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lewislink2
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I watched Space: Above & Beyond and it got me to thinking about how the whole messy war between the two species could have been averted. Corporations which control global resources care only about making the maximum amount of revenue at the lowest cost. That's what took place in this Sci-Fi show, a corporation deliberately kept knowledge of the existence and habitation of an alien sentient race because to allow the populous to know...be informed...would have caused revenue shortfalls. This being the case because the populous being informed would seek peaceful relations and alter colonization plans against the wishes of those doing the planning.
So I figure, unless the alien race is wanting war, what could the aliens have done to get past the corporate secrecy of their existence and let Earth know there was a problem that needed addressing before hostilities commenced. The corps would do anything and everything they could to keep the situation secret. So any attempt for the alien race to make an ambassadorial voyage to Earth would likely be thwarted by public disinformation...probably something along the lines of exclaiming the aliens are here to destroy us, and then give official looking proof of it. Or in a more likely scenario, confront and ward the aliens off before they can be detected by Earth media.
So, in the case of the show plot, there is a possible alternative. Instead of the aliens wiping out the unknowing colonists, make contact with them and see if they had knowledge of their existence and habitation of the worlds the colonists were settling. The aliens would have discovered the evil was with only a handful of Earthlings and would have likely been able to get the knowledge of their existence and wishes known to all of humanity through the colonists.
If such a scenario were to ever become real-life, I see ourselves needing to do this very thing, because evil, I believe, wouldn't be limited to humans. Other sentient beings in the universe would likely follow similar traits as ours. We would need to go around the few evil ones, thwarting them, and make contact with the whole race.
So I figure, unless the alien race is wanting war, what could the aliens have done to get past the corporate secrecy of their existence and let Earth know there was a problem that needed addressing before hostilities commenced. The corps would do anything and everything they could to keep the situation secret. So any attempt for the alien race to make an ambassadorial voyage to Earth would likely be thwarted by public disinformation...probably something along the lines of exclaiming the aliens are here to destroy us, and then give official looking proof of it. Or in a more likely scenario, confront and ward the aliens off before they can be detected by Earth media.
So, in the case of the show plot, there is a possible alternative. Instead of the aliens wiping out the unknowing colonists, make contact with them and see if they had knowledge of their existence and habitation of the worlds the colonists were settling. The aliens would have discovered the evil was with only a handful of Earthlings and would have likely been able to get the knowledge of their existence and wishes known to all of humanity through the colonists.
If such a scenario were to ever become real-life, I see ourselves needing to do this very thing, because evil, I believe, wouldn't be limited to humans. Other sentient beings in the universe would likely follow similar traits as ours. We would need to go around the few evil ones, thwarting them, and make contact with the whole race.