The Emperor's Poopships

[Beowulf]

My first thought was the hive would want the water and the ship to minimise mass, so the transported stuff would be vacumn sealed crates of compressed dry shit cake.

My second thought waa that 40k does not give a shit about mass, and a wet sludge is easier to bulk trabsport as you can pump it around.

Where does the cargo lie on the Bristol stool chart?

You could dry it and powderize it, so you can pump it around, without the extra mass of water.

[Jub]

My first thought was the hive would want the water and the ship to minimise mass, so the transported stuff would be vacumn sealed crates of compressed dry shit cake.

My second thought waa that 40k does not give a shit about mass, and a wet sludge is easier to bulk trabsport as you can pump it around.

Where does the cargo lie on the Bristol stool chart?

You could dry it and powderize it, so you can pump it around, without the extra mass of water.

You'd need the water though, exporting so much food would also mean exporting water and unless yours was a water world with deep unsalted oceans you'd need to get water back.

Also, dried powdered waste would be a fire/explosion risk depending on how finely it was powdered.

[Elheru Aran]

My first thought was the hive would want the water and the ship to minimise mass, so the transported stuff would be vacumn sealed crates of compressed dry shit cake.

My second thought waa that 40k does not give a shit about mass, and a wet sludge is easier to bulk trabsport as you can pump it around.

Where does the cargo lie on the Bristol stool chart?

You could dry it and powderize it, so you can pump it around, without the extra mass of water.

You'd need the water though, exporting so much food would also mean exporting water and unless yours was a water world with deep unsalted oceans you'd need to get water back.

Also, dried powdered waste would be a fire/explosion risk depending on how finely it was powdered.

You assume the Imperium cares about OSHA

That said, the water thing is possibly an issue as well, but I dunno, they could always divert a few comets? either that or generate it via hydrogen and oxygen?

[Jub]

You assume the Imperium cares about OSHA

That said, the water thing is possibly an issue as well, but I dunno, they could always divert a few comets? either that or generate it via hydrogen and oxygen?

They don't care what happens to the crew and the dockworkers, but they'd care if an explosion damaged the ship or somebody important.

They probably could generate water that way, it depends on how much they actual export yearly and what the planet's reserves are like. On a world like our own, they might even just use the oceans for most of the crop yield and the land for living space and other less dense farming.