(12-18-2019, 05:33 AM)Spectre Wrote: While this is true to an extent, the *MR| supplements the lack of access to Malta by using secondary sources, as well as working to grow their own in small quantities. The population of the Republic is rather small, and readily accepts usage of Stabiline to make up for the lack of up front access to Cardamine.
Reliability isn't really an issue when your population that requires Cardamine is small enough to be sustainable, yet prolific enough to make a mark that the *MR| aims to.
So, let me get this straight. Cardamine. Only grows on Malta. Demonstrably, only grown on Malta. Grown elsewhere. Stabiline, highly controlled and regulated, and still ridiculously expensive. "Small yet sustainable," yet clearly enough to crew huge capital ships. Excuse me if I'm at least a bit incredulous towards the entire concept.
Especially since the choice, given to the average Maltese serviceman, is to either continue getting paid and an easy supply of the stuff that keeps you alive, or getting outcasted from your Outcast society and living in a commune where death from withdrawal is evidently very likely, considering the fact that you're blowing what is probably your space-pension's entire money every month for your fix.
Edit: And Soledad. Which is also, mind you, Maltese-controlled.
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