Why so much Slavery?

Life is pretty cheap in the ED universe, but yeah, you'd think robots or something would be doing most of the heavy labor.
 
The best form of slavery is to keep your slaves relatively happy with your scraps and an illusion that they are not slaves but democratically free.
And a monetary system that takes monatary interest from your loans to the governments you set up & also takes interest from its general populace.
The secrecy of your existence should be absolute so use an avatar when conversing with the government partys you selected to run for office
3 maybe four parties per land mass should be sufficient to give the general populace the illusion of control.
So the monetary system is the best way to achieve this level of control eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSxzjyMNpU on the planet you wish to dominate.
monetary Interest is your primary tool, so declare all interest eventually goes back to the people via unnamed entities, which is of course not true it goes back too you so you can continue to ensure there enslavement and an unprecedented luxurious standard of living for you and your eirs
Ensure your eirs stay in the top 1% of the monetary system you create by any means necessary will be a necessity for your bloodline to remain overlords, war being the most useful tool to achieve this by setting one group of your slaves against the other and by selling them the guns to destroy one another so you have an automatic culling system so there are not TOO MANY SLAVES for you to maintain control of, artificial scarcity will be the tool you need to create to ensure your wars break out when you desire.......
this will give you rapid enslavement results to the planets populace you wish to enslave
if you can fool the inhabitants of the world you wish to dominate that energy conversion is expensive is very good and if you can get them to believe that energy is not infinite and abundant all the better.............. so once again scarcity should be your tool of choice and restriction control of scientific knowledge is essential, misguidance of physical law and planatary atmospherics implemented at an early stage of the worlds development for your control purposes, this will be broken by slaves in the course of time but is a good starter to implement at first never the less.
Getting all slaves to use your banks money is an essential goal which first must be accomplished once done that planet is basicaly conquered so onto the next relativly primitive world to take control of its gold and setup its first monetary system via the religion tool once established.
This process is slow but stands the test of true time so it works...........
(robotics were tried at first but biological indigenous are cheaper and self reproducing\ maintaining if liqiud water in abundance is present)
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(excerpts from the symbolic galactic conquest handbook for thargoid beginners translated from superstring encoded iron atoms hidden in plain sight and each containing a more than googolplex of information\ other recommended reading has don't panic written on the back cover):D
 
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Thanks for all the interesting replies. I appreciate there is the whole Imperial Slaves (indentured, honourable workers) vs. 'proper' slaves, but the Robigo stuff always seems to be the latter and I'd feel bad delivering humans to some weird gimp life in perpetuity. Anyhoo, it seemed weird that there was so much money to be made from a particular system for slaves - I would have thought the market would spread out more.

I'll have a look around Fehu and see if there is more non-slave action. Thanks for the map, Lizard - a big ol' rares loop may the the next thing alongside acquiring some permits so missions would be an intermediary stage. My Cobra does 442 on boost and c. 20 LY so it is pretty good for fast movement of small things. I even found my first alien artifact last time, on the way to Aditi :cool:

Hope the upcoming mission changes add some more interesting smuggling / manumission aspects as well as more weapons and drugs-running. Am sure that's what Han and Chewie were doing before they met Luke and Obi-wan...
 
Pulled my first 2 smuggling missions; turns out instead of slavery it was stolen fruit and vegetables I??!?) and combat enhancers. All going really well until I dropped out in front of the Coriolis only to find I was somewhere around the side. Instead of heading away to orient myself, I stupidly tried to boost around the station and got scanned within metres of the mail slot by security :mad:

After checking the boards more, it seems Fehu is balanced slavery and other stuff.
 
i recommend focusing on GalNet your new cast for the galaxy. theres always something going on whether it be freeing slaves or building a new station. theres so much politics to this game its not just about slave trading and bounty hunting...
 
i recommend focusing on GalNet your new cast for the galaxy. theres always something going on whether it be freeing slaves or building a new station. theres so much politics to this game its not just about slave trading and bounty hunting...

Thanks. Think I'll make a bit more cash first and try to get an Asp, then focus on the wider situation
 
What is more fun than trading slaves?

Dropping them in Achenar 3.
 
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The real mystery is not the price of slaves but the high value bio-waste missions. How come someone is willing to pay hundreds of thousands to transport 'organic fertiliser' a couple of hundred light years when you can pick up something similar in most systems for a fraction of the price of a limpet?

C'mon! Do you really think, it is about the bio-waste?
Nope! It is about the stuff that is hidden within the bio-waste! How many inspectors do you think are willing to do an in-depth inspection of these smelly canisters? See? ;)
 
The reason of course is that the empire is composed of slaver scum. Of course, they call it indentured servitude or "Imperial Slavery" so as not to sound as bad as...
The federation, who are slaver scum, of course they call it indentured servitude, or "Workfare"/"Welfare" so as not to sound as bad as...
Well, anarchies and independents who if nothing else, are at least honest about slavery.

I won't mention Antal as I don't know enough, but have my suspicions, and the Alliance would be too busy arguing over a change in train fares to be of any use to anyone.
 
The real mystery is not the price of slaves but the high value bio-waste missions. How come someone is willing to pay hundreds of thousands to transport 'organic fertiliser' a couple of hundred light years when you can pick up something similar in most systems for a fraction of the price of a limpet?

Well ... Show me an officer who digs through 60 tons of Biowaste to confirm that it's only biowaste ;) Be happy, accept the Cash and don't ask too much questions :D
 
Well ... Show me an officer who digs through 60 tons of Biowaste to confirm that it's only biowaste ;) Be happy, accept the Cash and don't ask too much questions :D


I've seen those tv shows about airport customs officers. You tell me they wouldn't do it.
 
I've seen those tv shows about airport customs officers. You tell me they wouldn't do it.

If a normal humans can avoid digging through Biowaste, they are going to avoid if :D

In the worst case you have to shoot a few members of the police and throw them to the Biowaste in your Cargo hold :D
 
Why so much Slavery?

Slavery is still big business in our time too. There are forms of slavery in virtually every country on the planet. Most of us are just not aware of it.
There always is a lot of money to be earned if you are prepared to abuse fellow human beings in the most vile ways imaginable.
No reason to think this will change in the future.
 
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Why do people get hung up on (in game) slavery?
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we have illegal drugs , weapons of mass destruction, illegal weapons toxic waste and so on yet people get hung up on slavery
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Or is it just because its a money maker? mind you weapons of Mas destruiction can give you 2000Cr easily as well
 
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Why do people get hung up on (in game) slavery?
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we have illegal drugs , weapons of mass destruction, illegal weapons toxic waste and so on yet people get hung up on slavery
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Or is it just because its a money maker? mind you weapons of Mas destruiction can give you 2000Cr easily as well

In my case, it was meant somewhat toungue-in-cheek but also about balance of slavery versus other illegal activities :cool:
 
I would say it is a weakness in the (current - hope to be fixed) game design right now.

Slaves are the most expensive, and yet still readily available commodity in the game, therefore are the "go to" item for high profit, high turnover trading.

robigo is currently backwards road about, surely the missions should be to take slaves TOO the systems on the edge of space, because needed for dangerous work etc and they should be going FROM high population hotspots, probably anarchy, systems (Orrere before it was liberated would be a good example)

robigo.... why do they have 100,000s of slaves? it makes no sense, they should be in demand not supply, hence why i say imo its currently an issue with the current economy which i hope to be fixed one day.
 
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the only reason you say the economy sucks is because its a slave trade... if it was transporting medicine it would be A ok. think about how much it cost to outfit an anaconda or a corvette. its damn right expensive. they should of made it a drug trade instead then it would be somewhat civilized.
 
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