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Originally Posted by pshrynk
Corruption runs deep in that town.
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You should talk! Remember that time with the drunk in the bar? Maybe I should be more specific. Remember that time I was trying to gyp, roll, con, pull-a-fast-one-on that drunk at Adrian's? Somehow YOU got the watch, all the money that wasn't counterfiet, and I still had to buy drinks for the bar. Don't tell ME about corruption. And I sent you a Christmas card!
Anyway, I don't know if they can help it. It's an "us versus them". If you're not from there, you're a) suspicious, b) fresh meat. Think of a speed trap in a small town. "You ain't from 'roun' hea', are you, boy?"
It's just as peculiar if you MOVE to the small town. In the beginning, you're shunned, but then you start acting like one of them. New(er) folks are now a shunned by you. You can't help it... it's like you've been taken over.
I heard of a planet that had something like that on it. When the early exploration teams hit planet-side, the natives fought like hell against them. Killed a lot of them, and drove the rest into remote areas away from the main population. Months later, when the second ship landed, the natives attacked again, but the survivors from the first team joined in the attack also. The third and fourth ships carried soldiers. Pretty much all of the natives died, and most of the humans. When the fifth and last ship arrived, THEY were met with heavily ARMED attackers and after that we quit sending any visitors.
What, dacades later and it's still quaranteened, and we really have no idea why... just old radio logs describing the hostile reception and resulting carnage. Any (human) surivors have got to be dead or dying by now, but nobody is willing to try the planet just in case...
Maybe it was something in the air or a slow bug or parasites, who knows.