You saw Iksa and her group save Lin during Lin's retelling of that story. They have also spent time together during that uprising (which I hope was implied), but not a lot.
Can you say that for certain? Let's consider it; Syl'anar is just one country with about 3 billion humans on it (It's twice the size of north america) but only 1 billion elves. So there is already high demand and not enough supply, but one elf is able to support a few elf bots, so if every elf was turned into a battery, most of Syl'anar would be covered. But it doesn't end there, elf slavery is illegal in other parts of the world, and they're not allowed to leave Syl'anar anyway. Trenero's plan goes further. He wants to bring the power of slavery to the whole world, and there are more people living outside of Syl'anar than inside of Syl'anar, so billions more on this super-planet. It's a huge market no one has tapped into, that only the richest man in the world really could.Yeah, but you don't need one billion elves to fuel the bots. And they have cloning technology. Keep a few thousand or even millions alive to be safe, and once you are able to synthesize their blood, be done with them. That's also plenty of time to realize how dumb using blood is and replace it with oil.
(They also don't have cloning technology capable of cloning humans, that was invented for reasons. Well, maybe something could be done in the womb, but F&E aren't clones. Use the code truestory for the true story.)
Most of the oil was used during and right after the industrial revolution. This world is basically ours tuned to 11, they almost destroyed their planet during this age and flooded a huge portion of the planet, even Syl'anar lost like 10% - 15% of its land. You wouldn't know this though, it's never been mentioned in game as I've not found a reason to mention it yet. Most of the world has "figured it out" and runs on nuclear fusion and some renewables where it make sense. When Cornwall was a kid, the skies would have still been visibly dusty nearly every day, now it's fine. This is another big reason no one wants to break the status quo.Or use freaking oil.
Can you imagine someone visiting a car manufactory, looking at the robots and thinking: "hmm, that arm needs human blood in it"?
There's nothing special about elf blood other than their unique blood types. That was just religious nonsense. Human blood could be used. Part of the reason these are made like they are is because the materials can be grown instead of mined. For the most part, this is a far sighted solution to the finite resources on the planet. One of the main metaphors for using elves is that they're so close to humans, any of this could happen to you too. Some choose to see them as the other, and some choose to see them as themselves.They're not using elf blood out of stupidity; the game implied there's something about elf blood that is required in order for the Bots to function, and that there is no viable substitute that they know of. Whatever that "something" is cannot be replaced with oil, or they'd have been doing so already; I highly doubt their first thought when creating a robot was "how about filling it with elf blood, just to see what happens?"
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