Both the Nissek and Historians do.
The Nissek and the Historians are not members of the Loroi Union, they are members of the Loroi Alliance. The difference between those two institutions is that the union is composed of races the Loroi have either conquered or who have surrendered their liberties in exchange for the security the Loroi have promised them. The Alliance is an organization composed of the Loroi Union, the Historians and the Nissek Hegemony each are separate powers who have allied with each other for the purpose of protecting themselves against Umiak aggression.
Doesn't look to me as the Loroi have a say on what happens in the Hegemony and Historian territory.
Yes, you are correct, the Loroi have no say in the politics of the Nissek Hegemony and the Historians because the Loroi are not in control of either the Nissek or the Historian societies.
You imply much, but have evidence for exceedingly little. How LOROI of you.
It's all there in the History of the war. Reread the page with my words in mind and make the decision for yourselves, to me it looks like the Umiak have been playing the Loroi from the very beginning of the war with the skill of a master.
The Golim are druggies. The Loroi are embarrassed about the relationship, because it's the equivalent of wetting the bed.
The final nail in the coffin is the Arekka. The Arekka cannot be accurately described as slaves, the Arekka are OCCUPIED. The Arekka aren't equivalent to African-American slaves, they're equivalent to Palestinians and Syrians: they're under a dictatorship.
Concerning the Golim, an excellent way to make a person your slave is to make that slavery pleasurable. Drugs and drink were common ways for dictators to maintain control of their underclasses in ye olden days of yore, and still are, come to think of it. Anyone for some poppy?
Concerning the Arekka (of whom I am a fan of btw) they have a Loroi military force on the ground and operate under severe restrictions. The Arekka people live under a government that operates through the threat of violence and the use of violence. This is not freedom. When someone controls every aspect of your life including when to end that life then it is (to me at least) slavery.
It depends on your time-view. If you look at it over the short term you give these traits to your slaves because it makes it easier to keep them; if you look at the long-view then you give them to yourselves, because they give you an inherit advantage over all local species.
Yes you are right, and I am sure that those who created the Loroi, Barsam and Neridi had a selection of far more useful and extensive augmentations and species modifications than they gave to their slaves.
This, in comparison, is basically a design decision for a genetic engineer. At any rate, the traits that you've mentioned can all be undermined if you're willing to do genetic engineering, and therefor don't mean anything.
True, but remember your looking to make the slaves
profitable and extensive genetic modification would cost more, I suspect it was very possible to make the males more docile but was deemed more advantageous in the long run to simply remove them from the equation altogether. The augmentations the Soia engineered all seem tapered to making the subject easier to maintain in the economic sense and more profitable in the long run.
Dictionary.com refers to a slave as:
1. a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
2. a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person.
From what I have been able to determine from Arioch's writings, the Loroi consider all other races in the galaxy to be their servants, either conquered or waiting to be conquered. Also, the Loroi regularly practice psionic mind muckery to dominate or influence others. Your definition seems to prove my points very well, thank you for it.
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