My suggestion would be to focus on stopping cardamine smuggling trough regular Cardamine routes.
Inner circle, in my eyes, sees cardamine as a big evil thingy, which needs to be stopped.
erf... we are junkies too... You're right the Inner Circle see the Cardamine as a real danger but for another reason : the members are investors, running assets and among us there is a doctor from Cryer pharmaceutical and she can see the Oucast like a threat because she is the one that give us access to our holy drug. But we refuse to act like Policemen. (Edit) I remember a transport convoy full of cardamine, 4 transports, we try to help the KSP to intercept. they managed to leave the Kusari space, and we warn the liberty forces, the "ReaperTradingInc" are, indeed, a real "Evil" group. But individual smuggler are not our main preoccupation.
However, we are strongly against the nomad transportation, the use and traffic of equipment related to them. The BPA ban nomad transportation is exactly what we think about nomad tech. It is dangerous, it might infect humans and must be destroyed. (And then again, Cryer work with the CRI.. so you might maybe see some kind of influence behind our actions)
I don't really remember if Artefact are supposed to be alien. i have a doubt about it.
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