Post by Kyla Monroe on Aug 11, 2011 15:45:28 GMT -5
The world has a large tropical belt, creating
massive jungles and rainforests. Tropical plants
provide a variety of life-saving drugs that cannot
easily be synthesized in a laboratory. Major drug
companies set up shop on Greenleaf, providing the
bulk of work for the locals.
Some of Greenleaf ’s residents, seeing the
enormous profits that were being made, began to
make “clippings” of pharmaceutical plants and
grow them privately to sell on black market. The
problem became so great that the drug companies
began engineering new plant strains with traceable
genetic tags, so that confiscated merchandise could
be traced back to the origin point. The technique
has not yet led to any major arrests, mostly because
there are dozens of small cartels, and they are
difficult to track down in the jungle.
The Alliance is aware of the drug-smuggling
problem out of Greenleaf, and they are clamping
down on enforcement. Landing is more restricted
on Greenleaf than on other Rim worlds, though
smugglers who know the jungle can always find ways
to sneak through.
[[Taken from the Serenity RPG]]
