Perhaps a mature tag should be added?

Also… new favorite word: phenomenologically

A mature tag for ‘bullshit’? I don’t know – I think it passes the would a 12 year old be adversely affected by this? test in the negative. But that’s subjective, of course.

these guys aren’t synod? Are they non-Terran humans?

They’re just downtrodden ex-con or otherwise low status humans, under the thumb of the Synod.