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[quote][b]Remus (Jul 07, 2003 03:44 p.m.):[/b] [b]HISTORY[/b] [i]Slavery[/i] The terrans returned to Draco with a small fleet of ships, and set up multiple compounds throughout the arid bands. GDCI possessed no harvesting equipment, and the moment word was out that it needed more in great quantities, the equipment became incredibly difficult to find at anything resembling reasonable prices. To overcome this obstacle and prove that it would not be pushed by bullies, GDCI instead turned to the ready supply of "beasts of burden" already living on Draco. In planning ahead, a retrovirus was released into the populations of native draconans, altering the DNA of their sex cells so that the next generation would be both easier to control and better suited to the manual labor of cutting and transporting chakata -- bipedal, with more muscular arms and vestigal wings. By the time the prices for harvesting equipment fell, GDCI no longer needed the machines; slave labor was cheaper, self-replenishing, and was already available on Draco. [i]Revolution[/i] It is theorized that the start of the revolution came when terran sympathizers -- several of whom were members of the scouting teams who knew draconan customs and spoke the language -- smuggled weapons and equipment away from the compounds to the great numbers of free draconans living at the poles. The warriors came in, for want of a better word, hordes, overwhelming the terran compounds and killing all who resisted. However, wise to their own disadvantage in an open war against the terrans, the draconans kept alive all the prisoners they could, and forced them to teach the warriors to use terran technology. Before even reinforcements could arrive, the draconans had comandeered shuttlecraft with jerry-rigged beam weapons, and had captured the oribital platform and almost half of its crew. When the transports laden with GDCI-hired grunts arrived, expecting a ground battle, they were cut to pieces in high orbit, and the draconans collected the weapons and salvageable equipment. While the orbital defenses grew, the Shi'Oam commanders on Draco's surface found the genetic engineers responsible for the transformation of the draconan species, and forced them to continue their work. A second retrovirus, contractable only by injection, was transmitted into the bodies of the Shi'Oam. When the first of their progeny arrived, the new breed bore stronger bodies, sharper claws, brighter coloring, and repaired wings. [i]Conquest[/i] Though it was fifteen years before GDCI, and thereafter the Federation Defense Force, stopped sending assault forces to Draco, the Draconan Commonwealth, under the command of the Shi'Oam theocracy, defended its planet with ferocity and tenacity beyond the comprehension of the terrans. The details of the conditions on Draco were leaked, and the public outcry froze the Federation's outward expansion for the first time in fifty years. Politicians claiming never to have heard of the crimes against the sentient inhabitants of Draco extended a peaceful invitation to the Commonwealth to attend a meeting to discuss future relations and reparations. The Commonwealth replied that it would send delegates. They did -- ten thousand of them. The draconan space forces, cobbled together from the ruins of the dozens of terran starships and hundreds of fighters destroyed over Draco, fought fearlessly against Earth's defense platforms, often ramming or self-destructing when threatened with destruction. The surface installations on Earth were bombarded from orbit, using maps and coordinates from the computers of the terran ships. But the draconans did not make landfall. They blockaded the planet, initiating a communications blackout, and from their captured defense platforms, began sending assault forces outward from Sol. [i]Irony[/i] It took the Commonwealth ten years to take the last of the terran colonies. Periodically additional surface strikes had to be made against Earth to keep the inhabitants from making any brash attempts at retaliation. After the last terran citadel had fallen to the unstoppable onslaught, draconan ships descended into Earth's atmosphere. The Shi'Oam orators reported to the terrans that from this day forth the Federation was no more, and that the terran species was now the exclusive property of the Commonwealt. The terrans would now serve those whom they had tried to enslave for all eternity. And, over the course of the next twenty years, every last terran was exported from Earth to all of the numerous colonies which the draconans now inhabited. A great many were sent to Draco, to cut chakata. The draconans declared Earth to be a restricted zone, to be defended from orbit at all times and left uninhabited forever. [i]The Present[/i] Over a century has passed since the draconans first made landfall on Earth, and the Commonwealth still reigns over the worlds once claimed by the Terran Federation. However, the Commonwealth has gone beyond the limits of what was once Federation space. The Commonwealth's driving force is and has always been the eradication or enslavement of every last terran alive, and it is no secret that many escaped the wrath of the draconans by fleeing to other stars. Until recently, the Commonwealth military upheld a policy of attacking and capturing any world found to be harboring terran refugees. However, the ascension of Rion ka Hashar to the throne of the High Priestess brought about an end to that policy, in favor of paying slavers to collect the terrans for them. Presently an estimated sixteen thousand terrans still live free in small groups scattered throughout the galaxy. The bulk of humanity, approximately 832 million terrans, live as slaves to the draconans. Though slave revolts have been attempted countless times, only a few (02%) have been well-organized enough to succeed in killing/capturing their draconan masters, and not a single one has managed to deliver its component revolutionaries to freedom. Usually the escaped slaves are recovered attempting to smuggle themselves out onboard cargo transports, and are immediately killed. But an anti-slavery movement is gaining momentum within the Commonwealth, and there are draconans willing to risk a great deal for the sake of these slaves. It is only a matter of time before one such revolt succeeds...[/quote]
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