11-21-2015, 02:21 AM
(11-21-2015, 02:09 AM)SilverOtter Wrote: The Hylotl: The proud, true Empire
The Hylotl hail from the humid jungles of their homeworld, from a solar system they named after their own race: the Hylotl system, where they sprung from Hylotl IV. They take great pride in their technology and their scientists, claiming there is no rival to their works.
However, they also take great acclaim to their art, with even their youngest cities being a collage of designs that somehow function as efficient buildings. They are, of course, accused of great vanity, but seeing how their empire has not died from total inefficiency these claims only go undropped by those adamant against the Hylotl, namely the Solar States and it's hardworking Anodynes.
Of course, the high-life Empire has a problem: it's AI, which usually take mind-numbing or dangerous jobs, is nowhere near as effective as they needed to be. The AI can do the mundane of the mundane, but when it comes to the minute tasks of life the citizens thought they were free of, let alone absolutely boring jobs, they were at a loss. Thus, they turned to the one source of payment-free workforce: Slaves!
Slavery isn't a new concept to the Hylotl. In older times they took other Hylotl as slaves, right up until the event known as the Cosmo-revolution, where they cast off old roots to become the space empire of thinkers they are today. When slavery suddenly became cool again, Hylotl were still not legal slaves, but thankfully the oldest Empire in the books had discovered other galactic species at that time (the Anodynes in particular are quick to bring up how they were once considered the best slaves in the market). Although a handful would become illegal slaves too (and is the influence behind the current definition for what constitutes as a major race), there is still a massive colorful selection for the modern Hylotlian household and bulk purchases for corporations, the Hylotl market bring the driving force behind the United Worlds, despite the fact that they are not the only race with slavery, simply the one with the most focus.
If you're wondering why they don't just take AI from other races (the humans and Anodynes having created the perfect machinations for the mundane), it is because everyone's technology is incompatible with each other, which, by the way, still plagues the UW to this day, despite their ongoing work to transfer their people to a single, species-unassociated tech base.
May I just say if you're going to heavily rework the lore they're not Hylotl anymore, and deserve their own name.
Honestly if you didn't use the name I would never guess.