Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-5080468-20160505144206/@comment-5080468-20160505154926

I think that the 6 spices that are included in spore should be (mostly) chemicals of value whose value ranges with avaliability and the technological development of the respective civilization. They can all be chemical compounds closely related to eachother but can also be completely different things (e.g. Red spice = a drug that comes from plants genetically engineered by the Grox, Yellow spice = a highly effective fuel essential for most means of FTL travel that is a mix of uranium, plutonium and several complex chemical compounds that can only be produced using advanced technology which means that lesser civilizations have to buy or try to synthetize it, blue spice = a product of algae that live in the atmospheres of some gas giants, etc...). We can also expand the normal spice palette with more spices (Black spice, white spice, brown spice, uranium spice, etc...).