Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-5080468-20160505144206/@comment-47205-20160707135222

Wormulon has pointed out to me that my idea is written down on one of his pages: Fiction:Delpha Coalition of Planets/Technology/Industry. As to the specific ideas of spices you mention, if they aren't extracted from the ground then there's not much tying them to the name "spice" besides the fact that they come in different colours (except for white spice, which presumably is produced by microbes in the atmospheres of some gas giants).