Slavery



Slavery is a common practice in the galaxy, and it can be separated into two distinct groups. Within the Cetan Imperium In the Cetan Imperium, slavery is both widespread and accepted. Enslavement is achieved through powerful Cetan suggestion, causing the victim to not realize they have been enslaved. The Cetan master dominates the victim’s mind through powerful psychic techniques, rendering the victim a willing servant, and unable to feel anything other than happiness. Essentially, the slaves don’t think they’re slaves at all. They are rendered unable to feel anything but elation, and are often literally worked to death.

Of course, not all Cetans are gifted enough in the art of Suggestion to render a sapient mind servile. For this reason, most Cetans that do own slaves purchase them from slavers at markets. Market slaves are rendered servile through the help of the Ordox Servatix. This department operates exclusively on highly populated worlds, on slave farms often built underground or in orbit around the planet. They receive shipments of future slaves, and suggest them en masse through highly-trained Cetan suggestors known as the Magistrax. Once the slaves are deemed sufficiently obedient and happy, they are sold at markets that are also only present on high population worlds.

The most common slave race in the galaxy is the Uni, as they have been utilized for labor for thousands of years due to the fact that they were discovered when they still possessed only Stone Age intelligence. The Ceti have taken advantage of this, effectively halting the evolutionary progress of an incredibly interesting species solely for the use of free labor. Other races can also be used for slavery, but the Uni are the most easily suggested, and thus the easiest slaves to “break,” which is the term often used by the Venatorix, the Cetan slavers. The Beilkon and the Technetus are the only races completely immune to suggestion, as their minds are too psychically advanced, or machine-based, respectively. Furthermore, the enslavement of another Ceti is banned within the Imperium, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Scions of The Congregation are able to be surgically altered, cutting the connection to the Overmind, thus allowing them to be suggested, but this operation is rarely performed, as it is generally easier and cheaper to just utilize Unian slaves anyway. Outside the Cetan Imperium Outside the Cetan Imperium, slavery is far less regulated, and the methods of going about it are far messier. The Bloodmoon Consortium controls most of it, with the Bethilian Slaver's Guild maintaining a large majority of that control. Because slavery is far less regulated outside of the Imperium, many races end up as slaves, rather than just the Uni, as the Ceti have a pseudo-monopoly on Unian workers. Slavery outside of the Imperium is also much cruder, as the Vyrkch and any other species that may be selling slaves cannot make use of Cetan suggestion to generate happy, willing slaves.