Weird Harold wrote:Fox2! wrote:I don't see anything to suggest they don't think of themselves as slaves. They are treated better, but they are still slaves and know they are slaves.
They sound more like Azi than slaves.
"A Rose by any other name..."
There are, indeed, many similarities to Darius's genetic slaves, but whether you call them "Azi" or "Genetic Slaves" they're still slaves and they know they are slaves.
There have been many cultures throughout history where slaves had a lot of influence and freedom of action: most notably the Mamlukes. If you offered any of those slaves their freedom, they would decline and wonder what they had done to be punished so.
Even the spoiler quote above from SoV refers to them as "slaves" and that is their legal status.[/quote]
"The most dangerous weapon is the sword that honestly believes he is a plowshare."
So now the GA is in a two pronged race to develop and deploy these new drive technologies, and tj locate and destroy the MAN before all that new construction comes off the docks.