School of Dominance and Submission: A Lesson on Drones
Prologue
A/N: All Characters are over eighteen.
Imagine an alternate earth, where human society itself revolved around two social classes, Masters and Slaves. It doesn't matter what gender, sexuality or race you are, you're either born a slave or a master. That's how this world has always worked, from caveman times to the age of science and technology.
The masters are the ones who'll pull the strings: they run the businesses; the corporations; they put man on the moon; they're the doctors; they're the scientists; they're the politicians. Anyone who has done anything significant in human history was a master.
The slaves, on the other hand, tended to their masters every need. That's what a slave's life is; they serve their respective masters. Whether because it's their duty or because a slave is in a romantic relationship with a master. Being a slave isn't a job, it's their sole purpose in life, they serve their masters until either the slaves die, or their masters die, and the slaves are passed on to new ones. Slaves are never the ones to do anything significant in human history; they are always behind the scenes serving their masters. But the slaves aren't angry about it, in fact, they are quite happy about their purpose in life as slaves for two reasons.
Firstly, the slaves are treated like human beings: they received a proper education growing up; they are properly fed, cleaned and clothed; their masters give them a place to live; there are laws in place that makes abusing slaves illegal (Except in BDSM style relationships, in which case, both parties must give their full consent); and slaves are allowed to have their opinion, they're even allowed to vote in elections.
Secondly, it's in their biology. It has been scientifically proven that the brain of a slave is fifteen percent smaller than the brain of a master. As a result, slaves are slightly less intelligent than their dominant counterparts. But that's not why they are naturally submissive; it's because of a part of the brain that only slaves have known as the 'Submittere Area'. It increases the submissiveness of a slave one hundred fold.
Since being a slave is biological and not a social construct, that means that anyone has a chance of being born a slave, no matter how wealthy you are. The daughter of the richest couple in Australia also happens to be their personal maid. A book called 'The Slave Prince and The Pauper' is considered a timeless classic, among masters and slaves alike. The book is about a young submissive prince, a common girl and their love for each other. But the prince's father, the king refuses to accept their love and so the prince must escape his father's grasp and return to his loving mistress. So not even royalty themselves are immune from the Slave Gene.
The Slave Gene is what determines whether a person is born a slave or not. It also 'activates' the Submittere Area during puberty, because much like breasts and facial hair, the Submittere Area is considered a secondary sex characteristic.
Many slaves are happy with how submissive they are, however many more wish they could become even more submissive. Slaves will actively seek out methods the will bring them to this goal. These methods include brainwashing; mind control; and hypnosis. Most universities and colleges use hypnosis on their submissive students to reinforce their training.
But most slaves who use these methods only want to go so far in their conditioning. Only a handful of slaves seeks to become what's known as a 'Drone', also known as 'The Perfect Slave'. No free will at all; no personality; no desires; no opinions of their own; and is incapable of independent thought or action. The only things drones are capable of are carrying out their programming, and their master's commands.
Many slaves wonder, 'Why would people go so far as to delete who they are to become the perfect slaves?' Like many questions in life, there is no 'one true answer', as the answer itself depends on the individual being asked.
Initially, the process of dronification was a punishment to some of the worst criminals the world has ever seen; terrorists; mass murderers, paedophiles, rapists, child slave traffickers. It's considered the second worst punishment a criminal can get, behind the death penalty. The process permanently erases the criminals' identities, assigns them a randomly generated number to replace their name and randomly assigns them a job.
