The Dutch East Indies

The Dutch East Indies Company

You hear about it but what is it?
Well, seafaring nations have always done conquest.
How can you claim territory?

Well………
What if you can park a giant tank in the water….

Like this!

Your tank is made out of metal.
Is the size of 10 city blocks.
It is literally 1000 guns.
They’re not regular guns are cannons.
Big enough to take out a skyscraper.

One of these things sits on the water for nine months. Blows up every food shipment.

After nine months of no food your body stop growing.

Modern nations rely heavily on trading, especially large island nations like this…

You might be able to grow 20% of your food, but the bulk of your food comes from trading.

Now somebody’s blowing up 100% of your food. After nine months your body shops growing and you’re too tired to walk outside.

What do they do? Sell you drugs of course.
The drug stimulate growth, and the suppress the pain associated with hunger.

I about two years of this they decimate your entire ecosystem.

Now instead of selling food, they’re selling drugs. And you’re now drug dependent. You have so little energy, from lack of food. And so much pain, you depend on drugs to go to work.

What do they do now? Basically……
They sell you a cute dress. You put on the dress and they say there’s more work and food in another place. Hop on my ship and I’ll take you over there.

Now you’re a migrant sex slave.
If brutal torture in starvation wasn’t enough to get you going, if you resist you’ll be killed. By a giant tank in the water.

Now you’re transporting drugs around the world, using slave vagrant drug dealers.
No you’re deployed this tactic somewhere else. What a tragedy.

These guys depend on long-range communication networks

Also they pass a large portion of their drugs through less regulated channels like Valley and mountain passes