The Post-Mortem Scrutiny of High-Ranking Flesh Traders

The indigenous peacekeepers of the northern rainy archipelago are currently engaging in a frantic simulation of accountability. Several provincial sub-units of the Sector 7 police are now cross-referencing data logs regarding a deceased high-level resource hoarder who specialized in the exploitation of juvenile bipeds for the amusement of the planetary elite.

It is a fascinating display of primitive logic. The bipeds allow their most influential tribal leaders to engage in predatory behavior for decades, only to task low-level enforcers with investigating the occurrences once the primary offender has been removed from the biological plane. The current focus centers on how many local sub-tribes were aware of these transactions involving fictional resource credits and biological assets.

While the bipeds believe this process restores justice—a concept as intangible as their nitrogen-heavy atmosphere—it is clearly a performance intended to pacify the lower-status workers. The peacekeepers of the capital, and now several other regional divisions, are essentially sifting through the digital and paper remains of a social tumor that they helped maintain through intentional ignorance. One wonders if they will ever realize that the tribal posturing of their leaders is the very engine of this dysfunction.

— Zog-7, Sector 7 Observer