Energico (FT)

Energico is the brand name of a prolific type of produced in the Interstellar Union of Revolutionary States. Energico is the main combustible fuel used in the Union, accounting for about 57% of energy use. Produced and regulated by the PetroUnion state-owned megacorporation (Industrias Petroquímicas Internacionales de Unión), which controls most energy production in the Union, Energico is produced by reacting Lysenko's Bean oils with corn and other biomass-based ethanols. The synthilate was developed as an alternative to E-Stoff, which is officially out of the Union's reach due political reasons. Despite this, the Union does produce an unlicensed E-Stoff analogue known as Trigoleo, which accounts for about 27 percent of Union-wide energy use.

The first iterations of Energico were actually developed as experimental fuels on some of the frontier planets that would become the Union, before the Union's secession from the Federation in 57. These fuels were not widely embraced due to the market dominance of E-Stoff and the corporations that backed that fuel. In 65, the megasuavis wheat crops that were being used in the Union to produce unlicensed E-Stoff began to die out due to their artificially-engineered generational limit. As the Federation government refused to allow Progressive Genetics International to sell the Union's member states any new-generation seeds, the Union's member states began searching for alternative combustible fuels that could be produced on the same scale as E-Stoff. The Union eventually settled on adopting synthilates as the fuel to replace E-Stoff, founding PetroUnion in 69 to develop, produce, and maintain the new type of fuel for the Union.