Liquid Cardamine

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From http://www.7crows.com/files/Freelancer%2...action.pdf

The Sirius Sector was intended as an elaborate school for the
Nomads, and the Daam-K'Vosh had left gifts scattered around it like toys -- the
cardamine grass on Ishmael with its life-prolonging genetic code (and unexpected
narcotic dependence when absorbed by human beings), the terraforming bacteria
intended to open vast numbers of worlds to the Nomads, and at the center of the
sector, Valhalla 1, a library from which the Nomads could receive the wisdom of their
creators when they had grown advanced enough to unseal it.

"Ishmael" was later renamed "Malta". But cardamine was, in fact, left for the Nomads by the Daam K'Vosh... that it does anything for humans in most likely mere coincidence. It doesn't so much "nourish" as it does "improve".



Followed by that logic, Nomads left 'normal' cardimine on purpose. Wouldn't it be logical for them to keep certain knowledge and things to themselfs?


Outcasts have spent years studying, researching and finally
they came up with some processes that turn the inedible grass into an orange inhaleable gas or
ingestible liquid. The effects of this processed Cardamine are increased lifespan, greater
strength and additional sensory enhancements than normal humans, at the cost of permanent
DNA changes that result in lifelong addiction to Cardamine and significantly reduced
reproduction. Whether Outcasts can produce offspring at all remains to be seen. It has been
suggested that the Cardamine helps the nomads to sense the Outcasts as different to other
humans. There seems to be a curiosity on the nomads part about these "human-like creatures"
that 'smell' like the grass the nomads ingest.
The effects of Cardamine on Nomads are similar to Humans with one difference; Cardamine
is not addictive and purely beneficial to nomads. The grass form increases the energy storage,
flow capacity, photosynthetic processes and functions of the Nomads body systems, while the
processed form does the same only slightly less effectively on Nomads.
It has been suggested by some of our scientists/theorists that the Nomads once grazed the
fields of Malta.

It doesn't says here, but yeah, liquid cardi would kill human, inRP. Therefore, there is normal cardimine, that humans are using, plus it makes them 'interesting things' for nommies, and there we go, neutrality between outcasts and nommies.

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