a fair old whack of energy, so meat is probably quite expensive in space.

One possible exception might be fish. If you kept a basically brainless cloned fish in a tank barely larger than itself and electrically stimulated it to swim against a constant current, you could farm huge numbers of edible fish in a fairly small volume. If you go with the dimensions of an Atlantic Salmon, at 120cm by 50cm by 50cm you could farm the fish in a box that was about 0.8m3, and it would yield 24-25Kg of meat, plus useful byproducts that could be used as fertilizer for the hydroponic farm, plus roe to restock the farm and sell the surplus as caviar.

So a 500m3 volume (about the space of a battleship's cargo hold) could yied 15,625Kg of salmon meat every harvest (about 5 years or so for an atlantic salmon to reach maturity). The cargo hold of a Charon could yield a minimum of 24,531,250Kg of salmon meat every five years.

During the years 2000-2004, Americans consumed an average of about 284,000 metric tons of salmon annually (first hit on Google). so, it takes the cargo capacity of about 60 freighters to produce enough salmon meat for a population of approximately 300 million people. If the population of one station is about a million people (judging from the death toll of Malkalen) then that means that one station has the capacity to produce enough salmon meat to feed the population of 300 stations.

Plus, let's be honest, giant-ass racks of fish with wires in their brains is pretty frakking scifi.

Okay, I'm going to stretch and over-simplify tons of things from every culture in this temptative post, so before you go jump saying "Caldaris are not japanese!", I know. Just making a starting point, or something. Other influences can be added later on.

-Amarr: most people relate the empire to either Rome or Byzantium in many things, so I'd say that if we apply this to food they'd probably have some sort of mediterranean diet: meat, whine, good bread and similair things (like empanadas), fish, olive oil, and salads.

-Caldari: playing on their japanese influence, they'd probably have many dishes with rice, noodles, fish both cooked and not, tea (there was even an RP Caldari chat room called the tea house or something).

-Gallente: let's focus mostly on their american influence (instead of the french, which would be closer to Amarr's food), they'd have fast food, whikey and other alcoholic drinks, lots of meat, pizza, wheat and other such things, different kinds of sandwiches, good cheeses.

-Minmatarr: to be honest, I'm not too clear on Minmatarr influences, so I'll leave that for other posters.

All this, as I said, is an over-simplification to give a starting point to the debate, and would have to include the alien species mentioned like the long-limb.

For Gallente, this article might be useful: http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Culture_of_the_ethnic_Gallente#Cuisine

No, but southern France has a cuisine quite similair to that of the italian and spanish. Northern France probably has one more different indeed, but I don't know it much beyonde crepes. xD

Amarr- European/Byzantine influence
Caldari- Japanese/Chinese/Korean influence (<3 kuashis)
Gallentean- Western European/American with various fushions
Minmatar- Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Northern African influences

You're welcome.

The Amarr have SOME European influences, but they are more Persian than anything.

Capsuleers don't eat. Nutrients are pumped directly into there veins matrix style. Waste is recycled by on-board waste-nutrients bioconverters... mmmmm yummmy!

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