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[Howard10]

That would make sense on 20th Century Earth. I'€™m not sure it would also apply to 8th Century Sirius. Here and now, everybody is fighting everybody. There is war and death wherever you look and those kinds of things change people. If somebody would shoot your friends I'€™m sure you will not be very diplomatic about it. That'€™s my view on this matter

I think an apt metaphor for this situation would be a modern day affluent megacorporation moving to a war blighted third world country in order to get at some valuable minerals, only to discover a tiny tribe of locals are sitting right on top of the prize. They might attempt to buy them off at first, but they're probably not going to be polite, they're probably not going to be civil and they're going to do whatever they have to to get what they want.

Of course, corporate workers make great hostages in organised crime, so that pretty much covers the Corsair angle too. Then there's the militant natives who firebomb the bulldozers. That's the Omicroners. Yeah, that's everyone accounted for. I don't see a cool, civil demeanour as particularly necessary. If you're dealing with another corporation or 'civilised' body? Sure. When trying to budge a little group of space squatters? No, not really.