While most of the slaves taken by the Tamaran Empire are stripped of will and identity, there are some who chose this fate of their own volition. These are the lutrai chainbreakers, the spies who place themselves in a position to be captured in order to infiltrate the labor camps. The chainbreaker's role is to look helpless and vulnerable, all the while forging human documents, copying keys, and causing all manner of silent chaos amid their captors. A chainbreaker is frequently the only slave that doesn't escape during the confusion, or is easily caught afterwards. In recent years, they have become a serious problem for the Tamaran slave trade.
The chainbreakers have no flag or crest, no leaders, and no ranks. They identify each other empathically, a silent cant of pure id that expresses intentions in raw form. They will often form packs within large camps, and wreak their covert sabotage in a combined effort. Many slavers assume that it is the larger, stronger individuals who are causing the damage, and many slaves are executed on nothing more than that assumption. However, it is frequently the most broken and pitiful-looking worker that masks a cunning mastermind of false missives and lost records.
The average chainbreaker is able to conceal lock picks, knives, and all manner of small tools, even unclothed, through a continuous slight of hand routine. They avoid chith-laced food and water in a similar fashion, and fake the effects with great skill, blending into the backdrop of their drugged bretheren during inspections or beatings. Some work in a variety of ways, even disguising themselves as humans in order to purchase slaves with raw emeralds from their homeland, and return them to Cekus. The Tamarans have yet to discover a reliable way of identifying them, though they are brutally executed when caught.