Fix Cardamine

[jammi]

Kinda implies that living in slavery on Malta is worse than living in corporate slavery in Liberty. That is the big crux. Apart from Cardamine being an incredibly dangerous plant itself and difficult to harvest by manual labor, the Outcasts turned Malta into a paradies for themselves - especially thanks to Cardamine.

The Outcasts were mostly using their slaves as entirely disposable agricultural equipment. Working industrial-scale Cardamine plantations is brutal, mining camps on the moons even more so. Being a domestic servant would be a less awful life, but also a vanishingly small minority of the slave population.

The slaves took a shot at freedom as the majority would know that their lives were already measured in years at most, hoping they could topple the Outcasts entirely. It didn't pay off.

Either way, the Dons are now very much aware that making themselves economically reliant on slaves, especially in industries as brutal as these, is an existential security risk and not sustainable in the long term.

Outcasts made Malta a paradise, but only for Outcasts. The Outcasts are probably the most xenophobic group in Sirius, believing they are literally a superior form of humanity. The benefits of living on Malta did not flow down to the people they were imprisoning and exploiting. That luxury was built through their blood and suffering.

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