An open letter to HugTech:

Hey, Hugtech! Your plushies sure are cute! So cute, in fact, that I've spent a ridiculous amount of marks on them. I noticed that you can get an Eckin plushie - and that's awesome! I was really excited to get one! But after a while, I noticed something else. There are no other sentient races! But if you can get an Eckin, why not a Human? Why not an Amaian? A Selassian?

The fact is, HugTech, you can only get "animal" plushies from your crane machines. But the Eckin aren't animals, in this sense. They are fully sentient beings who are being kidnapped sector-wide, partly out of malice and partly because of ignorance. Many people just don't understand that the Eckin are just like us.

I liken this oversight to spreading misinformation, however well intentioned - putting an Eckin in your claw machines but no other fully sentient race is equating the Eckin to animals and increasing their likelihood to be enslaved and put into zoos - and by 'zoos' I mostly just mean 'cramped cages'.

I'd love to talk to a HugTech representative and would even be willing to donate some marks to fund other races being added, or to see to it that the Eckin plushies come with information about Save The Eckin, Eckin Outreach Intergalactic, or GCEPS.

My dear friend Sslenick, an Eckin, has been held captive in Scrapston for years, despite my repeated attempts to free him. Would this still be going on if he were a different race?

None of us are free when one of us is caged.

Your move, Hugtech. Do the right thing!

Clover
GCEPS Ambassador