"I'm not sure I understand that question. Food is always short; if it weren't, more children would survive to adulthood and have more of their own children until food was short again. If there was ever an age where that wasn't true, it would've been while Eldrida didn't already have as many planets as it could sustain and the Dread Emperor or someone was still making planets or dragging them into place."
"I don't see how in principle you would have a code that worked without preparing something in advance. Can you explain a key insight that would make that possible, without revealing your actual method?"