Vamanara
Village Idiot
It is just 53 years in the future, and earth is part of a galactic empire. Note the operative word here is part, not ruler. Life is tough, as it was 50 years ago. They want our food.
That’s right, they want our food. Earth food is a rare delicacy of the aristocracy, because it is new, in fashion, barely traded, expensive and rare. Its worth brings us trade, (alien tech for food) but it also brings piracy, at the very fringes of the empire there is little law enforcement, and the knights sent to protect the edge of the empire are often worse than the pirates they’re sent to fight.
A weak and backwards empire.
The galactic empire we joined is feudal; at the top there is the emperor. a semi omnipotent boltzmann-brain. hell bent on conquering of the infinite universe. Below him are his dukes, then the counts, then the lords, then the knights.
Below the knights are us, the peasants, like any other creature not a member of the ruler race: all Fiil (“betters” in their language) are your lords. there is no way up the hierarchy.
The black market is rife with human goods.
Slavers swoop from the skies to take valuable human slaves from the countryside. In the cities, the ET drug trade is rife, and alien weaponry is marketed dangerously. (Especially in America!) the alien empires tyrannical police forces work for higher powers, and have absolutely no regard for morality or the safety of their human subjects.
Trouble at home.
far from bringing us utopia, the alien empire has brought chaos, and in return humanity grows to hate the empire. the empires food prices have vastly inflated, rice is now worth its weight in gold. and no'one can afford to buy it. Racially motivated attacks against aliens are becoming ever more frequent; campaigns of isolationism are rife. There is talk of civil war. Boycotting, segregation ghettos; separation of beasts and man.
Alien tech!
the honest alien traders are strictly limited on what they can sell us, only the most outdated of tachyon-engines, the oldest guns and the worst of alien medicine. but these are far from the heights of the fiil's technology, which can achieve what no human can dream of.
That’s right, they want our food. Earth food is a rare delicacy of the aristocracy, because it is new, in fashion, barely traded, expensive and rare. Its worth brings us trade, (alien tech for food) but it also brings piracy, at the very fringes of the empire there is little law enforcement, and the knights sent to protect the edge of the empire are often worse than the pirates they’re sent to fight.
A weak and backwards empire.
The galactic empire we joined is feudal; at the top there is the emperor. a semi omnipotent boltzmann-brain. hell bent on conquering of the infinite universe. Below him are his dukes, then the counts, then the lords, then the knights.
Below the knights are us, the peasants, like any other creature not a member of the ruler race: all Fiil (“betters” in their language) are your lords. there is no way up the hierarchy.
The black market is rife with human goods.
Slavers swoop from the skies to take valuable human slaves from the countryside. In the cities, the ET drug trade is rife, and alien weaponry is marketed dangerously. (Especially in America!) the alien empires tyrannical police forces work for higher powers, and have absolutely no regard for morality or the safety of their human subjects.
Trouble at home.
far from bringing us utopia, the alien empire has brought chaos, and in return humanity grows to hate the empire. the empires food prices have vastly inflated, rice is now worth its weight in gold. and no'one can afford to buy it. Racially motivated attacks against aliens are becoming ever more frequent; campaigns of isolationism are rife. There is talk of civil war. Boycotting, segregation ghettos; separation of beasts and man.
Alien tech!
the honest alien traders are strictly limited on what they can sell us, only the most outdated of tachyon-engines, the oldest guns and the worst of alien medicine. but these are far from the heights of the fiil's technology, which can achieve what no human can dream of.
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