Exploiter's End

The story follows supervisors at an interstellar shipyard who manage a termite-like alien workforce whose communal instincts and ritual expression conflict with industrial demands. Management enforces strict efficiency, subsidized company housing, and punitive labor rules while company psychologists use indoctrination and reconditioning to silence human dissent. Tensions arise as a young engineer objects to the treatment and faces forced psychological correction. Through assembly-line scenes, cultural rituals, and office maneuvering, the narrative examines exploitation, cultural assimilation, and the moral costs of treating sentient labor as interchangeable production units.