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While it's been a while since I read it, I have a vague recollection of Legends of the Ferengi strongly implying that the Hupyrians were bought out by the Ferengi, or something along those lines. I think. Though it's getting fuzzier the more I think about it. Heisenbergian memory?
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All the book says is that enlistment in the Ferengi military went up after the apparently pleasant effects of Hupyrian beetle snuff was discovered.
"Oblat, who after all was a Nagus and thus nobody's fool, quickly announced that from here on out all Ferengi military personnel would be supplied with one free canister of beetle snuff per week. Enlistment soared. Hupyrian casualties mounted, and within a year the Nagus's (sic) duridium mines were as safe as if they were located in the shadow of the Tower of Commerce itself."
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Perhaps Quark and "mainstream" Ferengi had a different definition of slavery... I'd bet that the Ferengi would almost certainly practice indentured servitude.
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