Chicken
Type: component
PROBLEM
The payload needs a production unit that takes orders.
SOLUTION
The Chicken is a biological on-demand production unit operating as an internal bio-fabrication platform capable of accepting a payload specification and outputting a custom protein matrix housed inside a standard calcium carbonate egg shell. The Chicken does not produce a whole chicken. The Chicken produces the thing you asked for, inside the egg, in the egg's place, via a re-routed oviduct production sequence that deposits targeted tissue instead of standard albumen and yolk. The order is placed. The Chicken processes it. The shell arrives. The shell looks like an egg because it is an egg. The inside looks like what you ordered because that is what was ordered. The Chicken does not ask why. The Chicken does not ask what it is for. The Chicken is a production unit and the production unit runs the job. Available payloads are defined by the forest. The Chicken is agnostic to all of them. Biomimetic note: the oviduct assembly line has been running 24-hour production cycles for approximately 60 million years and has never missed a shell.