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Description
[Dark Conspiracy]
Once, not too long ago, fields full of crops stretched in every
direction farther than the eye could see. Back then, families used to
make a business out of farming. Then the agricorps came and glutted all
the markets with their force-grown, hot-house crops. Family farms
couldn't stay in business, and the majority of them just went to seed.
Now there are weed-filled fields as far as the eye can see, dotted here
and there by abandoned farmhouses gone to ruin.
But you swore you'd never
leave. So now you live even closer to the land, raising just enough
to keep yourself fed, with some left over to sell or trade in town,
treating your equipment with kid gloves, trying to make it last. It
isn't an easy life, but it sure beats moving to the city.
[Traveller (TNE)]
Before the Collapse, vast automated farms and hydroponic tanks
supplied raw protein that was marketed in whatever shape, color, and
flavor you wanted. Now people live closer to the land, raising real
food for people with real jobs to do. You don't have the machinery
farmers once had, and what you do have you treat with kid gloves,
trying to make it last. It isn't an easy life, but there's something
rewarding about raising food from the earth and making a world
bloom.
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