Synth Foods, Incorporated -- Product Catalogue

[Synth Foods Corporate]

Synth Foods, Incorporated
Your Food, Your Way

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Feeding The Masses

Synth Foods, despite our altruistic goals of supplying the populace of Sirius with accessible, affordable food is - at the end of the day - a business, and a business is nothing without a product. While we offer a variety of products throughout a dizzying amount of fields, this e-brochure will hopefully describe the essentials for any deep space outpost, fledgling organization, multi-sector corporation or military enterprise. With these Synth Foods systems at your disposal, you can be sure that whoever you're responsible for - be it your children, or a hundred million souls - will go to bed with stomachs full and minds at peace.

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Catalogue: Biodome™ Technology

Synth Foods technicians overseeing the trial run of a newly-installed Mark IIId hydroponics facility.

While most know Synth Foods for their revolutionary Synth Paste and Gel products, as well as the dizzying varieties of Synthcrop that make those lovable products possible, it is the Biodome amongst all other innovations that makes Synth Foods the necessary answer to your long-term space habitation problems. From our earliest days in the early seventh century AS, partnering with then-upstart NutraForm, Inc. to create the first self-sustaining, self-contained orbital food production facilities (i.e., Biodomes), Synth Foods has always placed a priority on the research and development of more efficient and responsible ways to generate the resources needed to sustain life in the most hostile environments imaginable. The development of Synthcrop was the first step in this endeavor, but it was far from the last.

Biodomes are a varied beast, and it is better to talk about them each in a vacuum rather than all at once. Behold, then, the Synth Foods, Inc. Biodome Catalogue:

A cluster of four Mark III Bio- domes in use on Freeport 9, Omicron Theta.

SBD676-AHS3-D Automated Hydroponics System - "Biodome Mark III (d)"

» Dimensions: 50m dia x 25m hgt; base area of ~1963 m²
» Peak crop performance: 20,000 cal per m²
» Maximum crop sustainment: ~450 inhabitants
» Oxygen recycling performance: 16.4 g per m²
» Unassisted oxygen sustainment: ~400 inhabitants
» Water recycling performance: 88.37%
» Typical construction price¹, incl. labor, parts, etc.: ~100,000,000 S.C.

The Mark III Biodome is the oldest in-service model of self-sufficient food production system available for sale by Synth Foods, but it has long since earned its veterancy as a stable, reliable product. Seen deployed across the Sirius sector as a cost-effective method of food and oxygen generation, from the innermost House stations to the farthest reaches of the Omicrons.

¹Please note that this is a generalization; price will change depending on location, logistical cooperation, difficulties in installation and hazardous considerations. Contact Synth Foods Corporate for more information.

SBD712-AHS4-B Heavy-Duty Automated Hydroponics System - "Biodome Mark IV (b)"

» Dimensions: 40m dia x 20m hgt; base area of ~1256 m²
» Peak crop performance: 20,000 cal per m²
» Maximum crop sustainment: ~275 inhabitants
» Oxygen recycling performance: 16.4 g per m²
» Unassisted oxygen sustainment: ~250 inhabitants
» Water recycling performance: 87.55%
» Typical construction price, incl. labor, parts, etc.: ~85,000,000 S.C.

The Mark IV Biodome was first deployed in 712 AS, after Synth Foods took on a contract to supply an installation in extremely hostile territory - Freeport 5 of Omega-41. Shielded against nearly all forms of harmful radiation and armored to a similar spec of Liberty second-line warships, the Mark IVb system is designed for those installations at the edge of the frontier - and for those organizations who require their most precious systems to remain secure. After all, all the armor in the world on your command component won't keep your crew from running short on food when the unshielded Biodome is taken out.

A Mark IVb installed within the rocky foundations of the hazardous Freeport 5.

SBD809-AHS5-A Advanced Automated Hydroponics System - "Biodome Mark V"

» Dimensions: 50m dia x 25m hgt; base area of ~1963 m²
» Peak crop performance: 40,000 cal per m²
» Maximum crop sustainment: ~900 inhabitants
» Oxygen recycling performance: 19.5 g per m²
» Unassisted oxygen sustainment: ~550 inhabitants
» Water recycling performance: 94.33%
» Typical construction price, incl. labor, parts, etc.: ~175,000,000 S.C.

The Mark V Biodome is the premier product of Synth Foods, and the standard-issue product issued to all new high-capacity installations ever since its development just after the dawn of the 9th century AS. Utilizing revolutionary advancements in crop sustainment and revitalization technology, the maximum yield on compatible Synthcrop fields has increased twofold over its direct predecessor, the Mark III. These advancements, of course, come at a cost - progress isn't cheap, and for those that have no need for the excess yield, perhaps the much common Mark III is a better bet. In addition, these advancements far outstrip the natural oxygen replacement of the plants, requiring either Synth Foods, Inc. oxygen compression solutions or substitute raw oxygen deliveries to sustain the maximum crop capacity of 900 persons.

SBD825-AHS5-E High-Yield Automated Hydroponics System - "Biodome Mark VI (e)"

» Dimensions: 60m dia x 30m hgt; base area of ~2827 m²
» Peak crop performance: 42,500 cal per m²
» Maximum crop sustainment: ~1350 inhabitants
» Oxygen recycling performance: 50.25 g per m²
» Unassisted oxygen sustainment: ~1400 inhabitants
» Water recycling performance: 97.51%
» Typical construction price, incl. labor, parts, etc.: ~300,000,000 S.C.

The Mark VI (experimental) Biodome is the newest development of Synth Foods research and development, and the pinnacle of developments first made in the Mark V model. While experimental and prone to occasional breakdown, the yield and support that one Mark VIe can bring to an installation is far beyond that of its predecessors; it even incorporates some (although not all) of the steps made to shield the Mark IV model from hazardous radiation, making it the perfect fit for those operating with large forces in dangerous territories. Rest assured, if your organization is one that deserves the best, look no further than the High-Yield Mark VI.

If you have queries relating to purchasing, contracting, etc., please direct a communication to the Synth Foods Corporate Office.

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