Do you employ those who fight for you or are they volunteers?
"Both."
"There are many who serve Venom that are compensated... Fairly, I might add... For their time, their skill, and their contrbutions. There is structure, there is order, and I have encountered many disenfranchised Venomians who prefer the certainty of a defined role within a machine greater themselves. A fair exchange, is it not? Even Dengar has been.... remarkably vocal about this particular arrangement, though I suspect his enthusiasm for discussing his compensation has far less to do with transparency and fairness and more to do with his inability to keep anything to himself."
"Then there are others who require no payment. Those who come freely because they recognize the flaws in the systems that have abandoned them. Venom has seen Corneria and its allies neglect those who do not fit neatly within their vision of civilization. These are the men and women who have been dismissed, forgotten and told their ambitions are meaningless! The men and women that are tired of being cast aside, overlooked and told that their worth is conditional on obedience and loyalty to a system that never intended to uplift them in the first place!"
"I offer the great people of Venom something far more valuable than any Lylatian credit or banknote. I provide a place where their talents are recognized, lovingly nurtured and honed. I have given them a cause in which their efforts are noticed and have true meaning. I have promised them a future where they are not defined by limitation and left to rot on a decaying planet."
"You might call them volunteers, if you must need a word for it. But I do not. Whether someone chooses to join my cause for profit or principle, the distinction should be ultimately irrelevant, because the result is always the same: they have chosen purpose. And whether one is drawn by the promise of compensation or by the strength of their conviction, they always stand tall and inspired with a renewed sense of hope."
