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Originally Posted by (E)
Farming in SPACE!
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E, I'm currently putting together a battle star Galactica style ark fleet for a game, but I'm running into some difficulties. Retrofitting mature aquaponics into the class of ship that has the facilities needed is giving me 150 persons worth of food a day from each of its 4 environmental bays but it's requiring 750 man hours each day, assuming 12 hour shifts that's just over 60 people per bay or 240 people per ship that's making food for 600 people. That 20% of the population working in food production isn't unreasonable, but that's only achieved by in the longterm unsustainable 12 hour work shifts.
So what's needed to shrink that 5 man hours a day per person number?