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** The Iskoort were originally a PuppeteerParasite species like the Yeerks. Rather than require the slavery of other intelligent species, they created an artificial species called the Isk for them to inhabit. The Yoort parasites were also genetically altered, leaving both species symbiotic with one another. An Isk cannot live long without a Yoort, and a Yoort cannot survive inside other sentient beings. There's the added benefit that Yoorts don't have to leave their host to feed that way that Yeerks do.
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** The Iskoort were originally a PuppeteerParasite species like the Yeerks. Rather than require the slavery of other intelligent species, they created an artificial species called the Isk for them to inhabit. The Yoort parasites were also genetically altered, leaving both species symbiotic with one another. An Isk cannot live long without a Yoort, and a Yoort cannot survive inside other sentient beings. There's To add to the added benefit that similarities between the Yoorts don't have to and the Yeerks, both races must leave their host organism every three days to feed nourish themselves by swimming in a special pool and absorbing kadrona energy. It's discovering this fact that way that helps the Animorphs realize why the Ellimist and Crayak are fighting their latest proxy-battle over the Iskoort's planet; if the Iskoort are allowed to survive, then one day they may encounter the Yeerks do. -- and thus show them there is an alternative to conquering and enslaving other races.
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* A later ''Literature/BlackTideRising'' book introduces the "Betas"; former {{Technically Living Zombie}}s whose immune systems finally fought off the SyntheticPlague after several years of infection, which has rendered them docile and submissive, but also so brain damaged that they suffer severe cognitive defects -- they average between 60 to 80 on the IQ scale. Upon discovering them, the acting president of what's left of the United States of America has to figure out what to do with them, and protagonist John Smith [[DevilsAdvocate reluctantly suggests they make them a Servant Race]]. He admits the notion is appalling on a moral level, but as the human population was utterly annihilated -- perhaps '''1%''' of humanity survived the ZombieApocalypse without being infected -- the use of Betas to provide additional drudge labor could be all that stands between the fledgling restoration of civilization and deadly starvation. Plus, at least by codifying the status of Betas under law, they can go some way towards mitigating the worst abuses, because otherwise people will just begin secretly using them as a SlaveRace, up to and including using them as {{Sex Slave}}s, and it's more humane than just leaving them to starve or be eaten by predators. There's also the unspoken observation that either status is the ''optimistic'' outcome, and that otherwise people may just exterminate the Betas rather than take in "useless" extra mouths to feed and care for
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* ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'': The Alacryans are essentially this to the Vritra Clan. While the Vritra did not create them, they were the ones responsible for uplifting them and establishing their civilization following their exile from Epheotus, effectively becoming the SupernaturalElite of the continent with the mortal Alacryans as their servants. Despite this dichotomy, there has been considerable interbreeding between the Vritra and their Alacryan subjects, to the point that a good portion of the former's members are in fact Vritra-blooded Alacryans and one's Vritra-bloodedness is a key element of the Alacryan social hierarchy. The end goal of the Vritra is to control both Alacrya and its sister continent of Dicathen in order to conscript the mortal inhabitants of both continents into their forces to invade Epheotus.
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* The precise origin of the [[ArtificialAnimalRace Pleasure Bunnies]] in ''TabletopGame/AfterTheBomb'' is unknown, but it's widely accepted that they were likely created as a race of biotech sex-toys from lab rabbit DNA by particularly perverse scientists before the apocalypse. Whilst the Post-Crash world does have some crazy things in it, like a race of theropod dino-people who retro-evolved from mutant ''chickens'', it seems pretty unlikely that mutant rabbits would evolve a subspecies with universally gorgeous human appearances, hyper-intuition with body language, emotion-manipulating {{pheromones}} and the ability to alter their physique to whatever a person finds most attractive by ''random chance'', doesn't it?
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* The precise origin of the [[ArtificialAnimalRace [[ArtificialAnimalPeople Pleasure Bunnies]] in ''TabletopGame/AfterTheBomb'' is unknown, but it's widely accepted that they were likely created as a race of biotech sex-toys bioengineered {{Sex Slave}} from lab rabbit DNA by particularly perverse scientists before the apocalypse. Whilst the Post-Crash world does have some crazy things in it, like a race of theropod dino-people who retro-evolved from mutant ''chickens'', it seems pretty unlikely that mutant rabbits would evolve a subspecies with universally gorgeous human appearances, hyper-intuition with body language, emotion-manipulating {{pheromones}} and the ability to alter their physique to whatever a person finds most attractive by ''random chance'', doesn't it?
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* The precise origin of the [[ArtificialAnimalRace Pleasure Bunnies]] in ''TabletopGame/AfterTheBomb'' is unknown, but it's widely accepted that they were likely created as a race of biotech sex-toys from lab rabbit DNA by particularly perverse scientists before the apocalypse. Whilst the Post-Crash world does have some crazy things in it, like a race of theropod dino-people who retro-evolved from mutant ''chickens'', it seems pretty unlikely that mutant rabbits would evolve a subspecies with universally gorgeous human appearances, hyper-intuition with body language, emotion-manipulating {{pheromones}} and the ability to alter their physique to whatever a person finds most attractive by ''random chance'', doesn't it?
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* [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} The Kai]] from ''Videogame/UnrealIITheAwakening''. They don't (apparently can't) speak, they're extremely loyal, everybody can understand them, and they don't complain. [[spoiler: The artifact which you spend the whole game trying to track down, when assembled, turned them into the [[EldritchAbomination Tosc]].]]
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* The Nali of ''VideoGame/UnrealI'' are considered a servant race ... by Skaarj.
** [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} The Kai]] from ''Videogame/UnrealIITheAwakening''. They don't (apparently can't) speak, they're extremely loyal, everybody can understand them, and they don't complain. [[spoiler: The artifact which you spend the whole game trying to track down, when assembled, turned them into the [[EldritchAbomination Tosc]].]]
** [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} The Kai]] from ''Videogame/UnrealIITheAwakening''. They don't (apparently can't) speak, they're extremely loyal, everybody can understand them, and they don't complain. [[spoiler: The artifact which you spend the whole game trying to track down, when assembled, turned them into the [[EldritchAbomination Tosc]].]]
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** Although they had long taken pride in their role as a ServantRace to the Gods, the revelation that they were actually a SlaveRace to a bunch of space worms with delusions of grandeur became a driving force for their rebellion.
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* {{The Fa|irFolk}}e [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00452.html are described as this]] in ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'' and can also serve as an one example of what happens when a ServantRace loses its masters.
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* {{The Fa|irFolk}}e [[http://www.rhjunior.com/totq/00452.html are described as this]] in ''Webcomic/TalesOfTheQuestor'' and can also serve as an one example of what happens when a ServantRace Servant Race loses its masters.
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* The Seranith from ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' are a matriarchal servant race, but they don't serve blindly and consider it important to have a good master. From their point of view, they adopt a human into their care, and if they don’t feel fulfilled they’ll simply leave and find another master. I’m ancient times they used to be completely subservient to humans and had mechanical implants to suppress their free will. After the civilization fell, the Seranith evolved into a free species who are coded with the drive to help others at their own discretion.]]
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* The Seranith from ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' are a matriarchal servant race, but they don't serve blindly and consider it important to have a good master. From their point of view, they adopt a human into their care, and if they don’t feel fulfilled they’ll simply leave and find another master. I’m ancient times they used to be completely subservient to humans and had mechanical implants to suppress their free will. After the civilization fell, the Seranith evolved into a free species who are coded with the drive to help others at their own discretion.]]
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* The Seranith from ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' are a matriarchal servant race, but they don't serve blindly and consider it important to have a good master. From their point of view, they adopt a human into their care, and if they don’t feel fulfilled they’ll simply leave and find another master. [[Spoiler: If Raven’s vision is anything to go by, the Seranith used to be completely subservient to humans and had mechanical implants to suppress their free will. After the civilization fell, the Seranith evolved into a free species who are coded with the drive to help others at their own discretion.]]
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* The Seranith from ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' are a matriarchal servant race, but they don't serve blindly and consider it important to have a good master. From their point of view, they adopt a human into their care, and if they don’t feel fulfilled they’ll simply leave and find another master. [[Spoiler: If Raven’s vision is anything to go by, the Seranith I’m ancient times they used to be completely subservient to humans and had mechanical implants to suppress their free will. After the civilization fell, the Seranith evolved into a free species who are coded with the drive to help others at their own discretion.]]
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* The Seranith from ''webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' are a matriarchal servant race, but they don't serve blindly and consider it important to have a good master. From their point of view, they adopt a human into their care, and if they don’t feel fulfilled they’ll simply leave and find another master. [[Spoiler: If Raven’s vision is anything to go by, the Seranith used to be completely subservient to humans and had mechanical implants to suppress their free will. After the civilization fell, the Seranith evolved into a free species who are coded with the drive to help others at their own discretion.]]
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* The Seranith from ''webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' ''Webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' are a matriarchal servant race, but they don't serve blindly and consider it important to have a good master. From their point of view, they adopt a human into their care, and if they don’t feel fulfilled they’ll simply leave and find another master. [[Spoiler: If Raven’s vision is anything to go by, the Seranith used to be completely subservient to humans and had mechanical implants to suppress their free will. After the civilization fell, the Seranith evolved into a free species who are coded with the drive to help others at their own discretion.]]
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* The Seranith from ''webcomic/TheArchipelago'' are a matriarchal servant race, but they don't serve blindly and consider it important to have a good master. From their point of view, they adopt a human into their care, and if they don’t feel fulfilled they’ll simply leave and find another master. [[Spoiler: If Raven’s vision is anything to go by, the Seranith used to be completely subservient to humans and had mechanical implants to suppress their free will. After the civilization fell, the Seranith evolved into a free species who are coded with the drive to help others at their own discretion.]]
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* The Seranith from ''webcomic/TheArchipelago'' ''webcomic/{{Archipelago}}'' are a matriarchal servant race, but they don't serve blindly and consider it important to have a good master. From their point of view, they adopt a human into their care, and if they don’t feel fulfilled they’ll simply leave and find another master. [[Spoiler: If Raven’s vision is anything to go by, the Seranith used to be completely subservient to humans and had mechanical implants to suppress their free will. After the civilization fell, the Seranith evolved into a free species who are coded with the drive to help others at their own discretion.]]
