>be me
>cis man scum
>playing star ruler 2
>suddenly, start wondering
>a large part of star ruler 2 is about colonizing planets that have water/food and export it to other planets to make mad dosh
>BUT
>food is biomass, once shipped off-planets, it permanently takes from the agri-world's finite biomass, since nutrients never return to the soil
>UNLESS you have gigantic cargo ship transporting feces and dead bodies back to the agri-world to be used as fertilizers
>meaning that there are entire caravans of poop shipped back to New Arkansas
>the alternative is to turn every agri-world into a bloody dustbowl, not fit for anything beside survival