“Vault has great greenhouses with ether-powered sunlamps for most of our staples,” Senshi says, “with almost everyone who can tend to ‘em having little gardens and a chicken or pig or two.”

He indicates the sugar lumps, and his coffee. “For delicacies like these we buy em, openly or on the black market - which is what the Milk Run is for - or else the Flotsam fleet does a bit of privateer work against Imp freighters bound for a count’s feasthall. We grow and buy much more than we steal, but some things we can only get through piracy - almost always stuff no commoner of the Empire will ever see, much less taste.”