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6/25/2025, 2:54:03 AM
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>does that mean that Longen is secretly operating an underground drug trafficking operation under the nobles' noses?
Heh, I guess you don't realize that's canon.
>The swampers? Oh, no sir, the swampers are really quite profitable for us. Best to leave them be.
The swamp gangs are specifically empire adjacent. Non-aligned actors because they're permitted to operate outside the legal bounds. The smuggling is facilitated by the guild to manage the corrupting influences in the military police system. Local guards are brought into the fold and of course the nobility are obliged to respond with a semblance of enforcing order. The Guild creates the arrested development on purpose, profits from it and plagues the nobility with a vice and tool for baiting those susceptible into blackmailable situations.
The drug war is a fairly well understood mechanism of social control for the poor, pleasure-seekers, criminally-minded and easily corrupted authorities.
The most frightening development in the empire, quite possibly across the whole of the civilized island, is the central bank in Heng. Everyone, even (especially!) the Hives trade in the common currency, controlled by one unified faction. How one does that line about control of a money supply go again? The merchant bankers coup in the Red Rebellion was so complete that the populace have just barely caught on to the puppetry in motion after segment of the population we relegated to permanent rebels and another swathe thrown in the slave camps as a matter of course. Oops, you've been taken over by some currency manipulators.
>does that mean that Longen is secretly operating an underground drug trafficking operation under the nobles' noses?
Heh, I guess you don't realize that's canon.
>The swampers? Oh, no sir, the swampers are really quite profitable for us. Best to leave them be.
The swamp gangs are specifically empire adjacent. Non-aligned actors because they're permitted to operate outside the legal bounds. The smuggling is facilitated by the guild to manage the corrupting influences in the military police system. Local guards are brought into the fold and of course the nobility are obliged to respond with a semblance of enforcing order. The Guild creates the arrested development on purpose, profits from it and plagues the nobility with a vice and tool for baiting those susceptible into blackmailable situations.
The drug war is a fairly well understood mechanism of social control for the poor, pleasure-seekers, criminally-minded and easily corrupted authorities.
The most frightening development in the empire, quite possibly across the whole of the civilized island, is the central bank in Heng. Everyone, even (especially!) the Hives trade in the common currency, controlled by one unified faction. How one does that line about control of a money supply go again? The merchant bankers coup in the Red Rebellion was so complete that the populace have just barely caught on to the puppetry in motion after segment of the population we relegated to permanent rebels and another swathe thrown in the slave camps as a matter of course. Oops, you've been taken over by some currency manipulators.
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