Fairy tales always exist within storybooks, reality often carries many a helpless sigh.
The arrival of Earthlings, at least the Easterners, provided the local victims with opportunities and time for development, along with new civilizations and technologies... but it seems that once a part of them gained power and formed a society, they also replayed the barbaric history of Earth's development.
Slavery, the Feudal Era, capitalist exploitation, theocracy, the New tech revolution—when all of these mixed together, who knows what state the world would be in.
Salt City simply displayed one possibility, a strange social form that mixed violence with new capital, new technology, and comprador elements.
"After all, this is their world..."
In a decade, the New generation indeed grew, but it seems that a part of them had grown somewhat twisted.
Just as Big Cat said, when the world is like this, when life is like this, what can one individual change...
