Fiction:To Kill an Idea

One of the key defining features of the Tyranny is it's usage of slavery. Beginning with first contact, the Tyranny viewed aliens as organic tools to be used to further the Tyranny's goals, much like a wrench or hammer. They were not enslaved for the sake of malice but for the sake of efficiency, and as tools helped form the base of the Tyranny's industry. However, the Tyranny's slave system has not always been contingent on loyalty chips or biodrones as the Tyranny had slaves beginning with it's first contact. On the planet of Primus, the first nation that the Tyranny conquered, the Tyranny used military force and coercion to force the planets former inhabitants to toil and work for them. Alas, even after early resistance was dealt with by torture and execution as well as industrialized extermination of those doing wrong, the Tyranny could still not effectively manage it's slaves. This was because no matter how many slaves were killed, and no matter how many were broken, the idea of freedom and liberty lived on among the slaves and their children. Furthermore, the Tyranny could not just kill all of the slaves, as that would be the same as destroying all of their organic tools. Indeed, the Tyranny realized the folly of their action when expanding throughout the Excruciatus Star Cluster, when the slaves of Primus revolted and nearly took back the planet, only stopped by the Drakodominatus' luck and military prowess. The Tyranny realized that it had to hold slaves more efficiently.

The first problem the Drakodominatus faced was replenishing the slaves lost during the revolt for the sake of industry. This problem was solved rather easily as the strongest and toughest males, the ideal workers who had instead used those traits to revolt against the Drakodominatus were forced to impregnate the strongest and toughest females. The females were bound by mechanical implementations and the males forced to copulate with them by torture and mechanical "incentivization". The product would thus be ideal organic tools created by selective breeding. However, the biggest problem was how to prevent slave revolts from happening in the absence of the Drakodominatus. If the Tyranny wanted to expand quickly, they could not just stay in one location and garrison it with their entire army as their armies were needed for expansion. The Tyranny could not waste time or resources eradicating slaves when they revolted, however, if they found a way to eradicate the idea of freedom and hope from it's slaves, it would be able to built it's empire much more effectively.

The Drakodominatus found the solution to this after having conquered the rest of the Excruciatus Star Cluster. The solution was based on the premise that beasts with no higher cognitive reasoning could be used as tools to solve simple tasks. Furthermore, if the children were trained by the Drakodominatus to be the ideal slaves and were isolated from people who hadn't been through that upbringing until they were completely indoctrinated, then they would be free of the influence of the race. Also, if they were unable to comprehend the culture or character of their own race nor anything a sapient being was able to comprehend, then they would never be inspired to rise up or disobey the Drakodominatus. Also, if there intelligence was neutered by this amount, they would not be able to unify and launch an uprising and would only be able to execute the simple task that they were trained to do well. The Drakodominatus had already run experiments with animals being able to operate a station on an assembly line or mining operation if they were physically able to do so and trained to do so and thus the slaves would also be able to do these things even if their intelligence was reduced to subsapient levels. The Drakodominatus also found that if the children were trained through a mixture of punishment and reward that they could be tailored to be more conducive to reproducing and working for the Tyranny. Furthermore, if the Tyranny abolished language or any higher form of communication, they would not be able to develop the high level thoughts needed to revolt against the Tyranny.

The Drakodominatus implemented this policies on their conquered worlds while also expanding through the rest of the Kratos Subsector and the results affirmed the success of the policy. After each child was born, their vocal cords were surgically removed and then they were isolated from their parents. They were trained through a combination of electrical shock therapy, certain chemicals and hormones as well as through traditional methods. Furthermore, once they reached puberty, when they were working in the tasks that the Drakodominatus wanted them to, they were given pills that made them experience sexual orgasms so as to reinforce into their heads that their purpose was to work for the Tyranny. True to what the Drakodominatus predicted, they developed into perfect slaves, strong enough to do labor but too stupid to revolt. Once this generation was raised, the Drakodominatus went through with the systematic extermination of the generation before them, and thus all that was left was the generation raised by the Tyranny to be perfect workers. The Drakodominatus had learned how to kill an idea.