Plants

Plants are an important part of Florian life. They are one of the ten treasures. In the survivarium, they provided the oxygen and scrubbed the carbon dioxide from the air. Later, in the basha phase of Florian civilisation, one of the major activities of the Florians was the Greening of the planet after the hanyo devastations and the Comet Strike.

Plants in hanyo town

Hanyo town was largely inimical to all nature. After the Sweep, most hanyo corporations fined slags who collected human shot to plant illegal food gardens to supplement their diet. The reason they gave was that the practice was dirty and spread disease, but in truth it was because slags were more difficult to control if they could not be reliably starved. Nevertheless, many slags, particularly sewage workers, would risk their lives to grow plants and food for people.

The hanyos also seeded the wildernesses and radiopoisoned deserts with famine weeds and securibugs to discourage escapees from trying to live in the desert. The famine weeds were genetically engineered to poison not only any creature who ate them, but also to denature the soil and contaminate the water. These measures were also used to give teeth to the hanyo propaganda efforts to make slags and chicks afraid of nature and the wilderness, in order to keep them securely bound to the towns. This is one of the features of hanyobait philosophy.

Plants in the survivarium

Every available space of the survivarium had plants in it. Rock walls were covered with moss and lichens, living spaces had garden pits below them, the lower level of the central hub contained the main forest, and even the sewage outflows had waterweed and catfish. This was necessary since it takes five to seven trees per person to recycle and purify the air. Green taskers would constantly monitor the oxygen needs of the survivarium and increase waterweed coverage to compensate for scarcity.

The central hubforest was looked after by teams of green taskers, while the garden pits under the pods were maintained by the person living in the pod.