One:Mölkerei Blut
Mölkerei Blut roughly translates from Baltic-Germano-Hungarian as "Blood Dairy" and is a slang term for the institutions where civilized Murder Spiders and other machine life forms that depend on blood[1] for lubrication and continuance negotiate the tricky moral and ethical morass of farming blood from living[2] humans and humanoids.
The institution of farming humans and humanoids evolved from an uneasy detente which in turn evolved from more violent clashes between the machines and the humanoids (signs of the detente and of cultural assimilation of the more horrific events, images, fiction and non-fiction revolving around the inexplicable machine need for blood[3].
While MOSHA concerned itself primarily with ensuring a respectful and mutually supportive environment for interactions between machines and humanoids[4], the post-war Unit 13317 specialized in more aggressive regulation including setting up and administering of the Mölkerei Blut, which essentially boards and feeds poor, indentured or criminal humanoids for extended sentences, farming them for blood.[5] This blood is then used for a variety of purposes, institutionally, to keep machine organisms healthy and operational[6].
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- ↑ Primarily human or humanoid.
- ↑ Mostly.
- ↑ Especially odd when from a purely empirical standpoint industrial lubricants do a better job of keeping machinery running than blood does or at least did before the start of the [[One:Machine Wars|]] and subsequent lubricant famines.
- ↑ For instance, ensuring availability of UPSes and other technologies for comfort of machines and encoding a respect for other life forms in the initial automatons used in industrial applications as well as service occupations, unless those other life forms are classified as ENEMY.
- ↑ Given humanoids' general dependence on their own blood, remarkably few know that most small arteries can be healed by applying direct pressure, not unlike how the Maasai farm cattle for blood and then seal the arterial tap with a smooth stone.
- ↑ In some cases, the blood is reprocessed into industrial lubricants, in other cases the raw blood is used for machine-only rituals of comfort, courting and intimidation.
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