Just sign here... (Concordant setting)
Oct. 30th, 2005 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreGetting away from the blimps for a second, I was thinking about making indentured servitude part of the setting.
Historically, this was a common way for those too poor to pay the cost of passage to the New World to make the trip. A formal agreement for a period of time where the indentured person worked for the family that paid his/her way over. I could see this becoming big as we move into space.
It would of course be tightly regulated (and an entire arm of the legal profession would spring up around it) but it could make for some fun plot points.
Any opinions?
Historically, this was a common way for those too poor to pay the cost of passage to the New World to make the trip. A formal agreement for a period of time where the indentured person worked for the family that paid his/her way over. I could see this becoming big as we move into space.
It would of course be tightly regulated (and an entire arm of the legal profession would spring up around it) but it could make for some fun plot points.
Any opinions?
