Seems to me like people are going to die no matter what side I'm on. [And Lapis still doesn't understand the concept of fighting with your own species, even if she's experienced it first hand.]
Besides, how are you so sure that this is a bad thing for them? There's plenty of food here, and plenty of medicine. [The word sounds so weird on her tongue, Gems just don't get sick.] Clearly your side of things isn't doing so hot already if they need to resort to stealing these things just to survive.
[ This time at least, she doesn't lose her temper. Accepted apparently this - creature that was not originally human.... couldn't understand how these matters went, the problems that she could so clearly see and had suffer from. It sets her teeth a little, to be dealing with someone or something not human at all but - she wasn't a halfbreed. That had to ... count for something. ]
Because if it really was about helping, why do they need to rule these people? If they just wanted to share with them, why do they have to have them kneel?
[ She swallowed, and far be it for her to share anything part of herself. But at least to put it in context. It is not as though she had much in the way of secrets now, anyway, was it? ( except the only one that mattered. ) ] We might be called exotics and outsiders, but they are just as much the same. This isn't their home, who are they to decide its fate? Should it not be the people that have worked this land, grown up in, call it home, should it not be their choice about their fate?
I'm really not the best person to answer that. Honestly I think it's a plus that they're not wiping the local inhabitants off the face of the planet with their tech. Seems like it'd be easier, honestly, so I think they're being pretty nice at trying to rule them instead of outright murdering everyone.
[Seriously, with all the tech here, and with how much of a pain these locals are, why haven't they just done that?
[ At least she holds her tongue enough for that comment. Pressing her lips together in something like disapproval and a swallowing of her ire over such words. ]
They can't. You can't enslave a dead people. There are no resources to be had when there is nothing left, no one to work the crops, no one to pay them taxes and tributes.
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Besides, how are you so sure that this is a bad thing for them? There's plenty of food here, and plenty of medicine. [The word sounds so weird on her tongue, Gems just don't get sick.] Clearly your side of things isn't doing so hot already if they need to resort to stealing these things just to survive.
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Because if it really was about helping, why do they need to rule these people? If they just wanted to share with them, why do they have to have them kneel?
[ She swallowed, and far be it for her to share anything part of herself. But at least to put it in context. It is not as though she had much in the way of secrets now, anyway, was it? ( except the only one that mattered. ) ] We might be called exotics and outsiders, but they are just as much the same. This isn't their home, who are they to decide its fate? Should it not be the people that have worked this land, grown up in, call it home, should it not be their choice about their fate?
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[Seriously, with all the tech here, and with how much of a pain these locals are, why haven't they just done that?
A mystery for the ages, honestly.]
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They can't. You can't enslave a dead people. There are no resources to be had when there is nothing left, no one to work the crops, no one to pay them taxes and tributes.