Dom'Kavash Empire

In Freelancer, Alien Organisms are a valuable commodity, primarily found in systems near the Edge Nebula, living on asteroids found within the mysterious green clouds.

The organisms themselves are microorganisms that live in sheltered colonies on asteroids within the Edge Nebula. It has been discovered that these microbes have the uncanny ability to metabolize certain elements into gases that are found within earthlike atmospheres. This strange ability has been proven to be very effective in speeding up the process of terraforming. Samura Heavy Industries owns several facilities on Planet Kurile in the Sigma-17 system that breed Alien Organisms for research purposes and as feed for their fish farms on Junyo.

For some reason, people who live on the farming facilities on Kurile and Junyo feel unusually mellow, and experience some sort of debilitating illness when they leave. Yet somehow they recover upon returning to Kurile or consume Junyo fish. It is possible that the microbes have some sort of addictive narcotic similar to Cardamine, and they might even be connected to the drug somehow. It is also possible that this narcotic is present in the fish bred on Junyo that have eaten the microbes.