It could be that. They're offering a choice to opt out for people who work for them, which means they win either way-- they get our best efforts at manual labour and fodder for experiments, because there's a lot of people who wouldn't trust the missions or be willing to do take one.

[Then there's the fact that the Malnosso are kind of like a bureaucratic nightmare and each faction seems to want something different, but she won't bring that up on the journals.]