Editing Rejuvenat (section)

==Cell Draining==
Now so far this does not sound so bad in of itself, especially by Imperial standards. Sure, it's exclusive and helps rich buggers stay on top of the dung heap but so were horses during the middle ages and people don't blame feudalism on Buttercup. Compared to things like gangs of deckhands towing shells into Macrocannons while being whipped or The [[Death Korps of Krieg]] it's positively benign. And when things are working as they should this is the case. That said, Rejuve Therapy does have it's Grimdark side.

There's always a high demand for Rejuve treatments and it's big money. As such, the demand for inputs is also high. This means that people which can supply the right tissue samples can make a lot of money and there are other ways of getting it than with expensive bioreactors. In short, a young person gets taken by some unscrupulous bastards which hook them up to a rig which drains them of their blood, bone marrow and stem cells. The bleeders are kept alive for weeks or months as they are drained until they give no more and their broken remains are discarded. In [[Varangantua]] the practice is to ensnare lower class teenagers at parties, but you know that kids would be targeted as well. Historically, the Imperium even used certain [[xenos]] as the supplies during the [[Great Crusade]], but the demand for it was just as massive as it is now that those various xenos were drained to extinction just to feed the supply chain.

The scary thing about Cell Draining is that it's not done by Chaos Cultists, Xenos infiltrators, twisted Dark Eldar who glory in pain for pain's sake, the crazed fanatics like the Redemptionists or a brutal necessity of ten thousand years of warfare. [[Grimdark|There's a demand for a product, there's a quick and dirty way to get it and gangers (and occasionally other business ventures) are more than willing to supply it for cash by said means.]] If the Imperium was suddenly removed from all it's external threats, Cell Draining would continue on. Possibly it would expand as the market for Rejuve treatment grew. Thankfully in a rare bout of of common sense and basic decency in the Imperium, it's illegal and the Bastions come down hard on it when they get wind of it.

There are also alternative sources like Xenos. One, the [[Adarnians]], were left alone during the Great Crusade due to being harmless but then were hunted to extinction when they were found to be a source of an elixir more potent than most other rejuvenats. Said poaching and usage of Adarnian rejuvenat elixir was illegal mind you, and Ezekiel Sedayne, [[Belisarius Cawl]]’s predecessor and a known user of the stuff, lamented being unable to synthesize their genetic code when they did go extinct.