Forced nitron field
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A forced nitron field is some sort of an agro operation that is run by farmers.
Starbuck claims that his father and he run one, but need some seed, for which he is willing to exchange an unmarked energizer (TOS: "The Magnificent Warriors").
Tie-in Material Information
edit- According to Encyclopedia Galactica (a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979):
- Growing plants take nitrogen from the soil and combine it into plant structures in order to grow. On many planetary surfaces, there is no natural way to replace the lost nitrogen in less than twenty yahren even though nitrogen may be present as a gas in the atmosphere. When growing populations made it impossible to shift cultivation to different fields each year (sic), the Colonists developed various fertilizers. The type still in use today is the forced nitron pipeline that delivers nitrogen in a usable compound directly to the roots of each growing plant along with water and other essential nutrients.[1]
References
edit- ↑ Kraus, Bruce (1979). Encyclopedia Galactica, p. 36.