Everybody’s seen the Alien movies correct? (If not, run now to your video store and view with all this subject matter in mind.) If so:
Recall, that the Corporation handled everything. There was no government. The corp sent the marines, the corp sent the mining gear, the corp ran the prisons. Note also how titles were largely military–Flight Lt, corporal, etc. The science side of things was hand n glove with both resource extraction and security to include assaults. The interesting thing about the ‘Alien’ itself is usually lost on even smart viewers, but the thing to take away is that while humanity under the controls of a single super-corporation seeks to expand it’s sphere of control out to the farthest reaches of the known universe, the Alien is admired by the corporation for it’s anti-human and anti-social nature.
