Fiction:Darklight Federation

The Unnamed Empire is Spriggs077's new fiction. As the name suggests, the Empire and the species do not yet have a name. There is a blog for people to suggest names.

The Unnamed Empire
The Unnamed Empire is a galactic sized Empire noted for its active participation in the slave trade and their frequent raids. The Unnamed Empire absorbs the technology of those it raids into their own, so every attack makes the Empire stronger.

The Dark City
The Capitol of the Unnamed Empire, the Dark City is a planet-city that is in perpetual night due to how far away it is from its star. The atmosphere is thick with pollution, as the lower levels and underground are filled with slave chambers, weapon forges and torture pits. Each day the many slaves of the Unnamed Empire are woken, either by alarms or a slaver's whip, ready to march down to their post to make weapons or armor or vehicles for their masters to ply the universe with.

Rising above this toxic fog, though, are huge, glorious spires belonging to the noble houses, or kabals. Each spire is a massive complex, featuring dormitories, training rooms, armories, arenas, entertainment rooms, huge banquet halls and all manner of arcane gadgets. It is from these spires that the Archons and Dracons of the Unnamed Empire make their dark plans and count their spoils, well above the misery and darkness below.

Slaves
Slaves form the centre of the Unnamed Empire's economy, and slaves are used as payment as often as sporebucks. Slaves provide cheap labor, servants for dining halls, a rough-and-ready militia when needed, and, most importantly, something for the Unnamed Species to hit when they get bored. Slaves with a low tolerance to pain tend to be more expensive, while ones with high pain tolerances are often bought simply for the fun of breaking them.

Most Archons and Dracons are actually very kind to their slaves, making sure that they have sufficient food and water, and only whipping them when they do something wrong. This is because they know full well that a happy slave is a productive slave, and that a slave looked after will last far longer than one that is not looked after. The owners of the great forges don't have such views, though, as they have an almost constant supply of new slaves. These unfortunate wretches are lucky if they live for a week, but most die at their post from exhaustion, to be unceremoniously thrown away and replaced.

Those slaves that do get favored by a 'caring' Archon or Dracon live a good life, often better than full citizens in other nations. This is because a particularly appreciated slave is of high value, to such an extent that when they die, the Archon, and the Archon alone, is the one to claim their soul, instead of letting the lesser kabalites squabble over it.