plays stellaris once
why can’t i make the bonobo population into a client state?
Imagine trying to enforce our volcel rules here in a world where bonobos are posting
They used to extract value from animals on industrial scales, like horses and stuff. They still do now of course but it’s very grisly (watch dominion) because it’s more about getting their flesh, skin, oil, etc.
Anyway, we used to use them in “jobs” but it turns out machinery and mechanization was way more profitable, dumbass.
There’s an old folk thingy from Borneo that claims Orangs can, in fact, talk. But they don’t, because if humans found out they’d be forced to get jobs and pay taxes.
Makes sense to me. If I got to spend my whole life chilling in the forest and some weird bald fuckers came and tried to make me work and pay taxes I’d do whatever needed to convince them I’m just another ape and continue to chill in the forest
And yet they put them to work gathering palm nuts for palm oil anyway
this is a classic sci fi plot
And every single fucking time it goes bad for the people involved
Like literally every single instance of a species being uplifted in sci fi is a cautionary tale about interference with others, and usually has the uplifted species be violent/used as a weapon
Literal fucking Torment Nexus bullshit
The Uplift series begs to differ.
