Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
Just a quick aside on this:
The impression I got was not that these people were executed to enable the process, but that they were other individuals who were slated to be given the Resonance, and the process failed. Lethally. Basically, out of scores of test subjects, there were only two (known) successes: Fordola and Zenos. The rest all died, instead in a risky experimental procedure with a ridiculously high lethality rate. It's not too surprising that Fordola would have been willing to try (assuming she'd even been informed of the risks at all). At the point where she agreed to be augmented, she'd just failed a major initiative against the Alliance and fully expected Zenos to execute her on the spot. The fact that Zenos gambled with his own life is a bit more startling - but then, he's not exactly the sanest of individuals. Possibly also his narcissism left no doubt in his mind that he would be among the gifted...
Your impression is incorrect.
Talking to the people in the room while you're doing Echoes of an Echo, which was in 4.1, tells you that the bodies were drained of their aether. The way the pods work, iirc, is that they drain the aether from their occupants, send that aether to a master pod which Krile was in, and that somehow was attuned or something to the host. Those corpses were resources, not failed subjects.

The relevant MSQ isn't in the inn journal for whatever reason, so you're best looking it up on YouTube. Alphinaud's summation of the procedure is that it "entailed infusing a single candidate with aether siphoned from a multitude of 'supply subjects'. As for the 'master subject' -in this case, Krile- the patterns of her aetheric activity would provide the model upon which they would artificially engineer the candidate's aura." Or in other words, recreate the "master subject's" Echo.