Just to make it clear to all : as sait before, Imperial slaves are slave by choice. They have enslaved themself to clear their dept.
If they want to stay free, they are free to move to a Federal or independant system.
Imperial slavery is not the same as old earth slavery. An imperial slave is well treated, but not a federal slave (or an employe, name it as you wish)
You can see Imperial slavery as a long-term contract, where the employer have to feed, house and protect his employe. In return, the employe swear to do the work that he is asked to do.
Vive l'Empire!
There's no real arguing with this:
The Federation is run by huge corporations that use slaves too. They just call them employees.
In the Empire we can feel superior no matter how poor our grammar, the Emperor wills it.
(Don't tell anyone but I'm not really a Imperial Citizen, just a humble network engineer and Muscle memory is a wonderful thing when typing. If you want to covert decimal into binary I'm your man, English tutelage, maybe not)
Slaves? If it means cash in my pocket, then who cares about politics or ethics? The mighty galactic credit has my vote because I have to make a living somehow!![]()
Empire, Alliance, Federation......They disagree on everything until the payment is due, then they all pay me with the same universal credit.
You just have to love the 3300 paypal accounting department![]()
Oh I'm already here, helping the Jera Nationalists... while the Empire sits back and does nothing to aid them.
Someone has to help, so the Federation sent their best midshipman (i.e. Me) along with a few others from our Fleet to help establish order in the region.
Where is the empire fleet while all this broke out? I don't see any capital ships there.
Shocking really, that they only get involved when their own profit is involved.
And you talk about honour.
pssh.
Oh and just to add... if this was in Federation space, none of this would of happened.
We have established order, and people are happy. We deal with crimes, amongst other things in a fair and legal system.
She is mine for the next 3 years
That’s not to say that it’s all sweetness and roses; no one in the Empire wants to be a slave and treatment can vary tremendously from owner to owner.
So you'd be happy with a situation in which you had to sell yourself into slavery for your entire 20's to cover the credit card debt you ran up while young and foolish? Regardless of whether it's for your entire life or just a decade, slavery is slavery. A choice between slavery and prison doesn't sound much like "volunteer" slavery to me.