Ah, that makes sense. I noticed affection also seems to affect the time it takes. A mission I have will say 8minutes or something, then only last 7:30 and so forth.
I just started crafting (biochem), and lots of low level things require alien blood. But I've only managed to get that once, after countless tries. Is there any way at all to "tell" what you'll get from missions? Or it's literally random?
Thanks.