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Posthuman morphs adapted for slave labor operations of deep level mining. Simple-minded and collectivistic, miner-morphs are eager to satisfy the demands of their masters and instinctively coordinate their efforts with one another. Utilizing their impressive claw-like digits to burrow through ice and earth, they are useful for recovering resource pockets without needing to rely on more expensive and intrusive technological alternatives. Miner-morphs are equally comfortable under ground or above ground. Their compact and muscular bodies ensure that they can move with ease through their sprawling tunnel networks and work for hours without exhaustion while their large ears and sensitive noses help them navigate and coordinate with one another in darkness that would be blinding to other less adapted members of posthumanity. It is not unknown for smaller groups of miner-morphs to break away from larger labor teams, forming primitive subterranean societies among their own kind. Such tribes can pose a risk to small surface settlements, not due to any outright hostility on the part of miner-morphs but due to their tunnels collapsing from neglect. Miner-morphs are unlikely to engage in acts of aggression unless their infants are threatened, and are instinctively eager to surrender precious resources to others in exchange for the more mundane resource of a reliable meal. This passivity ensures that populations of miner-morphs experience cycles of enslavement and rebellion, with newly separated populations eventually being taken advantage of by surface dwellers willing to exploit their good nature. On rare occasions, sincere relationships are established which benefit both communities: the surface-dwellers ensuring that miner-morphs receive a ready supply of food which is hard to grow in their underground networks while the surface-dwellers are compensated by the miner-morphs with precious materials buried beneath the earth. Though these relationships always run the risk of collapsing back into easy exploitation as miner-morphs are not quick to recognize an unfair trade nor willing to punish those who cheat them.

Description
Posthuman morphs adapted for slave labor operations of deep level mining. Simple-minded and collectivistic, miner-morphs are eager to satisfy the demands of their masters and instinctively coordinate their efforts with one another. Utilizing their impressive claw-like digits to burrow through ice and earth, they are useful for recovering resource pockets without needing to rely on more expensive and intrusive technological alternatives. Miner-morphs are equally comfortable under ground or above ground. Their compact and muscular bodies ensure that they can move with ease through their sprawling tunnel networks and work for hours without exhaustion while their large ears and sensitive noses help them navigate and coordinate with one another in darkness that would be blinding to other less adapted members of posthumanity. It is not unknown for smaller groups of miner-morphs to break away from larger labor teams, forming primitive subterranean societies among their own kind. Such tribes can pose a risk to small surface settlements, not due to any outright hostility on the part of miner-morphs but due to their tunnels collapsing from neglect. Miner-morphs are unlikely to engage in acts of aggression unless their infants are threatened, and are instinctively eager to surrender precious resources to others in exchange for the more mundane resource of a reliable meal. This passivity ensures that populations of miner-morphs experience cycles of enslavement and rebellion, with newly separated populations eventually being taken advantage of by surface dwellers willing to exploit their good nature. On rare occasions, sincere relationships are established which benefit both communities: the surface-dwellers ensuring that miner-morphs receive a ready supply of food which is hard to grow in their underground networks while the surface-dwellers are compensated by the miner-morphs with precious materials buried beneath the earth. Though these relationships always run the risk of collapsing back into easy exploitation as miner-morphs are not quick to recognize an unfair trade nor willing to punish those who cheat them.