Basic logic would assume that a people who suffered the injustice of slavery for roughly two millennia wouldn’t immediately turn around and enslave others. This line of thinking failed to consider that, 1,000 years ago, the Cosmopolitan Firryans did just that. We’ve only been interacting with short-lived aliens for less than a century, such misunderstandings are bound to happen. Tragedy befalls a people, but successive generations will forget their trauma.

This disappointing realization is thanks to Foregone’s United Chaccarn States. Last year they launched military expeditions inland and we assumed it would take centuries to conquer and integrate the three continents, but a major strategic objective was to capture tens of thousands of nomadic firryans as slaves to settle in UCS territory.

It should be noted that this caused a brief stir in the UCS as not everyone agreed with the idea or implication. But it wasn’t enough to force the issue, and D’Sev psychics can’t force everyone to accept the return of slavery. They’re doing it on their own.

USC scholars and Imperium statemen have argued that it isn’t ‘true’ slavery as it doesn’t fit the Protectorate’s criteria. The firryans are taken, modernized, and after 20 years will become citizens of the UCS, free to travel and work.

It’s a moot point because we will be going to war with them in 135, but let’s engage.

The peldak criteria for slavery has three conditions.

1. Restrictions imposed unevenly on people without them having committed a crime. The nomads have committed no crimes.

2. A state without basic elven (human) dignity. Families have been separated and the people are working for vague promises of citizenship.

3. Lack of protection from/reporting of abuse. The UCS has no official method on how the nomads may have their grievances addressed.

It is slavery.