Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Again, a tactic used primarily by lower-tech and lower-ethics organizations, ones which can’t manage or don’t bother with amnesic drugs, memory redaction, a geas, simple memetic discrediting, or if all else fails, a trip to a perfectly nice, perfectly comfortable luxury space resort that no-one ever leaves.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2017/06/14/trope-a-day-killed-to-uphold-the-masquerade