A warrior race in servitude to the now Freeza Frorce. The lowest level grunts serving the purpose of laying waste to a planet for it's eventual sale. They were the underclass of the force whilst still being hyper efficient at their jobs. From what little we see of saiyan society its clear they center themselves around this role.
Their servitude under the Freeza Force and the Cold Force before them has resulted in their reliance on them. They have to serve to continue experiencing the boons of "wealth" and technology given to them by those forces. Ignoring Super or GT while looking primarily at DBZ and Episode of Bardock (what else is there to look at, also this argument is weakened primarly by Dragon Ball Super: Broly since it gaves a glimps into saiyan life) it feels clear that the technology, and even architecture stem from the force. They are dependent on them and have been molded by them via whatever systems may have been put into place.


Saiyan birth pods weither given to them by the force or otherwise (apparently Sayins are themselves technologically advance, to me it never seemed like it. They've always been depictied as brutes that again have gained what they have due to their employ under the respective forces. Here's a comment with a similar take that I'd believe Link) are tools that allow them to continue to serve at capacity. Instead of having to birth their young they're placed in pods to continue their development allowing mothers to continue to serve. Those babys themselves aren't safe potentially getting sent off to planets to concur them using Oozaru. (A reddit tread touching on the logistics of saiyan planetary takeover)
For as "loyal" (surprise surprise they weeren't the most loyal willing to over throw King Cold and Freeza given the chance) as the saiyans were to the forece, molding themselves to serve the empire; in the end they were killed of by Freeza personally. Almost out of a boredom.