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New Chronicle: After The Fall

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Snowflake Tem
The Order of Symbolic Measures
#121 - 2013-04-03 08:52:08 UTC
Darth Velator wrote:
Fantastic Story!
The only problem I have with it is the burying of the bodies in the garden. Burying fish is viable as fish decompose into a natural fertilizer plants can readily enjoy. Meat - Human or otherwise - is terrible fertilizer. Land animals die above ground and are eaten by various creatures from bacteria to large scavengers (like dogs). The waste these eaters produce is the fertilizer. Meat buried in the ground doesn't become fertilizer unless it's eaten by worms. If his garden truly grew to encompass both neighboring yards, it would require virtually every worm on the planet to convert that much meat.
OK, I realize it never mentions that he buried the bodies whole and unprocessed, but his fear of people finding the bodies seems to indicate that they were buried as bodies and not pre-processed.
Of course, the story also never mentions how he was able to provide food for his dog...


Interesting to compare Primes' entomology with ours, but not entirely relevant. For all we know the Biting Roach originated from Prime. Actually, that would explain a LOT about Caldari discipline.
Darth Velator
Doomheim
#122 - 2013-04-03 23:34:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Darth Velator
Snowflake Tem wrote:
Darth Velator wrote:
Fantastic Story!
The only problem I have with it is the burying of the bodies in the garden. Burying fish is viable as fish decompose into a natural fertilizer plants can readily enjoy. Meat - Human or otherwise - is terrible fertilizer. Land animals die above ground and are eaten by various creatures from bacteria to large scavengers (like dogs). The waste these eaters produce is the fertilizer. Meat buried in the ground doesn't become fertilizer unless it's eaten by worms. If his garden truly grew to encompass both neighboring yards, it would require virtually every worm on the planet to convert that much meat.
OK, I realize it never mentions that he buried the bodies whole and unprocessed, but his fear of people finding the bodies seems to indicate that they were buried as bodies and not pre-processed.
Of course, the story also never mentions how he was able to provide food for his dog...


Interesting to compare Primes' entomology with ours, but not entirely relevant. For all we know the Biting Roach originated from Prime. Actually, that would explain a LOT about Caldari discipline.


I believe it is relevant. Every citizen on every planet in New Eden is a descendant of an old Earth colonist. In order for us to thrive on a planet, all of the biological processes of that planet, from macroscopic to microscopic, must be the same as the processes on old Earth. This was done by Terraforming. This is mentioned in the history of Caldari Prime here:
Eve Wiki Caldari Prime
Since worms are the most efficient converters of buried carrion to plant fertilizer, it is certain that the Caldari terraformers would use them to "...convert the inhospitable world into a virgin planet fit for human habitation."
Snowflake Tem
The Order of Symbolic Measures
#123 - 2013-04-04 07:55:20 UTC
Darth Velator wrote:

Eve Wiki Caldari Prime
Since worms are the most efficient converters of buried carrion to plant fertilizer, it is certain that the Caldari terraformers would use them to "...convert the inhospitable world into a virgin planet fit for human habitation."


I do enjoy a good theological theoretical debate. Living in domes for centuries probably did more to mold Caldari mentality than anything else and quite literally imposed a glass ceiling upon their thinking.

re-reading that wiki made me realise that Nouvelle Rouvenor was all about imposing Caldari values on the Gallente psyche and that bursting that bubble killed off the best Gallente Caldari education program to date. Lookit, even Gallente space stations have an element of open sky about them. I love artistic integrity of this game.

Worms or no worms, one thing is certain, the survivors of the EVE universe know how to biomass.
Goran Konjich
Krompany
#124 - 2013-04-04 09:36:59 UTC
Spawn more Overlords !

I'm a diplomat. Sometimes i throw 425mm wide briefcases at enemy. Such is EVE.
Michael Turate
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#125 - 2013-04-09 17:57:49 UTC
Great read and really glad to see The Chronicles back!
Mikron Alexarr
New Age Solutions
#126 - 2013-05-03 13:49:24 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
That is one creepy dude after you go back and re-read it:

I gave in at last and took up some old hobbies. I needed something to do. A mind my age will begin to fade if not put to use, and I had no intention of becoming one of those ciphers who stops leaving tracks in the earth altogether.

I began gardening again, carting away the grass from part of our yard and setting down rows of seedlings in the bare dirt

. I hadn't done it since before I met Levotta, when I'd put all that aside to get married and start a family

Others in my position might've tried to keep everything going.... You focus your energy on what you're doing or you don't do it at all

Gardening turned out to be more difficult than I thought, because although I still had a bit of my wiry strength, and remembered how to use my tools, I was old, and out of practice. But I persisted. It was a purpose.

All the while, I tended to my garden, which consistently took over more of my yard, and to my dog, whom I grew to love more deeply with each day. ... I was glad to have the company of someone who was simply happy to be alive and didn't judge me ... No wonder we turned on ourselves.

An old man, exhausted and at the end of his rope, and the hated enemies of my people treated me like one of their own.
They had known about my garden for a while. They spoke of it with respect

They had been planning to irrevocably ruin what little quiet patch I had built for myself here, and they would have succeeded. In the state I was, this would have ended me, for good.

I would not judge myself for who I was, no matter what others thought. I was a driven man who had been blessed, at my old age, with the health and the mental acuity to fulfill a purpose on this earth... had my garden. I would tend it, I would give the earth all the nourishment it needed, and I would let it grow, flourish, and outlast me

I would have kept on gardening for many, many years, hidden in that shadow



Yeah, the serial killer angle seems spot on.



Haatakan Oiritsuu comes to mind with this guy. Maybe they should meet :)
Sarangerel Bayatani
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#127 - 2013-06-25 07:02:48 UTC
Darth Velator wrote:
Fantastic Story!
Meat - Human or otherwise - is terrible fertilizer. Land animals die above ground and are eaten by various creatures from bacteria to large scavengers (like dogs). The waste these eaters produce is the fertilizer.


Perhaps he should have had a pig farm instead of a garden?