An unparalleled liqueur, renowned throughout the Confederation for its qualities. It comes from the weeping rose, a thornless plant native to Norfolk: In 2209, Carys Thomas, a junior botanist doing an ecological assessment of Norfolk, happened to taste the liquid out of curiosity…

The plant’s significance in the universe rapidly changed after that. Norfolk Tears became a valuable delicacy througout the Confederation, being Norfolk's primary source of income from interstellar trade.

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Joshua Calvert traded mayope wood from Lalonde for a large cargo of Norfolk Tears, profiting over the planet’s pastoral constitution. Further development of this line of business was curtailed by the possession crisis.

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