Billy nodded, feeling that common frustration over the lack of supplies.

"Yes, and yes. We have occasional shore leaves where we're given opportunities to buy food and clothing, but they're not frequent enough for us to be permanently stocked. We have to eat amorphous slop and drink through water injections most of the time, and we don't have enough cloth for everyone."

Billy owned a few simple outfits he'd bought on past shore leaves, but that was all. He was now wearing a plantsuit in solidarity with the newly awakened people.