My complaint is more of a critique on SciFi in general. If you need a resource rare enough to be worth fighting over water is one of the dumbest ones an author can select.If you’re living in the Eye of Terror, whether or not it’s one of the most abundant resources in the universe or how easy it is to extract from an ore isn’t super relevant.
My complaint is more of a critique on SciFi in general. If you need a resource rare enough to be worth fighting over water is one of the dumbest ones an author can select.
Lacks the basic infrastructure and logistics? That's a good one.Here though I’m pretty sure the intent isn’t the “water is actually super rare” trope like in V or something. It’s rather that the EoT lacks basic infrastructure and logistics, and what it does have are run by people who have no concern for those under them and for whom one of their underlings’ death is just as valuable as their life.
Chaos fights over water because Chaos has to fight over everything.
What does eating one of the most dangerous animals as a soup have to do with dirty water? That we already knew that water needs to be boiled?Lacks the basic infrastructure and logistics? That's a good one.
We've known how to make dirty water safe to consume for at least 8,000 years. There's archeological evidence we were turning hippopotamuses into hippopotamus soup that long ago.
Pretty much.What does eating one of the most dangerous animals as a soup have to do with dirty water? That we already knew that water needs to be boiled?
Lacks the basic infrastructure and logistics? That's a good one.
We've known how to make dirty water safe to consume for at least 8,000 years. There's archeological evidence we were turning hippopotamuses into hippopotamus soup that long ago.
EDIT: There's also a 5,900 year old beer recipe. It was written on a clay tablet back when writing was still a new thing. "How to make stored water safe to drink" was important enough that a beer recipe was amongst the first things known to have been written down.
Except the eye of terror is a place where the water has likely turned into either blood/mutagenic slime/pastel colored LSD/whatever disease Nurgle is cooking up at the time.
Oh, and the water purifier suddenly sprouted tongues, a womb, and is now giving birth to the screaming souls of the damned while it’s howling praises to the dark gods instead of doing its job.
Ain’t no amount of boiling that’s going to fix those problems.
Lacks the basic infrastructure and logistics? That's a good one.
We've known how to make dirty water safe to consume for at least 8,000 years. There's archeological evidence we were turning hippopotamuses into hippopotamus soup that long ago.
EDIT: There's also a 5,900 year old beer recipe. It was written on a clay tablet back when writing was still a new thing. "How to make stored water safe to drink" was important enough that a beer recipe was amongst the first things known to have been written down.
I always facepalm when a SciFi setting with interstellar (or just interplanetary) space travel claims clean water is a rare and precious resource.
Water is literally one of the most abundant chemical compounds in the Universe and one of the easiest to extract from an ore.
Seriously, go grab a random comet from somewhere and warm it up to above 0°C. You'll probably have more than enough to meet your immediate needs.
ST Voyager is guilty of this too. If I'm remembering it right, the Kazon suffered from water shortages. If it wasn't them it some other species with Warp drives and that's about when I stopped watching ST.
ugh
EDIT: The reason it's not abundant near a star is because it has a very low melting point and evaporates very rapidly in a vacuum once it's warmed up enough to melt.