Pabulum

Pabulum
Type	Soup
User	Gastrines
Appearances	This topic does not appear in the main story, but can be found in the Foundling explicarium.

Pabulum is the "fuel" consumed by gastrines, taking the form of a lumpy soup packed with nutrients. It is fed to them via special hatches and chutes and the waste discharged by the gastrines feeds into a vessel's bilge, from which it is pumped into the water. The combination of pabulum and waste gives the organ deck its distinctive smell. Nadderers have developed a taste for gastrines and their effluent, providing an incentive for them to surface and seek these out as a food source.

Trivia

Pabulum is another term for food, in particular that consumed by animals and plants.