Chapter 16 - Understanding Evil Fucks Through Historical Parallels from Earth (Patreon)

American tourists traveling by train to reach the west of the country would often stop the train when a herd of buffalo was spotted, they’d open the windows, and then the passengers would use their own guns to kill buffalo from the comfort of the train. They’d leave hundreds of dead buffalo to rot and then move on, never taking the meat or doing anything with it. That was only one example. Killing buffalo deprived the Indians of a staple food source. ‘Every dead buffalo is an Indian gone.’ one US Army colonel had once said.

Nearly all the tribes of the plains lived alongside buffalo herds, hunting them, taking their skins for their tents and meat for food. Killing buffalo deprived an enemy of resources and would help force a cultural change. It was essentially a method of both weakening and gaining control of them. The Bajorans were this world’s ‘indians.’ Cardassians had already poisoned the soil in this province and many other parts of the planet, now they were trying to destroy the native wildlife to limit the Bajorans ability to feed themselves on their own in the countryside, away from their active control.