Circular tablets of 1cm in diameter which, when ingested, provide the consumer with their full daily requirement of macronutrients, protein, fibre and sugars, along with a lingering sensation of “fullness”. How the tablets achieve this effect is a patented secret, but marketing holds that “specially formulated molecular frameworks encourage nutrients to rapidly self-replicate upon entering the stomach, delivering the same nutritional value as a hearty meal in a fraction of the time!”
ViCorp developed the tab-ration to sustain long-haul freighter pilots and miners on exo-worlds long before the advent of FTL travel, without having to surrender valuable cargo or habitation space to food storage. After the prototype’s success and the subsequent productivity boom, ViCorp patented the tablet’s design and began to sell it publicly. The tab-ration was marketed as a time-saver for everyone from office workers on overtime to soldiers on deployment and even students. Tab-rations have since become a ubiquitous, if not entirely welcome, part of working life in the Coreworlds.
Tablets come in a variety of colours, each representing a different flavour: white “Original”, orange “Citrus Chillen”, blue “Gilberry Delight”, green “Leafy Beans” and pink “WHOA! Hot Sawce!”. Limited edition varieties are sometimes available during festival periods.
Some nutritional scientists have cautioned against subsisting on only tab-rations, but these warnings have mostly been disregarded by the professional community. However, rumours of tablet-eaters developing antennae or chitin have proven to be nothing more than spacer myths, possibly based on the tablets’ resemblance to small arachnids found among ore shipments.
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