The murdered officers who refused to help them and would broadcast recordings of it to make us behave. Warn us that we would pay for breaking contract. They would torture people, too. Not for going against them, also for failure to complete a task. Even if it was not their fault. They had brainwashing programs to get people used to killing.
Tali was one of those that was made to suffer. [And it still bothers him that she didn't even realize what had been done to her. She was nearly crushed by a planet's gravity, the air ripped from her lungs, she had ached in his arms.]
The CDC is a business. It spans many universes, many worlds, and it destroys planets for money. Legal for them, like how you would trick native peoples out of their land and develop it. But the natives are part of that territory- they don't get to escape. And it was so big, there was no way to fight it. It was a good scheme. They tricked us into these contracts. We had to help them, or we would be giving our own planet to them. Either people resisted and they get what they wanted, or they would make you so desensitized and self interested nothing else mattered than the rewards and gratification you got from a "job well done".
And that is why after this destination, I can't go home. But the you in that place? He almost talked me into standing against them. He was actually making me consider it. Me, who sees little escape from capitalism.
[He is shallow, though. He wanted to rip that business down just for threatening his family. Helping save the universe? He doesn't have enough ego to think he can do anything like that. Avenge his family? Protect them? He wants to think he can do that. Anything else is a side-effect.]
Ratchet and Alice were also from this place. They are good people. But we all had to help them destroy a planet. More were meant to come. So I hope everyone was disbanded. This place may not be as bad, but I never fucking forget that I am owned here, too.
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Tali was one of those that was made to suffer. [And it still bothers him that she didn't even realize what had been done to her. She was nearly crushed by a planet's gravity, the air ripped from her lungs, she had ached in his arms.]
The CDC is a business. It spans many universes, many worlds, and it destroys planets for money. Legal for them, like how you would trick native peoples out of their land and develop it. But the natives are part of that territory- they don't get to escape. And it was so big, there was no way to fight it. It was a good scheme. They tricked us into these contracts. We had to help them, or we would be giving our own planet to them. Either people resisted and they get what they wanted, or they would make you so desensitized and self interested nothing else mattered than the rewards and gratification you got from a "job well done".
And that is why after this destination, I can't go home. But the you in that place? He almost talked me into standing against them. He was actually making me consider it. Me, who sees little escape from capitalism.
[He is shallow, though. He wanted to rip that business down just for threatening his family. Helping save the universe? He doesn't have enough ego to think he can do anything like that. Avenge his family? Protect them? He wants to think he can do that. Anything else is a side-effect.]
Ratchet and Alice were also from this place. They are good people. But we all had to help them destroy a planet. More were meant to come. So I hope everyone was disbanded. This place may not be as bad, but I never fucking forget that I am owned here, too.