they are nomadic hunters. nomads are use to travel,. hunters to fighting and death. We raise them, we have a chance on calling on them if we get in a bind. That is what i was thinking and planning for back then.
I don't think we should arm other species, that could lead to a civil war which would jeopardize the safety of our Humans.
Plus, enslaving a species would probably scare the Lunar dudes into a pre-emptive strike. While aiding a species, and being in (relative) harmony with them, *might* make them less worried that we'll go out there and enslave/exterminate them.
The "Luner dudes" have demonstrated Isolationist behaivor, they did not care when we colonized a planet in their system, infected a planet with Algea, and I doubt they will care about what we do to the Avains. They would know they are still stronger than us, and likely just stay on their moons and leave us at peace.
Besides, as "terrible" as they are as minds (I think we can fix any issues, like their intelligence, plus whatever cultural/physiological perspectives they bring to the fore are potentially worth the hassle) they'd be worse as labour.
I doubt the cultural heritage of nomads is worth to effort of uplifting a species. They'd be horrible in comparision to robots, in one on one terms, but for the same amount of materials it would take to make one robot we could enslave at least ten Avains, at which point they make up for the fact that they are inferior in terms to a robot just by shear numbers.
Physiologicalaly, you mean the study of their bodies? We could sequence their genome for usefull genes, but that could be done after lobotimization. If you meant Pyschologically we could not lobotomize a small number in order to see if they have any redemable intelectual qualities, and if so we can clone the species back into existance.
Again genetic engineering, educating, and teaching a new language to, an entire species would be extremely costly, and by the time it is finished we would have a large population of humans. We could sequance their genome in less than a year, but identify which genes would increase intelligence would take much longer, especially since it would likely involve creating new genes. As I pointed out we would need to give them a college education to have them be worth much in terms of labour terms, most simple labour would be done by robots in this scenerio so the only work remaining would be skilled labor.
On the other hand you could not educate them and just teach them the language and let them do unskilled work, but then why uplift the species, you could have just lobotimize them.
Oh and I doubt the Humans will mind us lobotimizing a species because we can ensure them that caring for the humans is the most in-built subrotine in our programming and that we are enslaving the species so they can preform labor for the humans and care for them.
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