Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170515234900

This is going to be a trip, a rather long on at that full of all sorts of lose of morals, ethics, and innocence.

Slavery comes in many forms in the Empire from penal slavery, hereditary slaves, debters and bondsmen, and finally those forced or sold into slavery. For the most part slavery is economical and for the state's usage for administrative or manual work, private slavery does also exist from servants to debters, and finally slavery for military or entertainment purposes.

First lets look at the slaves themselves. This massive, faceless, and in the eyes of the state worthless section of the population is made up of all sorts of races even Rin themselves can find themselves to become slaves (Save Pure Rin, they may never be enslaved saved debt wise) others are machines (Servitors), and some are genetically created (Domestica Artificus)

Slaves do all sorts of work, mainly the stuff even the lower class Rin and Citizens see beneath them, this can be anything from pushing massive work loads, food testing, carrying around palanquins, and other demeaning work, others are deemed useful to the state and are used in Administrative work (Like the eunuchs of our history) or as 'Battle Slaves', and finally some become gladiators!

Now for more detail on the specific types of slavery,

Firstly Bondsmen. Bondsmen are really just the generic slaves and have no legal rights or voice in the Empire. They can be owned privately by wealthy to middle class citizens or they can be public or Imperial Bondsmen who are slaves to the State and do varying types of work.

Debters are much the same as Bondsmen although they hold basic rights and regain 'most' of their assets upon the cancellation of their debts. They can owe debts to both private individuals or the state.

Penal Slaves are criminals who have been sentenced to slavery to the state in one of two ways, they can either be forced to hard labor or well the Penal Legions.

Hereditary Slaves are slaves that are well hereditary from a family of slaves owned by a noble family on the core worlds or a family who's crimes where so horrendous they have been enslaved by the state for eternity, Hereditary slaves of the state are normally known simply as state slaves.

Servitors are machines and thus considered slaves below all others. Artificus are created and considered a 'higher class' of slave.

The Treatment of slaves varies from world to world in the Empire generally state slaves are treated the best while private slaves are a bit abused and penal slaves are well literal organic trash.

The lives of slaves is the same as it varies from world to world. Slaves of noble families for example are rather well off when compared to the Penal Slaves on a mining colony. It really comes down to the slaves race, the worlds culture, and finally what type of slave they are.

Now for how the other ways slaves can be captured or in some cases created. Most slaves are hereditary or sold into slavery. Selling wise the most common way is from either captured individuals or children sold by their parents (The parents receive about 6 months wages for individual children, not half bad)

Capturing wise it is either from prisoners of war or individuals captured by slaving guilds or Mercators.

Some slaves are created such as Servitors and Artificus. Do remember Servitors are machines while Artificus are organicish and created in labs, vats, and birthing pods.

Thoughts? 