Everybody’s got to eat, but some characters are more discerning about what they eat. Few Ops will choose to eat badly though, and players wishing to have their characters live on 12c a month should be prepared to accept a -1 phys due to malnutrition. Basic food represents a typical Op’s diet – a mix of fast food, nutrient snacks and an occasional bar meal. While this may not seem particularly healthy, Ops are usually extremely physically active and the nutrient snacks they supplement their basic diet with provide everything that pizza and burgers lack. Shaktar and Wraith Raiders tend to be more discerning about what they eat, and tend to prefer food prepared in the manner they are accustomed. Much of what they eat is shipped to Mort from off-world, and so is more expensive. SLA does what it can to subsidise these specialist ingredients though, so the price isn’t as high as it would normally be, and while the alien races prefer their own food they can survive on a basic diet as well as a human could. Stormers rarely care what their food tastes like. For them it is simply fuel, but as Stormers burn a lot more fuel then they eat much more. Most Stormers tend to eat food designed for them – a sort of protein rich tofu that other races find tasteless and plasticky. This is designed to be cheap enough for the Stormer to be able to consume enough of it and not suffer financially, and so it works out about the same as a basic human diet. Stormers are perfectly capable of eating normal food though, and often supplement their diet with red meat.