Food crops for a planet with short year

Kjør bestillingen 92 umiddelbart. Frøhvelvet skal åpnes, skyttelbussen skal tilberedes.
_{(Execute Order 92 immediately; the seed vault is to be opened, the shuttle prepared)}

                  "“ King Harald XIV of Norway

In the future, interplanetary colonies have already been established, and interstellar travel is being researched. All of a sudden, some dang rogue state decides to launch a couple of nukes, which are responded to by a few dozen nukes, including on other colonies, which are responded to by... you get the idea.

You are a military botanist at the seed vault in Svalbard, and you suddenly get a message from King Harald himself, signed by the Defense Minister, telling you to ready the interplanetary shuttle hidden in Svalbard for a mission to a nearby system. Now, the most important question in the world: what plants are you going to bring, that can adapt to a planet with a year half as long as Earth's?

What the planet is like:

• 30 degree axial tilt
• 147.02 Earth day year
• 24.475 Earth hour day
• Equator is too hot and dry for Earth plants, you have to deal with the seasons sorry

Oh, and don't worry about native flora and fauna: when they get there, they realize it's a dry wasteland.

posted about 6 years ago

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