<The last time I was forcibly recruited by aliens it was to someone worse. Unless your employer beheads its own people while everyone watches, and then there's a convenient way to cut down on ration costs and raise morale.>

[Alloran considers, and shrugs. It's possible. Humans would need some manual tools. They're quite deficient in the edged weapons department and poorly equipped for consuming unprocessed flesh.]

<Once he had the idea that he could drug human food supplies to remove free will, and made a whole research department work on that, and he responded poorly to setbacks like 'what is free will' and 'that much brain damage makes them useless' and 'humans heat their food to a degree that alters any drugs we could use' and so on. The last scientists deserted. Left a computer singing his praises and claiming success with nothing to show. It was a truly spectacular waste of supplies and talent.>