Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170916013629

"Hoarding is good for the soul."

- Helia Improbus one of the 'Grand Collectors' within the Empire

Collectors are an interesting 'breed' of people within the Empire they come from all sorts of back grounds, worlds, and status. They all share one common trait however: a love of stuff. Be it tech, goods, food, trinkets, or a myriad of other things to collect and cherish. Such individuals spend their fortunes to acquire what ever they see fit be this exotic animals, antiques, slaves, and many other things. Nothing is safe from their depravity.

Most Collectors hail from the noble families of the Empire having at their finger tips a vast fortune to waste although wise collectors allocate a section of their fortune to making more money and hiring advisors, scribes, and traders to get this done thus most collectors are the figure heads or patrons of some of the Empire's largest corporations.

Collectors tend to either claim, own, or have land upon trade and pleasure worlds across the Empire with the worlds attractions bringing both customers and individuals to observe the collection and at times even add to it. They also tend to host and support grand markets and thrift shops to attract traders from which they can either attract even more, make a bit of profit, or add to their collections.

Collectors tend to be rather detestable people both greedy and selfish and generally utterly obsessed with getting what they want and protecting their collection. It's not unknown fro Collectors to use force to get what they want generally through hired thugs. It's also not unknown for Collectors to hire assassins to kill those who have stolen from their collections.

Collectors also hire many aids to go out and hunt down goods for them (why do the dirty work for yourself when you have boat loads of money?) generally this is a well paying and well sought after job although failure can have some rather serious consequences.

Collectors also tend to have massive armies of slaves and servants to clean, trim, and polish their goods and antiques to look both their best and to impress guests and visitors. Slaves themselves can also be part of the collection with some being of highly rare/exotic nature and worth a small fortune.

Collectors tend to be 'ignored' by the state as they don't cause too much harm and tend to either attract or create good business and commerce in the sectors in which they thrive. They also build grand museums, estates, and store houses that the State sees as 'useful' for both distracting the common people and showing off the states 'Greatness'. 