jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.6
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All 36 commodity stubs fleshed out with lore context, production chain descriptions, and economic intelligence briefing voice. Key treatments: fusion_fuel (D-187 8:1 ratio), services (location-bound mechanics), brands distinguished from commodities per D-185. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Agricultural Produce
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Agricultural Produce |
| Tier | raw |
| Elasticity | inelastic |
| Base Price (Tractus) | 5 |
| Bulk Class | perishable |
| Unit | tonnes |
| Production Ubiquity | ubiquitous |
| Demand Model | utility |
| Commission Certified | No |
| Compact Contested | No |
| Shadow Viable | No |
| Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
| Description | Food crops, livestock, grain, grapes. Every terraformed world produces some. |
Agricultural produce covers everything grown, raised, or caught before shelf-stabilization: grain, legumes, root vegetables, livestock, aquaculture, and raw harvest from viticulture or fiber-crop operations. Every terraformed world of sufficient size runs at least subsistence production. Many run surpluses. The commodity is ubiquitous because the Reach was settled with agriculture as a precondition of habitability.
At 5 Tractus per tonne, margins on raw produce are thin. The value is downstream. Basic grain feeds food processing; the same tonnage from a specialized biosphere world flows instead into organic compound extraction at significantly better returns per hectare. Viticulture harvest from corridor-specific terroirs (VGV valley varietals, Calloway grain) feeds branded products whose prices the generic catalog does not track. A grower on a world producing brach fiber for textile feedstock operates in a different market from the grain farmer on the same continent, even if the Commission records both as agricultural produce.
Perishable bulk class limits gate-transit windows. Fresh produce cannot clear multiple hops before viability degrades; frontier nodes eat locally grown staples and import processed food for shelf-stable variety. No Commission certification is required and no shadow channel operates — too bulky, too cheap, and too time-sensitive to divert profitably.