Worker

The worker is the silent backbone of every civilization. Long before the first soldier raises a weapon, the worker breaks stone, hauls timber, and lays the foundations on which empires rise. Across all eras — from the Neolithic hut-builder who shaped mud-brick by hand to the industrial laborer who assembled munitions in factory halls — unarmed craftsmen and laborers decided the pace of every civilization's growth. Without them, no barracks trains soldiers, no granary feeds a city, no road carries an army. They gather every resource, erect every building, and repair every structure the enemy damages. Utterly defenseless in combat, workers must be protected at all costs — losing them stalls an economy faster than any military defeat.