Having leveraged conquered natural resources to offer research grants and incentives, Draka technology is shown to progress more rapidly than in reality their military equipment is several decades ahead of their opponents, and by later books in the series includes genetically modified animals, combat spacecraft, and advanced computer viruses. The rest of the army is filled out by slave troops, who are less well-equipped but still formidable. Due to a societal fixation on military training from infancy, Draka citizen soldiers are supposedly the equal of several elite enemy soldiers they give no quarter in combat and prefer death to capture. While originally slaves are black Africans and citizenship is open to all whites, over time the Draka begin to see themselves as the master race, with all non-Draka as threats to be subjugated. Citizens have a considerable degree of free speech, but fundamental criticism of the slave system is forbidden. Politically, the Draka state is ruled by a parliament elected by the citizens, which in turn appoints the Archon, or head of state. Most of the small minority of free Draka citizens own slaves, which comprise 90% of the population slaves have no rights and are treated ruthlessly to prevent rebellion. The economy is heavily dominated by cartels known as Combines, though there is also a considerable small-business private sector. English is the only tolerated language the Draka accent is described as difficult for foreign spies to imitate, with some Afrikaans influence. Other societal groups include a technocratic subclass of industrialists, a small Boer-dominated navy, and a secret police controlled by Confederate immigrant families.ĭraka culture draws inspiration from the Mughal Empire as well as classical antiquity. With its capital at Archona, the Draka develop into a militaristic slave-owning society controlled by a hereditary plantation aristocracy. Renamed after Francis Drake, the Crown Colony of Drakia (later Dominion and finally Domination of the Draka) becomes a haven for American loyalists, Hessian mercenaries, Icelandic refugees, French royalists, and later German and Confederate expatriates, who overrun and assimilate the earlier Boer population. The world of the Domination diverges when the Dutch Republic joins the American Revolutionary War and is forced to cede the Cape Colony to the British. ( July 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. In 2000, Stirling edited Drakas!, a collection of short stories by other authors who develop plots based on the Domination premise. When an experiment goes wrong a female Draka is hurled into a parallel Earth and now seeks to pave the way for an invasion force.Īn omnibus edition of the Draka Saga was published in 1999, containing the first trilogy, Marching Through Georgia, Under the Yoke and The Stone Dogs. The long-standing protracted struggle between the Domination of the Draka and the Alliance for Democracy turns hot when the Draka unleash a new secret weapon. Meanwhile an American agent infiltrates Draka society in an effort to gain contact with various resistance organizations. The Draka reshape Europe by turning the surviving population into serfs. The series focuses on Draka (later The Domination), a totalitarian, expansionist nation founded in Southern Africa by British settlers in the 18th century where cruel slavery plays an increasingly central role.Ī Draka airborne unit attempts to hold a mountain pass against the Germans in Ossetia as the Domination launches its invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. It comprises a main trilogy of novels as well as one crossover novel set after the original and a book of short stories. The Domination of the Draka (also called the Draka series or the Draka saga) is a dystopian science fiction alternate history series by American author S. Science fiction, Dystopian, Alternate history
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