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But it is also to compensate the fact that a lot of slaves are very probably getting integrated in the amarr society, some of them being freed, married to amarr citizens, etc. <snip>
You.
I now see why you understood that. No, I meant, "some of them being freed, then sometimes married to amarr citizens". So, no, I did not say that, even if it was possible to understand it as you did, mea culpa.
A liberal Holder by no means...
- smokes French cigarettes and sports a dashing moustache.
- fucks everything that moves.
- thinks that slaves are people.
You have sources for that ?
The only I know of :
Liberal Holders
Holders, the major landholding class in Amarr society, are generally conservative traditionalists. A few, however, have elected to break ranks with their hidebound and power-hungry peers, instead supporting the modernization of their society's religion and substantial economic reform. Their champion is Catiz Tash-Murkon, the Udorian Royal Heir. That could mean anything, as much like what you say, and as much like what other people say (for example liberals being very liberal by amarrian standards, considering their slaves as people, etc etc). I personnaly believe liberal amarrians are both, with a wide scale of grey in between.
True Amarrians – direct descendants of an ethnic group that conquered all the civilizations of its home world – are proud and supercilious, with a great sense of tradition and ancestry. They are considered arrogant and tyrannical by most others. The Empire's defeat at the hands of the mysterious Jovians, and the Minmatar uprising that followed, left an indelible mark on Amarrian culture. This double failure, a turning point in their history, has shaped an entire generation of policy and philosophy among the imperial elite. So, again, it can be understood in many different ways and I do not see at all how your personnal view has to be the only solid one (I am not reporting you for urdoingitwrong, but its borderline considering how you stated it).
Thus, unless you have clear sources stating that slaves are not considered as people by liberal holders, and even more, by all of them, I do not see why stating that this is the case. And I am only talking about the "slave are people" point, for that smoking french cigarettes and bearing a mustache, and fucking everything that moves, is just ludicrous.
So, Jamyl emancipated generation 9 and older meaning 8th, 7th, 6th and so on. It's pointed out in this thread that the Invasion happened 30 generations ago. So, majority of the hereditary matari slaves proabably chill in generations 27 to 30. While there can be a considerable amount of high educaiton slaves and those who's ancestors were enslaved in the recent centuries, that is still is a very miniscule amount of matari freed comparing to the amount still in the Empire due to their higher generation.
Merdaneth is confused...
A 10th generation slave is 'older' than a 9th generation, both in years and in generations of slavery. So older means, 10th, 11th, 12th. I can think of no dimension that 6th generation slaves are older than say 9th generation slaves.
The general idea was that only those who have been enslaved for a long time are released, unfortunately, logic dictates that generations 9-35 hold nearly all the slaves (percentage wise).
If higher the generation number then older the generation (meaning generation 1 is younger than generation 2) as you say, then it will automatically be the first one to be more numerous, because by the very law of nature, unless their demographics are dropping, newer generations are always more numerous. Percentage wise, the 9th would be very small in comparison to the second one, and even more compared to the first one. In the calculations I made above (for a 4 children per couple), it was 150B of slaves in generation 1, and around 40B in generation 2.
If lower the generation number then older the generation (like Vince said), then its damn weird if we think to the results : with all the generations above 9 freed, firstly that would mean that all the younger generations have been freed, and thats quite a lot of generations (9 to 30++). Secondly, considering that newest generations are exponentially the more numerous, that means basically that all slaves have been freed... And well, thats what ? 20 generations ? How the hell people from the 20th generation still live ?
tl;dr : If the Empress released all the newest generations, then its the majority of the slaves. If the Empress released all the oldest generations, then its a minority.