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Feeding about a hundred people is a job for a fistful of cooks. More if you want multiple courses, less if you only need one course and drinks aren't a priority, but you need a good fistful of cooks to get it done.
Feeding that hundred or so plus a hundred and fifty more that've recently shown up? That's gonna need a whole bunch more cooks, and a whole bunch more kitchen, and someone's going to have to take all their weapons away because let's face it, any kitchen worth the name is already a place of knives and fire. That many people to feed at once, that few people to do it with, you're going to get some serious stress. Take the kitchen staff's guns away.
Feeding all those people plus a good couple hundred or so more who've been rescued from a genuinely unspeakable fate? Congratulations, your original cooks just quit. They do their work in the kitchen because it has to get done, not because they're particularly good at it or ready for it. You just asked too much of them. Okay, sure, there's replacements, but they're Vortigaunts and while they're willing to work they haven't had a whole lot of experience feeding a whole lot of humans in a hurry. You're gonna have to get an expert, or at least someone with training in taking as many raw supplies as feasible and turning them into something moderately to reasonably consistent, not to mention genuinely edible and nutritious, in a limited span of time. Someone who's done it so many times that he doesn't even need to think about it any more. Someone who's been part of several massive logistical operations and learned about dozens more, and who knows exactly what it means to say an army travels on its stomach, because the Marine Corps does, too.
Well, hell, there's worse things to be good at. And the Vortigaunts make a damn good kitchen crew once you get the hang of working with them. Shephard can deal with being really damn good at KP.
Beats flying, anyway.
Feeding that hundred or so plus a hundred and fifty more that've recently shown up? That's gonna need a whole bunch more cooks, and a whole bunch more kitchen, and someone's going to have to take all their weapons away because let's face it, any kitchen worth the name is already a place of knives and fire. That many people to feed at once, that few people to do it with, you're going to get some serious stress. Take the kitchen staff's guns away.
Feeding all those people plus a good couple hundred or so more who've been rescued from a genuinely unspeakable fate? Congratulations, your original cooks just quit. They do their work in the kitchen because it has to get done, not because they're particularly good at it or ready for it. You just asked too much of them. Okay, sure, there's replacements, but they're Vortigaunts and while they're willing to work they haven't had a whole lot of experience feeding a whole lot of humans in a hurry. You're gonna have to get an expert, or at least someone with training in taking as many raw supplies as feasible and turning them into something moderately to reasonably consistent, not to mention genuinely edible and nutritious, in a limited span of time. Someone who's done it so many times that he doesn't even need to think about it any more. Someone who's been part of several massive logistical operations and learned about dozens more, and who knows exactly what it means to say an army travels on its stomach, because the Marine Corps does, too.
Well, hell, there's worse things to be good at. And the Vortigaunts make a damn good kitchen crew once you get the hang of working with them. Shephard can deal with being really damn good at KP.
Beats flying, anyway.