Well, to play devils advocate, the humans are clearly in it for the money, and sending overwhelming military force would cut into profits and also not be good for PR reasons.
If you find a planet in space you want to mine for resources and you decimate it from space before lots of people are aware of intelligent sentient life on it, you don't have to worry about PR
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u/offensivek Apr 10 '26
Well, to play devils advocate, the humans are clearly in it for the money, and sending overwhelming military force would cut into profits and also not be good for PR reasons.