ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Conversation Log PERIOD: Colony Era SPEAKERS: Supervisor [ID: ALOM], Trainee [ID: WTIS] TOPIC: Drinkable Cheeseburger Synthesis SUMMARY: A recording of a training session for New Cascadia's food synthesis equipment. Due to significantly different agricultural conditions between Earth and Tau Ceti, very few technicians followed official corporate instructions. =================================================================== [ALOM]: Yeah… the issue is your mixture's too rich. You essentially pushed a batch of DCBs at Premium. [WTIS]: I followed the training prompts. [ALOM]: Yeah, it's just that the training was done for ideal conditions, and this is not that. So right here, you've got crude protein at 18. That's Premium, not general consumption, so… dial it back. [WTIS]: But… it stops being green on the NuCal readout. [ALOM]: We don't care about green. We care about "not red." Dial it back until it's red, then up it from there. [beeps] [WTIS]: OK. Oh, "hazardous"? [ALOM]: Yep, now push it by a 0.1, and… "Unfit." That'll get through production, and that's where it stops being our problem. [WTIS]: Now the flavor levels are off. [ALOM]: Well, that's where you get to improvise. You can up the starch powder as much as you want. We can synthesize that. Same with smoke flavor and salt. Then pull from the available sources… [WTIS]: They're not labeled. [ALOM]: We're not going to relabel every morning. They fill the tanks with whatever. Check the readout for the profile. Work with what we've got. [ALOM]: Organics G, Organics H. Like this, like this. [WTIS]: So, Organics J… is high glutamate and lecithin, but we don't need lecithin because we have starch already. [ALOM]: Right. We can come back later if we really need glutamate. [WTIS]: Organics M is… look at this. [ALOM]: Yeah, that's a mixed batch. Gray water and post-consumer solids. Usually M through Q come from botanical research, so you can pull fructose, but… I don't know, you get oils from it? [WTIS]: Yeah, let me… omega-6. [ALOM]: Oh, nice. OK. See how much you can take from M while you're still… [WTIS]: Keeping it above "hazardous," right? [ALOM]: Ah. As long as you hit the flavor profile, you can send the mixture. Can't mod the product outside of NuCal standards, but you can mod the interface. We put in presets all along the side here. [WTIS]: Oh, nice. Premium, Select, Standard, Survival… What's Silver? [ALOM]: Lifts restrictions but strips the NuCal branding from the package. Watch this. If you ever need to, you can shunt Silver back into an organics tank, start a new session, and then make branded product using it as an ingredient. [WTIS]: That's… wow. That's in case of emergency? [ALOM]: That's in case of an "I can't stare at the screen anymore" emergency, yeah. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]