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Author: Unknown Troper

Feb 20th 2010 at 9:43:51 AM

StarControlII - The Ur-Quan Kzer-Za have BattleThralls, called as such in the game itself.  They're quite possibly this trope's MostTriumphantExample.

ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Thraddash.  Possibly overlaps with the Barbarian Marauders (they're proud, but also dumb as bricks and unapologetically violent to a fault).  The Yehat are a more straight example; being classic Proud Warrior Race Guys who serve the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za willingly under orders from their Veep-Neep Queen.

Barbarian Marauders: The Ilwrath.  They live for evil and became Battle Thralls to the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za solely for the purpose of obtaining sacrifices for their dark gods.  The VUX are a bit of a subversion; they're intelligent and very eloquent, they're just narcissistic as heck and are heinously violently solely because they consider every non-VUX lifeform in the universe uglier than they are.

Engineers of Doom: The Umgah.  Pranksome geneticists that can be helpful if you can figure out why they're so quirky.

Enslaved Grunts: The Spathi, a race of cephalopod cowards.  The Mycon might also apply here, in the "living bomb" sense - they joined the Ur-Quan Slave Empire in order to gain new worlds to terraform by burying their children into its crust.