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[HARD CONTACT] Chapter 2: Animal husbandry of Qiilura
|| Republic Commando: Hard Contact || 2004 || Book series || Military, Sci-Fi || 18+ for violence and harrowing themes ||
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Despite appearances, this was the guest suite. Livestock wasn’t allowed in the barn at this time of year because animals had a tendency to eat the barq grain, and that was an awfully expensive way to fatten merlies for the table. The animals were allowed in the main house, and in the winter they even slept there, partly to keep the place warm and partly to protect them from prowling gdans.
Description of the rural environment of Qiilura is fascinating for me.
There are IRL farming communities where farming animals are actually treated like members of the households, yes, even with those animals that are raised for eventual slaughter for neccessities, like meat. Children formed connection with the animals too through caring for them, feeding them, but also the kids weren't spared from the animal's inevitable death. It teaches respect for the animal and its way to provide.
Anyway. What we see here is not idillic rural life cottage core. This is poverty.
What we see that they have a barn that farmers don't use for keeping the animals inside, but to protect the barq instead, so the animals slept in the main house with the owners. But they also did this in winter, because the animals provided enough bodyheat to make the house at pleasant temperature. Which means, the farmers didn't have proper way of heating (no electricity, no gas or other star wars sci-fi way of heating). Possibly the house couldn't properly keep the heat inside so chopping wood and keeping the fires alive was just a half-solution. Given the Neimoidian situation here, I bet the forests were also off-limit for personal usage, so if you wanted logs and firewood, you had to pay for them with the money you didn't have. Idk. I'm probably just brainstorming here at this point.
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Despite appearances, this was the guest suite. Livestock wasn’t allowed in the barn at this time of year because animals had a tendency to eat the barq grain, and that was an awfully expensive way to fatten merlies for the table. The animals were allowed in the main house, and in the winter they even slept there, partly to keep the place warm and partly to protect them from prowling gdans.
The house had smelled like it, too. Nothing of the merlies—not even their body heat or their pungent odor—was ever wasted. “Keeps them bugs away,” Birhan had told her. “It’s a good stink.”
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Imbraani wasn’t Coruscant, not at all. The only infrastructure in the rambling collection of farmsteads was devoted to what it took to grow, harvest, and export its cash crops, and to the comfort of its commercial overlords. Etain had grown up in a world where you could travel at will and send messages easily, and neither of those taken-for-granted facilities was readily available here.
Imbraani wasn’t Coruscant, not at all. The only infrastructure in the rambling collection of farmsteads was devoted to what it took to grow, harvest, and export its cash crops, and to the comfort of its commercial overlords. Etain had grown up in a world where you could travel at will and send messages easily, and neither of those taken-for-granted facilities was readily available here.
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Description of the rural environment of Qiilura is fascinating for me.
There are IRL farming communities where farming animals are actually treated like members of the households, yes, even with those animals that are raised for eventual slaughter for neccessities, like meat. Children formed connection with the animals too through caring for them, feeding them, but also the kids weren't spared from the animal's inevitable death. It teaches respect for the animal and its way to provide.
Anyway. What we see here is not idillic rural life cottage core. This is poverty.
What we see that they have a barn that farmers don't use for keeping the animals inside, but to protect the barq instead, so the animals slept in the main house with the owners. But they also did this in winter, because the animals provided enough bodyheat to make the house at pleasant temperature. Which means, the farmers didn't have proper way of heating (no electricity, no gas or other star wars sci-fi way of heating). Possibly the house couldn't properly keep the heat inside so chopping wood and keeping the fires alive was just a half-solution. Given the Neimoidian situation here, I bet the forests were also off-limit for personal usage, so if you wanted logs and firewood, you had to pay for them with the money you didn't have. Idk. I'm probably just brainstorming here at this point.