Makes sense. Our agricultural products are mostly insects, but I suspect we'd depend more on fish if our seadwellers weren't encouraged to be homicidally territorial as a cultural value.

[She pauses a moment to take a bite of the fish, chewing thoughtfully - thoughtful about the food, and also a bit about her own history.]

There was one pirate outfit I was with for a little while, the captain was a violetblood who I think was just playing at outlawry. Most of the rest of us weren't, but the Kingfish didn't make much effort to hide that he expected to step back into politics or whatever the hell he usually did in a few sweeps. I suspect he was waiting for someone to forget they really wanted to kill him. But in the meantime, he was entirely uninterested in lowering his standard of living, and he was pretty generous in keeping the rest of his crew in style, too.

Wasn't generous about much else, but we ate well.