Well, I think they meant material freedom, A.K.A the freedom to make more money and buy more things. Which, might be very compelling for a human, but I don't think that's quite how most Loroi think.Arioch wrote:Well, Loroi with technical and scientific knowledge would certainly be valuable for knowledge transfer, I'll grant you that.Zorg56 wrote:Actually i was thinking about freedom of what to do and what you can achieve.
With loroi life span, even if she is not highly trained specialist she can probably live like queen amongst humans.
As for the motive of smugglers- you can get either specialist who can accumulate hundreds of years of expirience over time, or you can get specialist with knowlege way beyond human technologies.
With 2 tech levels ahead even novice civilian engineer will have something usefull.
Land of possibilities, like USA in the beggining.
But in terms of "freedom of what to do and what you can achieve", a Loroi civilian will have no more "freedom" in human society than she did in Loroi society. She will still be a second-class citizen, she still won't be able to run the government, and she still won't be able to have children. Loroi civilians aren't slaves in Loroi society... they have more freedoms, in some sense, than the warriors do.
I'm not saying there wouldn't be transfer of migrants, but I'm not sure there would be a mass exodus. And I don't think the migrants would need to be "smuggled."
But even beyond that, it's not impossible? It would be a complicated and risky thing to pull off, but it's not impossible that a liberal and ambitious human nation would be willing to offer citizenship to Loroi with sufficiently valuable skills and knowledge. They could also try to crack the science behind Loroi artificial conception, or even just aim for a Loroi with the appropriate knowledge - even today, I don't think we're that far from being able to create embryos without sperm. With 140~ years of scientific progress, we should almost certainly be able to do it. Doing so for Loroi would be more difficult, but it shouldn't take more than a decade of science to figure out, at that point? Of course, I have no idea how you want to treat science in outsider, you may not be interested in having biology be quite so advanced as that, because it alters the character of the setting. And of course, this scheme runs a chance of running into all sorts of problems and might very well result in a diplomatic incident of some sort. But, as I said, it's not impossible... :/
Edit: And as a side benefit of such a policy, you also get a population of Loroi, with the potential for telepathic and telekinetic recruits. And given that they're aliens, it's also likely that they have different aptitudes than humans even beyond that, which means that an economy containing both will likely be more efficient. SO, all the more reason to try and recruit a population of Loroi. Of course, theres no gaurantee that the human population of your country will be on board with this. We have enough trouble with racism and xenophobia among ourselves, throw actual aliens into the mix? Yeah, I bet that's gonna cause problems. I dunno, we might have it all figured out by 2160? Or, we might not. Honestly for this story, I'm gonna guess not. XD