They'd lived most of their lives scratching up just enough Time to survive, even with the jobs they took on. Now they, and their beloved "fluffies" had incorporated because so much Time was rolling in by the decades they didn't know what to do with it. Then came the Idea! A charity, carefully disguised, siphoning time off to dereggers who were struggling just to survive. Giving them a chance to escape the oppression they suffered.
It is from this. @internutter/challenge-03509-i221-big-thoughts-in-small-steps -- Anon Guest
"So there's loads of others like us, right? Well. How we were before Planet Flak'dup[1]. Even after we pay our taxes, there's still huge amounts of Time rolling in. We have, they need, it should be easy, right? Give to those who really need. Like all those Dereggers suffering under med bills."
They still had to incorporate and secure licensing rights for the planetary chemistry and overall biota of Planet Flak'dup. Securing any and all volatile biologicals against anyone wanting to use them as weaponry. They insisted on all the planetary resources being used for benefit, not detriment. After what happened to Kaat, they could not do otherwise.
It was an enormous amount of Time. They had to do something with it, and alleviating suffering sounded like a fantastic idea.
Which naturally put them at odds with the Deregger CEO's, for whom causing suffering was the point. If people weren't punished for the egregious sin of being poor, how else were the proles supposed to know who was right and virtuous by the esteem of being rich?
So when the Fairy Goodparent Corporation set about buying debt and then forgiving it, that meant war. They rallied their troops and their warships for all-out battle.
Such a pity that the Dereggers almost universally recruited those in severe debt to be their cannon-fodder.
Once the soldiers were freed, they could also apply to leave Deregger space with their families. Free of charge.
Thousands of Alliance citizens tuned in to the live feed, watching the Deregger's Corporate Arms bleed "indentured employees" away as Fairy Goodparent purchased every Second of the army's debt.
There was only one problem.
"What do you mean the CRC is paying us Years per freed citizen?" Kaat yawped. "These guys are making it worse!"
[1] Because if you give a Human the chance to give something a silly name, they will take it. Honestly, they're lucky it wasn't named Rocky McPlanetface. Also, "Shitworld" was taken.
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