Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170914004458

The true Imperial Laborers (not people who happen to work for the state) are individuals taken as a tithe from the worlds of the Empire as well as criminals and impressed individuals who work in the many facilities, factories, and institutions of the Empire for the good of the state of course.

Laborers are collected in 'waves' which last 15 years and upon the end of the first wave the next is expected to be sent as the first is returning this generally gives the Empire a limitless and continuous force of laborers.

Their journey begins upon their homeworld where they are part of the 1% of the population selected for Imperial Service within it's 'Civil Legions' and are sent to the nearest port and gathered up in massive numbers, put upon a large transport ship, and taken to a processing facility. Here they are selected for the work best fitted for their talents and shipped off to join their new Civil Legion.

Those that are picked from the 1% are released/returned after 15 years of service and are gifted a large 'retirement' pay as well as many other state benefits and allowed to return to their homeworld (most chose to stay on or near the worlds they have lived upon for the past decade) those who are impressed or are criminals do not have this chance and work till they die.

The work these Laborers do is mainly in things like building, engineering, and record keeping with these Laborers filling in the gaps of the servitors and slaves or the jobs such parts of society cannot be trusted to fulfill. Some are also sent to the Agri-worlds and many mining colonies (this is generally the criminals and impressed laborers)

The Imperial State and the people of the state see this as a 'civic duty' one that you should be honored to participate in (those of the 1% are given the more 'tolerable' jobs) that both provides employment (the state first collects from the urban poor and 'under folk' as well as impresses from these populations) and gives these individuals valuable trade skills valuable across the Empire this leads to many ex-Laborers living at least comfortable lives decades after their years of service. Another choice these ex-Laborers can make is to join the overseers of the new Laborers. 