To the north and east: Terran and D'Haran bureaucrats all to happy to string them up.
To the south: Aurvandi fanatics who might sacrifice them to strange gods.
To the west: monsters. And then Zuma. Who will also sacrifice you to strange gods.
Best option for peasants?
Work your ass off in Barcan rice fields.
D'Haran criminals can have a light sentence, or a death sentence. If it's light, then they get to be sent off colonize and farm Barcan lands to make it hospitable for civilization. If they get the death sentence, we give just them a new home in Port Nebel. It's only a matter of time after that before justice is achieved.
