My family supported Prohibition for purely economic reasons. We owned major interests in oil companies which created fuel for the rapidly expanding automobile market. Our primary competitor in automotive fuel was the alcohol that most farmers created in their back rooms. Prohibition erased that competition and forced an entire nation to buy our product. We made a fortune on that law alone.
I’ve been to Capella since The War ended. The fastest routes to the Hyades go through Capella so we kinda have to fly through there. But it’s still a primary Chinese fleet base with all the security that comes with it. They’re not a big fan of visitors and “encourage” us to move along right quick. That’s brought on some interesting times in system. Not precisely “Oh God, oh God, we’re all going to die,” interesting, but certainly in line with the old Chinese curse.
Jane 3.0 made a lot of enemies during the years of her operation. They were very thorough when they finally tracked her down. It started with a power outage that forced her military base onto internal power. It was in the middle of a lightning storm so no one was suspicious. Then the bombs planted by contract workers went off and internal power died. And then the lightning commando attack. They killed everyone and shredded her servers. There were no survivors.
In the midst of the Roaring Twenties something else arose in America. Prohibition was created through the union of social Conservatism and liberal Progressivism. Many Protestants supported it since they considered drinking a sin. Progressives backed the initiative to promote their ideals that the national government should improve society through government-sponsorship of programs or policies. Prohibition was their greatest achievement at the time.
Capella is one of those interesting systems I’ve been to many times, though most of those times I wished I hadn’t. It’s a major quaternary star system the Chinese snapped up before Contact and held one of their major fleet bases during The War. We raided it many times but never succeeded in capturing it. I was involved in some of those raids. It was a seriously hard nut to crack and we didn’t do nearly as much cracking as we’d hoped to.