UT, war, and logistics

[Dustin]

Originally Posted by Joseph Paul

Also the feel of it should be that margins are thin at the best of times for operations in a non-hospitable location. That implies that transport costs are high but not impossible but prioritization is necessary. If you can convert biomass at the location that means that even less of your stores that you dragged out there have to be consumed and that increases the margin for survival. Hmmm Pyrrhic victories where one side wins the battle but starves on the way home.

I can see this as a really interesting scenario or one-time event, but it seems quite a stretch for this to be standard operating procedure, esp when we're already positing nano-disassembly/reassembly levels of tech. There just isn't enough biomass in enemy soldiers and your own fallen to make this viable IMHO. Captured food stores alone are likely to dwarf that.