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[Casiella]

Yes, the Salvation Angels do exactly that.

The Salvation Angels are the non-combat division of the Angel Cartel. The Salvation Angels are responsible for building and maintaining the Angels stations and space ships. For this, they frequently salvage what they need from the wrecks their fellow Angels have left behind.

Emphasis mine.

[Yoshito Sanders]

Profit motive (ie. greed) is a pretty universal concept. 

True, but that doesn't seem to be the motivation here. At least not that I can see. Aillon seemed to know he'd be caught and discovered. He had a scapegoat ready, but even with a scapegoat, the project would be shut down. And he'd likely have egg on his face either way. So I'm not seeing what he gets out of putting people into Quafe+.

[Graelyn]

Yoshito! That story is awesome! 

[Louella Dougans]

http://www.eveonline.com/mb/news.asp?nid=3754 \o/

Tangentially related!

I shot some corpses to stop them falling into the hands of Teh Ebil Sansha!one!!!

It also means that The Evil Quafe doesn't get their hands on them either!


As for the dude, Aillon, as well as embezzlement, perhaps the mining explosion that killed his parents was something to do with a Quafe-owned mining corporation?

[Casiella]

http://www.eveonline.com/mb/news.asp?nid=3754 \o/

Not to go too far afield: does that mean you mostly salvaged NPC cargo from wrecks, or just salvaging wrecks on gates in general?

[Louella Dougans]

opened wrecks and containers, looking for people. Found some.
did a little salvaging.
shot any corpses I saw.

[Myyona]

Yoshito! That story is awesome! 

I can fully agree. Liked it a lot.

[Yoshito Sanders]

Thanks. Of all my EVE stories, that may be my favorite. It's just so messed up in so many ways.

[Seriphyn]

Why do Quafe need to use people to make their drinks anyway? Carbonated water, chemicals....not hard.

[Casiella]

Flavoring agents, as the story said. Surely you don't think that creating specific organic chemicals is "not hard"... really?

[Arvo Katsuya]

When they made the font style to Quafe similar to Slurm, you weren't going to expect scary secrets, Seri? 

[Seriphyn]

I just skimmed the article, and am following everyone else's reports of how it basically is another people = Quafe thing 

[orange]

Read the chronicle Seri.

While the surface read is "Quafe+ uses people as an ingredient," there is much more to it than the surface read.

It is about how megacorporations work.  It is about Quafe acquiring and using a small business.  Its about young star managers using the acquired business's product in a larger corporate project. Lastly, when it was found out the larger project was doing something unsavory, blamed it on the small business's prior leadership and destroyed their lives.

It is about greed and plausible deny-ability.  Thrown into the story is metrics on how many die in a small capsuleer engagement or deadspace.

To answer your question: Why do Quafe need to use people to make (Quafe+)?

The same reasons people like pig Bacon and not turkey Bacon.  The same reason it is preferable for capsuleer (and other) clones to be made out of human biomass versus cow biomass.

[Ken]

I, for one, like turkey bacon. 

[Isobel Mitar]

Also, in the Eve style there are no real good guys.

We could empathize; we knew what it was like to lose a loved one to the dark void. Verine wasn’t lucky enough to have a funeral. But others could be, and we provided that service. It was dangerous work – we lost about 20% of our workers on the death marches – but it gave someone closure. We didn’t want to be profitable, but there was too much business to be had.

20% mortality rate is staggering, even if counted over time and not for each separate mission.