What exactly is in these crates of "Crop Harvesters" and "Marine Equipment" ?

[Louella]

Something that occurred to me the other day.

You can haul crates of "Crop Harvesters" and "Marine Equipment" around, for missions, and for profit.

But, those things are generally quite big, and more than 1t in mass.

"Agricultural machinery together with spare parts and consumables used for harvesting and packing specific ground-based crops." is the description for Crop Harvesters.

But this is a crop harvester:

It's several tonnes.

even the smallest crop harvester is more than 1t, something like:

And Marine equipment as well:
"A wide range of industrial scale equipment for marine agriculture. Submersibles, feedstock dispersing equipment, fishing equipment, nets and underwater confinements."

Has to be a pretty small submersible, to be much less than 1t.

Is it a box of these?

OR, is there something else going on ?

Are these crates of "crop harvesters" the same stratagem as used in history ? where boxes of small arms were shipped to places they shouldn't be, in boxes labelled "TRACTOR PARTS" ?

The mystery deepens...

 

[Altair8800]

Obviously a 1t container can't hold a harvester or a submarine. So they come in parts each fitting into the 1t max containers, you need 10 or something of them to assemble the complete machine.

 

[DJ]

Maybe in 3300 its nano-tech?

Or maybe each cannister is vacumn packed because each contains a micro black-hole singularity, after the great Haldron-collider incident of 2029 that inspired a new revolution of how to ship goods around the planet more economically?

Round 'ere a crop harvestor is the size of a sheep, and coincidentally also called a sheep! Now that would fit in your tin!

 

[Kzak]

I imagine over 1000 years of development have miniaturized things down a fair bit compared to what they are now. For all we know there could be a swarm of drones doing the same tasks as the combine harvester in the original post.

 

[FunGas]

how many can YOU fit into a cargo container?

 

[Cevap]

FunGas you deserve a medal hahaha.

After a second look I noticed its quite the combo with your name, your post and your perfect signature below it. Well done mate well done!