Trope-a-Day: Genius Breeding Act - General - The Eldraeverse

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zarpaulus <zarpaulus@gmail.com> on 2017-03-03 21:07:40 wrote:

Two of the core worlds of my “Federation of Parahuman Species” (aka the Para-Imperium) are very dynastic and justify arranged marriage as “familial duty”. And the Praetor’s House has an outright eugenics program because they’re trying to corner the market on telepaths and are badly inbred.

On the other hand, they’re so allergic to slavery (due to being descended from biodroid slaves) that indentured servitude is illegal and those same two planets have trouble grasping the concept of a joint-stock corporation. “So, you own fractions of an organization of people that itself is considered a person? Isn’t that like owning people?”

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