Enslaved Humanity

Okay but its probably going to be the center focus of the campaign. Most stories dealing with the enslavement of humanity are usually about escaping or revolting against it. Otherwise, why have it in the first place, unless is right and its for some kind of weird fetish thing.

Something like this probably works best. Make it clear that overthrowing things really isn't possible because of their magic. They control the seasons or rivers or something EXTREMELY important, almost a la MLP

Make the slavery ingrained into society too. It's the way things are, have been, and always will be. It's not about breaking the system, but trying to bend it to your benefit.

Without some kind of conflict it can't be interesting. What you seem to want is just misery porn.

You're asking for a static world more appropriate for someone's short story than an RPG setting. How do you run a game in a world where PCs are just fed through literal meat grinders? How can you without shame think players should just go along with that?

The game starts about 80 years after the earth has been blown apart by a mysterious apocalyptic event. The last remnants of humanity cling to survival in an enormous, heavily modified, cold-war era bomb shelter controlled by a vicious species of intergalactic conquers.

In this bleak and dangerous future man kind has completely lost control of it's independence, their hope and will crushed by the aliens that they once regarded as saviors for repairing their fragile home, but now see only as brutal oppressors.

Every day is a struggle to survive in this world. Intense work is rewarded with barely enough resources to survive, selfish individuals sell out others often for just a few more rations, the aliens take anyone they favor as personal servants and force those who haven't worked hard enough to kill each other, and every day more and more levels of the shelter are threatend by mutated man-eating creatures.

Humanity's only source of hope lies with the rare few individuals who are born with special abilities, the one's who will willingly sell themselves to the aliens so that their families may be greatly rewarded, and in a nearly forgotten prophecy that tells of a group of heroes from he distant past who'll one day come to free humanity.

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>Without some kind of conflict it can't be interesting
No one said anything about there not being conflict. Hell, just check out , or pretty much any story where someone is a slave for the majority of the story.

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> under the yolk
Why can't they carry their own eggs?

Humans have been bred into caretaker-pets by aliens, and now cannot live without the affection of the aliens' larvae.

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This sounds awfully familiar for some reason

The universe really is a simulation; the enslavers simulate the earth, the moon, the sun and nothing else. They use humanity's weird-as-shit thought patterns for an incredibly baroque way of generating 'art', meaning the entire race and universe is basically resident in a box in some artist's basement flat.

vampires farming humans obviously

I'm lazy. I'll just let better story tellers create the setting for me.

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The Titans and gods have long since conquered the world for themselves, deciding that mere mortals were not responsible enough to care for it. Now they keep us around as slaves and pets, breeding us in massive overcrowded "human mills" where malnourished people are forced to breed, hoping against all odds that a kind Titan or god will come along and buy them.

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A Kardashev tier 3: civilization has 'recently' (10,000 years ago) expanded itself into the local galaxy cluster and as a result humans among several alien species have been left as the lowest wrung in their social ladder. They mostly just give our kind of species irreverent make work projects to actually keep us busy. The civ next door built a small planet sized factory machine for example. There has been rumors that the Masters are considering ascending some of the species in our galaxy to official citizens and so everyone in the galaxy is trying to be on their best behavior.

A while ago I read a Mass Effect AU fanfic with an interesting premise: The Asari had enslaved humanity and most of the other races via a combination of sex, diplomacy, and psychic mind-control.

They kept us around almost as pets in a "golden cage scenario", providing fun, sex-filled lives to those who obeyed and eliminating rebellious thoughts from anyone who started to harbor them.

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But the asari aren't psychic

orcs and goblins killed everyone else except for the women that they keep for breeding and the PCs are some of the last few human malez

Yes they are. How do you think everyone wants to bang them?

Oh god, not another one of you people. That bachelor party scene was a joke for fuck's sake.

Sounds like someone's been mind controlled into thinking otherwise.

>All Tomorrows

So, just your usual setting with gods?

Everyone, elves, dwarves and whatever. They were the stupid race that barely got by with sticks and stones while they were already pushing steel.

"An, fire."
Without hesitation, as expected from him, Anderson pulled the trigger of his ion pulse rifle,
vaporizing the three practice drones that were hovering around in the shooting range in an instant.
"I admit, an impressive thing"
Anderson spent enough time around the fragile, pale figures to recognize doubt in his gaze.
"But I still don't understand this craze for human bodyguards.
The kryllian are just as apt with arms, and they don't take up as much space"
"Ah, yes, allow me to explain. These creatures were the only dominant species on their entire planet.
As a result, instead of uniting against a common foe, they started killing each other!
A kryllian will surely disobey if your adversary happen to have one of his kinsmen as a guard."
The pupils of the other figure shifted slightly, a sign of interest in their species.
"I'll demonstrate, please observe"
Another human was draged into the shooting range. His eyes were pleading, but Anderson knew there
was only one option if he wanted to stay on this side of the barrel.
"Even though the other one is unarmed, a human won't even hesitate if given an order.
They are truely the greatest monsters in the known universe, if you want top notch protection,
this is your only option."
Every fiber of Anderson's being wanted to dispute this claim, but he knew if he did, he'd
lose all value to his master in the blink of an eye.
"An, fire."
Locking eyes with his target, Anderson once again pulled the trigger of his rifle.
Without hesitation.
As expected from him.

>when HFY goes terribly wrong

The only way to do that is to have the enslavers be at the same time vital, and benevolent enough and against such an evil-fuck force that putting up with enslavement is preferable to a petty rebellion that ends with them all genocided.

I think a good way to do it is have the enslavers be equivalent to "benevolent" european colonizers in different parts of the world. Humanity itself has to be so shitty and incompetent that a more powerful race steps in, beats everyone into shape and starts to "civilize" the hairless monkeys. To make rebellion not an option, you have to tangle a carrot of "colonizer tech/trade/civilization" before the humans, with the stick being a near-indestructible army of the enslavers.

Just exchange Lord Thunderbridge the third with elves, giants, or incomprehensible horrors that can exist in our dimention only for a few moments at the time.

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The world is not named, for The Gods claim it is young, even as it it is eons old.
Humanity has been made with the express purpose of constructing every minor detail of the world for the gods, and as they die their souls can expect only to be reborn as slaves once more to continue their work.
Generations of humans have lived this way, and unless they aim to destroy The Gods themselves there is no hope, but they may try, for there is no reason not to aside from endless tyrannical existence.

In the depths of a long finished cave where the eyes of the gods no longer lingers, beings are created that seem as humans from the outside, but they are constructs.
As humans built the world, so did humans make these men, soulless husks that live and breath, and when they die they never appear again, they never find a heaven, so they never fear the gods.
These pseudo humans grow in number in secrecy, some blending in among the true beings, some whole civilizations founded just out of divine vision.
Soon they outnumber humanity.
Soon they release their masters by killing each and every one of them to their souls may never return back to their world.
Angered, but divided, some gods protect the realm to preserve the work they had beings labor on for an eternity, some wish to destroy it by various means such as endless blight or crafting hellish beasts to kill the soulless men.
There is no good. only the prideful, and the angered.
Those without souls live in primitive survival at best, and short fits of strife at worst, however they are free. Their creators made sure of that.

Aliens took over Earth and now humans are slaves. The aliens are experimenting with everything on Earth; turning waterfalls backwards, probing every living thing, mutating humans and animals, harvesting all our precious metals, stealing away our women, everything.

Most humans are chattel slaves with limited or no free will. Some Humans; the ones who sold out the rest of the human race and are traitors, are sometimes forced or allowed to volunteer to perform missions or labor for their overlords. You are the children of these people and have inherited their status.

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Plot twist: they use VtM rules for ghouls and thus provide immortality to the upper/enforcer classes. Vampire nobility is symbiotic with prosperous human governments, corporations, and militaries. Technically immortal, but all the more dependent on their undead masters for it.

Perhaps >60% of humans are still true mortals. Their living conditions vary by region - some might be an abused and starving serf class, while others might have lives almost as comfortable as the ghouls, perhaps saving up so their children will be able to purchase their way into ghouldom. Maybe some vampire holdings go to the dystopian extreme and have literal human cattle, lobotomised and caged for however long their blood still flows.

The vampire rulers restrict the vampire population, not just to hold their own power, but also to limit the number of sustainable ghouls. A world of just ghouls and vampires would be far too competitive, you need a sizable 'blood pool' of spare human flesh. And whether the blood bond exists or not, you don't want too many centuries-old schemers underneath you, potentially plotting rebellion. Stick to mostly mortal slaves, most of them never learn to Jyhad.

Best part is this works in almost any setting, even if you don't use VtM ghouls, so long as there are supernatural benefits to being a vampire's hound rather than its cow.

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They are as close to psychic as you can possibly get in scifi without using the word 'psychic'
They form neural connections with their partner during sex, and it works with other species too because ???
Half of them are not!telekinetic

Honestly Mass Effect should have just gone the Babylon 5 route and admitted "yes psychic powers are common in the space future, and there's no technobabble explanation"

I actually had a setting like this I originally made for an attempt at a 4x game. Each faction tied to one of the five elements, and I've been considering trying to make an actual homebrew for it.

>The world is a great necropolis, and humans are the primary resource among the civilizations present. Humans are primarily rendered down into five elements to be used by the undead: Blood, Bone, Blight (their viscous humors and biles) Blaze (the cold flame of their spirits) and Brume (their essential salts, crystalized in ash from their flesh.)
>The skeletons, animated by a mysterious fog seeping from a great tomb in their captial, harvest humans like hunting game, keeping them in secluded preserves and carefully defending their human flocks.
>The vampires and ghouls, led by corpulent Leech-kings use humans as slaves and food in one, dressing them in fine ornamentation and viewing them as objects or curiosities for the blood arenas.
>The Zombies, following a religious doctrine to spread their parasite-borne undeath, keep humans as neonates and second-class servants, rewarding those who show piety and fervor with the sickening gift of plague.
>The Ghosts, being echoes of the days before the world was a tomb, guard their humans jealously, protecting them against the horrors of the world and welcoming them into their fold after death but jealously and manically holding onto them in life.
>The prometheans, flesh-golem creations powered by alchemy from some bygone era, treat humans as prizes and entertainment. They hunt down humans for spare parts, for fun, for more essential salts and quintessence to fuel their power, and just for the hell of it.

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What’s the story with the Lich and the little girl? Is that his daughter or kin? Some tramp he picked up with whatever remnant of a paternal instinct? Was he a human father before becoming a Lich?

I must know user!

10/10, would game in

Humanity is already enslaved.

In a small technological world, superior beings use humans to harvest their mumbo jumbo force essence. If humans were freed, the universe's entropy would dramatically increase, thus ending the universe.

>Players are members of an Inner Systems military force
>Sent to engage in advisory support over the defence of an outer systems colony under attack from secessionist forces
>Their craft is interrupted mid-descent onto the planet's surface by a tactical nuclear attack by the terrorists, causing the ship to crash land
>The players are knocked out, locked in their cryotubes
>Some time passes...
>They awaken when a band of primitive humans bust open their craft
>The tribals are incredibly perplexed by the players, taking them to their underground post-apocalyptic settlement, where the players learn that they're enslaved as miners to a warlord in conflict with several other tyrants across the region
>The players bring together slaves in revolt against their warlord masters, using their advanced craft technology and know-how to teach the savages and amass a growing hoard of pre-apocalyptic weaponry
>They succeed after a long campaign
>Peace is maintained by a series of alliances and clans brought together
>Clean water and food is amassed, agriculture can begin from emergency seed samples found aboard an old colonist ship
>Standard of living improves drastically under the players control as medicine is taught and language is widespread
>All of a sudden, massive alien warships appear above the planet
>When ambassador ships land, genetically altered human beings emerge

>Turns out the players were in deep freeze longer than they thought
>Thousands of years have passed
>The government they once fought for is gone
>Everything went to hell when a species of actual aliens swept through human space, enslaving practically everyone they could and glassing whatever/whoever they couldn't
>Humans were a completely subservient slave race for generations
>Lost a common language and history
>Went through dozens of alterations to make them more useful
>But eventually, something changed and the aliens above them grew decadent and irresponsible
>Humans relearned where they came from, this sparked the first fire of rebellion
>Ever since, a growing resistance of ex-slaves turned revolutionaries has gone full fuck yeah humanity on practically all alien life in the galaxy, hunting down the remnants of the slaver empire and wiping out everything else
>Basically grown into a cult venerating past humans as gods
>This planet was once a mining planet for those very aliens, but it was abandoned early on for reasons unknown
>The players and the planet's inhabitants are the first original humans they've ever seen
>This is an issue, because it breaches their narrative of history, and mortalises their ancestors
>Players now locked in a guerilla battle across their home against enemy forces vastly more powerful than their own

And this is where the campaign stopped. Sorry, Keith.

Why make human slavery a central component of a setting but remove revolt/escape as a central conflict? Does it even matter if humanity is enslaved if they don't care about it?

When humanity finally took to the stars, they found themselves not at all alone. The galaxy was teeming with intelligent life so advanced that they could not even recogize it when their primitive telescopes and probes had caught glimpses of them. Many of these life forms have transcended even physical form, adopting bodies made of pure energy, light, or even abstract concepts like time, language, or digitized data. To even achieve a semblance of parity with the rest of the galactic community, mankind would need to be fundamentally reshaped both physically and culturally, a process that would require millions of years of gentle guidance by a more mature civilization.

. Thankfully, the transcended Xenos who first made contact with humanity were benevolent tutors who only offered to take up a place wise masters of the human race if this offer was accepted with open arms. There was much debate--moral, theological, economic--over this proposition lasting some decades before a conclusion that incorporated and recognized the needs and values of Earth's population was realized. The unknowable xenos would take the reigns of human development and the government of Earth would accept and cede their ultimate soveriegnty to them, but only on condition that the xenos would shape with a light touch and allow humanity the breathing room she needed to address issues that still cut deep. The final say of the xenos would be absolute, but that power would only be used sparingly if humanity began to pose a serious threat to itself or another fledgeling race. As teething exercises, the Xenos masters have a custom of allowing their chosen pupils to participate in galactic affairs with one another without direct interference, even in wars, which they concede are vital to a civilization's natural development. While they are meant to be unbiased in these confrontations, it often becomes a physical proxy to a heated philosophical debate between races, each side of the debate attempting to use their clients to demonstrate the truth of their thesis

>Gods equal slave masters
this is why people cant stand aethiests

because its more realistic to not win

OP this is a loaded thread, humans HATE being told what do do, give them a tyrant and they will rebel, many will choose death other slavery, futile rebellion over eternal servitude.

you cant put slavery in a world and expect players to not want to fight it.

My DAM has an entire homebrew campaign world, and one of the kingdoms is set inside a large Oasis in the center of a massive, neigh-escapable desert. The city is controlled and run by Lizardfolk and other reptilian species, and any human or half-breeds that has the misfortune of finding itself there are sent into the salt mines, as they are deemed a lesser race. Other kingdoms don't realize this practice is going on, and even if they did, it would be suicide to intervene as the desert will kill most of their people before they ever got to the city proper.

Of course, the plot of that location would be a slave uprising so hard mode not achieved.

Humanity, alongside a myriad other races, were uplifted by an elder race to fight their inter-House wars by proxy. Each house has their own race that serves them like loyal lapdpgs since their existence is totally dependent on the benevolence of their patron House. Even their name, is a bastardizatiin of the House name: Uman-ti; Serving House Uman.

That's a bullshit excuse. There are countries that were founded after slave revolts. At minimum, slave rebellions leading to better treatment and conditions is commonplace.

elves stopped being pacifists

Theres an interesting HFY about this. I do not have it anymore, but it went something like this
>humanity loses
>the reason does not matter.
>almost everything and everyone is gone
>the stars and the aliens in them are laughing or uncaring.
>from out of the shadows, an offer comes
>for servitude with a catch, everything can be reclaimed
>safety, a family, 3 square meaps and revenge
>this is the bargain for the soul of man
>humanity goes willlingly
>when death and despair is the promise of tomorrow, what is the price of a soul to live?
>slowly, rebuilding
>new souls born into the bargain
>humanity incorporates
>rising again on burning wings
>surpass the old glories and reach greater heights
>but are we still even human?

tl;dr
Humans enslave themselves to the Devil for the promise of a better tomorrow.

>There are countries that were founded after slave revolts
The only successful slave revolt in all of human history was in Haiti user.

because slave revolts dont tend to win

usually its social change within the ruling caste or conquest from another source which leads to their liberation

Humans, and all Earth fauna and flora, are the only non-psychic beings in the galaxy. No one is sure why, but they aren't. Completely immune to mind reading, psychic control, mind flaying, and telekinesis. Every human lives in an invisible (to humans) tube of psychic null, meaning alien races can't even effectively kill them by flinging stuff at them because they lose control of it when it gets too close. This makes humans superb diplomats, merchants, soldiers, and criminals as the rest of the galaxy relies heavily on psychicry in every aspect of life, to the point where the idea of verbally lying is completely alien to the vast majority of beings in the galaxy.

Unfortunately, this also blocks humans out from Psychic Tunneling, a technique by which multiple psychics can bend space to achieve FTL. It's considered bad luck to even have humans on an FTL ship, and ship captains have to sequester humans in hidden compartments away from non-human passengers lest they get antsy.

You can see why the arrival of the Conclave of Enlightened Species was quite the shock to Earth society, and why the Conclaves forceful induct of Humanity as Null-Dhimmi was swift and decisive. The Emperor-Sultans of the Conclave gave every country's leadership an ultimatum: Accept (pampered) slavery, or receive a tungsten rod the size of a telephone pole traveling at 0.1c in your capital building.

Humanity is trapped as a pampered class of reviled slaves; too horrendous to accept, but far too useful to get rid of.

>remove race's agency
>forbid any kind of change in the status quo

Make it about the other races. Humans are just part of the scenery.

Humans foolishly believe that "the good place" is attainable if they just keep working hard enough to make it there but no one ever makes it there. They work until they die and anyone that dissents is crushed by the weight of those that revel in the minor power their slavery gives overt their fellow man. Sure, a mass revolt would easily overturn the system but they're too invested in the race to give up on it.

there have been settings where races are enslaved user, just because humans arent the rulers doesent mean individuals dont have agency

Wrong hole?

And that place is a failed state.

2018 America

>Humans enslave themselves to the Devil for the promise of a better tomorrow.
Conquered, we conquer.

I play it

It's as simple as the humans running into a predator that's more of an Apex than they could possibly be.

The Ogres, when we met them were bigger, smarter, stronger, and faster. They were blessed with a beastly cunning that trumped ours in all matters of killing. The Ogres were prodigious hunters whose bloodlines hailed to the dragons of yore, evolved with a careful hand in creating a soldier species to defeat all soldier species.

In that matter, the Homo Sapiens was culled long before his mind could conceive the tools that could pierce an Ogre's skin, and mankind was tamed and bred for meat like cattle in the slaughterhouse. Imprisoned in rows, it was the females and castrated males, specifically, that the ogres gorged to near bursting proportions.

It took them several generations of selective breeding traits like meatiness and an early reproductive maturity, and doing away with aggression and intelligence, so that a bulk of mankind was eventually reduced to a species best described as red-skinned balloons with stubby legs, waddling in their cages in search of food, and sex. Nothing more.

Those were the lucky ones.

The rest have to persist in a doomed world whose molten core turned inside-out. Perpetually starving, and too feeble to raid an Ogre civilization that reached the Space Age in an absence of humans, the free, unevolved humans can only watch in terror of the flying machines swarming the skies above, as a testament to a future that could never reach them in their sorry state. Hunted to a man, and on the verge of extinction.

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Or Christians for that matter too, I guess? Is that what you meant?

Grey Aliens keep humans in sexual captivity and use virtual reality to drug them into complacence.

Technically anyone with biotics can learn Dominate which as the name implies is strict mind control. All Asari are naturally biotic but they have to train to use their biotics just like everyone else. They do have their own paramilitary group that does so (Asari Commandos) but they focus on combative biotics like Warp&Charge rather than the subtle stuff like Dominate and Stasis. However their embrace eternity stuff allows them to do what says and they have a rare genetic defect that allows them to naturally learn Dominate in-exchange for becoming succubi that kill their sexual partners (Ardat-Yakshi). Considering that every Asari can have access to these powers from birth when everyone else have to be born a mutant or test-tube baby (Quarian biotics are next to non-existent as well as Salarians because of their short lifespans). Asari are supposed to be naturally attractive and if they actually applied themselves could have taken over the universe long ago with instituted lessons on how to mind control people. It also doesn't help that they're homeworld Illium is pretty much Deus Ex Shadowrun in space run by mad scientist supercorps, info-brokers, and other bleeding edge tech that gives them an edge on everyone else. Second to Omega and Cerberus, Asari are a scary hybrid of a Evil Megacorps and an all female clan of Purple Men.

To be honest, Mass Effect shit the bed with Biotics after ME1 because originally they were Psychic Powers based on Space/Time Distortion only and not mind control/mesmerism bullshit. Fluffing the Asari, Reaper/Leviathan indoctrination, and stereotypical "use the force" nonsense screwed up the lore of biotics into what we have now.

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These would the tamed humans, in contrast with the wild humans.

These are all females or castrated males. Bulls are hairy, muscular, and very fat. They usually go around forcing themselves on their females and castrated males. And, sometimes, on wild humans, who have to contend with escaped human cattle who immediately pick up weapons and go on bloody raids on wild humans.

There are no alliances here, no communication or understanding. In the same way a shark can never understand an orca, these battles of cousins can only ever end in bloodshed.

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Guys, hold up. I've got a plan.

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>Because it'll probably be one of the first things the players do
And that is what is called a campaign
>after which you're back to a somewhat normal setting
Only if you are lazy and don't delve into the implication of an entire race of slaves suddenly being freed. Who leads the new humanity? Do the lower class slaves accept leadership from the slaves who gained education and authority from their master by complying? Are all the "Uncle Toms" lynched by their newly freed brethren? How do other races react to humanity being freed? Does humanity turn completely on their former masters enslaving them or simply exterminating them out of vengeance?

Granted once the slave revolt succeeds your campaign likely should be over or nearly over, you don't need to stay with a setting and campaign forever, at a certain point you can just say "the end" and leave any further outcomes to the imaginations of your readers.

Generally speaking the only times when slaves ever manage to become free en masse is when the master class allows them to become free.

>100 Gigasecond after AT - The exploration of the cosmos is pushed by posthuman intelligences that inhabit the Therian Expanse, still some baseline human persist, for the greatness of Therian was the rearticulation of conscioucsness and every human holds the key of further advancement. The goal is to maximize potential.
This is a lie, human spirit is a solved riddle, humanity was eradicated millenia ago, but the Eschat Project proofed the existence of the human soul. The human soul the only form that does not obey the 2. thermodynamics, for it can be created and used as the fuel that shall be the salvation against entropy. The human soul has to be composed in the right manner so some human live in paradise and others in hell.

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And also Haiti was close to being called an Exterminatus upon by Americans after they learned what happened to the french on that island. They only did not pursue extermination and subjugation due to still being isolationists, and French empire themselves being in the middle of "muh revolution"

>Blocks your immortality.

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How about a cute story where humans are enslaved as pets to benevolent alien race as companions and friends, like humans have dogs and cats. You could have stories about humans getting adopted from shelters or "feral" humans trying to make their way without alien owners. The key is that the aliens are loving, even deeply caring, but not deeply invested. Almost any alien would stop and feed a starving human they found, but an alien might pass on an expensive surgery for a sick human in favor of letting it die comfortably and getting a new one.

It could work when the enslavers were akin to angels or demons, entities that are not totally in this realm. That way, they might occasionally manifest themselves and still have a personal relationship with humans, without it being so impossible due to tech differences.

Maybe what i am describing is just World of Darkness Changeling setting, with less edge.

>Why no revolts it revolution? Do you just hate actual drama? Or are you hoping this thread just gives you bullied loli jerkoff material?

If I had to guess I'd say the caveat is to prevent the thread from immediately filling up with HFY faggots who proudly announce that the humans have escaped slavery because Humanity Fuck Yeah! instead of, you know, working within the constraints of the prompt.

Humans don't realize they're slaves.
Done

user I play games to escape reality

>the enslavers are an ayy species that preside in a GIANT ass ship that's also the sun
>they use humans to terraform the planet to suit their needs
>always keep a bank full of unfertilized eggs and repeat the cycle for every suitable planet they find
>yeah, fucking humans, good luck rebelling against the ACTUAL sun with your forks and pickaxes and shovels lmao

/thread

>Demigod-esque Giants
They don't even have to be demigod-esque. They could be regular giants. All you have to do is up the population numbers on them to explain how they could easily overpower humanity and subjugate the smaller races.

How else would they reproduce? Human females serve as the eggs for the masters sperm. Human males are used as manual labor and it is illegal to educate them at any level beyond such.

Generally speaking, giants have one or more of the following disadvantages:
>they're slow
>they're dumb
>they're few in numbers
Really, if any of the disadvantages were taken away, the giants should logically be capable of conquering the other species. If ALL of the disadvantages are taken away, it wouldn't even be a challenge.

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Are we really so limited in imagination that we can only imagine slavery by physical or psychic domination, Veeky Forums? There are one thousand examples of slavery from colonial history that make for interesting scenarios

>After making first contact, Humanity finds itself on the outer fringe of a huge, sprawling galactic empire in the Confucian style. Unable to meet standard tribute quotas with backwards technology, and unable to afford appearing on the radar of the empire, the PC's adventures revolve around humans desperate need to modernise and acquire technology at any cost
>After making first contact, humanity makes rapid advances in technology, fuelled by the import of materials not found on Planet Earth from a democratic, capitalist power. As agents operating for the Terran Lobby, the PC's are essentially paid mercenaries, and their actions will influence the extent that corporations can turn Earth into a massive factory.
>Humanity is in thrall to an alien species. Alien music blasts out of every bar, alien food and drink is sold on every corner, alien culture is on every alien-manufactured telescreen and arrogant aliens use planet Earth as a playground. The PC's, a cell of the Human Liberation Brigades led by an enigmatic DMPC, engage in a campaign of terror to force the United Earth Government to adopt policies promoting Earth values.

Just a few examples off the top of my head of cultural/economic slavery.

>But he said no human revolt!

No he didnt, he said at the very start of the campaign, there shouldn't have been a sizable rebellion, as its probably the first thing the PC's will do.

Mah nigga. This season so far has more than made up for all the lackluster episodes in the past.

I was hoping someone would recognize where this was from. And yeah this season has been great so far, hopefully the finale live up to expectations.

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The artist of Dungeon Meshi has a set of stories about just that. It’s in one of her stand-alone, short story books

>No successful slave revolts
Better to die in a revolution than to live in chains

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why would I make a setting about the modern world, and the ever growing technological cage?

Basically the premis of the posline wars, in my headcanon one of the touch stones of HFY.

This is the usual implication of HFY. Most fics have to introduce some reason humanity isn't totally objectionable in addition to super powered.

Vampires do weird things to warfare. You can't make up a force purely with them as they would usually literally need to eat the country side clean. Smaller forces would be semi viable as independent and fast forces. Cities become a lot more viable to hold during a sige, as the besieging forces need to bring in all their food and probably have larger numbers.

I told her you'd grow old and die while she'd stay just as she is and outlive you by many lifetimes.

>No escaping from slavery
But that's the most interesting possible story in a setting based on slavery.