Water is Life! Water is Fuel! Water is for Us, not Them! Ice pirates, cloud stealers, desalinization plants sucking dry the ocean... once water became the primary fuel source and began shipping off-world, wars over water rights and water distribution quickly followed. Despite the early warnings some liberal pundits gave, most people did not anticipate or expect the ugly state of affairs that arose, precipitating the water wars. A pioneer in the food industry perfected a lichen that was both nutrious and easily substituted for corn and soy. It tasted like shit, but if you added sugar and plenty of salt, you could almost believe you were drinking the flavour the label on the Bottles of Food claimed you were drinking. Creating a food that wasn't dependant upon water helped prevent mass starvation during the Water Wars, but it did little to offset the violence. The most notable atrocity of this war was the humans converted into water and powdery biscuits that taste like smog. All this got exported space ways as well, excepting shipments that where hyjacked by the desperate masses.