Challenge #02509-F319: Berry Small Problem
It’s inevitable that one person’s treat is another person’s hallucinogen, especially when it comes to dealing with various species in the Galactic Alliance. There is a plant that, for most Galactics, it’s no worse for them than a human having some chocolate. In fact, it’s sweet fruit is quite popular. However, if a human eats some, it’s inevitable the human will sit for hours completely blitzed. So while it’s a treat for some, for humans, it’s a potential medicine to help those with damaged minds. – DaniAndShali
For every world, there is something that is harmless to the dominant lifeform, that can be considered toxic, dangerous, or hallucinogenic to other species. Sometimes, this happens for multiple species per world. Some species, though they can ingest theobromine, find the variant in terran Coffee to be hallucinogenic.
The same is true for Faraxian Dreamjuice and Humans. It’s the Humans who call it Dreamjuice, despite the fact that it is available as a fruit in most ports of call. Blame First Encounter Syndrome[1] for the resultant grammatical landmines. The fruit, and anything imitating the fruit, is tightly controlled in Human spaces.
This, of course, has lead to a healthy black market, smuggling rings, and illegal trade in certain Faraxian saplings. Because if there’s one thing in the universe anyone should not do, it’s tell a group of Humans what they can’t have. When something is valued and forbidden, crime becomes rife. Which is supremely ironic because, as drugs of choice go, Dreamjuice is fairly harmless.
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Challenge #01472-D011: Lawful Suspicion
“I wanna leave without a trace cause I don’t wanna die in this place.” – @song-lyric-prompts
The Night Guard who had found her outside, one second after curfew, nodded in understanding. For an instant, their eyes were human, before they remembered to be cold and cruel once more. “We have a duty to the citizens of Nova York, miss. Including the citizens who are breaking the law. Now we find it suspicious that you were cleaning up after yourself as you were running home. Care to explain?”
“It’s illegal to litter. I’m in enough trouble, I don’t want more. I’m not a bad egg, I promise. I just wanted to go home and rest for work…”
“Enough trouble, you say,” said Goon #2. “And what sort of trouble might you be in already, then?”
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Challenge #01427-C332: Illegal Saviors
Someone going through human archives, and they find this story and the key phrase of it:
“It may be ‘illegal’, but those who risk their liberty to ~save the world~ should never be reprimanded, no matter what those in power say.” – @recklessprudence
When the people of Pre-Space Planetary System #J4N3T-111811260516 finally get into Galactic Society, they’ll find some funny things in the archives. If they go looking.
My name is Leon. And technically? I’m a criminal.
GalStands&Legs - that’s the Galactic Standards and Legislations Comittee - clearly marks all wormhole passages that lead to inhabited, Pre-Space systems. Galactics are supposed to keep the hell away from them.