: I wrote: So if the Pfhor just had that one ship that they stole from that
: guy, that would be an answer. But if, as appears to be the case, they
: reverse-engineered his ship and are capable of mass-producing more like it
: (and variations on the theme since they evidently have different kinds of
: ships), then we're back to square one because by the time you can do that
: you have no use for slaves.
: I mean I guess we COULD posit that every individual Pfhor ship is a used
: spaceship stolen from someone else, and every bit of Pfhor technology is
: likewise a machine stolen from someone else. But that seems implausible as
: what kind of indomitable military empire would that make? Who would they
: even be capable of stealing from? (Likewise, we could posit that they make
: their slaves build them more and better tech, like with the S'pht, but
: then we're positing that they're conquering peoples more advanced than
: themselves, and if so by what means? Sheer overwhelming numbers of stolen
: used spaceships?)
I got the impression that the K'lia (ship in M1?) was like home to them, and M2 and MI is when the architecture started getting weird... too alien even to them (obviously there's s'pht ruins, and new palettes for pfhor ships, and the jjarro stuff, but the garrison we see is confirmed to have been built by them, probably using Lh'owon materials)
