Courting the Storm meta
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jessara40k_ljThe first comment I got referenced the purpose bred and bunnied me a bit on Hojo's relationship with Sephiroth, so I'm going to share what I know about those two subject with you.
Generally the purpose bred are born for one of three reasons, to do low level menial or clerical work - think data-entry or flipping burgers - for companies that are big enough to make the initial investment, as gladiators, or as sex-slaves. The breeding contracts must be submitted to a government office before these people are conceived (no consent from the progenitors is required as long as the DNA samples were obtained legitimately) and generally has a primary purpose of specified low-level work or gladiator, with sale as a sex-slave as an option at any time prior to starting work (no earlier than age 16).
Selling a purpose bred as a sex slave is the only way he or she can be sold to a different owner without effectively becoming a freeborn under contract, so while Sephiroth is still classed as purpose bred, as are the others Hojo had produced at the same time as him and sold as concubines, the few castrati who were sold to church choirs, and Angeal and Genesis are all considered freeborn under contract.
The rights that must be set out in a breeding contract are as follows: food, clothing and shelter 'suited to their needs', to be 'released from contract' at an age no older than 60, and for a minimum sum - significantly less than a freeborn would be paid for whatever job they do - to be put into an account for them for every year they work for their contract holder, to only be accessed when they are released from their contract. Additionally there must be provision in the breeding contracts for gladiators to cover their funerals, and for any prize money they win to go partly to their 'retirement account'. Of course if a purpose bred dies before being released from his or her contract the money reverts to his or her contract holder, provided he or she wasn't murdered.
Gladiators rarely survive long enough to be released from their contracts, whereas the low level labour tend to keep on working in the same job, sometimes for the same company, if they're lucky and sometimes for smaller companies. Unless of course they've managed to obtain some sort of skill they can use to get a better job.
Sephiroth is actually Hojo's favourite of the castrati he created for this project, partly because the strength enhancements worked best on him, and partly because of who his progenitors were. If Sephiroth had proven inadequate as a performer Hojo would have started training him as a lab assistant or something similar rather than selling him, and Genesis and Angeal were actually sold to ShinRa because Genesis was harassing Sephiroth.
Hojo has cloned Sephiroth sucessfully, with an appropriate breeding contract in place, and has started training this clone as a gladiator, and wants to get out of the music business because he feels he's proved his point and project has more than paid for itself. The real reason he sent Sephiroth to make overtures to The Storm was that if they prove to have some staying power and this new project is successful enough he's going to bring up the idea of selling Sephiroth's contract to them. This will probably be as a performer, since Sephiroth's breeding contract states that once his first single is released and makes a certain level of sales he can only be sold to a performance contract or legitimate consortship contract.
Meanwhile Cloud makes quiet point of letting the media know about his involvement with Sephiroth, so that Hojo can't just order Sephiroth to avoid contact with him and the group when the album's finished, not without causing PR problems.
Generally the purpose bred are born for one of three reasons, to do low level menial or clerical work - think data-entry or flipping burgers - for companies that are big enough to make the initial investment, as gladiators, or as sex-slaves. The breeding contracts must be submitted to a government office before these people are conceived (no consent from the progenitors is required as long as the DNA samples were obtained legitimately) and generally has a primary purpose of specified low-level work or gladiator, with sale as a sex-slave as an option at any time prior to starting work (no earlier than age 16).
Selling a purpose bred as a sex slave is the only way he or she can be sold to a different owner without effectively becoming a freeborn under contract, so while Sephiroth is still classed as purpose bred, as are the others Hojo had produced at the same time as him and sold as concubines, the few castrati who were sold to church choirs, and Angeal and Genesis are all considered freeborn under contract.
The rights that must be set out in a breeding contract are as follows: food, clothing and shelter 'suited to their needs', to be 'released from contract' at an age no older than 60, and for a minimum sum - significantly less than a freeborn would be paid for whatever job they do - to be put into an account for them for every year they work for their contract holder, to only be accessed when they are released from their contract. Additionally there must be provision in the breeding contracts for gladiators to cover their funerals, and for any prize money they win to go partly to their 'retirement account'. Of course if a purpose bred dies before being released from his or her contract the money reverts to his or her contract holder, provided he or she wasn't murdered.
Gladiators rarely survive long enough to be released from their contracts, whereas the low level labour tend to keep on working in the same job, sometimes for the same company, if they're lucky and sometimes for smaller companies. Unless of course they've managed to obtain some sort of skill they can use to get a better job.
Sephiroth is actually Hojo's favourite of the castrati he created for this project, partly because the strength enhancements worked best on him, and partly because of who his progenitors were. If Sephiroth had proven inadequate as a performer Hojo would have started training him as a lab assistant or something similar rather than selling him, and Genesis and Angeal were actually sold to ShinRa because Genesis was harassing Sephiroth.
Hojo has cloned Sephiroth sucessfully, with an appropriate breeding contract in place, and has started training this clone as a gladiator, and wants to get out of the music business because he feels he's proved his point and project has more than paid for itself. The real reason he sent Sephiroth to make overtures to The Storm was that if they prove to have some staying power and this new project is successful enough he's going to bring up the idea of selling Sephiroth's contract to them. This will probably be as a performer, since Sephiroth's breeding contract states that once his first single is released and makes a certain level of sales he can only be sold to a performance contract or legitimate consortship contract.
Meanwhile Cloud makes quiet point of letting the media know about his involvement with Sephiroth, so that Hojo can't just order Sephiroth to avoid contact with him and the group when the album's finished, not without causing PR problems.
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Date: 2008-07-09 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-10 01:21 pm (UTC)why?
Date: 2008-07-12 10:45 pm (UTC)Also why would anyone want to create people for low level work? It doesn't seem cost effective. Either hire someone -- you would have the capitol costs, or create more machinery.
I can't see why Hojo is creating a gladiator clone. Can't see what he hopes to gain from that project since having one Sephioth would produce enough information about strength enhancements and cloning results.
Re: why?
Date: 2008-07-13 03:05 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maniaci
Oh in the above comment, I meant that hiring low level labor saves on capitol investment. Much more cost effective. A society can have slaves where it isn't economically viable, but then slaves are an expensive luxury item. Most of the economy is run by free labor but there a few slaves in the population.
Re: why?
Date: 2008-07-14 08:53 am (UTC)Because he couldn't be certain that his subjests would end up with voices good enough to even sell to church choirs, and most male sex slaves are traditional catrati, which are much more saleable than full males. In addition to which church choirs are traditional enough that they probably wouldn't buy anything but a true catrato.
Also why would anyone want to create people for low level work?
Only the biggest companies do this, something like 150-250 the world over. Hojo is an exceptionally talented geneticist, which is why almost all of his subjects were good looking, but mostly that can't be guaranteed. So most purpose-bred are created for low level labour and the companies skim off the ones pretty enough to sell as sex slaves. There's a tipping point, if they can afford the initial invetsment and need enough low-level labour it's more cost-effective to use purpose-bred since each purpose-bred costs something like 30-40% in board and 'pension' of what a freeborn worker would. And the price of the sex slaves they skim from this pool is pure profit.
I can't see why Hojo is creating a gladiator clone. Can't see what he hopes to gain from that project since having one Sephioth would produce enough information about strength enhancements and cloning results.
Not really, as a castrato Sephiroth doesn't show the strength enhancements to the same degree a full male would. Also Sephiroth wasn't a clone - multiple progenitors remember. And finally Hojo is simply returning to his original area of interest with a new special gladiator.
Re: why?
Date: 2008-07-15 12:07 am (UTC)Plastic surgery could be used to create attractive purpose bred to sell as sex toys.
Re: why?
Date: 2008-07-15 08:41 am (UTC)It isn't meant to be a nice world, but if any sort of slavery is legal then I'm pretty sure it would end up being expanded, because of human greed.
It needs a good abolitionist movement terribly badly.
Yes, but I'm not sure anyone's considered that.
Plastic surgery could be used to create attractive purpose bred to sell as sex toys.
Possibly, but that would make them less of a status symbol.