Quillar
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A staple of the Inner Sphere, quillar is a prolific and flexible bioengineered crop used in many foods and beverages.
Overview[edit]
Common throughout both the Federated Suns and the Lyran Commonwealth, quillar is hardy, bountiful, and incredibly adaptable. Between the two states, quillar finds frequent use as a substitute for traditional common ingredients, be it in German Cuisine, Italian cooking, French fare, or Spanish sustenance - a near universal application.[1] Grown in fields akin to something like old Terran corn, like typical grain it can be processed into many forms with unique textures and flavors. Unlike a typical grain, however, it can act beyond traditional bounds, and be adapted into various vegetable and fruit substitutes. Quillar even has a presence in Asian dishes despite of the tumultuous history between House Davion and Kurita.
The plant is logically a staple farm crop, grown on planets such as Alexandria (where a quillar farm was operated by the family of Galen Cox until their deaths during a Kurita raid in 3039[2]) and Rijeka (where Albert and Nadine Sanderlin owned a farm[3]) in the Lyran Commonwealth and (apocryphally) on New Avalon[4]. Quillar was also taken on Kerensky's Exodus to the Clan Homeworlds, the plant being present on planets such as Tranquil in 3060.[5]
Of additional note - quillar is extraterrestrial in origin.[6]
Applications[edit]
The depictions of foods and beverages quillar is known to be used in are as follows:
- Omelettes, as a potential ingredient;[7]
- Peanut-butter & quillar sandwiches;[8]
- Jellied quillar smeared on toast, a condiment with a fruity taste popular in both halves of the Federated Commonwealth in 3062, but considered a luxury in the Draconis Combine;[9][10]
- A sugar substitute, granular quillar, added to breakfast cereal;[11]
- A vacuum sealed ration format;[12]
- And Quillar Fizz, an apocryphal carbonated beverage - typically fruit flavored and nonalcoholic;[13]
Notes[edit]
- Quillar is stated in apocrypha to be twice the size of Terran corn, and to resemble an ordinary grain - albeit large.[14]
- The flexibility of quillar bears parallels to the flexibility of corn, which itself ranges from grain to vegetable to high fructose corn syrup.
- Jellied quillar within a sandwich was said to be yellow-green in color, and capable of staining clothing.[8]
- The sayings "like a quillar ripe for the plucking" has been used to describe vulnerability[15], and "like a fat quail waiting to be shot in the quillar fields" used to describe inaction.[16]
References[edit]
- ↑ MechWarrior, Third Edition, pp. 177–178
- ↑ Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers, p. 208
- ↑ Lethal Heritage, Chapter 2
- ↑ Commando Quarterly, Issue 1, p. 11: "An Uncivil Civil War"
- ↑ Trial Under Fire, ch. 3
- ↑ When asked what quillar was in 2012 on the BattleTech forums, Herbert Beas replied: "Hello, it is some kind of non-terrestrial grain or vegetable."
- ↑ Lethal Heritage, ch. 13, eighth page
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Warrior: Riposte, ch. 28, pp. 105–107
- ↑ Patriots and Tyrants, ch. 10
- ↑ Storms of Fate, ch. 8
- ↑ Illusions of Victory, ch. 12
- ↑ Battletech (HBS). PC, 2018, Darius Oliveira's background
- ↑ Battletech (HBS). PC, 2018, Lore Entry on Quillar Fizz.
- ↑ Battletech (HBS). PC, 2018, Lore Entry on Quillar.
- ↑ Warrior: Riposte, ch. 49, p. 171
- ↑ Threads of Ambition, ch. 4