Oh, they do know how to make passable food here. One of her early, more worried hypotheses was that the stuff Vanyel had been issued was the tastiest stuff their tiny economy had figured out how to make.
:Sorry again for disrupting the conversation. My beliefs are far out of equilibrium with this new world, so all kinds of discussions are Suddenly Happening just because there's so much changing inside my mind all the time, rather than small probability updates being localized to particular outside events. I think - the last topic was about getting me to Haven, somebody named Randi would want to know, but we don't dare use the Gate?:
(Thellim has yet to make the connection between average GDP per person and the average level of mathematical discourse people can handle. You don't need material resources to do math, that's the whole point.)