Mate, I love soul-snatchers/GSC and I enjoyed your spin on them--doing everything out in the open with the blessing of their ignorant rulers. It's quite a clever take. The story was great, solid pacing and a nice twist. Really well done!
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Thank you! I figure the Soul Snatcher Cults would be different for whichever setting they take root. In this case you had a corrupt and self centered totalitarian government that was desperate for anything to pull them back from the brink. That let the Matriarch fast track the take over.
In my head cannon, the Snatchers encouraged the unrest and alien raids to better ripen the fruit.