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* Appears as an [[Unbuilt Trope]] in ''[[The Sleeper Awakes]]''. Being written before [[wikipedia:Fordism|Fordism]] and mass-production, the future society contains a large slave class which is initally presented this way. It's only revealed late on that in fact manual labour is almost obsolete and the future slaves simply operate the machines all day.
* The ''[[Myst]]'' tie-in novel ''The Book of D'ni'' introduces the Tehranee, a race of people so advanced, especially in engineering and chemistry, that they are universally indolent, wiling away their days in the pursuit of superior artistry and poesis, while the burden of building and maintaining their vast artworks is placed on a huge caste of slaves. Worse, these people's linking technology allows them to travel instantly to any planet they can describe, giving them access to basically unlimited resources of every kind, which should make all forms of slavery utterly obsolete. Thus, the Tehranee preserve slavery apparently just because it's traditional and they can't be bothered to create a better system.
* Justified in [[The Peregrine]]. Each ship of the Nomads is a well [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|nomadic]] town, and the workers spend their time on artisanship rather then drudgery.
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** Some of the Zoneminds that have instead chosen to ruthlessly eradicate all humans immediately are actually at an economic disadvantage to their bretheren because of it, both due to the lack of cheap labor and the extra resources they've expended in the extermination efforts.
* Slave traffic is mentioned in [[Traveller]]. It is illegal in the Imperium, though the Sword Worlds have a judicial slavery as punishment for murder, treason, and other heinous crimes (which makes one amused at the [[Irony]] of the fate of a [[Space Pirate]] caught while trying to sell off his captives). It is not always made clear what the slaves are expected to do. However the [[Schizo-Tech]] of [[Traveller]] at least sort of justifies it.
**Some VIPs prefer servants to robots. Sometimes this is vanity but some aspects of domestic work might still be done by a human or alien then a robot.
**It is theoretically possible to have robotic starships in [[Traveller]]. Aside from general dislike of ''independent'' robots(which prejudice does not really extend to computerized machines with a user)no one really likes the idea of malfunctioning without a crew to stop them, including the Imperial government. Hivers are different in this as in a lot of things and use robot starships a lot.
**A lot depends on the twists and turns of local economy and politics, and a given culture can be behind either generally or ahead. Or simply they may have their own ideas about what to do with labor freed up by machines. Or whatever the GM picks. For instance the Sword Worlds which are an interstellar society are so short of antigravity vehicles that they often resort to wheels and tracks and in out of the way country, even to animals.
* This is almost to be expected in ''[[Rifts]]'', given the [[Schizo-Tech]] of the setting. Throughout much of North America, people are often enslaved or indentured, turned into cyborgs and used as miners. The Coalition doesn't use slave-borgs, but [[Fantastic Racism|nonhumans]] are sometimes enslaved and employed in the mega-cities or the 'burbs. In magic-dominated places, meanwhile, slavery is widespread and slaves are used for any and every task, be it labor, warfare, [[Gladiator Games]], [[Sex Slave|sex]] or [[To Serve Man|food]] (the latter is a big one, since a ''lot'' of alien evils do it to cement their [[Card-Carrying Villain]] status).
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