Tails of the Vuduri

We interrupt History Week here at "Tales of the Vuduri" to address an important point raised by my co-collaborator, artist, editor and inspiration behind MINIMCOM, my brother Bruce. Bruce was complaining to me about the paucity of plants, etc., in the world of Rome's Revolution, to decorate Rei and Rome's house. He also said there should be plenty of Earth animals running around and Earth plants, both brought in and from the Ark's stores.

I explained to him that it is true that there have been plants and animals imported from Earth. Some were brought by starship, some were resurrected from seeds and frozen embryos. But mostly the imports were concentrated on bringing food crops and food animals, not flowers or dogs. In fact, Binoda is in charge of developing the bison herd brought in from Earth.

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Turns out that they love eating threadgrass and it gives the bison meat a particularly pleasant spicy flavor. So this is a long way of saying while there are imported items, none of them would find their way into residential areas.

The other reason, of course, is because I am lazy. I didn't want to spend too much time designing the eco-system of Deucado. In fact, in the chapter lovingly called 'The Blanket's Tale' in Rome's Evolution, I even came up with a scientific explanation as to why there were so few plants and animals. There are also no bugs or insects of any kind. My laziness will come to an end soon. My reluctance to build an entire eco-system will be rectified in The Milk Run where I spend a much greater time showing you the twin habitable worlds of Nu2 Lupi.