Synthetic Cardamine

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If I remember vanilla lore right, Cryer was trying to make substitute without the DNA altering affects, making an 'all good' Cardimine drug that no longer alters or slowly forces people to align with the Outcasts.

I would think the Outcasts would BRUTALLY stop any and all attempts to research or even produce such a thing.

You are certainly correct. It's why the Outcasts badly want to obliterate Cryer.

They've been trying to synthesize cardamine for decades before the Nomad War, possibly even centuries (I don't know my Cryer timeline offhand). A few years doesn't require progress in something so difficult and something that's been being worked on for so long.

Also, as said before, this isn't like making something to pull people off a crack addiction... you'd either need to create just straight cardamine to keep people alive on and hedge the Outcasts out of their own market (there must be some people who only take cardamine now because they'll die otherwise- or at least people who wouldn't mind staying on it legally), create something to repair the genetic alterations (not bloody likely unless Cryer has a Daam K'Vosh on their research team), or create something to maintain the requirements of the body while removing the other side-effects (also not bloody likely). Their best shot is making a literal copy of cardamine, but even that isn't as easy as splicing things onto corn... cardamine was not made as some little lab experiment in a garage, it was designed by the Daam K'Vosh to turn the Nomads into super-intelligent juggernauts. That it has beneficial side-effects on humans is purely coincidental.

It's not really an easy thing that they have ahead of them, and it sounds like they ARE working with it.

They just are broadcasting their secret research files that are, ya know, secret.

The Nomads aren't telling everyone their secret plans either. By your logic we should remove them too.



Given certain related story arcs involving the Nomads, cardamine (especially the liquid variant), and the Outcasts, there may be cause for Cryer to make a breakthrough in the near future. But not yet. Be patient.

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