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The Papal States Intervention Force from Trench Crusade?

How does it work? Are humans now like banana slugs, hermaphrodites where any individual can impregnate any other individual, or are we like clownfish where if you put a group of the same gender together, some of them will start metamorphosing into the opposite so the group as a whole can reproduce?

Counterargument, the fall of the Roman Republic. Roman yeoman farmers, the same guys whose service in the legions made Rome's imperialism possible, were forced to compete with huge slavery-fueled plantations using slaves their conquests had captured which had economics of scale on the side and...

Yeah, either way doesn't benefit him. Option one, technological civilization continues, the migrants are useless because automation takes all their potential jobs leaving them purely as a drain on resources, option two, technological civilization collapses, the migrants are still a bad idea...

Yeah, the politicization of the draft was inevitable once it became clear just who would be sent to die vs who'd get to stay home.

So, what's our plan?

Well, looks like we found the murderous Imposter.

A clay statuette of a blue creature with purple ears, belly and spotted cheeks.

I’m not concerned with whether it’s actually sentient but whether it’ll be capable of taking my job and defending its masters from unemployment riots.

Reminds me of Morgoth's thoughts on the matter.

They tried to switch it off and it fought back. Does it really matter if it did so because it'd became genuinely sentient and free-willed and was acting in self-defense or if it merely understood that being deactivated would hamper it in completing whatever goal it'd been programmed to carry out?

The actual reason why no other Dark Wizard has tried making multiple Horcruxs, each divided fragment of soul is independently sentient and capable of acting at cross-purposes towards each other?

Alternatively, how does it change the calculus if in addition to free slave labor, necromancy provides undeniable proof of the consequences of abusing it? Possibly the knowledge that Hell and eternal damnation are very real potential consequences of letting the rest of humanity starve to death...

Yep. I'd also link sunshine moonlight's article on the matter. https://scrupulouspessimism.substack.com/p/the-myopia-and-arrogance-of-directional

A clay statuette of a purple creature with a yellow mane down its back, red paws and gill slits along the sides of its head.