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simple.

it's known they're there. . .

but they hide and the CS can't get them all.

that's why the Dog Boys patrol constantly. they're always looking because they know they're there, they just can't find them all.
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Sensorium wrote:If I've read the RMB correctly the coalitions policy when D-bees or magic users are encountered in CS territory is to kill them, though I could be wrong.

The CS also has allows the burbs to be a "free port" where even non-humans can go.

I'm confused by the contradiction of killing D-bees on sight if they're in your territory, but allowing a large population of D-bees live right next to your biggest city.

I'm just trying to figure out if I've read something wrong or what.

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Matter of resources, really. There are a lot of people who live in the Burbs, and you can't always be watching everyone. Even some D-Bees are allowed to exist there, just because the status quo works well for the C.S. as it is. I would expect things to get rough after Tolkeen.

Also, not all C.S. soldiers are evil. Most are even good, but prejudiced. There are lots of people that I really, really don't like, but I'm not about to start clipping unarmed families and stuff.
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Even more ironic is that the books tell us that some D-bees are allowed to WORK for the CS. Even though it's menial dangerous labor, and the pay sucks horribly. Some factories even get special permision to hire D-bees. Now how's that for a contradiction??
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Well, in WWII, the Nazis, despite declaring that all Jews should be killed, licensed several companies (if I'm remembering correctly, BMW was one?) to use Jews as cheap (read: slave) labour.

So, it happens.

Also, the Japanese used thier PoWs as Military slaves in WWII as well. My grandfather (PPCLI) went into a PoW camp after the fall of Hong Kong, and came out at the end of the war at 98 pounds (he was over 6' and 210+ at "full weight") after slaving in mines, a (Toyota?) plant in one of the major Japanese cities, and one or two other places.
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Kronus wrote:You know what's really messed up? According to that mini source book with The Vanguard, the CS sponsored magic users this whole time.
:eek: What?!...
But, that's just fine. It shows that the CS could say one thing while at the same time be totally full of crap.


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