Agritowers

The logistical issue of feeding a massive terrestrial population requires a supreme level of innovation and industry. When the natural surface of the world has been utterly devastated by the march of technology so that virtually no life-sustaining natural geography remains, the task is even harder. The Iolar solution to this issue on Madrisa Prime and other of its less fecund holdings, is the agritower: a wholly artificial, high-throughput system-in-a-building means of creating the necessary fuel for organic humanity.   The design of an agritower is both modular and scalable, featuring separate systems for atmospheric control, power generation, cultivation, and distribution. They can be rapidly deployed to compatible biospheres to jumpstart colonization efforts or support remote outposts or bastions. The 20 that bristle from the surface of Madrisa Prime have been further customized to meet the demands of the planet and its growing population. Each has an independent geothermal sump for main power as well as supplemental wind and solar generation platforms built into the exterior architecture. These supply thousands of floors and separate cultivation chambers with the energy necessary to produce, support, harvest, and package all manner of foodstuffs into every form from nutrient slurry to premium delicacies.    Nominally, all agritowers are owned and operated by Allart but a limited number of individual sections of towers can be leased for private use. Over 70% of the capacity is devoted to producing high-yield fungal varietals, gene-modified to reprocess the mass amounts of waste pumped into the bases of the towers. The dense, nutrient-rich body of these fungal blooms are harvested mulitple times a day such is their prodigious growth. This baseline mass is highly manipulable, responding well to infusions of other flavors and modifications to its texture and form; a necessary step for most people as the raw stuff is unpalatable despite its complete nutritional profile. Any spare mass from these processing steps is immediately recycled or used to create seed kits for expansion or use in colonial installations.   The rest of the agritower capacity is devoted to production of "luxury" foodstuffs and organic products, including dedicated horticultural labs. Livestock and naturally farmed plants are produced in relatively small quantities and almost always with some private investment. The yields for these food items are so incredibly low that the premium of their acquisition is unattainable by most of the population. Still, such is the demand for these finest of comestibles that their prices compete on equal footing with extraterrestrial imports due to their reliable and high quality. Gambling on the latest stasis-sealed shipment of some alien crustacean is a pastime for only the most frivolously wealthy.