>>5383453 Nano I'm not assuming you're stupid, I just want to make it very clear how absurd modern technology can be.
Let's assume for this example that you have a corn plantation for example. First, it doesn't need the sun because there are specific color spectra that greatly alter the productivity of certain plants, assuming that, for argument's sake, these plants are in a giant one kilometer square shed. Just by changing the color of the light bulbs in this place you can gain 30% in productivity.
After that we will assume that this shed is insulated giving the possibility to control the temperature and humidity of this place, this "fools" the plants causing consecutive harvests one after the other as long as the quality of the soil and water is maintained, this can increase the productivity of these plants by 100% easily.
I just talked about the soil right? So there are integrated systems at the microscopic level capable of restoring the soil quickly, allowing the constant harvest of these plants in an uninterrupted way, it'is basically a super fertilizer that takes advantage of an irrigation system integrated with a soil observation system. The result of this is that the pauses that were necessary to rebuild the soil no longer exist, to make it easier to visualize this would be the equivalent of four large harvest per year in our world, in an automated way, being necessary only to interact with the system from outside during the harvest, this gives another 150% increase in production per year.
And finally genetic modifications that can change the plant in question to infinity, what about forming corn into a plant that does not need to grow from scratch to generate grains, or that change the nutrients or the size or even the flavor of those same grains?
From there, the limit will be the imagination of the Magos working on this plant. Now imagine that this super production can be built as a building with floors and more floors one on top of the other, with different plants and crop rotations.
In fact all the inedible organic material harvested can be processed into animal feed, raised in similar situations.
After all this text you might come to the conclusion that in a well thought out universe, a Hive would have no problem feeding large portions from its own population.
