Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170619163826

"Slavery will never die you fools. Not only is the demand for slaves always high the influx of new slaves is always almost enough it keeps the markets running and the people coming back for more slaves every week some times every day!"

- Venalicius Viro Antipus

Slavery is a thriving, growing, and rather lucrative business which makes and breaks the fortunes of many slavers (Known by the High Rin term of Venalicius). Throughout the Empire are many fine markets and slaving ports dedicated to the processing and selling of the sentient chattel.

The Business of slavery takes place in many markets spread throughout the Empire. They either have set prices (lower quality slaves) or they are sold to the highest bidder (The best slaves) they are sold to a variety of places from households, the Adetpas, state or private institutions, or guilds.

And that is just the business of selling slaves both the capture and transportation of slaves are also massive business enterprises with many fleets and Venalicius working for profit. Most run small slaving operations on feral worlds, they normally take tithes from the natives in exchange for not exterminating them.

Slaves must also be transported to the markets normally in the form of massive space hulks who carry hundreds of thousands of slaves (along side many more passengers and cargo) normally slaves are kept in the lower bowls of the ship (although not the lowest, you don't want any slaves to die as they are an investment after all)

Slaves, for the most part, aren't all the expensive. A lower middle class family can afford one or two and the nobility has hundreds if not thousands of slaves working either in their palaces, as their personal servants, or throughout their estate. 