Why bother storming a space station anyway? Standard doctrine is to get into an angle to the shielded station reactor and fire a beam weapon at it. The bremsstrahlung from reactor shielding deflection creates a fatal radiation fan. But an agricultural station has live-soil.
The soil itself is the product everyone fights for because so far, someone has yet to invent an algal carbohydrate or SCP (single cell protein) tastier than hot bread or corn on the cob. And if we sterilize the station’s cargo, we might as well blow the whole station at range. A pile of dirt and bacteria as hostages.
So here we are. In the high frontier, hurtling towards a miracle in orbit that looks so shiny on the synthetic aperture radar. They told us the system starves if we fuck this up. That’s a lot more motivating than hot corn and wheat tortillas. But the reasoning is the same. Heaven's dinner will be mine.
