HEY GAIS!

[SA_Scavenger]

The whole vanilla mess about artifacts was done by Nomads who were trying to capture that IMG guy with map crystal. Freeport 7 was blown up to return it as well. But in mission 13 you may also see a wonderful example of Liberty liking to research artifacts itself )

Anyway, they are a piece of stone, most of them, and all of them that are getting into market. Corsairs are the only producers and distributes and also the most experienced artifact researchers. They are not letting any interesting piece of knowledge to run from their hands so what is going off the bays is just a pile of fancy trinkets.

I'm just sprouting my opinion on the Artifact saga so nothing is 100 % correct but hell, why not.

There's always the play that Liberty and other houses would want to get their hands on the artifacts themselves in order to extract whatever data or technology they can from them. Perfectly normal, but the INRP reason given by the governments, to the lawful peoples' of the houses, for the crackdown on the trade of Artifacts, is that they're dangerous to humans and shouldn't be touched and used by someone not 'knowledgeable' about Artifacts.

They cover their backsides over their own research into Artifacts by using the old 'protection of the people' line. At least in my opinion, that's why it is contraband in the houses.

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