The Disorder wrote:For the moment, our demand for slaves is well-sated - we have a sufficient surplus of them. But when that changes, the Order of Disorder would be more than willing to do business with Tupeia.
Our reason for contacting you is a more scientific & economic one: We believe we have methods to reduce the cost of the slaves that you manufacture. As a potential buyer of your slaves, we have a vested interest in utility-maximization & acquiring human resources at a low cost. As a seller of slaves, it is easy to imagine that you might have a vested interest in undercutting your competition.
Our scientists have invented a series of processes and technologies which largely remove the need for surgical brain implantation (and its associated hazards) in up to 98% of slaves.
It is a commonly encountered 'problem' that some societies with enormous economic throughput can simply buy slaves en-masse, free them, re-educate them, and use these freed slaves to further bolster their population. While your solution to prevent this seems statistically effective, we have developed a number of similarly effective (and perhaps cheaper) counter-rescue strategies, designed also to cause intense disruption among prospective slave rescuers.
If this sort of technological collaboration interests you, we can begin sharing research data.
For the good of all chaos.
Tupeia wrote:
From the table of the Great Apostate Daimos
We are grateful for your offer. We are interested in your offer of cooperation and sharing of information. That is why Tupeia accepts your offer.
May the gods bless you
Somewhere in orbit around the Moon
In the interplanetary gap between Earth and the Moon, a spaceship passed by the Moon. The 400-meter-long ship was carried by 115 Tupeia Theocracy scientists associated with the development of mind probes. The ship also carried 5,000 slaves of whom 4,000 were probed and worked on the maintenance of the ship while 1,000 slaves were without probes and served as guinea pigs for future experiments and technological exchange with The Disorder. When the ship came out of the moon's orbit, the ship entered the speed of light and headed towards the location of the disturbance. An encrypted message is sent to The Disorder announcing their arrival.