Cassandra-V was a population-overflow planet, a raw materials colony, and it had never attracted the best of people. Nobody moved there because they wanted to. The few good people—the empathetic people, the people who cared about social order—tended to die young and idealistic deaths, leave planet as soon as they could, or grow old and cynical, sand-whipped and exhausted by the weight of believing the other colonists could be better than human. Everybody did what they had to do to survive.
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